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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST
THE N©K'l'Hern bugaboos.
Oysters, terrapin and soused pigs feet are
Very succulent and very delicious at proper
seasons. Discussed {rastronomically, in the
region of midnight,” when churchyards yawn
and graves give up their dead,*’ the auspic
iousness of such “internal improvements” is
at best questionable. The reckless men who
thus indulge cannot complain if n ghtmare,
incubus, terrors tremendous and fantastical,
assail their thorny pillows. When to the
perniciousness of such edibles is added a rancid
conscience, verily aud indeed we commiserate
the nocturnal horrors of bad men intent on
evil. In such a catalogue we have to include
Benjamin Wade, the fangless but snappish
Senator from Ohio. Ben recently partook of
a late supper ol the above description and
had a dream. Like Byron, in his poem of
•‘Darkness " he insists that it was not all a
dream. Everybody, professing sanity and
knowing the baleful effect of soused pig’s
feet on an elderly digestive apparatus, laughs
at Mr. Wade’s apparition, but the venerable i
mastiff Btieks to his story and will not be
denied. The Abolition and Jacobinical jour
nals and their satellites chime in with the
crooning of Senator Ben and smell four and
twenty elephatine mice. It will be seen from
extracts in the news column of this paper
that “men in gray” have been circumambu
lating, brigand like, the room of Senator
"Wade and under the walls of Fortress Mon
roe. Senator Sumner comes in for a share
of the nightmaie and there is the deuce to
pay np North. For onr part, we believe Mr.
Wade's attempted . assassination by a big
Rebel, Mr Davis’ attempted escape by the
aid of several bfg Kebels and Mr. Sumner’s
admonition by another big Rebel, nothing in
the world but sensational fol-de-rol, power
folly assisted by a diabolical habit of eating
souse at roysteiing hours. Ah, the sworS of
Damocles is no fable ; it still hangs by a single
hair above the heads of wicked individuals.
It is the falchion of Banquo —it is the Blade
or Conscience.
THE “OLD GUARD.”
The above is the title of a Democratic Mag
azine published in New York city and edited
by that sterling and fearless patriot and au
thor Chauncey Barr. The grand and mighty
effort of this Monthly is to so educate and
inform the people as to bring the Federation
back to those majestic principles which pene
trated the souls of our fathers in the early
days of the Republic. Gloomy as this task
may seem, it is not desperate ; and, even
though it be desperate, how admirable is the
courage that makes the attempt, how sublime
the cause in which it is enlisted. We are in
a wrong rut of civilization and oppressed with
false doctrines. All this must be revolution
ised by the moral forces of intellectual en
lightenment. This is what the Old Guard
seeks to accomplish, and right gloriously does
it leap into the breach. We thrill to see such
gallantry and wish it God speed. We may
state that it is the only honest champion of
the kind we have, and we of tha South will
be craven and blind if we fail to come to the i
rescue by a liberal support. It has been con- j
aiderably enlarged and numbers among its
contributors some of the most, powerful wri
ters in this country. A tone of vigor and
scholarship pervades it and, all in all, we do
not hesitate to declare that it is the most read
able and thoughtful magazine published in
this land. Shame on the man that returns
to Harper’s vomit, neglecting the living spring
of the brave “ Old Guard.”
THE GOVERNOR’S MESSAGE.
We have carefully perused the able and
judicious Message of His Excellency, the Gov
ernor of Georgia. At the present juncture,
it is the most important State paper ever
promulgated by any Chief Magistrate of our
Commonwealth and should be attentively
read by all: It is clear in exposition and
broad in policy, of a serene styje and temper
ate logic. At an early day, we propose to
discuss some o f its more eonsequei tial points
especially tuoss relating to Finance and Edu
cation.
Meeting of ihe Southern Press Asso
ciation
By authority of the Gonslitut on of th" South
ern Press Association, iind at the request of st-v< r
at of the members thereof, I hereby convene a
meeting of said Association, to be held at Mon -
g >mt?ry, Ala., nu Wednesday, February 14'h
1866, to receive the rettorts of ihe officers, consul
er tlie measures already taken and proper to h<
taken, to advance the business interests of the
Press, and to make the annual election of officers
required by the Constitution.
Proprietors of Newspapers published in in
states of Virginia, North Carolina. South Caro
lina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana, who may not have been members «>f
the Association, are cordially invited to attend
Proprietors < f newspapers in Louisiana, Musi -
sippi and Tennessee, where an organizaiion of tl e
Press has been recently formed for service in a
part of the territory formerly within the field of
this Association, are also invited to be present,
thtre being nothing in its character, aims or pur
poses to conflict with their Interests and views
A fail attendance is requested, as subjects of
great interest to the members, and plans of im
portance to tHfe future independence and pro-peri
ty of the Southern Press, will be presented lor
consideration.
W. G. Clark,
President of Southern Press Association.
THIS PRESS ASBOCIATON.
The Mobile Advertiser publishes the above at d
makes the following remarks :
“ We publish a cell this morning convening *ue
Pre=s Association at Montgomery on the lilt
February, proximo. It was impossible to hold
thbiueeting at the regular time prescribed by th e
constitution, and the difficulties of communica
tion between different, parts cf the South have
hitherto prevented the issuing of the call. It is
believed now. however, that a large portion o 1
the territory embraced within the limits of ti e
Association can be represented at Montgom< ty
at the time appointed, and the importance of the
subjects pressing for consideration and the <s
pressed desire of several members for anea'ly
meeting rendered further delay impracticable
“ Wo are happy to be able to state than Got J
8. Thrasher, for so long a period the efficients' d
energetic Superintendent of the Association. 1 as
promised to attend the meeting. He hat lately
passed over the territoty of the Association, s en
aud conversed with many of its members, and has
obtained a great deal of valuable iuformati
which will be laid before the meeting at Montgol
mery.
“ Col. Keating, of the Memphis Commercial,
President of the Southwestern Press Association,
lately organized at Memphis, has also signified
bis intention to be present.
“ The business interest of the Southern Pr ss
demand immediate and concentrated action on
their part, to enable them to maintain a position
of healthful independence. At all events mutual
consultation and interchange of views on matt' rs
of common concern cannot be otherwise than
beneficial. We trust, therefore, that all newspa
pers in the States named in the call will berei
resented in the meeting at Montgomery, either by
their editors and proprietors in person, or by
proxy; but as many of the journals are too remote
from the place of meeting to be represented
otherwise than by proxy, and are yet measurably
cut off from it by the interruption still existiug
in railway communication to the northeast, it is
highly important that the journals of South Caro
lina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and N> w
Orleans, should send personal representatives to
the Convention. We trust, at least, that no mem
ber of the Association in the States mentioned
will be absent on that occasion. We hope ou j
brothers of tbe Press wi'l respond promptly and 1
favorably to the call, and that we may bave a
convention worthy of oar past reputation, of the
interests involved, and of the Southern Press.".
Municipal Election —The so lowing gen
tlemen Were elected town officers on Saturday
lost:
Intendaut—E. P. Lumpkin, Esq.
Clerk —Capt. Wm. H. Dorsey.
Marshal —Robert Moore.
Deputy—Wm. Shirley.-
Wardens—lst Ward: Lamar Cobb, Wm F.
Matthews. 2d Ward : Jas. D. Pittard, Boss
Crane. 3d Ward: Jas, A. Sledge, Wm. S.
Hemphill.
In the first ward there was a tie between
Dr. Wm. King and Henry Beusse.—Athens
Banner, Jan, 17tb.
From the Now York Herald, 13th. i
The Mexican Question—Correspond- 1
ence in Full.
Washington, Jan. 12, 1866. j
Several days ago a brief notice was tele
graphed of. the correspondence transmitted to
the Mouse of Representatives, in reply to a
resolution requesting information in regard to
stops taken by the so-called Emperor of Maxis
co, or by auy European power, to obtain from
the United States a recognition of the soscalled
empire of Mexico, and what action had been
taken in the premises by the government of tbe
United Btac-s. Tbe following is the corres
pondence in full:
MR. BRWARD TO MR BIGELOW
Department or State, )
Washington, Nov. k 6, 1865 f
M y DEAft Sir : I will proceed to discuss the
subject, and leave you to present the opiuions
of the President to such extent and in such
manner as your own views of propriety shall
suggest.
