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AUGUSTA, OA,
WEDNESDAY* MORNING, DEC. 9, 1868
CORRUPTION IN HIGH PLACES. '
Asa curious example of knavery in high
places, it is emphatically stated that not
withstanding the care and secrecy employ
ed to guard them, the President’s Message,
the report of the Secretary of the Treasury,
with accompanying documents, and possi
bly other important papers, were stolert
from the custody of their official keepers
and publicly hawked about for sale. We
read that Secretary McCulloch- is indig
nant at the rumor of this theft; we read,
also, that his employees deny all knowledge
of the purloining. We likewise read that
the President’s # Message is religiously
screened from vulgar inquisition. But, in
spite of all this, the New York Herald de
clares that copies of these documents were
offered it lor sale and nothing but a pious
aversion to receiving stolen goods prevent-'
ed t.hq bargain being made. It is very evi
dent from these revelations that Sherman’s
bummers are confidentially ensconced at the
White House and in the sanctuaries of the
Departments. In this era ’6B, it has come
to pass that a President’s Message is stale
to many people when it gets to Congress,
and that it is not only an abstraction in
theory but an abstraction in fact.
TO TEE SOUTHERN PEOPLE.
LABOR IN YOUTH, OR SUFFER THE PENAL
TIES OF DISOBEDIENCE.
<-1,, t.he sweat of thy face slialt thou eat
bread,” declared the Divine Law-giver, in
the early youth of the human race, and the
mandate has never yet been revoked, and
its violation ever brings its peculiar penal
ties, as is the ease whenever one of God’s
precepts is broken. True, we often* sec
whole classes dominating over others, liv
ing tin- tile of drones, subsisting on llie
labor of those whom chance has thrown
in their power, and without rendering the
slightest equivalent for what they obtain.
Moreover, it would seem, from a eursqry
view, that in some of these instances, as
in case of the aristocracies 'of Europe, for
example, these idlers are prosperous and
well to do, in an extraordinary degree
in fact, that they escape the usual
penalties of an infraction of the law.
Be not deceived by outward appear
ances. Look closer. Pierce the sur
face. Lift the,veil; and whenever you find'
a man tiiat “ toils not,” in any sense of the
word, who draws his breath by feeding on
the substance of hard-working producers,
to whom lie returns nothing at all , in the
way of compensation, there you sec a mind
devoured with ennui; a spirit eaten up
with the rust of sloth ; a soul into which
the iron of despondency has entered, and
through which it is piercing its way, deep
er and deeper, down to the live and sensi
tive quick of hisriiatnre.
Nor is the punishment of such sins al
ways confined to mental tortures. A course
of perfect ease and self-indulgence is, na
turally, attended by a resort to vicious ex
pedients for dispelling the clouds of gloom
that hang over the idler, and tlu-se have for
their attendants the physical pains that
rack the body, and, in conjunction with the
troubles of the spirit, make God’s earth a
hell. All is not yet told. Occasionally,
those who have been ground into the dust
for ages, rise in their might, and the most
fearful retribution follows -she long course
of Idleness,oppression ami injuslioe, so feai
lul that it, in its turn,becomes injustice, law
lessness, ferocity and the worst of cruelty
and oppression. Look at Ihe uprisings of
the French in Paris, the ribbon-men in Ire
land, the Sepoys in India, and see how ter
rible is tlie return for a long continued
career of laziness, of immunity from toil,
of plunder of others.
But let us understand. It does not fol
low, because a man is wealthy or exalted
in station, that lie is necessarily a drone,
or that he does not render an ample equiv
alent. to those beneath him, for his riches
and his station. Frequently the proprie
tor's brain is racked, his mental powers
strained to their utmost tension, his rest
broken, and his whole existence disturbed,
while his employees, well-fed and well
clothed, altogether having but few. of what
arc considered luxuries; pass their days in
thoughtless, cheerful comfort. Many and
many were the examples of this kind
furnished in the palmy days of negro
slavery. A digression, at this point,
tempts me wofully. My fingers itch to
record the instances of negroes who
used to have money in abundance—
who were considered thrifty and shrewd—
who now labor under a load of debt that
they can never, never lift. It is all owing
to this simple fact. Formerly they had
masters who provided for them every single
article of necessity, while every dollar they
marie was so much dear money. Now, they
must think and act for themselves—must
furnish their own bread :md meat—if.they
get any at all—shoes, hats, blankets, clothes
—and they have exhausted their credit and
are sinking down, down, into the most ab
ject. poverty. But this will not do. Slavery
is dead. Peace to its ashes. “ Let the dead
past bury its dead.”
In writing the present article, I set out
with the same idea that I advanced in the
paper before this—that many Georgians,
and perhaps are seeking to eat their
bread in some other way than in the sweat
of their face. We wish to find people who
will study chemistry, who are industrious,
sober, frugal, intelligent—who will go on
our farms as laborers, and make money for
us, while we are lolling in the shade, too
indolent to even go out and see what is
going on. Many of us are too lazy to lock
our corn crib doors. If we live in town,
and are fortunate enough to have wood
houses, we are too careless to see that they
are fastened. We expect to find servants
•who will do every thing exactly right,
without putting ourselves to the least
trouble. Good Heavens! If intelligent,
educated laborers come here—men who
understand the rotation of crops, the tillage
of land, the various systems of manuring—
in short if what we see so often spoken of
hi the newspapers as “skilled labor”should
come here, can we suppose it will sell itself
to ns, when land is cheap as it is now?
The Southern people have much to unlearn
and much to learn. Let them not be the
Bourbons of the latter half of the nineteenth
century. Oeilouvert.
New YofcK City Election.— The charter
election in New York eily, on Tuesday, passed
off very quietly. Out ol a registered vote ol
173,583 only 90,014 were polled. Hall, Demo
crat, for Mayor, received 75,054, and Conkling,
Republican, 30,960. Hall’s majority, 54,091.
The majority for Mr. O’Gorman, Democrat, for
corporation counsel, is 53,539.
James Dudley, Esq., a member of the bar of
ilorry District' S. C., was drowned recently
near Cherry Grove Beach, while on a visit to
the plantation of Mr. Thomas Graham, in the
above named district.
[From the Charle&ton Courier, Dec. 3d.
Chief Justice Chase and His Decision on the
Liability for Confiscated Stocks apd Divi
dends.
We took occasion yesterday to commend
Chief Justice Chase for his dispensing with
the test oaths as a Qualification for jurofs.
