erty, private property and the disposition
thereof, the elective franchise, the right to
hold office, to appeal to the courts, to testi
fy as a witness, to perform any civil func
tion and to keep and bear arms.” All cit
izens are etftitled to exercise all their
rights as such unless specially prohibited
by law.” See sections 1647-1653.
It will be remembered that at the time
of the adoption of the Code in 1863, the de
fendant was not a citizen of this State and
was not recognized by the Code as a citi
zen thereof. By the 1646th section the
status of the defendant is defined to be
that of a person of color and not that of a
citizen. ,
The revised Code adopted by the ■consti
tution of 1868 includes the act of 18*16,
which declares that “ all negroes, mulal
toes, mestizoes and their descendants, hav
ing one-eighth of negro or African blood in
their veins, shall be known ill this State as
persons of color,” and specially defines their
legal rights, but the right to hold office is
not one of them. (Revised Code—Section
1661.)
It is. true that since the adoption of the
Code the defendant has been made a citi
zen, but the legal rights conferred upon cit
izens by the Code were conferred upon that
class of persons only -who are declared and
recognized by the Code as citizens of the
State at the time of its adoption. When
the Code declares that it shall be the right
of a citizen to hold office, such right is con
fined to that class of persons who are recog
nized and declared therein to be citizens of
the State, and not to any other class of
persons who might thereafter become citi
zens. So when the Code declares that all
citizens are entitled to exercise all their
rights as such, unless prohibited by law, it
is applicable to that class of persons only
who were declared to be citizens of the
State at that time, and not to any other
class of persons who might thereafter be
made citizens of the State, such as Chinese,
Africans, or persons of color. The truth is
that the public will of the State has never
been expressed by any legislative enact
ment in fiivor of the right of colored citi
zens to hold office in this State since they
became citizens tiiereof.
Although these several classes of persons
might be made citizens of the State with
the privileges and immunities of. citizens,
still they could not legally hold office under
the authority of the State until that right
shall be conferred upon them by some pub
lic law of the State subsequent to the time
at which they became citizens so as to in
clude them in its provisions. The public
will of the State, as to the legal right of
that class of her citizens to hold office, has
never been affirmatively .expressed, but on
the contrary, when the' proposition was
distinctly made in the convention which
formed the present constitution to confer
the right upon colored citizens to hold office
in this State, it was voted down by a large
majority. (See Journal of the convention,
page 312.) So far as there has been any
expression of the public will of the State
as to the legal right of that class of citizens
known as colored citizens, since they be
came-such, to hold office in this State, it is
against that right now claimed by the de
fendant.
The insurmountable obstacle in the way
of defendant claiming-a legal right to hold
office in this State under the provisions of
the Code, is the fact that he was not a
citizen of the State at the time of its adop
tion. The class of persons to which he be
longs were not recognized by it as citizens,
and therefore he is not Included in any of
its provisions which conferred the right to
hold office upon the class of citizens speci
fied in the Code. The Code makes no pro
vision whatever for colored citizens to hold
office in this State ; all its provisions apply
exclusively to white citizens and to no
other class of citizens.
The convention which framed the present
State and declared persons of
color to be citizens could have conferred
the right upon them to hold office, but de
clined to do so by a very decided vote of
that body, and went before the people
olaiming its ratification upon the ground
that colored citizens were not entitled to
hold office under it; and there can be no
doubt that the people of the State voted
for its ratification at the ballot box with
that understanding.
But now it is contended that the defend
ant, though a colored person, is made a
a citizen of the State and of the United
States and that no enabling act has ever
been passed to allow a naturalized citizen
to hold office in this State when he possess
ed the other requisite qualifications pre
scribed by law—that the defendant having
been made a citizen of the State is entitled
to hold office in the same manner as a
naturalized citizen could do. The reply is
that naturalized citizens were white per
sons, and as such had a common law right
to hold office —aright founded upon immem
orial usage and custom, which has exist
ed so long that “ the memory of man run
eth not to the edntrary.” The 1648th sec
tion of the Code simply affirms the common
law as to the right of white citizens to hold
office in this State. No such common law
right, can be claimed in this State
in favor of persons of color to hold office.
