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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 10, 1866)
THE WEEKLY OONBTITUTIONALIBT WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCT. 10, 1866. THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTIONALIST. By reference to onr new terms, it will be seen that the price of the Weekly Cokktitu TiovAi.ibT bos been reducud to 111 per annum. Our 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, nnd a judicious selection of the daily editorials. Our country friends would do well to give it a liberal support. ■ m • -••*- .»> THE TELEGRAPH QUEBTION. The Daily Press, of this city, labors very hard to raise a “ tempest in a teapot ” about the decision made by Superintendent Craig, in regard to the rule* of the Press Association. In justice to Mr. Craig and the Agent at this place, and at the irainent hazard of pricking the vain-glorious wind-bag of a would-be martyr to the interest of the Southern people, we will trouble our renders with a statement of the case. The Association, for the purpose of supply ing telegraphic news to the journals of the country, is a private enterprise, governed by such rules and regulations as the members thereof may deem best for their own interest.— Every member of the Association, and every one desiring to become such, must conform to these rules. There is no dictation to any one. Those who do not see proper to so conform are at perfect liberty to try any other method of obtaining news they think best. The Daily Press newspaper is also a private enterprise, having for its main object the profit of the publisher. So far there, is no difference. The Chronicle % Sentinel and the Constitution alist, likewise business enterprises, have been members of this Press Association for sometime past, taking their dispatches at a very heavy expense nnd conforming to ell their rules nnd requirements. Having done so, we think no reasonable man would deny them all the bene fit that the association confers on its other members. Homo two weeks ago these journals were informed by the agent at this place that the publisher of the Daily Preaa had made application to him for dispatches. Believing that by the rules and decisions of the Association, their own consent must first be obtained, which, in this case, wat not even applied for, they addressed the Agent of the Association and received his reply, ns follows : Augusta, September 24,1866. Mk. P. Walsii, Agent Associated Press: Dear Sir : Please Inform us if the rules of the Association do not require the consent of those journals which have been taking dis patches, before.a new applicant in the same locality can obtain them. Wo have always so understood. The reasons for such a rule we thiuk are so obvious thnt we deem it unneces sary to present them at this time. Wo learn such a decision was recently made at Mobile. Alabama. Wo desire to avail ourselves, only, of such privileges nnd benefits as we are deary entitled to, and respectfully ask that you will, il you have any doubts on the subject rcler the question to «h» President of tho Association belore actin'-. Yours, respectfully, Moore & Wright, Chronicle Sf Sentinel. Stockton A Cos. Constitutionalist. Augusta, Ga., September 24, 1806. Messrs. Moore A WRiurtT, Chronicle § Sentinel: Messrs. Stockton A Cos., Constitutionalist .- Gentlemen : Having no definite instructions in reference to the matter concerning which you ask my opinion, I have relerrcd the ques tion to D. IT. Craig, Esq., General Agent Asso ciated Press, and will advise you of his decision as soon as received. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, Patrick Walsh, Ag’t Ass’d Press. It will he seen by this correspondence, that no protest whatever lias been made, as alleged, against the Daily Press receiving dispatches ; that only a simple enquiry wa* made of the Agent as to the rights and privileges conferred by the Press Association on its members, with the reqnest that If he had any doubts on the subject, not to act until he referred the question to the superintendent. The public will thcrelore readily comprehend that uo objection has been or will be made to the publisher of tho Daily Press newspaper re ceiving the Associated Press dispatches on his complying with the rules and regulations of the association. Will he do so * Does h* wish to get them without so doing* By bis own showing, the same rule was enforced at Mobile, Ala., thcrelore it was not specially intended to cramp his excessive desire to bene fit the people. Perhaps It would make a great difference which bull gored the ox. We regret very much tho necessity of troub liug the public about this matter, and that a de sire to avail ousclvcs of what might be decided by compctcut authority as our clear right, should cause us to obstrurt the path of auy one wishing to serve the public. But such Is human affairs. We bcliovu that our people will esti mate this terrible assault iu its true light, a de sire to blow. It may