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OUE HNANC)SI PBOSPEO !S.
An American in England, during the sitting
of Parliament, is wonderfully impressed with
the importance of the “Budget.” The “Budget,”
or annual National balance sheet, is looked for
• with anxiety by nobility, merchant, banker and
peasant, as affecting their particular interests
for the ensuing year. The precise day of it;
promulgation is duly announced by the Press.
Members regard it as at once indicating the
prosperity of the Kingdom, and, in a great de
gree, tempering their popularity through its
effect upon their constituencies. To lighten the
tax which rests upon brewers the smallest frac
tion of per ceutagc, or resist successfully an in
crease of a like infinitesimal per centage of tax
on manufacturers of iron, silk or cotton —this
is a great achievement for an English politician.
Days and week* are consumed in discussion, and
an immense amount of parliamentary skill and
ingenuity is expended in elucidating official sta
tistics and the exhaustive erudition of political
economy. The key to the solution of all this
labor and attrition of mind, is to be found in
the National Debts and annual expenditures of
Government, which, by the very necessity of
the matter, is inextricably mingled in controll
ing the private affairs of its subjects. Nothing
is too minute for Governmental care; nothing
too insignificant for Governmental taxation.
Now, all this appeared odd to a citizen of the
United States, before the war. His idea of
Government was symbolised by the triumph of
his party and election of his candidate for the
Presidency. His only conception of the power
of the Government was measured solely by the
promptitude with which the mails were deliv
ered—herjr olim mcminisse juvabit. But, to-dav
we are entering on a new era; tee are becoming
civilized, according to the European standard.
For many years to come, the reports of the Sec
retary of the Treasury will be regarded with as
much interest in the Republic of the United
States as is the case with the budget of the
English Chancellor, or the portfolio of the
French Minister of Finance.
The currency of the world is gold. It re
gulates the exchange of all nations in the girdle
of civilization. Speaking all languages from
Australia to Labrador—from Kamschatka to
Cape Horn—it is the univer«al standard of
yaluo. To conform to this standard is alike
advantageous to the Government and the citi
zen and beneficial to the reputation of him who
engineers the National treasury. This will be
the march of events, and it is especially requi
site that we of the South should keep this stead
ily in view.
Heretofore, the Southern people have believed
and acted upon the belief that there could be no
sound system of Finance unless based upon a
sound system of agriculture. They observed that
the balance against the country was ipaid in
gold. They saw that the export of manufactur
ed articles was insignificant. They knew that
the great bulk of foreign indebtedness—gener
alized in official statistics under the head of
“ Imports”—was liquidated by the products ol
the soil, wheat, cotton, rice, etc. Cotton was
the chief article of export, therefore Cotton was
K ing. They perceived that $50,000,000 of gold
were exported annually from California without
detriment, and it was recognized as a product.
But never have they fully recognized the fact
that the United States stands as the only power
whose political influence gives bread and rai
ment—and more than all, political und moral
support to the masses who seek a dreary liveli
hood as dung-pickers in the English purlieus
or languish and die of disease hard by the tow
ers of Berlin. They have not yet appreciated
the desperate confidence which invests a penny,
sous or rix dollar to sustain the bare existence
of a grand-child. They do notontcr thorough
ly into the sentiment of that Irishman, who,
having fought gallantly over twelve battle-fields
—from Sharpsburg to Chickamauga— thanked
God that he had gotten back to the United Slates ,
even at the sacrifice of a competence, which,
under the guarantee of the Federal compact, he
had invested in slaves.
But, given this confidence of the European
masses, and given the steady advance of Gov
ernment seeuritiesln London, Paris and Ham
burg, there is, notwithstanding, a limit to these
resources. .The old rules that govern financr
may be suspended but arc sure to assert them
selves at last. There is a large foreign indivt. -
ual indebtedness. One-fourth the Nationa
debt is already taken abroad. Bo long as Euro
pean creditors have unbounded confidence in
American debtors, just so long will they re
main inactive. Bo long as European Banks can
afford capital for Americans to trade with, just
so long will the course be smooth. If, how*
ever, from political commotion or commercial
stagnation, an urgent demand for money should
arise, the situation would be critical, and those
,wi«> have expanded unduly must suffer serious
'trollapsc.
We have previously asserted and still believe
that, Mr. McCulloch is master of the situation.
Carlyle says, in his grim way: “He that hath
a ponny is King to the amount of a penny; but,
he that has a hundred pence is a greater King.”
Relatively,- the Secretary of the Treasury is a
greater King than the Bank of England. He
commands more coin. Still further, he has the
political sympathy of all Europe. There is a
handsome margin between San Francisco —the
exponent of the gold-bearing fields—and Lon
don. The country is settling down to a peace
basis, save and except, within scent of Sumner
and his fellow Radicals. Wherefore we confi
dently anticipate a permanent approximation of
Government issues to the standard of gold. So far,
then, Governmental values seem clear, well de
fined and certain, for the future. 8a far, they
are certainly established by annual revenue,
confidence at home and political sympathy
abroad.
We are not so well felicitated as to individu
als, or rather to the collective financial condi
tion of the commercial affairs of the nationality.
The imports into the port of Newffork exhibit
a grave excess over the exports, for the year
ending in January 1865, of more than $74,000,-
000 in gold ; and the additional balance for the
first month and a half of the present year of
over $14,000,000 in gold. If this should con
tinue, the balance in gold against individuals,
both personal and corporative, will be, at the
end of this year,more than $180,000,000 in gold.
The calculations arc so complicated, the com
binations so various, and the political elements
so numerous, that the mind is distraught over
the possibilities of the future. We trust, how
* ever, that our people, .already so ineffably af
flicted, will not court further disaster by extra
vagance, but rather defy it by controlling their
wants within a discreet limit. Blessed are they
who have elegant gaberdines and a full pouch;
but sackcloth and ashes will come to the im
provident, and surplus funds may bo desirable
commodities before the Jubilee of another
Christmas.
The Southern Dead at Franklin.— The ;
Franklin (Tenn.) Review, of Saturday, makes i
the following appeal to the friends of the Con
federate dead at that place:
“ The farm of Fountain JJ. Carter, Esq., upon 1
which the deadliest conflict of the war was
fought, is about being plowed up. The graves
of the fhllcn heroes of that bloody strife will i
soon be obliterated, and the last vestige that '
' marks their resting places will be gone forever. ,
By the kindness and liberality of our fellow- i
townsman, Col. John McGavoek, a place has !
* been furnished on his magnificent farm, near '
the graves of his ancestry, where the disinterred i
Southern soldiers may find a quiet and undis- 1
turbed repose for all time to come. The graves
of the Union army are protected by orders from j
the War Department of the Federal Govern
ment. This is right, just and proper. The 1
graves of the fallen braves of the Government 1
arc thus protected from demolition and dest- i
cration by the strong hand of power. Who is 1
there left to afford the like protection to the
fallen heroes of the South ? None. Unless the ;
men and women for whom they laid down their
lives ttuiii come forward and furnish the means
for theif removal, their graves will disappear
from sight,and the stricken lathers and mothers,
who live far away, when the opportunity shall
offer, will not be able to find the spot where
their heroic sons rest. Some six hundred dol
lars has already been sent here from Memphis
to aid in the holy work. We beg and beseech*
our ciiiisaps to bestir themselves and furnißb
some aid. • Xet our ladies take the work in 1
hand, and success will crown their efforts. We
• ask our friends, and the friends of the fallen
braves everywhere, to send in their contribu- j
tions. We must be up and doing, for there is 1
no time to be lost In this matter. The plows
are nearing their graves every day. We wish J
our cotj mpor iriet would call the attention of <
their rAulers to this matter, and urge upon 1
them ilk; necessity and duty of furnishing J
help.” \ ]
gSU-i "-'I, ■ ■ 1 " ' 1 L J
Our Washington Correspondence.
The -Nfejro Suffrage Bil)—Radical Visits to the J
White House fOfo and far between—Financially
Crash — Elections in Connecticut and New
Hampshire—The Lull in the Fight between the
PresiderU and Jacobins—Remodeling the Cab
■inet—Why is it not Hone —Condition of the
Finances—The Fall in Gold and Dry Goods —
Speculation »j* Real Estate and the Increase of
Bank loans—Cotton the Panacea for all the
Ills we Suffer—Freedom and Slavery— -A Stak
ing Contrail.
Washington, March 9th 1866.
The Radicals have determined to pass the
negro suffrage bill for the District of Columbia
It has slept for some time in the Senate, bnt it
is not dead. It will bring forth another veto.
The Radical. Congressmen do not visit th
e dent like they did. On the contrary, tiny
; ■-> becoming rare visitor at the White House
i hie Is a lucky result of the controversy be
tween the President and his Radical friends.
The President will have more time to talk with
wiser men.
It is the impression of some of the ables
financiers in the country, that if the country
continues in its present disrupted state, and tb<
Jacobins in the capital continue to agitate as
they have been doing in pursuit of Utopia, the
Inances will not be able to escape shipwreck.
The Radicals profess to be sanguine of carry
ing the elections in Connecticut and New Hamp
shire, and th6y say this will be a solemn warn
ing to the President of what he may expect it
he persists In the error of his ways.
