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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (March 9, 1870)
THE WEEKLY OOHBTITUTIONALIBT WED>4R3DAY MORNING. MARCH 9, 1870 Our New York Correspondence. Nrw York, February 25,1870. I have endeavored to keep the readers of the Constitutionalist advised of the struggle which has been going on within § the Democratic organization of this State, between Tammany Hall and its opponents; and in continuing the subject, let me say in advance that it appears to excite much more interest ct a distance from this city thau it does among our own people. Per haps ‘ ’tis distance lends enchantment” to the contest; or, perhaps, as in the case of the great pyramid, distance re necessary to a jnst estimate of Its colossal propor tions. Lo.'d Palmerston said, with Defer ence to the late war, when our own states men both North and South, betfeved it to be nothing more than a ninety-day affair, that “ the .hirtv years’ war was a joke to it.” The sequel proved his sagacity, or the more appreciative view which distance en-J abled him to take. I have felt called Upon, in the course ofj VHf Correspondence for the Constitution- i alist, to say some -pretty severe things of the Tammany Hall “ ringand it lias de - served the-.n all. And lam constrained to say now, that iu its fall, it goes down under its own weakness, vascillation, want of statesmanlike conception of principles, and the absence of that devotion to public good which the practice of cor rect princip ! es demand. Its leaders had abundant opportunity to “ string ” their opponents on their own hampers. All that v. is required was courage to let go what ihey held for the purpose of secur ing the f.ture; for the character of the opposition to Tammany Hall has drawn towards it much public sympathy. The opposition to it is led by as three vile men as car. be found anywhere. Senator Mike Norton, a notorious bully of the Eighth Ward; Harry Genet, more’ reckless than vile, a-d not without ability; and Sheriff O’Brien, are more dangerous than any other three men in the country, unless we go into the Radical party and take Bc.i Butler, Dan Sickles and Parson Brownlow; and these are only more dangepous because they handle more daugeroos elements. That trio, backed by some of the most respect able elements of the city, Democratic as v. ell as Republican, appear to have “ got the better” of Tammany Hall. The reason given by the more reputable politicians for the aid they have given Norton, Genet and O’Brien, is that embodied in the proverb, Divide et impera , and that the disruption of the Tammany Hall Ring is necessary to the salvation and ultimate success of the Dem ocratic party of the country. This is probably true. The process that has been gone through with is not unlike innocula tion ; the recognition of an evil which we think we can control to ward off a greater one. The situation, therefore, is not with out hope; it even has its cheerful aspects. The selection for the next Democratic nominee foi the Presidency enters largely into the contest. The more prominent politicians in the Anti-Tammany forces are understood to favor the nomination of John Quincy Adams, while Tammany Hall favors with scarcely any reserve the nomi nation of Governor Hoffman, of this State. The present aspect of affairs is strongly in favor of the former. Ex-Secretary Seward having returned from Mexico, is voted the freedom of the city, and is to be entertained at a public dinner by the Jommon Council. He re turns just at the moment when it is reveal ed that..:s Alaska purchase—his expendi ture of over $7,000,000 in gold—is costing the Federal Government $500,000 yearly, and that its vainable seal fisheries, which reimburse the expenses,have fallen iuto the hands of a pack of loyal thieves from Massa chusetts. We are having severe weather. Yester- i day, within three days of the first of the. Spring months, was the first appearance of ice in considerable quantity in onr harbor.: The passage of the ferry boats was some what impeded there. No injury has been done to fruit trees or Winter crops. The past week has been a breezy one In commercial and financial circles; the mes-, notable events having been the break in gold to 116 and iu cotton to 23j£c. The first seems to have been caused by the e traordinarv plethora of money in the prin cipal monetary centres of Europe (a state : of things which always follows a period of dull trade and unsuccessful speculation), which caused the Federal bo nis to lie sought for as investments and their price to advance, besides checking the ex port of gold, in consequence of European creditors ordering their balances invested here. This is seen in the fact that our ex ports of gold are very small. The decline