appear to the people of the South very moustrous that an ageut of a private enterprise living at the North, should look after the Inter est and enforce the regulations of the associ ation put in his charge, but we opine not half so much so as for one now to pretend to ba tbelr defender and adviser, who during five years of their trial and suffering denied citizen *hip and boasted on Ids British papers. Tho latest novelty in thieving is reported iom Liverpool, Daring a performance at the Adelphi Theatre, a man was defeated iu the act of stealthily cutting off tho coat tails of several ot the spectators. The follow had operated only upon those persons who wore good coats MONEY. The impression is current, with what author ity we know not, but with great show of author ity—the Impression is current that Secretary McCulloch will, in future, cease experiment ing with the gold barometer and let it either regulate Itself or be regulated by Wall Btreet. From certain signs, the Government baa not t*scn as fortunate as it was ambitious. Thirty millions are reported as the sum to be put to profit and loss, which means loss, in conse quence of dabbling in the market. Europe is sending gold back through Custom houses —gold which we sent her during the recent panic. One cause of this flow from the Old World is presumed to be heavy investments in five-twenty bonds. As giving praeticil illustration of the specu lative riot, one of onr contemporaries calculates that a man “ who bought a million of gold on the first of March last, nnd has steadily lent it out since, has made thirty-seven per cent, on his investment. If he bought his gold at 127, which was the average price in March, his gold now costs him ninety per cent. As he can sell at 144, he can realize fifty-four per cent, or $540,000 in currency by selling out.” Now, from the corrupt tendencies of the age, the headlong fidget to accumulate by lucky ven tures, the insignificance accorded to the good, old plodding routine, and general disturbances of healthy social order—we do not marvel that computations, like the above, tempt thousands to their rnin and tempt them, too, from steady employments which bring content, to the fatal circle of speculation which lascinates for the moment and then destroys. Comparatively few minds govern the world; comparatively few heads regulate speculations. But the gudgeons attracted to the net are many nnd their name will be legion, till the crack of doom. It Is this impatience to get money that, from its universality, has almost destroyed legitimate business. Old-fashioned honor has become a bore and every clerk of a cheap cash store apes his neighbor in running the perilous blockade of some golden port. It is the genius of the age, perhaps, and must correct itself. But thrice fortunate the man who anchors his hap piness upon quiet—the quiet of moderate de sires nnd domestic peace. In prospecting upon a rise.or fall in gold, no outsider can determine, to anything like a cer tainty, which way the jump will be. In our experience, the shrewdest casual guessers have becD, like greenhorns in faro, just such indi viduals as never made a hit in their lives which brought them cash—to keep. At present, there are two sets of guessers. One set predicts a rise in consequence of Northern freshets, short crops in the South and heavy importations from Europe. On these three points they prospect upon the greatest advance since Johuson’s sur render. At the first blush, these premises would seem correct and full of marrow. Just ns you arc entering a broker’s establishment to purchase, an optimist takes you by the button hole and arrays facts and figures iu such copious antagonism to your position, that away go your ideas of a rise, and every word he utters sends gold down to zero. He will, represent ing the other set, dilate upon the Reduction of our National debt, contractions of irredeemable paper, etc. When you speak of the blighted crops North and South, he snubs you with a curt “gammon.” Superadded to this blunt ejaculation, a sly application of the index finger to the proboscis, gives you to understand that corn and cotton growers have an eye to busi ness and crop telegrams can be cooked up to suit cereals and staples as well as political har vests. Dogged obstinacy will still stick to its own opinion ; but most men would come from sueli manipulation and counter-manipulation in a state bordering upon frenzy. The late flirt in onr cotton market shows liow unreliable all prognostics are, and the party who bet upon a decline in the twenty-four hours following the rise, was one who knew uo more about zippo rah or any other cotton than the man in the moon. It is statcfl that the fall of Five-twenties in England has caused gold to advance. Imme diately, the Southerner, still sore about politics attributes this decline to tho Bhaky embarrass ments of the United States. The probability, however, is thut vast quantities went abroad as soon as there was demand and a glut ensued. Bupply