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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (March 23, 1870)
the wtiTf ooHßnrrmoiALißT • UfciS.. . ■- WKDNKSDAT MORNING. MARCH. 23, 1870 Cl«b Rates for the Weekly Coaetttatloh allet. That every one may be enabled to sub scribe, and receive t he benefits of a live jour nal, we Offer the following liberal terms to Clubs : 1 Copy per year - - - • $8 00 3 Copies per year - - - - 760 5 Copies per year - - - - 12 : 00 10 Copies per year - - - - 20 00 We trust that every subscriber to the paper will aid ua in adding to our list. CHOPS AND CURRENT NEWS. Oar subscribers and Mends in the coun try will confer a iavor on us and our nu merous readers by sending us items as to crop prospects and general news in their different sections. We trust that each subscriber will consider himself a special correspondent for the Constitu tionalist, and thereby add to the interest of the paper. THE UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING COM PANY AND ITS OBJECT. Considering what efforts will be made by the National Government, which now tyrannizes over a large section, to poison the minds of Southern youth by the intro duction of school literature prepared at the North, we hail with pleasure the beginning of an enterprise which proposes to admin ister an effectual antidote to sach deadly venom. Now, without attempting any general disparagement of many of the text books thus prepared, we are none the less convinced that, at this period of our liisto ry more than any other, the books used In our Institutions should be of Southern origin and of Southern inspiration. We do not want our children taught that their fathers, who fought for liberty, wees trai tors, and that those who died in battle with the Northman lie lu fclon graves. If the North could furnish us with works of a character thoroughly unsoctlonal, no com plaint would probably arise. But it is not in the nature of New England to be impar tial, and the knowledge of that bitter fact has compelled a movement on the part of men good and true to counteract this ten dency, especially so far as it Is calculated to impress the tender minds of Southern children. To compass this worthy end, several Southern professors of the highest scholarship have, for several years, been diligently engaged iu the preparation of a series of books—“national In character, but intelligently adapted to the wants of Southern parents and teachers, and exclud ing that Northern sectionalism which, con sciously or unconsciously, so largely char acterizes the books heretofore offered for use—scholarly, practical, progressive and imbued with the advanced educational ideas of the present—a series fitted to be come the uniform series in all the South.” Thcso devoted men, we are proud to learn, have not been left in the lurch in the perfection of their labors. An organi sation known as the University Pob usiiiNQ Company was organized February Ist, 1800, and Incorporated under the laws of New York with a capital stock of $200,000, in shares of SIOO each. Os this sum $140,- 000 have beeu sold and the proceeds Invested in the exclusive right to publish a “ Univer sity Scries,” In electrotype and stereotype plates, and Illustrations and manufacture of the books, portraits, maps, copyrights of standard works, etc., etc. The remain der of tlic capital stock is now offbred for sale. For tiie better information of parents and teachers we append the following list of books, representative of TIIK UNIVERSITY SERIES. 1. Geographical Tut Books. By M. F. Maury, LL. D.,- author of “Physical Geo. grapliy of the Sea late Superintendent of the National Observatory at Washington, D- C., etc. First Lessons In Geography, The World We Live In, Manual of Geo graphy, Physical Geography. Also by the same author, Practical Astrouoroy.- 2. Mathematical Text-Books. By Charles 8. Venable, LL. D., Professor of Mathe matics In the University of Virginia. First Lessons In Numbers, Mental Arith metic, Elementary Arithmetic, Practical Arithmetic, Higher Arithmetic, Elementary Algebra, Higher Algebra, Legem!re's Ge ometry, Analytical Geometry. 11. Hoboes' School Readers. By George F. Holmes, LL. D., Professor of History and General Literature in the University of Vir ginia. Holmes’ Primer, Holmes’ Elementa ry Bpeller, Holmes’ First Header, Holmes’ Socond Reader, Holmes’ Third Reader, Holmes’ Fourth Reader, Holmes’ Fifth Reader, Holmes’ Academic, or High School Reader, Holmes’ School Speaker, Holmes’ Elementary School Charts. 4. Knglish language. Text-Books by George F. Holmes, LL. D. First Lessons In Grammar, Elementary English Gram mar, Manual of English Composition. 