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About Tri-weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 18??-1877 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 13, 1868)
CONSTITUTIONALIST. AUGUSTA. GA. FRIDAY MORNING. NOV. 13, 1868 THE BEAUTIES OF RECONSTRUCTION. We recently treated of the extraordinary doings in Florida, and the complete revolu tion which has taken place in the political engineering of that State. We recur to the subject again, not only because it invites attention, but because what was merely surmise before is proven to be actuality now. We said that the late destruction of arms was no “ rebel outrage,” in the com mon acceptation of that term, but a part of the conspiracy existing against the “ Gov ernor”; that decent Southern men had had nothing to do with it, but the actual perpe trators might be found among the scala wags who have revolted against the carpet baggers. The telegraphic advices of yes terday more than confirm this surmise. We say more than confirm it, because not onlj does “Governor” Reed accu'se his im peaching adversaries of the “ outrage, but his adversaries retort the destruction upon him and his minions. Really, there is a pretty state of affairs, and, taken in con nection with other items, such as alleged “lying” and “stealing” on the part of the “ Governor,” present a picture of Congress ional reconstruction at once absurd and disgusting. The “ Land of Flowers,” through Con gress and General Meade, was perhaps the most thoro lghly Radicalized State in the South. It was a bow-shot beyond South Carolina, and that is saying a great deal- The fact is there is a natural antagonism between those who come South as carpet bag adventurers and those who have been born here and grow Radical for the sake of gain. They form alliances, but not from choice, and resort to all kinds of artifice to get each other on the hip. This we take to be the secret of the Florida imbroglio and so will it be, more or less intensely, all over the South. The better class of men who come among us will gradually gravi tate toward the better classes here, leaving the miserable domestic renegades to the wretched comforts of a few deluded and in cendiary negroes and their own unpleasant association. What can Congress do for its precious pet—it« darling scheme? Will there be a fresh bit of tinkering, or satisfied with having the national spoils for four years more, will the reconstructed State Govern ments be permitted to stand or fall, as the case may be. We find the Conservative Republicans ap parently surfeited with their late victory and determined to leave the reconstructed States to work out their own salvation or annihilation. The New York Times more than insinuates their temporary character. It says: “ The Republican victory establishes no new doctrine in regal dto suffrage. It recognizes in Congress no control over suffrage in the States, or in any of the States. It leaves that matter precisely where it found it, in the Constitution of the United States. Georgia or South Caro lina—being States of the Union—may make such amendments to their constitutions as they see fit, in regard to suffrage or anything else, just as Ohio and New York may ; and they are Subject, as Ohio and New York are aubjcct, only to the Constitution of the United States, in so doing. They arc subject—as every other State is subject—to the provisions of the Four teenth Amendment of the Constitution. They may, under that article, exclude negroes from the suffrage as Ohio does, but if they do they cannot couut them ns a basis of representation, nor cau Ohio. And if, by requiring special qualifications for voting of them, they exclude a large part of them, as New York does, from the suffrage, their representation in Congress must be diminished in the same proportion ; and so must the representation of New York. And in deciding upon these or any other modi fications of their State constitutions, all who are recognized as people and entitled to vote by those constitutions, are entitled to a voice and a vote on proposed amendments. No class can be excluded. If negroes are to be excluded from voting, it must be by amendments to the State constitutions, which shall be voted for by a majority of all the voters, including negroes. And the same rule precise'y applies to all the States. “ It is a mistake, therefore, to nssntne or to suppose that the National Government, in Re publican bands, is to force negro suffrage, or any other suffrage, upon the Southern States, or any other States, without regard to the will of their people.” The Herald is even more explicit. It says: “ Georgia lias acted on the Congressional re quirements, has established a government re publican in form, and has, by law, been accept ed and declared a State iu the Union, and there is no power anywhere to go behind this record and dive into her history to find any difference between her status and the status of Pennsyl vania. Those Southern communities that have acted on the reconstruction laws have the full right now to govern themselves, and must do It. They must make their own laws, and these laws, Whether they suit Northern men or uot, must express the will of the majority. The nigirer has been given political power as a grand thing to protect him in the places in which freedom, with scarcely volition on his part, has come to him. Let him stand on that. There can lie no new interference, on any pre text, that his protection is insufficient. Having made the laws for the Southern people as we chose while we had the right, we must stand by them even if they fail; for if we go further now—if we claim that the nation has a power to discriminate against certain States in their domestic concerns and interfere —then we ob literate the last right of States and the last safety of the people. The nigger, therefore, is in the bands of his neighbors and in his own hands, and must fight out his owu destiny at the polls, in the fields, in the schools, iu the workshops. He has the ballot; let it protect him.” Wendell Phillips and the ultra Radi cals insist upon constant interference of the Central Power and claim that everything and everybody, North and South, “ pivots on the negro.” Since the negro has, in Georgia especially, taken a notion to Demo cracy, we are curious to learn how Phil lips’ pivot will work for Phillips’ scheme. Meantime, Congressional Reconstruction is still in a muddle and a very pretty contest is promised over it between the colliding forces of Republicanism. Much depends upon General Grant. Which w&y shall he throw his sword ? Hardly in the scale of Phillips. Let him throw it as he will, the more the Radical Congress has to do with Reconstruction the sooner will Reconstruc tion perish of its own and its contributed rottenness. The underground railways in London have often been alluded to as an example of the ben efits arising from such means of intercommu nication in large cities. Thug the Metropoli tan railway was reported to have declared divi dends of seven per cent, per annum on a capi tal of $18,500,000, besides paying interest on a loan of $115,000,000. The English Railway News, however, has recently asserted that while the dividends of the Metropolitan Rail way, for the past five years, have amounted to $3 995,000, the actual net earnings have only been $1,723,000, and that the dividend lor the first six months of 1868, if properly made up, would not exceed one per cent. [From the Meridian Clarion. The Resources of the South. We are indebted to the Galveston News for some choice extracts (which we have not seen elsewhere) from a late speech of Mr. John Everitt, of London, delivered since his return from his visit to the South ern States. The picture which he drew of the natural resources of the South is not more favorable than true. He said that her soil is overflowing with fatness; that with in her limits are to be found everything that can possibly contribute, if properly devel oped, to the comfort and happiness of a polished and refined people. It is even so. The South possesses the natural advantages enjoyed by all other sections of the Union combined* She is more capable of becom ing a great manufacturing country than Massachusetts. She has fuel and water power in abundance, and the raw material of the great article which more than any other enters into commerce, is her peculiar production. Besides, her capacity for pro ducing breadstuff’s is not surpassed by the most favored region. And here, too, the fruits of the tropical and temperate zones grow. It was no less truthfully than beau tifully said by Mr. Everitt that it is a “ land, so to speak, flowing