in cotton was mainly due to the necessities of part'js who had been operating for a rise. They were called on by commission houses, which were “carrying” cotton for them, for “ more marginsand being in many cases unable to respond to these calls, or having lost faith under the large receipts at the ports, were unwilling to do so, great quantities of cottoi were forced upon the market. Fortunately, shippers had liberal orders to execute, and the de cline brought them forward. Without the demand from them to check the decline, it might not have been arrested at over 20c., to which figure some of the “ bears ” affect to believe prices will ultimately fall. Yesterday looked as if the panic might be i over, but to-day, through mere stagnation,! the markets were very flat, at the lowest i figures of t'r e season. Cotton seems to-day ; without that export demand which is noted i above. Outsiders will scarce credit the fact that j the larger proportion of the employees of the immensely wealthy corporation of! Trinity Parish are so miserably paid that! the discontent among them has reached such a point that a strike among them has been near taking place. All are ill paid save a few dignitaries, who living a well paid life of ease and clothed in purple and line li .cn, look without sympathy upon those vho, though closely connected with them, are needy and but scantily provided for. Foremost among the fortunate is Dr. Dix, who in addition to a handsome par sonage adorned with every luxury, enjoys a salary of $12,000 per ana urn; and ranking next after him, Dr. Francis Vinton, Dr. Haight and Dr. Weston live comfortably upon SIO,OOO a year each, la striking con-! »r*st with these are other clergymen on whom the real labor falls, the clergymen i who preach and pray, who baptize, visit j the poor, and minister to the sick, and who o return receive such pitiful salaries that several have been obliged to seek a liveli hood elsewhere, as in the service of Trinity they were destitute of the means where with to procure the common comforts of file. A more numerous class than these, 1 however, are the organists, singers sod teachers of the different charity schools Ist- i longing to Trinity, and in regard to which so fair a show is made. Os these schools there are five, the aversge attendance of which is about six hundred scholar*, and O recti of wfc'Cb is u*'ached a principal ..(i4 it** .h»ttOJi* wL'j we <hh 4#ty d| io , lit* from s6fr> t/7*frWVr aMwTVSraK' for the most arduous and fatiguing labor, and especially in connection with which the enormous cost of livioe in New York must be taken into consideration. Seme time ago, the salaries of the or ganists were ad vanced from SI,OOO a year ! to $1,500, but this was forced from the ves try only after the publication of a pamphlet in which some facts not altogether agreeable were set forth, in consequence of which a hasty increase of annual payment was or dered, and the obnoxious pamphlet sup pressed. It has been said that very re cently the salaries of the organists have been still farther added to. The gentlemen who control the vast property of Trinity, and in whose hands are Its revenues, are twenty-three In nnmber, and hold their meetings in the vestry of Trinity Chapel in a richly furnished apart ment, on the walls of which, on patented rollers, are maps of the six hundred valu able houses and lots owned by the corpora tion. A majority of these have hitherto refused to advance the salaries of the teachers, but as we said above the latter being on the eve of a strike, better things mav be honed for. The Italian opera lias dwindled away gradually, and is coming to a premature end after a season as fluctuating and de pressing as have.been all attempts of a like kind for some years past, nor is it likely that in the immediate future things wh! be more prosperous. It is in the power of the stockhplders of the Academy of Music to raise up the prostrate fortunes of the Lyric drama by .surrendering their right to the three hundred best seats, a right, the practical effect of which is to increase the rent nightly to the aiponatof s4so,but they seem incapable of a’generous policy such as this, and prefer to cliug to that 'which seems to yield them some immediate good, a good which, is more apparent than real perhaps, as by this heavy burden their rights of property in the Academy arc most seriously injured'. There is another way also in which this right of the stockholders is most injurious, and itristhis. On ordi nary occasions two-thirds of them are ab sent, and of these bnt few sending persons to fill their places, the consequence is that about one hundred of the best seats and the most conspicuous are vacant and the de- j pressing effect of this is obvious, for the ! opera being more dependent than any other amusement on a whim of fashion, and a majority of the audience being more in fluenced by the sight of a well dressed crowd than by any Jove of art, on these a row of vacant seats in the front is more damaging to the manager than the severest criticism. Der Freisehuiz was given on Tuesday by the Arion Society, at the Acad emy of Music, and on this occasion the bold step was taken of inviting the great est professional singer of America, Mad. Parepa Rosa, to assume the character o.' Agatha. The invitation was not declined, rad on the appointed night Mad. Rosa made her appearance, having traveled from Baltimore, where she had sang in opera, the night before, and having gone almost immediately from the cars to the Academv, but despite this her voice was fresh and re sonant as ever, her vocalization as beauti fully delicate, and her tones as full as ever. Her Agatha was in every way most excel lent. Among our minor theatres no less than three have become bankrupt this week—a fact which forcibly illustrates the “ hare 1 times” prevailing among the middle classes. Willoughby. [communicated.] Have We a Proof-Reader Among Us ? We Georgians have hosts of tins against ourselves to answer for. God has given ns intellect sufficient to perform many things creditably that we execute miserably. By offending against the homely adage that “ anything which is worth doing at all is worth doing well,” we give our enemies and decriers good ground for some of the many cterges they bring against ns. We are too indolent or indifferent to attend, as ! we ought, to what some people choose to | consider small matters. For instance, do :weordo we not know how to spell ? Yet ook at some of our “first class journals.” (God save the mark!) Have we any proof readers among us? Are there auy good printers in this State? Good heavens! how language is murdered! How quo tations are mangled! But without wasting further time in ex planation, let me illustrate. 1 have be "ore me a paper which, doubtless, has as large a circulation as any in Georgia, and which displays, in its columns, an amount of talent that would lead us to expect schol arship and accuracy; yet I find “Halleluiah for Idaho 1” Hallelujah is meant, I suppose. Then we have “ Chignita,” suggestive of an infernal, tormenting little insect, when the writer intends to speak of “ Chiguita,” the nom de plume of a lady cont ibutor to the journal Id question. Further on occurs “ a classical study ” about “ Nemesis!”— Let the proof-reader of that paper return thanks to God that the heathen mythology is a fable, for if it were cot, then might he in vain call on the rocks and mountains to hide him from the righteous wrath of Ne mesis All the foregoing errors are revealed by a hasty glance over one number of a leading Georgia daily. A more careful reading, perhaps, would bring others to light, and I know that often and often, in looking over the columns of our State pa pers, I find cause to blush for the journal ism of an intelligent and enlightened peo-; pie. In another number of this same paper,i Jack Falstaff’s courage is spoken of as having “ oozed out of his fingers’ ends.” Now it is highly probable that this thing did occur very frequently with the re nowned Sir John, but then we have no re cord of the fact, in the language quoted in the . Bob Acres, however, in Sheri dan's play of the “ Rivals,” exclaimed, of his valor, “ I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the palms of my hands.” Probaby it was some misty recollection of this passage that flitted through the mind of the writer, and caused him to lay on the broad shoul ders of the fat knight one of Bob Acres’ sins. Or does he get his quotations fortieth handed, as so many people pick up in their smart sayings? If so, let him eschew this habit, which will be always involving him in just such difficulties as the one under ; consideration. # “ Oh! reform It altogether V It is said i that a proof-reader should be a practical \ printer, aad I grant it; but then he ehoold he a scholar besides. If, however, be is to ; be wanting in any of the qualifications, by i all means let ft be in the mechanical, for ' those who actually set the type can make \ out something, bnt nothing can obviate the * difficulty attendant on ignorance of or thograpby, of syntax, of everything con nected with language and of the general j knowledge without which no ime U com petent to the work of any Intellectual def partment of a paper. J believe that the \ editor* Os the newspaper which I have se lected, not because it i» worse than other*, but merely for the reason that ft happened to be most eonvenfetr for my purpose*., have a forge share of the tact, talent and j sebomrub’p n ***mtury to ensure