5. Vreneh. Toxt-Books hy M. Schole do Vere, LL. I)., Professor of Modern Lan guages in the University of Virginia. In troduction to the Study of French, Gram mar in Fnsiicli, First French Reader, Higher Fruttcli Reader. Also, by A. Hachtlebon, I'rofeaaor of Modem languages In the Uni versity of Hontli Carolina, Guide to a Comat I'l’nuiiuclatiuu **t (Ini Freueh Language. H hum. Tu«t Iksik* hy It L. Glider sleeve, Ph. |>, |,L |), |*Mibssor of Ancient l<auguagwe in the I'ulwiMiy of Virginia. I, sun Grammar, Latin Kaefelae Jkmk, Latin Ikadir to he followed hy additional i» ai issiks In UtlH and Gmk, 1 History, He fogk Hook ul Chemistry, Text-Book or Genera! Physic, Text-Book of Geology. By Professors John and Joseph Le Conte, of the University of Caiifornis(lateof South Carolina). History of the United States. By George F. Holmes, LL. D. Bible Manual: for Schools and Academies. By Rev. Howard Crosby, D. D. Os this series the greater part has already been Issued and is now In active demand. The books have been introduced into a large number of the private and public schools of Maryland, Virginia, North CaorllDa, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisians, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, New Jersey, and New York. We can safely say that no Southern man of the right stamp will turn a cold shoulder to this admirable experiment now so far ad vanced to a successful consummation. As a guarantee of the good faith and manage ment of this enterprise we call attention to the following list of officers: President— C. B. Richardson, New York City. Vice-President— Gen. John B. Gordon, Atlanta, Ga. Treasurer —Thomas A. Hoyt (of S. C.), New York City. Secretary —Henry Heath, New York City. Irustees— Chas. B. Richardson, John B. Gordon, Thomas A. Hoyt (of Hoyt & Gard ner), Henry Heath, Edward A. Lawrence, Geo. J. A. Conlson (of Ross Campbell & Cos.) These gentlemen are well-known to many of our people and need no special recom mendation and endorsement at onr hands. They are oil true to the core as men of honor and‘conspicuous defenders of South ern faith. Having already sold the larger part of the authorized capital stock, they are confident that the shares remaining— -600 iu number—will be promptly sought for in the South. The better to accom plish this purpose, Messrs. Branch Sons & Cos. have been appointed Augusta agents. This eminent banking firm will no doubt take an early opportunity to present the claims of this enterprise to a substantial popular support. Contrary to our general rule, we have given this movement a most conspicuous and extended notice; but its cause is our cause, and anything that contributes to the intellectual welfare of the rising generation of the Bouth deserves and should receive the earnest co-operation of all patriots. Men who arc not ashamed of the past, and who do not willingly tol erate the degrading Issues of the present, should fervently support a scheme of this kind. Let them see to it that their children are trained in the proper school of princi ples. Let them see to it that their minds are not distorted by false precepts import ed from the enemy’s camp. The great duty Southern parents owe their offspring is an unfaltering endeavor to make them lovers of liberty, foes to despotism and vindicators of the right. The University Publishing Company has pointed out a way to make the future glorious for the South. It should be liberally and enthusiastically encouraged. NOT WORTH DAMNING. The telegraphic dispatches from Wash ington, published in our yesterday’s edition, contain a batch of falsehoods reported as sent by a certain W. L. Avehy to two United States Senators: “ Savannah, March 18, 1870.—The pass age of Bingham’s amendment in the House has set the worst elements in society wild, anti now the cry of a damned Republican shouted after a man is as terrific as ever the cry of ‘a damned abolitionist’ was before the war. Neither Mr. Conant or myself have ever had anything to do with the politics of Georgia, nor do we desire to have. We are here engaged in a great en terprise, spending millions of Northern money In building railroads in Georgia, but this seems to be no protection to ns. Any man disposed to get rid Os us has only to charge us with political purposes or aspira tion to rob us of all sympathy, protection or support from the community or authori ties. I earnestly invoke your Influence with Gov. Bullock and with Congress to sec us and others like situated protected. “ [Signed] Wm. L. Avert.’ Judging from Augusta, which is remark ably quiet and almost utterly indtffisrent, we should say that Mr. Avery has made the telegraph convey Intelligence which Is not true. We suspect, from his ear marks, that he Is a railroad contractor and that ho furthermore has some design of plun dering the State Treasury for Jobbery of his own and his partner’s contrivance. We never heard of a Northern man who came to Georgia to speud millions of Northern money without being very well assured that he would carry away from the State twice as much ho brought with „ him. The success of Mr. Avery’s schemes doubt less depended upon the success of Bul lock's fraud, ami hence his raving and frantic telegram to “ two Senators.” This thlug of building railroads is well enough lu its way, bat it has plunged North Caro lina and Tennessee Into bankruptcy, aud, if persisted In, will go far toward the rain of Georgia. We think Mr. Avery’s little game Is very apparent; but we do hope that he will be passe-1 In silent contempt by all decent Georgians. From present ap poarauees, it )s perfectly superfluous for anybody to “damn him." That job is a foregone conclusion and self-inflicted.— " Damning” such men as this Avert ap pear* to bo Is equal to double-shotting a ten-inch Oolumblail and firing it against a pig-sty “ The Wrath to Oomr.— Our neighbors lit Georgia, seemingly deaf to the arguuienta and entreaties of the press, are aatd to lie throwing all their energies tutu the pro dilution of cotton, to the neglect of grain and provisions,"— (.‘harUstou AW* We do not lielleve they are doing any thing at the kind. Planter* are proverbi ally shrewd, and, If they prefer cotton planting, It la because It pays heller than corn cull urn, There la a deal of humbug in the good advice of the pn*i on matters j ol which the press has no practical know! I THE BINGHAMANENDMENT. The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Gaiette does not see everything lovely in the Binoham Amendment. He thus writes: “ Doubtless the country has been amused at the ‘ lovers’ quarrels’ between the emi nent statesmen hailing respectfully from Ohio and Massachusetts. I have it from a Republican member of Congress that Bing ham acted as Butler’s jackal in the matter of the Georgia bill. He personally solicited ail doubtful members ‘ on his side of the House’ to sustain the previous question, which shut out Farnsworth’s really import ant proposition. It was through his per sonal and stealthy exertions that Bntler was placed in possession of the floor, and enabled to press through the abominable project of legislatively asserting the doc trine that Congress can, at will, thrust out and readmit (with what ‘conditions’they may capriciously choose,) any State now in the Union! Bingham’s amendment, about which such a yell of triumph is rais ed by • Conservatives,’ does not amonnt, in principle, ‘to shucks.” It only gives another set of Yankee carpet-baggers an earlier opportunity to contest the power of those now dominant—that is all. What Bntler aimed at, he accomplished, and with the officious aid of Bingham —and his vote— that was, to establish some sort of a prece dent-for thrusting out of the Union and reconstructing Tennessee. No doubt this will be attempted, and that very shortly. Mark the prediction—Bingham will be with Butler upon the final vote of ousting that State. Then Maryland, Kentucky, Delaware, and finally the State of New York will be in order, and probably in the line as I have designated them.” The true Democracy of this State dis approve, on principle, of the Georgia Bill now before the Senate, and refuse to be held responsible for its iniquities in any shape. — The Radicals of the Senate and Democrats, too, for that matter, must be held solely ac countable for their participation in this affair. THE MILK IN THE COCOANUT. The “ghost of poor Levitt” hiving failed to frighten the Senate half as much as it polluted Bullock, the editor of the Washington Chronicle tries another dodge which may prove more successful. It is adroitly couched in the 7 following para graph taken from his issue of the 11th : “ Aside from*the great principles involv ed, there is a great party responsibility iu this case. If the bill, as amended iu the House, is adopted, Georgia is forever lost to Republicanism. If the amendment is stricken out , and the bill adopted as reported by the Reconstruction Committee , Georgia will poll her electoral vote for Republican can didates in 1872. And we must bear in mind that the colored men in States here in the North, who arc soon to become voters by the promulgation of the Fifteenth Amendment, will be watchful of the man ner In which a Republican Senate treats the prayer of their race in Georgia at this critical juncture.” If Forney can convince enough Sena tors that the Bingham amendment is the death-knell of Radicalism in Georgia,.he may cam a fat take from the dlsbursers of State Road funds now lobbying at the Federal Capital. With anything like a Mr vote, Georgia will poll a Democratic majority in 1872, Bingham amendment or no Bingham amendment. So drive ahead, Messieurs. You are very smsrt, but your punishment will come at last. If our peo ple will only be patient and honest, God will assuredly be just to our foes and mer ciful to us. A Word to the Wise.