with milk and honey. It had broad rivers and streams; it bad glo rious valleys; it had lofty mountains; it has everything inviting to humanity.” The great bulk of the soil he traveled over was of the garden-mould sort—a dark mould from two to fourteen feet in depth. He had seen hundreds of thousands of acres with a black mould fourteen feet deep, that would bear anything in the range of culture to any extent, without manure. What would they say when he told them that such land could be bought—he believed he had bought some of it—at five dollars per acre ? He also spoke highly of the mineral wealth of the country. Besides corn, wine, oil, cotton, tobacco, aud everything else in the way of crops, iu the greatest abund ance; he had seen mountains of iron ore— great lumps—which looked as if they had been run in crystals. There were also there towering mountains of coal—coal seen under water —coal in the greatest abundance, and of good quality, too. Would they believe him ? There had never been more than two millions of la borers in file Southern States. He had searched the records from the Mississippi river to Washington. He had spent hours and hoars in the middle of the night, f earehiuir for facts, and there never had been two millions of psvd laborers in the thirteen States—in a country thirteen times the size of England. They would think that two millions of laborers would do very little. What was the result? These thir teen States had exported, dollar for dollar, more in amount than the Northern States with their teeming millions—more than Russia, more than Prussia, more than Aus tria, more than Germany, more than France, aud leaving out the manufactures of this country, more than England.— These two millions of laborers had export ed more dollars’ worth than any country on the face of the globe, and tuey might include manufactures of any other country except England. In fact, they might put two or three of those countries together, and then the South would beat them.— What with this small number of laborers, labor was wanted and was well paid.— There was a wonderful field in which hu manity might go to enjoy its own indus try. The South was a glorious land, full of plenty. The probable future of the South ? What a landscape! What a panorama ! How it stretches out over hundreds and thousands and millions of acres of land to be covered with a teeming population! When he thought of the glorious views he had had there, and then thought that that vast coun try was to be peopled by large populations, by busy pushing hives of men, when he re membered that this beautiful soil was to be cultivated, lie felt that language was utterly weak and insignificant, lie saw, there, a country capable of taking within its arms almost the entire human race; what a future was that country to have ! Was there any man who could presume to guess ? The imagination fails, aud the mightiest wing of thought tires and becomes weary, and we are glad to get away from the theme. It would be a garden laden with ricLosi. of human needs, a country full to overflowing with all the requirements or human necessities. It was to be a country gloriously great and gloriously free, and how few years would it require to effect the change! Mr. Everitt saitl lie was anxious to see colonies of fifty to one hundred families go out there and settle in those lands. It was of no use, however, to send men who were not adapted. Many people go who had better have stayed at home. Men who un derstood farming, and who had a litt'e money—not much—were the sort that was needed. A mau with one thousand dollars there, could do as much as witn ten thou sand dollars in England. Every nation grew its owu doctors, lawyers and shop keepers fast enough. The thing America wanted was not the sloughings but the cut tings of the old country. Men of nerve, bone sinew, muscle and brains. This is the kind of talk which we like. Mr. Everett comprehends our resources and understands our wants. But let not the men and women of the South wait for out side aid. Let them, improving their oppor tunity, strike for themselves. Their lines have been cast iu pleasant places—if they but knew it. . [From the N. Y. Herald. The Power in Congress. Seventy-one votes will be a third of the next Congress, and the Democrats have eighty-four. They are, therefore, not in such a minority as to leave them practical ly out of account in all legislation, as we have recently seen them, nor yet are they iu such power as to give much effect to their own ideas. They must, at least, be consulted for all those occasions when a two-thirds vote is necessary. This may not be much power, since the great use of the two-thirds vote is to overcome vetoes, aud since the majority, having its own President in power, can scarcely expect many vetoes. But then we must remem ber that this phrase about the majority having its own President maybe interpret ed in different ways. Grant is certainly not the President of the Radical choice; and if the party in the majority is as ex treme in its tendencies as it was in the Fortieth Congress, it may find that the President it was compelled to nominate is an Executive it will be compelled to re spect. Between Grant aud Radicalism There canuot be that harmony that sup poses a previous consent on all sorts of party projects; for between the effective leaders in such projects and Grant there is no sympathy and no common understand ing. The position of the Republican party is peculiar in this respect. Butler is the real Republican leader iu Congress. • He will not only claim and assume the position with all that aggressive audacity which has distinguished his conduct everywhere but in battle, but a large following in Congress itself will in all probability concede that he has fairly won' it. An inesistible fact is that in full view of his course on impeach ment, and opposed by a Conservatived Re publican, he is returned by a very lanre majority in a State that gives the largest Droportionate majority for Grant. He is the best expression of the Radical spirit, and will force himself to the front place.— What sort of relations can there be between this Republican leader in Congress and the so-called Republican President in the White House? More than this, the outside expo nents of Radicalism accept Grant quite as little as the hero of Fort Fisher is likely to. All men remember how absolutely Grant’s nomination was forced down the unwilling throats of the Radical doctrine peddlars in the Republican press, from Wendell Phil lips to Theodore Tilton. With the irascible character of these people and their dictato rial spirit, it is hardly possible they can avoid collision with the great captain, who will not be driven by them,'and is not likely to accept their visionary views of national policy, and who will relentlessly put down all their corrupt practices. Grant is not the property of any party, nor the President of any party. He was nominated for the Presidency by the Her ald, was forced upon the Republicans by the popular response to that nomination, and has been elected without opening his mouth. He has no debts to pay, and has the opportunity, as we believe he has the principle, to show by his conduct adhesion to the grand idea that parties are done with the day after the election. Hd will be the President of the whole nation. As such, he will collide with the Radical ma chine, and there will be vetoes inevitably. J The Democrat!? seventy-five will there fore be an important quantity, and it may rest with these members to shape the course of the coming Congress. [From the Southern Recorder. What is an Acre Worth ? When the Southern farmer, be he a large or small one, will rightly compute the value of an acre, aud set the proper worth by it, we may then expect that material and real wealth to the State that is only now imagi native. We call ourselves an agricultural people, and admit that the wealth of our State lies in its productions. To a great extent, we may say altogether, that as a people we are dependent upon our cotton, rice, and tobacco crops for what money we make. As to our corn crop, we hardly feel like counting it in, if we judge from the thousands of bushels that are bought West to supply the demands of our people, and the thousands upon thousands of dollars we send out of the State for that article alone ; not counting the millions of pounds of bacon that we buy also from the West. Every man that cultivates a few acres of land imagines that he must put half or two tlnrds in cotton, that cotton is the ouly thing that will bring ready money. We would not have a word to say about plant ing cotton, if each acre