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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (March 9, 1870)
THE WEEKLY 00K8TIf'UTI0NALI8r WEDNESDAY MORNING. MARCH.!', ISJO. Club Hale* for the Weekly Couatltnllon* alUt. That <■' one may be enabled to sub scribe, aud receive I lie bcuetltsof a live jour nal, we otlVr the following liberal terms to Clubs :• 1 Copy per year - - • $3 bt) 3 Copies per year - - - JOO 5 Copies per year - - - - 12 ; 00 10 Copies i>er year - • - - 20 00 Wc trust that every subscriber to the paper will akl us in adding to our list. OBOPB AND OUBREN r NEWS. Our subscriijcrs and friends in the coun try will confer a favor on ns and our nu merous readers by sending us items as to crop prospects and general news in their different sections. Wc trust that each subscriber will consider himself a special correspondent for the Constitu tionalist, and thereby add to the interest of the paper. SLIGHT DISCREPANCIES. Old Simon Cameron, of Pennsylvania, has turned ont, in his own conceit, a prophet of the first magnitude. During the debate on the admission of “Senator” Revkls, of Mississippi, he “narrated the << particulars of an interview between him •* self aud Jefferson Davis just^prior to “ the war and before the latter had left the “ Senate, during which he declared to * r Davis ltis own conviction that slavery " would have ceased from the moment the “ first gnu was llred upon the flag of the “ country, and that his (Mr. Davis’) scat “ would some day, in the justice of Gon, “be occupied by a negro. Mr. Cameron « said he had lived to see his assertion vcrl «fled and he now wished to remind the “ Senate how much this colored race had « served us In the war, and he was cora “ polled to say this In view of the attempt “ of the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wil -41 liams) to argue that this man (Mr. “ Revels) had more white than black “blood in his veins. A. consideration of “ that kind was unworthy of any Bcuator “ in view of the great services of tho col “ ored soldier, and ho (Mr. Cameron) be “ lieved the tide of war would have gone “ against, us had it not been for the two “ hundred thousand negroes who cainc to “ tho rescue.” Senator Cameron may have predicted that a negro would occupy Jefferson Davis’ seat in the Senate, but his prophecy has only been fulfilled In part. Had he said the seat would have been occupied by a Choctaw Indian, or, more accurately speak ing, a Mestizo, he would have been much nearer tho mark. But Mr. Cameron, like all prophets, is very tenacious of the ex actitudc of his vaticinations, and even goes so far os to reproach one of his associates, because the fact of Revels not being a negro was an apparent effort to break the force of his clairvoyant power. According to the best authorities, Revels’ grand father was a white man and his grand mother a mulatto. Ills mother was a quad roon and his father a Ohor,taw Indian, lie therefore is an octoroon-Choctaw, and, like Cameron's prophecy, very much mixed. From these debates in Congress It would seem that the Radicals make a subtle dis tinction between* negroes and colored peo ple—blacks and mulattoes. The mulattoes are constructively held to bo citizens out side of the Civil Rights Act; the blacks must date their citizenship from Its pas sage. Let the simon-pure negroes, who make up eoven-eighths oftho toyal column in the MoulU, and, without whose votes Radicalism must shrivel like a pricked bladder, understand tills tiling. Hitherto, they have, in the majority of cases, en trusted their representation to persons who ane really not true types of their luce. This they have probably done as a sort of compromise and for the purpose of abating the prejudice existlug even at the North against their unadulterated oomplexiou, of which they have foolishly been some what ashamed. If the genuine blacks, who really constitute the Radical party of the South, arc determined to have repre sentation. let them put away men who arc bogus negroes after all, am! clioose only such as have the right to deduce a distinct Ethiopian origin. If they do uot so c Loose, why let them, at least, leave all the jubila tion to the hatf-negroes and Choctaws who are reaping all the beneflis which the full blooded black js entitled to. Now that Senator Cameron has demon strated that the prejudice to a thorough bred negro should uot be entertained cvcu in tl»c Senate ot the V tilted States, the blacks must sec to H that no more mongrels shall have the spoils of office at their hands. Beside, does uot Senator Cameron explicit ly declare that all the white Yankee* o( the East and West and all the white hirelings raked from abroad were not qual to the conquest of the gallant Southern people until 400,000 negroes cams to the rescue and saved the blessed Union. If the ne groes saved the Union,and Camkkon, the great prophet and imaliclnc-uiuu, euu foaaea It, they are clearly the heirs of the high place, of tl tat aforesaid ble**ist con cern. Now, then, that all dlffieultles have bean Imulu I away, let the thorough-bred negro*-*. mu’ to it that iimy put ip u pru|K>r claim for the loaves uud flshea. Indeed, wa look lor soother iihui nan I minis unite from ths lllm>irtou»CtMMPiN, wit ; Thai lie “hall luslautly resign hi* seat In favor of sotm dusky IVnniyUauiau How nan he, W in At JutUt* .