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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (July 11, 1866)
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTIONALIST WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 11, 1860. THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTIONALIST. By reference to our new terms, it will be seen that the price of the Weekly Constitu tionalist has been reduced to $3 per annum. Qur weekly edition is a mammoth paper, and one of the very best family journals published, containing all the latest news of the day, re views of the markets, and a judicious selection of the daily editorials. Our country friends would do well to give it a liberal support. A FOSTEEING-JJOVEBNMENT. There arc now being published in some of the newspapers of the country, the public acts and resolutions of those legislative bodies at present in session in Washington City, and claiming to lie the Congress of the United States. Asa milter of pro fessional duty, rath er than from any interest felt in the matter, we have read quite a number of these assumed enactments, and found in them a very abuud ant food for reflection. Not to enlarge upon the general subject, however, it is only desired to speak of the latest coming under our no tice. It is No. 81 of the “ Public Laws,” pub lished by authority, entitled “ An Act making appropriations for the repair , jtrraercation anil completion of certain public works heretofore commenced under the authority of low, and for other purposes and b is for its enacting clause this absurd falsity: tie it enacted by the Senate ami Home of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. — Passing over this misnomer, the main body of this so-called law is devoted to the enumera tion of certain internal improvements whereto sums of money from a hundred to a half-mil lion, are appropriated, the grand sum total be ing very close upon lour millions of dollars.— To recount these items of expenditure would be but to present a list of names that have no special interest beyond the general fact that all these Internal improvements are In the North. The Middle States got their hundreds of thous ands, the Northwest gets licrs, and New Eng land, of cou rso—anal he ran maranatha on the very name of the plague spot—sucks In a tre mendous proportion of pap. But the South— Virginia and the Gboroia, and reefy PufniDAnnd all the Southern band, what share do they have In these appropriations that come out of moneys they are grievously taxed to pay 1 A perusal of this “act” does not show ns a dol lar to any of the late Confederate States. Par liamentary tongues niayglo/.e this sort of tiling over at Taxation without Representation bnt plain Anglo-Saxon, going at once to the root of the matter, stigmatises it as hare faced rob bery. For what is Taxation without Krpresen- Uillon, ami wherein, save in magnitude, docs it differ from the deed of the foot pud ? In the one case the thief snatches a purse and in the other levies iiu impost, but in either the princi ple. is alike—for my goods and yours are taken without our consent tor the exclusive u«c, be hoof, and benefit of another. Following out the analogy there is also a striking likeness in the way the criminal in either ease seeks to pal liate his misdeed, for the had mail calls his vic tim a miserly hunks and the laid government abuses those whom it rolls as* impenitent “ rebels." Bat passing by tills particular view there U something in tiiis “act" that is still more alarming. He who steals the puSo steals fatal! hill he who takes away liberty makes the de spoiled poor indeed. Liberty Is threatened In the close of this villainous enactment—not our liberty, for that is Iu the hands of a good God who, though Hr now atlllot us, will iu due time bring us into our kingdom, but the liberty of the North. That section is freer to day than the South but If the people thereof do not speedily awaken to the animus of this ami otiicr similar legislation, they make look to be bound band uud foot even as iv.e are, without the sweet consciousness that we have of having fought a gallant tight for our rights. By suction four it is enacted that the Secretary of War shall cause divers surveys to bo made, aud so far the tiling looks innocent enough; hut when one comes to read further and peuetrating beyond the mere words gets at their meaning one will find that this person—a man til to the worst pur poses ol tyranny —Is to make these surveys at many prominent points in the North “ to deter mine i chat improvement» and public works shall be nccesiasy." The '* public icorks" with which a Secretary of War has to do are forts, arsenals, and barracks, and when Edwin M. Stanton and a lawless Congressional conclave have girdled and teamed the North with fortresses, garrlsouetl those strongholds with foreign mereeuarioa, and filled military depots to reple tion with munitions of war, where will the pre sent liberty of the North lie ? At New York and Baltimore— two turbulent cities—at Pitts burg—the great entrojiot of the lake seetlou—at San Fraueisco—where the gold of California conies for shipmeut— at the narrow passes of the Mississippi and on the borders of the great lake chain-from Maine to Michigan these surveys are ordered and ordered in a language that will authorise the satrap of the War Department to place the North beneath a yoke of steel. Aud yet they see It not.