snecas* In joqrn*ti*m, ft follows, then, that they are f guilty of very <gif/*Me a#d almost lot n< Ogn/wvgrr M, Miogi'.u has tid'aod fit f'*ve taring, [Warn ocr - pedal Curtctponiießt Letter From Athens. Athens, Ga., March 8, 1870. Editor Constitutionalist : Although no great events have transpired here lor the past few weeks, a few lines from this point “en passant ” may be of some interest to your many readers. The recent decline -in cotton has had a depressing effect upon the business of this community -, so mnch so that some of the merchants arc debating in their own minds the propriety of visiting the different mar kets to lay in their spring stocks. The Athens Factory is in arery thriving condition, having now employed two sets of hands, and rnning night and day, torus out an immense amount of cottou goods and yarns. The stockholders of this com pany are now erecting a neat church edi fice for the use of their operatives, thus adding to the welfare of their em ployees and bcnefltUog the city. The ex tensive buildings formerly known as Cook’s Armory, with sixty acres of land attached, sold yesterday for SIB,OOO, cash. This property was estimated to' be worth from $30,000 to $35,000, and would probably have brought that amount had there been competition in biddrjg and the water pow er greater and certain. 1 learn itis only aboufthirty horse power, and is liable to fail three months in the year. Mr. R. L. Bloomfield, the agent of the Athcns-Fuc tory, was the purchaser, who-it is reported’ bought it tor that company. I believe they contemplate removing to it some of their light machinery, at an early day, which will greatly increase theit facilities for manufacturing. Judge Dupree has just erected a very im posing building in the centre of the busi ness portion of the city, a credit to his en terprising spirit and an ornament to the town, known as Dupree’s Hall. The stores nnder it are quite spacious, with high ceil ings, well lighted and handsomely fined up. The second and third floors (not yet com pleted) are designed, one for a theatrical hall, the other for a Masonic Lodge. It is estimated this building will cost about $30,000. “ Old Franklin ” lias now in attendance in college, proper, 175 students and 75 in the preparatory department, and is without doubt one of the most thorough and flourishing in the South. Chancellor Lip scomb has been quite unwell for a week or more, but is now recovering. Madame Sosnowski’s tv ‘~iale Seminary has forty five scholars; the Lucy Cobb Institute has fifty. There is one hotel in the place, the New ton House, which I should judge was do ing well, and it deserves success, for the proprietor, Mr. Wharton, Is a Lndlord among a thousand—a polite and genial Southern gentleman, ever on the alert for the comfort of his guests. The Athenians complete ■:!, about two months since, a well constrr :ed and sub stantial bridge across the Oconee, of a single span, with solid stone abutments, at a cost of $5,000. Although vegetation is not so far ad vanced as In your section, fears are enter tained of a failure of the fruit crop. The prospects for an abundant crop of wheat in this section are very flattering indeed, and tend to somewhat counteract the despondency occasioned by the tumble in the cotton market. The Athenians are a go-ahead people, and are eager to seethe railroad commenced lienee to Clayton. Yours, Zeta. P. S.—By the way, the Constitutional ist is in great favor here. I hear its merits extolled on all sides. [From the i> : »eciHl Telgram/t to tho Dtepitoh. From Washington. Washington, February 25,1870. REVELS SEATED —SCENES IN THE SENATE, At last there is an end to the struggle, and we have a man of African descent seated In the Senate, where the past great statesmen have sat. A colored man takes the seat made vacant by Jeff Davis wlieu he withdrew from the Senate to lead in re bellion. The Senate chamber and galleries were filled at an early hour in the proceedings this afternoon by persons curious to wit ness the swearing in and seating the. first colored Senator ever elected to the United States Senate. Mr. Vickers had the floor, and succeeded in clearing it for the time being. His prosy speech, read from manuscript, was too much for his brother Senators, and about half of them scattered to the restau rants, and to the House, whilst the balance read np and replied to their correspondence. The speech had a somnolent effect npon the auditors. •> ■ “ fo* Mr. Wilson somewhat aroused the drowsy spirits by proclaiming that he had now come to that last ditch that we heard so much about during the slavery struggle, and he had jnst been listening to walls which he discerned to be the notes of the dying swan. He read the Democrats a sort of clerical lecture, dealing them