—The New York Bay Book thus discourses of false alliances: “ The negro goes where the power is, of “ coarse. It is a necessity of his nature, “ which he can no more resist than he can “ a law of gravitation; and, therefore, so « long as the Abolition power Is enthroned “at the Capital, the poor, ignorant and “ stupid Democratic eunuchs who dream of « office through nigger votes, will lose their “ souls In vain.” And thus of the possible future: “ But « after all, perhaps it is Providential—the “ great mass of mankind, as said to Christ “of old, must have a sign or practical de “ monstratton, and thonah the people of “ the South are passing through a martyr “dom unparalleled in human records, they • will be the proser as their fathers, the “ ‘slaveholders’ of Virginia, were the found ers, of American liberty. The natural “ distinction of race is the foundation of “ American Democracy, In total antagonism “to the European system of Class in our “ own race, and when this Abolition mad “ ness has spent Its evil forces, all men will “come back to where Washington and “ Jefferson placed us, and mongrclism or “ nigger equality as impossible as incest, “ and regarded in the same light.” Stunning.— Gen. Alcorn, so-called Gov ernor of Mississippi, has been spoken of as a man of sense. But the following extract from his luaugural would seem to mark him as the very pink of slap-dasli twad dlers: “ The muse of history closes to-day a chapter of passion, bloodshed and social revolution, aud proceeds to write down the fact of this inauguration as the first event of anew chapter; a chapter which, with her pencil of light, she heads by halcyon wools of peace aud hope. The palmy days of my life belong to Mississippi; the friend ships of twenty-flvo years tie me to her In lore; a sacrifice of conviction made by me In a wrestle with the madness which plung ed her Into ruin has bound my soul to her In the common lot of suffering, aud sorrow and humiliation. A son of Amerlcau liberty, whose heart is glowing with the blood of ’?<l, I may, therefore, be pardoued for the seeming struggling for llrst utter antic* on this occasion, and the profound emotion with which l recoin from the hand of a conqueror the crown of civil law that, lu a blending of palu and pleasure, I bend tills blessed hour upon the queenly brow of Mississippi." We have always treated the story of put ting salt on the tall of the bird of liberty ta j a nary myth, liul now we know that the trick can be aeewiuiiUahcd, | Allin I'ni sKT A Washington < ori>- •pnniteut say* ' Hi t.im a carries a large l share of the Ikiiiilr in hi* brwubct pocket-" I How many of live Hen*tor* would he j carry there If hi* money wallet wo* empty? > Sarcastic.— The slander miller at At lanta thus telegraphs to Fobnxy's Chron ele: “Atlanta, Ga., March 10.—The rebel presses of the State are jubilant over the passage of Bingham’s amendment iu the House. “ The Macon Telegraph, rabid Ku Klux, says: ‘Reconstruction, like the apples of Sodom, has turned to ashes, and next Fall we shall elect a Legislature which shall re dress the injustice and misery which may be inflicted upon us.’ ” . That Brother Clisby should be classified as “ rabid Ku Klux ” passes all comprehen sion. Even the New Era spared him that reproach. Ku Klux.—The Philadelphia Press has this squib: “General Breckinridge forgets he is a Democrat. He denounces the Ku Klux Klan.” Ah, but he saluted the “old flag” in Minnesota, and prohibits the Judge from addressing him as “ General ” in the Ken tucky conrts. Is not Mr. Breckinridge denouncing what does not exist ? Cadetship.—lt is said that Beast But ler’s negro appointment to West Point, Charles Sumner Wilson, can not pass the preliminary examination. Let the Beast go to work and And a darkey named Butler competent to pass, and let this ex ample encourage the carpet-baggers to send black boys to West Point and Annapolis instead of selling out to the white sons of rich Yankees. Atlanta. —Our friend of the Constitution rates us right merrily for poking fun at Atlanta and crowing over the superior beauty of Augusta ladies. The Intelligencer grows wrathful and sublime. We did not know the spot we touched was so very raw. But, gents, Augusta still beats you on the point of female loveliness, and now “ what are you going to do abont it ?” Muck.