— They arc blind and cannot la-hold the glitter of Dutch aud Irish bayonets—they are deaf, and cannot hear the roar ot Tn\y. Stevens’ forges where manacles lor them and their chil dren arc fashioning into form—they are dumb, and will not heed, asleep and will not awake, drunk with delirium and cannot' be sobered, turning the oar of the adder and the tongue of the asp to the cry of the South that she will help them to pull down tyranny iu the whole of this groaning land. Certain as the sun shines in the heavens, sure as ihe # being ot the God that made them both, they who now sway the sceptre in these United States are bent ou re ducing the North and ih« South alike to boml- There are fanatics among theta aud there are fools, but the ass and the tiger arc oulv on the flauks of an array that has for its solid cen tre a baud of ravening wolves. Cruel, crafty, unrelenting, there is no animal but that savage beast that can fitly typify these wretches. Open ly toward the South and covertly to the North they plot the teftetnes of de«pW(WB, and if those who love liberty in that section will not unite with us of the latter to put them down, they may look to see the day w hen forts shall frowu upon their cities and gunboats be moored in all their roadsteads—when mercenary bayonets shall lie at their throats and rapacious hands in tlieir strong boxes and pockets—when the last vestiges of their liberty shall depart and it be verified of America that here was a people who gave freedom to tl<e black only that the white man should languish in chains. CENTRALIZATION. The business of telegraphing in these United States employs, as wo learn from a late formal statement, capital to the extent ol fifty millions of dollars, and affords avocation to something like six thousand persons. At present this calling is in the hands of some thirty compa nies, formed by the mutual association of pri vate citizens, and we have not heard but that it is conducted with at least an ordinary degree of energy, faithfulness, and liberality. Steps,how ever, huve lately been taken in that conclave which calls itself Congress, looking to the with diawal of this business from private hand3 and the placing it under strict governmental charge. Though not fully informed as to the minutiee of tiffs hopeful scheme, we are of opinion a Telegraph Bureau is to be instituted whereby, as the niggers are made the “ wards of the Na tion,” that nations most private affairs arc to he submitted to ft new swarm of placeholders and henchmen. How vast an engine of tyranny this bureau could becoHfe it is hardly necessary to show, since as only the most important mat ters of personal interest are submitted to the wires, it could not tie otherwise than that the government, if in their fall control, would be in possession of'the whole inner life of the peo ple. Under present arrangements cypher de spatches are of every day oceui rence and none, not even the operator, is the wiser for what thus goes clothed in mystery from one man to another, but under governmental char e it is evident the first rule would be that all mes saged must be open. Otherwise, “ treason " might lurk in a cotton quotation, or “ disloyal" plotting he bid in the price ol pickled pork. Evidently, therefore, this danger would bnve to he guarded against, and “our ” government— God bless its meddling soul—would feel con strained from the most Christian principles of foresight, to stick its finger into every man’s pie. You send me a timely gold quotation and ere I could enter the market, some Captain and Acting Assistant Sub Deputy Grand Despatch Inspector would forestall my purchase aud af ter buying to the extent of bis own means, sell his secret to the highest bidder. This sort of tiling, you know—the prostitution of; official position to private gain—has been done—wit ness the good tiling made out of the nigger bu reau by many of its "loyal" parasites—and will, should this new swiudlc succeed, be clone again. Even now, perhaps—for humanity is but fallible—a telegram may not be always in violate, but the sense Os honour is, at least, ' cry generally high and instant expulsion with entire loss of future employ is the sure conse quence of any betrayal of trust. But im :(*ine