We propose tnis morning to advert briefly
to an important decision which he has just
rendered, and which is of deep concern in a
financial and business point of view.
The judgment of Mr. Chase, rendered a
few days since at Richmond, is practically
one of the most important pronounced since
the war. ' 1
He has decided:
First. That stockholders at the North are
entitled to demand of Southern Railroads
payment oi the dividends declared during
t he war, and this notwithstanding the fact
that such stock and dividends have been
confiscated by the Confederate Government,
under the decrees of its courts, and that the*
railroad companies have already issued
the stock and pai'd the dividends to the
purchasers under the Confiscation
Second. That the Northern stockholder
in such case is entitled to.be reinstated,not
only in his stock, but to recover the amount
of the dividends, in the proportion of Con
tederate to United Slates Treasury notes at
the time the dividend was declared, with
legal interest from the day of demand.
It appears that Catharine C. Keppel was,
prior to, and at the time of the secession of
Virginia, the proprietor of two hundred
and three shares of the Petersburg Rail
road Company.
On the 30th of August, 1861, the Govern
ment of the Confederate States passed their
act for tiie sequestration confiscation
of all property found within their limits
belonging to citizens and residents of the
Northern States.. These were declared to
lie alien enenries.
Proceedings were had under this act
before the District Judge of the Confeder
ate Courts. By these Mrs. Keppel was ad
judged “an alien enemy,” and her stock
turned over to a receiver, confiscated and
sold to purchasers, who received scrip from
the railroad company and the dividends as
declared, in the Confederate currency.
After the close of the war and the over
throw of the Confederacy, the sales made
by tiie receiver and under the order of the
court were regarded as nullities. By the
failure of the Confederate Government its
title to the purchasers were conceded to lie
invalid, and Mrs. Keppel to bo still the bona,
fide owner of the stock. This the railroad
admitted It could scarcely have been
otherwise. For a war title must ever'de
pend upon tile successful accomplishment
of that, war for validity. Therefore as to
the stock there was no dispute. The ques
tion arose as to-tiie right of Mrs. Keppel to
receive the value of the dividends declared
during the existence of the Confederacy.
The railroad company claimed:
1. That payment of dividends made un
der the same" act to the receiver, and the
purchasers must, be upheld as valid pay
ments.
2. That in cose this position may not be
affirmed, then that the'company was liable
only to pay the dividends proclaimed, in
Confederate currency, on demand, and that
Mrs. Keppel having made no denjand, until
after the currency had become wholly
worthless, no decree could be pronounced
against the company.
It will be seen, therefore, that if tiie pay
ments made by the company, either to the
receiver, or to the purchasers of the stock,
were valid, then that tiie Confederate Gov
ment was a de facto government, and that
no person, or corporation, could be held
legally responsible for transfers of stock, or
acts done, in obedience to the laws of such
defaclo government.
That the Confederate Stales was a dr facto
government, we thought Was conceded.—-
We take issue, therefore, with Chief Just ice
Chase, when he asserts otherwise. He
says: “In this sense the rebel Government
was never a deffacto government. It never
laid the-National Capital. It never asserted
any authority to represent the nation. It
was only what it professed to be—a revolu
tionary organization, seeking to establish a
confederacy of States, disconnected with
the United Slates, and dependent wholly
tor success upon the success of the revolu
tion.”
There is no doubt that the Confederate
States was an organized government, es
tablished, and in full authority and power,
to the exclusion of any other government.
Mr. Chase makes this distinction. That
between individuals of the Confederate
States, it is clear that transactions which
would be legal and binding under ordinary
circumstances, cannot be pronounced ille
gal and of no obligation, because done in
conformity with laws enacted or directions
given by the usurping -power.
That where, however, .transactions, as lie
terms them, are prejudicial to the interests
of the citizens of other States, excluded by
the war and by the policy of the United
States Govern ment, from* the care and over
sight of their own interests within the
Southern St ates, these cannot be upheld in
Lite courts of that Government.
The position of Mr. Chase is clearly a
fallacy. It might as well be said that, the
Colonial Congress was not*a de facto Gov
ernment, because it did not capture Lon
don, the capital of Great Britain, as to as
sert that the Confederate States was not a
de facto Government, because it never held
Washington, the capital of the United
States.
As the Richmond Dispatch forcibly says :
“Theamount of Mr. ±' hose’s definition is
that ade fac.le government can neve’ - exist
in this country. For if It succeed it is at
once adr jure government, and if it fail it
has never been even a de facto government.
Mr. Chase has pronounced a long opinion.
In this he has announced the following con
clusions :
First, as to the de fait 5 Government.
He says: “ We cannot regard the Con
federate Government as a de facto Govern
ment in any such sense—that its acts are
entitled to judicial recognition a.s valid—on
the contrary we obliged to regard it as
a combination, or unlawful Confederacy,
organized for the overthrow of the National
Government, and its acts‘for the confisca
tion or sequestration of the private pro
perty of the citizens of the United States as
null and of no effect.
The appointment of the receiver, tiie sale
of tiie stock, the payment of the dividends,
must all be regarded as part of the process
of sequestration and confiscation, and all
as equally void.”
Second, Mr. Chase holds that tiie rail
road company is not discharged from re
sponsibility to the Northern proprietor of
the stock by reason that it was compelled,
so fir as the decree of the Confederate court
could compel them, to pay the dividends to
tiie party who received them. He therefore,
declares Mrs. Keppel entitled to receive
them.
But inasmuch as these were payable in
Confederate currency, and there was no de
mand or claim until after the close of the
war, Mr. Chase lias limited the extent to
which the plaintiff is entitled to receive.
He has, therefore, decided, Third, that the
amount of the several dividends, at the sev
ral dates when made, is to lie computed by
deducting such per ceiitage as will reduce
tiie Confederate notes to tiieir value in law
ful money (Treasury notes), and adding in
terest from November 23d, 1866, the insti
tution of the suit, which is regarded as the
period of the demand.
Whether there will be an appeal to the
Supreme Court we have not heard. The
decision is one of great gravity and import
ance. It is of vital concern to hundreds of
onr public institutions and citizens. It is
on this account tha we have endeavored
to present it in a clear and concise manner.
Many of its positions may well be regarded
with dissent. The importance of the cfise
and the judgment is apparent, and of uni
versal interest.'