planted brought a bag; when we know that it takes from three to four acres of worn lands to make a bag, we feel that it is labor and money thrown away, aud that the farmer has never for a moment sat down and calcu lated the worth of an acre well manured aud well worked. An acre of land well manured well taken care of, is worth from SSO to S6O. An acre that will bring twenty-two bushels of wheat and thirty bushels of corn the same year, is worth $100; aud auy pains-taking farmer can make an acre produce that. The manure dropped in stable or yards bv horses, cows, hogs, sheep, &c., will make one acre well. We speak of the small far mer, the man with but little stock. Care and economy is all that is needed to save manure ; but so long as we drive along in our slip-shod way of making and saving manure, we may expect but poor returns from the soil. If the small farmer could be induced to take half the pains the New England farmer does on his place, there would not be a farm in Baldwin county that would not be wortri at least S3O to the acre. But what we desire to call the especial attentiou of our farmers to, is the import ance of manuring at least one acre well, and planting it iu something that will bring him SIOO clear. It can be done, and done easily, but there must be a system about it. Let the small farmer who reads this look at the nearest city or town to which he trades, and see what articles of provisions sells'readily. Take, for instance, sweet potatoes; everybody eats them and they have re tdy sale; they. keep..well and can be sold by the wagon load or bushel at fifty cents to one dollar. A farmer knows how many bushels an acre will bring, and he knows that he can get a hundred dollars an acre even at fifty cents a bushel. Take the ground pea ; it will sell readily and bring a good price. Take onions, take Irish potatoes, take peas. Put the acre in anything but cotton, and it will bring more money than cotton would. Much manure is sometimes saved and wasted by trying to manure ten to twenty acres when it should have been put on one or five. Farmers get discouraged, aud say it won’t pay to save manure, because they have tried it, and their crops were a failure, and .‘ailed because they tried to do too much with too little, just as a foolish housewife would try to make oue blanket cover three beds. [ From the New Albany Comninrcia!. George D. Prentice and the Louisville Journal. There has been considerable in the papers of late in regard to the dismissal of that veteran editor, Geo. D. Prentice, from the Louisville Journal , with which he has been identified for so many years. First it was stated that he had been dismissed and then that he had not. Geo. Harding, of the In dianapolis Mirror, gives the following ver sion of the matter: The relations of Mr. Quo. D. Prentice with the Louisville Journal have been for some time an interesting topic of conversa tion in literary circles. From reliable par ties we obtain the following facts: Mr. Henderson, of the Journal , did dismiss Mr. Prentice from the paper he had built, and with which he had been Identified so many years. This was, perhaps, an economical stroke of business management on the part of Mr. Henderson, but the effect was most as toundingly different from what he expected. Instead of saving forty dollars a week—the amount of Prentice’s salary—he found he had raised a hornet’s nest about his ears. The Board of Trade and the citizens were up in a moment. Measures were in augurated to withdraw all patronage from the Journal, and to purchase a complete outfit for anew paper, with a fund to float it, and make it a present to Mr. Prentice. For a few days Mr. Henderson was in a bloody sweat of apprehension. He flew around like a hen with her head off, and made the incst abject apologies to Mr. Prentice, with overtures for a resumption of amicable relations. Mr. Prentice reject ed his overtures. In the meantime Clarance Prentice met Henderson on the street, and reminded him that when he (Clarance) sold out his inter est in the Journal, it was with the distinct understanding that his father should have a salary of S4O a week during life, whether he did anything to earn it or not. This arrangement Mr. Henderson had disregarded, and young Prentice, in pur suance of Kentucky chivalry, asked him if he was armed ; if not, he had better arm himself, as it was the deliberate intention of Mr. Clarance Prentice to eviscerate and chaw him up. Mr. Henderson he was not armed and did not intend to be; that he had treated Prentice, perc, shamefully, and wouldn’t fight Prentice, fils, on any terms. On the contrary,fhe had made all the reparation he could to the old man, and negotiations were pending which lie felt sure would make matters right. A Ken tucky chivalry can’t eviscerate and chaw up a man who refuses to arm himself, and so the matter ended. Suitable arrange ments have been made and Mr. Prentice is again at work on the Journal. A Sabin is the military appointee to the office of Circuit Judge iu the Brenhavn, Texas, district. His fitness for the position may be judged from the following, which ap pears in a late number of the Brenham In quirer : On Saturday night’s train arrived the Judge, slightly fainting. On Sunday, aud especially at night, the Judge became beast ly drunk, using language to good citizens unbecoming his position—which alone sav ed him from a sound pummelling. On Monday morning reports were rife of the departure of tiie Judge. Shortly, however, it was ascertained that he had departed for the country iu company with a freedmau in search of buttermilk. Jurors and witness es were pouring into town. During the evening the Judge returned, and, after im bibing, attempted to reach the court house, in which he finally succeeded. After coon ingthe steps of the court yard and climb ing up the steps, he succeeded in reaching the bench. The court was called and then adjourned until 4 o’clock the following day. The Judge was certainly the muddiest man, and exhibits the appearance of having been wallowing with the hogs. By the assist ance of an attorney, he was enabled to reach the hotel amid the laughter and jeers of thousands, who witnessed this strange pre cedence. The next evening, 4 o’clock, p. m., found the Judge in no better condition, but he finally managed to reach tlje stand, shorn of the extra mud. Court was called, the grand jury organized,, with but little or no change. Court, adjourned, and the Judge called at the bar, took another smile, and reached his hotel. Daring the night he became no better. On Wednesday morning about day, in a bar room, he announced his intention of going down on the train. When asked what he would do with the court, he said. “ Let it go to h—ll.” “ Then, Judge, what will you do about the grand jury now sit ting ?” He remarked, “Let them sit till they hatch.” The train conveyed the Judge on his home ward trip. The above is a plain, unvarnished state ment of facts, as we hear and have seen, and needs no comment at our hands. The Sudge is a military appointee. A dispatch was duly forwarded on Tues day last to General Reynolds, setting forth the condition of legal matters, and asking the appointment of some proper person to hold this term of the court. We learn that on last evening the following name was an nounced as the appointee : George R. Scott. American Children. OBSERVATIONS ON THEIR MANNERS, BT DAVID MACRAE, A SCOTCHMAN. THE PHILOSOPHY OF THEIR PRECOCITY. American children are undoubtedly preco cious. I ttiiuk this peculiarity, though partly owing to the quickening effect ol climate, is due to some extent to the American practice of bringing children to the table from their infan cy. A New England lady, who boasted of eleven childrcu 0* fjf rare thing in New Eng land), told me that » ery one of them had been brought to the table at seven months old, and at thirteen months could handle their forks as neatly as she could I Brought to the table so soon, and hearing all that goes on, they begin at a preternaturally early age to take an inter est in general affairs, and to acquire the ideas apd language of grown people. Anold doctor of divinity in Canada said that, calling one day at a lriend’s house, a little girl was sent in to amuse him till her mother was ready. The child told him, among other things, that she had been writing a parody on Kingsley’s song of the “Three Fishers ;” but, when drying it at the open fire, it dropped lrom her hand and was burned. “ Burned !” exclaimed the doc tor ; “it I had been the fire I should have stopped till you had got it out again !” “O, no, doctor,” said the child gravely, “ you couldn’t have done that. Nature,you