They have but recently become entitled to
citizenship, and have never held office in
this State. In*lß4B, in the case of Cooper
and Worsham against the mayor and aider
men of the city of Savannah—4th Georgia
Reports, 72—it was unanimously held and
decided by this court that free persons of
color were not entitled to hold any civil
office in this State. The naturalized white
citizen can claim the common law right to
hold office in this State; the colored citi
zen cannot claim any such common law
right, for the reason that he never exercised
and enjoyed it; and mat constitutes the
difference - between the legal right of a
naturalized white citizen to hold office in
this State, and a person of color who has
recently been made a citizen since the
adoption of the Code, and who is not em
braced within its provisions.
The one can claim his common law right
to hold office in the State, the other can
not; and until the State shall declare by
some legislative enactment that it is her
will and desire that her colored citizens
shall hold office under her authority, they
cannot claim the legal right to do so. We
must not forget that the State is the foun
tain and parent -of office, and may confer
or refuse to confer the right to hold office
upon any class of her citizens, as she may
think proper and expedient.
When anew class of persons are intro
duced into the body politic of the State
and made citizens thereof, who cannot
claim a common law right to hold office ;
therein it is incumbent on them to show
affirmatively that such right has been con
ferred upon them by some public law of,
the State since they were made citizens
thereof, to entitle them to have and enjoy
such right. In other words, they must
show the public law of the Btat(%nacted
since they became citizens thereof, which
confers the legal light claimed, before they
can demand a judgment of the court in fa-
Vor of such legal right.
All male white citizens of the State,
whether native-born or naturalized citizens,
having the necessary legal fiaailflcatlons;
have a common law right to hold office o
this State, and in order to deprive J'leju oi
their common law right u prohibitory
statute Is necessary. A imtura izeddtUeu
hid a common law right to hold the of >' l
» Frcsldeut of the UIUU btuU». Ueuw
the prohibition in the Constitution of the
United States. But as colored citizeus of
the State, who have recently been made
such, cannot claim a common law right to
4io!d office in the State, no prohibitory
statute is necessary to. deprive them of a
right which they never had under the com
mon law or statute laws of the State
When, therefore, it is said that colored citi
zens have the right to hold office in the
State, unless specially prohibited by law it
must be shown affirmatively that they had
previously enjoyed that right. If they can
not show their right to hold office in the
State, either under the common law, the
constitution or statutes of the State, the
fact that they are not specially prohibited
from exercising a right which they never
had amounts to nothing so far as investing
them with the right to hold office is com
cerued.
When and where, and by what public
law of the State was the legal right to
hold office therein conferred on the colored
citizens thereof? If this question cannot
be answered jn the affirmative, aud the le
gal authorities under which the right is
claimed cannot be shown, then the argu
ment that inasmuch as there is no special
prohibition in the law against the right of
colored citizens to hold office, falls to the
ground. If there was no existiug legal
right to hold office to be prohibited, tiie
fact' that there is no prohibition does not
confer such legal right. There was no
legal necessity to prohibit that which did
not exist.
It is not the business or the duty of
courts to make the law, but simply to ex
pound and enforce existing laws which
have been prescribed by the supreme power
of the State.
After the most careful examination of
this question, I am clearly of opinion that
there is no existing law of this State which
confers the right upon the colored citizeus
thereof to hold office therein, and conse
quently that the defendant has no legal
right to hold or exercise the duties of the
i office which he claims under her authority,
and that the. judgment of the court below
overruling the demurrer should be affirmed.
Note. —lt is due to Judge Warner to
state that after the foregoing report of his
opinion was in type, we received from him
a note in which he requested that we would
“ not publish any other opinion than his
written one in that case as mine ” (his)
“ unless authorized by ” him to do so. In
the same note the Judge states, that imme
diately after the delivery of his opinion, he
handed the manuscript over to the report
er of the court, and as we have not been
furnished with a copy of it, we are forced
to publish from our own reporter’s notes,
in the correctness of whose report we have
every confidence, but will, if there be any
difference between his report and the manu
script of the Judge; cheerfully publish from
the latter upon being furnished with a cony
of it. —(Ed.
■!
The G. A. R.
GREELEY DENOUNCES IT.
In'a reiterating article not long ago,, con
demnatory of the Grand Army of the Re
public, brought out by a letter from Mr.
Henry W. Bennett, of Davenport, lowa,
calling the New York Tribune to account
for denouncing that organization, the Tri
bune, speaking of the Grand Army of the
Republic, took occasion to express itself
with deliberation as follows :
“ These men combine for political purposes.