and demand rule gold ; but who rule supply and demand ? That is the question. Asa side show to the great money menagerie, we present the reply of the Hon. Thau Stevens to one John Gyger, who possibly holds a good pile of Federal seenrities. To such anxious Inquirers wo have the REPLY OF MR. STEVENS. September 21. John Gygp.r, Esq : Dear Sir: In answer to your Inquiry, “What effect the succoss of the President’s views will have on the national securities,” l am of opinion that Us effect would be every injurious. The President conteuds that the body of men acting as a Congress has no constitutional powers, and can do no valid acts in the absence of the excluded States. The Congresses that authorized the war debt and laid the internal duties to pay it were composed of precisely the same number of Representatives, from the same States, as the present. If it should be decided that those Congresses had no constitutional existence, then tho 5 20s, 10-40s, 7-30 sand the legal-tender greembocks will have been issued without authority, and will be worthless. Whether they would ever be redeemed would depend on what the Presideut would consider a constitutional Congress, after the admission of the rebel Representatives, when the condi tiou of the debts of both bcligercnts would be considered. Yours, truly, Thaddeus Stevens. Now this looks like a clincher; but is it really anything but solemn nousensc? The question as to the validity of Congressioual acts during the war, when tho South consented to an aban donment of privilege, is one thing: The ques tion of validity since the war, wheu the South has been deprived of privilege without consent, is another thing. This distinction pricks the big bubble and demonstrates conclusively that Mr. Stevens, whose views of finance have always been laughed at by his own cabal, is more inimical to the integrity of Government securities than Mr. Johnson or the South. We have thrown out these hiuts sketchily. Not to teach onr betters but to sum up, in a brief article, sayings and doings iu the mat ter of money. AUBREY DEYERE. As an agreeable departure from political themes, we selected, on Sunday last, a sketch ol Algernon Charles Swinburne, anew En glish poet of considerable genius and much no toriety. „The peculiarities of bis manner were happily dwelt npon, and must have been novel to some of our readers. Latest European ad vices inform us that his recent issne of “ Bal lads ” had proven too salaeious even for hardy British appetites, and, in consequence ol inde cencies which no amount of brilliant versifica tion could palliate, bad to be suppressed. The high and noble gift of imagination is a learlol instrument in the hands ol a sensual man ; and the poet who forsakes the pure, beautiful and healthy atmospheres of his art lor the mephitic splendors of an Eblis hr 11, deserves the frown of all humanity, and is the more hideous for hi 6 ambrosial earls or sumptuous Ideality. He is a craven Knight, with poisoned lance and tarnished shield, unworthy of woman’s love or man’s esteem. It will never be given to him to enter the holy of holies, and see visions of Seraphim ; if, perchance, he have a glimpse of Paradise, it will come as it comes to Satan, through the shining gate, at whose portal he may linger, but beyond which he shall never pass to beatification. It is eminently the pro vince of a true poet to make man wi ser, better, heaven-enamored; to fill the earth, with lovely shapes that lade not and flowers that smell of Eden; to give a brighter emerald to the forest, a deeper blue to the sky, an oracle to the mountain, vitality to the cloud, and in the wind and rain and sun shine to decorate even graves with roses, listen ing far beyond for the secret of thunder or cascade. Bravery, devotion, laith—these are his Helicons; butchery loses its ghastliness where Jackson fought; desolation its hag gardness where some lone mother mourns her unreturning boy; chains and torture their ig nominy where Davis suffers and grows sub lime. More than these, ineffably more than these, he can command and make omnipotent ■for good or evil. To be a true poet, then, is to be one of a Sacred Priesthood. What is his art but obscenity, if he worship not God, but idols of flesh and clay* Readers ol Wilkie Collins’ "Antonina," will remember Ulpius who strove, when the veil of Isis could no longer cover her deformity, still to deify her and place her where the image of Christ had been. By what un hallowed rites and supra-mortal eloquence he wrought out his dark design, none but the reader of that singular volume can understand. But enough can be understood to know that he is but a type of all the gifted, in every age, who grope in the blackness of idolatry and forsake the good and pure. Asa poet, Algernon Swinbourn is such a man. There is something terrible in abasement like this, and as though one ol the lordliest planets had been extin guished in the sky. We thirst lor sweet water and he offers us the cauldron of witches. To turn