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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTIONALIST
BY TELEGRAPH.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
From "WY sliington.
Washington, May 28.
Col. A. H. Long, of the President’s house
hold, was before the Judiciary Committee ou
Saturday. Credited reports of his evidence
falsify detective Baker’s allusions to the Presi
dent. •
An Omaha dispatch reports a fight near Pine
Bluff between white men engaged in cutting
railroad ties and the Indians; one of the form
er and six of the latter were killed.
General Joseph E. Johnston was in the citv
to-day and left for Baltimore.
The President and Generals Grant and
Thomas bad a. pronged interview to-day. The
C ibinet was in sessiou afterwards and continued
until two o’clock.
Revenue receipts to day, $430,000.
The President’s nominee lor the Austrian
Ministry having been rejected by the Senate,
the 1 resident has appointed John Hay Charge
dc Affaires.
Washington, May 29.
(>cn. I homas visit here refers exclusively to
Tennessee matters. Precautions have been
taken for prompt Federal action in case Brown
low’s militia and the pjcople quarrel.
A railroad train between Chicago, and Cin
(inn Ui, contaiuingStrakoscb’s troupe ran off the
track. Parepa Is unhurt; nearly all are more
or less battered, none fatally.
The President leaves Sunday, accompanied
by M rs. Stover and one private Secretary. He,
will be absent a week.
The Japanese Commissioners are negotiating
for the purchase of the Confederate ram Stone
wall.
Congressman Boutwell is going; South, be
speaks at Leesburg, Va., on Friday.
Government expenditures quarter coding
March thirty-first, two hundred and thirty-two
millions. Receipts, two hundred and thirty
nine millions. Internal revenue to-day, five
hundred and sixteen thousand.
Advices from Montana indicate a sharp cam
paign against the Indians. There is little hope
at tiie State Department of Maximilian’s safety.
Washington; May 30.
The President intends leaving Sunday morn
ing. lie will remain at the Spottswood, in
Richmond, until 3 o’clock, Monday morning,
then go to Raleigh direct.
The Memphis and Charleston Railroad have
paid SIOO,OOO down, and stipulated to pay
110,000 per month until $325,000, due the Gov
ernment, is liquidated.
The President has appointed E. H. Angomax
a member of the board of West Point visitors.
Gen. Thomas T. Eckert, formerly Assistant
Secretary of War, now prominently connected
with the Western Union Telegraph Company,
headquarters in New York, is ip the city. (The
d~ euce he is !)
Internal revenue receipts to-day, $017,000.
The Comptroller of the Treasury advertises
in the city papers that the bank notes of the
first National Bank of New Orleaus will be
paid in lawful money, upon presentation at the
Treasury of the United States.
Washington, May 31.
The President attends the Boston Masonic
celebration ou June 21st.
The Internal Revenue receipts to-day were
♦OBI,OOO.
Martino de Autas, the new Portuguese Min
ister, was presented to the President to-day.
Washington, June 1.
The Secretary of the Treasury has*forbidden
the publication of the weekly disbursements.
The completed registration shows 9,792
whites; 8,212 blacks.
Dubnnt, whose name was rejected on ac
count of avoiding the draft, tore out and at
tempted to swallow two pages of the register,
lie was jailed.
Pyesers, a Richmond merchant, who escaped
the Confederate service by furnishing a substi
tute, offered for registration and was refused.
There is considerable excitement and much
dissatisfaction, but no trouble is apprehended
on Monday.
The Herald has a special announcing the exe
cution of Maximilian and his officers. The re
port is discredited at the State Department.
The State Department has secured official in
formation of Maximilian’s unconditional sur
render.
Fractional currency issued during the week
in $375,000. Securities held for National Bank
circulation, $840,000,000. Public deposits,
♦89,000,000. Total National Bank circulation,
$298,000,000. Internal revenue receipts and
public deposits, ♦39,000,000. Toial National
Bank circulation, $298,000,000.
Internal revenue receipts to-day, $1,165,000.
Total for the week, $8,741,000. Receipts for
May, $10,971,000-
The President leaves at half-past six ou a
special steamer.
The Custom receipts for the week ending
May 28th, $52,980,000.
Splendidly executed counterfeit tens on the
Third National Bank of Philadelphia arc in
circulation.
Dacotah advices to May 10th represent that
the Indians arc perfectly quiet ou the upper
Missouri.
The correspondence between Jose Beiges,
Foreign Secretary of Paraguay, and Charles A.
Washburn, Amerte.ni Minister at Ascineion,
has been published by the State Department.
Brazil, the Argentine Republic and the Orien
tal State, reject the mediation of the United
States in the Paraguayan war. Serges’ letter
narrates continued aggressions on the part of
Brazil. He announces the determination of
Paraguay and her people to save themselves by
triumph, since the enemy persists in its ef
forts to prosecute the war with the malignity
of demons.
Washington, June 3.
The rules and forms of bankruptcy have been
delayed by repeated alterations, over which the
Justices have been consulted by mail. It is now
stated they will be issued about the 10th instant. j
Foreign.
[BY STEAMER. j
New York, May 28.
The Scotia arrived with Liverpool dates to
the 19th.
The cattle plague has broken out violently iu
London.
From Mobile.
THE RECOIL.