a few apostolic blows, which called Mr. Cfisserly to his feet to know when and where the Senator from Massachusetts obtained a commission to represent the Almighty in the Senate. He had not heard of snch authorization; and if snch person had been j selected for that office he (Casserty) could [ only say that it was bnt another 'illustra i tion of the truism that the ways of Provi dence were mysterious and past finding out. This terse speech caused a general laugh, and brought Mr. Wilson rp again to say that his commission was the commission of manhood, for which he and his friends had been struggling for forty years. Mr. Casseriy had referred to the presence j of Senators on the floor who came there by the power of the bayonet, whereat the Sen ator from Missouri (Drake) flew at the Cali-: fornia Senator, and charged that the Dem ocratic party held its sway in New York by the power of the shelolah, for whicli Casserly had a tender regard, which could be explained by the fact that he was a horn Hibernian, and this brought down the House in a laugh. ; Casserly responded that Drake’s head : was an assurance against damage from the j shelalah. They were so much alike one ! conld make no impression upon the other. Here another laogh, and thereafter the pro [ ceedings were quite lively. Henator Hcott made an argument to show i that Revels was a citizen In contemplation j of the third article of the Constitution, and 'he charged upon the Democrats for collu sion with rebsL*. and alleged, vehemently, : that they had become so used to it that J they now would rebel against Providence.; To this the audience responded in slight j applause, Htacktor. varmiy repelled the charge of; Democrats fr-b g n coMnslon with rebel*, 1 and he was rewar-fod with uoplanse. By this t 'te the floor of the Hermb* wa* crowded w 'H membere of the Honse, who J AIM up ♦.)('; space in the rear of the Mens- J tor* Rev * had remafried Mtletly sealed • hpon sn arm-' hair in a corner, on the Re po*dfcao Side, *nd P«ld great nttentfoM to I A % 'Jd AV'-A sf|'t fiiVt l >n When the Maryland Senator's (Hamilton) | name was called, he was caught napping, and cried out “ Nobut awaking, discov-' ered he was voting with the Republicans, and quickly cried out “ Aye, aye,” which provoked a roar of laughter. Senator Lewis, of Virginia, appeared to be on the fence, hesitated, but voted “No,” amid much merriment. The vote being announced (the motion was lost) there was a general stir, buzz and hum of voices all over the House; and as Senator Wilson walked over to Revels, and conducted him to the President's chair to be sworn, the crowded galleries rose up almost en masse, and each particular neck was stretched to Its utmost to get a full view. Revels was apparently unembarrassed.— Vice-President Col fa* administered the. oath, and at its conclusion took Revels by the hand and warmly greeted him to the Senate. The Sergeant-at-Arms then con ducted the new Senator to a seat iu the rear of Senator Brownlow’s chair, at the ex treme end of the rows of scats in the north side of the chamber. Meantime the Senaie adjourned, and many or the Senators went up to Revels and shook him cordially by the hand. A curion-i crowd (colored and white) rushed into the Senate Chamber and gazed at the colored Seuator, some of them going up to him and congratulating him. A. very respectable looking, well dressed company of colored men and women tb<;a came up and took Revels and help* him off in glee and triumph. The Democratic Senato sail asked torefrr the credentials. Mungen vs. Sumner. Here are the extracts from Mr. Mnngen’s speech which brought him nnder the aen* sure of the House of Representatives. He Is binding on Sumner: When we find persons destitute of physic al and moral manhood, what can wo ex pect of them ? Some of the worst tyrants in history, despots, leaders of factions, and religious zealots remorselessly crushed and bloodily persecuted their opponents, who, when opportunity offered, often retaliated in kind. Yet, in the midst of their excesses, deeds of daring and gleams of magnanimity and mercy threw occasional light on the sombre and sanguinary picture. Some un known hand, it is recorded, even strewed flowers upon Nero’s grave. But the rule of unsexed men in the declining periods <ff the Roman and Byzantine empires, through effete princes, led to a more profouud de moralization than was ever before known. “The influence of these beings,” says a French writer, “ was more fatal than that of the most fanatic.il or ascetic monk.. .” To the latter, indeed, were by their vows denied the joys of matrimony and the fad ings oi paternity. Yet the instinctive as piration was in their breasts, and precluded from lavishing itself on the individual fam ily, it sometimes