from him to Aubrey De Verb, is to emerge from the Grotto del Can, and, half-stifled with vapors, breathe fresh gales ol the inviolate sea. In a hasty newspaper article, it is impossible to dwell long upon any theme no matter how alluring. Willingly would we abandon our selves to the spell of this dear poet—this noble and unblemished Aubrey De Verb, but space is an imperative monarch in journalistic realms. Very few persons in this country have heard of De Verb. His writings are not calculated for such audiences as weep over Owen Mere dith or Swinbourne. They are almost essen tially religious and on topics which might not have their full savor to any but a Catholic. The abiding fault of his poetry consists in an overplus of philosophic thought, but when emancipated from this trammel, he is always sure to win upon the sternest mind. He is no hermit, but God and faith and chastity are for ever on his lips. You feel that he is a spotless priest of nature and all its sanctuaries are his by ordination. In everything he writes the universe is beautiful to the believer, and heaven worth a pilgrimage through the wondrous laby rinths of earth. We give two specimens of this poet—the ante-type of Swinbourne. The first is a deli cate bit of landscape painting rivaling the gentlest master. Walter Savage Landor praised it without stint, and no wonder, for the picture is as distinct os if painted by a Teniers or Claude Lorraine : “ Pleasant the swarm about the bough, The meadow-whisper round the woods, And, for their coolness pleasant now, The murmur of the falling floods. Pleasant beneath tho thorn to lie, And let a summer fancy loose ; To hear the cuckoo’s double cry, To mat* the noontide sloth excuse. Panting, but pleased, the cattle stand Knee-deep in water-weed and sedge, And scarcely crop the greener band Os osiers round the river’s edge. But hark ! far off the south wind sweeps The golden-foliaged grove among, Renewed or lulled, with rests and leaps— Ah I how it makes tho spirit long To drop its earthly weight, and drift, Like yon white cloud, on pinions free Beyond that mountain’s purple rill, And o’er that scintillating sea !’’ We pity the man who can read the verges with which we are compelled to close. He is indeed a clod, and may well tremble to abandon earth for eternily. We have never seen any thing in prose or verse more charmingly de scriptive of the Virgin and her Son : MITER CHRISTI. “ Daily beneath his mother’s eyes Her iamb matured his lowliness: Tw#» hers the lovely sacrifice With fillet and with flower to drees. Beside his little cross he knelt, . With human-heavenly lips he prayed; His will within her will she felt , And yet his will her will obeyed. lie willed to lack; he willed to bear; He Willed by suffering to be schooled; lie willed the chains of flesh to wear; Yet from her arms the world he ruled. As tapers 'mid the noontide glow With merged yet separate radiance burn, With human taste ami touch, even so, The things he knew he willed to learn. lie sat beside the lowly door: His homeless eyes appeared to trace In evening skies' remembered lore, And shadows of his Father's face. One only knew him. Blie alone Who nightly to his cradle crept. And lying like the moonbeam prone Worshipped her Maker as he slept." * * * # # “ From her he passed ; yet still with her The endless thought of him found rest; A sad but sacred branch of myrrh For ever folded in her breast. A boreal winter void of light— Bo seemed her widowed days forlorn: She. slept; but in her breast aU night Her heart lay waking till the morn. Bad flowers on Calvary that grew; Sad fruits that ripened from the cross; These were the only joys she knew, Yet all but these she counted loss. Love strong as death ! She lived through thee That mystic life whose every breath From life's low harp-string amorously Draws out the sweetened name of Death." RELIEF. The Rome Courier has some sensible and pointed remarks concerning the question ol relief from indebtedness —a question now deep ly agitating the South. It says that one of the strongest arguments in favor ol repudiation, is that owing to the destruction of slave proper ty and the failure of the crops, as a general thing, men cannot, this year, pay even a fourth of their indebtedness, and consequently a vast amount of property will be forced to sale under executions, and bring bnt a small part of its real value ; thus enabling a few men, that hap pen to have ready money, to acquire a large amonnt of property at mere nominal prices’ “ making the rich richer and' the poor poorer.” Now this can be obviated by a law similar to one that has been in suceessfnl operation in Kentucky, for the relief of-debtors. The essen tial features of the law we would euggest, are that all real estate levied on under execution, shall, previous to sale, be appraised—perhaps the price at which it was given in on the tax books of 1860 would answer—and unless two thirds of this price, or more, shall be bid for the property at the sale—the creditor