Mobile, May 31.
Yesterday an edition ot the Nationalist, a Re
publican newspaper, published here, was sup
pressed by order of the Commandant of the
Post, a guard placed over the office, aud future
publication prohibited until the proof-sheets are
submitted to the Commandant.
The order for the suppression says : The pa
per is rendered amenable under the last para
graph of general order of May 19th, prohibiting
the publication ol articles incitiug to riot and
violence, or the public use of incendiary lan
guage.
The article referred to was instructing frecd
men when aud how to use fire-arms.
The Mobile Hiot.
Washington, May 31.
In a report of the Mobile riot, just published,
Gen. Pope savs : Everybody apprehended a dis
turbance during Kelley’s -speech. Gen. Pope
censures the Mayor for not being with
an adequate force. He removed the Mayor and
police, not only for criminal misconduct, but
because no confidence is felt iu the security o!
peace and order while they retain office.
Gen. Swaync says the affair was not appre
hended or deliberately planned.
Col. Shepherd, speaking ot Mayor Withers,
says: “He is, I believe, the only man iu the
city qualified by disposition to temper, with |
proper discretion, his official acts."
.From Richmond.
Richmond, May 28.
The Mayor to-day closed the investigation oi
recent riot, and sent on for indictments
against two colored men and two white fire
men.
Richmond, May 29.
. T l,e pKy Council has invited the President to
visit Richmond, on his way to Raleigh.
A fight occurred yesterday in Danville, Va *
between members of the United States burial
corps and the negroes of Danville. Bricks and
pistols were used. The burial corps was driven
out of town. Two were wounded on each side.
Richmond, May 30.
General Schofield yesterday issued an order
for the purpose of giving adequate protection
to all persons in their rights of person and
property in eases whre the civil authorities'
may fail, directing the appointment of military
commissioners iu sub-districts hereafter to be
defined, giving them the command of the
police, sheriffs and constables, and clothing
them with the powers of magistrates. These
commissioners are to take jurisdiction in all
cases where they may have,reason to belief
justice is not done. The order concludes as
follows :
Trial by the civil courts will be preferred in
all cases where there is satisfactory reason to
believe that justice will be done. But until the
orders of the commanding general are made
known in any case, the paramount jurisdiction
assumed t y the military commissioner will be
exclusive. All persons, civil officers and
others, are required to obey and execute the
lawful orders of the military commissioner to
the same extent as they are required by law to
obey aud execute writs issued by civil magis
trates. Any person who shall disobey or resist
the lawful orders on authority of a military
commissioner, shall be tried by a military com
mission, aud upon conviction shall be punished
by fine and imprisonment according to the
mvturc and degree of the offense. This order
will not be construed to excuse civil officers in
.ui\’ degree from the faithful discharge of their
duties. It is intended to aid the civil authori
ties and not to supersede them except incases
of necessity.
Gen. Brown, of the Freedmen’s Bureau, has
issued a circular directing the officers, in view
of the hostility which may exist to freedmep
voting, to see that every freedman is instructed
in his rights, and that he is registered and votes.
Judge Kelly spoke in Danville, Virginia, to
day.
Richmond, May 31.
To-day was observed by the ladies in deco
rating Ibe graves of the Confederate dead.---
Stores were closed and there were about ten'
thousand persons in Hollywood cemetery.
Gen. Schofield reviewed the troops of this dis
trict this morning.
Judge Kelley arrived here to-night and leaves
for Washington to-morrow.
Richmond, June 2.
The President on his trip hither from Wash
ington, was accompanied by Secretary Seward,
Postmaster General Randall, Col. 'Win. G.
Moore, ot the President’s staff, Surgeon Basil
Morris, United States Array, Col. J. R. Oburne,
Col. A. H. Seward, United States Army, Wil
liam S. Mitchell E. L. Lenshaw, Geo. Matting
ly« Agent of the Potomac Steamboat Company,
R- O. Taylor, the last named is the
Chief Quartermaster of the Second Military
District, detailed by Gen. Sickles to act as one
of the escort.
Recahing Fredericksburg at half past eleven
o’clock Saturday night, a number of persons of
that vicinity gathered at the station and greeted
the President with cheers and called for a
spceeh, but he merely thanked them for the
manifestation of their respect and shook hands
with some of them at parting. .
At Ashland, two o’clock, a. m., he was met
by about twenty persons, one of whom extend
ed to the President a cordial welcome in their
name—remarking they were not far from the
birth-place of Henry Clay, which neighborhood
Patrick Henry also rendered historic. The
President, in respouse to an informal address,
said : Gentleman : Accept my thanks for this
compliment.
The railroad train arrived at Richmoud at
three o’clock, a. in. The President was met at
the station by Mr. McFarland, President of the
City Council and several other members of that
body, Mayor Mayo and ex-Mayors Sanders and
Sturdivant. These gentleman extended to him i
a cordial welcome and invited him to accept of
the hospitalities of the city of Richmond. The
interview was rather informal but pleasant.
Hacks in waiting conveyed the party to the
Spotswood Hotel, where they were accommo
dated with the best apartments. The President’s
chambers are those heretofore occupied by Jef
ferson Davis, and subsequently by Gen. Grant.