Some persons wonder that after the lively
manner in which hostilities opened between the
President and the majority in Congress, there
ha* seemed to boa kind of lull in the storm
dnee then. It is well understood that there are
men in the Cabinet that the President would
gladly relieve from duty, and wonder is often
expressed that these men continue in the Cabi
net. But they overlook the fact that the condi
tion of parties in the Senate is such that the
President could not take the first step towards
the organization a new Cabinet, inasmuch as
his nominees would be promptly rejected. The
President cannot have any fredom of aetioi
while the Senate remains in session. It is tru<
evon then the appointments made by the Presi
lent during the recess, would be subject tc
the rejection of the Senate upon their re-assem
bling. But a few months breathing time won; -
be gained. The President’s nominees would I>-
in office, and his position might be recovering
all the benefit, which the most skillful arrange
ment es the patronage and the machinery o'
the Government could give. However anxiou.-
the President may be supposed to be in regard
to the removal of several of his Cabinet, ye!
considerations of expediency must prompt him
to await the most propitious moment for takii g
the important step of remodeling his
The fall of gold, yesterday, to 133 excite,
comment. The unsettled condition of the
country, the anarchical course of the Radicals
the violent antagonism between the Executive
and Congress, the strong probability, if not
eortainty, that the internal wounds of the coun
try are to be kept indefinitely bleeding; tin
alarming conscqucncos which the action of the
House of Representatives on the guarantee of
the Mexican Republic loan of $50,000,001;
threaten, would seem to be causes for the in
flation of gold. But in spite of these prejudi
cial conditions, the price of gold has steadily
fallen. For the week before last the Treasury
put $12,000,000 of gold on the market, but for
the last week the Secretary of the Treasury
says he has not put gold on the market. He
says he could depress the price of gold still
more if he desired. It is true beyond all doubt
that confidence in business circles, North is
very much impaired, and there has been a large
fall on the price of dry goods within the last
few days. Wholesale prices of dry goods, both
foreign and domestic, have declined in New
York within the last week at least twenty per
cent. At the same time there has been con
siderable speculation in real estate in the city ol
New York. The banks are increasing their
loans, too, in New York, Should they find it
necessary to contract, the difficulties of the sit
uation would be largely increased. The great
panacea for all monied ills here is the vast cot
ton crop, it is confidently predicted by the
advocates of free labor that the South will
make this year. This crop, with its immense
’ exchangable specie value, is to put money mat
ters on an easy footing. It is to be hoped
these profits of Utopia may prove to be wise
in their generation.
What a remarkable <:omn)<-Wg®|
v ;'i t r <ti Hi ■■ , i^H
[ij.- ii jirmmi.v of one of '
iued before the
refer to Brigadier General M. E. Strong, In
.-tor General. This distinguished officer.
' eying the situation from his Northern
tandpoint, says:
“When the negroes wero held in bondage,
they were, as a rule, treated well. Cases of ex
treme cruelty were very rare. It was then set
the interest of masters to take care of, and not
ill-treat them. Now it is quite different. They
have no interest in their welfare.
[From the New York Sun of the 10th.
Fenianism in Ireland.
The Fenian Movement— Arrest of an Entire a Fc
nian Council"—Another Policemen Shot —
General Stampede of Americans — Delate or,
the Subject in Parliament , Etc., Etc.
The steamship Java, which arrived at this
port yesterday, from Queenstown, brings later
intelligence in regard to the Fenian excite
ment.
Arrests continued to be made in all parts of
Ireland, by the military and the police. On
the morning of the 22d of February a “ Fenian
Council” was captured bodily in a public
house in Dublin. It appears that the police
obtained information of an intended Fenian
meeting, and accordingly, at an appointed hour,
made a descent upon the house and captured
the gallant Fenians, much to their dismay. The
Newsletter says: “As each policeman entered,
he seized a prisoner, and before the ‘Council
had recovered from their consternation they
found the mselve6 fast in the gripe of sturdj
policemen. One of the prisoners, a man
named Byrne, presented a loaded revolver at
McGee, who howover quickly deprived him of it.
There were about thirty persons in the house,
who were seized and searched. On three o:
them wore found loaded revolvers, and another
revolver was found lying on one of the seats,
evidently liaving beon quietly got rid of by
some of the party, whose valor oozed out at
the finger’s ends. Amongst the prisoners was
ten or eleven BOldiers, in uniform, and a man
named Chambers, who had been a corporal in
the ttlst regiment, but who had deserted nine
months ago, and was in civilian’s clothes, rath
er stylishly got up.” The prisoners were near
ly all deserters from English regiments.—
Among Severn 1 Fenians captured at Harold’s
Cross, on the 23d ult, was one named Conden,
who stated that he was a captain in the United
States army. Os those recently arrested, about
one-third claim to be American citizens, and it
is perfectly understood that they were there to
lead regiments pf Fenians, which they sup
posed, when they ean*e there, they would find
recruited, drilled and ready to be led against
their oppressors.
A Dublin correspondent, writing on the 23d,
says that lor the present arrests had nearly
ceased in that city. Tho suspension of the
writ of habeas corpus caused a regular stam
pede of American emissaries, who took any
means of conveyance for any parts, 60 loug as
it was out of Ireland,
The police had made another seizure of pike
heads and pike handles in the top room of a
wretched habitation at the end of St. Andrew’s
Lane, formerly called Pie Cornor, off Trinity
street, and not more than three hundred yards
from Dublin Castle. The seizure comprises 142
pikes, completed in every rospeet, and .36 han
dles. A box of grenades and Orsini shells have
also been seized m Dublin.
Another policemau had been shot by a Fenian
at Limerick, but the life of the officer was not
considered in danger. Excepting this case, no
affray has occurred resulting in bloodshed.
FENIANISM IN PARLIAMENT, -
Fenianism was the result of a long and spir
ited debate in the English House of Commons
on the 23d.
Mr. Watkins asked if any and what repre
setations had been made by her Majesty’s Gov
ernment to the Government of the United
States, in reference to the Fenian organization
in America, and more especially as to the em
ployment of United States officers, the issue of
bonds of the so-called jfrisl) Rcpubiie, and the
threats to levy war upon the dominions of her
Majesty by that organization. He Relieved that
President Johnsou was fully impressed with the
necessity of maintaining friendly relations with
England, and he wished to know why the Presi
dent had not taken steps f,o discountenance the
movement.
Mr. Gladstone, Chancellor of the Exchequer,
said he did not see what good the discussion
could do at present. He said that Englishmen
were often complained of in foreign countries
for having committed 6ome overt act, and that
imputation* are constantly .being thrown on the
Government of a disinclination to- interfere in
sueh cases. He said, “I am bound to say that
1 do not think that there wag in the speech o'
my honorable friend a sufficient amount ot
allowance for these consi derations on bcha.f o f
the Government of the United States [Hen
hear.] If lam to consider the statements o'
my honorable friend, I find that he accompanied
V n with the hope that I should be able to
i jw that all the means of repression at their
command had been exhausted by the United
States Government. There are gentlemen here
who heard the speech made by the Attorney
General, in the early part of the evening, and
what did he say in reference to the demand that
we should submit the ease of the Alabama to
arbitration f He said, ‘We are requested to
allpw that the Government are responsible for
the putting down and the prevention of things
iAich cannot always be put ddwn and prevent
ed.’ And the honorable member wishes to ap
p% the same principle to the American Gov
ernment. There are two things in the main
wljieh we have a right to expect from the Ameri
cab Government. One is, that when the Ameri
can laws have been broken, they should prompt
ly vindicate those lews on behalf of finglwd.”
■c said he had #ot heard ts any Americanfiaws
laving been broken andun which it was (fir
luty of the American Goraniment to inter® l .
He thougt tl*e Attorne®3eneral paid a®-y
Bust compliiient to Prc®ent Johnson i®he
latter part of his speeoif when he exprijfced
his full con fiction and belief that Pre®!nt
Johnson wa| a man anxious to do nllhelould
for the mainijftinance of the friendly relations
between the. two countries, :ui*i '2, r ' tfie fulfill
ment of all international wattes. There are two
C&S6B in wbi iDiyTht expect the L nited
’ State* Government to act, said Mr. Gladstone.
One is where offenses have been committed
against the American laws; bnt no proof has
been laid before us that such offences have been
committed in the way that would make them
the subjects of legal cognizanee. Therefore we
have no ground of complaint against the Amer
can Government in that respect. We have
■een cause to deplore much that has taken
place in the United States, but we have bad no
-ms?, which would justify us in making repre
f -illation to the United States Government.—
lor God’s sake let us, who are anxious, anc.
astly anxious, to maintain our country as a
sanctuary against every undue and doubtful de
uand of a foreign government, have a little for
learance and toleration in judging of the pro
ceedings of the governments of other countries
Hear, hear.] The speaker concluded as 10l
\>ws: Let us trust the friendly Governmen’
vliieh has not as yet failed in its duty, an
vhich we believe will not fail. [Cheers.] O
curse the matter is entirely one tor the judg
•nent of the House. After having made :
-pecch myself, it may not seem to be very goo;
taste to repress the speeches of other members
but I frankly say as far as I may presume, witl
due respect, to make such a statement to th;
■louse, that it is for the public interest that tin
onsideration and handling of this subject a>
he present time and under the present cireum
dances. should be in the hands of the Execu
tive. [Hear, hear.]