The President feels himself bound to adhere
to the opinion set forth in my dispatch. No.
259, which has, we understand, been already
read by Mr. Druyn de Lhuys.
The presence and operations of a French army
in Mexico, and its maintenance of an authority
tin re resting upon force and not tbe free will of
the people of Mexico, is a cause of serious con
cern to the United States. Neverthelers, the
objection of tbe United States is still broader,
snd includes the authority itself which the
French army is thus maintaining. That au-.
th> rity ia in direct antagonism to the policy of
this government and the principles upon which
it ia founded. Every day’s experience of its
operations only adds some new confirmation of
the justice of the views which this government
expressed at the time the attempt to institute
that authority fli at became knnwn. The United
States have hitherto practised the utmost frank
ness upon that subject. They still regard
th« effort to establish permanently a foreign
and imperial government in Mexico as disallow
ah'e and impracticable for these reasons. They
could not now agree to corn promise the posi
tion they hnve heretofore assumed. They are
n .,t prepared to recognize, or to pledge them
e. 'ves hereafter to receguize, any political in
siilutions in Mexico which are in opposition to
ihe republican government with which we have
s ' lone and bo constantly maintained relations
of amity and friendship.
I need hardly repeat my past assurances of
our sincere desire to preserve our inherited re
hitions of friendship with Franco. This desire
t really increases our regret that no communi
cations, formal or informal, which have been ■
'oceived from the government of that, country
seem to justify us in expecting that France is
nkely soon to be ready to remove, 4s far as may i
depend upon her, the cause of our deep concern
for the harmony of th i two nations.
The suggestion which you make of a wil«
lingness on the part of France t® propose a re*
vision of the commercial relations between the ;
two countries is not regarded as having etnas
noted from the government of the empire.
However that may be, it is hardly necessary to
say that we should not be dwelling earnestly
upon this branch of political relations if it had
not been our conviction that these relations at
the present moment supersede those of c im*
merce in the consideration of the American peos
pie. Believe me to be always faithfully yours,
William H. Seward.
To John Bigelow, Esq., Ac., Ac., Ac.
MR. BIGBLOW TO MR. SEWARD.
[Ex'ract.J
Leoation op the United States, I
Paris, Nov. 30, 1865. \
Sir: Upon reflection I concluded that I
should be likely to leave more correct impress
dons and perhaps exclude some erroneous ones
from the mind of Monsieur Druyn de Lhuys by
reading your dispatch (No 300) to him than by
leaving him after our interview on Thursday
week to imagine its contents I accordingly
called upon hjs Excellency on Tuesday last,
and after disposing of some other matters of
less importance, told him frankly that J wished
to read to him the dispatch, to the contents of
i which I had referred at our last review, to
prevent his supposing it contained anything
which I had thought proper or had been in
structed to conceal from him. » * o
When I had finished he thanked me for read
ing the dispatch, though 110 felt obliged to say
that he derived neither pleasure nor satisfac
tion from its contents.
o*o*o
John Bigelow.
MR. SEWARD TO MR. BIGELOW.
Department of State, )
Washington, Dec. IG, 1866 1
Sir : Your dispatch of November 30, No
209, was duly received, and it has been sub- I
milted to the President.
Your proceeding in reading my dispatch, No
300, to M. Druyn de Lhuys ia approved. The
general tenor of the remarks made by you to
the Minister of Foreign Affairs on that occasion
is likewise approved. It is not the Executive
Department of this government alone which is
interested and concerned in the question
whether the present condition of affairs shall
be continued in Mexico. The interest is a na
tional one, and in every event the Congress
which is now in session is authorized by the
Constitution, and is entitled to direct by law,
the action of the United States in regard to thai
important subject. It has been the President’s
purpose that France should be respectfully in
formed upon two points, namely:
First—That the United States earnestly de
sire to continue aud cultivate sincere friendship
with France.
Second —That tins policy would be brougt f
into imminent jeopardy unless Franco could
deem it consistent with her interests and honor
to desist from the prosecution of armed inter
vention in Mexico to overthrow the domestic
republican government existing there, aud to
establish upon its ruins the foreign monarchy
which has been attempted to be inaugurated
in the capital of that country.
In answer to an exposition of our views
which was thus made tha suggestion was of
sered to you by M. Druyn de Lhuys that the
government of the United States might favor
the express desire of the Emperor to withdraw
from Mexico by giving him some formal assu
i ranee that in the event of his withdrawal this
i government would recognize the institution of
1 Maximilian in Mexico as de facto*, political
1 power. It was my desire, in framing the dis
' patch No. 300, to express in behalf of the Uni
C ted States a decision that the recognition
which the Emperor bad thu9 suggested cannot
be made, and to assign, byway of explana
narion, the grounds upon which that decision
was based, I have carefully considered the ar
guments against that decision which werepre
sented to you oy M. Druyn de Lhuys in the
interview referred to; and I do not find in
them any sufficient reasons for modifying the
I views which the United States have expressed
It remains now only to make known to M.
Druyn de Lhuys my profound regret that he
J has thought jt his duty to leave the subject in
' his conversation with you in a condition that
1 does not authorize an expectation on our part
. that a satisfactory adjustment of the ease can
1 be effected on any basis that thus far has been
, discovered. William H. Seward.
John Bigelow, Esq., tc.
the marquis de montholon to MB. SEWARD
Washington, Nov. 29, 1865
Mt Dear Sir: Conforming to the desire you
expressed to me, I send you herewith a copy
and translation of M. Druyn de Lhuvs’ dis
patch, the contents of which I have had the
honor to read to you.
With the highest regard, I remain, my dear
sir, respectfully, yours,
Montholon
Hon. W. H. Sewarl, Secretary of State, &?.
MONSIEUR DRUYN DE LHUYS TO THE MARQUIS PE
MONTHOLOM (CONFIDENTIAL )
Ministre DBS Affaires Estranoers (
Paris, Oct. 18, 1865. )
Monster le Marquis : I have taken Severn)
occasions in the past two months to advise yon
of the dispositions of the .imperial government
concerning tbe duration of the occupation of
Mexico by the French troops. I told you, in
my dispatch of August 17, that we called with
our most sincere wishes for the day when the
last French soldier should leave the country,
and that the Cabinet of Washington could con
tribute *o hasten that moment. Oa the 2d of
September I renewed to you the assurance of
our strong desire to withdraw our auxiliary
corps so soon as circumstances should allow it
At last, following the same ideas more fully, in
a private letter of tbe 10th of the same monh,
I added that it greatly depended upon the
United States to facilitate the departure of our
troops. If they would adopt toward the Mexi
can government an amicable attitude which
would aid to the consolidation of order, and in
which we could find motives of security for i he
interests which obliged us to carry arms beyoud
tbe Atlantic, we would be ready to adopt wiih.
out delay tbe bases of an understanding on this
subject with the Cabinet of Washington ; and
I wish to make fully known to you now.iiie
views of tbe government of his Majesty.
What we ask of the United States is to be
I assured that their intention is not to impede
the consolidation of the new order of things
founded in Mexico ; and th£ best guarantee we
could receive of their intention would be the
recognition of the Emperor Maximilian by the ;
federal government.
Tbe American Union should not, it seems to
us, be kept back by the difference of institu
tions, for the United States have official inter
course with all tbe monarchies of Europe aud
of the New World. It is in conformity with
their own principles of public law to regard
the monarchy established in Mexico as being at
least a government dt facto, without particular
regard to its nature or its origin, which hail
been consecrated by the suffrage of the people
of that country ; and in thus acting the Cabi
net of Washington would only be inspired with
the same feelings of sympathy which President
Johnson expressed Jrecently to tbe Envoy of
Brasil as guiding) tbe policy of the United
States toward die youuger Sia'ef o r the Ameri
can continent.