This morning the President, Secretary Sew
ward aud Postmaster General Randall, aecom
panied by a committee of city authorities, at
tended service at St. Paul’s Church, where the
Rev. Dr. Minegerode officiated.
After returning to the Spotswood Hotel, the
President received a number of visitors, inclu
ding a few ladies.
The President and party this afternoon dined
with the Mayor and Council, at the Hotel.
Many of the eitizeus, not being aware that the:
party had come to Rich monel, congregated at
the railroad station this afternoon to witness
their coming, a report having been in circula
tion that they would then arrive.
The President and party leave to-morrow
morning, between 3 and 4 o’clock, for Raleigh.
From N ew York.
New York, May.
Etken Allen and Mate won three straight
heats; time—2:29, 2:21, 2:19. Tite last is the
; fastest on record. Ethen Allen is 18 years oid.
New York, May 31.
The presentation hose carriage for the Co
mmbia firemen is completed, and will be for
warded shortly.
New York, June 1.
Judge Barnard recently rendered a decision,
holding that the provisions of the State statute
of 1802, which gives the State courts power to
enforce liens against ships and vessels, are in
contravention to the Constitution of the Uui
ted States and the acts of Congress, which
vests the power to enforce maritime
claims exclusively in the United States Courts
of Admiralty. This decision overturns a long
settled coarse of proceedings in the State
| courts to enforce claims by seizing and sub-
I jeeting vessels to salg Without the long delays
attending actions at law against the owners or
| ageuts.
New York, June I—P. M.
Specie shipments, $347,000.
The remains of Charles F. Browne (Artemas
Ward,) have arrived. They will be conveyed
to Maine for interment.
. New York, May 2.
The HrralfT& special, dated Rio Janeiro May
; vim London June Ist says: That the media
| tiou of the United States had been declined by
the Brazilian Government, and renewed pre
parations were making to prosecute the war to
an end. General Urquiza it was reported
had revolted against the allies, taking with him
ten thousand men. There had been no further
fighting.
The cholera raged in the allied camp.
The revolt iu the Argentine Province, is re
ported ended.
From Charleston.
Charleston, May 30.
Iu the Uulted States District Court to-day
a bill of complaint was filed by District Attor
ney Corbin against Charles K. Prioleau, Theo
dore D. Wayuer, Jas. T. Web-man, W. L.
Trenholm, Geo. A. Treuholm and John B.
Lafitte, members of the firm of John Fraser Os
Cos., charging them with violations of the laws
of the United States in blockade running
operations, and that iu Other respects
they are accountable to the Government.
Judge Bryan, upon hearing the bill, granted
an injunction restraining afore-mentioned par
ties from disposing of any real state, now held
by them.
Gen. Sickles leaves Charleston to-morrow for
Raleigh to meet President Johnson.
From Mexico.,
CAPITULATION OF QUERETARO.
MAXIMILIAN A PRISONER.
New Orleans, May 27.
Advices from Brazos via Galveston, save a let
ter from the American Consul at Monterey
confirms the capture of Maximilian.
reply of President Juarez to Minister
Campbell recounts the grievances of his party
at the conduct of Maximilian. He justifies
previous executions and declines to promise
safety to Maximilian in the event of his capture.
Washington, May 27.
A telegram has been received at the State De
partment from New Orleaus on the 26th trans
mitting an official letter from Juarez, dated at
San Luis Potosi 15th instant, stating that
Queretaro has fallen by force of arms at eight
O'clock this morning. Maximilian, Mejia, Cas
telio and Miramon are prisoners.
New Orleans, May 31.
Advices from Havana to the 28th, per steamer
Liberty, arc as follows: Capt. General Manzeana
has notified the Consular Agent of the Juarez
Government to quit the territory of the ever
faithful isle within eight days. The cause for
this unfriendly act do not appear ; it may be in ■
some way connected with thu recent triumph
of the Liberals or just remonstrances against
the open help rendered the Imperial Govern
ment in the shape of men, arms, munitions and
provisions.
The American bark Ocean Home was ap
praised at $15,000.
The sugar and molasses warehouse of Mac
kinsus was destroyed by fire on the 26th Inst.
It was Insured in the Liverpool and London
Fire Insurance Company for $45,000.
It is rumored that the Spanish Admiral’s visit
to St. Martha means the pushing up of the af
fair, if possible, and fn event of a rupture with
the Columbian Government, the R. R. Cuyler
will be brought to this port.
The French Bteamer Sonora arrived to-day
from Vera Cruz, and confirms the telegram of
the 16th, about the surrender ot Maximilian
and his Generals. The commander of Vera
Cruz is only waiting official notification of the
facts to surrender the city.
advices from St. Domingo to the
17th, say the harbor of San Pedro has been de
clared a port of entry.
A decree has been issued, exempting, for
the period of five years, all foreigu vessels from
payments for permits to clear at any port of
entry of the Republic, for the purpose of load
ing salt, provided they take nothing but salt.
Another decree abolishes for the term of five
years the import duty on zinc, in whatever way
or shape introduced, adapted to building pur
poses*
The British brig Kurea, from New York, was
wrecked off the Southern Coast of Saona. The
Captain and crew were saved, also the passen
ger, Mr. Giddiugs. A part of the cargo will be
saved.