Air. Otway uiou o iit that representations ought
it. once be made to the American Government.
Mr. Oliver ridiculed the movement so far
he American organization was concerned, and
denied that it possessed either the sympathies,
-espect or admiration of the American people
After some remarks by other speakers, th.
subject dropped.
The Negro Slave Trade.
The Nashville Banner , of the 4th, tells the
lollowing singular story:
Slavery in a new phase, and under the cold
blooded" manipulation of “new hands at the
usiness,” has just come to light, which pre
ents features of a startling character, and sub
tantially explodes the impression that the only
American slave-drivers are to tie found among
he planters of the Southern States. We line,
he following paragraph among the telegraph
eras. going the rounds :
“ A letter from Havana says the landing o.
. :;vc •in Cuba from Africa continues. A lot c
ne hundred were recently sold lor 880,OnO t:
> planter, who, it is s:.,d, some time ago entered
nto a covenant not to deal irt human flesh.”
We have information from the most reliable
ourees of the landing of negroes—not “slaves,”
n Cuba, and not froiti Africa, but from the
United States of America! In conversation
with a leading merchant and estimable citizen
vesterday, we learned that a gentleman, and
Viend of our informant, and formerly a large
alive owner, has just returned from Havana
nd arrived in Nashville a few evenings since.
Whilst in Havana, he was attracted by an auc
on of slaves at a negro mart.
At the moment he drew near the scene, whicl
was not unlike such pictures iu this country
gme years since, he noticed “upon the block
i. negro man, who caught his eye, and there wa
in instantaneous and undoubted and mutu.
recognition. The sale concluded, the negro
was “knocked down to the highest bidder,”
md our Southern planter was in the act o
moving away, when he felt his arm grasped
md turning beheld the negro who had just
oeen sold, and who addressed him by name.
■ ailed him “Master ,” and begged thu
he might take him back to his old home. If
was one of liis former servants and slaves
Upon further Investigation, lie learned that six
een others of the very slaves who were born
md brought up on his own plantation, and sub
sequently emancipated by Mr. Lincoln’s proc
lamation, were there in Havana, and had been
kidnapped and sold again into the servitude
md bondage they had known from birth.
Who could have taken these unfortunates
over there, but the agents appointed to deliver
them out of bondage in this country ? Answer
it, ye bleeding hearted philanthropists of Mas
■ae.husetts.
Wc are also informed, and we have reason to
believe the information correct, that the extent
to which this traffic is being carried on is con
siderable. An instance is mentioned to u
where a party of individuals Irorn the North,
md among them, persons lately holding offices
tud military positions under the Government,
engaged to carry a ship load of suffering and
destitute freedmen and their families from the
Carolina coast to New Orleans. Tlic philan
thropists, representing capital and religion, fur
nished the transportation in the form of a good
sea-going vessel. The vessel sailed from the
starting point, hut alter repeated inquiry and
investigation, no account so far, of its arrival at
■he port of New Orleans or any other United
States port has been mentioned or heard of.—
The vessel never landed again in America with
ts cargo of three hundred souls, and the in
erence, we think, is plain, coupled with similar
rumors of instances of a like startling nature,
that an extensive traffic is going on between
this country and Cuba, and thec-rimeisbehie
A Nluro Insults a Lady and Attempts
ro Shoot a Watchman. —Yesterday afternoon,
is the steamboat Abeona, bound for St. ‘Louis,
and about to leave-the wharf, an affair tool
.•dace on board that created a great deal of ex
citement both on the boat and on the levee.
There were several negro soldiers of one of the
regiments lately mustered out here, on board,
-nd they were somewhat disorderly. Finally,
just as everything was ready for the boat’s de
parture, one of the negroes, who was some
what intoxicated, went up on the cabin deck,
and going to one of the lady passengers, pulled
out an obscene picture of a half-dressed negro
wench and held it before the lady, at the same
•imo making some very blackguard remarks.
The lady screamed for assistance to have him
.ken away, and the watchman of the boat,
whose name we did not lcaru, came to her re
lief and attempted to make the negro go down
o the lower deck. At this the negro pulled
out a revolver and fired at the watchman, dri
ving him away, and then passed down to liis
companions on the lower deck. The officers ot
the boat at once sent for the police, and in the
meantime took charge of the negro to keep him
rom the infuriated mob that gathered on the
boat from the shore, shouting, “ kill him,”
“throw him in the river,” Ac. A policeman at
last came, and on hearing the case, was deter
red from arresting him, tearing the action of the
Freednten’s Bureau in the matter, and there
*oro went away. After the policeman had left
the mob, every minute growing stronger, at
once took the law Into their hands, and seizing
the negro beat him and threw him into the river
on the shore side of the boat, giving him a good
ducking. He waded to shore and started off in
a full run for the Freedmen’s Bureau, pursued
by a crowd of boys, who made the bricks and
stones fly around around him thick and fast.
The mob then searched for the other negroes,
and seizing them threw them one alter another
into the river, when they swam to shore only :o
•all into the haw of .he bo .. that waited :o:
them, and chased them, yelling and throwing
bricks at them, towards the Bureau. The va
lises, carpet-sacks, and everything that belonged
to them were thrown into the river, and fc-ll a
prey to the hoys that mingled with the mob on
shore.
li is a matter of surprise that the negroes were
not hurt much worse than they were. They
laid in complaint before Col. Thomasson last
night.— Louisville (A';/.,) Courier , 10th.
Teaddecs Stevens— His Antecedents.—
The notorious Tinddeus Stevens commenced
his political life in 1833, in the Legislature of
Pennsylvania, as an anti-Mason demagogue. His
hobby then was anti-Masonry, as it now is the
negro. His first public act was the establish
ment of an inquisition to spy out the secrets of
Masonry. It is thus alluded to by the Pittsburg
Post, which says:
The object of this inquisition was to extort
from men connected with the institution of
Masonry an exposition of their principles, in
cluding the secrets of the Order, which, it is
alleged, they had sworn to preserve inviolate.
To this end, many of the most prominent
statesmen of the Commonwealth were dragged
before this Star Chamber, and held in durance
vile for weeks, and compelled to submit to ev
ery indignity that malice could invent. Had
they been the veriest criminals *they could not
have been subjected to greater ignominy.
Among these who were thus outraged may
be mentioned the lamented Governors Wolf and
Shunk, and the Hon. George M. Dallas; nor
did even the sacred desk escape the persecution
of this fmmtioa.l anti-Mason. The Rev. Mr
Sprolis, an cninent <3l vino of the Presbyterian
Chnrch, was dragged by an officer of the House
before tbe “modern juggernaut.” as he appropri
ately styled the committee, and put under the
torture, with a view of compelling bun to di
vulge, under oath, what he km w about this
ancient and respectable institution. But he
following the example of the distinguished’
statesmen we have named, spurned iluTmiser
able tyrant who would thus have him violate
his honor. These men were only released from
duress by the united votes of the Democratic
members, with a few of the opposition.
We next find this man, Thaddeus Stevens, in
1838, at the head of a wicked conspiracy to
overthrow civil government in our pcnceful old
Commonwealth, by ignoring the clearly ex
pressed will of the people at the ballot-box, and
but for the indomitable courage of the Demo
cratic members of the Legislature, tbe hellish
plot w.ould have succeeded, and the election
treated as though it had never been held.
Mad Stone— A Mrs. Taylor, of T. - Haute,
Indiana, ha- the only nrtiele known as the
‘ mad stone," in that State, we believe. Thar
lady says it has long been In use, and when
used none have been affected or died with hy
drophobia. Tlie stone is porous, and when ap
plied will stick until the poison fills the pores.
A healthy person cannot cause It to adhere. The
pores, when filled with poison, are cleaned by
being soaked in warm milk. That lady makes
no charge for its use, and asserts that a large
number of cases have.been cured by its use.
A Curious Illustration— “ My friends,”
said a returned missionary at a late anniversary
meeting, “Jet us avoid sectarian bitterness.
The inhabitants of Hindostan, where I have
been laboring for many years, have a proverb
that, • Though von bathe a dog’s tail in oil and
Q . 1D splints, you cannot get tbe crook out
of it. Now, a man’s sectarian bias is simply
the crook in the dog’s tail, which cannot be
eradicated, and I hold that every one should be
allowed to wag his own peculiarity in peace!”
General Grant lias issued an order urging
economy in army affairs,
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
ul
Milledgeville, March 32,1866.
SENATE.
AFTERNOON SEBSIOK.
The Senate met at 3 qjplock, p. m., aafadopt
ed the report of the committee on tty appro
priation bill and adjourned, j j .
HOUSE. I
AFTERNOON SESSION. I
A resolution was adopted in relatiL to the
claims of the United States against the Western
and Atlantic railroad, and authorizing settle
ment of the same.