Mexico, it is true, 13 still occupied at this
moment by the French army, aud we cau readi
ly see that this objection will aris». But tbe
acknowledgment of tbe Emperor Maximilian
by the United Stetts would, in our opinion,
have sufficient influence upon the state of the
country to allow us to take in consideration
their susceptibilities 00 this subject ; *nd should
the Cabinet at Washington decide to open di
plomatic relations with the Court of Mexico we
would see no difficulty in entering into an ar
rangement for tbe recall of our troops within a
reasonable period, of which we would (might)
consent to fix the termination.
In cousequenee of the vicinage and immense
extent of the common frontier, the United
States »re, more than any other Power, inter
ested to see their trade with Mexico placed un
der the safeguard of stipulations in harmony
with the mutual wants of both countries. We
would most readily offer our good offices to far
cilitate the conclusion of a commercial treaty,
thereby cementing the political “reapproche
mtnt," the basiß of which I have just made
known to you.
By order of the Emperor, I invite you to
make known to Mr. Seward the disposition of
his Majesty’s government. You are authorized,
if you think proper, to read him the contents of
this dispatch. I remain,
Druyn De Lhuys.
Tiie Marquis De Montholon, Ac., &c.
MR SEWARD TO THE MARQUIS DE MONTHOLON.
Department of State. )
Washincton, Dee. C, 1865. (
Sir: Having made known td the President
the Emperor’s views on Mexican affairs, which
you communicated to roe on the 291 h ultimo, I
have now the honor to inform you of the dis
position of this government in regard to the
same subject. It seems proper, however, for
mo to say, in the first place, that wbat, I have
to communicate has been already fully made
known to Mr. Bigelow, wi'h authority, in his
discretion, to impart the same to M- Drnyn de
L'-uys.
The effect of the Emperor’s suggestions, when
they ore reduced to a practical shape seems to
be this : that France is willing to retire from
Mexico as soon as she may, but that it would
be inconvenient for her without first receiving
fi an tbe United States an assurance of a friend
ly or tolerant disposition to the P wer which
has assumed to itself an imperial form in the
capital city of Mexico. The President is grati
' fi -d with the assurance you have thus given of
| tho Emperor’s good disposition. I regret, how
| ever, to be obliged to say that the condition
1 the Emperor suggests is one which seems
j q-iite impracticable.
! It is true, indeed, that the presence of for
i riirn armies in au adjacent country could not,
1 under any circumstances, but cause uneasiness
and anxiety on the part of this government.—
I It creates for us expenses which are inconv.-
j nient, not to speak of dangers of collision. —
I Nevertheless, I cannot but infer from th® tenor
! of your communication that the principal cause
: of the discontent prevailing in the United
i Siates in regard to Mexico is not fully appre
-1 bended by the Emperor’s government. The
chief cause is not that thero is a foreign army
| iri Mexico; much Jess does that discontent
' arise from the circumstances that that foreign
army is a PVench one. We recognize the right
j of sovereign nations to carry on war with each
| other if they do not invade opr right or menace
j our safety or just influence. The real cause of
our national discontent is, that the French ar
my, which is now in Mexico, is invading a do
mestic republican government there which was
I established by her people, and with whom the
United States sympathize most profoundly, for
I the avowed purpose of suppressing it and es
tablishing upon i s ruins a foreign monarchist
government, whose presence there, so long as,it
; should endure, could not but be regarded by the
! people of the United States as injurious and
menacing to their own chosen and endeared
republican institutions.
I admit that theJUm'ted States do not feel
themselves called upon to make a war of pro
pagatidism throughout the world, or iven on j
| Ihis continent, ip the republicm cause. We
have sufficient faith in the eventual success of
that cause on this continent, through the opera
tion of existing material and moral causes, to
induce us to acquiesce in the condition of things
which we found existing here, while our own
republic was receiving its shape aud develop*
ment. On the pther hand, we have constantly
maintained, and still feel bound to ujaintain,
that the people of every State on Ihe American j
continent have a right to secure for themselves ,
' a republican government if they pboose, and !
I that interference by foreign States to prevent I
the enjoyment of such institution deliberately ,
established is wrongful, and in its effects an- j
I tagonistical to the free and popular form of j
i government existing in the United States. We j
should think it wrong, as well as unwise, on the j
part of the United States, to attempt to sub- j
vert by force monarchical governments iD Eu- j
rope for the purpose of replacing them with
republican institutions. It seems to us equally |
objectionable that European States should forci- i
hly intervene in States situated on this Conti- I
nent to ovei throw republican institutions and ]
replace them with monarchies or empires.
Having thus frankly stated our position, t I
■ leave the question for the consideration of
France, sincerely hoping that that great nation
■ may find it compatible with its best interests ;
! i and its high honor to withdraw from its ag-:
5 I gressive altitude in Mexico, within some con
venient and reasonable time, and thus leave
the people of that, country to the free enjoy- |
ment of ihe system of republican government j
> which they have established for themselves,
and of their adherence to which they have
r given what seems to the United States to be
* I decisive and conclusive as well as very touch
ing proof's. I am, sir, the more inclined to hope
for such a solution of the difficulty for the rea
son that when, at any time within the last four
i | years, the question has been asked of any Ame
| rican statesman, or even of any American oiti
' zen, what country in Europe was the one
which was the least likely to experience an
* alienation of the friendship of the United States,
answer was promptly given. France. Friend
-1 ship with France has always been deemed im
portant and peculiarly agreeable by the Ameri
can people. Every American citizen deems it
' no less important and desirable for the future
j. than for the past.
The President will be pleased to be informed
of the reception which tbo Emperor gives to
the suggestions which I have now made.
Accept, sir, the renewed assurances of my
| very high consideration.
William H. Seward.
Cotton Products or the World. —The follow
ing table representing the receipts of cotton at
Liverpool daring the years 1864 and 1866, has
been carefully made np from the moat authentic
estimates and circulars. It presents an instruct
ive exhibit of the progress of cotton culture in
; h.reign countries, and of the effects which have
i been produced iiy thalate war in this department
' of industry and enterprise. —N. 0. Picayune.
! Receipts of Cotton at Liverpool from Ist Janua
ry, 1865, to the 15 th December, 1865.
I * 1865. 1864. '
Rales, Bales.
| From the United Stales 399,399 192,868
1 From South American, mainly
| Brazil 320,607 203,414
| Prom Shut h American, mainly
Pern 68 998 27 059
i From Egypt 316,899 234.440
I From Smyrna and Greece 76,454 56.815
Prom China ard Japan ...125,859 310,790
From Madrid and Bengal 152 537 166,151
From Africa 6 476 1 669
From (Surat) or East 1ndie5....912,163 995,413
From West Indies, Havti, La
gunvra, Demerlira, etc., etc. 34,970 27,874
* 2,413,599 2/203,593
Stock 15th Dec., 1965 348,090
S'ock 15th Dec., 1864 487,220
A Tough Yarn by a Cruiser. — u Our ship,”
said he, “ was for the space of fourteen months
becalmed in mid-ocean. During this time we
had not advanced ten miles nearer the oort of
oar destination. Our provisions were all gone,
and nothing but starvation appeared in pros
pect. for us. We had made up our minds
that it was over with us, and starve we must,
when we encountered a fearful gale of wind.'
It came so suddenly imon us that we hadn’t
time to take in a single sail. The squall stri
king the ship, rolled her clean over, her masts
going down on one side and coming up on
the other, and so quickly did she perform th ; s
revolution, that no one on board was ever
wetted. When she arighted our astonishment
was great at bebol iihg a monstrous dolphin,
violently kicking, transfixed npon tbe foretop
mast, and a hnge swordfish in a similar con
dition, upon the main top mast. Also trans
fixed upon the jib boom, kicking and flopping
like all possessed, was as fine a halibut as you
ever laid eyes on. We now had an abundance
of- provisions, nnd I was all right, saving a
bad cold, which I took during the gale.”
A Neat Device —At Acapulco, a Mexican
coast town, the pretty peasant girls have an
ingenious device for selling necklaces made of
shells, principally on the days when steamers
arrive. Handing you a necklace thev will
say, “ Me give you present, stnor.” and then
retire with a low courtesy. Returning, how
ever, in a few moments, they say, qui>e sweet
ly, “ You give me present, sen or, of quarter
dollar,” which you do at oe»i, unless you
have a heart of stone.