a horde of bestrappecl and titled fac tldiiarlcs responsible to none but their own abettors, and then conceive, it you can, the infinite rascality that Immunity would pro voke,-foster, and conceal. Buti.er himself— Butler the Beast— would not sigh for New Oft leans if at the head of tßit bureau, aud pa triot Banks from even a clerkship might repair every loss of those days When he fled like a limited bare before (he uplifted arm of Jack son In the Valley. Ctitt'ee may be a good thing and Cotton n better, but tlds sort of bureau would be best of all. From its Paul Pry Com mandant to the least of Us mousing Heeds il limitable riches would open, while the Govern ment—this government, this good government, the best—laugh not, thou Rebel scoffer—that the world ever saw, would add so strong a link I to its chain of centralization as that Rome in 1 all her grandeur never conceived. Heretofore, Authority has never been able to fetter the heart, but let this thing be done aud tlio hopes and the fears, the thoughts and the deeds, the motives, the feelings, the very souls of all this people will lie laid open to the gaze of observ ant satraps. From the satraps to their masters Is an easy transition, and “free” America will present a worse spectacle than the “ effete des potisms” ol Europe, for there, at least, the citi zen has this last sacred personal privacy unin vaded. New Catholic Church in Philadelphia— Sermon of Bishop McGill, of Richmond.— Ou Sunday afternoon the corner stone of anew Catholic Church was laid in Philadelphia, and notwithstanding the intense heat, the ceremo ny was witnessed by about three thousand people. After the laying, Rt. Rev. Dr. McOill, Bishop of Richmond, Virginia, addressed the people. He said that through religion men attained sal vation. It. has been asserted that religion ought to be purely spiritual, God himself be ing a spirit. But man’s nature could not bo reached in this limmarr. Even his most ab stract thoughts require matter for their mani festation. God himself, when Ho came to save mankind, did not appear as a spirit, but took a substance ami form like to ours. He appoint ed teachers and founded His church. The church, like her Divine Spouse, uses material forms, as in the administration of the sacra ments, and builds temples for lier worshippers. This edifice would tic more glorious than Solouiou’s Temple in all its magnificence, inas much as upon its altar would be offered up an infinitely higher and holier sacrifice. Iu con cluding, Dr. McGill said that when in his youth, fitly years ago, he rambled over those very fields, Philadelphia had but four Catholic churches ; now she lias thirty-four, and others are to be built. In this respect, wtiat was said ot Philadelphia could lie said of every other city iu the Union. At the eouciusiou of Bishop McGill’s ad dress, Bishop Wood spoke briefly, and gave the Episcopal benediction. Before the assemblage dispersed a large contribution for the church was taken up on the spot. Dr. Nclaton, the physician who extracted the ball from Garibaldi’s foot, has declared that he has great doubts of Garibaldi's fitness for going through a campaign, or, indeed, undergoing any great fatigue. The Currency. —lt is fallacious, says the New York yeses, to suppose that the European war will tend to any large quantity of specie being scut *o this country for investment in our securities. Should hostilities become gen eral throughout Germany, h is more than pro bable. that many of our five-twenties, which hive been purchased by the Germans, will find their way hack to the United Slates. As our own people too well know, the tramp of armies is not beneficial to the production of the neces saries of life. Germany will have to purchase these abroad wherewith to feed her army and her people. She will have to pay in gold, fpr foreigners will not take her paper securities. —. Our own short supply of grain will preclude us from sending her any; and, consequently, we may expect that she will send to us for gold in exchange for the United States securities which she holds. But seme persons may ask: “ Will the German people part with those securities for the purpose of investing the proceeds in the obligations of their own Governments, and thus supply them with the specie they wiil need ?” We all know that when a eouutry is at war the patriotism of the people generally tends to such a result. Such was the effect, both North and South, during our late strug gle, and there is no reason to believe that the Germans will not be influenced by a like pa triotic impulse. Everything, then, points to an advance in prices. The prospects of the -future are cer tainly gloomy, but there is no good in shutting, our eyes to them. We must prepare to meet the hard times when they arrive. Another year will have to roll round before