At 4 o’clock, on Wednesday afternoon, Ed
ward Weston started on bis great walk of five
thousand miles, from the steps of llte court
house in Bangor. Me., to St. Paul. At the out
set be was accompanied by Mr. George H. War
ren. brother to Mrs. Gen Tom Thumb, Major
T. G. Fields, Mr. J. B. Kibler, D. Palmer, H.
Totten and L. N. Solomon. An immense mul
titude assembled to witness the departure of*
the pedestrian, and a deal of enthusiasm was
manifested. He started off at, a rapid gait, lol
lowed by the populace, until he was well out
ol town. Weston’s journey is to St. Paul and
back through St. Bonis, Cincinnati, Baltimore
and Philadelphia, to the City Hall in Nefv
York, where it is to terminate one buudred
days hence.
The Hon. Mr. Huunicntt, of Virginia, a
prominent member of the Radical persuasion,
says tlm Freedmen’s Bureau has degenerated
int(?a political curse —the most poWerlufen
iriim of political trickery that has beeu known
fn the world since God made Adam. It may
be so. Huunicntt ought to know all about the
Bureau and political trickery.
[From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Dissecting Room.
Our local columns this morning contain
an account of a very extraordinary adven
ture which befelFthree medical students last
Saturday night. The narrative may be
h ghly colored, but is not untrue ; and, so
far as it bears upon the case which we wish
to present to the mind of the reader, is very
suggestive. That medical men should be
compelled to resort to such desperate en
terprises for the purpose of supplying them
selves with a necessity without which their
profession could hardly . exist, implies a
lamentable shortcoming either in our legal
or our social system. No one is so un
reasonable as to Complain of the dissecting
room. No one doubts that it is essenti il
to the successful practice of almost every
departmeut. of the medical profession. But
the first requisite to the dissecting room is
-the f object of dissection ; ami, under our
present laws, doctors are compelled, in order
to obtain subjects for surgical operation, to
roam abroad like burglars iiftdie night,and
to-take the risks and chances of such pre
carious researches. This is clearly iin over
sight ill the legislation of the period. Physi
cians may be prosecuted lor malpractice ;
yet, if they resort to the only means by
‘ which they may hope to escape malpractice,
they may be prosecuted for robbing graves.
There ought to be some rule established
giving to the medical profession tiie means
of self-instruction, without violating any of
the laws that spring from our habits or our
prejudices. None of us can look with com
placency upon the desecration of the new
made grave ; but why need the doctors be
put to a recourse so limited, dangerous, and
revolting ? In the great cities of the world
they are not so reduced.
The hospitals, the dead-hpuse, and other
public institutions are made to supply.that
which is indispensable to the public health.
In Louisville there are not many who die
without some triend or kinsman near at
hand; but such as do so die, especially
. where they may be inmates of pliblic in
stitutions —prisoners, paupers, and others —
should be reserved for this disagreeable but
needful purpose. Louisville is already.at
tracting attention as a seat of medical
learning. Students are coming here con
stantly from all parts of the country. There
is no reason why we may not become a
great medical centre, absorbing the ambi
tion of the West and South, and drawing
to our schools many hundreds of students
every year. But we cannot expect to do
this if we tie up the hands of the professors
and restrict the advantages of the students.
We must give them all that they can get in
other cities; and we can afford to draw
neither on Chicago nor upon the hazards of
'stealing corpses. We cannot blame medical
men for doing the best they can under tiie
circumstances. It is simply abominable
that they find themselves restrained by so
many legal and social limitations. We
can’t afford to do without doctors; tiie doc
tors can’t get along without dissecting
rooms; and the dissecting rooms must have
subjects. How shall we go about remedy
ing the evil?
, THE MVSTfeRTES OF CITY LTFE.
The incident which we have to give our
readers this morning is of three medical
students, who crossed the Ohio river Satur
day night in a small skiff, and what they
went for, and what they got, and what be
fell them before they returned to University
Place.
Strange as it may appear, it transpired
exactly as shall be related. The reporter,
who understands his duty, need not exag
gerate or manufacture the material out of
which lie composes every day his chronicle
of city life. His liveliest invention cannot
hope to rival the realities that pass under
his observance, if they be recorded with
half the animation which is bestowed upon
the fictitious creations of the brain and
fancy. The times are full of matter for
descriptive scarce a week goes
by that does not furnish him, if he had but
the leisure to make use it, events of the
most dramatic character, as this is. The
reader, however, shall read and judge for
himself.
It is necessary that tints much should be
said in order *o relieve the present humble
narrator of an intention to impose upon the
credulity of the public.
ii.
THE THREE STUDENTS.
It lias been stated repeatedly that the
medical fraternity in Louisville, though a
large, wealthy and powerful class, are often
reduced to extremities for subjects for the
dissecting room. Often they liaVfe been ar
rested and forced to pay heavy fines ; not
unfrequently they have been fired on ; and
it is a common practice to import bodies
from Chicago. Only last week recorded
:i case in paint. Tiie present is cv«?n more
startling.
Three students, whose name we shall for
the. present conceal—one from Alabama
and two from Tennessee—resolved to sup
ply themselves with a subject, and obtain
ing information of the sudden death of an
Irishman, lately released from the Indiana
State prison, who had just been interred in
an old field outside of New Albany, by
some charitable persons in whose house lie
had died, they arranged fora nocturnal ex
cursion.
The plan was simple. They had only to
procure a boat, cross the river, proceed to
Uiq designated place of burial, exhume the
body,-wrap it in a blanket and convey it to
the dissecting room. They provided them
selves with mattocks and spades, secured a
good yawl, and just after 13 o’clock set out
from a poiiit near the ferry, reaching the
opposite Snore in safety.
They were armed, of course, and were
agreed to make a fight if they should be
molested.
hi.
THE EXPEDITION.
Fortune seemed to favor them. They
were not observed as they sped across the
shining Ohio, rippling bright and clear in
the moonshine, and landed in ad obscure
nook, which they had explored in the after
noon. Thence they took a bv-path around
tlie town, and were soon brought to the
lonely, off cast, new made grave.
Daring, as well as enterprise, is acharac
teristic of medical students. One stood on
guarfi while liis two companions (who had
learned the art and practice ol' digging
during the famous campaign from Dalton
to Atlanta) set-to actively with the spades,
and very soon they struck the coffin. Hav
ing shoveled the dirt away they placed this
rude pine box upon terra- firma, ami were
preparing to lake off the lid when a noise
startled them. It was a very dreary place,
near a clump of trees, and not far from a
brick kiln and cluster of work people’s
dwellings. The clocks had just struck
two ; but there was a stir as of approach
ing foot steps beyond the grove, and no
time was to be lost.