know, is nature, and her laws are inviolable !” It near ly knocked the doctor off his chair. I remember one day at dinner—this was iu the State of New York—being amused at the exquisite combination of epicureanism and forethought on the part of a little boy of nine. “ Mother,” said he, “ give me only a little of the miuce pie, as I shall want to taste of the pudding.” The children’s remarks on political subjects tickled me most, for the reason, perhaps, that I have really heard anything of the sort from children at home. A small boy ot eight will stand up to you and say : “ What do you think, sir, of the state of the country?” I remember being amused, beyond expres sion, at one little biy in Brooklyn, who, dur ing the time of the impeachment trial, began one evening at supper to upbraid his father for supporting Andrew Johnson. In one of my former papers I spoke of a lit tle Canadian girl, who, iu ihc midst of a con versation on politics, threw in her opinion that Canada should have had Maine and part of New Hampshire. A case, suggested by its similarity, occurred in Boston, where a little girl, not much higher than my knee, with whom I was playing a g;. me on the carpet, asked me, with a serious countenance, what effect I thought the acquisi tion of Russian America would have ou Great Britain. 1 laughed, the question was so odd ; hut, on seeing the litlle eyes looking up into my fee in mute surprise, I recovered myself as suddenly as possible, and endeavored to put mailers to rights by saying that the thing might possibly lead to some snow-balling between the two nations. But the little politician iu petti coats evidently thought this was trifling with a grave subject and said no more. There is one unpleasant feature of American piecoeity—it tends much more frequently than hi re to pertness, and litter want of reverence for parent!. “ Papa, don’t be foolish,” 1 beard one little girl say, when her father was attempt ing to describe to me how some comical French man bad spoken in public. You will some timei. bear a child say to its parent “ You get away !" or “ Don’t trouble me just now.” The pinnt never seemed to me to feel this as a Botch parent would. I remember au indulgent father bringing in a bin cli of grapes for his little boy. “Come, you are. a good fellow, after all,” said the child, cheeifuliy. The parent seemed to me rather gratified at so kind a recognition on the part of his son. I remember another brave little fellow of four years old, who sat near me at dinner on a tall, siim nursery chair, wiping his mouth after the first course, and saying, “ Give me some of that tart, mama, and ring tlie bell for Emma; l want some fresh water." This is only one case out of many that help to explain what a New England lady meant when she said, “ lain learning to be a docile, parent!” “ Parents, obey your children in all things,” is the new idea. It is not, after all, so great a stretch to anticipate, as somebody sug gests, that we shall by-aud-hy see on the sign board of some American store --“ John Smith <fc Father.” Another incident occurs to me in connection with the same little fellow who directed ltis mother to ring the bell. One day, wiieigdiunCr was over, his mother said to him, “ Wipe your mouth, darling.” Precocity looked bravely at her. “ Say please.” “ Well, darling, please.” Precocity wiped his lips solemnly, as if an im portant moral lesson had beeu given, and re quested to be lilted down lrom his chair. There is much less of this in the South, where subordination is more recognized, and where the modes of thought and leeliug are more like our own. But this is the growing Idea in the North, independence, reciprocity, the sinking of old and even natural distinctions in Demo cratic equality. Do to me whatever you expect me to do to you. Let it not lie supposed, however, that Ameri can children are rude, or ill behaved. On the contrary, they struck me as more polite, more considerate, more orderly, as a general rule, thau our own ; but they need to be dealt with in a diilereul way. You must treat them as persous who have a will of their own, and a right to exercise it. You must appeal to their reason aud good sense. If you appeal only to your owu authority, you are apt to get a pert answer. “Remember who you are talking to, «ir!” said an indignant parent to a fractious boy; “1 am your father, sir!” “Well, who's to blame for tint?” said young impertinence; “ ’taint me 1” One iiltle boy, to whom I have already re ferred, was making himself very disagreeable on one occasion, when bis mother bad him with her on a visit to some friqnds. She took him to the bedroom, and lold him that if lie did uot behave himsell she would shut, him up in the closet. “ You can’t. There ain’t a closet, here," said the child, triumphantly. “I’ll put you into the wardrobe, then.” “No, you won’t.” “I will.” “Try it!” She took him instantly, put him in and turned the lock. Thereupon Young America began to kick up a tremendous noise inside, battering the doors of the wardrobe as if he would have knocked tbetn off their hinges. His mother, fearful that he would do mischief either to himself or the furniture, and remem bering that the house was not hers, took him out and said, in great distress: “O, George, I don’t know what to do with you!” “ Don’t yon ?” said he, looking up into her face. “ No, indeed, I don't.” “ Theu,” said he, “if that is so, I’ll behave;” which lie accordingly did, marching iuto the other room with her, and coi-ductiDg himself for the rest of the eveniug like a little gentleman. She had capitulated— given up the struggle lor authority. Ho was now behaving ou his owu responsibility. The case suggests auother which illustrates the same poiut, but lias a grotesque feature of its own. A gentleman iu Northampton, with whom I spent a very delightful week, and who belongs to one of the old Puritan families, told me that for several years he had tried whipping with his boy, but found it ineffectual. On oue occasion the boy was caught iu an oft-repealed fault. His father took him to his room ; up braided him tor his persistent disobedience; re minded him—which was probably unnecessary —that he had several times been obliged, in the way of parental duty, to apply the rod of cor rection ; that it seemed to have as yet been in vain ; that he was much disheartened, and was at a loss what to do with him. A bright thought occurred to the boy. “ Father,” said he, “ sup pose you pray /" The father was a good man, and could not refuse to do this. But having a strong suspicion in his mind that the boy had suggested this Christian exercise in order to escape punishment, he prayed for the young reprobate first, and whipped him afterwards.— He told nqc, however, that lie had never been able to make anything of the boy till lie gave up flogging and appealed to the boy’s sense ot what was right and proper. This seemed to be a general experience in the States. In most of the. American schools whip ping is discontinued, and in many cases prohib ited bv law; and yet 1 can testify from my own observation, that the order maintained in these schools i6 more perfect than I have ever seen in similar schools elsewhere. The precocity of American children and the democratic ideas that pervade society ahd filter dotvu even into the minds of the youngest, account, probably, for three facts—first, that American parents, guardians and teachers do not expect the same reverence and unquestionable obedience that is looked for and inculcated with us; second, that the children there will not be governed by mere authority and force ; and third, that hap pily, as a counterpoise, they beeome at au ex ceedingly early age amenable to renison. Worthy of Imitation. — Tke following ad vertisement appeared in a Texas paper: ‘ If the person wko took (it is concluded by mis take) the white water-proot clonk belonging to Captain Johnson, will apply to the bar racks, he can have the peg it used to hang upon, as it is ol no further use to the owner.” What a nice thing it is to steal in Texas. We Bnppose, of course, the fellow came, and thereby not only made a coat, but obtained a peg upon which he could hang it, or his hat and, above all, be saved his bacon. Jenks 6nys If they will do likewise here, he will quit his present lucrative business—loafing—and take things—by mistake. [From the Alta California, October 13. The Earthquake. THE RECENT SHOCK IN SAN FRANCISCO—SCENES AND INCIDENTS. At precisely six minutes to 8 o’clock this morning, the most severe earthquake which has occurred 6ince the occupation of California by the Americans shook our city. The gene ral excitement, prevailing throughout the