-/ I non, refuse to do this, seotug ! w hat Revels the Choctaw has come to in j the so-called “justire of <iod?" Palling in ! this, wc shall try our hand at soothsay -1 iug aud predict that Simon Cameron’s scat i will be occupied, one of these days, tty that | modem miracle at the North an honed mid I incorruptible mun. If this should piove a I fiction, we arc willing to admit that. God I has forsaken the United States and that Ids 1 justice is postponed in Simple Simon’s case to a more appropriate sphere. But we , stick to our prophecy; aud when it shall . have come true, “Senator” Revels will no doubt be blacking boots for one of Jeffer son Davis’ descendants. Beware Simon Cameron, thou knavish bc-wltch! The “ justice of God ” is a sword that smites with a double edge. CONVENTIONS IN GEORGIA. Some restless individuals are very anxious to have a Convention of the peo ple of Georgia, irrespective of party. We beg these persons to be a little patient. If they cannot be patient, why let them drive ahead and see how their scheme will come to naught. There will be, at some future time, a Convention of the sound Democrats of Georgia, for purposes of organization aud layiug down a platform. Such per sons as cannot endorse and support this platform of square principles will be ex cluded, for the time of trimming, temporiz ing and make-shifts has well nigh passed away. But the opportune moment for a Convention of any sort has not yet arrived. We must first of all get out of the woods. When the smoke of the present conflict lias vanished and Congress has acted upon all the Southern States, then Georgia may have a Convention of her true men. Anterior to that period, it would be foolishness to move. Meanwhile, let us tolerate our mis fortunes with philosophy and lie close while under fire. Let it be understood, once for all, that, until such conditions as we have mentioned above are fulfilled, we arc in no position to return the fire of the enemy by an organized effort. In this connection, wo would observe that sonic of our brethren in the State who hitherto ranked ns true Democrats, and still claim to be so, have said and done many things to “ make the judicious grieve.” Still, wc arc unwilling, for the sake of the past and for the hopes of the future, to utterly despair of their final sal vation. It may be, in spite of present ap pearances, that when the day of fight comes, some who are now denounced as traitors will be manfully battling for Dem ocratic principles and on the right side of tho line. Perchance, too, some who are now very bitter in calling names will not be ns steadfast as they imagine. Human nature is frail anil liable to error. Even Peter denied his Lord thrice, and this, too, when lie was following after him with all of the solicitude of a devoted disciple. If such men as wc have indicated still prove recreant when the purification of-tho temple shall have begun, wc will be behind none of our brethren in warring upon the renegades. First, however, let an unmis takable banner be hoisted and then see who follows its lead or who lags sullenly in the rear. But that banner eannot be hoisted until Congress shall have virtually finished its work upon us, or until the present Leg islature shall have nettled, so far as it cau settle anything, the prcsuut statu* of laws and officers. Tiq-: Dkci ink in Gold. — lt seems that Cotton is King, after all. To King Cotton the recent decline in gold is attributed. The New York World puts the case thus: “ Our chief use for gold is in the purchase “ of foreign commodities, and cotton being “ us good for this purpose as gold itself, an “ abundant cotton crop dispenses with an “ equivalent value In gold for the purpose *> of foreign commerce. According to the “ most recent estimates, the cotton crop of “ the last year does not fall short of three “ million bales; and,as the price is double, “ tills crop is equal In value to six million “ bales previous to the war. We have ac “ cordingly, at present, little use for gold *■ except for the payraeut