“ What shall we do?” said Alabama.
Knock off the lid.”
“ No, we haven’t time. The noise will
betray us Pick the and u tiling up, -and
let’s be off.”
Hastily the three students lifted the coffin
on their shoulders—luckily they were all
strapping fellows who had carried many a
poor fellow to the rear on a stretcher—and
made for the river as fast as possible—and
made for the river as fast as possible. Just
as they turned the angle of A hill they saw
lights in the grove behind them. Hut they
did not stop to reconnoitre or learn whether
it was a party in pursuit. They hurried
forward over uneven ground and up and
down out-of-the-way lanes and alleys, and
finally gained their boat, in which they de
posited their loathsome burden.
“ Now for the other side, boys 1”
** AIJ nght! Pull away !”
IV.
. ON THE FALLS. •
The yawl darted out from land into the
channel, ami was struggling up stream
against the current, which is swift and tur
bulent at this point. It was the object of
our students to land as far up as they could
row their boat, and so they turned her head
directly for the ferry, and were soon toss
ing among the waves. They were elated
with their success. To cross the river,
elude detectives and police, secure a fresh
body (which is to a medical student what a
nosegay is to a lady,) and to find themselves
so.safe sped on tlieir journey back was in
deed a triumph. They had not, up To this
time, paused for rest or recreation, and had
quite neglected a flagon of brandy which
they had provided. This-they now recol
lected. It was produced, and lyhig on their
oars, they—ah they have related to us—
drank several toasts. They drank to the
University* to their sweethearts, and to
poor Pat, who lay unconscious in the coffin,
flat on the bottom of the skiff How it was
they could not tell; but suddenly, as if im
pelled by a strong arm, the boat upset and
its contents were emptied into the river.
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THE CORPSE SWIMS.
Horrible!
As the skiff capsized, submerging our
three students for a moment, the coffin lid
fell off, and the corps was rudely thrown
into the water. The moon, though on tiie
wane, was shining bright and clear.. The
waves of the river rising and falling ranged
round white and weird as ghosts, as they
danced from shore to shore. The church
spires of the two churches glittered among
the stars in the quiet sky. B«t away be
low, where the cold, uncomfortable day
light dawifed, fogs were stealing upward,
and tiie houses along the banks showed
like a fleet becalmed. This was the vague
outline of the situation as it appeared to
our adventurers when their heads came to
the surface; but another sight quickly ar
rested their attention, appalling every
sense. There before them in an upright
position ivas the corpse, half clad, as they
had found it in the coffin, supported by the
boat, over which, it being turned upside
down, an arm was thrown, while from the
side of the body a little stream of blood
pealed off. The face was livid and stark.
The eyes were wide open. The teetli seem
ed to chatter; and so it moved away with
the current, a thing of life, yet dead; a
corps, yet floating with the stream, as erect
as a human being!
Our students were confounded.
They were brave and hardy fellows, who
had seen death on the battle-field and faced
dead bodies in dissecting rooms. But this
was horrible. It floated away with their
boat and they dared not pursue it; it float
ed away as if an angry spirit possessed it,
as if it took a grim, sardonic pleasure in
their discomfiture. They turned their faces
away from the ghastly sight and toward
the Kentucky shore. It was not far dis
tant and they reached it numb and dazed,
but perfectly sober. Then they again turn
ed to the stream; and the corpse, clinging
to the bottom of the boat, passed oft’ into
the mist and out of sight, still rigid and
“ Well, this beats hell!’’
“ It does indeed !”
Presidential Piety.
WHAT PRESIDENTS HAVE BEEN PIOUS —
STATEMEMTS OF A BOSTON CORRESPOND
ENT—ONLY ONE PIOUS PRESIDENT.
Tiie New York correspondent of a Bos
ton paper says :
“ The fact that Gen. Grant passed a Sab
bath at West Point ami did not attend
church, though the post chaplain officiated
near him, lias been commented on bv tiie
press generally. It is somewhat a simrular
fact that, as far as it is known, no Presi
dent. of the United States, since the days of
Washington, lias been a communicant in a
church. John Adams was the representa
tive of the liberal community of liis day.
Jefferson was styled a free thinker. An
attempt was made, when Jefferson was a
young man, to make the Episcopal Church
the established religion of Virginia. John
John Leiand, a traveling Baptist minister,
preached a sermon in tiie presence of,letter
son on what he called the ‘ incestuous con
nection of the church and state.’ - This ser
mon converted Jefferson to that doctrine.
11 is persistent opposition to a state religion
caused him to tie stigmatized as an infidel.
Mrs. Madison was a Qomniunicau* at tiie
Episcopal Church. Her husband was not.
Monroe was a member of an Episcopal
parish, but not a communicant. John
Quincy Adams, although a member of a
Unitarian parish in Massachusetts, held a
pew in the Second Presbyterian Church in
Washington, of which h<j was a trustee, and
there he worshipped until his death. In a
violent snow storm I sa»v him walking to
church, one Sunday, with the snow up to
his loins, and he was oie of tiie seven per
sons who composed the congregation that
morning. He never communed in the
church.' Gen. Jackson was a regular at
tendant on Sunday moping. He wor
shipped in the Second wnsbyterian Church
until his quarrel with the pastor about Mrs.
Hester. He then left for the Foiir-aiid-a
half street church, and took his Cabinet
with him. He always eigne early and en
tered lii-s pew, which was on the right side
of the church as lie entered. Earnest and
devout attention he gave to tlie sermon. It
was his custom, at tiie close of the sermon,
to rise in his pew and make a very courte
ous bow to the minister, and then walk
out, the audience wait'ug in their pews till
lie had reached the vestibule. Van Buren’s
home church at Kinderliook was Reformed
Dutch. At. Washington, when lie. went to
church, he attended St. John’s (Episcopal)
in the morning. Mrs. Polk was a devout
and earnest Christian woman, belonging to
the Presbyterian Church.
“ Mr. Polk accompanied his family every
Sunday morning to the Four-aud-a-liaif
church. Mrs. Polk usually attended the
Second Presbyterian Church in the after
noon, where site held a pew. The Presi
dent seldom accompanied her at the second
service. General Taylor was not a profess
or of religion. When lie attended church
he sat in the President’s ptnv at St. John’s.