They propose to keep alive the wrath and bit
terness of that dreadful time. Ihey mean to
control conventions and nominate men to office
—to perpetuate in our civil system the bit
terness of war. We believe the soldier
should receive abundant reward. When a
soldier and a civilian apply for office, all
things else being equal, we should prefer
the soldier. But we dislike this making a
privileged class, and especially we dislike
this getting into a corner and having pass
words and grips, and making an exclusive
class.
“ Washington foresaw this wfceu he op
posed the Society of the Cincinnati. He
saw in the association the first.step toward
an aristocracy, and he declined to ally him
self with it. What Washington said should
be remembered now. Here is an association
more numerous and more powerful than tlu
Cincinnati, which purposes to ever keep alive a
war with brothers and fellow-countrymen, to
exult in victories over Americans, to rejoice
over the destruction of men in whose blue veins
runs tlu blood which courses in our own, and
who, whatever their crimes or errors, are of
our own country. We say let all tlu memo
ries of tlu past sink into tlu heU to which they
belong ; let us think only of the wounds to
be healed, of harvests to grow again, of
seas once more covered with our commerce,
education for the ignorant, protection to
the oppressed, justice to all.
“ We say this, and sacrifice none of the
principles defended by Mr. Bennett. He is,'
no doubt, earnest in his belief that his work
is worthy. But there are crafty, bold, bad
men, who look upon these societies as so many
instruments for their own advancement. Tluy
propose to ally themselves with this military
government, with no more claim upon it than
"l lunardier, in Hugo's novd, hud to be called
tlu Sergeant of Waterloo. He followed the
driny and robbed the bodies of tlu slain. The
true soldier sheaths his sword and buries
it in his closet, and it remains an heirloom.
He becomes a citizen, and makes no claim
for political honor but that of citizenship.
Above all things he does not carry his
epaulets and ribbons, his wounds and
bruises,' to a political convention, to be
knocked down to the highest bidder. There
may be many of these men unwittingly in
the Armv of the Republic, who probably
entered with the views of Mr. Bennett.
They will soon see how they may better
occupy their time.
“ Especially do we entertain these views
when we find in the declarations of these
secret soldier associations so many expres
sions of madness. The true soldier is the
most generous of foemen. Take the great
captains who commanded the contending
hosts. Do we find Grant, or Shermatl, or
Sheridan, or Thomas, or Meade,assembling
together and howling for more blood, more
strife, more bitterness ? Do we find Lee, or
Irngstreet, or Johnston, or Beauregard in
sisting that tlu hates of secession shall be pro
longed ! These nun fought their fight and
ended. Tluir anger ceased with tlu echo of tlu
last guns tired in anger. From this Grand
Amy of the Republic now parading through
political conventions in the West, command
ed by the captains of tlu caucus, tlu lobby, and
tlu bar-room, we appeal to the Grand Army
of the Republic which carried our banners
over a hundred fields under the eye of
Grant, Sherman; and Sheridan.' Me de
nounce this mw secret assocuition, as out of
sympathy with the true Republican party
and as inimical to the Constitution and tlu
Union . It will be a sad day for our party
when soldiers find no better work than to jrroml
ucer the baUUfields of tlu past amt dig up .the
bodies of the slain. The country wants |ieace,
and rest, and harmony, and justice. These
nun trant a distracted country that offices may
l„ mined They would make America it
Mexico oeuee WOldd lie sent to sleen with
Turks and infidels, mill, instead of Union,
I w ,.uld ' lie wo.'ulest division make
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THE SUPREME COURT DECISION.
While we thoroughly agree with the
position taken by Judge Warner on the
question of negro eligibility to office; and
while we commend his dissent as in lofty
contrast to the opinions of Judges Brown
and McCay, it is necessary to explain, at
the same time, that the matter can never be
mended by denunciation. The decision has
been rendered, as we supposed it would lie,
from the well-known character of the Chief
Justice aud Judge McCay. They are given
over to the lusts of party and their judicial
bias takes its direction from the impulse
drawn from their new political affiliations.