of duties at the “ Custom House. The supply Is in excess “ of the demand, and, us a necessary con “ sequence, the price falls. It would be “ absurd to attribute this result to the “ policy of the Government. “ The abundance of the eottou crop has “ operated In another manner. It has car “ rled Into the South large sums of money “ of which only a part has been returned. “ Three million bales of cotton, at present “ prices, are worth about $350,000,000. — “ The planters reserve out of tlieir pro “ eeeds the money they will need for till •* age, wages, and family expenses until the “ next crop Is brought to market; and the “ deficiency of banks In that section causes “ much of tills money to lie locked up In “ private safes and desks, thus withdrnw j “ ing it from circulation and practically “ diminishing the volume of the currency. “ The effect is, so far as It goes, to lessen “ the disparity between the value of gold “ and the value of greenbacks.” Z->k.—Many of our readers remember little Zok Dk Lave, the daring perform jcr on the flying trapeze. Bhe fell, In Balti j more, last Monday night, uud was serious j ly injured, so seriously, Indeed, that the Council of that city have prohibited such : exhibitions hi future. I Kiku Cotton.— Commenting upon the recent decline In gold, ilia New York, j /Viuocrul says: *• If It were not for the cotton crop, there ( " would lie no coin balance* iu the New •• York bunks or *n the Federal Treasury. j " |t would all bu ou ilia Other side of the I •• Atlantic, 1 On ! -" |*l*rid, patieui, (Jod fearing New England,"- V Y Well, If New Cnglaod I* God tearing, j dwll worship cr«w* lulwi crime • ! What Bateman Saw in Louisiana.— Very recently Manager Bateman called to ; say adieu before his departure for Europe, i Hiving just returned from New Orleans, ] he related his experience, which was some \ whai varied, to say the least. Mr. Bate man said lie visited the Legislative Hall of Louisianians, and arrived jbst iu time to hear a most interesting argument between the members. The question under debate was that of increasing the pay of members, which was then $6 per day. A member rose and proposed to increase the pay to $8 a day. Another member streDuously opposed the motion. Member front the suburbs proposes to in crease the amount to $lO a day. Immediately a big, burly, colored “ gem men ” jumped upon his seat, and, in stento rian tones, delivered himself of the follow ing : “Mr. Speaker and ‘gemmeu,’ dis am de fust time I ebber had a chance to make ten dollars a day In my life, and I goes for dat bill shure.” At last accounts the colored member had bought a $25,000 residence, saying he “ would pay $lO down, and de balance in a year.” —New York Bun. Retribution.—The Academies of West Point and Annapolis are in great dauger of being abolished. Carpet-bag Senator Spencer, of Alabama, has moved against them with some hopes of success. Spen cer pretends that the sale of cadetships and the disposition on the part of the army and navy to create mutual admira tion societies, and to wield political in fluence though the high and aristocratic grades now cxistiting in the two corps, call for the quelling of these institutions. If these are the true reasons, we are glad that the army and navy officers, who helped abolish the rights of the South so that carpet-baggers might thrive, are in turn about to be degraded by the creatures they nourished into distinction. How do the high aud mighty Generals and Admirals like this shot from the Spencer rifle ? Theological Soft Soap.—The New York Times thinks New England Is “God fearing.” Well, so she is, after a fashion. Bnt this is the fashion : Professor Gard ner, a soap man of Boston, publishes a letter from the Rev. J. B. Fulton, of the same place, to this effect: “ I have used your soap with profit and pleasure; but best of all, I have held pleas ant converse with you concerning Him •whose blood washes all our sins away." • Even the Independent is disgusted at such blasphemy, and stigmatizes it thus: “This reminds us of the negro who opened a restaurant In this city some twen ty-five years ago, and who, in order to attract piouscustomers during Anniversary week, advertised after this style: ‘ Oysters in every style—stewed, roasted, fried, scal loped, and on the half-shell. Friends of the Redeemer are invited to call.'" Nte and Lincoln.—The New York Ray Book Is responsible for the following para graph : “ Senator Nye, that is, 1 Jim Nye,’ carries “ in his pocketbook a note from the late “ President Lincoln, written in pencil on “ the fly-leaf of a book, which runs as fol “ lows: ‘ Dear General: Come up to-uight “ and swap jokes. Lincoln.’ And Nye is “ one of the most obscene jokers on earth “ since the death of Lincoln. It must have “ been enough to have turned the stomach “ of a crow to have listened to Nye and “Lincoln ‘swapplug jokes.’ Aud these “ blackguards wero ‘ swapping jokes,’ when “ the agony of death was in almost every “ family iu the land. If there were any “ blood in our veins it would boil at the “ thought of tiie brutality of the wretches “ who carried ou the butcheries of tiie nlg “ ger war.” Burlingame. —The death of Anson Burlingame has elicited a whole cart-load of eulogies from the Northern press. He gained some cheap notoriety by offering to fight Phkston Buooks in Canada, when it would have been very dangerous for that i gentleman to have ventured Northward ; and he made a world-wide sensation bv re signing the ministerial service of hts own country, and accepting office for higher pay from the Emperor of China. But he has gone on a foreign mission much more ex tensive than that with which he was re j ccntly accredited. And so, the Yankees may make a god of him for the next ten days, and place him, as is their custom, among the five 1 or six thousand “second Washington's” who have lived and died | since the “ great rebellion.” j The Cuban Humbug.— The New York Express, a thoroughly reliable journal in news matters, thus sums lip the Cuban question: “ From a review of the entire situation — “in the light of the latest advices from “ all sources—we come to the conclusion “ that if this Government ever intended “ (which we doubt) to help the Cubans, by “ recognizing them as belligerents, the ! “ time is going, if not quite gone by when i “ the thing can be done, to advantage. It |“ Is too late. The revolution is practically j“at au cud, and, for the present at least, I “ Spain Is master of the situation.” ! “ biioo Fly” in tuk Classics. —Sorue- I body haa discovered that Homer was the j original “shoofly" man. Here lathe proof: s i iroiu her lube, when slumber «urk« to*. eye, ; The watchful mother wait* the enreuomM fly. \Vopt. I Fir *« the lit oilier wafl* the fly aside That hauuU her slumbering babe. A* w Ill'll (I tuolller, while her child I* wrapped i 111 »wee( slum Iter, mm re* away lilt' fly. 1 Wry ml Tool urn An air.—The MiiiMi iMtam of the Ifadlcal i>arty, Wknpkll I'mim.h**, unit* lit* horn iu favor of ludlau suffrage ami eompulalte social equality with n* I grot*, k'a Mr I'iiiliMbl Sthong in Death —lt is now charged j j that Whittemore, true to carpet-bag in- ; ! stincts, sold his seat in the House bf Repre- 1 sentatives to Mr. Benton, of New Hamp | shire. “It appears, however, that the re i tiring member was ‘unfortunate’ also in 1 tills speculation; for Mr. Farnsworth, i who knew some of the 1 rules,’ had “ nego tiated” with the Doorkeeper, whose per quisite it Is (like that of hangmen of old) to appropriate the paraphernalia of executed members, and whose prior claim aud trans fer could not be successfully ‘contested.’’’ Logan.—Gen. Logan, of Illinois, was specially severe upon carpet-bagger Whit temore, for selling a cadetship very cheap. The Hon. Looan forgot, or did not choose to remember, how he bought a brigadier ship from the late lamented Lincoln, by fooling Mrs. L. with a diamond ring worth but twenty-two dollars. Bothered.—The New York Evening Post proposes that the female brokers in Wall street be called “cows” and “she bears.” Oh, no! When a woman unsexes herself, she becomes liable to all the appel lations proper to man. Such a female will not bellow if you call her “ a bull.” The Connecticut Democracy. resolutions of the state convention. The following is the text of the resolu tions adopted iu the Connecticut State Democratic Convention, onTuesdajHast, of which a brief synopsis lias already been received by telegraph : Resolved, That the Democracy of Con necticut now, as in the past, occupy the proud position o! the defenders of the true principles of constitutional freedom, based upon the equality of the States; and for the success of their cause rely upon the in telligence of the people and their devotion to the same ideas illustrated by the exam ple of the fathers in the purer days of the Republic. Resolved, That the State of Connecticut is to-day the same “ free and independent State” that it has been for more than two hundred years, with full power to declare who shall and who shall not be clothed with tne elective franchise within its bor ders, and when this power is forcibly taken away and its ballot boxes subject to the hireling soldiery of the General Govern ment, the State will have lost its boasted sovereignty and become degraded to the position of a conquered province. Res ilved, That the Fifteenth Amendment (so-called) to