we can hope to view a brighter picture, and so do so then we must experience a more genial season than has been allotted to us in the present year. History —Mrs. Anna Cora Ritchie writes to the New York News that Madame Ristori has been giving a scries of performances at Brus sels. It is said that she will before long appear in America. As Rachel’s only rival, she has reason to anticipate marked success where Rachel’s triumphs were so great. Then she is a very beautiful woman, which Rachel was not; and bears afi irreproachable reputation, which Rachel did not ; and, possibly, she may gain some additional charm in a republic because she is -titled. Her husband is the Marchese del Grillo (Grasshopper). Ristori’s living imper sonation of the terrible Medea—her statuesques poses—her superb transports of rage—the awful beauty of her countenance in violent emotion— the thrilling, piercing tones of her voice, once seen, once heard, are not tube forgotten. But the Italian Queen of Tragedy is no longer i.i her premierre (no, nor her seconde, jeunessi— she is the mother of grown tip children; we believe she is a grandmother! Query: Ts the artistic ta3te of Americans sufficiently cultiva ted for them to fall into raptures, spell bound by a grandmamma’s genius ? Nous verrons. Mr. Seward and Louis Napoleon—Secret History.— lt is stated by prominent Senators iu Washington that Mr. Seward had concluded a secret treaty with Napoleon, by which the United States is debarred from interfering with the movements of the foreign troops now sup porting Maximilian. After the withdrawal of tho Frcticn, Maximilian, it la umterstooU, will offer himself as a candidate for the Presidency of the Mexican Republic. Having secured that position, he is to take advantage of any small revolution, of which Mexico affords so many, and declare himself Emperor, thereby flanking the Monroe doctrine and have a firmer imperial throne than at present. It is probable the Senate will solicit information from Mr, Seward concerning this little game. | Xew Yoi k Herald. Bad for Salad. —Olive oil is seldom or never imported pure. Professor Blot, in a re cent lecture, said that the olives were pressed, and that oil retained in the country for home consumption ; the husks werd pressed again, the product mixed with American krd, melted and then suitably colored, put up in elegant bottles and exported to England and America. He estimates the proportion of lard as nine parts in ten of the olive oil. Pistols and Coffee.—A hostile eorrespond ! ('nee lias passed between Matt Gallaway, of the Memphis Avalanche, and W. J. Smith, the hos tility being pretty much confined to Colonel Gallaway’s side. Smith is the man who was so awfully whipped by Forrest when Gal la way was on the staff of the latter; is non' a Radical member of the Tennessee Legislature, and seems to have lost all his fight during the re treat from Bryce’s cross-roads to Memphis. Dishonorably Dismissed.— Captain Philpi R. Forney, 14th United States Infoutry, (a son of Colonel JohnaW. Forney), was recently tried by court martial at San Francisco, California, and dismissed the service. The charges of which Captaiu Forney was found guilty were disobedience of orders and conduct unbecom ing an officer aud a gentleman. The sentence of the court lias been coufirnted by the com manding General.— Xational Intelligencer. Mince Meat. —A man was found dead on the levee at Louisville, on the 23d, with one hundred aud ten stabs iu his body. His ears were eftfoff, both eyes were torn out and the body was otherwise frightfully mutilated. The case is involved in much mystery. The body is not yet identified. An Old Negro.— Le Louisiana'* announces the death of an old negro, named Jean Mulatre, on the Bringier plantation, aged one hundred and twenty years. The same paper says the water, of the Mis sissippi arc red—a sign of sickness. The Papal Loan. —Messrs. Duncan, Sher man & Cos. are announced as the agents for a loan of four million dollars, to Pope Pins IX. to aid him in the fiscal difficulties of his domi nions until the arrangements completed by the French Italian Government have been settled. A Good One. —Brooklyn, New York, has a Mayor who is one of a thousand. The City Council having passed a resolution to raise his salary from $3,000 to *5,000, the Mayor—the Hou. Samuel M Booth—has vetoed it! Suffering in the South. A great deal has been written about the des titution in Alabama, but we had no idea th such suffering as is represented in the folio wit letter to a Northern paper, existed. The p»- ple are dying of starvation, not being able o procure even enough corn meal to subsist i: [Bellefonte (Ala.) Correspondence (June 19th,) ofbe Chicago Tribune.) In this famine-stricken region—the C°sa Valley— l passed a number of cabins, ar-md which were half a dozen nearly