Now that these Judges, the creation of
abnormal authority, have delivered their
opinions, the tjrue men of the State affected
by them should go to work and use what
ever privileges they possess in order to
render them, to a great extent, harmless
and inoperative. This must be done by
law and not by violence. Indeed, it can
only be done by law, for violence would
miss the very object it hoped 10 reach. If
we do not mistake the gist of the decision,
the right of the negro to hold office is based,
as we anticipated, on the Code. The Con
stitution gives him citizenship, and so does
the 14th Amendment; but they do not give
him the right to hold office. It is claimed
by the Chief Justice that the Code alone,
as it stands, clothes the negro with the ne
cessary rights as an office-holder, if elect
ed. Well, what is to prevent the Legisla
ture from repealing that part of the Code
and then passing a law prohibiting the ne-.
gro from holding any State office ? Noth
ing that we see can prevent such action,’
except the interference of the Central Pow
er at Washington, which revolves in an
eccentric orbit, aud does whatever Gen.
Butler may see fit to dictate. Os course,
If this power is put forth, we have no im
mediate legal redress; but, aside from such
an extraordinary invasion, the remedy of
a Legislative repeal of the obnoxious stat
ute is plain and unchallenged. So, the re
sult of this Supreme Court decision comes
to this: White, and the few other negroes
elected to office have temporary authority
to hold their positions. The negroes elect
ed to the General Assembly cannot get
back, because the Supreme Court has noth
ing to do in their cases, judgment in the
matter resting solely with the two Houses.
If the General Assembly should repeal the
debatable statutes of the Code presumed to
have a bearing upon this matter, the vex
ed question muikl be put beyond dispute,
and Georgia still stand as a State govern
ed by white men, Brown and McCay to
the contrary notwithstanding.
We are environed with difficulties—diffi
culties and embarrassments of no ordinary
character—and it will require great care,"
prudence and patriotism to steer clear of. a
complete crash of everything which free
men should hold dear. But first and fore
most, the minds Os the public must be im
pressed with the idea that there is no hope
for ultimate liberty and the triumph of
Constitutional principles, but in bowing
to the law as expounded by those who have
been invested with authority to expound
It. Free governments can lie maintained
only by maintaining the law as it exists,
while it exists, and correcting it in the
proper way. A wise people will bear pa
tiently for a time even a great wrong,
rather than fly to ill-advised remedies,
which can bring nothing but general ruin
in their train. The greatest and grandest
reforms in the world have been effected by
constant efforts in the right direction, with
years of patient endurance. The Catholic
Emancipation Bill, as it was called in
England, is a striking Illustration of this.
If our peop!e*could but be patient, prudent
and patriotic—zealous in the observance of
correct principles—all might yet come
right, for the North as well as for the
South, for the East as well as for the West.
Otherwise, there is but little hope.
AxqniEK National Boss. —We now
learn that Butler has a coadjutor in floss
ing the “ nation.” Gen. Logan has com
pelled Secretary Rawlins to dismiss some
four hundred clerks in the War Depart
ment, against his own convictions. Bur-
LKR and Logan ! The Lord deliver us
from Butler and Logan !
Mu. Wono'iCißß.—Elsewhere, we pub
lish a communication from R. J. C. Wood,
Esq, relative to Mr. Hkrur, of Toledo,
and his real estate transactions at Aiken.
MISTAKEN.
We find the following terse and pungent
paragraphs in the Maeon Telegraph :
“ The Constitutiomdisl, debating the point
whether Georgia ‘ will be remanded’ or
not, concludes there’s not much danger, and
the Radicals, have done their worst, in anv
event. . J
“We say it all depends on Hoar ! The Stale
of Georgia is waiting the legal opinion of
s i. - ar ' “ Hoar says Georgia is a State
" s “ e w State; and if Hoar says Georgia
Is not a State, she is not a State. The poli
tical wisdom of tiie North lias so simplified
the plan and operations of the free, sovereign
and independent States in North America,
that they are uow any where and whatever
a Cabinet officer decides them to be. . The
whole scheme has become a system of pup
pets—a grand political Punch and Judy—
to stand and to do—to exist and remain, or
die and depart, just as the Cabinet at Wash
ington decides. Well * saltli Mr. Stephens
in his letter—thcie is no difference between
imperialism aud consolidation. Yes, per
haps there is some small difference in favor
of imperialism in this: That under the Em
pire the responsibility could lie fixed some
where, but under consolidation it is hard to
locate it. For example : Suppose Mr. Hoar
should be of the opinion that Georgia, as a
State, must die or is dead ? Who has killed
her—Congress—Gen. Grant, or Mr. Hoar V”
All of tlds is well said, but the Telegraph
is mistaken in the supposition that it “ all
depends upon Hoar.” Not so; it all de
pends upon Beast Butler. He is the Na
tional Boss and whipper-in. Hoar, left to
himself, is no doubt harmless enough ; but
Butler does not permit him to bo thus in
dependent. He has completely subjugated
Hoar, and so, it all depends upon Butler,
who has advanced so far in isolated villainy
as not now to depend upon the devil for in
spiration.