the Constitution of the United States is in no sense an amendment to said instrument, but is a Radical change there of, striking at the principle of State Rights, which lies at the base of the compact formed by the various States in the con vention of 1788 ; and its forced and fraudu lent adoption at the point of the bayonet will be the deadliest blow ever struck at the sovereignty of the States and the liber ties of the people. Resolved, That the Democracy of this State now, as heretofore, are the strenuous advocates of a tariff for purposes of reve nue only; that the principle of “ protec tion for the sake of protection ” is at war with the diversified interests of the people of the States, and experience has shown its tendency to aggrandize a class in the com munity and at the expense and to the in jury of the producing and laboring mil lions, taxing their industry equally in vio lation of the authority of the Constitution and of the great principle that should govern this people in their intercourse with the family of nations. Resolved, That the Democracy of Con necticut, by the action of their State Con vention, in 1862, denounced the legal-ten der set as a Congressional usurpation, an infringement upon the letter and spirit of the Constitution, and in violation of the rights of tiie people of the States. In 1870, the Supreme Court of the United States nflirms the position assumed by us iu 1862, aud we reiterate the declaration that there shall be but one currency for the Govern ment and for the people, and that one the constitutional currency, as proclaimed by Andrew Jackson, and we call upon the Ad ministration to aid us, by honesty and economy iu the public service, in the resto ration of that currency to the uses of the people. Resolved, That the language of Mr. Dawes, of Massachusetts, iu which he asserts that in the work of Government economy “ the House could expect no aid from the other end of the Capitol (meaning the Senate), or from the other end of the avenue” (meaning the President), should startle the country and arouse all good men to unite in overthrow ing a profligate administration, which is confessedly extravagant and reckless, at a time when all business interests are perish ing under their heavy burdens and labor is being pauperized with intolerable taxa tion. Resolved, That the bill now before Con gress for the purpose of changing the laws regarding naturalization, is a direct attack upou all foreigners seeking the United States as a home for themselves and fam ilies, and the present corrupt aud unprin cipled leaders of the Republican party having destroyed the constitutional rights of the people of all States, robbing them of the power to determine the status of the citizen, now seek to degrade the white immigrant below the level of the native negro- . ~ Resolved, That the Democracy of Con necticut sympathize with the people who struggle for freedom everywhere; and send their cordial greetings to the patriots of Cuba, who are now valiantly contending for their freedom aud their rights. Resolved , That a direct tax levy in Con nect lent of over SBOO,OOO, besides $500,000 more upon savings banks and other corpo rations, is a larger amount than should be taken from the people annually, aud wc de mand that the public bunions be diminish | wl by equality in taxation and economy in I the expenditures. ! Resolved, That in proseutiug the honored I name of James E. English as our candidate for Governor, we do so with flill confidence I that we appeal to the liest judgment of a j Urge majority of the people auil the sound ! patriotism of the State; aud iu the candi- I dates associated with him wo feel assured that worthy representatives of the |ieop!e and tlieir test interests have been selected. j Radical rmuor bath It that Representa tive Ilogc meaus to clinch the qucatlou of his own purity, In the nutter of appoint lag cadets, by nominating for a laduUhli*, j at uu early day, the sou of one Ilia black I constituent* That will certainly be very i loyal aud disinterested ou tin part of Hog* , hut the boy, we take it, will be apt, for u time at lr«*t, to have a ulee time of It among Ida follow ttd«u, Nmtt, \ The Temmasee t'oiiatHilltoual t ooun linn tUieaied a prop'mi'ion to prohibit u* gross from holding ortlrc and sitting au jure** by a vote of Sb to iftf A Workingmen's Address. ■■■—— THE FORESHADOWING OF A NEW PARTY PLATFORM—KICKING OUT THE POLITI CIANS AND BANKERS —NOTHING BUT THE NATION’S MONEY AS A CIRCULATING ME DIUM. The National Labor Union’s address to the people of tiie United States sets out with the assertion that the legislation of the whole country is in the hands of a sin gle class —lawyers—and under the supreme control of bankers, moneyed men, and pro fessional politicians, to the almost entire exclusion of the productive classes, who are the real sources of all our wealth. The authors of the address have no hope in party politicians. They have been tried and found wanting. After one hundred years of their administration we find our selves in possession of a national debt of $2,400,000,000; State and local debts of equal amount; the public domain largely wasted ; much of the most fertile land in the country in the hands of railroad com panies and other monopolies; statesmen, ed itors, financiers, and politicians clamoring for return to a specie basis, a system which is self-destractive, and has produced uni versal commercial disaster every ten years, thus demonstrating Its ntter incompetency; a moneyed aristocracy; disorganized la bor; a blasted commerce; a land full of murder, suicide, prostitution, arson, rob bery, poverty, public corruption, private vice, and intemperance; a divided interest, and a divided people! All these and more we find, and therefore demand a surrender of the powers so long abused. In making this demand, we have no compromises to offer or accept. We mean no bargain and sale of our high trusts or the people’s in terests for the benefit of any pai’ty. THE NATIONAL BANK CONSPIRACY. It is undeniably true that if the Govern ment had issued $300,000,000 greenbacks in lieu of the bonds deposited to secure the redemption of the bank currency, it would have saved every dollary of the Interest on. them except the one per cent, tax on the circulation, and at the same time it would have furnished the people a better curren cy. The bankers, not sitisfied with this enormous bonus, have the effrontry to de mand the withdrawal of the greenbacks now In circulation, and the substitution of their own currency. If successful, we shall soon have as much as $1,000,000,600 of currency in circulation ; and then, when the profits arising from furnishing the cur rency go in the vaults of the banks and pockets of the usurers, we shall hear noth ing more about inflation until the next breakdown. THE WORKING MEN’S CURRENCY. We are in favor of discharging that por tion of the debt heretofore contracted, which is by the law authorizing its crea tion made payable in gold, in that com modity, and of liquidating it at the earliest practical moment; but we insist that all other forms of indebtedness, including the five-twenty bonds, shall be paid at the earliest option of the Government in the legal-tender paper currency or lawful mo ney of the Government; that the bank cur rency and the present legal-tenders (green backs) shall be withdrawn from circula tion, and there shall be issued in lieu there of, Ss the exclusive circulating medium of the nation, paper currency made a legal tender in the payment of all debts, public and private, duties on imports includ ed, and declared the lawful money of the United States, and convertible at the pleasure of the holder into Government bonds, bearing an interest of three percent, per annum, payable in lawful money. The bonds to be likewise convertible into this lawful money at the option of the holder. A SQUARE DEAL FOR LABOR. Buch a currency, being under the direct control of the people, thev will be enabled to prevent the high and fluctuating rates of interest and the violent expansions and contractions of the currency which have caused the monetary crisis and commercial revulsions which have heretofore so fre quently prostrated all legitimate enterprise and product ve industry, deranged com merce, lowered the standard of commercial integrity, and made us little less than a uation of gamblers. It will likewise enable ns to effect the equitable distribution of the products of industry and enterprise be tween capital and labor, thus removing the necessity for the excessive toil which is now over-taxing the mental energies and physical powers of the producing classes, aud afford them the time and the means requisite for mental enjoyment, intellectual culture, and moral improvement. WHO FAYS THE INTEREST. All interest paid for the use os motic national, State, county, or town bonds, railroad, manufacturing, and all other cor poration bonds, bank dividends, or for any purpose whatever—must in the end be borne by labor, and is as much a charge on labor as the taxes paid for the support of the Government. When the rate exceeds the aggregate rate of Increase in thenation al wealth, the inevitable result is to cen tralize the wealth of property iu tiie hands of the few non-producers, and to impover ish and degrade the wealth producing classes. The Government is bound to in stitute