The British brig Fleetly, from Boston, for
Jaemel, with an assorted cargo, was wrecked
on the Northern side ot Saona. The Captain
and crew and part of the cargo were saved.
New Orleans, June 1.
Hon. L. D. Campbell has received letters from
the U. 8. Consul at Mata'moras, confirming the
reports of the fall of Queretaro and the capture
of Maximilian and his Generals.
Mr. Marshall, Consul at Matamoras, has just
arrived in -town, and brings no later intelli
gence ; he probably came on with his own dis
patches.
Letters have been received here by Imperial
ists, dated Monterey, 21st, which make no men
tion of the capture of Maximilian, which is
rather singular.
Foreign.
fBY THE CABLE.]
Cork, May 28.
O’Brien was convicted and sentenced to
death ; his punishment will be commuted to
imprisonment for life.
Paris, May 29.
The Government has taken measures to
greatly reduce the number of troops in the
standing army.
Madrid, May 29.
The Spanish fleet in the Pacific Ocean is to be
materially strengthened.
St. Petersburg, May 30.
The Emperor Alexander left to-day for
Paris. •
Berlin, May 30.
Bismarck accompanies the King to Paris.
* Madrid, May 30.
The Government is considering the policy oi
abolishing eolonial slavery.
From Canada.
Montreal, May 28.
Jefferson Davis remains so secluded that no
one has seen him to identify him on the
street.
The Fenian rumors from the border are
officially declared unfounded.
Montreal, June 2.
The small steamer Admiral Porter, (Wash
ington Tempest)from New York, bound West,
was seized by the Custom House officers. The
seizure is generally attributed to suspected Fc
nianisro, but the fact is that the freedom of the
St. Lawrence river ceased with the abrogation of
the reciprocity treaty, and foreign vessels can
not come further than Quebec without special
permit from the United States. Papers have
beeu sent for, and pending their arrival, the
vessel is detained.
From the [Pacific.
San Francisco, May 25.
The Sierra Nevada arrived.
Mazatlan, May 17.
Americans are leaving Mazatlan and Proseda.
The cotton crops have failed the three years
past.
Advices from the Liberal headquarters to May
first, say if Maximilian is captured Juarez dare
not save him.
From the West.
St. Louis, May 30.
A Fort Kearney dispatch says, the Indian
war has fairly begun, ranches are burned,
stocks are stolen aud settlers are murdered
daily. Troops are going westward rapidly.
Cincinnati, Muy 30. j
A Gallipahs merchant, with Cincinnati busi
ness connection, has failed with liabilities of
over a half million.
From IST or folk. *
Norfolk, May 30.
A double tenement building on Market j
Square fell this morning. The lower floor was
used as stores ; the upper floor as dwellings.— ;
A number of people were buried. Mrs. Ches- j
chire and child escaped from the building, but j
were caught iu the adjoining lane by the falliug j
rubbish. The overhanging walls rendero any I
efforts to rescue those buried very hazardous. !
From Havana.
New Orleans, June 1.
Advices to the 2Sth say the United States
steamers Monongahela, Perria and Swa'tara ar
rived at St. Thomas on the 15ib. ’
From .Alexandria.
Alexandria, May 30. •
The freight train on the Orange and Alcxan- i
driu Road ran eff to-day, killing the engineer *
and fireman. w i
From Texas.
m
Galveston, May 27.
An attempt to collect taxes here, levied dur
ing the war in- Confederate currency, which
would sacrifice the property of Union men, ha*
called forth an order from Gen. Griffin forbid
ding the collection of such taxes.
Judge Reeves, of the Niqth District of Texas
decides that negroes are not competent wit
nesses in the trial of white men.
The sheriff of Victoria county refuses to take
greenbacks, not recognizing them as “legal
tenders.”
From New' Orleans.
New Orleans, May 28.
An order from General Sheridan extends the
time for registration until the 20th June.
New Orleans, May 31.
Mayor Heath appointed two negro police
men to-day.
SOMETHING FOR THE BUREAU.
Providence, R 1., May 27.
The wul of Shuball Hutchins, a leading mer
chant of this city, who died last week, be
queaths SIO,OOO for the education and im
provement of negroes in the South.
Marine ]STews.
/ New York, May 28.
Arrived—Arago and Allippo, from Europe ;
Champion, from Charleston.
Charleston, May 28.
Arrived—Manhattan, from New York.
Southampton, May 28.
The Harmouia has arrived.
Londonderry, May 28.
The Westonian has arrived.
New York, May 28.
The Saragossa and Champion, from Charles
ton ha3 arrived.
New York, May 29.
Arrived—Vesta, from Europe; the French
steam line-01-battle ship Jean Bart, from An
napolis.
Charleston, May 29.
Arrived—Steamer Emily Souder, from New
York ; brig A. Taylor, from Boston ; schrNwllie
Tarbox, from Matanzas.
Sailed—Steamer Falcon, for Baltimore.
New’ York, May 30.
The steamship Virginia, from Liverpool to
day. brings 14,200 bushels of wheat.
Charleston, May 30.
Arrived—Steamer Alliance, Philadelphia ;
schooner Shiloh, Baltimore. Sailed—ship Gal
eonda, Monrovia; bark Guardian Angel,
Queenstown ; schooner L. S. Danes, Baltimore ;
schooner T. F. Farland, lor a Northern port.