The resolution of the Senate in rewenoe to
Andrew Johnson, President of tha United
States, was adopted.
The House adopted the report of theiponfer
ence Committee in relation to the general ap
propriation bill and adjourned.
SENATE. j'
March 13.
The Senate met at 8 1-2 o’clock, a. m. i
After the adoption of the customary Resolu
tions of thanks to the officers of the Senate,
Judge Gibson, on adjourning the Senate,spoke
is follows: F"f
Senators : Our labors for this session must
iow close. I can well say our work is ample
ed, and no more will the bound of the gavel be
ward in this chamber. While, muciT that we
lave done may not pass certain stations, yet I
0 eel on aceouut of its peculiar fltnesJ anu sym
"metry (while for the present, it ttyy be cast
with the rubbish,) it will yet become the chie
work in our structure, aud be the admiration of
lie beholders. With an honest purpose to do
ustice to all, we have assembled innder the
uost peculiar circumstances, that lave sur
rounded any Legislature ever codrcned in
Georgia. Time may prove our 6hortcimings—
itch must be the fate of all human action, and
I trust our successors may, with the same
honest purpose, correct our errors and inaccu
racies.
To, adapt ourselves to our changed relations
is au easy task to him who participated in the
a.te struggle. And white we yield the absolute
and entire freedom of tbo African race, and the
abstract principle of peaceable secession as a
myth, we claim the establishment an<j suprema
cy of the Constitution of the United States as
the supreme law of the laud, guaranteeing, as it
does, freedom, justice and good government to
all. With the purpose of establishing good
government under the Constitutflfo of our
lathers, ■ let us iu patience bear all,things and
hope all things, trusting that the spirit of the
father of our land may incline all t» do justice
and love mercy.
Your Chief Magistrate, Andrew Johnson, has
dctic, and is doing all he can tt restore our
>nce happy Union. If his efforts should fail,
ili that is lift of republicanism ot this conti
’' •-* O' *•• <h, and a conflict ran* inevitably
ensue in which the supremacy of thaCaucassian
- \v»ii ire UiOi.'i.id beyond deobt. E.verv
.Tiristian hc-art must deplore and l.’iaerrt such a
conflict. Y’et to establish the greatbrinciple of
self-government, we must nerve «prselves for
the issue. To contemplate this scene, even in
the distance, is truly appalling; But who can
ciose his eyes to the inevitable tendencies oj
rampant, irresponsible radicalism! ‘We rely
on the enlightened and patrioticidovotion ol
our conservative brethren of the Storth to the
spirit of the Union and Constitution, hoping
md trusting that its establishment may be per
manent and perpetual.
We cannot close our eyes to the fact that
ere still remains a radical lanat cisnt in the
worth, that would subvert the grtat principles
.>f self-government if not cheeked, conquored
md controlled. We must, however, take for
our watchword. “ The Union and the Consti
pation of our Fathers”—the “Union”being
lie paramount good, and the “Constitution”
our guide—aud if rampant fanaticism should
~eek to subvert the former or mutilate the lat
ter, let us, in common with our conservative
brethren of the North, East and West, rally
to the support of the one and tie defense of
die other, assured that the indissoluble Union
of these States, and free government, under the
Constitution as it is, will reward our efforts. I
mean not to threaten or defy, hut, >f I under
stand the spirit of our people North and
South, I feel justified in assuming that the
Union of our fathers is the design and purpose
of all patriotic hearts, and that any purpose to
transfer the powers of this Government or its
control by constitutional amendments or other
wise to the African or negro race will involve
us in a conflict which, in comparison with the
lute struggle, will be but child’s play. Human
ity shudders at the bare mention of such a eon
!lx*t. This is our land ; these are our homes.
! Beneath the soil on which we tread
iie buried our • aneeators, and the graves
of our children are yet sodden over with
grass, and by their Ride Tain would
we have our remains interred, and woe to the
man who would disinherit us of our birthright
and appropriate it to the use and benefit of a
foreign and barbarous race. tVe must control,
in obedience to the Constitution and the laws
made thereunder, to the exelusion of all barba
rian races; but let us not forget that the African
race among us must be protected in their per
sons and property. Our law's must be wise,
just and equal, and our people must obey them,
in letter and spirit. Further we cannot go.—
And if those who assume to legislate lor us on
ihis question will insist upon turning over our
Government to the African race, then we pre
dict a revolution with incalculable ills to both
races, the last grauddeath strmade of liberty
our Government, one or both of which seems
to be the purpose of a powerful party at the
North, would, beyond doubt, produce such a
result. If such a contest be forced upon us,
let us be prepared “ to quit us as men,” making
no war upon the Union and the Constitution,
a. upon reckless fanaticism, which would cu
;ulph both iu a common rtyp,
Designing and defeated demagogues among
ourselves and usual newspaper correspondents
may, by misrepresentations, fan the flame until
a great fire may be kinkled, and passion again
usurp the throne of reason. Yet f trust that
oar people, warned by the past, will, as one
man, adhere to the Union, Constitution and
Government of our fathers.
I have seen nothing iu your deliberations on
tliis floor, by word or act, to warrant a thought
.at you will be untrue to your obligation to
••"tip, ort, maintain and defend the Constitution
of the United States.”
Ever be tLur.—ever continue to administer
exact and equal justice so all classes and ranks
of your fellow men—ever continue so to speak
and act that good will and harmony may be pro
moted —and, in my judgment, the conservative,
rood men of the North, sustained by the gallant
soldiers who have returned to pursuits of peace,
will soon hurl from power the speculators and
brokers who, in their madness, would barter
awmy ibr their own ambitious purposes that
Union for which the forms of her gallant sons
were mutilated, and their blood and treasures
spilled like waters. For yqur generous and
liberal eo-operations with me in the discharge
of my delicate and onerous duties, ts well as
your kind appreciation of my se-vices, be
pleased to accept my unfeigned thanks. Your
uniform courtesy and gentlemanly bearing to
myself and to each other, deserves the highest
commendation. For the patient and laborious
consideration you have given to every subject
of legislation, and for the wise conclusions at
which you have arrived, you deserve apd will
receive the thanks qf the yholc people of opr
noble old state. Let us, in parting, renew our
solemn obligations to our country, trusting in
'hat beneficent Providence which has so signally
blest u* in the past, for “ wisdom, moderation
and justice” to guide us in all our actions in
the future. I now declare the Senate adjourned
sine die, and bid you all a kind and affectionate
farewell, and a happy and a speedy reunion
with your families and friends.
VALEDICTORY OF BPEAKER HARDEEAN.
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives :
The hour for our adjournment has arrived,
the duties that have devolved upon us have been
discharged, whether far good or evil the future
must determine. It should be a source of pro
found gratitude to that Being who has shaped
our destiny that the icy hand of death has not
stricken a member of this General Assembly,
while many of pur lclluw-citiapqii have fallen
asleep in death. The circumstances that sur
rounded us at our meeting have been somewhat
changed, the provisional government under
which we met has ceased, and we adjourn to
day under a Governor, elected by the sovereign
voice of tjie people of our State. The same
cloud, however, that overspread our horizon
and threatened us with its fury, still blackens
our political sky, and though ever and anon
the sunlight breaks through its curtained
gloom, betokening the glory of a brighter day,
it is soon o’ef clouded and all is dark again
The storm of war passed, yet the echo of its
murmurings fall upon the ear, and the evidences
of its fury are manifest iu the desolation that
marks its sweep. Wherever tye turn, ruin
darkens our prospects, and desolation saddens
us with the fatality of its blight. Our people
bow in sorrow and in sadness—“ for the fields
of lleshbon languish and the vine of Sibiaah”
withers and dies. The fruitful fields, the culti
vated valleys, the cottage home and the city
palace, evidence to-day the hcart-siektaing
ravages of a mighty reyolutiou -as it was unto
J yre so it has been unto us, “in the city i, left
desolation and the gate is smitten with des'ruc
trion,”
“ Yet. though destruction sweep our lovely p'.ainn
Rise, fellow-men, our ‘ manhood yet rcmiiius.’"