—To “ run a muck” we are advised by the lexicographers, is “ to run madly about attacking all one meets,” and muck itself is rather a nasty word, signifying something vile, as well as filthy. [Atlanta, Intelligencer. Oueof its meanings is money—filthy lucre. We dare say there is a good deal of the “ running a muck” at Atlanta when the Legislature is in session. —i « A Whopper.—Three negroes in the Georgia “Senate”—one of them an ex-mem ber of Sing-Sing jail—and sixteen of the same sort in the “House of Representa tives” declare that they represent 90,000 voters in this State. Did Mr. Benjamin Conley cook up that bit of humbug ? Pleasant.—The Missouri Republican says “it is pleasant to notice Butler “ standing forward in defense of Bullock, “ and announcing that he shall vote “ against any amendment tending to im “ pede Bullook’B advance upon the Geor “ gia Treasury.” The West.—Farmers out West are re ported very hard up in consequence of the decline in breadstuff's as well as gold. And while the Western farmer grumbles at tight times, his Eastern creditor punches him for a settlement of “ that little bill.” The Funding Bill. TEXT ok SHERMAN’S HILL AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE AND PASSED LAST NIGHT. Washington, March 11.—The following is the funding bill as passed by the Senate: That, for the purpose of funding the debt of the United States and reducing the in terest thureou, the Secretary of the Treas ury be, nnd he is hereby, authorized, to issue on the credit of the United States coupons or registered bonds of such de nominations not less than SSO as he may think proper, to an amount not exceeding $400,000,000, redeemable in coin at the pleasure of the Government of the United States at any time after ten years,"and pay able in coin in forty years from date, and bearing interest at the rate of 5 per centum per annum, payable semi-annually, in coin; and the bonds thus authorized may be dis posed of at the discretion Os the Secretary, under such regulations as he shall pre scribe, either in the United States or else where, at not less than their par value, for coin, or they may be exchanged for any of the outstanding bonds of an • equal aggre gate par value heretofore issued and kuown as the five-twenty bonds, and foii no other purpose; and the proceeds of so much thereof as may be disposed of for coin shall be placed in the Treasury, to be used for the redemption of such 6 per centum Bunds, at par, as may not be offered in exchange, or to replace such amount of coin as may have beeu used for that purpose. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted , That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue, on the credit of the United States, coupon or registered bonds to the amount of fonr hundred mil lions of dollars, of snch denominations, not less than fifty dollars, as he may think proper, redeemable in coin at the pleasure of the Government of the United States at any time after fifteen years, and payable in coiu at forty years from date, and bearing interest not exceeding four and one-half per centum per annum, payable semi-annu ally, and the bonds authorized by this sec tion may be disposed of under such regula tions as"the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, in the United States or else where, at uot less tliau pur for coin; or they may be exchanged at par for any of the outstanding obligations of the United States bearing a higher rate of Interest lu coin, and the proceeds of such bonds as may be sold for coin shall be deposited lu tho Treasury, to be used for the redemption of such obligations bearing interest in coiu an by the terms of issue arc or may become redeemable or payable, or to replace such coin as may have lieen used for that pur pOttt*. Sec. U. And be it farther unvoted, That the Secretary ot the Treasury lie, and he is hereby, authorized to Issue, ou the credit of the United R fates, from time to time, rou |iun or registered bond* of such denomina tions, uot lees tltau fifty dollars, as Iw may think proper, to tha amount of I4UUJNJU,- 000, redeemable In coin at the pleasure of the Government at auy time after twenty years, aud parable lu coiu at forty years imm ilate, aud beariug tulercst at 4b* rate of Mr per centum per annum, payable seinl annually In coin i aud eudi bonds may he disposed of either in the Lulled Stall** or else where, at uot less than their par value for coin, or, at the diecrethm of the Secretary, for United States notes, or may be exchanged at not less than par Sw any of the obligations of the United States out standing at the date of the issue of such bonds, and if in the opinion of the Secre tary of the Treasury it is thought advisa ble to issue a larger amount of four per cent, bonds for any of the purposes herein, or hereinafter recited, than would be other wise authorized by this section of the act, such further issues are hereby authorized, Provided, that there shall be no increase in the aggregate debt of the United States in consequence of any issues authorized by this act. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the bonds, and the annual income thereon, au thorized by this act, shall be exempt from all taxation by or under national, State, municipal, and local authority. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted,, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint such agents in the United States and in Europe as he may deem necessary to aid in the negotiation of said bonds, and he may advertise the loan herein authorized and the conditions there of in such newspapers and journals in this country and in Europe as he may select for that purpose, and a sum not exceeding one half of one per centum for the bonds herein authorized is hereby appropriated to pay the expense of preparing, issuing and dis posing of the same. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That ini order to carry into execution the provisions of the sth section of the act entitled “An act to authorize the issue of United States notes, and for the redemption of funding thereof, and for funding the floating debt of the United States,” approved February 25,1862, relating to the sinking fond, there is hereby appropriated out of the duties de rived from imported goods the sum of $150,000,000 annually, which sum during each fiscal year, shall be applied to the pay ment of the interest and to the reduction of tiie principal of the public debt; and the United States bonds now held as the sink ing fund, and the United States bonds now held in the Treasury shall be cancelled and destroyed, a detailed record thereof being first made in the books of the Treasury De partment. And the bonds hereafter pur chased under this section shall in like man ner be cancelled and destroyed, and a fnll and detailed account of the application of the money herein appropriated shall be made by the Secretary of the Treasury to Congress with his annual report, and the aggregate amount of tiie bonds cancelled and destroyed shall be stated iu the month ly statement of the public debt. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That on and after the first day of October, 1870, registered bonds of any denomination not less than one thousand dollars, issued un der the provisions of this act, and no others, shall be deposited with the Treasurer of the United Stated as security for the notes issued to the National Banking Associa tions for circulation under an act entitled “ An act to provide a national currency secured by a pledge of the United States bonds, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof,” approved June 3, 1864, and all the National Banking Asso ciations, organized under said act, or any amendment thereof, the bonds of which are then redeemable, by their terms, and as they shall hereafter become redeemable, are hereby authorized to deposit bonds is sued under this act as security for their circulation notes within one year from the date of the passage of this act; in default of which their right to issue notes for cir culation shall be forfeited, and the Treasu rer and the Comptroller of the Currency shall be authorized and required to take such measures as may be necessary to call in and destroy their outstanding circula tion, and to return the bonds held as secu rity therefor to the associations by which they were deposited, in sums of than $1,000; Provided, That any sisen as sociation now in existence may, upon giv ing thirty days’ notice to the Comptroller of the Currency, by resolution of the Board of Directors, deposit legal tender notes with the Treasurer of the United States to the amount of its outstanding circulation and take up the bonds pledged for its re demption ; and, Provided further, That not more than one-third of the bonds deposited by any bank as such security shall be of either of the classes of bonds hereby au thorized, on which the maximum rate of interest is fixed at four and a half or five per centum per annum. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the amonnt of circulating notes which any bank may receive from the Comptroller of the Currency, under the provisions of sec tion 21. of said act, may equal but not ex ceed 80 per centum of the par value of the bonds deposited, but shall not exceed in the aggregate the amount to which such bank may be entitled under said section. Sec. 9. And be it further enacted. That any banking association organized, or to be organized, under the National Currency act, and the acts amendatory thereof, may, upon depositing with the Treasurer United States notes to any amount not less than $50,000, receive # an equal amount of registered bonds oi the United States of the kind and description provided for by section 3of this act, and may deposit the same as the security for circulation notes; and thereupon such banking association shall be entitled to and shall receive circu lating notes upon terms and conditions, and to the extent provided in the said National Currency acts, and without re spect . to the limitation of the aggregate circulation of national currency prescribed by said acts; provided, however, that as circulating notes are issued under this sec tion, an equal amount of United States notes shall be cancelled and destroyed. The Workingmen and Democracy.— The workingmen are now being driven from the ranks of the Democracy by the manage ment of the bondholders, at the head of whom is August Belmont, and unless such obstacles are speedily removed by the forces which are capable to accomplish such re moval, the Democracy will die the death of a suicide. The workingmen turn to the Republi cans, and they see nothing but oppression and class legislation ; they turn to the as sumed leaders of the Democracy, and they find only encouragement given to Republi cans anil bondholders. In this emergency there is no alternative but to organize among themselves, aud the recent vote in Now Hampshire not only proves them to be formidable in numbers, bnt almost ex clusively drawn from the Democratic party. When will the Democracy awaken to the importance of tills matter? When will It dare to reassert Itself, and tear the party organization from the clutches of the cor morants, and make It again the defender aud protector of the people V [Nets York Biepateh. The lion. John W. Leflwlcb, of Touuea see, died at Lyuchburg, Va„ ou Bunday night, tiili Inst, lie was elected to Con gress lu the Memphis District in Novuiu l*er, IU4JM, hut Urownlow, who was then Governor of the male, gave the yurUfloaU' to W, J, multh, who meanly iu'cupUml It and took the seat lu Congre** to which be had uot been elected. Dr, keflwlcb started to Washington several weeks sgo to con tu«l |h« right of fimiih to hold Hie seat, but he wa« stricken down with disease at Lyitebburg, and never reooveyed, iim m ■ n— mm —H — King Crtion the Savior of the Motion. Last years’ cotton crop is estimated by intelligent and careful statisticians to be three million bales. At twenty-live .cents per pound, it is equal to a crop of six mil lion bales before the war. Its entire value, allowing four hundred and sixty pounds to the bale, is $345,000,000. All this is hard cash, earned by the single product of a single section in a single season. On such a basis, with even a fair series of good seasons, that section would outstrip every other in the rapid accumulation of wealth. Os these 3,000,000 bales, it is allowed that 2,100,000 are for export, yielding the sum of $241,500,000 in gold. Half of this has been shipped abroad between the last of Septem ber and the last of Februa*y, leaving the other half, which is equal in money to over $121,000,000, to be exported between this and September. That is to say, cotton will supply us in our foreign trade, for the next six months, that amount of coin wilt which to regulate our balance. It is considered preferable to coin, because it is a leading staple of the world’s commerce. touch bottom again, in matters of trade and finance, as soon as we come to a full crop of cotton. That has twice proved itsdf our commercial support and savior. In telligent merchants and the more compre hensive minds among our public men so understand it. Stange as it appears to dis passionate eyes, the Congress that has been doing its best to cripple, confuse and ob struct all healthy financial operations, by its jargon of phrases, its medley of schemes, and its plots of personal and partisan profit, is the very same Congress that has been revengefully bent on keeping the cotton producing States in a condition of servile degradation, on repressing every attempt of their property-holding citizens to es tablish order and a well-regulated industrial system, and on driving away capital from their valuable fields by destroying the growth of confidence and trust. The object was nothing less than the absolute degradation of the people that give those Stales all the character and importance which they ever en joyed. Mr. Sumner publicly announced that thirty years, the term of a generation, was none too long to keep them suppliants, dependants and servants outside the Union. His statesmanship must have borrowed the eyes of the mole when it inspired such an anathema on an entire section of the country. It did not reckon on the vast productive capacity of their favored soil and climate, and the great staple which they alone can supply for the resuscitation of our commerce. It forgot to allow for those pressing necessities in the national finances, for whose instant alleviation we should be com pelled to turn to the South as we had done before. s Wno Is Wm. L. Avery?