Charleston, May 31.
Sailed—Brig A. Bradshaw and schooner L. L.
Tapley, for Jacksonville, Fla.
Off the Port—British bark Northern Crown,
from Newport, England.
New York, June 1.
Arrived—Steamer Wm. Tabber, Key West;
Hibernia.
Queenstown, June 1.
The China touched here to-day.
Charleston, June 2.
Arrived—Steamer Sea Gull, from Baltimore;
schooners 8. J. Waring and David Faust, from
New York; schooner Grape Shot, from Balti
more.
Sailed Yesterday—Steamers Souder and Man
hattan, for New York.
. Markets.
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
Paris, June 1.
The Bank of France has reduced the rate of
discount.
London, June I—Noon.
Consols, 5 Bonds, 73.
Liverpool, June I—Noon.
Cotton active and firmer; estimaied sales
20,000 bales ; uplands, 11%@11%; Orleans,
11 %• Breadstuff's firm. Corn, 395. 3d. Flour,
295. Provisions unchanged. Pork, 82s. 6d.—
Lard, 495. 6d. Rosin—common, 76; firm, 13s.
Turpentine, 345. 6d. Tallow, 495. 3d.
London, June I—2 o’clock.
A further reduction ol the bank rate is ex
pected. Consols, 96%. American securities
firm and a general advance estabnshed. Bonds,
London, June I— Evening.
Consols, 96; Bonds, 78%.
Liverpool, June I—Evening.l —Evening.
Cotton firm; sales, 20,000 bales; middling
uplands, 11% ; Orleans, 11%.
New York, June I—Noon.
Flour, 2@B lower. Wheat dull. Corn steady.
Pork firmer, $23 30(3)23 35. Lard steady,
12%@t3%. Cotton advanced %c; middling
upland, 28. Freights dull.
New York, June I— Noon.
Stocks steady. Money, 6. Gold, 136%. —
Sterling, 60 days, 10; sight, 10%. ’62, reg
istered, 38%. Coupons, 95%@95%.
New York, June I—P. M.
Cotton is firm ;'sa!es, 1,600 bales at 27%@28.
Flour heavy ; State, $9 50@12 50. Wheat, 3@
sc. lower. Corn unchanged. Whisky active ;
Western in bond, 34@35. Pork heavy at $23
30@23 35. Lard heavy at 12%@13% Nava!
Stores quiet and firm Groceries quiet and
steady. Freights dull and unchanged.
Baltimore, June 1.
Cork, May 28,
Paris, May 29.
Coffee inactive aud steady. Cotton firm ;
good grades ol middling, *27. Flour favors
buyers. Corn steady. Provisions firm and
dull. Mess pork scarce at $23 50@23 75.
Western bacon shoulders held at 9% ; city
smoked, 10@10}4 ; rib sides,
rib, 12?£@12% ; bulk shoulders, 9 ; sides, 11.
New Orleans, June L
Cotton—Sales, 4,200 bales ; market active and
higher ; low middling, 25 ; receipts, 489 bales ;
exports, 890 bales. Sugar and Molasses no
sales ; asking lc. advance on Cuba sugar. Flour
—superfine, sll 25 ; difference of $1 iu favor of
fresh flour of all grades. Corn unchanged ;
yellow mixed, $1 12%@1 20 ; white, $1 20.
Oats, 95@98. Lard—tierce, 13; keg, 143*@14}£.
Bacon, shoulders, 9%@9%; rib, 12@12.14; clear,
13J4. Pork dull at $24 25. Coffee firm at
Gold, 13634- Sterling, 47@51. New
York sight, premium.
Savannah, June 1.
Cotton is active; sales, 500 bales. The mar
ket opened firm at 2534 aad closed steady, with
holders asking 26@26>£ for middlings. Re
ceipts, 550 bales.
Mobile, June 1.
Cotton firm; sales, 550 bales; middling, 25.
Receipts, 32 bales.
NEW WHEAT.
50,000 BUSHELS NEW WHEAT
WANTJSD; for which I will pay the highest CASH
PRICES for early delivery. Planters will find it to
their interest to call on J. S. COLES,
Commission Merchant,
jel-t-SiT 144 Reynolds street.
STOLEN,
F ROM the subscriber* near Richmond Bath, on
the 24th instant, a sraail BAY MARE, about 5 or 6
years old, aw iallied in left shoulder, small knot on
hack, caused by the saddle. I will pay a liberal re
ward for her recovery, or any information so I can jet
her. JNO. B. HAYNIE,
m j 31-d2*ol* Richmond Factory.
AUGUSTA MARKET.
OrrrcK Duly Cosstttutiokalist, t
Augusta, Ga., June 3. }
Financial and Commercial.
GOLD AND SILVER—The market has been quiet
the past week, and the demand and supply both lim
ited. Brokers buying gold at 136 and selling at 137.
Silver, buying at 1275? 128 aud selling at 130(8132.
EXCHANGE—The National Banks check at par
to any extent; aut-door rates, *®* off.
Bank Bills.
GEORGlA—Georgia K. R. & Bk’g Cos., 98 ; Cen
tral R R. Ac Bk’g Cos., 98 ; Marine Bank, 98 ; Middle
Georgia, 85 ; Savannah, 35 ; Augusta, 45 ; City Bank,
29 : Bank of State of Georgia, 14 ; Bank of Columbus,
10.