city renders it difficult to give anything like an ac curate account of the amount of damage done or the number of casualties. This is the first earthquake that has ever caused loss of life in San Francisco, and the amount of damage is uuquestiouahly greater than that caused by the shock of October 8, 1865. The earthquake de ferred in many particulars from anything wWch had previously visited our city. The morning was moderately warm, and a dense fog covered the town. There was not a trace of a breeze perceptible. The first indication of the ap proach of the earthquake was a slight rumbling souud, as of something rolling (along the side walk, coming apparently from the direction of the ocean. Whether this proceeded from be neath the surface of the earth, or from the agi tation of loose bodies on the surface of the earth, is uncertain ; the most general opinion appears to be that it was from the latter. The shock commenced in the form of slow, hori zontal movements, the effect being precisely such as would be produced on a frail wooden building by a person shaking the door violent ly in an attempt to iorce it open. The motion was purely horizontal, not perpendicular, as in the great earthquake of 1865. The oscillations continued from ten to flft en seconds, growing more rapid and more violent for six or seven seconds, then increasing in fcce and rapidity for four or five seconds, then suddenly ceasiug. At 17# miuutcs to 9 there was a very slight shock, just perceptible, but its coining ou the heeis of the great one, people generally rushed into the street, apprehensive of what might fol low. At 10:30, a. m., a third shock, quite a sharp one, was felt, aud a panic was created on the prin cipal streets, crowds rushiugin frantic and fool ish excitement from every building, and run ning madly along the sidewalks without any clear idea of where they were going or what they wished to do. At 11, a. in., precisely, a fourth and very slight shock was felt. The fog cleared away aud the suu shone out iu a cloud less sky, while a slight breeze sprung up at 11, a. m. Up to the present writing no more shocks have been left.' The great shock oflSfiS produced a wholly different effect on buildings from that ot 1865. Io October, 1865, glass was broken and shiver ed into atoms in all the lower part of the city by the perpendicular oscillations, while com paratively few walls were shaken dowu or bad ly injured. The earthquake of 10-day broke very little glass in any part of the city, but the damage Jay the falling of cornices, awnings and walls was immense. The shock was prin cipally felt on “ made ground ” aud the flats, where the foundation is known to be untrust worthy at all times. Along Montgomery street a number of buildings are damaged ; and east ward, toward the bay, few buildings are wholly uninjured, while many are utterly ruined. On lha eastern shore of the bay, and, iu fact, all the way around it, everything built on the flats lias suffered severely. It is a noticeable and gratifying laet that not a single building con structed as it should be in a city liable to earth quakes, like San Francisco, has suffered to any exteut at all. When the groat shock culminated, a stam pede from every building in the city took place. Hundreds of horses on the streets, frightened by the rush of the people, took fright aud ran away, adding to the danger and excitement of the moment. As the fire and battlement walls and heavy awnings were coming down in all the lower part of tiie city, numerous casualties, more or less severe, occurred, aud there was a considerable loss of life. The public school buildings are generally well constructed, and were damaged very slightly. If at all. Part of them escaped whol ly uuiujured. Nevertheless, the prevailing ex citement being very great, and the liability to panics among the pupils on any alarm being given so great as to be in it seif a more threat ening danger for them than that of the earth quake’s power, it was deemed best to close the schools lor 10-day, and. accordingly, the children were all dismissed and sent home. — As the minor “ tapcriug-olf ” shocks were felt, the excitement increased instead of diminish ed, as it should have doue, seeing that all our experience goes to show that the worst inva riably comes first in San Francisco earth quakes, and the merchants generally com menced closing their stores. By 10, a. nv, business was pretty generally suspended, not because apprehension was lelt to any extent ol further damage or danger, but because the ex citement. was so great that no business could well be transacted. The Stock Exchange met and adjourned for the day without transacting any business; the stnets were filled with peo ple—men, women and children, “seeing the sights,” congratulating each other that it was no worse, and chatting and laughing, and run ning about generally aer if at a show or lair The impression a stranger would gain from the faces of those on the streets would be, that some pleasureable excitement had occurred. Certainly there was nothing in the appearance of our people to indie ite that a great calamity had befallen them, ov that their confidence in the stability of Sail Francisco had been shaken for a moment. When the momentary panic occurred, at twenty-three minutes past ten o’clock, we noticed several women who fainted, or were unable to move for terror ; but this special ex citement subsided very quickly indeed, not lasting more than five minutes at the utmost. When the first great shock cauie many people had not risen from their beds,and the rush into the streets was accompanied by many ludicrous incidents—dishabille being the rule, and full dress the exe ption. gfNone of the city, State or Federal courts held any sessions. Judge Provinces, of the police court, discharged all the “ drunks” that had been arrested the day before, and all the other prisoners in the city prison were sent to the county jail. Portsmouth Square was the resort selected by hundreds of women and children, who could be seen wending their way with baskets, <fce., to that place! remaining th< re during the day. The custom house is terribly damaged, and it is questionable whether it will admit of repairs, so general does (lie destruc tion appear at first eight. The chimney top at the north end of the building lei! at the first wave. The chimney on the west side is twist ed iD a direction opposite to that of its original one. The earth walks, generally solid and firm, were loosened by the vibration. The general delivery ot ihe post office is temporarily sus pended, although a few attaches remain at their posts, making up the mails for tile interior. — Several of the private clocks stopped. The one on Tucker’s new building stopped at five minutes before eight o’clock, aud the hour and minute hand have silently pointed out the lime of the shock during the forenoon. The large pendulum clocks in private houses also stopped from five to seven minutes belore eight. Mare Island Navy Yard experienced two severe shocks of earthquake this morning. Several chimneys were thrown dowß, and some of the buildings considerably shaken, but no serious damage was done and no person was injured. Captain Mitchell, of the navy, informs us that the ground shook so violently as almost to throw him off his feel, the shock being accom panied by a frightful rumbling sound. Several people took to the water, considering the stream more safe than terra —which was terra tirnia no longer. An Eccentric English Nobleman. —The Duke of Portland is in his sixty-ninth year. He is the eldest brother of the late Loru George Benltuek, and owner of magnificent es tates in England and in Seotlaud. After what the French delicately term a “ stormy youth,” he became, in his father’s lifetime, a recluse. It was the late Duke’s fancy that there was go ing to be a scarcity of oak —he did not foresee the iron age—and he planted a tree wherever he could, until his park at Wellbeck Abbey, Notingbamshire, was almost a plantation when he died, in 1854. The present Duke took up his residence at Wellbeck, denied himself to almost every one, and proceeded to improve the estate, cut down the superfluous timber, and laid out the park on the most improved principles of landscape gardening; construct ed one of the most perfect series of kitchen gardens in the kiugdom, with hot, fruit and forcing houses on a magnificent scale; built stables and coach-houses fit* for a Prince, and much finer than any English Priuee possesses. Iu fact, the Duke devoted and devotes his time arid a large part of his income to putting his seat in the most per ect order ot receiving and entertaining in