having the privilege of taking it at that price if he chooses —the sale shall be barred, and the pro perty be freed from that execution and all others, in favor of the same creditor, for the space of say three years. Under such a law the property of debtors cannot be unreasonably-, sacrificed, and the de mands of all merciful creditors can be satisfied under the present stay law of this State thus amended. Or, if the stay law should be de cided unconstitutional, still the advantages of the law we suggest would not be materially af fected. In Alabama they have a law allowing a debt or the right of redemption for two years, on all real estate sold nnder execution. This may do very well, but to our mind the Kentucky law is a better one. Before our Legislature, that is soon to meet, adopts any rash measures in the “ wiping out" line of policy, they will doubtless consider some constitutional modes of relief. PROPHETIC. The Washington City National Intelligencer says, that as tar back as 1837, Mr. Calhoun proclaimed the following “ great truths:” “Emancipation (said that great Southern man, we may say, that American statesman,) itself would not satisfy these fanatics; that gained the next step would be to raise the ne groes to a social and political equality with the whites, and that being effected, we should find the present condition of the two races reversed. They and their Northern masters would be the masters, and we the slaves; the condition of the white race iu the British West India Islands, as bad as it is, would be happiness to ours; there the mother country is interested in sus taining the supremacy of the European race.” He who runs may read—nnd ponder. One reason why the Abolitionists hated Mr. Cal houn and taught their descendants to hate his memory, was because he unmasked their designs and stood up, when alive, as his memory stands up this day, an embodiment of Truth and Jus tice. These are imperishable, and remain for ever to rebuke corruption. Victor Hugo may apothcosise a brigand and the Radicals conse crate a crime, but the spectres of the Fathers will haunt them forever, and ultimately lead them and their principles the way of all false gods. GBANT ANDFABBAGUT. The subjoined letters from General Grant and Admiral Farragct settle mooted points as to their partisanship. In a letter dated September 19th, the former, writing to Gen. W. 8. Hilltbr, sajs: “ Ton, nor no man living, is authorized to speak for me in political matters, and I ask yon to desist in the future. 1 want every man to vote according to his own judgment, without influence from me.” Admiral Fakragut is firm, but not equally explicit. Declining an invitation to attend the Soldiers and Sailors Convention at Pittsburg, he says: “ Even if disposed to aecept, the time is too limited; but on principle I am an officer of the nary, unwilling to take any part in political as semblies, and, therefore, with thanks to your self for the pleasant tone of your letter, I beg to decline your invitation.” MB. DAVIS’ TBIAL. One pretext for postponing Mr. Davis’ trial is a dodge of Underwood's, who apprehends assassination. The Richmond Times says: “As the police were unusually ■ active dtfring the heated term in netting and slaughtering all ill conditioned curs who gave the slightest symp toms of hydrophobia, we can well understand how this foolish rumor got abroad, but in the month of October Underwood can visit this city with perfect impunity.” Integrity.— Truth has all the advantages of appearance, and many more; and, upon every account, sincerity is true wisdom. As to the affairs of this world, integrity hath many ad vantages over all the arts of dissimulation and deceit. It is much plainer and easier, much the safer and more secure way ; it hath less of trouble and difficulty, of entanglement and perplexity, of danger and hazard; it is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line, and will hold out and lasi, when deceit and cunning, which con tinually grow weaker and less effectual, will finally fail us. CARRINGTON & PURCHASING AGENCY. From an advertisement i D lhu the numerous friends of Colonel J*vJA e ’ ner are informed that he ha* entered ' ness relations with the eminent New y'T bnsi ' of Carrington & Cos. The circular elsewhere, will speak tor itselt to circles, and we cordially recommend the the patronage of onr people. The „ 10 Colonel Gardnbr will suffice togiv eit “ e ° f viable Southern endorsement. As nr ” and editor of the Constitutionalist dn^'^ lengthened period, he has stood inihe"” 81 front rank of publicists. Asa man of tir9t 7* intellect, he has shone among the thinkers and writers of the South always ,7 spicnously and always in advocacy of the loft- ’ theories. Polished, logical, epigra mmatic T* —these are the salient traits of his mind’ \ one could conduct a eontroversv with more 7 rit and energy, and, though frequently coaJll ed to severity, he never forgot the courtesy of proftssional or social pol tmk , _1 To his new line of duty