money so that it shall distribute products to non-producing capital and pro ductive industry according to the service or labor performed in their production. Therefore all interest beyond such just rate as will effect the equitable distribution of products and property between capital and labor is a legalized fraud on the producing classes. THE STRUGGLE FOB TIIE MASTERY. Our monetary laws, unlike our Goyern j meat, are founded on the aristocratic prin | ciple that the few should rule the many. The many toil for the few. Their history, •i from the foundation of the Republic, is one of repeated wrongs and usurpations, all having a direct tendency to the subversion of democratic republican institutions, and the establishment of a moneyed aristocracy to rule over aud despoil the producing classes of their substance. After gaining I our political iudcoendence, wc unfortunate ly engrafted Into our system Ideas of money derived from the aristocratic Governments of Europe, aud ever since this moneyed aristocracy has been striving for the mas tery of the Government and people. The breaking out of the rebellion afforded the j occasion for the full exhibition of the iu j satiable avarice of the money autocrats, j , Having, through unwise aud vicious legis- 1 lation, to a great extent control of the! money iutereat of thaw-nation, they seized with avidity this opportunity to render tlieir power ovnr the Government and jieople I absolute. Their llrst net mode It manifest, that they did uot intend to share with thu 1 patriotic industrial classes the burdeua aud i sacrifices necessary for the preservation of! the Government, out to enrich thvineelvu* i at the expense ot the people, REMEDY you K MATING EVILS, Tit* addrea*, remarking that It I* the cheap capital rather than thu cheap labor ill Europe that our manufacturers need nro mellow agalu*l, i»ro|iu*e* Chat the nation •hall i alluguUh the debt, uApI thew »npply Ha own »«■<»• >, without Interest, for the Mopje, Th« address la signed by It, f> Trevaltek, A f t'avte, (' K Uhm aud oihere, officers of the National lAwor I'nlou [From tho Financial Chronicle. Cotton. Friday, P. M., February 25,1670. By special telegrams received by us to night from the Southern ports we are in possession of the returns showing the re ceipts, exports, &c., of cotton for the week ending this evening, February 25. From the figures thus thus obtained It appears that the total receipts for the seven days have reached 82,753 bales (against 06,424 bales last week, 98,544 bales the previous week, aud 104,601 bales three weeks since.) making the aggregate since September 1, 1869, up to this date, 2,115,539ba1e5, against 1,658,422 bales for the same period in 1868-9, being an increase this season over last sea sion of 457,117 bales. The exports for the week ending this evening reach a total of 61,444 bales, of which 45,955 were to Great Britain and 15,489 bales to the Continent, while the stocks at all the ports, as made up this evening, are now 568,234 bales. We>* en<Un* Bxp . d to T t hu 555? Stock. Feb. 3. ,} Br . c<mt. week. I M3. 187». 186S. N. Orleans.... 34.933 11.179 Alii 13J119 Mi 810 147,245 Mobile 8,364 .... 8,364 9,7 7 7 478 37,571 Charleston * 373 81 681 *0,885 Savannah 8.448 .... 9.448 17.185 61,774 40,878 Texes (e*t).... 1.*04 873 8,677 5,384 47 551 14,686 New York.... Lioi 8,735 9,8*6 5, 07 85 00J 187.164 Other ports... 290 708 1 001 370 38,000 88,713 Total— 43.945 15,480 61,441 34,964 568 834 406,476 Total since Sept. 1 775,703 355A40 1,161,049 863 966 Compared with the corresponding week of last season, there is an increase in the exports this week of 6,477 bales, while the stocks to-night are 161,758 bales more than they were at this time a year ago. Stocks of Cotton at Interior Towns. —Below wc give the figures received to night, showing the stocks of cotton at the interior ports at the close of business to day, and add those for last week and the corresponding periods of last year for com- parison ; , 1870. . 1860. . Feb. 25. Fab. l a . Feb. 25. Feb. IS. Augusta, Ga 25,0'0 23,617 19,75') 19,400 Colurr.bes, Ga 13 527 13,460 16,100 16,300 Macon, Ga 16,687 16,663 9,638 10,18 Monteomery, eat.... 13 000 13, 00 8,269 10,000 Selma. Ala, e,t 8,000 7 857 6.600 7,377 Memphis, Tenn 22,343 28,092 23,443 22,860 Nashville, Tenn 5,285 5,264 8,2,9 4,584 Total 103,752 107,953 89,879 90,708 The foregoing shows the interior stocks have decreased during the week about 4,000 bales, and that they are now 13,873 bales in excess of the same period of last year. Prices and Prospects.