President Pierce was a member of the Con
gregational Society, in Concord, N. 11., but
not of the church. He was very regular in
his attendance at the Presbyterian church
on F street, near the White House. This
was his religions home during i.is long sen
atorial life. Hr was not a member of the
church. He. came to worship usually on
foot and unattended. Ilfs pew was on the
side, about two-tliirds of tiie way from the
way from the door. He jisually walked up
the aisle with a cat-like i step, went to the
extreme'end of the i ew,curled himself up
in the corner, and seldom moved till the
service closed. He rarely spoke to any
one, and hastened from fife church to the
White House. Mrs. Lincoln was a commu
nicant at the New York Avenue Presbyte
rian church. Mr. Lincoln was not. But
he was a regular attendant at worship.—
Johnson seems to have no religious home,
but rather inclined to the Lutheran. Gen.
Grant is not a professor of religion. He is
a trustee of the National Methodist church
at Washington, and is a frequent attendant
on the preaching of that church.”
Tjep to a Thee.—A Government Official
in a Tight Place.— On Friday, Colouel E.
I). Lyons, Government detective, attached to
the Quartermaster’s Department, and at pre
sent stationed at Nashville, Tenn., we learn,
ws* ordered to Bridgeport, Ala., to investigate
some bounty claim®, believed to be fraudulent,
that had been paid to loyal colored soldiers,
residing in the vicinity. The colonel arrived at
his destination on Tuesday eveuiug, and en
gaged quarters for the night in the hotel. A
darkey porter iu the employ of the house po
litely escorted the crolotiel to his room. With
the suavity lor which Colonel Lyons is justly
celebrated, he entered into conversation with
the porter, and by a course of pumping, learn
from hrm the whereabouts of the eight colored
loyalists for whom he was seeking. The port
er after much solicitation, and aided by the
offer of greenbacks, agreed to accompany the
detective to the settlement where the parties
lived, which was about five m\les from Bridge
port. Dismissing his informant, the colonel
retired.
Early next morning he arose, and after the
necessary ablutions, went down to breakfast.
After eating heartily he looked round for llie
porter, but not descrying him, ttie colouel went
to his room and belted on his revolver, besides
placing eight, pairs of handcuffs in his pockets,
intending when he arrived at the settlement to
call upon the authorities lor assistance in ar
resting the culprits.
Going down stairs once more, and finding
that the darkey was non est, bj; concluded io
go without him. After traveling a short dis
tance into the woods, he was namr-ally sur
prised to find six men spring out from a by
path, and seize him. Remonstrating with
them, they informed him that they were the
fire-tried loyalists he was in seareli of, and tak
ing a pair of handcuffs from bis pockets, they
tightened them upon the frightened detective.
After lightening him of his revolver, they tied
him tightly to ihe trunk of a tree, aud left him
to his thoughts.
Colonel Lyons remained in his trying and
unpleasant position for about two hours, when
he was released by a larmer, who was attracted
to the scene by the cries of the bound man.
Colonel Lyons returned to his post of duty at
Nashville, a sadder if not a wiser man. He is
of the opinion that his treatment by the Ku
Klux of that region, last Summer, was far su
perior to the hostile leeeptiou accorded to him
by the loyal colored men.
[Knoxville Press % Herald.
Godot’s.— Quinn, whose reputation is rapidly
becoming State wide, has placed upon our table
that monthly, which-is so welcome to the ladies,
and genllemeu too, Godey’s Lady’s Book, for
January, 1809. It contains a large number of
fashion plates and a fine table of contents. For
sale at Quinn’s Book Depot,
[From the New York World, Deo. 2.
Destruction of fort Lafayette.
THE FORT IN RUINS—A TERRIBLE EXPLOSION
ANTICIPATED—EXOBUS OF THE SURROUNDING
POPULATION—THE BURNING FORT ABAN
DONED, &C.
Yesterday afternoon the alarming report
reached this city that Fort Lafayette was on
fire. The news was eagerly caught up, and
great consternation prevailed among those
whose residences were in that neighborhood but
whose business called them to New York. The
alarm was not groundless, the danger was im
minent, and every one was on the qni vive for
information. For the past lew weeks, it ap
pears, workmen had been employed in building
anew roof, and quantities of timber, lumber,
and shingles had been stored in the fort for that
purpose. The work so far had been only the
preparation of the framework of the root, and
consequently the space inside the fort presented
more the appearance of a carpenter’s shop than
a warlike fort. Several thousand feet of lum
ber and pine shingles sullieient to cover the
space included within the walls of the fort, were
stored therein, and, strangely culpable as it,
may seem, they were all piled within a few feci,
of the entrance to the powder magazine.
Ttie work of building the rooi and other
similar work in hand was in charge of a super
intendent of the engineer’s department under
General Newtcn, and strict orders had been is
sued by him against lighting any tires by the
workmen engaged. Notwithstanding these
orders, however, a workman, it is alleged,
lighted a fire for the purpose of heating some,
coffee for his lunch, and while the workmqu
were all idling away the usual dinner hour, a
dense smoke was seen to issue from the work
shop. A general rush was made tliereto, when
it was found that the shavings, workshop and
lumber were a!! on lire. Every effort possible
was made to quench the flames, but, without the
means ot forcing water, without even fire hose
or water buckets, the most -strenuous efforts
would have been of lilile avail, aud a panic
seizing the workmen, owing to their knowledge
,of the proximity of the powder magazine, a
general stampede for Fort Hamilton was made.
The sergeant and three men, the only soldiers
on duty at the- fort, immediately reported to
their proper officers, and a number of men were
sent over to the fort to endeavor to quell the
fire, hut with no effect.
The united work of several steam engines
would scarcely have been sufficient to stay the
progress of the flames, added to which very
few could be found hardy enough to brave the
reported and greatly exaggerated danger of an
explosion. The fort was consequently desert
ed, and the tire given full play, and well did it
use the liberty tints given it The tire was first
discovered at, ten minutes to one o’clock, and
in less than an hour from that time the flames
were bursting through the roof, casting a red
glare, even in the fright, light of noonday, on
the waters around. At. the time ot the break
ing out of the fire, there were ten carpenters
and four laborers at work, the fort being in
charge of a sergeant and three men. Through
out the whole ot the afternoon the fire burnt
fiercely, the flames bursting out, in forked
tongues innumerable above the outer walls of
the foil, casting their red glare all around and
spreading consternation on all sides. As the
darkness of night closed in, the scene was
grand beyond (inscription. The waters of the
harbor ri fleeted the red light of the lire for
miles. In the midst of the water, made more
solitary by the gloom caused by the shore, was
to be seen the firm walls-of the lort enclosing a
seething, hissing mass of lire, which ever and
' anon shot torth in short but bright sheets ol
flame.