GRANT'S CAUSA CAUSANS.
We have it from reliable authority that
the causa causans of Grant’s animosity to
ward the South was forced by a woman—
who is proverbially at the bottom of all
troubles as well as all blessings. It seems
that a Richmond lady met a beautiful child
on one of the public thoroughfares, and
stopping, after the manner of females, she
saluted the little one with sundry hearty
osculations. Having done this, she inquir
ed of tiie nurse concerning the child’s pa
rentage. When told that Gent Schofield
was the father, she pushed the’transformed
cherub aside, indignantly exclaiming: “Go
away, you little brat!” The. nurse, of
course, told Mrs. Schofield, Mrs. Hcno
field told her lord, her lord told Grant,
Grant grew mad and told Hoar, Hoar
told Butler. And so, and so, the South
must be desolated because of the caprice
of a gushing wqman—
Ulysses’ wrath to South the direful spring
Os woes unnumbered, brats of babies slug!
On to London. —ln their desperation,
the extreme Radicals think to revive their
popularity by buncombe cries of a war
witli England. The moderate Republicans
oppose this strategy, on the ground that
the Democrats can beat them two to one
at the same game. The Times says: “It
would doubtless be a very fine tiling to
bring the Irish-Araericans over to tiie Re
publican side; but to do this, the Demo
crats must be beaten, on their own ground
—which they can't be."
A Falsehood Nailed.— The South has
been charged with exceptional cruelty to
prisoners during the war. The National
Intelligencer silences this slander by pub
lishing the following authentic record:
“ The number of Federais in Southern
prisons during the war was 270,000, of
whom 22,000 died; the number of Confede
rates in Northern prisons during the war
was 220,000, of whom 28,000 died.”
No doubt the North would persuade the
world/that they killed our soldiers with
their kindness and not with their barbarity.
A Cow Case.—A New York letter has
this item:
“On tiie Long Island Railroad, on
Wednesday, a cow was run over and a car
thrown off tiie track. No lives were lost.
There were one hundred Baptist ministers
on board, who passed resolutions compli
menting tiie company for its discrimina
tion in killing a cow iusfeadofa Baptist
minister.”
Tney had better beware. Next time the
company may propitiate the cows at tiie
expense of the parsons.
Impudence.— Writing to the Philadel
phia Press, Forney says : ’
“ Let the people of tiie South who are be
wailing what they call the ‘evils of negro
suffrage’ honestly study the experience of
Washington City since slavery was alwl
islied and justice secui-ed to ail men, and
they will soon dry their tears and prepare,
for.the good time coining.”
From all accounts outside the Chronicle
office, we should judge' that a mild case of
Ku Kiux can alone prevent the whites of
Washington from the bad time coming.
Try Again —The Philadelphia Press is
credited with saying that the negro Lang
ston, who refused the position of Minister
to Liberia,is a convicted criminal.
Why not send Aaron Alpeoria Brad
ley to Liberia ? He is a convicted crimi
nal and would not refuse the embassy,
although we believe the Liberians would
make pot-pie of him before he had been
with them twenty-four hours.
J udoe Chase.— Because the Chief Justice
expressed a hope that the National Gov
ernment would, in tiie future, rather honor
than Insult the heroic dead on both sides
the lltie of battle, the New York Hun
brands him as a “ renegade and a turncoat,
whose first principle Is self-advancement,
and whose patriotism has ail along been
but a specious pretence.”
Cura.—According to the latest dis
patches, the Cuban rebellion has fair chances
of success. As these, chances increase, '
It Is noted that there is a correspondent
augmentation In the fleets of England,
France H nd Spain In American waters.
Are we to have another scare on the
Our New York Correspondence.
New York, June 16.