Fire in Norfolk—Six Firemen Injured.—
A fire occurred in Norfolk on Saturday morn
ing, which destroyed several buildings. In the
efforts of the firemen to extinguish tbe flames,
six of them were injured.
William H. Bodges who was at the top of
the ladder, bed his left arm broken ; Nicholas
Chesuut had two of his ribs broken and was
also injured internally, and is in a very critical
condition ; Charles Harmes was badly bruited
and bis bead cut") Isaac Stephenson badly
bruised, and John R. Morrison had his aqkle
sprained and reoeived a gash in his shonlder.
A Dreadful Confession.
A Mrs. Haviland, the companion of a man
named Baker, camo to Detroit, living there
with her five children in a very humble posi-
Lioi:. Three of the children were poisoned, ber-
Hell and her companion arrested, and the fol
lowing is the confession of "this unhappy crea
ture :
1 said to the sheriff I wanted to go and make
a fair confession of the whole matter. I came
to I tattle Creek last soring. I left a druuken
husband, with whorij'T and my children could
have no peace, often driven ont of doors after
dark. As I believed in spiritualism, 1 came
here, hoping that I could have the benefit of the
Lyceum for my children, aud expecting to have
my property to buy me a home for myself and
my children. After comiDg here I found I could
not get it, as I had been o>omised by the law
yers. and had it not been for Mr. Baker’s as
sistance, we should have suffered more tbab
we did.
I got Mr. Baldwin, when I was sick S>ed,
aDd with very little in the bouse to eat, to
apply to the Moral Police Fraternity, for as
sistance; he assisted me some, but they did
not. The reason they gave was because that
we ought to be married, but I did not feel as
though I was obliged to marry a man because
he had treated me kindly. After Lizzie Mer
ritt came to ooard with me she also helped me
a great deal; had hard work to keep my
cbi'dren where they should be—(he little hoys
especially. I had always tried to bring them
up honestly, but as they grew older I saw the
manifestations of their father’s disposition in
them, and I was all (he time worrying if Ihey
were out of my sight, for fear they would go
to stealing; or the father would get the two
little ones.
When I looked forward to the time when
my children should be men and women, I fear
ed for them, that they would have to suffer by
transgressing the laws of the land; and I
thought as I had been the author of their ex
isterce, in a measure, it was better to send
them to the spirit world while they were in*
noeent, and if any one had to suffer, I would
do it instead of them These are the many
reasons which have actuated me for the paßt
five weeks, although I kept thf m locked in my
own bo?o»
The two little ones, John,and Lihby—their
father was a thief and a drunkard, and I feared
that if he took the children from me they would
walk in bis steps; and as I looked to the future,
I saw a worse fate lor my daughter Lihby, if he
had her. If I had received that love and sym
pathy that I ought to have received when I
came a widow aud a stranger in a strange
place, I might have heen different. I walked
the streets many days to sell books to obtain
someihing for my children's comfort, but, with
very lew exceptions; I sold none,
I have no one to blame but myself, and the
trials that surrounded me. Ido not wish those
who have been kind to me to suffer on my ac
count, therefore I make this statement that you
will blame no other. I feel that what I have
done is to be settled between me and my God
and the spirit world. A week ago I came up
to town to get, some sulphur aud cream of tar
tar and arsenic, and mixed it together in molas
ea ; but how many times I gave it to them—
the children now dead—l do no recollect, for,
from tl*t time till after I was called in court,
T knew not half of the time hardly what I was
doiDg.
I could not give a clear statement of what
followed. What I said when I was questioned
the other day is as near right as I can remem
ber, except getting the arsenic. No one in the
house knew tbit arsenic was in it. I don’t
snow as there is anything more. I suppose
that that is all that is necessary to say. I took
care of my children and watched over them
■ i until the last breath. There is nothing more
I that I know of. I make this staiement volun-
tartly.
No ooe knew what T was going to say. The
girls questioned roe, but I did not tell them
If I had never married that drunken husband,
1 should not have been in this trouble. I know
and understand that this statement made by
me could be used in evidence agarnst me. No
person has offered me any inducement if I would
make the statement. No person has threaten
ed me in any manner. When J wao dowp to
Marshall, I had a chance to talk with Daniel
Baker—this was after the examination com
menced, and whilo they were under arrest; but
we did not talk upon that subject. Mr. Baker
has been like a f ther to ino and my children,
and I am very sorry that I have caused him a
moment’s trouble. I make this statement
wholly and entirely voluntarily.
On Saturday night, the 23d inst, the jury
found Mrs. Haviland as principal, and*T!aker
as accessary, to the murder of the children. —
They did this upon the testimony and her con
fession, and without reference to the result of
the analysis at Ann Harbor, which sustains
the eonfession of the woman Haviland.
Northern “ Civilization.”
In that great aud wicked city of New York
are published two papers, Harper’s Weekly and
the National Police Gazette. Harper’s Weekly
takes the civilization of tho South under especial
care; and in its last number, 6,
1866, (always published in &dva%}£ because
ahead ol the truth), gives a large first page cut,
with a woo-begone looking negro man in the
foreground, sitting on a ledge, leaning upon a
stick, his bony fingers clasping it, and hip
sunken eyes directed skyward, pretty much in
the attitude of a negro watching the flight of a
flock of rice birds 1 All this was designed by
the artist, and intended by the Harpers to be
very pathetic and touching. At the nigger’s
feet lies a wagon whip, with the lash worn off,
and beneath his feet, in explanation of the sub
iect. are printed the words—‘ The Last Chat
tel.’’ In the background tlie artist has put up
two ghost like chimneys, and around the bar.
ren pines and the cheerless waste are made to
look as dreary as dreary can be. This is intend
ed as the ferrule over the palm of the South
that will make the blood come !
The rival journal of Northern civilisation,
the Police Gazette for December 30th, (not
printed in advance, because not in advance of
the truth,) emblazons its first page with six
large, black, horrible wood-cuts, depicting as
many murders, attempted murdera, and bur
glaries and attempted burglaries, and licen
tionsness, under the following array of titles,
so caotivating to civilized New York. Here
are the titles of this pic ure-gallery of crime :
“ The Shooting of Smith while struggling
with a Burglar “A Burglar Shooting and
fobbing Frank Smith, at Williamsburg, N
Y.;” “ The Negro Boy Attempting to Murder
Walter W. Broom;” Doctor Clause Slabbing
Charles Carson, at the Carson Shades;” “ W.
H. Russ Shooting Miss Dayton in Brooklyn,
N. Y.;” “ Waverly, the Strong Mansion;”
redolent of incest and adultery.
If this be Northern civilization, then God
deliver our land from it. jl the 11 Poor Chat
tel " depicted as the “last,” were a “chattel”
still, he wouldn’t be sitting on that ledge, the
last of his class, so hungry and woe-begone ;
but he, and several million brethren, would
be sieging in the cotton fields, well-fed, clad
and contented, and not starving and dying of
the “ negro-rot,” in camps and “ contraband
pens.”
If tho Northern philanthropist who said
“ Lo ! the poor negro,” had attended to their
own civilization, and let the South alone to at
.tend to theirs, the wojrld would have been
spared, to day, the horrible illustrations of
crime that fill the second journal of civiliza
tion at the North. Heaven save ns from an
other invasion—even an invasion of Northern
civilization—Richmond Examiner.