And if we are hut true to ourselves, true to the
great principle ol civil liberty, true to tlic niag
na chart* ol our rights, the Constitution of »ur
country, to the indomitable will, the irrepres
sible energy, manly integrity and commeada
b c zeal, that has ever characterized *our teo
plc, “it is not yet a very little while and Ltba
non sliq.ll be turned into a fruitful field.’* ' The
wilderness and the solitary place shall be ulad
and the “ desert shall rejoipe and blossom ns
the rose. io accomplish these ends your
legislation has been directed; you have provided
as liberally as your capacities would allow for
the wants of your destitute poor, have pronerh
appreciated the helpless condition of our maim,
id and wounded soldiery, have giuirded with
commendable fidelity the rights and i mfc reiTta
ol on! lormcj' slaves, have {fussed liberal laws
lo devolope the vast resources of our State
her mineral wealth, her mechanical abilities’
her manufacturing powers, and now with con-'
f ictions of duty discharged, you go henea Jo
the more agreeable and profitable avocations of
civil life and domestic engagements. Think
not, goutlemen, your labprs are over; you but
enter a wider and more fruitful field; Here
you eouteuded only with your own prejudices
i'hertj you should exert your powers, and the
inllitcuee of your position to correct the pas
sions of the hour and to harmgplze yqur peo.
pie with the surrimuhiugs pi 1 the present.-
txhort them to patience, to forbearance and
a manly submission to the authorities that be
Teach them the lessons of harmony, and im
plore them by all that is dear in the present and
uopelul in the future to unite their energie in
the support of a common destiny and a common
country. Prom every quarter pf our State
comes the cheering news of the acceptance by
our people ol the results of the revolution and
the restoration policy ol the Chief Executive of
the Union. We are engaged to-day in a great
conflict with Amalek for political salvation and
national existence. Our political Moses Otas
lifted up his hands and so far Israel has triumph
ed ; but those hands are now heavy—heavy
the responsibilities of his position, heavy with
the weight .of a nation’s redemption and the
perpetuity of the Republic, and unless, like
Aaron and Hur, we stay up his bauds until the
going down of the sun, the Amalekitcs will
prevail and civil liberty and republican institu
tions, panic-stricken at the madness of the hour
aud the malignity of embittered hate, will leave
the world to despotism and misrule. Go forth,
then, to your people in view of the mighty in
terests at stake with words of counsel upon
your lips. Teach then the necessity of a com
mendable patience, a forgiving spirit, a manly
loyalty, an active co-operation with the authori
ties or the government in restoring peace, order
and civil Government to our distracted country.
Tell them—though they are sojourning in the
wilderness of Bhur, with its dark shadows, its
mantling gloom, its forest shades, its dangerous
.nazes—they shall not yet be given over to de
struction. It is true they drink none of Marah’s
waters, embittered by the sad recollections of
the past and the evils of the present if true
to themselves, they may yet repose beneath the
i'aim trees of Elim and in peaceful security en
oamp by her wells of waters.
Cease not your labors for the good of your
people ; “learn to do well, seek judgment, re
,ieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless, plead
for the widow,” aud when your race is run,
when the sun of your existence shall go down
in death, the glory of his beams will long linger
with those who have honored you with their
confidence and support. My connection with
you now closes, perhaps forever. With you
my associations have been of the most agree
able nature, and now, in severing them for a
season, let me tender you the acknoweldgmonts
of a grateful heart lor the uniform kindness and
courtesy you have extended to me as your pre
siding officer, and for the generous conduct
that has characterized your official conduct. 1.
have endeavored, gentlemen, to discharge the
duties of my position faithfully and impartially,
aud if in their performance I have wounded a
feeling or stirred one unpleasant emotion, rest
assured, it was an error of the head, not of tha
heart. To each of you I tender a God-speed to
the constituents that have honored you, and the
family and friends that welcome you home, in
voking upon you the fostering care and pro
tection of Him, whose kind providence has thus
far preserved you amid all the ills of life, and
wishing you, individually, health, happiness
and long "life, I bid you farewell, and adjourn
this House without a day.
New York Ootton Circular.
WEEKLY COTTON CIRCULAR OF CHAP
MAN & CO., FOR THE STEAMER EDINBURGH.
• Friday, March 9.
On Saturday, the 3d inst., our cotton market
opened strong, and sales were effected at the
outside figures of our closing quotations per
City of London ; but towards noon gold rapidly
declined. This brought further operation to a
stand, and sales of 2,000 bales mado up the bu
siness of the day, chiefly for export, at about
44 to 44 1-2 cents for Middling Uplands, and
45 cents for New Orleans.
In consequence of the continued downward
tendency of gold on Monday, and its feverish
and unsteady condition, exporters were in a
measure deterred irom filling their orders;
hence the business was light, particularly as
holders were unwilling to make the concession
which shippers demanded. Only 1,800 bales
changed hands at about the closing rates of
Saturday.
On Friday the market was dull and Irregular,
and most of the sales made were in small par
cels ; the transactions summed up about 1,000
bales at about 43 l-3a440. for Middling Uplands,
and 44 l-2c. for New Orleans. As holders
showed on Wednesday a more general disposi
tion to meet the views of operators, particular
ly on the good ordinary and low middling
grades, a fair business, summing up. fully 3,000
bales, was effected on a bnsir of 43a43 l-2c. for
Middling Uplands, and 44a44 l-2c. for New
Orleans.
The steamer City of New York, with Liver
pool dates to the 22d nit., arrived late on Tues
day evening, and the Java, with Liverpool
dates to the 24th ult., early on Thursday morn
ing. The latter steamer brought the. Broker's
Circular, quoting a decline on the week of l-2d.
The weeks business amounted to 58,000 bales.
Middling Orleans sold at 18 7-Bd, Uplands
• 181-Sd.
The bullion in the Bank of England had in
creased £527,000, under which influence tho
rate of discount was reduced from 8 to 7 per c.
United States 5-20 bonds had advanced to
69 1-2.
The decline in cotton was fully anticipated,
and in great part discounted, before the above
intelligence was made known. The advance, in
■ 5-20 bonds, however, had the effect of still fur
ther depressing gold; consequently exporters
i demanded a still further concession in the
, price of cotton, which, iu some cases, was
• granted.
Great irregularity In price was tho ruling
i feature of the day, with sales of some 1,800
■ bales, ranging between 44 1-2a43c. for Middling
i Uplands, 44a44 l-2c. for New Orloans, with a.
i more marked decliue in Good Ordinary and
Low Middling.
1 To-day the market is further depressed by the
decline of gold to 305-8 per cent., which pre
vents shippers from making any certain calc.u
--i lation as to the price they can pay for the staple.
UA The sales will add up some *1,500 bales, at
the figures we give be-
401-2 41
| Good Middling, 45 45 451-2 4b
The cotton market during the week under
review has undergone an uninterrupted decline,
produced chiefly by the fall iu gold from S'* to
31 per cent., as well as the still greater dread
that the precious metal may, under a pressure
from sales, go even much lower.
The fleecy staple, however, has shown a stub
bornness of pqrpose which no other product of
this country presented, appearing as if it were
desirous to assert the right to independence
against the combined arguments of its would-be
I rulers, thereby indicating that ere long it will be
subject alone to the question of l'tuurc produo-
I tion.
Notwilistanding a vast number of schemes have
been presented to the capitalists of the North
and West, showing large and certain profits
upon small investments in the culture of cot
ton, few are. found to examine the statements,
and still lewer to make the trial even on a small
scale. This apathy toward one section of the
country from another, which is able to grant
the desired aid, will tell fearfully upon all ere
auother year roljs round, unless the South shall
be able to sell 1,200,000 to 1,500,000 bales for a
much greater consideration than 4,500,000
bales would amount to in ordinary years, add
ing, of course, the depreciation of the curren
cy, together with the still greater charge from
inflated value (for we havq not seen one reliable
esjitnate, evon from the most sanguine, place
the crop of 1866 over the figures we set down
some three months ago, namely, 1,500,000
hales.) Yet, manufactured goods of all kinds
have been and still continue to be crowded to
the South. How and when they are to be paid
for the future alone can decide. But the fact
that these goods are sent determines itself the
feeling tlpd pervades all branches of trade and
industry throughout the country in tho faith of
our assertion, that cotton must and will rule
extremely high during the summer and fall.—
Ouy dispatches from New Orleans, making up
the total receipts for the week, havo not come
to hand.
Speyerb, Chapman <fe Co., Brokers.
SEW YORK MARKET.
Money Market. —The Timp 4, cT th,e 10th In
stant, says:
Thwe was ap additional fall of Ito 1 1-4 per
cent oh gold to-day, the sales ranging from
131 1-3 to 131 5-8 per cent, through regular
Change hours. Bills on London, and Paris,
which promised some steadiness last night,
were dull, and the rates unsettled for Saturday’s
steamers. The demand ran in a fair measure
upon good Merchant Bills on France, against
cotton and on Southern Bank bills. We learn
that a large amount of the former werq sold on
private terms, but understood tc\ by 94 cheap
rates. Southern Jiang bills ty ere done »t, 108 3-8
to 1-4 pec cent., and thd rates for bur standard
hankers were 108 1-2 to 108 5-8 per cent, on
London, and 5f.21 l-4c. to 5f.20c. on Paris. The
telegraph reports from New Orleans a cheap
market for Merchant Bills drawn against cotton
and gold, in the close neighborhood of 130 per
cent. The importers and domestic eoronjission
people are njajcmg down their staple dry goods
this week, to meet the decline in gold alK i
cheaper prices for cotton in this and the South
ern markets. The market for money grows
easier in Wall street to the stock brokers,
while there is less facility in passing merchant
papyr at bank and through the disconnt bro
kers. The discrimination in regard to theso
credits, a6 on previous occasions of tho same
nature, is very rigid, and the classification of
names unusually strict, on account of the fall
ing prices of merchandise.