STOCKS AND BONDS-Georgia R. R. Stock,
70; Centra! R. R. Stock, 90; Southern Porcelain Cos.,
80@S5 ; Augusta Manufac’g Cos., 120® 122 ;Georgia R.
R. Bonds, f 5®96 ; Central R. R. Bonds, 96 ; Old State
Sixes Bonds, 6-®7O ; Old Sevens, Bonds, 75 ; New
Sevens, Bonds, 83@84; Augusta and Waynesboro
Bonds, 85 : South Carolina R. it. Bonds, 6's, 60®61;
South Carolina R. R. Bonds, 7’s, 60@67; Augusta Gas
Co s, 25®28.
COTTON—More confidence has been exhibited the
past week by both sellers ' and buyers, resulting in
fair sales for ike stock on hand, which is about 10,000
bales, they amounting iu the aggregate to bales
while the receipts have reached bales.
The' inquiry in the barly part of the week was for
the better grades, while grades below middling were
difficult to sell, though for the past two days the de
mand has been more general, and all grades sal cab'e
at their relative value, closing to-day at about 25 for
full middling, 24)4 for middling, 23)4@24 for low mid
dling Red and stained, 15@22 cents.
The wheat crop, now about being gathered, prom
ises well; so of oats and rye " indeed, it is true of all
crops, with occasional exceptions. The labor, as a
rule, is steady and reliable, and if not interfered with
by demagogues on the one hand, and fairly and hon
orably dealt with Jby employers, (as they deserve) on
the other, it will continue to do well and we hope im
prove.
Want of the necessary supplies is still embarrass
ing, and how relief is to be afforded, we cannot well
see : it is true factors and others are disposed to aid
all they can, yet, of late, reports of agents of the Gov
ernment, claiming to interfere with the lreedmau’s in
terest in crops by taking charge of it and disposing of
) it for them, has caused many to pause before making
further advances. It is a great misfortune at this
juncture that anything should occur to destroy the
little remaining confidence, and we do hope those re
ports may prove groundless. ,
Monday—There was very little demand this
morning, yet 102 bales were sold at about 24c. for
strict middling. In the afternoon a better feeling pre
vailed, though nothing was done. The following are
the prices obtained to-day : 2at 20, sat 22)4, 7at 23,
85 at 24,1 at 24)4 and 2 bales of Zippora, lat 27 and 1
at 28. Receipts, 59 bales.
Tubsday—The market continues, as for some
dajs past, with a fair demand for good cotton, at
about 23)$ for middling and 24 for strict middling, but
sellers do not meet the views of buyers, and in conse
quence sales are limited, amounting to-day to 137
bales, as follows: 2at 16,1 at 22, 72 at 23, 2at 2323
at 2325 at 24, 3 at 25, and 9 bales, price unknown.
Receipts, 46 bales.
Wednesday—There has been a good demand, with a
better feeling tbap yesterday, and full prices. Sales
amounted to 257 bales, as follows: 7at 20, Bat 21,
61 at 22, 30 at 23,15 at 23)4,48 at 23*, and 79 bales at
24.. Receipts, 72 bales.
Thursday—The demand to-day continues as usual.
Prices during the morning were about the same as
yesterday. But after the receipt of noon advices of
heavy sales in Liverpool, more confidence was felt,
and sellers advanced their prices. Sales, which were
too limited to give quotations, amounted to 98 bales
as follows: 10 at 22, 3at 23, 39 at 23*, lat 23)4,17 at
23* and 28 bales at 24. Receipts, 46 bales.
Friday—There has been some improvement to
day on yesterday’s market, the main improvement
being after the receipt of morning accounts from Li
verpool, which created a good demand and a good
many sales were effected, but the market has been
too unset'led for us to give reliable quotations. We
suppose that good styles of middlings will bring 24)4®
25 cents. Sales amounted to 259 bales as follows: 3
at 20, *0 at 21,12 at 21)4, 28 at 22%, 45 at 23, 22 at 23)4,
60 at 24. 21 at 24*, 131 at 24)4, 47 at 25, and 8 at 26
cents. The receipts were 28 bales.
Saturday— There has been a good demand to-day,
and considerable cotton was sold, at about yester
day’s prices, say 24@25 for good style of middlings.
In the afternoon the market improved, but very few
sales were made. Sales of the day amounted to 436
bales, as follows : 14 at 19, 7 at 21, 28 at 22, 2 at 23, 106
at 24, 8 at 24)4, 68 at 25, and 3 bales at 25)4. Re
ceipts, 10 bales.
BACON—(Jncliangfd; stock light; shoulders, 11)4
sides, 13* ; clear ribbed, 14; clear, 14* ; hams,
16@20-
COFFEE—Is quiet at 26@28 cents.
SUGAR—quiet—Porto Rico, 15; Clarified, 16®17
cents.
MOLASSES, 55; syrup, 6o®Bo.
SALT—Liverpool lower; offered in lots at $2 25 and
$2 50 from store.
BAGGING—No demand, at 25 cents. Burlaps, 17
cents'
ROPE—DuII, at 18 cents. *
LARD—In moderate demand. Largo pkge., 15@15>4;
small, 18@17.