diffcal style. But he does not keep any company, gives no entertainments on any occasion, and in fact lived and lives the life of a monk of La Trappc. lie has for some time been endeavoring to convert a stream through his park into a lake six miles long. Hundreds of laborers are employed on this and other work on the estate at good wages, but on one condition —no one to speak to him or salute him. The man who touches his hat is at once discharged. The village doctor and the parson have the same orders. The tenants are informed of the Duke’s wishes—if they meet him they are to pass him “as they would it tree.” Yet he is constantly about his domain, planning and su perintending improvements. Ho is a capital landlord, both in England and Scotland— drains, builds and puts farms in first-rate con dition. He never shoots, and never allows his English farmers to have the game, even on payment. To every useful country work and every charity he is ready to subscribe. Roads, churches, schools, all arc in first-rate order on the Portland estates. He breeds horses, and spares no expense in sires and mares; but if the produce does not conle up to his ideal, he shoots them—never sells an inferior horse. — Sometimes a cart-load of well-bred colts and fillies are sent to feed the Rufford hounds. Every laboring man has to work two and a half days each week to pay the taxes on what he eats and wears during the time. The “ best government on earth.” [From the Savannah News. In the District Court of the United States for the Southern Distriot of Georgia, in Bankruptcy. In the matter of Jesse H. Griffin, bankrupt, at Cuthbert, in said District, on the Bth day oi October, A. D. 1868: Southern District of. Georgia, S.S. To the Hon. John Erskine, Judge of the District Court aforesaid : Sir : I, the undersigned, having been desig nated by the Court as the Register in Bank rupey before whom the proceedings in the above matter ot the bankruptcy of Jesse H. Griffin are to be had, do hereby certify, that in the due course of such proceedings the follow ing question, pertinent to the same, arose and was stated and agreed to by Richard K. Ilines, Esq., attorney for J. Waxlebaurn, et.al , pur chasers at United States Marshal’s sale, J. John ' Beck, Esq , assignee of the estate oi (he bank rupt, and A. Wood, Esq., and C. B. Wooten, Esq , attorneys for the bankrupt: statement. Jesse H. Griffin filed his petition to be ad judged a bankrupt on the 3d day of March, 1868. On the 27th day of the same month he was adjudged a bankrupt. On the 10th day of February, 1868, the United States Marshal, by virtue of a fieri facias in fa vor of certain creditors of the said bankrupt, levied upon one house and lot and a store house In the town of Morgan, Ga., and lot 150 of the Tenth District, Telfair county, Ga., all the real estate of the said Griffin, and on the 7th day of April sold the same at public outcry to J. Waxlebaurn, el. at., executing a deed there for. Question : Could the United States Marshal sell the said real estate, aud thus deprive the bankrupt of his right to a homestead therein ? And the said parties requested that the same should be certified to your Honor for your opinion thereon. OPINION OF THE REGISTER. By the bankrupt act, the bankrupt, cn the filiugof his petition for the beuefit of its pro visions, aud complying with the requirements of the eleventh section thereof, is entitled to have exempted and set apart to him by the assignee, in addition to such as is exempted by the fourteenth section of the act, and that ex empted by tbe laws of the United States, “such other property not excluded in the foregoing exceptions as is exempted from levy and sale upon execution, or other process or order of any court, by the laws of tbe State in which the baukrupt- has his domicile at the time of the commencement of the proceedings in bankruptcy.” By the Code of Georgia, there is exempt to the head of a family, fiom levy and sale, “fifty acres of land, and five additional acres for each of Ills or her children under the age of sixteen years. This land shall include (he dwelling house, if the value of such house and improvements does not exceed the sum of two hundred dollars;” or in lieu ot the above land, “ real estate in a city, town or village not exceeding five hundred dollars m value,” be side other property therein specified. The bankrupt, iu compliance with the gen eral orders and forms in bankruptcy, claimed, in his schedule under Form “ B 5,” to have exempted to him, with other property, “a dwelling house and lot containing three acres, in the town of Morgan, Calhoun county, Ga., value five hundred dollars.” It is my opinion that the act of tiling his pe tition in bankruptcy, ou the third day of March, A. D. 1868, entitled the bankrupt, provided be conformed to all his duties under the bankrupt act, to all the privileges and benefits thereof; that one ol those benefits was the preserving to him all the property specified in the act as ex empted to those who come under its provis ions ; another was a discharge from all his debts. I therefore do not understand that alter the bankrupt had applied for the benefits of the act, one of his creditors, who had been served with notice that a warrant in bankruptcy had been issued out of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Georgia, against the estate of Jesse 11. Griffin, adjudged a bankrupt upon his own petition, could continue to collect his debt out of that estate by selling under fieri facias the home stead secured to the bankrupt by the bankrupt act. The relief which be sought from this court against his creditors, and the preservation of a home for himself and family, is not to he de feated by any act of one of those creditors. He with good reason understood that, in this court, by surrendering all his estate, his debts would he discharged, and he allowed from his estate a shelter for his family. His house and certain other property he could have saved by applying to the State court. It is impossible that, having applied to this court in accordance with an act constitutionally passed by the Gen eral Government lor the full relief of insolvent debtors, that It is less powerful to save his home from the grasp of the creditor whose claim is being discharged by its action. In brief, my opiuiou is that the homestead of a bankrupt can not be sold after lie has filed his petition in bankruptcy, although it tnay then •be levied upon by the United States Marshal.— In this case lie served the nollccs of the issuing of the warrant in bankruptcy, and should have suspended proceedings ou the fieri facias. There is another very good reason why this sale should be set aside by jour Honor, which I deem it my duty to bring to your attention. From some cause, tbe whole of Hie real estate of the bankrupt, returned by him as worth fifteen hundred collars* was sold (or one hun dred and tweniy-flvo dollars—the homestead alone bringing liny dollars. The generally known laet that Griffin was in the bankrupt ?ourt, and was entitled Hereto the exemptions allowed under Hie bankrupt act, together with Hie opinion generally enter tained in the vicinity where the tmikruj t dwells, that all other b gal proceedings against a per son are stayed by bis filing bis petition iu bank ruptcy, may have been the reason why this -valuable properly sold for so mere a tiifle.— The purchasers are before this court, having joined in asking that this question he certified to your Honor, and I recommend that the sale be set aside, and the assignee directed to take charge of this property, and dispose of it in accordance with the requirements of the Bank rupt act. Respectfully submitted. Frank S. Hesseltine, Register. I have carefully considered the able opinion of Mr Register Ilessehiiie, in re Jesse 11. Grif fin, a bankrupt, and affirm bis decision. John Erskine, U. 8. Judge, Georgia. November 7th, 1868. The clerk will certify this affirmation to Mr. Register Hesseltine. Meeting of the Bar in Savannah. RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT FOR THE MEMORY OF THE LATE nON. HOWELL COBB. Savannah, November 6, 1868. In pursuance of the adjournment yesterday, the Bar ot the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of Georgia reassembled in the court room this morning at three-quar ters past 9 o’clock, the Hou. E. A. Nlsbet in tbe chair. The committee of five appointed yesterday, through Gen. A. R. Lawton, their chairman, re ported the following resolutions: Resolved , That in Ihe death of Hon. Howell Cobb the State of Georgia has lost one of the ablest, purest and most patriotic of Iter citizens, who, as her representative in the National Councils, as her Chief Executive Magistrate, and in high Cabinet position, exhibited a high comprehensive grasp of intellect, an intuitive quickness of perception, and a practical direct ness of thought, which had enrolled his name among the most eminent American statesmen : and who, by a long career of useful and self devoting service, has enshrined his memory iu the hearts of her people. Resolved, That in the afflicting dispensation of Providence the loss of a professional broth er, endowed with a rare capacity as a counsel lor and advocate ; of a companion and friend, the truthfulness, nobility, and expansive sym pathies of whose nature, and the vivacious play of whose intellect, could not fall to endear him to ail who knew biin well, or to make him the radiating centre of the social circle. Resolved, That we respectfully tender to his beloved family our profoundest condolence. Resolved, That these proceedings he publish ed in the gazettes of this city, and a copy be furnished to the family of Ihe deceased. The resolutions were unanimously adopted, and the meeting adjourned sine die. E. A. Nisbbt, Chairman. Wm- S. Bassingbr, Secretory. “ South Carolina Founds the American- Union.”