naked cliiiren. Several children, ranging iu age from for to twelve years, and clothed only in what is u ex cuse for an under garment, were sitting a»und, while two females were, with emaciated ounte nanccs, picking some wild vegetables inftte' l_ cinity, from which .0 make a meal sot tlr-m --1 selves and suffering children. I determin'd to hear their story from their own lips, ad ,J - ac_ cordingly halted my horse aud asked od ot tue females, . , “ Madam, could you accommodate - 10 dinner to-day ?” . , She paused a moment, and I rec atea llie question. , “ God knows,” said she, and the- ears Began to trickle down her cheeks, “ that 1 would not turn a stranger and a traveler aw>% “ ut there has not been an ounce of meal ir l “ e ,? us ? . five days ; we and our children nave lived en tirely during that period upor foiled £ roen> i with neither salt nor pepper.” • “ How many children have ou • 1 asked. ‘■Three, and this lady twc mor< ; small, as see. We have no w)' to live; we can not even get seed to plant -lir gardens. How we are to live, God only kr , ' v )“-” “ Are your husbands “ Yes, both were killed “ the army. At this point I left the ceue - I coll ir endure it no longer. I had herd ot the suffering of the famine Etrieken pe<f>l e i k'tt never.did I for a moment picture to pj self little of the horrors spread out before me A WOMD OF SEVENTY was the next persot 1 addressed. I had passed all the huts for time miles, not desiring to give my uerves the scc’bd shock that day ; but iu the road I met af old decrepit! female, clothed iu a worn wrapjer, of coarse domeslick, car rying on her bqk a sack, in .which was a half bushel of meal “ Madam,” “id I, “you arc wearied, are you not; you are oo old to carry such a load.” “I have teed it eighteen miles ; clear from GuuteravilV,” she said. “ I had tvo sons who lived with me, and two more whrhad families living near. They were all killedduring the war, and the wife of one ot themts dead, and I had to take care of his four ebldren, the oldest one of whom is eight years tfage—l had to carry this clear frofn Gunu'i’sville or starve.” Wuilc I was standing in front of the door of theuotel, 1 was approached by a middle aged feftale who inquired of me where was the place ■it which rations were dealt out to the poor. I jointed to the house, hut before she departed I asked: “ How far do you live here ?” “ Thirteen miles,” site said. “ Is there much suffering there?” I enquired. “ Yes, sir; you have uo idea of its extent.” “ Do you get enough here to relieve you ?” “ Yes, sir ; enough to keep us from dying ; that is most of us. We get a little meal, noth ing else ; meat we do. not expect; we are glad to get enough meal to keep its from dying.” “How do you get it home?” “We carry it upon our backs ; we have no horses.” “ Do you ever come here and find nothing to give out ?” “ Yes, sometimes;, I know a woman who came sixteen miles, after having lived three days without anything, as she gave the small mite she had to her children, and then got noth ing, and had to walk all the way home. She' has since died.” “ Are there many eases of starvation among you?” T. next inquired. “ Why, yes ; the other day a woman walked seventeen miles here for some food for herself and four children, and she got a peek of meal; but she was so exhausted that she died before she got home. She was found by the roadside and buried, aud the neighbors went to her house and found one of her children dead.” I met a boy about thirteen years of car rying a peck of meal, and I asked : “ How far do you live from the city ?” “ Five miles.” “ Are the people bad off there ?”• “ Yes ; we have had to live ou the corn meal given us; we have had no meat in our house since August last, and the Lord knows When we shall have any more.” “Do you get corn meal enough?” “ No, sir; we don’t average more than a peek a week, and there is four of us in family.” “ Where ik your father ?” “ He was kiled at Mission Ridge.” “ Are the people around you as bad off as ydu are?” . ( “ Yes, sir; some are worse off, and only a few better off.” I could fill cOluptns with particulars as heart rending as these. I conversed with at least a hundred persons, during my stay, and all of them gave accounts as doleful as those nar rated, X made inquiries of different parties, well in formed on the condition of affairs, and they estimated that in five counties souto of the Tennessee river, there were at least twenty thousand persons bordering ou a state of star vation. What it Costs to Get into Parliament.— in the course of a recent speech in the House of Commons, Mr. Lowe cited the statistics o f an official report, showing what it costs to be come a member of the British Parliament. The expenses of the election for Stafford were £5,400; Stoke-upon-Trent, £6,200; Sunderland, £5,000; and Westminster, £12,000. These were the aggregate expenses of all the candidates.