— Prices have taken another tumble the past week, the natural sequence of the movement lor a rise during the previous Winter months. Had holders, in December, accepted the logical result of the increased crop (as we very strongly advised) keeping out of the forward delivery speculation, and parting with their stock freely, they, would uow be in a much better position to demand terms of consumers. Instead of that, however, many have held on to it in every way, and that too, in large amounts, nnder small margins, until now, on the turn of the market, aud when there is a prospect of the India supply coming into competition, they are compelled to throw it overboard at a sacrifice, consequently it need not be a mat ter of wonder if considerably lower rates are touched. But yet, while we feel the truth of this.'it appears to ns that very much, will be gain ed if this haste now to get out of cotton can be held in partial check. Our delay in selling has not deprived ns of every advant age we had. Liverpool vstill has a small stock; business prospects all over Europe are favorable; and Manchester and the Continent have increased the consumption largely. These facts, in addition to the further oue that the early India supply (except so far as it comes through the Suez Canal) will be less than last year, as the crop is later, give us the power to prevent, in part, the mischief which is the natural result of the mistake already made. Wc would not check free selling, or encourage speculative holders, for we see nothing to warrant it; but on the other hand it is well enough for us to remember that cotton has a value still. Will Gold Advance?—The future of cotton in a measure depends upon the course of gold during the next three months; conseqentlv the inquiry as to the turn the premium is likely to take is important. We do not propose to solve the problem, but a few facts may help onr readers to form an opinion for themselves. 1. The supply ou the market is now extremely larger, say about .$70,000,000; hence not only can no interest be obtained for it, but owners arc compelled to pay a considera ble per centage for having It carried. If this state of things continues, any npward movement docs not appear probable. 2. Last, year on account of the very small export of the precious metals, the country increased its stock of gold somewhere about $35,000,000. That the specie movement the present year will show a similar result is for the following reasons not unlikely. (A). The unfavorable condition of business does not encourage large importations, and im porters after their late losses are in a poor condition to run any great risk. (B). Onr exports promise during the coming three months at least to be in excess of last year’s movement. We have on hand, for instance, 150,000 bales more of cotton than at this time a year ago, and our receipts are likely to increase this excess. (C.) The move ment of our bonds to Europe will probably be fully as large, if not larger, than during 1869, as our increased credit will increase the number of investors even at the ad vanced price now current. For these rea sons the retaining of a large portion of our gold production" this year, and thus in creasing our supply is not improbable. 3. The Government will undoubtedly pay out and sell about as much as it receives for duties, so that its operations or necessities will not interfere with the natural move ment. Without, theu, any large demand for gold, aud with the supply on the market increasing, is any decided reaction from the present rate probable during the next three months? Os course a speculative move ment might force gold up in face of these facts. / Women’s Right* Three Hundred Years Ago.— Appropos of women’s rights is an incident related by Edward Webbe in his “ Trauailes,” which were first published in London in 1590. Webbe was taken prisoner by the Turks in a sea fight during a voyage from Alexandria to Leghorn in j 1572! Being a gunner by profession, he j was, in 1583, made master gunner of the I Admiral’s galley In an expedition to the “Land of Prestcr John [Turklstan(?)J j within 18 degrees (1,080 miles) of the sun." In describing n battle that took I place there, he says : “ But It Is worthy of I memorio, to sec how the women of ye towae did pile themselves with their weapons, I making a great massacre upon our men, ! and murtUered 500 of them In such apeedlc | aud fiirioaa sort as i* wonderful; we treaded ' not to have feared tlieir men at all, had uot i their women bln our great overthrow, at | which time I myself was malater Gunner of the Admiral's Gaily, yet ehaiude green- I oukly. aud heateu naked with a Turkish sword flailing, for not ehootlng where they would have uie, and where I could not ehoot," I The aitleeu* of llaneoek county are non | utnplailng § rail’ neat fill,