A Mormon on the Moral Matrimonial
Situation. —A Mormou, who has arrived in
Chicago tor the purpose of marrying his fifth
wife, writes the following curious note to the
Tribune of that city:
Editor Chicago "Tribune On my visit to
Chicago I noticed an article in the Tribune in
regard to Utah. .That Speaker Colfax express
ed a wish that President YouDg might have a
“revelation prohibiting polygamy” is tomes
matter of some doubt. On the contrary, I have
reason to know that Speaker Colfax eloquently
expressed his gratitude at the domestic
ness of our community. I am a Mormon born
and bred, and the husband of four wivts
and what may seem strange, mv mission here
ia one of love, to transplant a flower from tie
sterile (morally) latitude to bloom aud flourish
in your happy homo. We have do wish to la
admitted iDto your “Union”—nor do we wi»b
at oue fell swoop to be divorced from our wives
and families. It seems to me it would be wise
to let us Mormons aloue, and devote your moral
lectures to a community where a man or woman
can marry and be divorced three times in as
many years, Rospeo.fully,
Abraham Wells
The “ Water all.”— The ladies are fast
discarding the “ waterfall ” mode of dressfo '
the hair, and adopting the new fashion which
consists of coiling the hair behind, in m«cb
the same manner as a snake coils itself in
preparatory to the “ dormant” season. It
requires considerable ingenuity to dress the
hair in this fashion ;a “ puff,”'’three qwrS
of a yard long is used, round which the fa’r
is twisted cable fashion, and then rolled uo
like a huge tall. These coils are alreidv
reaching enormous dimensions, eight inches in
diameter beiDg the average at present
The Late Colonel Rjdgeley Brown —tho
remains of Colonel Ridgely Brown, of the Oon
fedewte army, who was killed in a skirmish
with Sheridan a cavalry, near Ashland Ta ( n
ihe Ist of June,lß64, were brought to bi ß heme
in this county, and interred on Saturday lut
followed by a large concourre of sorrowing
friends and relatives, among them many o7h a
old comrades in arms. Col. Brown left
home for the South on the Ist of June 1 iJi*
joined the army as private, from which he rose
to tie rank of colonel of the Ist Maryland
oavalry, which position he occupied at th»
time of bis death. He was a young man whm»
good qnahtiea had endeared him to all with
whom he came in contact in private life « n( f
who, by his bravery and kindness of heart
won the esteem and admiration of hia army
ascciaieri—RookTiUe (Md.) Sentinel.
COMMERCIAL A JVCIAL
BALTIMORE MARKET.
Baltimore, Jan. ll. — Coffee— Our market
has been very dull the past week, the unstea
diness of gold having caused buyers to with
draw. The sales only amount to 200a300 bags
Rio at 20ia20f cents, gold, for prims. At the
close we quote the range as follows: for com
mon, 17al7$c; fair, 18il8ic; prime, 19Ja20c,
and choice 20Ja20£ cents per pound, gold.
Flour —Receipts are light, and the stock in
the bands of the dealers is regarded as small,
being estimated, of all kinds, at 75 000 bbls.
For export there has been very little inquiry
the past week on account of our river and hor
bor being obstructed by iop, together with the
decline in gold. City Mills shipping brands are
held at sll 75, no sales; choice supers are
steadily maintained at $9. Some few hnndred
barrais Howard street sold at $8 G2s and $8 75;
shipping extra is offered at $9 and $9 25, and
trade brands are quotable from $9 50 upwards,
as to quality. Transactions the past week have
been confined almost exclusively to the wants
of the local trade, and at prices within our
range, viz - ; Howard street super and cut extra,
$8 50 and $8 75; do extra, $9 37 and $9 62;
do family, sl2 and sl3; Ohio super and cut
extra, $8 25 and $8 50; do extra, $9 and
$9 25; do family, sl2 and sl3
Grain —The partial closing of our river and
harbor by ice the past week, has limited both
the supply and demand (or corn, but the re
quirements of the vessels on the berth loading,
have caused prices to be maintained for yellow,
whilst for white the sales generally have been
several cents higher than at the close of the
preceding week. Wheat has ruled quiet for
want of stock; the sales were principally com
posed of led, at prices showing but Utile varia
tion from the previous week Oats have sold
at an advance of several ceuts. Very little doing
in Rye. We give transactions at the Corn and
■ Flour Exchange as follows : Wheat.—The
I offerings are small ; we report sales of 5,000
■ bushels red at s2as2 43—mostly $2 30a$2 3S;
I 1,000 .bushles choice Western white from store,
’ for shipment, at $2 80; market closed steady
t with some inquiry for shipment and fair demand
for home milling. Corn.—The receipts are
comparatively light; demand oontiunos good ;
sake for the week to Thursday, inclusive, foot
up 30,000 bushels white at 89a93 cents ; bulk
at 90a02 cenls for export; 30,000 bushels yellow
at 82h85 cents; bulk at 82 cents, for shipment,
at which figure the market closed for cargo lots;
smaller lots per railroad, sold at, 80a81 cents;
300 bushels mixed sold at 83a87 cents, aud
1,000 bushels for hominy at sl. Oats.—The
sales to Thursday, inclusive, amount to 8,000
bushels, ranging from 54 to 57 cents per bushel,
weight, as to quality—bulk of sales about 55
cents. Rye.—We report sales of 600 to 1,000
bushels at 87a90 cents per bushel.
Molasses —There is nothing doing; stock
light, and held nominal at our quotations, viz :
Porto Rico, 60a85 cents; Cuba Muscovado, 50a
70 cents; Cuba clayed, 45a50 cents; English
Island, 55a85 cents per gallon. No imports the
past week.
Provisions. —Tho market generally rules I
quiet, though prices baye been maintained, aud
at the close there was more disposition to ope
rate. Some hegg have been taken by the trade
at 12J, and more would have found buyers at
the same figure. We give transactions and
closing prices as follows: Pork. We report
sales of 200a300 bbls. Western Mess, new, at
S3O. Bulk Meats. Small sales of Shoulders at
13 cts ; Sides held at 16 cts.; and Hams in
pickle at 18 cts. per lb. Bacon has been in very
limited request. We report sales of 70 to 100
htads. in jobbing lots at 16 cents for new Shflfil
ders, 18$ cents for new Sides; old Sides are
quoted at 17b17$ cents for ribbed and clear
ribbed. Hams are selling at 23a25 cents, the
outside for fine Baltimore sugar cured, the de
mand for which continues fair. Lard. We
quote for City 18-Ja 19 oents in small lots; West
ern 19a194 cents: Baltimore refined 224a23
oents; a sale of 400 kegs at the inside figure for
export.
Sugar. —The market bas been inactive, and
prices slightly in favor of buyers. We have
only to notice sales of 184 hhds. English Is
land, for refining, at 114 cents, 4 months; 260
boxes Hayana, No. Ifi, at IB cents, 4 rooe.;
also for refining, and 100 hhds. Porto Rico, in
lots, to the trade, at 12$al4$ cents, as to quali
ty. We revise our quotations as follows: Cu
ba and E. I. Mrto good refs., 114a13$ cents,
j 4 months ; dcMbtgrocery, 12Ja13 ctms net;
' do. do. prime, 135a144 cents net; Porto Rico,
common to good grocery, 12$al3$ cents net;
do. do prime to choice, 14»14$ cents net; Ha
vana, No. 16, 15 cents, 4 months. No imports
the present week.
Refined Sugars are quiet, and elospd again
in favor of buyefs. We quote for 20 or more
bbls. extra fine powdered, 18$ cents ; crushed,
powdered and granulated, !«$■ cents; \ white,
17$ cents; Circle A, 17 cents; B, 16$ cents
per lb.
t Whisky,—For several days in the begin
ning of the week the market was dull and
I nominal at $2 26a2 27. Later there was more
j inquiry, with gales of 100 bbls. Western, in
j lots, at $2 27, dosing firmer.
NEW YOttK MARKET,
MONEY MARKET.
The New York Herald, of oaturaay, 13th
instant, reports that the gold market
opened dull, at 138, but under the effects of
the European news advanced to 13d. It then
receded a fraction, but subsequently recovered
the decline, closing at 139. Although the
“short” interest is very large, the demand
for cash gold was not heavy, and loans were
made at from 1-33 per day in favor of the lend
er to flat. The steamer New York, from As
- brought $685,010 in grid.
Foreign exchange was in very limited de
t and, notwithsJandiDg that the tendency o!
the foreign advances was to strengthen the
market. Prime bankers’ hills at sixty dnvs,
on England, were eold at 108$, although 109
was asked. bills were scarce a»
108al08j ; Southern bankers’ bills 108§ tloßf.