he brings powers ma tured by experience and athletic trainin'' in th e arena of great epochs. It will not be too mneh to predict that the same method, nerve, manctf Unity and address characteristic of his journal* istic career, wUI naturally adapt themselves kindly and irresistibly to another pursuit. We bespeak for him, and the enterprise of which he has become a prominent official, the good wishes and practical encouragement of the South. On publishers of daily »nd other journals he has a special claim of confraternity We are assured that his efforts for their benefit will be strenuously exerted, in matters app er . taining to the peculiar wants of the profession. We wish the enterprise God-speed and trust that our brethren of the Press will not fail lo give it the countenance it richly merits. MOB SPIRIT. By telegraph we have advices from Phila delphia that mob violence, arising from politi cal controversies, had already commenced in the City of “ Brotherly Love.” As Radicalism may be said to reign supreme in Philadelphia, it is not at all surprising to learn that “several Democratic lodges were gutted” and the Con servative party second best in the affray. For ney’s Press which has been breathing torch and turpentine menaces for the last threemonthsor more has at last contrived to tan excitement into positive incendiarism." There are sullen mnt terings in Baltimore. In that oppressed city the Conservatives outnumber the Radicals as twenty to one, but, unluckily, as the bayonet has disfranchised many good citizens, it fol lows that much of the power of Conservatism is lost for actual service. Recently, the Iriends of President Johnson had a monster gathering. Very soon thereafter the Radical element mus tered its forces, and though considerably less than the Conservatives, audacity, vociferousness and scurrility caused the demonstration to be equally significant. Party spirit runs high and must have vent in some way. In Philadelphia the great preponderance of Radicals may overawe their opponents. In Baltimore, however, the preponderance of Con servatives, burning to vindicate old wrongs and elect men who have some Drobity, may force an issue to the last analysis of violence. The present Mayor is a candidate for re-elec tion. He is a public thief and corruptible ma gistrate by general accusation and open ac knowledgement. With him rally the jobbers and tricksters of every complexion. Against him coalesce the better class of Republicans and the once disqualified voters—disqualified by fraud and intimidation. Asa matter of course, there are, In such conditions fiery ingredients and we ar.e apprehensive of bloody results. A thunder-cloud hangs ominously over the whole North, and men tremble at the signs and portents visible around them. We cannot, as Christian folks, rejoice at these tokens of wrath, but rather deprecate them. But, as mere mortals, Heaven be thank ed, we are outside spectators ot the drama, and would be more or less than human, if we did not cheer that side which fights the battle for us and for our deliverance. Captain Senmes on Northern Esergt.- Captain Raphael Semmes, now editor of the Mobile Gazette, says : “We have been beaten in all our contests with the Northern people by want of energy. While we are day dreaming or sleeping, they are at work; at work like so many beavers or bees in a bive. If they hare a railroad to build they set energy Vt work, and it is built; witness the great Pacific railroad, now stretching itself like an immense serpent across the Rocky Mountains—a work scarcely retarded by the war. They are as energetic in politics as in political economy. We picked up the Detroit Post the other day and among other things the energetic worker in the great bee hive of Michigan politics informed us that n was putting “ out a campaign paper,” and that it had received eleven hundred subscribers to it iu one day ! At the last census (1866) De troit contained a population of forty-five thou sand, and was, therefore, a little larger than Mobile. The Post is a Republican of the blackest stripe. This is the way in which the Republican majorities are maintained, and even increased in the North. Every man subscribe to a newspaper and reads; and as the ncw-i 1 • pers are Republican machines—nine-tenths °- them—run by the giant energy, do we won >- r that all the people are Republicans? pity it is that this giant does not live 3BlCffl ’ us.” The Trouble Brewing in Baltimore -- “ municipal elections soon to occur in BaHito are already begetting no little excitement t e The present city government is extr^ c ‘ e Radical, and the judges appointed by the Board, it is said, will receive no votes bu as support their party. Hon. Reverdy Jo & and Judge Latrobe have published their opi that the “ registry law ” does not apply . nieipal elections, and that all contU^ e citizens have a right to vote as un< * e ’’ imor e law. The large mass of the people of » are opposed to Radicalism, and the pr°-F that there will be trouble.