Considerable amount of gossip has been
caused by the refusal of the Commissioner
of the Sinking Fund to* complete the sale
of the franchise of the Twenty-third street
railway, which was recently offered at auc
tion, and $150,000 bid for it. The commis
sioners have made public what appears to
be valid reasons for the course, but we have
become so accustomed to all sorts of double
dealing in matters pertaining to the inter
ests of the public, that there is a disposi
tion to aecuse somebody of rather attempt
ing to levy black mail upon the purchasers,
or to cheat the city of the just proceeds of
the sale. Both may be true.
Soon after the termination of the late
war, and advantage of the military
furore then Taging, the Radicals of this
State reorganized the militia in such man
ner as to practically saddle upon us a
standing army of about 60,000 men. Cer
tainly,man forman, in every available sense,
this militia cost us more per annum than
the landwehr of Prussia, with nothing like
its efficiency. It serves no other purpose
than to enable those “ great military
minds,” which did not succeed in making
tlieir mark during tiie late war, to air their
“ fuss and feathers” before the si ay-at home
patriots. Tiie burden of taxation has com
pelled a gradual redaction of this standing
army during the past two or three years,
and tiie late Legislature had the audacity
to remove the exemption from tnxatlßn
which Ims been, enjoyed % members of the
“ uniform militia.” In Radical opinion,
anything that tends to the rcliei of the
great body of tax-payers, is “ unconstitu
tional,” ami they have combatted the re
peal of this exemption, but the Attorney
General has jusP decided against them, and
they must pay up.
The insecurity of life in.this city aud its
suburbs seems to have never been greater
than now. At the police headquarters,
there are on file personal descriptions of
twenty-four men, who havt 1 mysteriously
disappeared in the past fortnight; most of
.them well known and of good standing in
a circle of acquaintances; and almost every
day one or more, dead bodies are found
drowsed in the harbor, some with evidences
of their murder and others apparently the
victims of intoxication, carelessness or
suicide. Tliis is a fearful record.
Tiie contest iu the Episcopal Church, in
augurated by the great body of its wor
shippers fpr the expulsion of the Ritualistic
faction from tlieir midst, is becoming ex
tremely heated. Tiie last movement is to
compel the Trinity Church corporation to
render an account of its stewardship over
tiie vast amount of property it controls.—
Iu the complaint before the Supreme Court,
It is alleged that the corporation has gone
over to Rome, oris about doing so tlmt
tiie property confided to her care Is leased
for purposes of prostitution and other im
moral and criminal practices, aud that she
neglects the great evangelical and Chris
tian work devolving upon her for that of a
partisan and Romanizing partisanship. All
but a few zealots admit these changes to lie
true. A minister of this parish has preach
ed a sermon denouncing Protestantism as
a failure, and Dr. Dix, the Rector, is un
derstood that while not accepting the
latest Romish dogma of the immaculate
conception of the Blessed Virgin, holds that
is more tolerable than the rlmtpl private
judgment. And yet there differ
ence; between Ritualism and Romanism-.
Romanism is an earnest struggle towards
Christianity, clogged by numberless relics
of Paganism, while Ritualism Is not un
like a mixture of Calvinism and Freema-
attempted reaction towards Ju
dalsnfjfl the name of Jesus Christ—an at
temptcause of the religion of tiie Nazarcne
dispensation against itself aud in favor of
the Mosaic dispensation. Ail the leading
ritualists arc prominent Free Masons, while
the Roman Church excommunicates a Free
Mason.
Calvinism, as a leading element of Pro
testant faith, is clearly on the wane. Its
special representative among our religion
ists, i. e., New England Puritanism, is no
where more strongly clenouncod than among
those who were rigidly brought up In its
faith.
There are those who argue from the re
ligious agitation of the hour, that the
Christian faith is in danger. We have.
“ positivists,” and other sorts of “ free'
thinkers,” raising their heads in hope of
recognition as the solution of all our trou
bles and doubts. But Christianity, pure
and simple, fnain'talns its,hold, and the
storm which is brewing promises to clear
awuy the stumbling blocks of Pagan relics
on the one hand, and the fogs of Calviinis
tic Judaism on tiie other, rendering the
truth of the religion of Him Crucified more
clear, and its coarse less obstructed than
ever before.