The New York Herald's commercial article
states that there is no improvement in the tone
of the markets, and the future is not encourag
ing for holders of merchandise pr speculators
who are carrying any description of property in
the hope of rcgitqiiig higher prices. Govern
ment has been working for the last year to con
vince the people that contraction of the curren
cy, and lower prices for gold and all commodi
ties were inevitable at an early date, until the
specie standard for all prices was readied. The
people now tie’ipve these official assertions, and
qre acting on them by buying as little and sell
ing as much as possible. It matters not. that
the currency has beau increased instead of be
ing decreased since March, 1865, if the people
believe and act on the reverse. Everybody eager
to sell, and nobody anxious to buy, t# that
which is depressing all our markets and paraly
sing the capital and enterprise of the nation.
PR9DOOK MARKET
Friday-, March 9—6, p. m.
Breadstuff's.— Receipts, 6,251 bbls. flour, 254
bbls. and 2‘,463 bags corn meal, 1,550 bushels
corn, 1,305 do. oats, and 1,250 do. malt. PrUe*
ruled a trifle easier for common g-r,des, but not
particularly lower, under a verjlimitcd demaud.
Prime qualities were field firmly at previous
prices. Tf-hc sales were about 9,000 bbls., at our 1
annexed quotations. Southern flour ruled dull
and somewhat heavy. The sales were to a fair
extent, comprising 600 bbls. Canada fi<j-q r w<ts
in moderate demand, and price.; were without
material change. Inferior brands, if anything,
lltl > e in buyers’fa v °r. The sales were
,bls. Rye flour ’continued inactive and
nominal. Corn Meal was dull and somewhat l
heavy. We quote:
Buperfinc and Y< e»tem flour .|085a7 35 1 «
Extra, gum . . . . 715a 885 1
Choice State 790a 830 |
Common to medium extra Western 760a 840 ]
WRS inactive and heavy, with sales of 1
bu *hels at 73a75 cents for unsound and
<ha«B cents for sound ujtxed Western. Oats
were in moderately active demand at 35»43 cents .
for unsound and 54a55 cents for sound West
ern, 53 cents for State, and 54 cents for Canada.
Rye was a trifle in seller’s favor, with a better
demand. The sales were about 20,000 bushels ■
Western, mainly at 73a80 cents. Malt ruled «
inactive and nominal. Barley waa quiet, but 1
prio«i were not material]/ altered. We not*
salea of about 5,000 bushels Canada West, part
if not all at |l 10:
Cotton.— The market was dull, heavy and,
lower, with salespf 1,800 baleß, mainly at onr
subjoined quotations, which are altogether .
nominal and somewhat above the market at
its close. We quote:
Upland. Florida'. Mobile.
Ordinary 35 35 30 36
Low Middling 38 39 39 40
Middling 41 41 42 42
Good Middling 42 43 43 44
Coffee was dull and nominal. No demand
prevailing for cargoes, and the trade was con
fined to small jobbing lots.
Copper.— The market for ingot continued
inactive, but prices were nominally unaltered.
The sales were mostly in small lots, comprising
about 50,000 lbs Baltimore at 33c., and 20,000
lbs., Portage Lake at 34 l-2a35c. We quote
Detroit at 35c., with heavy small sales. New
sheeting and yellow metal were heavy at pre
vious nominal quotations.
Candles. —The market was nominally un
changed ; small lots of adamantine were sold to
the trade at 22a23c., but no special sales were
heard of. Patent and sperm continued in
small jobbing request at 50a52c , and 40a42c.
Freights were dull, except cotton, which
was offered more freely. The engagements
were; To Liverpool, 800 bales cotton, at 5-16
al-3di; 900 tierces beef at Bs. 6d.; 500 tierces
lard dt 255.; 1,000 bbla. porkat 2s. 6d.; 500 boxes
bacon at 255. To London—22,ooo bushels oats,
at 6d. To Antwerp, 7,000 bushels rye at 7d.—
To Glasgow, per steamer, 7,000 bushels corn at
sd. The charters were, a bark to Amsterdam,
18,000 bushels rye, at Bd.
Molasses. —The inquiry was altogether for
trade lots. Prices continued nearly nominal
for all descriptions. The sales were 75 hhds.
Porto Rico at 70c. and 45 bbls. New Orleans at
*1 to *1 05.
Nails.— No particular change was noticeable
in the market for any description. Cut sold
readily at 7 l-3c., best assortment in small trade
lots at 73-4 c. AH other sorts were rother quiet.
We quote clinch at 9c. to 9 l-2c., forged horse
at 36c. for Bd., copper at 60c., yellow metal at
41c. and zinc at 30c. cash.
Naval Stores. —The market was inactive and
somewhat nominal in all departments. Resins
heavy and rather lower, with small sales com
mon, comprising 650 bbls., mainly at $4 25; we
note sales 300 bbls. strained, $4 50 to $5; 280
bbls. No 2, $6 to |B, and small lots No. 1, $9 to
112, and prime pale, sl4 to sl7—the outside
rate an extreme. Spirits turpentine was nomi
nally a trifle lower. Large lots were offering at
90c., and retail parcels at 92 l-2c. There has
been no demand for crude turpentine, and in
the absence of transactions prices are altogether
nominal; we quote for a basis $6 25, at which
small lots were offered. Tar was dull-and droop
ing, with small sales at $2 50 for Newbern and
$4 25 for Wilmington, with as high as $4 50
demanded for choice lots of the latter. Pitch
was quiet; small lots sold to consumers at $5 85
to $5 50.
Provisions. —Receipts, 2,420 bbls. pork, 503
bbls. beef, 672 pkgs. cut meats, 1,415 do. anil
114 kegs lard and 76 dressed hogs. The market
for pork ruled firmer, with a fairly active de
mand, in part, from speculators. The sales
were about 8,000 bbls., mainly at $26 50 to
$26 871-2 for new mess, closing at $26 75, cash,
$26 50 for old and $27 50 for prime. Also, for
future delivery, including the month oi May,
seller’s option, about 5,500 bbls. new mess at.
$26 621-2 to $27 25. The beef market was
more active, but prices were only steady. The
sales were about 1,000 bbls. at sl6 to S2O for
new plain mess and S2O 50 to $24 for new extra
mess. Also 2,000 tcs. prime mess at $34. Beef
hams were dull and drooping, with further sales
of 150 bbls., mainly at $39 to S4O. Bacon was
quiet and nominal. We note sales of 400 boxes,
mostly Cumberland cut, at 143-4 c. to 16e. Cut
meats were in fair demand. We note sales of
800 packages, at 11c. to 12c. for shoulders, aud
16c. to 18c. for hams. Dressed hogs were nom
inal at last quotations. The lard market was
steady, with a moderate demand. We note
sales of 500 packages at 16c to 181-2, Butter
was steady at 40c. to 51c. for State, and 28e. to
45c, for Western. Cheese rather dull and prices
somewhat in buyers’s favor, with sales of choice
at 22 l-2c. We quote for an inside price 15 l-2e.
Sugar.— The market was without decided
change. The sales were 78 hhds. Porto Rico at
10 3-4e. to 11 l-2c., and 120 hhds. Cuba Musco
vado, and 450 hhds. Demarara on private terms.
Refined was quiet and nominal.
Teas. —The demand continued very moder
ate, and prices have been gradually working
dawn for all descriptions. The sales were
limited to 9,800 half chests greens, 1,700 halt
chests oolongs, about 1,800 half chests uucol
ored Japans, and 1,200 chests souchongs, all
on private terms. Also, by auction, about
1,000 half chests, mostly oolongs and Japans,
comprising a portion of u catalogue of 4,600
half chests, Tho balance, 3,400 half chests,
was withdrawn, owing to unsatisfactory prices.
Tobacco.— The market was dull and heavy,
! with no saloa whatever outside very small lots
to the trade.
Wool.— We notice no change in the market,
unless that prices of domestic wools are lower.
Holder* are selling freely when opportunity
offers; fine wools aru firm only. Foreign
wools are very quiet, and prices in favor of the
buyer ; sales 350 bales Odessa, part at 38c. to
48c.; 2,000 pounds Texas on private terms ;
20,000 pounds Texas 27c, to 32c. ; 150,000
pounds fleeces at 49c. to 68c.; aud 40,000 Mexi
tcan fleeces at 22 l-9c.
Whiskey —Receipts 381 bbls. The market
was quiet and unchanged. Small lots were
seldat $2 28a$2 30.
CONSIGNEES PEK CENTRAL RAILROAD,
Mrs Meister, Jas Miller! J K Hora, S I)
Heard, G Kahra, © Dane, J Sibley A Son, T E Bucb
j ler, J Meyers, W H Potter, T GaUahen, Wilkinson A
i Fargo, Fleming AR, Levy AJ, I Simon A Co, Z
McCord, J 1> Ryu A Rro, Stevenson A S, Barry A B,
G lteukle, A Stevens, 1 Kahn A Co, L G Filette, W
1 ! H TW» B Mustin, T R Richards A Son, E P Clayton,
P VonKamp, McKniglit A D, [D], C Emory, J O m!
’ J Blaokeacio, D Btellings, F E Timmons, W Shep
pard, Bothweli A Co, L Guerin, Blair, 8 A Co, Plumb
r * L > J Galvan, J Evers, H L Hunter A Co, J Nelson
A Son, CAD, HT Feoy A Co, Gray, M A Co, H
, Myers, Sylvester AC, J * Wilcox, J Kenny, J Ross,
, ! Mrs A Frederick.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
SALE AT SSOO—A pair ofgood HORSES,
is years old, and a good family BUGGY.