—This is the title of a chapter of American history which George Bancroft wrote, as named by biinseif. It records a fact which may be profitably pondered by the Puri tan bigots who, at this day, find no crime tpo monstrous, no oppression too cruel, and no epithet too vile to visit upon #hat remains of the white people of South Carolina. The spirit of liberty burning in the bosom of Christopher Gadsden and John Rutledge gave Union to the United Colonies and consequent freedom to our country. It was the Palmetto Slate which, in July, 1765, when other colonies hesitated, pronounced for and secured the Union. In the language of Mr. Bancroft, "be it re membered, that the blessing of union is dne to the warm-heartedness of Sonth Carolina.” And this is the State which is chosen for the special vengeance of the malignant* of New England and ot the North, which does its bid ding, for the suffering of whose stricken sous and daughters a professedly Christian people have no pang of sympathy, and for whose so cial wrongs, and worse than African slavery, they have no consideration—who exult over homes and hearts made desolate by sijcb de stroying and consuming woes as never before blasted tbe hopes of any people—and who pro claim the Sermon on the Mount from thou sands of pulpits and from mitlions of family altars, as the creed by which they profess to live nor fear to die. BY TELEGRAPH. ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES. W ashington. Washington, November 11. It is staled Gen. Grant has ordered Gen. Badcau to burn all letters applying for office. Noah, for Tennessee; Saffold, for Georgia, Alabama and Florida, have been appointed Su pervisors. Schofield visited Grant. Canby leaves in the morning. It is .reported the gathering of armed negroes is in Tipton county, Tennessee, instead of Ar kansas. Seward says the recent statements of the London Times regarding the Alabama claims are unreliable and entirely incorrect. The same may be said of statements ol the situa tion originating iu this country. The State department has no information regarding the reported flllibusteriug move ments ou Cuba. The Herald publishes seven columns of cor respondence between John H. Gilmer and the revenue officials regarding whisky frauds. Gil mer complains that high officials thwarted him in exposing and punishing frauds. A letter •from Gilmer to McCulloch, dated November 4th, closes; “ Without giving other reasons, sir, I respectfully invoke your official condem nation of t.ie act and all parties connected with it. The badges of fraud cluster around every circumstance and disclose a guilty motive and concurrent crime in every move made by the parlies, and they involve the Commission er, the Collector and the Assessor. Let the law be enforced. It stands full armed lor its vindication, aDd I have a right to Invoke its administrative and penal enforcement, though the Commissioner has used every appliance to destroy mv influence and remove the author ized capacity to investigate and report on such matters. Though not' an officer of the Gov ernment, I feel, as an American citizen, au thorized to expose aud hold up to official, Ex ecutive and popular condemnation such a fla grant and palpable violat on of official duties. “ Very respectfully, “John H. Gilmer.” IS ©w York,. New York, November 11. Tbe Herald formally disavows Butler’s card abusive of J. W. Siraouton, published October 29th, saying: Mr. Simonlon has been known to us for years as a citizen held in honorable esteem, against whom such gross imputations as those of Butler essentially uncreditable. Butler’s attack was so wanton, so causeless, and his spirit so clearly malevolent, his charges seemed to us calculating to injure none but himself. The Herald's London special says the con viction prevails that the United States is being humbugged and Reverdy Johnson used by British sympathizers with rebellion aud South ern exiles in England. Virginia. Richmond, November 10. A contract was made to-day with a Philadel phia company to finish the Fredericksburg and Gordousville Railroad, H. C. Waiuwright, of Philadelphia, to be President. Capt,. E, 11. Chandler, freight agent of tbe Fredericksburg Railroad, was found dead is bed this evening. South. Carolina. Charleston, November 11. The result of the municipal election was an nounced this afternoon amid great excitement Nearly 10,000 votes were cast, and Pillsbury, Republican, was elected over Lesesne, the citi zens’ candidate, by a majority of 17. The citi zens’ party talk ol contesting the election. Alabama. Montgomery, November 11. The weather for the past week or two Ims been very fine for crop gathering. The corn yield is large, and the cotton is turning out some better than was anticipated. The Legislature is doing nothing of general importance. Committees have been appointed by both Houses t.o travel over the Slate to in vestigate alleged Ivu-Klux outrages. The vote iu the State is still not known.— Forty-six counties give Grant 06,826 and Sey mour 59,461. Eighteen counties are yet un reported. The Republicans claim the State by 20,000. Tennessee. Memphis, November It. Gen. Granger has advices of a threatening character from Arkansas. Many white women and children lmve lelt Tipton county. Gran ger sent fifty men, by a special train, to pre serve order. One thousand armed negroes are reported in the vicinity of Mason’s depot, Tipton county. Louisiana. New Orleans, November 11. This evening’s Times lias an article giving, as rumors aud reports, tbe current details of the Cuban expedition spoken ol in yesterday’s World. It says an organization in tins city and county has lieeu in correspondence with Cuban insurrectionary leaders for some time. The real headquarters of the movement is in this city, and the leader is not as yet stated. Gen. Henning’s says the statement that three thousand .men leave this city’ in fifteen days will probably turn out. to be true ; that n num ber of parties engaged in this movement have already left this city, with passports lor Cuba ; that on Tuesday evening two meetings wore betel in this city by those engaged. Foreign. |BV THE CABLE.] London, November 11. The Imaum of Muscat was dethroned with out a struggle. The Chief of Wahabees suc ceeds him. Cuba and Spain. Havana, November 10, The provisional government of Bpain has conferred on Count Balnnseda full powers to pardon all engaged iu present insurrections, except the leaders. The District Governors of the Island have been changed. The rebels are in possession of Remate Mata and some other towns in the jurisdiction of Puerto Prin cipe. Itemate is on the Southern slope of the Is land, about forty miles inland. There is much fighting In the whole neighborhood. The Gov ernment admits this iu a public communica tion. Nothing recently heard from Col. Lcono. A rebel commission here claim that they have plenty of money in New York, as well as war material; they nlso claim lor the rebels the rights of' belligerents. Several Mexicans are arriving and their movements are watched, as th» whole party arc suspected of unfriendly designs in Cuba. Marine ISTews. Savannah, November 11. Cleared—Steamships Matauzas and Thomas, for New York ; bark Halcyon, for Havre. Charleston, November 11. Arrived—Brig J. B. Kirby, from Philadelphia. Sailed—Steamer Charleston, for New York. Markets. FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC. London, November 11 —Noon. Consols, 94%. Bonds, 74%. Tallow, 535. London, November ll—Afternoou. Bonds easier at 73%. London, November 11—Evening. Consols, 94%. Bonds, 74. Turpentlue, 395. 