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 - '