touchingly expanded so as to comprise in its benevolence the wide family of the human kind, and to produce a Las Casas or a Fenelon. In their worst phase, of character the misguided and atrocious zeal which led them to doom others to the stake induced these persecutors when persecuted In turn fearlessly to face it. The eunuch not only had no experience of those feelings, but he even had no con ception. A sad monstrosity of man’s cre ation, he could not rise to the level of hu man sympathies. He was Inspired only bv the most groveling passions, and envious of all virility, physical and moral, worked out his insidious policy by Intrigue and craft. Not his ever the direct, plain road, but the tqrtWßw; njimy, path, thedevious ways of de ceit and perfidy. Not his the tlgcr-like spring of brute force, the violence of massacres and ostentatious executions. Frigidly vin dictive he crawled perscrverlngly but surely to his end, the life-long gratification of envy and misanthropic spite. Ills was the ingenious calumny, the private denuncia tion, the poisoned cup, the secret strangula tion, the noiseleas immurement in the dungeon’s depths and the frightful tor turings which solaced his malignity and unforgiving spirit/ Ills policy, more cruel and more fatal than that of the violence which inflicted bleeding gashes, sometimes to be cicatrized, upon a generation, emascu lated. nations after his own image, leaving them atad their posterity hopelessly de graded and to become! the prey of the bar barian. Worse Btill r during centuries and down to our own time, this spirit and this unsexed policy has found imitators. It was a policy congenial to all cowardly des potisms. There is only one instance In history, sacred or profane, where an unsexed person was a Christian; that is the fellow who went down into the water with Philip. Again, the malignity of these unsexed creatures is historic. * * During the late war the people had tyrants both In the North and South. If it should be our misfortune ever to have tyrants again let them be manly tyrants of brute force, not those who took their in spirations from the eunuchs of the Byzan tine empire, which Russia, of whose policy the Senator is the chief eulogist, represents, and which policy combines the brute tyran ny of England over Ireland with the tra ditions of the contemptible Byzantine em pire. * * This pretentious Senator, “the apostle of great moral ideas,” imposing on the nnwary by attitudinizing superior virtue, elevated aspirations, and forensic dignity, is in fact only a political mixture of the characters of Pecksniff and Turvey drop, of tha cant of one and the deportment of the other. * * -Of course allofthese eunuchs-wcre men of “high moral ideas,” and had an active and insidious finger In the sectarian I disputes of Arians and Athanasiana; and | were successful instigators ofthesanguina ]ry persecutions to which these disputes | gave rise. Scmner’s Egotism. —lt is positively re freshing to see an occasional puncture of that great bladder of egotism which the Almighty has, for some wise but, as yet, unrevealed purpose, set upon two legs and endowed with the gift of speech under the name and title of the Hon. Charles Sum ner. The fly on the cart-wheel, calling at tention to the great dost It raised, was a modest little animal compared to the Mas sachusetts blue bottle as he straddles one of the smokes of the Government propeller, and Imagines himself the sole cause of Its revolving*. He thinks the first blow of tlje rebellion was struck (with jiuch fatal feebleness t) on bis head by the Month Car olina member, and that all that ha* hap pened to the Mouth since has been the le i gltlmatc consequence of that cudgeling i Oh. that that cane hail been of good hard hickory, and n curse on all bamboo, say I. f“ Murk," in the (Jin. Enquirer. Rla< king.—Here Is the very latest In-1 ternal Revenue decision. We call that get-1 Ing the thing down very flnst jlootblaeks are required to use their I blacking last as they find It when the Inis [ I* opened, adding nothing to It whatever, j The act of spitting In the bos and smear- Ing the contents with the brush, consll-1 lute* the bootblack a mixer, or rectifier, or msnufa' tqrer of bhr king, and he must pay I the ordinary m«nu6ici>irer'sllr< n*e, i 1 From the Olm.leetoo Courier, 3d. The Census and Its Revelations. We published yesterday the complete census of the State, made during the year 1800. We have, at considerable trouble and pains, compared it with the census taken in 1860, and, as a matter ot interest, state the result. In 1860 the total popula tion of the State, of all colore and classes, was 703,706. In 1869 It was 706.022, thus showing an increase during the last nine years of 2,314 inhabitants. That there should