6d. Liverpool, November 11—Noon. Cotton tending down ; sales, 10,000 bales.— Bombay shipments to the 6th, since last report, 3,000 bales. Liverpool, November 11— Afternoon. Cotton flat; sales will not exceed 5,000 bales; uplands, 10%@U ; Orleans, 11%@11%- Pro visions firm. Common Rosin, ss. 6d. Tallow firm. Liverpool, November 11—Evening. Cotton dull and unchanged. Turpentine, 28s. Havre, November 11—Evening. Cotton dnll; afloat, 133. New York, November 11—Noon. Money unsettled and easy at 7. Ster’ing 9%. Gold, 134%. ’62’s, 8%; North Carol!- nas, 64%; new, 64%; Virginias, 54%; new, 54%; Tennessees, 68% ; new, 68%. New York, November 11—P. M. Money easy at 7 ; exceptions at 6 ; discounts irregular. Gold, 184%. Sterling steady at 9% Governments strong; 63’s, 8%. Tennessees, /iew, 08%. North Carolinas, new, 65%. New York, November 11—Noon. Flour drooping. Wheat nominally lower. Pork unsettled ; old, S2B 50. Lard dull. Cot tou quiet at 24#. Turpentine quiet at 44#@ 45. Rosin (fliiet; strained, *2 35@2 45. Freights firm. New York, November 11—F. M. Cotfon dull, irregular and lower ; sales, 850 bales at 24@24#. Flour—State aud Western IMBMtiTe; favors buyers; superfine, $5 86® drooping; common to fair extra, •7 Uo@B 65. Wheat dull and 2@3 lower. Corn oq o? cr V ° atß heav y- Pork unsettled at s2B@ , i, n tard-kettle, 17@17#. Whisky, firmer aaJa!it 07 • Groceries quiet. Turpeutine, 44®45. Rosin unchanged. Freights firm ; Hour, per sail, 20®26; com, 7; wheat, per steam, B#. r Baltimore, November 11. Flour quiel and unchanged. Wheat dull; prime to choice red, s2@2 70; good, |1 65® C °™ du J' ; new wll ite, 75 @ 85 i yellow, 90@92. Oats dull at 70. Pork active at $29. Bacon shouldfers, 13#@14. Virginias, old, inscribed, 47 bid; North Carolltias, 64J£ bid. Cincinnati, November 11. Flour firmer; family, $7 50@7 75. Corn dull; new, 55@56 ; old, nominally 80. Whisky in limited demand at sl. Mess Pork firm at $25. Lard dull; prime steam, 15. Bhoulders, 13@13# ; clear rib sides, 17#@17#. Louisville, November 11. Superfine Flour, $5 50@6. Corn—new, 60® 65. Bacon—shoulders, 13#@14 ; clear sides. 18#@1S%. Wilmington, November 11. Spirits Turpentine, 41#@4D. Rosiu,sl 70 for No. 2. Turpentine, $2 75. Tar, $2 30. Peauuts, $2 55@2 70. Mobile, November 11. Colton—market quiet and easy ; sales, 1,800 bales ; middling, 22# ; receipts, 244 bales. New Orleans, November 11. Cotton tending downward; middling, 23# ; sales, 3,000 bales; receipts, 4,510 bales; ex ports, 7,391 bales. Gold, 135#. Sterling, 44#@46#. New York Sight, par. Sugar firm ; fair, 18#@13; prime, 14#@14# ; yellow clarified, 15#. Molasses firm ; lair, 70 ; choice, 80. Flour—low grades in demand ; superflue, $6 75; treble extra, $7 50®8; choice, s9@l2. Corn—market nearly bare ; new, sl@l 05. Oats, Bran and Hay—light supply and firm. Oats, 64@65. Bran, $1 25. Hay—Western, $30@31. Pork dull and nominal at s3l 50. Bacon scarce, firm and unchanged. Lard dull; tierce, 17 ; keg, 21. Coffee Arm and unchanged. Charleston, November 11. Cotton dull and easier ; sales, 66 bales ; mid dling, 23#@23#; receipts, 946; exports coast wise, 1,000 bales. Savannah, November 11. Cotton opened steady, but closed dull; sales, 401 bales; middling, 23 ; receipts, 1,844 bales ; exports.coastwise, 1,548 bales. Angusta Market. OrriOß DIILT COK6TITHTION4I.IST. ; Wednesday, Novembor 11— V. M. ( FINANCIAL GOLD—Buying at 135 and selling at 137, SlLVEß—Buying at 128 and selling at 136. SECURITIES—Very little demand. COTTON.—The market opened this morning at 22 k for middling, but afterward and c ined to 22 and closed dull at 2!cents. The demand during the day was modcrato. Sales, 610 bales. Receipts, 705 bales. BACON—We quote C. Sides, 18>» ; C. R. Sides, 18; B. B. Sides, 17K; Shoulders, 15@16k ; Hams, 19@*3; Dry Salt Shoulders, 1414; Dry Salt C. R. Sides, 17. CORN—Firm. Wo quote white, $1 20; mixed, $1 15, from depot. WHEAT—We quote white, $2 25©2 50; red, $1 80 @2 25. FLOUR-City Mills, $lO 50®13 00; at retail, $1 barrel higher. Country, $l.O 00@12 00, according to quality. CORN MEAL—SI 15 at wholesale, and $1 25 at re tail. OATS—BO@BS. RYK-fl 60. [From the Boston Journal, 31st. Unparalleled Trotting. JOHN STEWART AGAIN TROTS TWENTY MILES IN FIFTY-NINE MINUTES AND TWENTY-THREE SECONDS TO WAGON. Avery interesting exhibition of speed oc curred at the Riverside Riding Park, in Bright on, yesterday afternoon, when the bay gelding, Joiin Stewart, again attempted to trot twenty miles to wagon within an hour. It will bn re membered that the same horse has made the best ten-mile lime on record, and that he also beat the gelding, Captain McGowan’s time, in his great twenty-mile trot, by 19# seconds. Wheu he did that lie was attempting to trot in harness 21 miles within an nour, but failed by a few seconds. His last great feat prior to that ol yesterday was accomplished at the Fashion Course, on the 21st of last September, when he trotted 20 miles to wagon in 59 minutes and 83 seconds. This was earlier in the seusou, when a better track than yesterday was to bo expected. The horse, now deservedly famous, is a wonder for endurance. He is seven years old, and was sired by the celebrated racing horse, Tom Wonder, ho by a thoroughbred. The dam was a Ilambletouian. The backers of time evidently expected (o catch the horse not leeliug just right for his work, or the track in an unfavorable condi tion. In both respects they were disappoint ed, as the track was iu splendid condition, and the horse, probably, was never better pre pared for such an undertaking than yesterday. The race was for a purse of $2,000, the horse to go to wagon and trot 30 miles within an hour. Hiram Woodruff was his driver. The weather w*s. clear and fine, although quite cold, and the abun«huiee of spectators was very extensive, and" many fine private team 6 were on the ground. The horse was called upon the track about a quarter before four o’clock, and was driven twice around belore receiving the word, which he got at precisely fifty-one minutes and forty five seconds past three o’clock. He appeared in fine condition, and trotted steadily and flrralj', going very freely. Tho betting In the pool selling had been at the rate of about S4O on tho horse to $35 on time, and considerable money was staked oh the result. The feat was accomplished with so much apparent ease that a description of the race seems unnecessary. He accomplished his first mile in 3:50, nnd the others were made in time to suit his owner, Mr. John Stewart, who told Woodruff as he came past the stand whenever he wanted his speed increased, or when he was going at too high a rate. He did not get really warmed up until the third mile, when the “ lather” began to appear under his breast-plate. His breathing was about the same at tbe close of the race as when he had finished a couple of miles. Ot course he was well warmed, and was sweating quite freely, but in no other way did he show signs of having been driven hard. In fact tho feat was probably no more of a trial to him than a couple of miles at a three minute gait is to many Horses. He did not break from a steady trot during the whole twenty miles, and was driven, except the last half mile, as near the inside of the track as possible. As he came in nt tbe end of the last mile the crowd cheered him and his driver, who looked quite chilly but very much pleased. The lime, as shown by three first-class watches, in competent and experienced hands, was 59 minutes, 33 seconds, exactly the time in which he accomplished a like feat on the Fashion Course, as mentioned above. Below is a table ol tbe time of each halt mile and mile: Half-mile. Mile. Aggregate. 1:25% 1:24% Ist, 2:50 2:50 1:25 1:26% 2d, 2:51% 5:41% 1:27% 1:26% 3d, 2:54* 8:35% 1:25 1:29 4tb, 2:54 11:29% 1:29% 1:80% sth, 2:50% 14:28% 1:29% 1:29% 6th, 2:56% 17:25% 1:29 1:29% 7lh, 2:58% 20:23% 1:80% 1:31% Bth, 3:02% 23:20 1:31% 1:39% 9th, 3:01% 26:27% 1:80 1:27% 10th, 2:57% 29:25% 1:28% * 1:30 nth, 2:58% 32:23 1:30% . 1:28% 12tb, 2:58% 35:22% 1:26% 1:31 iStk, 2:57% 38:20 1:80 1:28% 14th, 2:59% 41:19% 1:31 1:33 15th, 3:04 44:28% 1:29% 1:28% 16lb, 3:57% 47:21% 1:63% > 1:31 17th, 3:08% 50:25% 1:31% 1:29% 18th, 3:01% 53:30% 1:83 1:80% 19th, 8:03% 56:29% 1:27 1:26% 20th, 2;53% 59:23 The Now York Express says that the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, in a late speech at Brook lyn, “ spoke of the discredit of his cloth and pretensions.” His speeches would be to the discredit of his cloth, even if he wore je<m* ?. r linsey-woolsey, or pepper-and-salt, or &”■= turned np with a 1 and Co - '