The troubles of Mr. Boutwell, in his at
tempt to carry water on both shoulders—
to please the stock gamblers and the great
merchants of this city—are again conspic
uous. He is assailed by the hull party for
“ contracting,” and by the other side for
failing to embrace the opportunity to place
tiie public credit on a more substantial
foundation. And, strange as It may
sound, his assailants, from whichever side
they .come, are tn the right. His policy
brings all the evils of contraction upon
business, with nolle of its advantages to
the public credit. He locks up currency
which business men fee) that they need,
and yet, there being no cancelling of redun
dant currency—no substantial progress
made towards the return to specie pay-,
ments. He is warmly assailed By the lead
ing journals of this city, without m«eh re
ference to party, and by none more so than
by the German Republican commercial pa
per.
We arc shipping large quantities of
wheat to Great Britain. The prospects
of her harvest are not good, and her
stocks on hand are unusually small.—
Freight was taken to-day for 246,000 bush
els to Liverpool and Glasgow. Fortunate
ly this export demand is met by unprece
dentedly large receipts at tiie West, which
becan to reach this market in liberal quan
tities. Cotton continues Its upward
course.
For some time past, the subject of public
baths for the benefit, of the poor, has
awakened interest, anil a committee upon
the subject was some time since appointed.
Dr. Harris, iu a letter to the secretary of
the committee, although declining to Jake
an active part in the matter, on account of
his numerous engagements, strongly re
commends the establishment of such bat hs,
the admission tickets to which, lie says, be
placed at a very low rate—five cents in
Winter, and two cents In Summer, and
goes on to make the offer of 10,000 free
tickets in case the baths tie established.—
Baths of this kind have already been estab
lished In Boston, where the experience in
regard to them lias been very encouraging,
though In this city, as ip London, a system
of interior as well us river side baths will
be found requisite. A site upon the East
river has already been offered by a public
spirited gentleman which will Is; adapted !
to the construction of a river side bath, tiie
only kind established as yet in Boston.
We notion tin- recent publication of two;
new.books, which ns tlieir titles would in- j
fltcnte, Are or II decidedly domestic char-!
■uter, and as such, promise much that Is of
Interest to persons whose Pistes III' that
way. “Thu New Amerleau Farm Rook," 1
' } Y H E. Allen, revised and enlarged by
Lewis F. Alien, author of “ American Cat
tle, and “ Farm Implements and Farm
Machinery,” by John J. Thomas
The style of the first Is excellent, and
from the visible evidences of careful thought,
and of caution In the statements made, can
safely be recommended. Mr. Allen bein<»
well known as the best informed herdsman
in America, we might naturally expect a
somewhat lengthy dissertation upon the
mooted question of breeds, but on this sub
ject there, is little said.
The object of the second book is to ex
plain those natural principles which many
a sagacious farmer has mastered by years
of close attention. By this we mcau that
for drainage some knowledge of hydraulics
is necessary for the making of roads, a
knowledge of grading, aud, as is obvious
to every one, a farmer should be something
of a mechanic. To explain these princi
ples, and to describe tiie varied implements
which the progress of inventive science
have brought Into every day use, is the
aim of Mr. Thomas, aud we may safely
pronounce his book to be one of great
utility to all engaged In agricultural pur
suits.
Another new work, also, of a domestic
character, is “The Practical Poultry
Keeper," by L. Wright, and issued by
Drange, Judd & Cos., the same publish
ers to whom we are indebted for the
two volumes just noticed, and, like
them, it contains a great deal of useftil In
formation on the subject of which it pro
poses to treat, and is suited equally to the
poulterer who who goes into the business
iu order that it may pay, as well as to the
chicken fancier who indulges a whim for
new breeds and gay plumage.
Yet another new book we notice, which
will lie of geneiml Interest, but more parti
cularly to Virginiaus, as being atifexposi
tlou of the Geographical and tier National
Importance, by M. F. Maury. The work Is
entitled “ Physical Survey” of Virginia.
The musical and dramntic season Is fast
drawing to a close. Patrie, tiie new play
lately produced at Fisk’s and which was
meeting wi th a good success, was very sud
denly withdrawn, owing it is said, to a
disagreement between the financial poten
tate aforesaid, and his manager, Tayleure,
aud tiie building in consequence remains
closed until the Fall.