Apply at 817 BROAD STREET,
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K 6 FOR COL NTY JUDGE.—Wo are authorized to
announce W. MILO OLIN, Esq., as a candidate for the of
fice of County Judge, of Richmond county, at the elec
tion on the second Monday in May next. mhl3
W" A LARGE NUMBER OF THE CITIZENS
of Auguit* atl) support the following gentlemen at the
Municipal Election in April next:
roa mator.
JTos. FOSTER BLODGETT,
poa cocxoit.
Ifret Ward.
HENRY T. FEAY,
JAMES T. BOTHWBLL.
JOHN U. MEYER.
Second Ward.
JOHN PHINIZY, Jr.,
EPHRAIM TWEEDY.
6SORGE COOPBR.
Third Ward.
JACOB B. PLATT,
GEORGE R. CRUMP,
Da. WILLIAM H- TUTT.
fourth Ward.
GRARIBB ESTES,
WILLIAM MULHERIN,
JOHN T. MILLER,
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S»T WE ABE AUTHORIZED TO ANNOUNCE
HENRY I*.*. CIaARK m a Candidate* for Connty Treasu
rer at the election on 4th April next.
m kU-td Many Voters.
THE FRIENDS OF Dr. B. F. HALL AN
nounee him as a Candidate for the office of County Judge
as the election second Wed needs r in May noxt.
mhiO-td*
INDEPENDENT TICKET.
The following named gentlemen will bo supported for
Mayor and Members of Oonnetl at the ensuing ejection
in April next:
POP MAYOR,
JOHN FOSTER.
POB CITY COUNCIL.
First Ward.
JAMBS T. BOTHWBLL,
A. P. ROBERTSON.
JOHN U. MEYER.
Second Ward.
W. J. OWENS,
D. H. DENNING,
JOSHUA K. EVANS.
TMrd Wari.
JACOB B. PLATT,
ALEXANDER PHILIP.
W. A. RAMSEY. '
Fourth Ward/.
JERRY REED,
Da. M. E. BWINNBY,
JAMES GARGAN.
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W INDEPENDENT TICKET—The following
names will be supported for Members of Council, in Wnrd
No. 1, at the ensuing elcotiou in April next:
JAMES T. BOTHWBLL,
A. P. ROBERTSON.
JOHN U. MEYER.
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BS-THE CITIZENS OF THE FIRST WARD
having expressed their preference for the following gen
tlomen te represent them the ensuing year as Members of
Couneil. they are, therefore, announced as Candidates:
HENRY T. PBAY
JAMES T. BOTHWBLL,
JOHN U. MEYER.
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»“Ma. JOHN FOSTER WILL BE EPpPORT
ed for Mayor at tha approaching in April next, by
fr** 4 * l ' Mart Voter*.
~sivERAL
Masonic Bodies of this city are notified to meet at the
Lodge Room, on FRIDAY, Pth of March next, at 7 o’clock,
p. m.,» elect four Trustee* of the Masonic Hall, hi room
of Uriah L. Leonard, Lemuel Dwelle, Thomas Snowden
and Lambeth Hopkins, deceased,
WM. T, GOULD,
Chatpppan of the Board of Trustees.
febPt-td
NOTICE. ~
THE firm, of JONRB A NORRELL having been
dissolved by the death of Mr. Junks, the buai
i oee* of tho concern, together with the Cotton and
other consignment* On band, liai been turned over to c
Mr. A. R. HoraioK, who will carry on the business in
all iu brancho*, and for whom we would solicit tho fa- .
vors of our friends and patrons. All Interested will
please take notice. Mr. HouaiOM will be found at his
office, No. 6 Warren Block.
W. O. NORRELL,
Surviving partner Jonas & Norrhll.,
Augusta, March 14,18 M. mb 15-?*
BOARD.
FEW Families and Single Gentlemen be
accommodated with BOARD and LODGING, by ap
plying at No.«, oensr of Oaapbell and Rpynolda at*.
*UM
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
LAjEtUE SALE
I OF
'dtFAINO
ANI)
GROCERIES.
Will be sold, on THURSDAY, 22d mat., In front A
No. 2 Warren Block:
7,000 tone of GUANO and PHOSPHATES, TO
BACCO, C SUGAR, RICE, BOURBON WHISKY,
CLARET WINE, No. 1 SOAP, PEARL STARCH,
ALE, POUTER, 4c., 4c.
mhlo-ttl
Edgefield Advertiser please copy and aond bill to
this office immediately.
CLOTHLNG, FURNISHING GOODS,
_ hats, &c.
V V E arc now receiving a select stock of flno
CLOTHING, FURNISHING GOODS, HATS, 4c.,
of the Latest Spring Styles, selected expressly for OCX
trade.
We respectfully invito ail who are in need of such
goods to call and examine our stock before purchasing.
No trouble to show goods.
CLOTHING and SHIRTS made to ordor if re
quired. W. M. D’ANTIGNAC 4 CO.,
Post Office Corner,
mhlG-lm Augusta, Ga.
NEW SPRING- GOODS
AT TnE
CHARLESTON STORE.
E aro now prepared to exhibit a large and va
ried assortment of
DRY AND FANCY GOODS,
comprising, in part, elegant DRESS GOODS, in POP
LINS, BAREGES, GRENADINES, 4c. •
ALSO,
A large stock of light and medium colored CALI
COES, varying in price from 20 to 26 cents.
500 yards Plaid English BAREGE, 35 cents, worth
60 cents.
500 yards Colored CHALIES, at 40 conts, worth 60
cents.
1,000 yards Pd CHEONS, at 86 cents, worth 50 eta.
1,000 yards Colored Figured MUSLINS, at 36 cents,
worth 50 oents.
Besides many othor New Goods, all of which will
ho sold low, for cash,
AT THE CHARLESTON STORE,
236 Broad st.
JUST RECEIVED,
THAT LOT OH
ELEGANT GRENADINE ROBE DRESSES.
1 HESE ROBES aro decidedly the most stylish
and elegant thing of the season. As there are hut a
few patterns, Ladies will find it to their advantage to
call early and get thclirst selections,
AT DRAKE’S CHARLESTON STORE,
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"VTOTICE.-AU persons holding claims against
-L. w the estate of George Schley are hereby re
quested to present them properly attested. All per
sons indebted to the estate are hereby requested to
settle up the same immediately.
JOHN SCHLEY,
ROBERT SCHLEY,
Executors, 4c.
Augusta, March 15th, 1866. mhl6-law3m
~\J~ OTICE.—All persons indebted to Nancy Cloud,
N late of Warren county, deceased, are request
ed to come forward and mate immediate payment;
and those having demands against said deceased will
present them duly authenticated within the time pre
scribed by law. O. L. CLOUD,
mhlß-c6 Adm’r.
Just Received by Express,
AT THE AUGUSTA SEED STORE,
A LIMITED supply of White and Yellow
-J V ONION SETS, in fine order. Call soon if
you wish thefii.
Also—A further supply of GARDEN SEED.
mhl6-l* ‘ C. PEMBLE.
EXCHANGE.
felGnT on New York
Sight on Charleston
Sight on Savannah
At the National Bank of Augusta
For sale. GEO. M. THEW,
mhlC-1 Cashier.
$lO REWARD.
THE above reward will he paid for the return of a
Black Buj! Terrier DOG : large size of the kind,
long, shaggy, ►lick hair, white snot in liik breast, left
eye partially closed from a Ikk, e irs and tail uncut,
and answers to the name of “ Pup ”
mhlfi-a* JOliN A. BARNBH, Ja.
RICE.
50 BAGff Choice RICE.
Jlist received and for sale low by
rohD-t C. E3TES.
APPLES, APPLEs7~
30 BBLS FINE APPLES.
On consignment, and for sale by
mhl6 ' 3 11. T. PEAY 4 CO.
r for savannahT~
TIIE Steamer SWAN will receive Freight for Ba
vanuah, until 2 o’clock, TO-MORROW AFTER
NOON, at which hour she will leave.
ml JNO. A. MOORE, Agent
Lxvciifor’t Sale.
BYvlrtUO of the last will and testament of Rohort
, • . l u )!i, ' le1 ’ deceased, will he sold, at the Market
sjxouse, in. th e town of Louisville, Jefferson county, on
the first Tuesday in MAY next, the one-half a lot of
Land, in the villa go of Bethany, containing one acre,
having on it a good Shoe Shop. Also, the one-half In
terest in a House and Lot known as the Elliott House,
adjoining lots of S. Z. Murphy, Llndza Coleman and
others, containing one acre. Sold as the property of
Robert W. Daniel, for the benefit of the heirs and
creditors of said deceased.
LUTHER C. SMITH, F.x’r.
~ . MARY ,T. DANIEL. Ex’r
March 16tli, 1866. mhl6-td
to ‘ke estate of
-L. xl Robert W. Daniel, late of Jefferson oounty
deceased, are hereby required to make Immediate pav
™ont V« n j thoß <-* having demands against said estate
are notified to present them in term, of the law.