FLOUR—Stiff-Stock light and demand fair;
“Granite Mills,” (Jackson & Cos.) $lB 00@19 00 ;
“Excelsior'’ (Stovall’s; Canal, sls 00; with a
very good demand ; Northern Supers, sls ; Extras,
sl6 ; Family, sl7@lß 00 ; Tennessee, in sacks, sls®
18 00.
MEAL—Firm at $1 55 for City, by the quantity ; i
Country, $1 50. Fine feed, (“Granite Miffs”) 2*c. j
Feed, 3Me.; Cleaned Grits, $l9O.
CORN—Stock fair, the demand is good. Tennes
see, $1 S3 in depot, $1 60 from store; stock fair.
OATS—Scarce at $1 35.
HAY—More abundant and easier, $2 75@3 09.
DOMESTICS—Are in fair demand; Augusta Fac
tory Goods have been again reduced to 14 for \ ;
160. for 4-4, and 17# cts. for Drilling. Montour
Shirtings and Sheetings, 14; Yams, $2; Osna
burgs, 22 cents ; Stripes, 26 cents.
DRY GOODS are steady—good demand. We quote
Prints 12#@20c.; Bleached Shirtings, 12#@28# ;
New York Mills do., 45; 10-4 Sheetings, qj)C.®fi.
BUTTER—In demand at 25 cents for country;
Goshen, 40@45.
EGGS in better demand at 25c. for fresh.
TALLOW—I2#.
BEESWAX-35.
CIIKESE—DuII.
WHlSKY—'Double rectified, $2 00®2 60.
IRON —Swedes, 7#@B# ; English, 6 ; refined Eng
lish, 6#.
N AILS—6d. to 20d., inclusive, 7#c.
LEATHER—SoIe, per lb, 33@50c. ; upper, 50@75c.
Calf Skins—French, $40@75 per dozen: American, S3O.
BROOMS—per dozen, s4@6.
Dismissed.—The case of the Stale vs. Ben
j train Holloman, charged with arson, was call
ed up yesterday morning, in the county Court.
The Defendant, through his counsel, Messrs.
Tidwell and Fears, announced ready, when the
counsel for the State announced that after in
vestigation, they tvere satisfied of Mr. Hollo
man’s innocence, and moved that the ease be
dismissed, which was accordingly done.
| Atlanta Era , 31sf ult.
Celibacy Advised among Episcopal Cler
gymen.—The Church Journal , a prominent aud
influential paper in the Episcopal Church,
advises against the marriage of the clergy, and
says the celibacy of the ministers in the Catholic
Church is one of the practical advantages it has
over the Episcopal Church. We believe that
editor’s labor is lost, without he can persuade
all the pretty and lovely young ladies to go to
the convent and take the black veil.
TrRED of It.—The merchants of Silver Citv
I. TANARUS:, are tired of taking greenbacks at par
value, and propose to hereafter receive them at
rates in consonance with their worth in the
money market —ldaho World.
The Booth Diary—ls it a Forgery ?
To the Editor of the New York World:
The newspapers print what purports to he
the diary of John Wilkes Booth. After an ex
amination of the document I have no hesita
tion in pronouncing this pretended diary a
forgery.
It was probably written, at the instigation of
the detective Baker, by some newspaper cor
respondent. It bears in every line the marks
of invention. In some places this is overdone.
Booth is made to say : 11 1 shouted ‘ sic semper *
before I fired.” It fs absurd to suppose that
the real Booth would have written such a thing.
Again: “In jumping, I broke my leg. I rode
sixty miles that night with the bone of my leg
tearing the flesh at every jump.” The*, the
bone of his leg still tearing his flesh, enemies
on every side, all the crossings guarded, the
fatal circle oi foes steadily’ closing in, every
second.of time of incalculable value, the neces
sity for devoting every faculty to the business
of escape a matter of absolutely vital import
ance, Booth sits down to write several hun
dred words of maudlin nonsense. There is
hardly a semblance of reality in that “ diary.”
It is just such a work ns an ingenious sensa
tional correspondent might have produced.
But what necessity for forging a diary ? One
ot two things is true. Either Baker and his
associates killed the wrong man, or, killing the
right man, they forged this diary In order to
magnify the importance ot the supposed plot
which in assassination. If one sup
poses that they killed the wrong man, a dozen
mysterious circumstances are explained Then
one understands why the story that Booth is
still afire is so frequently reaffirmed ; why men
apparently responsible, deliberately announce
that they have seen him ; why the corpse «f
the supposed assassin was so mysteriously hur
ried'into a concealed pit; why even the cloth
ing of the supposed Booth was destroyed :«
why there was everywhere a labored attemut to
prove that Bootli had indeed been killed. *
It is reasonably plain that there was no
“plot,” in the true meaning of the term, for the
assassination ot Mr. Lincoln. A great deal of
party capital has been made out of the supposi
tion that there was a gigantic, far-reaching,
carefully elaborated conspiracy. But no
evidence in support of the assertion has been
produced. To be sure, Baker says there was a
plot; but Baker forged the ridiculous story
about the attempted suicide of Wirz. Conover
says there was a plot; but Conover has been
convicted of perjury. Bt. Marie says that Sur
ratt has said there was a plot; but it is the
opinion of the mass of thinking men that St.