The decline of $ per pound in American cotton
at Liverpool was construed as adverse to in
creased exports from this side temporarily,
while the decline of five- twenties in London on
the 29th ultimo to 65, Erie to and Illinois
Central to 18, operates of course in the same
direction. The advance" in the bank rate of
discount was compulsory, owiDg to a further
decrease of 4-469,307 in its bullion for the
werk ending on the 28th December, notwith
standing ti e arrival of £BOO,OOO from Austra
lia.
PRODUCE MARKET.
Friday, Jao. 12—6, p. m. —Breadstuffs—
Receipts 2 672 bbls fionr, 495 bags corn meal
650 bushels wheat, 3,900 bushels corn,
bushels oats, and 3 190 bushels malt. The de
mand for State and Western fleur was yatber
moderate, and prices further ruled in buyer’s
favor to the extent of 10al5 cents. The sales
were about 6.000-bbls at our revised quotations
annexed. Southern flour was drooping. The
sales were about 6f 0 bbls. Canadian flour was
dull, and 6alo cents lower, mainly on the in
ferior to medium brands. The sales were 300
bbls. Rye flour was dull, but unchanged. Corn
meal was inactive. We quote :
Supsiflne and Western flour. . . .$6 90a $7 30
Extra State 7 70a 7 90
Choice State 8 00a 8 25
Common to medium extra West’n 7 70a 8 25
Extra round boop Qhio 8 40a 8 55
Western trade brands 8 60a 10 20
Common Southern.... 8 70a 9 90
Faney and extra do-. TO 00a 15 00
The corn market was dull and heavy, again
closing fully lc. lower The sales were about
30,000 bushels, at 84a86e. for unsound, 87a90c
for sound mixed Western, 90a96c. for yellow
Southern, and 96c asl for white Southern
Oa's ’continued dull, but prices were nominally
unaltered. The Fa'es were at 44a52c. for un
sound Western, 61a62c. for sound Western, 66
a6Bc. for Jersey and Pennsylvania, 60a62c. for
State, and 60c. for Canada. Rye was withotr
perceptible variation. Malt and barley were
dull aud drooping, but not qnotably lower.
Cotton. —The market was without important,
change. The sales were 4,100 bales at our sub
joined quotations, at which the market closed
very firm. We quote :
Upland. Fla. Mobile. K.O IT
Ordinary. 42 42 4.3 43
Middling 49 50 60 61
Good middling.. .51 52 52 53
Coffee. —The market continued quiet, but, |
prices were very firm at our quotations. V
note sale of 2,406 bags Rio, ex Talisman, at. ]f>, ;
gold, in bond. We quote: Rio—Prime,. 201 c
. 19c; fair, 18c.a184e.; ordinary, 17e.; fair
to good cargoes, lgc.nlO^c.; lava, mats and
bags, 28c.a29c ; Native Ceylon, 24c a2sc; Mara
caibo, 214c.«234c; Laguayra, 21c.a23c; St.
DomiDgo, 17fe.al84c. —all gold, net cash, duty
paid.
Freights were dull but unchanged. The
engagements were, to Liverpool, 700 bales cot
ton at }d ~ and 28,000 bushels corn at 4d.
Molasses. —The market was without particu
lar change. The salps were (5Q hhda Porto
Ridb at 78 cents, and 46 barrels new crop New
Orleans at $1 15; also by auction 160 hhds.
Barbadoes at from 3 64 to 90 c-ents, and 60 hhds
Porto Rico at 46, 500 hhds. Barbadoes sold
isst night, but were not reported, on privute
terms.
Naval Stores —The market was without
material ebang-. All branches were quiet and
nominal.
Provisions —Receipts, 172 barrels Pork, 62
ditto Beef, 136 packages Cut Meats, 562 pack
ages Lard. The market for Pork was some -
what irregular, but upon the whole prices ruled
considerably firmer, though the market closed
rather heavy. New Mess closed at S3O 60
regular, and old Mess at $29 60 regular; the
sales were6,ooo barrels at S3O 871a3l for new
Mess; $29 37a530 12$ for old Mess"; $22a22 25
for Prime and $22 60 for prime Mess; also
6,000 barrels new Mess, deliverable in January,
February, March and April, seller’s and buyer’s
option, at $29 50a531 Beef was firm, with
further sales of 450 barrels at sllasl4 for old
plain Mess, sl4asl7 for old extra Mess, sl7 50
alO for new plain Mess and $22 60a520 lor
new extra Mess.
1 tc-: was quiet and unchanged. We heard
ot ho sales.
£ug ir. A moderate inquiry prevailed, and
pric s were about steady. The sales were 125
hhdi. Cuba at 11je.a13., and 140 "boxes Ha
van.i ou private terms. Refiued was steady.
TirA. More inquiry was noticeable. Prices
went very steady. The sales were aboDt 4,000
hall chests greens, mostly from Bret hand*’and
am 120 half chests Oolong; also 800 half chests
Jap ms, all on private terms.
- obaooo. —No particular change was percep
tible. Tne sales inolude 60 bales Havana at
80c.; 100 hhds. Kentucky at from 70a19c.,
and 40 cases Ohio seed leas at 12c.
Whisky.— Receipts, 50 bbls. The market
returned a steady tone, hut the demand was
lee* active. Only trifling sales were made at
fro n S 2 26j52 28.—New York Herald, 13lh
insf.
FOREIGN MARKETS.
[By the Scotia, at New Fork.]
LONDON MONEY MARKET.
Notwithstanding the large arrivals of gold
from Australia, the weekly returns of the Bank
ot England exhibit a further decrease iu the
bullion of £469,307 sterling; and consequently,
on the 28th ultimo, the Bank directors advanced
the minimum rate of discount from 6 to 7 per
cent.
The Times, of the 29th, in its city article,
sayi-: “The advaoce of the Bank rate to 7 per
cent, was imminent a week ago, but was
checked by the arrival of £BOO,OOO from Aus
tralia. The whole of that amount having been
absc rbed by the foreign draiD, together with
£400,000 additional, and there still being a corns
pleio absence of any indication of a pause in
the w.thdrawals, the step had become more
than ever necessary. Even t.iis advance seems
to have had little effect in checking the de
mand for discount and advances, the applica
tions haviug been extremely heavy, both on
the part of the commercial public and the
dealers in the Stock Exchange. No correspon
ding advance iu the rate of discount has yet
been notified by the Bauk*f France, and the
anomaly, therefore, is presented of a difference
of.! per cent, .between the rates respectively
cui ent in Paris and London—a circumstance
which is not encouraging as regards the pro
bability of an early permanent return to more
moderate charges on this side.”
Notwithstanding the advance in the bank
rate, the demand for money continued very
heivy, and the open market wa tight.—
Choice bills not done under 7 percent.
Consols on the 29th were quiet but steady,
closing at 87a87£.
BariDg Bros, quote bar silver at 6s. ljd ;
dollars, ss. £<!.; eagles 765. 4d.
AMERICAN SECURITIES,
Banng Bros. & Co. say: “ Pricel in which
dealings are current have been unsettled th ! s
week. 5-20's have been as low as 645a64f, but
close 65a65$ ; Illinois, 78a78$ ex-div.; Eries,
565a575. Other stocks without business.”
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.
Liverpool, December 30—A. M.— Cotton. —
The Broker ’ Circular says : Cotton has been
in fair demand but freely offered throughout
the week; the tendency to increased firmness
manifested oq Friday was checked by the
Scotia’s advices oflurge receipts at the Ameri
can ports, and the market closed quietly on
Thursday upon the announcement of the ad
vance of the bank rate to 7 per cent. Ameri
can continues in demand, but the recent im
p irts are placed freely upon the market, and
prices have given way fully $d p r lb. For sea
irlaad there is a "goed inquiry at previous
rates. Other descriptions are without essential
change, except Brazil, which is sa£d. lower.—
The sales of the week add up 48,580 hales, in
cluding 7,080 on speculation and 9,53 Q for ex
port. The official quotations are ;
Fair. Middling.
New
Mobile 22$d. 20|d.
Upland 22d. 2ofd.
Texas 22$d. 21d.