— Mr. Lowe added: I wish to call particular attention to the case of Westminster, not for the purpose of saying anything disagreeable to my honorable friend', [Mr. Mill,] for we know he was elected in a burst— l will say a well directed burst— of pop ular enthusiasm. That was honorable to him and honorable to them, and I have no doubt that in the course of the election all that could be done by industry and enthusiasm was accom plished—gratuitously ; and I am sure that my honorable friend did not contribute iu any wav to swell any unreasonable election expenses.— His election ought to have been gratuitous; but mark its cost—£2,3o2. I believe it did not cost him sixpence. He refused to contribute any thing, and it was very much to the honor of his constituents that they brought him in gratu itously. But look to the state of our election practices when such and outburst of popular feeling could not be glveu effect to without that enormous sacrifice ot monev. I wiil now call attention to two or three ceunties. The subject has not been sufficient!v dwelt upon, but it bears materially upon the question before us to-night. 1 will take the southern division of Derbyshire. The election cost *8,500, and this is the cheapest I shall read. The northern division of Durham cost £l4 620 and the southern division £II,OOO. South Essex cost £IO,OOO, and North Essex £16,<300. West Kent cost £12,000; South Lancashire, £l7 000- South Shropshire, £12,000; North Stafford shire, £14,000; North Warwickshire. £lO 000- £13 ’ 000 ‘ - N ' or tli Wiltshire,’ £12.000. and the North Rtdtng of Yorkshire, £27,000. Now I ask the House how it is possible that the insti tutions of this country can endure if this kind of thing is to go on aud increase. [From the N. T. MercamileJ^~ The New and Old Tariff, We give below a comparison of some of «. change* hi the tariffs* report** o u MotuU- h! the Committee on Ways and Means. ’ “T The duty on wool is unchanged exeeiu • washed wool, which pays twice the dutv posed ou unwashed, while scoured wool r,- as now. three times the duty. P a ? a . On woolen clothing readv made the a„, . raised from 24-to 50 cents per pound, and « per ceut. ad valorem. J Sheep-skins, imported with the wool on raised from 20 to 30 per cent, ad valorem ' 10 Angora goat skins are counted with sheen skins, and Angora hair with wool, which in voices a heavy increase of duty. n ' Woolen rags now pay 10 per cent., bnt are in Creased to 12 cents per pound ; flocks and wt«e now pay 3 cents per pound, and are increased to 12 cents per pound. u Woolen shawls are raised from 24 cents ner pound and 40 per cent, ad valorem , to 50 cents per pound and 35 per cent, ad valorem. Bunting is raised from 50 per cent ad valo rem to 20 cents per square yard, and 35 p er cent, ad valorem. * Aubusson and Axminister carpets are set at the lowest present rate—so per cent, ad valo rem. On Saxon)-, Wilton and Tournay carpets 35 per cent, ad valorem is added to the present duty. Hemp or jute carpeting is raised from (> X A cents per square yard to 8 cents per square yard. Salt pays now, in bulk,'lß cents, in sacks 24 cents per 100 pounds. It is raised to 30 cents in bulk, and 40 cents in sacks per 100 pounds Coper ore is raised from 5, to 15 per cent, ad valorem ; copper in pigs, ingots or bars is raised from 2 )4 t 0 5 cents per pound; copper sheath ing now pays 3 A cents, and is to pay 6 cents per pound. Brass, in pigs and bars, now pays 15 per cent., and is raised" to 30. Lead, in pi«-s or bars, is raised front 2 to 3 cents per pound ■ lead ore is raised from 1 A to cents per pound; lead sheets, pipe aud shot are raised from 2>£ to 3 % cents per pound. Zinc, inpi»s, or blocks, now- pays 1 and is raised to to 2 cents per pound, in sheets it now pays 2% cents, and is raised to 4; oxide of zinc now paysl% cents and is raised to 3 per pound. On bituminous coal produced in British Ame rica there is a reduction from SI 25 per ton, the present rate, to 50 cents per ton. The duty on cotton goods does not appear to have T)een ma terially raised. On steel wire the duty is raised from 2A and 3 cents per pound with 20 per cent, ad valorem, for the .different sizes, to 5 and cents, with 20 per cent, ad valorem. On steel in bars, sheets, &e., &c., the present duty is raised from S' and cents to 5 cents per pound, and 10 pier cent, ad valorem. Cross-cut saws now pay 10 cents, and are raised to 12 cents per lineal foot; millpit and drag saws now pay 13}£ and 20 cents, but are raised to 15 and 25 cents per foot. Among the changes in iron we may enumer ate: Anvils, raised from 2A to 4 cents per lb.; bars for railroads, from 70 cents per 100 lbs. to 1 cent per lb.; cables, from 2% cents per lb. to 3 and 3A cents per lb.; chains, from 2% and 3 cents to 4 