have been no further increase of population is due In a measure to the casualties and calamities of the late war. But there Is another and more preg nant reason, and that is the character of the rule and government to which South Carolina, since the close of the late civil strife, has been subjected. There could be no stronger proor of how Radical rule has retarded and prevented the advent of capi tal, and created a condition of misrule, as fatal to prosperity as it is to liberty. And hence, the necessity upon all, of whatever pol.tics or faith, for a redemption of the State and the attainment of a fair and equal start for the future. The total population by the census of 1869, i5..... j...." 706,022 Os these there are white mn1c5.140,831 White females 154,993 Total whites 295,314 Colored males..v. .... .. 189,847 Colored females 320,661 Total Colored 410,708 Total population 706,022 As to the total population of the ? counties: Abbeville, iB6O *, 32,382 Abbeville, 1869 36,835 Decrease 5,350 Anderson, 1800 .* 22,873 Anderson, 1869 23,125 I Increase 252 Barnwell, 1860 30,743 Barnwell, 1809 27,054 Decrease 8,689 Beaufort, 1860 40,058 Beaufort, 1869 89,364 Decrqase 089 Charleston, 1800 .’. 70,100 Charleston, 1869 185,089 lucrenso 65,089 Cheater, 1860 18,122 Chester, 1869 19,846 Increase 1,734 Chesterfield, 1860 11,'“34 Chesterfield, 1869 11,802 Decrease 532 Clarendon, 1860... 13,095 Clarendon, 1869 13,215 Increase 120 Colleton, 1860.... 41,916 Colleton, 1869 25,346 Decrease 10,570 Darlington, 1800 20.361 Darlington, 1809....... 25,840 Increase 4,479 Edgefield, 1860 ... 89,687 Edgefield ,1869...,. 38,586 Decrease 6,301 Fairfield, 1860 22,111 Fnlrfleld, 1869. 16,497 Decrease 5,614 Georgetown, 1860, 21,305 Georgetown, 1860 10,372 Deerease 4,933 Greenville, 1800 21,802 Greenville, 1809. 23,112 Increase. 1,310 Horry, 1800 ~r962 Horry, 1869. 10,289 Increase 2,827 Kershaw, 1860 13,086 Kershaw, 1869 11,630 Decrease 1,450 Lancaster, 1860 11,797 Lancaster, 1869 9,381 Decrease., 2,416 Laurens, 1860.... 1 28,858 Laurens, 1869 22,386 Decrease 472 Lexington, 1860 15,579 Lexington, 1869 14,055 Decrease 1,524 Marlon, 1860 21,190 Marlon, 1869 11,588 Decrease 9,602 Marlboro’, 1860 12,434 Marlboro,’ 1869 11,588 Decrease 846 Newberry, 1800 20,879 Newberry, 1869 18,277 Decrease 2,602 Pickens, now composed of the two counties of Pickens and Oconee, in 1860 19,639 Pickens and Oconee, 1860 21,846 Increase 2,207 Orangeburg, 1860 24,896 Orangeburg, 1860 26,842 Decrease 1,946 Richland, 1860 18,807 Richland, iB6O J 9,143 Increase 8301 Hpurutuburg, 1860.,,,,.,,,,,,,.,. $0,019! .Spartanburg. 1860., 24,97.7' Decrease,.,, 3,046 ! Humler, 1860,,,, 93,860 j. Monitor, 1860,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 19,*3)7 1 Dscrsasn,,,, 4,HW 1 Union, 1860 . 19 635 Union, 1869 18090 Decrease.... 545 Williamsburg, 1860 15 ago Williamsburg,lß6o.... .... 16’478 Increase gg'- v° r t 122a 21,502 Increase . 1,05 J» It will thus be seen that the whole pop uiatiou of the State has, in the last nine years,, been increased but a little over two thousand inhabitants. But from the whole statement, It will be readily per ceived : First, that while the upper districts of the State have, as a general rule, decreased in population, they have actually increased in proportion in the number of white in habitants. And second, that the-colored population has flocked to the low country and the seaboard. And thus, wo find,that, as we have stated, the white population of .the State is but a little of the rise of two thousand over that of 1860, yet that of Charleston county has increased 65,089. This indicates the influx of the colored population to the seaboard, and that it has, iu a great measure, abandoned the middle and npper counties of the State.— And this accounts for the dccreusc-of tiio population there. The inquiry thus open ed is one of the most Interesting charac ter, and foreshadows the political revolu tion about to ensue on behalf of good gov ernment and right. „ The French Political Situation. According to the detailed narratives of the cmrute In Paris, February 7th, as they are given by the Paris correspondents of the London journals lately received, it was a much more miserable fiasco than appear ed from the account by telegraph. The barricades were no longer the serious ob struction they were in former times. Baron Ilausem'ann’s remodeling of the streets pf Paris has rendered the old-fashioned barri cade an impossibility. Nor were the men who deionded them of the same class known to former generations. In fact, the barri cades arc described as of the most childish description, and the defenders of them ran away whenever the police and civic guards came up. It appears, Indeed, that those who once threw up barricades, the me chanics and workingmen, are now having plenty of employment on the side of law and order. There are no more iatelligent and gallant people iu the world than the French of these classes, and, barricades or no barricades, it seems to be admitted that who 1 they choose to go down info the streets again it will be no child’s play.