GENERAL CONSTERNATION.
No sooner was it known that Fort, Lala-
Vette was on fire than a general consternation
seized on all within the neighborhood. Hu
mors, exaggerated as minors always are, said
that an immense quantity of powder was
stored in the fort, and all parties living near
deserted their houses and took flight for a
safer place. Inspector Folk, witht wenty-six
men of the police force, was speedily on the
ground, and they at once took charge of the
deserted dwellings. Happily, np to this time,
no explosion of any consequence has taken
place to warrant, such fear, hut the fact that ton
ions of powder is actually stored in the maga
zine is sufficient to give cause for some alarm,
which, however, is allayed by the fact that, the
powder magazine is strongly-built ot brick,
fire-proof, and the entrance ghaided by two
doors, placed seven feet apart, and at the pres
ent writing the fire in that corner of the fort
has nearly died out. The .result of the lire can
only lie the entire demolition of Fort Lafa
yette; hot beyond the loss of a few thousand
dollars’ worth of lumber, some shot, and shell,
which latter exploded continually during the
night, the loss will not bo very great.
DESCRIPTION OF FORT LAFATETTE.
Fort La hi y cite was built subsequent to the
close older war vvilh England, lor the purpose
ol more effectually guarding the ocean entrance
to the. metropolis, ft stands on the Long
Is.and side of the bay, about, six miles below
the city, and alnio-t opposite to Fort Wads
worth, on Staten Island. It, was built on a reef
about three hundred yards from the shore, and
| at low tide if is surrounded by a trout six leet
of water. The structure was quaint in appear
ance from the outside as well as within. The
inner wall is diamond-shaped, and rises five or
six feet higher than the wall surrounding it. —
Tile top surface of the inner wall slopes to
wards the centre, aud it is upon this strong
rampart that the heavy guns of the fort were
mounted. For a long series ol years this fort
lias stood like a sturdy sentinel guarding the
gates of the Empire City, without once having
had the satisfaction of discharging a hundred
! pounder across the bow of a hostile man of
1 war. But it has done other service.
During the late civil war it was made to help
Secretary Stanton disgrace the land it was made
to protect, and the name of the distinguished
soldier under whose name it was christened. —
During these four years of strife, hundreds ol
men who, had they been granted a fair trial be
fore any tribunal, could have been found guilty
of nothing, suffered confinement for months
and years in its dungeons. There .will be
many victims who will rejoice when they hear
of the demolition by fire of this American bas
ilic. About forty-four years ago Fort Lafayette
presented a very different appearance than it
does to day. Then tbe gallant Lafayette, from
whom it subsequently took its name, was re
visiting the country for whose liberties he had
fought, when its government was in course of
inception. Then its walls and cannon had
changed lor a lime their warlike aspect, and
were decked with wreaths of flowers, and
French and American flags, and nations that
were typical of freedom ol speech and thought,
a part of the grand old principles upon which
the new republic bad but recently been tound
el. On that when Lafayette,
in presenting to Washlngt'di the key <>i the
basiilc as a token of that 'tyranny and intoler
ance which lie hoped would never disgrace this
fair land, gave utterance to the following
words: “ Permit me, iny dear General, to offer
you a picture iVpreseutimr the Bastile, such as
it was some days alter I had given orders for
its demolition. 1 make you homage also ol
the principal key of this fortress of dtspotistfl.”
The historian relates that Washington received
the key with reverence, as " token of victory
gained by liberty over despotism.” The friend
of Washington little dreamed at that time that
the'very fort which it was intended should
commemorate and honor his name should at
last itself become a bastile, the thing which he
held in such utter abhorrence. .
The Story of a Bank Note —The science
of chemistry has been put to a hard test lately
in Prussia. At the bank ot a provincial town
there appeared a peasant with an old mass of
pulp, requesting the cashier to chauge that for
him. Ou close .examination, one little scrap
was found, conta’iuing the number Os a ten-tha
ler bank note; the rest was pulp, and nothing
could be made of it. The poor peasant then
explained matters. He bad bought eighty
thalers in bank notes from the market, and had
lost the little bundle in llie stable. There an
eager goat found it, and proceeded calmly to
earit up. the peasant, having become aware
of his loss, rushed hack into the stable, and
just entered it in time to perceive the last mor
sel of a ten thaler note disappearing. His
wife, wise woman, advised him to kill the goat
at once. This lie bad done, and here was the
result. Ail the printing having.been almost
entirely obliterated, the question has arisen
whether it might be possible to restore some
portions of it by chemical agencies, or to dis
cover by means of a powerlul microscope
traces which, to the naked eye, are invisible.—
The peasant, iu tbe.interval, has received the
value of the one note, and a promise that
everything possible shall he done for him as to
the others.
Destruction of Stumps.—We have aiways
objected to the use of machinery of any sort to
take np large stumps in ordinary arable land,
that they would take up inevitably a large
quantity of earth with each, and leave a hole
almost as objectionable as the slump; and
moreover that after the stumps were cut there
was tfronble in disposing of them. The follow
ing suggestions which we take from our neigh
bor, the Baltimore Weekly Leade ••, may be
quite practicable, while they afe not liable to
the same objections. They are at least worthy
of trial: *
“ We have heard of.two methods of getting
rid of stumps which, as they appear feasible
and inexpensive, we, hope some reader will try
and report upon : Bore with a two-inch augur
to the heart of the slump; fill the cavity thus
made will) sulphurie acid, or with crude petro
leum. In the first ease, the acid beeomes the
destructive ageut within a few months, in the
latter, when the stump becomes saturated with
tbe oil it is fired, and will then burn out to the
last particle, like a candle.— American Farmer.
The world looks with cold respeck upon an
ackt ov justiss, but heave up their hats at a dis
play ov mersey. Yet the one is the strength ov
virtne, while the other iz most often its great
est weakness.— Josh Billings.
BY TELEGRAPH.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
"W ashingfcon.
Washington, November 0.
There will be a quorum to-morrow. It is not
known when the message will be soul in ; its
sanctity is guarded carefully.