LUTHER C. SMITH, Ex’r.
„ MARY J. DANIEL, Ex’x.
mhl6-e6 ’
A, JEFFERSON
v • , aß ’ J ? meß G - Cain applies to me tor letters of
administration, with the will annexed, on tho estate of
Thomas Welsh, deceased:
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish, all and
singular, the kindred and creditors of said deceased to
be and appear at my office within tho time prescribed
by law, and show cause, if any they have, whv said
letters should not he granted. *** *
vilh','tifis”6tli day Karaite
_ mhl6-30d NU:U^Ati niEllL ’
a BORGIA, J EFFERSON COUNTY.-Whore
*?■ ? ,ar ? A - mith applies to me for letters
or dismission from the guurdianship of William J.
Smith, minor heir of Absalom Smith; deceased •
Tliesc are, therefore, to ei»e and admonish, ail and
singular, the kindred, and all othor pessons Interested
in said minor, to be ngd appear at my office within the
time proscribed by iaw, and show cause if any they
have, why said letters should not be granted J ™
mbl6-40d NICHOLAS DIEHL, Ordinary.
MACHINERY REPAIRED and put In run
ning order. SAWMILLS and all other MA ■
BfAf'VflMl-Fmv?! T* ,h qU ' Ck ,UB P at, ' h - Her.vy
n.v .. done at short notice. T „i 8 o
tw tb r° ; } Uen J 01 > , of planters and others to the fact
WAGON WORK" WUEEL BRIGHT «d
.TAa MULLIKEN,
mhl6-lm K s ' uoldß Btrec ‘> near B»P»e» Btablos.
FOR SALE,"
A 26-nORSE POWER ENGINEand BOILER,
S MILL ' A,so - onc eei
ntu. xUiV\ . bTO;yEH ' and one set HONE, for
S1 8 » forty-two inches diameter, which I will sol!
at a low figure. JAB. MULLIKEN,
ml\l6-tf KCynoWs • treet ' near Kx Ptess Stables.
ALL QUIET ON THE POTOMACI
ALHAMBRA BRINKIN G SALOON,
(Formerly the Old Shades,)
ON ELLIS STREET,
In the rear of the Central Hotel,
I b '\ i ; wl V up and well furnished with BRAN-
L Y r CHAMPAGNE, REOARS, Ac.
ooine of that old Reserve CRUSE WHISKY still
left, to which we invite the attention of all who wish
something good to drink,
mlll,i '° .TAMES R. POWKI.r.
first class groceries.
JEIIECEIVED, por Steamer, THIS I>AY.
6 bbls Soft Shell ALMONDS
5 bbls Brazil NUTS
3 bbls Pecan NUTS, fresh and lino
25 Beef TONGUES
4 casks fine Sugar Cured HAMS
PICKLES, SARDINES
COVE OYSTERS, very Bno
SIFTERS, PIE FRUITS
TOMATOES, PEAS, BEANS
.TELLIES, feUOOMS
RUM, OIN, BRANDY
Imported WINES, of ait kinds
LEI TER PAPER, splendid article
CRACKERS, of <)very description
DRIED BEEF, BUCKETS, &c.
And a variety of other things usually kept in a fin
class Grocery ft tore.
mlil4-l , W. A. RAMSEY A CO.
CORN, HAY," FLOUR,
MEAL.I
D O BUSHELS priifie Yellow CORN
100 bales Hasten) HAY '
25 bbls Extra FLOUR
25 bbls Double Extra FLOUR
100 bushels Bolted MEAL
For sals by
W. C. MACMURPHY * CO.,
Owner Jasksoa and MUIS ttf
• HEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
STEAM ENGINES
SIV'JfILLS,
*O. 4c. *o.
REMEMBER, SAW MILL MEN,
The undersigned is the fob Manufacturer of
Burkows’ Imfrovrd H*ad Block _
for Saw Mills. Patent applied for.
JH. K. TIMMONS daatna to fell tka aUaettt* of
those wanting the above articles to those of #
HIS OWN MANUFACTURE.
They are the MILLS that will aut the Lumber, are pow -
crfol and durable, and wiU gtva aatl.faeUon In every
particular. OaU and examine them, at tha Poundery
and Machine Works, No. 110 Feawick afreet, oppo
site the Water Tower.
WITH PAOILITIBB UNSURPASSED,
North or South, he feel* confident that he can giro
entire gattafrotlon to all who will glva hlm a call,
9. R. TIMMONS,
No. 170 Fenwick at,
mhl6.lt Opposite the Water Tower.
Transcript will eopy.
“ " SPLENDID STOOK
O*
WHISKY.
20 bblsnhotab
20 bids QUAKER
20 bbta MolUatae’a EXTRA
ifjla
25 bbls Old BOURBON, 2 yearn
20 bbta Old RYB
15 bbls Premium ROSE
25 bbta Tennessee WHITE
20 bbta Glbaoa’s MONONGAHKT.A
40 bbta Strictly Pure
BOURBON “O. D.” * year* otd
Por sals eatremsly law.
J. O. MATHBWSON.
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Spring Clothing.
THE fashionable public, and those who desire
good fitting CLOTHING, manufactured of the
finest Saxony Wool or Linen, unmixed with
COTTON,
where tha greatest durability and finish are combined,
will find it To their Interest to axamlne our stock. W o
are offering
AT THE PRESENT
time greater bargains thaa ean be obtained in any oth
er Fashionable Clothing Establishment. Give us a
call and you will find oar
PRICES
are extremely low. Economist. who wish the advan
tage of buying Spring Clothing at
THE CHEAPEST
rated, will find it to their interest to give us a,call.
To onr old pafrone, we would respectfully say that
every
ARTICLE
has Ix»sd marked down to eorretpond with the present
scarcity of cash, and eannot bo surpassed anywhere
t
IN AMERICA
for cheapness. Our (took is varied, and has been se
leeted with great cart. We keep a full stock of extra
else Garments, to meet the demands of those who
cannot get fitted at any other establishment.
Call and examine for yourselves, at
I. SIMON & CO.’B,
Fasbisnxxlb Otorxixa Emxueßusirr,
*M Broad street,
de»2*-6a» Augusta.
PALACE STABLES.
/
I'HE undersigned beg* leave to return his thanks
to tha citizens of Augusta, and tha public generally,
for tho genaroua patronage heretofore extended to
him, and eolirtta a continuance of the saxno.
Raving reeeetly fitted up this establishment
throughout, and added to the stock soma new and
KLBSADT CARRIAGES,
'GENTLB and FINE HORffES„
CAREFUL DRIVERS, sto., sto.,
he is prepared to afeemmodate the public for occa
sions of
BUSINESS OR PLEASURE.
The especial attention of families wishing to avoid
the expense of keeping Carriages, Horses, etes ta
called to the feet that be baa provided several
NEW AND BLESANT OUTFITS
which will be retailed
EXPRESSLY FOR TRIE CLAM)
OF BUSINESS.
They may find Mto their interest to make either a
special or gewaral arraapwaeut tor them.
Brooms,
SINGLE AND DOUBLE
TOF AND OPEN,
At all time* kept for hire.
FINE SADDLE HORSES,
among them two or three fine pacers- -for ladles—per
fectly gentle and kind.
WEDDING PARTIES
will be attended In the most elegant style.
FUNERAL OCCASIONS
wii.L vast wrru
PROMPT ATTENTION.
UORHKO AUTO MULHM
KEPT BY
THE DAT,
WEEK,
MONTH,
ox THAR,
At customary rates; and always ou band for sale.
Pledging hie beet efforts to please, he hopes to merit
and receive a share of the publle patronage.
M. A. DEHONBY.
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NEW GOODS.
r FIIE undersigned have now tn store, and daily re
ceiving, the most complete assortment of Foreign and
Doiuoatie DRY GOODB ever offurod in Augusta,
which they offer on moat reasonable terms, Wholesale
and Retail. H. F. RUSSELL 4 CO.
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FOR SALE,
A PAIR of handsome young Carriage and Sad*
die HORSES —Black-Hawk Canadian. They
have been ridden from New York by a gentleman and
lady on a pleasure trip. Qan be seen at the Kentuoky
Stables, Campbell street. Inquire for owner at
Planters’ Hotel. tehlS—S*
LUMBERYARD.
T UMBER, of all kinds, now ia yard, or cut to or-
JLJ der on abort notice, and very reasonable terms.
Aleo, Pine and Oak WOOD, in quantities to suit pur
chaaere. JOHN TILKEY,
14 Ob Ga. RR„ rear es Osmond’s Workshop*.
-KEROSENE.
BEST
LAMPS.
A te LAMP line,
Attachments for GAff
BURNERS; end. all the VALUABLE Lamp Un.
provementa of the age, may be found at the
“LAMP MAN’S” BAZAAR,”
Ml Beoad street, CHEAPER than the cbenpent
-1 nAIO-lm W. J. FARR.
Day, Hassell & Benjamin,
AUCTIONEERS,
Offer at Privets gala,
owe fessiwwn nuar»
feMMT