—The Savan nah Republican gives the following insight to the character of .the graceless man Avery, who recently telegraphed vile mis representations to “ two Senators,” at Washington, concerning Georgia affairs The wicked, lying dispatcli of this Radi cal creature, dated from this city and ad dressed to Senators at Washington, evi dently with the view of influencing the vote on the Georgia bill and thus playing into the hands of Bullock, affords a sample of the requital received by the Southern people from some of those who have been received and treated as gentlemen. Every honest man here knows that, so far as this city and section of the State is concerned, the statements of Avery are the basest fabrications and falsehoods. Never was our community more quiet and free from all political excitement and disorder of every kind. The Government officers here will testify to the truth of what we say, and we do not consider it worth our while to waste words on the subject. And who is this man Avery, who thus moves among ns quietly enjoying the pro tection of our laws and under the cover of the telegraph maligns and slanders them V He is a New Yorker, and the attorney and lobbyist of the Brunswick and Albany Rail road. We learn he resides in Atlanta, at least he has opened an office there, we sup pose, to be convenient to Bullock’s Legisla ture, from whom he and others procured last year by arts known to themselves, a State endorsement of bonds to the amount of many millions. Conant, the party allud ed to in the dispatch, is a Northern con tractor on the same road, and instead of “ spending millions” for the construction of railroads in Georgia, it is reported that the hands on the road have struck because they were not paid. Avery arrived in this city Friday last, and if he has been treated with the slightest disrespect, we have yet to hear of it. So far as this community is concerned, we have no hesitation in characterizing his statements as wilfully and maliciously false. “ What are you going to do about it ?” is very often a pert expression of the Tri bune, to show its contempt for public justice and private rights. One Connecticut Re publican becomingly answers the Tribune's query as follows: “ But in view of the fact that we are to have negro suffrage forced upon us, by such means as we have seen used in Georgia and some other States, I for one say to the Tribune's taunt, I mean to vote this Spring , and if I am not mistaken, my vote shall be against those who have done this job." A Republican. Hartford, March 8,1870. Ku Klux.— The public has longed to know the meaning of this portentous word. Here follows a definition worthy of Dr. Johnson. It is taken from the minority re port of D. Javan Bryant, Democratic mem ber of the grand Investigation Committee, on the outrages in the Third Congressional District of this State: Ru Kluxes are but the allotropic con ditions of the witches of New England, whose larvae having long lain dormant until transported South in the carpet-bags of pious political priests (Whittemore et al.) germinated in the credulous minds of their proselytes, and loomed into “gorgeous hydras and chlmerasdire!” . * [ Charleston Courier. Head Jloney.— The New York Legtsla lature has under consideration a bill re ducing the commutation or head money upon emigrants entering Now York from $2 50 to f 1 50 a passenger. The commis sioners of emigration, it is asserted, have, during the last eight years, accumulated a fund of $8,000,000, besides paying all de mands upon them. The bead money is In tended to guarantee the city and State of New York against the able-bodied emi grants becoming a burden on the public. Nkuiui Ku Ki.uk.—' The Jacksonville (Ala.) Jls/iuiJlenn auuouueu* that a party nf mm lu Ku Klua disguise, who bad severely lieateit a negro mau near Alexan dria* Calhoun tounty,and outraged tile wile, wars caught dm lag the eoiumlaston of the crime and stripped of their paraphernalia, slid lo aud heboid, they were live uegroe*