The pales on Friday reached about 10,000
: bales, the market exhibiting a firmer tone.
Tho stock qn hand is ascertained by actual
count to be 870,278 bales, which is only 2,000
bales in excess of the estimates. The Btock of
American is 143,722 bales, which is about
20,000 bales below the estimate of that descrip
tion.
THE LATEST MARKETS.
London, Dec. 30—Morning.—Consols closed
last evening at 86$»87jt for money.
The bullion in the Bank of England bas de
! creased £469,000.
AMERICAN SrOCKB.
United States five-twenties, 645a655; Illinois
Central, 78$, ex-dividend; Eries, 57a575.
London, Dec. 30—Evening—Consols closed
87a87$ for money.
Paris, Dec. 31, 1865.—The Bourse is firmer,
j Rentes closed at 68f. 15c.
/
AMERICAN SECURITIES,
United States five twenties, 65a655; Illinois
| Central Railroad, 78fa79$, ex dividend ; Erie
Railroad 575a575. Bullhn in bank declared,
£460,000 ; bank rate advanced to 7.
- Liverpool, December 30—MoroiDg—Cotton.
Sales of the week 29,000 bales, including 7,000
i to speculators and 9,500 to exporters. The
market is easier, with a decline of one-quarter
; of a pe.nny on American, and irregular for
other descriptions. The following are the au
ihorized quotations:
Fair. Middling,
i Orleans. 22$d. 21$d.
I Mobile 22$d. 20fd.
; Uplands 22 d. 2o|d.
Tho sales on Saturday were 10,000 bales, the
market closing firmer at unchanged rates.
Stock in port, 370,000 bales by actual count,
only 2 000 bales above the estimates,including
144,000 Americau.
TRADE REPORT.
The Manchester market is steady.
Breadstuffs. —The market is tending down
ward.
Provisions.— The market is quiet and steady.
Liverpool, December 30—Evening.— Cotton
—Nothiug doing to day, it being a holiday.
Other markets closed.
Bombay, December 22.—Cot to q advancing.
Dhollerah sso rupees. Manchester goods firm
and advancing. Cotton shipments during the
week 35,000 bales. Freights 355.- to Liverpool.
Exchange on London 2a lsd
x Calcutta, December 21.—Exchange 2s. ljd.
freights 455. The rate of discount has been
raised one per cent.
the brazils.
The mails had reached Lisbon.
Rio dates are to December 9. The allied ar>
my continued to advance without interruption.
Rumors were current that peace was about to
bo concluded through European mediation.
Coffee was quoted at 6j|Booa6||7oo for good
firsts. Stock 130,000 bags. Exchange 25$a
254.
Pernambuco, December 16 —Exchange 28a
2*400 Whi,u BUgar 4 ! ,6 °oa4i[7ttQ; Browns 2||oooa
Broken National Banks.—The following
communication from the Deputy Comptroller of
t.be currency has been kindly handed us by the
President of the people’s National Bank, to
whom it is addressed. Its perusal will remove
the uncertainty which bas prevailed with the
public with regard to the reports recently pub
lished in reference to the failure of certain
National Banks :
Treasury Department, i
Otfice of Comptroller of the Currency, V
Washington, January 8, 1866. )
Dear Sir: —Your letter of the 2d instant is
received. In reply to your request for a list o'
broken National Banks, I have to inform you
that “ The First National BaDk of Attica,” N
Yt is the only National Bank that has failed
tinder the national system. Capital $50,000,
circulation $45,000, receivable by all National
Banks in the United States at par, aDd redeem
able in lawful money upon presentation at the
Treasury of the United Stafeq. *
Very respectfully,
ti. R. Hulburd, Dep. Comptroller.
D. L- McKay, Esq., President People’s National
Bank, Charleston, 8. C.
- f ''harlexton Courier.
Death of I-erard Hallock —e have per
I <wived, with unfeigned aorrow, the announce
raent of the death, on the 4th inst., at New
Haven, Conn., of Gerard Hallock, the founder
and, until the second yearof the war, the con
trolling editor and proprietor of the New York
Journal of Commerce.
An eminently good man has gone to bis final
rest. We knew him well and intimately, and
a j ister, a more conscu ntious, a more charita
ble mnn we never knew. As editor of the
Journal of Commerce, during the many years
he controlled the colqmus of that cons-rvative
journal, he was always the friend of the South
and it was only when the free utterance of his
opinions was denied him, when, as he wrote in
August last to one of the editors of this paper
he was “required to violate hits" conscience,” he
left the editorial chair, sacrificed hi- property
and retired to his home in New Haven.
Respected by ail who knew him, honored
and loved by those who knew him best, his
loss will be widely deplored wherever his great,
influence as a puhlic journalist was felt, or his
eminent virtues were known and appreciated.
[Athens (Ga.) Banner.
Child Killed by the Bite or a Rat.— The
Charleston Courier says : Coroner E. M. Whit
ing held an inquest on yesterday morning, at
the Northwest corner of Meeting street and
Fmith’s Lane, upon the body of Fanny Young,
a colored infant, aged nine months. Three of
the toes of the right foot of the child had been
eaten away by a rat, and the jury rendered a
verdict “that she had come to her death from
the efiTects thereof.” What a terrible com men.
tary upon the neglect of its parents.
Prom the Independent, Nor. 6.
D ® Profundts.
nr KI.IZA.BETH BAUKETT BROWNING.
l b ~ face which, snn
Roxe op for me with life beirnn ’
To mark all bright hn U r« ~f s he * d
With daily lore,!, dimmed
And yet my.days go on, R 0 on.
The tongue which, like a stream, could run
Smooth music to the roughest stJme.
And every morning with “Good dav”
Made each day good, Is hushed aW av
And yet my days go on, go on. ]
The heart which, like a Rtaff was one
r or mine to lean and rest upon ; <
xr^«. S *l 011 ??* 1 on t * ,e longest day
ith steadfast love is caught away,—
And yet my days go on, go on.
And cold before mr Summer's done,
aL i In Nature’s genera! tone,
And fallen too low for special fear,
Ann here, with hope no longer here,
W bile the tears drop, ray days go on.
The world goes whispering to its own,
Tis anguish pierces to the bon*. ”
, ? n , der frien< J» go sighing round,
wnat lore can ever cure this wound V
My days go on, my days go on.
The p ast rolls forward on the sun
And makes all night O dreams begun.
Not to be ende' ! Knded bliss!
>ud life that will not end in this 1
My days go on, my days go on.
Breath freezes on my lips to moan :
As one alone, once not alone,
T eit and knock at Nature’s door.
Heart-bare, heart hunery, yery poor,
Whose desolated days go on.
m
I knock and cry, .. Undone, undone I
Is there no he'p, no com’ort. None ?
No gleaning in the wide wheat plains
Where others drive their loaded wains ?
My vacant days go on, go on.
This though the snows be down,
Thinks kindly of the bird of June,
This little red hip on the tree
Ts ripe for such. What is for mo,
Whose days so winterly go on.
No bird am I to sing in June,
And dare not ask an equal boon,
Good nests and berries red are natures, —
To give away to better creatures,—
And yet my days go on, go on.
I ask less kin 'ness to be done, —
Only to loose these nilgriiu sbnon
(Too eirly worn and grimed) with
Cool deathly touch to these tired feet,
Till days go out which now go on.
Only to lift Ihe turf unknown
Prom off the earth where it has grown,
Some cnbit-space, and say “Behold,
Creep in poor heart, beneath that fold,
Forgetting how the days go on.”
What harm would that do ? G reen anon
The sward would quicken, overshone
By skies as bine : and crickets might
Have leave to chirp there day and night
While my new rest went on went on.
Prom gracious nature have I won
Such liberal bonnty? May I run
So, iizard-like, within her side,
And there he safe who now am tried
By days that painfully go on.
A voice reproves me thereupon.
More sweet than nature’s when the drone
Os bees is sweet' st. and more deop
Than when the rivers overleap
The shuddering pines, and thunder on.
God’s voice, not nature’s—night and noon
He sits upon the great white throne,
And listens fur the creatures’ praise.