McCulloch says the statements of his reports
are mere approximations compiled from the
reports of subordinates.
The American bark Alecla, from Sicily, for
New York, with a load of brimstone, was lost
in a terrific galo oft Warsala. The steward was
lost.
Senators Hill and Miller, also Col. Christie
and Mr. Whimpey, from Georgia, are here. —
Christie holds Meade’s, and Whempry Bui.
lock’s certificate as member of the House from
the same district.
Washington, December 7—Noon.
Both Houses organized. Christy and Wim
py, contestants from the Sixth Georgia Dis
trict., were referred to the Election Committee.
The credentials of Miller and Hill, Senators
from Georgia, were up in the Senate.
The Clerk is reading the memorial ol the
negroes expelled from the Georgia Legislature.
Meynard, who claims to succeed Mai n, from
Louisiana, palpably a man ol color, is on the
floor ol the House.
Washington, December 7—P. M.
The Supreme Court, headed by Chase and
Evarls attending, visiting the President.’
Supreme Court had a full bench, except
Greer.
The Georgia Senatorial question was warm
ly argued to-day. Hill’s credentials were pre
sented. Miller will probably require a re
moval of political disabilities, and it was
thought best not to complicate Hill’s .creden
tials. The Republican party is divided’ on this
question. Messrs. Ackerman, Baird, Speer
aud meld bets of Congress, except Clilt, urge
Hill’s admission. Governor Bullock and Mr.
Blodgett, supported by Congressman Clift,
urge delay.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue will,
during the week, transmit to the President his
resignation, to take ( fleet at the close of the
present mouth.
It appears Menard is here without creden
tials from the Governor.
It is stated to-day tjje Colored Library
Association addressed a note to Menard, urging
him to make no effort for seat, as it would cer
tainly work to general dissatisfaction.
Wheathor bad; telegraph Northward slow.
Gov. Bullock addressed a communication to
Congress, representing that the laws (if Con
gress under which Georgia was admitted to
the Union have not been fully complied with,
and holding that until such compliance Geor
gia’s government must continue provisional.
The failhre lies in failing to exact from officers
elected the oath prescribed by Congress and
administering, instead, that provided by pro
posed Georgia constitution, which failure to
execute the law of Congress has resulted in the
defeat of the purposes which Congress had in
view in passing these acts, namely, affording
adequate protection for life, property, main
tainence of peace good order and tree ex
pression of political opinion. The Governor
states that the wisdom displayed by Con
gress in providing th it only- loyal tnqn
participated in establishment of provisional
government to be thereafter clothed with
rights and immunities ot a State in the Union,
is made apparent by consequences arising
front a failure to enforce that legislation. The
Governor calls attention of Congress to this
subject, to the end that steps may'be taken to
obtain full inforiuatioujiii relation thereto, and
to the end that loyalty may be protected and
promoted by the enforcement ol the laws en
acted by the representatives of the American
people.
The certificate of division in the Uniled
States District Court for Virginia was tiled in
clerk’s office ol the Supreme Court to-day. •
IN ew ork.
New York, November C.
General Grant has arrived and remains until
Thursday.
The storm lias ceased and the snow is disap
pearing.
It is reported that E. A. Pollard, author ol
the “ Lost Cause,” has been appointed to a
clerkship in the New York Custom House.
New York, December 7.
Cole, accused of murder, was acquitted.
Georgia.
Savannah, December 0.
A special police force was appointed and
commissioned by llie Mayor two weeks since
for pitrol dioy on t lie outskirts of the city,
composed mostly of German farmers and
gardeners, who relieved each other nightly,
patroling roails and guarding farms from depre
dations ol negroes. Last evening, Broadback
er and seven others were patrolling Thunder
bolt Shell road, and about 11 o’clock, p. m.,
they heard loud hallowing and approached
the party and demanded to know the cause
of disturbance. The negroes, about a half
dozen in number, replied ilmateomgly, when
BroaclbueUer aircsti and one, giving him in charge
ot another parly, and advanced a IVw paces to
make another arrest.. At this moment he was
suddenly tired into by a large party ol negroes,
about foriy, who had before been concealed.
Some sixty shots, in all, were tired, the patrol
retreat log before superior i.umle-it. Mr.
Uruudbaekcr was killed on the first fire. Three
others of his party were wounded—two of
them probably mortally.
This altc-rnoon an inquest was held upon the
body and a verdict rendered that deceased
came to his death while discharging his duties
as special policeman, on tlm sth ol December,
from gunshot wounds in the face and head
from the hands of a negro, one of a party who
were disturbing the peace on the Thunderbolt
road. We earnestly recommend that the State
and county authorities hike action in order to
protect the citizens of this county (rorfi the
brutality ot the negro population. Consider
able excitement exists .and about thirty arrests
have already been made by Hie authorities.
Atlanta, December 5.
The electors ol the State of Georgia did not
meet and cast the vote ot the State on the first
Wednesday, as they 'intended, I>ecan3c of the
following, language in the commission issued
bv the Governor :
You arc, therefore, required to attend at the
Capitol, in Atlanta, ou the first Monday in
December, Uv cast Ihe vote ol the State of
Georgia for President aud Vice-President ou
the Wednesday following, at IS o’clock, in.”
Monday, the 7th, being the first Monday in
December, the electors will, therefore, cast
their vote on Wednesday next. -«
Savannah, November 7.
F. Brottdbacker, who was shot and killed by
negroes ou Saturday last, was burled to-day.
The fire companjps and German associations
turned out in lorce. Two of the wounded
patrolmen are In a very critical condition. The
excitement somewhat subsided. More arrests
have been made.
Louisiana.
New Orleans, November 7
At the Metaire Course to-day, first race, dash
two miles—club purse, $350 —Bottle Bay beat
Jack Gamble in 4:06. Second race—match half
mile for sl,ooo Nannie W. Malry beat Lanoire.
Time: 54%. Third race—two entries mile
heats, best three iu five; purse, S6OO, Joe John
ston, 111. Bismark was distanced in the
third heat. Time: 2:02, 2:£%, 1:59. .
Rio Grande files, to December Ist received,
say Tamaulipas insurgents, under Vargas,
Caballeo and others, are very active, but, as
yet, have made no movement of much military
importance. The small and isolated bodies of
Slate forces are unable to cope with them, but
Escobedo is inarching with the 3d division of
the National army on Matamoras, where he
will re-organize for a vigorous campaign.