Many of the principal artists in Opera
BotiU'e have tiiis week left our shores for
Europe, although a few well known to the
public,' foremost among which ore Inna,
Declawyas, and Mad. Rose Bell, intend re
maining through the Summer and trying
their fortunes another season in America,
although not so much In the metropolis as
in other portions of the country.
One of tiie most brilliant events of the
season is the memorial concert and matinee
given to-day for the benefit of the widow
and child of the late C. B. Seymour, as all
the principal artists had volunteered their
services on occasion; Miss Kellogg at the
matinee performance, and Parepu In the
evening, are the principal attractions. This,
we believe, is the last appearance of Parepa
previous to tiie much talked of Festival at
Boston, which commences on the 15tli.
Booth, as every one knows, is In happy
enjoyment of tiie honeymoon, and the curi
osity of tiie public is at Inst satisfied by an
announcement of his marriage to Miss
Mary McVickar, In regard to which so
many, and such contradictory reports have
been in circulation, and during the absence
of tiie newly wadded pair at Long Branch,
the Lady of Lyons is being played, Mr.
Edwin Adams taking tiie character of
Claude Melnotte, and Miss Blanch Du Bur,
a lady of Western fame, but hitherto un
known in New York, that of Pau'lne.
An Interesting picture is on exhibition
at Schaus’ Gallery, the subject of which is
tiie meeting of Queen Elizabeth and Mary
Stuart, ana tiie denunciation of the latter
by tiie former. Willoughby.
Letter from Barnwell.
Thrice: Runs, Barnwei.t,, Dist., 8. C., 7
June 12 th, 1809. J
Messrs. Editors ; Supposing that a little
information about the crops will not be
unacceptable, I will state wlnit my ex
perience and observations are.
Last year I came out very well, and In
January had about SI,OOO In my factor’s
hands In Charleston. This season I hope
to do better still, for I have put an equal
quantity of land in corn and provisions as
iast year, and al>out 50 acres more In cot
ton, making 200 acres In this crop, but I
have user! more fertilizers ami have applied
a£ut 300 lbs. ofthe same to each acre, which
I tlilnk will Increase the yield fully 50 per
cent, and well repay me.
All around me there lias been more land
put In cotton than last year, and mom fer
tilizers used, and If we nave a good season
there will be much more cotton made, for
I can harvest all that I can raise, and you
•may be certain that no man will leave;
in his field, as long as it IV worth 2tldMtftw
per lb.
Ido not think the cool Spring hgg ihjur-'
ed my crop at all, but rather did |t;sbod r
for it kept it back until It gained gptlLrth,
and the hot sun lias made it shoot fßSjJlen
dldly, and I now have as good a
ever had during my 17 years of plantlSk -4
The negroes In this neighborhood, dr ffijrS
sexes, are working well, better than they*
have done since the war.
I am, respectfully, yours, #
[COMMUNICATED.)
Office of E. J. C. Wood, 1
Real Estate and Insurance Aoent, }
- Aiken, 8. C., June Bth, 1869. J
To the Editor of the C'oiutitutionalist.
Sib: Understanding that you have re
ceived a letter from Mr. Segur denying the
statement contained In your issue of the
21st, I beg to assure you that Mr. Begur
called on me and offered SSOO more than the
price for a place which he wished to pur
chase. Asked If any writings had been
passed, and expressed an opinion, when I
told him I was only bound by my word,
that then there was no obstacle to con
summating a trade with him. He intimat
ed broadly that the sum above the price
asked should be a consideration, and was
most Indignant when I could not appreci
ate Uis offer. There was but one inference
to be drawn from such conduct.
Very respectfully,
E. J. C. Wood.
Crops in Stewart County. —The En
quirer, of Friday, saw a gentleman who
had just returned from a tour through
Stewart. He says he visited nearly every
part of the county, and he never saw the
crops more promising at this season than
they now are. He says the plants are not
so large as he lias seen them, but they are
very thrifty, and the lands have been so
well prepared and so generally fertilized,
that he considers them In a most promis
ing condition. The Stewart county plant
ers, he says, expect to make enough corn
to “ do them ’’ next year.
Wheat.— The wheat crop of Newton
county Is now mostly harvested, aud the .
yield has liven generally above an average.
Indeed, some farmers tlilnk It the best crop
which has I asm gathered In ten years. Our
(tropic have reason to is- thankful for the*
itounUous favor, for truly It was much
needed.— C vtinyUm Enttrj>ri*e.