What, babble we nfdays and days t
The Day-spring He, whose days go on. /
Ho reigns above. He i eigne stone;
Systems born out and leave His throne :
Pair mists of seraphs unfit and fall
Around him. changeless amid nil 1—
Ancient of days, whose days go on I
He reigns fcdow, He reigns alone,
And having life in love foregone,
Beneath the crown of sov’reign thorns.
He reigns the jealous God. Who mourns
Wr rules with him, while days go on.
By anguish which made pale the sun,
I hear him charge his saints that none
Among the creatures anywhere,
Blaspheme agoinst him with despair,
However darkly days go on.
—Take from my head the thorn-wreath brown l
No mortal grief deserves that crown.
O supreme Love, chief misery,
The sharp regalia are for Thee
Whose days eternally go on.
For ns, .. whatever’s undergone,
Thou knowest. whitest what is done :
Grief may be jov misunderstood :
Only the good"discerns thy good,
I trust thee while ray days go on.
Whatever’s lost, it iirßt was won j ,
We will not struggle nor impugn.
Perhaps the cup was brokeu hero
That Heaven’s new wine might show more clear,
I praise Thee while my days go on.
I praise Thee whi'e my days go on ;
I love Thee while my days go on !
Through dark and dearth, through fire and frost
With emptied arms and treasure lost
I thank thee while my days go on !
And, having In thy life-depth thrown
Being and suffering, (which a e one)
As a child drops some pebble small
Down some deep wed anfcjiears it fall
Smiling ... so 11 Thy days go on I
Savannah News —Prom the Savannah Her
aid of Wednesday, 11th, we clip the following
paragraphs :
Thk Tat At ov Hen Merger.—' The trial of
General H. W. Mercer before a military commis
slop will be resumed this morning, the witnes
ses sent tor having arrived.
Lamar Cotton Case. —An irnfoimded report
having got into circulation concerning the sen
tence of Q-. B. Lamar, we think it proper to
state, upon the highest authority, that the find
ingß and aantence in his case have not yet been
promulgated.
The Alleged Murderer op Carmichael
It will be rememhered that a young man, named
Wm. H. Bryan, was arrested a few weeks since,
on arriviug iu this city from Augusta, on a
charge of being the perpetrator of the' horrible
murder of young Carmichael, near Augusts,
At an examination of Bryan before Justice;-
Bussell and Connell, yesterday, no testimony
was elicited to warraut his committal, and he
was released from imprisonment.
Merchants’ National Bank.— The want of
additional banking capital in our city having
been a serious inconvenience to our merchants
and business men, we are pleased to state tha
the capital stock of the Merchants’ National
Bank ($500,000) is fully subscribed, and the
bank will commence operations in a short time
The banking house will be the old Bank of Sa
vannah, on Bay street. An election for Direc
tors will take place in a few days.
Arrival of New York Steamships. The
steamship Herman Livingston, Capt. Baker,
from Newjyork ou Saturday, 13th, arrived yes
terday mornlDg, having made the quick trip ol
80 hoars.
The steamship Chase, CapL Roath, from New
York on Thursday, the llih, arrived later in the
day, having experienced head wind SDd heavy
sea. The Chase ppoke the schooner Lucinda j
Baylis, in distress, as reported in our shipping
intelligence.
The steamship San Salvador, Capt. Atkina
from New York on Saturday, 13th, arrived lasi
evening, having a large number of passengers
and a full freight
Brilliant Meteor.— O- e of these beautiful
celestial p enomena, known as a meteor, was
observed last night, about half past ten o'clock
It first appenred in the south cast, traveling
slowly in a south-westerly direction, descend
ing to nn altitude of only some forty or fifty
feet above the tops of the houses, when it faded
from view. It presented a nucleus of some six
to eight inches In diameter, followed by a trail
of sparks, and was, during its brief existence,
very brilliant, shedding a strong, light on sur
rounding objects, and affording a wonderful and
very beautiful meteoric display.
ATLANTIC AND GULP RAILROAD DEPOT.—
Rapid progress is betog made upon the work of
rebuilding the depot of the Atlantic aDd Guff
railroad, and refurni-hing the road, under the
supervision of Col. John Soreven, the President.
The depot will soon again be one of the orna
ments of the oity and marks of our progress in
business. The oornpany have received from the
North three new locomotives, and have also re
paired a fourth one, which was partially de
str. yed upon the evacuation of the city by the
Confederates. The machine shops and other
buildings ot the road are being rapidly rebuilt
or repaired. A large warehouse, threo hundred
feet in length and fifty in width, is under con
tract. We learn, also, that the bridges be
tween Savannah and the Altamaha are being
rapidly rebuilt.
Drath of Col. Jas, 0. Sproull.— Again we
are called upon to chronicle the death ol one
of our best citisens Col. James C. Sproull
I departed this life at 3 o’clock, Saturday morn
ing last after a lingering illness (consumption)
of several months.
[Cartersville (Ga.) Express, Jan 16.
Judge of th« Western Circuit. —We are
gratified to state that sufficient returns have
Been received from the recent election for
Judge of the Western Judicial Circuit to in
dicate the election of the present able incum
bent of the Pench, Hon. L. N. Hutchins, by a
a majority of about four hundred We shall
publish the full returns when received.
[Athens Banner, Jan. IT.
By Telegraph.
ASSOCIATED press dispatches
From Mexico.
Cl I'IZENS LEAVING MONTEREY.
Wahhhington, Jan. 18.
News from Havana says the advices from
Mexico are unfavorable to the Imperial cause
The inhabitants of Monterey, feeling no se
curity from the presence of Maximilian's troops
are leaving the city. Ovor thirty thousand are
said to have left in three days.
Sindloa alone remains in the hands of the
Imperialists.
New York, Jan.. l9.
Th Herald’s Mexican dispatch reports the
arrival of the French Admi-al Didelot. Ho
visHs Mexico for the purpose of conferring
with Bszaine on the relations existing be
tween France, Mexico aud the United States.
It is rumored that a large squadron will
folio the object of which is variously
stated.
T lucco, the ancient capital of the empire,
has i>eeti taken by the Liberals.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, Jan. 19.
in the Senate, the credentials of Marvin,
Senator elect from F'orids, were presented
Ordered to lie on the table
A bill ei Urging ;he powers of the Freed
ra.n.’s Bureau was discussed, and an amend
ment to the hill adopted, making valid for
three instead of forever, as in theorigi
nal bill, the litle to lands given to negro s by
orders issued at Savannah, by General Sher
man, last winter.
In the House, Dening, or Ooon.. made a
speech maintaining that the government bag
the right to bring the Southern Stales to
trial as conquered rebels. He said tn« loyalty
there was little, the submission of the people
being from necessity.
He mentioned a series of guaranties which
ought to bo exacted before they shall be al
lowed representation, including the perfect
actuality of the blacks, before the law, with th®
whites. * w
Smith, of Kentucky, *o dor3e<l tho PresideQt . a
restoration policy. Ho deu M th
ern States were ever out of i,_ TT .
, . . ~ , ~ union, and
claimed that now they were obedw ,
law they ought to be represented. "to
Congress adjourned until Monday.
FROM KANSAS.
St. Louis, Jan. 18.
The Kansas Senate ru> yesterday passed a
resolution favoring the trial, conviction and
h inging of Mr. Davm and other leaders of the
rebellion, who are equally guilty.
NEW YORK MARKET.
New York, Jan. 19.—Cotton unchanged.
Sales 900 bales, at 50a. The market closed
quiet- Gold 38.
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MORGAN Ac ALLEN,
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Poll! by W. H. TUTT,
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Milk, MilkT Milk.
]r WILL be prepared to furnish Good Milk to
l families or hotels, in any part of the city,
ally, by the pint, quart or gallon, on and after
the 15*h Inst.
Persona desiring to he furnished, will leavs
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the quantity they wish.
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Gooila'p, Jin. 12th, 1866. j»»13eod&
Cooking and Heating Stoves, of (he most
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Wm. SHEPHERD St CO,
Augusta, Ga., 1866. 255 Broad st.
janb— flm
Pots, Bake Ovens, Biscuit Ov
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