Marie is another Conover; the officers ot the
Government evidently think so. It suits the
purpose of Radical politicians to keep up the
sensation about a vast conspiracy. It suits
Secretary Stanton’s purposes. But there is not
an atom of proof that any such conspiracy has
ever had existence.
Secretary Stanton and Baker know whp
forged that diary, if forged it is. Stanton says
the book was brought to his house by Baker a
few days after the death of Booth. Baker got it
—where? Did he not procure it to be written, *
as he procured the Wirz story to be written, by
a newspaper correspondent ? If so, why ?
But what the necessity for forgery?
These are questions that must be answered
sooner or later.
[From the Memphis Appeal.
The Paroled.
Very little has been said in respect to the
forfeiture of honor by the United States in
their course towards the principal officers who
were paroled at the time of the surrender of
the Confederate armies ; because no one was
surprised at either ignorance or disregard of
the laws of war, and the jus gentium on the
part-ol the authorities at Washington.
After the battle of Pentland (Nov. 28, 1666,)
in which Dalz’el defeated the Covenanters un
der Col. Wallace, the prisoners were taken to
Edinburg and thrust into Haddo’s Hole, to
await their destiny: ‘ A few of the chiefs only,
who were intended for immediate trial, ob
taining the superior accommodations of the
Tolbootb.”
Os the fate of these prisoners of note, histo
ry, writing in red letters the infamy of the
government of Charles 11., gives the following
account :
“As they had surrendered upon promise of
quarter”— (they were not paroled', like Lee and
Johnston and their officers)—it became a ques
tion before the council whether the pubhc faith
should be kept, or whether they should be pro
ceeded against as traitors ? It was in vain con
tended that the power delegated to the soldier
in the field was as full as that to tfie’council at
their board ; that the terms granted in the one
ought as strictly to be observed as the pardons
of the other; that civilians were decided in
their opinions, that quarter to rebels ought to
be kept; that this had been the practice in
France, Holland, and in the late civil wars; and
that none would accept quarter, were it merely a
reservation for a public trial. The quibble, how
ever, of oue of the council, that their being par
doned as soldiers, did not acquit them as - sub
jects, prevailed, and ten were sent to trial—
among whom were Major John McCulloch, of
Barholm, Captain John Arnott, and two young
gentlemen, brothers, the Gordons of Knock--
breck.
“ The pleadings were long and ingenious; but
the court sustained the relevancy of the indict
ment, and, coinciding in judgment with the
council, the prisoners were sentenced to the
doom of traitors; they all died with constancy,
and left behind them an united testimony,
which must ever exculpqfe them from the
charge of fanatical rebellion. * * They all
rejoiced in a species of prophetical anticipation
of deliverance for their country, and their last
breathing died away in wishes for the welfare
of Scotland.”
The quibble of the Scottish Lord of the
Couucil ha3 been followed as a precedent by
that shame of the bench, Underwood, and even
by tribunals whose judges were at least decent
men. Lee was indicted for treason, nothwith
standing his parole; and the “quibble” which
a creature oi Lauderdale employed, that the
basest and meanest Government ever known,
might murder its prisoners of w r ar, and put
others of them (Nielson, of Corsack, and Hugh
MeKail,) to the torture of the boot, has become
laic in the Uuited States, where Republicanism
easily adopts all the villainous precedents of
the worst despotisms, and not only does not
deem it necessary to excuse its most shamefu 1
breaches of public faith, its most outrageous
violations of private right, its most scandalous
acts of public dishonesty, but, on the contra
ry, justifies and is proud of them all.
A Glimpse Behind the Mask.—A colored
Baptist minister at Beaufort, South Carolina,
writing to the Christian Record, among other
things, says :
“ Some of our white ministerial friends do
mbre in the way of procuring farms and keep
ing our poor race in ignorance than anything
else. They pretend, when they are North,
that they would come down and do anything
for our race in the way of enlightening them ;
but instead of this, when they see the cotton
bag, they forget all about Christ and Him
crucified, and the saving of souls.”
Os certain Northern merchants, be says :
“ All they wish to do is to teach what Presi
dent Lincoln has done, pat the colored man on
the shoulder with the left hand, while with the
right hand they catch hold of his pocket-book •
and when they have got the last cent from him
their friendship suddenly ceases. Then he is
only a nigger. ’
A Calf on Stilts.—The Providence (R. I.)
Journal (Rad.,) in notieing the disturbance at
Mobile, at the time Mr. Kelley was speakiug,
says: •
his right to speak, and was
probablj saved from assassination only by the
promptness of bis friends, in withdrawing him,
against lus will, from the scene of danger.”
Ihe ZanesVille (Ohio) Courier (Rad.,) don’t
see it in the same light the Journal does. The
Counter thinks Jndge Kelley’s conduct after the
fu#s commenced, his defiance of all attempts to
prevent him speaking, and his bold declaration,
that he had the army of the United States at his
back to protect him, and then retiring, fright
ened and demoralized, was such as to hand
“him down to posterity as a craven to principle ,
a disgrace to the JJnion party, a coward to hrm
sef. The Courier has the correct estimate of
Kelley: He is a calf on stilts. • -.-Li