— But all the correspondents agree that the followers of Rochefort and Flourens in Paris is a mere rabble, and that while the 1 latter is a man of courage, he is evidently . a monomaniac. There is another sugges- I live fact. The Bourse was wonderfully . firm under all the perturbations. The late j events, however, In the French Chambers j would seem to be more deserving of atten . lion. Hitherto the Ollivier ministry has ) been sustained by the majority of tho . Chambers. That ministry Is liberal, con- I servative, and it Is engaged 1 11 an cxpcrl [ ment for free government in Fram , and . the coexistence of the imperial dynastu^*- 1 But when Ollivier announced, on the 24th . ult., that the government proposed to aban don tho system of placing In the field find 1 supporting Official candidates for the Ohata licr lie was met by a storm of disapproval from his own party friends, and tlie only approval he received was from his iwlitteal antagonists. The “right," on which he leaned for support, was composed' mainly of men who owed their positions to the fact that they were official candidates, and refused to sustain the minister, whilst the deputies of the “left” declared they must support the minister, because they were pledged to electoral freedom, and for uo other reason. The journals of the “right” have also assailed the posi tion of M. Ollivier, but, according to the latest te'";raphic dispatches, the Lmperor declares that bnrmony exists be tween himself and hjs ministry, and, as ho be’levcs, they have tho sympathy of every ho est Frenchman. This, it would seem, If we are correct In our reading of the not very lucid statement of the dispatches, that the Emperor is ahead of the age in his own country, as he certainly Is of tho practice In this, if he opposes the gfvlng of the in fluence of the central government to can didates for legislative positions If the Emperor is really determined no longer to sand solitary and apart from the great na tion of which he is the chief, or to. treat It as a thing external to himself, the fact is deeply significant of the growing progress and power of liberal Ideas and sentiments in France. No one has studied the French people longer and more thoroughly than the astute and wary old gentleman who has hitherto kept his seat so successfully In the Imperial saddle. One of his bitter est enemies has said “that during the pe riods of Ids imprisonment and of his exile, the relations between him and the France of his studies were very like the relations between an anatomist and a corpse. lie lectured upon It; he dissected Its fibres; he explained Its functions; he showed how lieauttfnlly nature In Infinite wisdom had adapted It to tho service of the Bona partes, and how, without the fostering care of these same Bonaparte*, the creature was doomed to degenerate, and to perish out of the world.” The “creature” seems to be giviug such evidences of vitality at present that it appears to require the utmost vigi lance of the skillful operator, who has so successfully galvanized it into the sem blance of life, to keep from beiug run over by its first awkward essays at loco motion. Internal Revenue Receipts. — Prom tltc books of the internal revenue is obtain ed the following comparative table of the receipts for the past eight months, with those of the same time In I860; From July, 1808, to February, 1868, inclusive, the to tal receipts were $91,987,341 76. From July, 1860, to February. 1870, inclusive, th total receipts were, $111,148,784 88.— The total gain for the past eight months Is $10,161,442 62, or twenty and eight-tenths percent. The principal part of this gain Is from the followingsources: Spirit*, $5,- 747,000; tobacco, $5,938,000. Incomes, Including salaries, $2,882,000; banks and bankers, $078,000; sales. $081,000; special taxes, $030.000; legacies, $807,000; succes sions, $180,000; from sales of stamps, $417,- 000 Nearly SOOO,OOO of the fifty-cent cur ; rcncy sheets new money have been destroy ed at the Treasury Department, never hav ing Ison Issued, on account of having been ! successfully counterfeited. The paper and ' the amount paid to the bank-note couum ' nles for tide work nmonuls to over SOO,OOO. JUe/uMiut JUtpuleh. Another Hying machine Ima been Invent |ed lu Jiolgluin lM tills kill* of work go ou, It will ultimately resell the result kt wr/leli those who have unbounded faith fu the practicability of mrlsl navlgsilon are fsruskt’Jf (timing,