and 5 cents per lb.; chains of less than No. 9 wire, from 35 per cent to's Cents per lb. and 20 per cent; hammers, from 2 A cents to 4 cents per lb.; plate iron, from 1%, 1% and \% cents per lb. to 1%, 2,2%, 2% and 2% cents per lb.; slabs aud blooms, from icent to cents per lb.; screws, from 35 per cent to 40 per cent; scrap iron is lowered from *8 per tou to *5. Wrought tubes are raised from : i}4 to 4 cents per lb.; wire, coppered or tinned, from 2 cents, 2X and 4 cents per lb., and 15 per cent, to 5. ~>A and 6 cents per lb. Pig. iron re mains at $9 per ton. Railroad chairs are raised from 2 cents to 2% cents per lb. Wrought nails and spikes, from 2}4 cents per lb.'to 3 and 4 cents. j We have compared the duties on but a few articles. In most of those omitted, the method of enumeration and of declaring the ditty is so complicated, and so ingeniously altered from the present tariff, that it is impossible, for any but experts to make the comparison. The tariff, except on a few articles, has been raised from thirty to one hundred and fifty per cent. On some, as for instance on manufac tures on iron, this increase is so great that it will be felt as a very heavy burden upon all the most important interests in the country. Charleston Items. Murder of B. S. Riiett, Sr.— We arc pained to learn that this gentleman was foully assassi nated on yesterday afternoon, just after enter ing his farm near the Race Course. So far as we can learn it appears that Mr. Rhett was rid ing along a causeway, on the side ot which the ! murderer had concealed himself, under cover j of an undergrowth of brush—and that after | passing a distance of ten feet, he was shot from i the rear with a double-barrelled gun loaded with ! duck shot. Mr. Rhett was struck in the left arm and side, the shot apparently penetrating the lung. He rode but a short distance before falling from his horse, and died where he had fallen, in about three quarters of an hour. He | gave no clue to the murderer. Drs. Mitchell ! and Geddings, who were in the immediate | vicinity, could discover no trace of him. An inquest will be held by Coroner Whiting to-dayi— Charleston Courier, 4 lh. Melancholy Intelligence. —We learn | with great regret that another death has occur j red in the family of the Rev. James Huckins, j late Pastor of the Wentworth street Baptist j church, of this city, whose sudden demise in August, 1863, is still remembered with tender sorrow not only in the community in which he labored, but throughout the State. A recent Galveston paper contains the obituary ofhis youngest daughter, Mrs. Mary Ball, wife of Mr. Fenno D. Ball, of Galveston, Texas. She was married on the 26th of April, aud died on the 14th of June. The particulars of her de cease are not given. This sad intelligence will be received with painful sympathy by a wide circle of friends in South Carolina; and we es teem it a duty to communicate it, even in so brief and unsatisfactory a form. — Ibid. Death of an Old Pilot. —One by one the old landmarks of our beloved city are passing away, causing sad reflections for those who are left behind to battle with the new order of things that have dawned upon us in a moment as it were. As public journalists we now re cord-with sad feelings the decease of one of out old pilots—one who at all times felt a lively in terest in all matters that would lead to the ad vancement of his adopted city in the scale of commercial prosperity or material wealth. Captain Sikke Aldert departed this life on Friday, the 29th ult., at the advanced age o: seventy-two years. He was a native of Holland bnt for many years had been a resident of Charleston. He was one of the oldest pilots o. this harbor, and in the faithful discharge of the important duties of his arduous vocation he won the esteem and respect of the whole com mercial community. He leaves a wife and sev eral children, besides grandchildren, to mourn his loss, who are condoled with in their melan choly bereavement by a large circle of f rie ?“ :: 3 His character was spotless, which of itself is rich inheritance for his numerous offspring- He was for many years a consistent member o the Methodist Episcopal Church of this Cl -- and is now enjoying the rewards of a long un well spent Ufe.—lbld. Russia and France in the Rear.-T- 1 I.ondon Times of the 7th of June rcaiar !) s ., e Now the great tempest is rolling round point where the first wrong was done. all for Holstein that Silesia is menaced; un - is terrible to think how the storm mav -I' ; ' In the rear of Italy stands France, and m rear of Austria stands Russia. It is . el ’^ nroV . that the design of Italy against the Adriatic [. inces of Austria have suggested some ‘ . concert between the Emperor and the - jr ’ nor does anybody seem to doubt “end to which begins upon the Baltic, may ex,c the Black Sea.