The Brownsville Sentinel says Vargas’ men
are committing atrocious outrages at Senobia.
Diaz, foimcrlv an officer ot Quiroga, has pro
nounced against the State government of
Nneva Leon, in favor of Quirago. Monterey
is alarmed at news having been received that
Quiroga is near. A forced loan of $5,000 is
imposed. Basque is reported to have crossed
the Rio Grande with men, arms and ammuni
tion. The States of Quoretaro and Julieco are
reported again iu revolution.
Losada is reported to be in command of fif
teen thousand men, and is expecting a prontiu
ciamento from Marquez.
- Cortina lias been ordered to Tamaulipas
with his whole command. While encamped
about sixty miles from San Luis Potosi, the
eartli was shaken many times in quick succes
sion. The mountains near commenced erup
tion, and Cortina resumed his march hastily.
The inhabitants of San Luis fear that anew
volcano is about to break out near that point,
tbe air beiug full of ashes and smoke, and the
earth shaking with subterraneous noise.
Au earthquake shock was felt in Mexico on
the 6th ot November ; al3o felt at Puebla ;
shocks also for three days at Itnrbide. Anoth
er volcano is feared there. **
Ohio.
Cincinnati, December 7.
The steamer D. M. Sechen was burned at
her wharf by the bursting of a lamp ; no lives
lost.
The America was also burned, but lies against
the bank.. Os ninety-six passengers only one
is known to be lost. The United States’ books
were lost. Reports conflict, but the best esti
mates of the loss arc forty-five passeugers, in
cluding eighteen ladies, seven of the crew aud
eighteeu deck bauds. No Southerners.
Congressional.
Washington, December 7.
Senate.- Mr. Sherman presented Senator
Hill’s credentials.
Mr. Drake objected. He would never aerfnit
the Representatives from a reconstructed Stale
wherein the supremacy ot loyal men hug been
overthrown. 11a contended that Congress h:fd
the right to see the reconstruction laws en
forced.
Mr. Sherman insisted that Mr. Hill’s pres
ence here would belt) cure the wrong.
Mr. Thayer said the real ground of difficulty
was that the Georgia Legislature was an illegal
body, and requested the reading of a commu
nication from Gov. Bullock to substantiate his
statements.
Various dijhuncnts were read, opening up
the whole question, when the matter .was post
poned to Wednesday.
Mr. Rice, of Arkansas, introduced a bill re
questing the Secretary of War to deliver to the
Governors oi North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana and
Arkansas, at the respective seats ol govern
ments, as many arms for militia as the Govern
ors may require, but not exceeding two thou
sand t itles aud two field pieces for each Con
grcssional District. These arms must, go into
hands ol loyal men, but to remain the properly’
of the Uuitcd States, subject to an order oi
Gomrress.
Several financial, naturalization and suffrage
bills were introduced.
Adjourned.
House.—One hundred and sixty-four mem
bers present.
Several new members were sworn in.
After proceedings reported at noon the cre
dentials of Mr. Hamilton, of Tennessee, at
large, were presented. ' The credentials were
referred to a committee and privilege of floor
refused to Mr. Hamilton.
Pending the decision ot soni'e half dozen
claims, bill and amendments to the constitution
providing for the regulation of voting and na
turalization in all the States were presented,
and referred to appropriate committee.
The Judiciary Committee was directed to in
quire what legislation was necessary to secure
uniformity ot compensation under the eight
hour law.
Haifa dozen financial bills were referred.
The correspondence with Johnson, referring
to the Alabama claims, was called for.
A resolution censuring Reverdy Johnson and
demanding his recall was referred to the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations.
The committee to wait on the President re
ported the message would be transmitted at
1 o'clock Wednesday.
The Committee on Reconstruction was direct
ed to examine into Georgia affairs, with power
to send for persons and papers.
Mr. Muljjpns introduced a bill to suppress
Ku Kliwc by national authority and declaring
its members outlaws. Referred to the Judi
ciary.
Mr. Tift presented a memorial of the Geor
gia Legislature, asking removel of political dis
abilities of all citizens. Referred to the Re
construction Committee.
Mr. Kellogg, of Alabama, introduced a bill
to improve Mobile harbor. Referred to the
Committee on Commerce.
A bill was introduced providing for an elec
tion in Virginia in January. Referred to Re
construction Committee.
The preamble and resolution repealing the
tenure of office hill was tabled.
The Reconstruction Committee was directed
to inquire into the condition of Virginia and
Mississippi, and report what legislation is ne
cessary to support life, liberty and property.
Kentucky.
Louisville, December 7.
A gentleman and his sister, from Nateha
toclies, La., were lost on the steamer United
States.
Foreign.
[by the gable.]
Constantinople, December 7.
The Sultan lias decided to a<;(, vigorously
against Greece, should Cretan assistance con
tinue, unless Greece gives re-assurance of guar
antee, and commercial and diplomatic relations
cease.
Mnrine TSTews.
Savannah, December C.
Arrived U. S. eehr. Dupont, buoy lender,
from Charleston, ou a tour of Inspection, and
reports buoys around the bar all in [dace and
service ;steamships General Barnesanrl Thames,
New York; sclir. Louisa, Barkenlinc, Lamp*
lighter, sclir. E-elianlress, New York ; sclir.
Laura Bridgman, Boston.
Savannah, December 7.
Cleared—Ship Niclana, Liverpool.
Arrived —Sclir. J. H. French, Boston.
Heavy wind from Northwest.
Charleston, December 0.
Arrived—Steamer Falcon, from Baltimore;
hark Egenia, from Key West ; sclir. Amos
Edwards, from Philadelphia.
Off the Port—Steamer Saragossa, from New
York.
Charleston, December 7.
Arrived—Steamer Saragossa, from New York.
OIF the Port—Schooner N. VV. Smith, from
New York.
Sailed—Steamer Sea Gull, for Baltimore.
New York, December 7.
Arrived—Saratoga, Cortes, and Livingston.
Markets.
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
London, December 7—Noon.
Consols, 93%. Bond:-) 74%.
London, December 7—Evening.
Turpentine, 275. fid.
London, December 7.
Linseed Oil, £26 ss.
Liverpool, December 7 — Noon.
Cotton heavy ; sales, 8,000 bales.
Liverpool, December 7 —P. M.
Cotton tending down; uplands, 10%; Or
leans, 11%. Breadstuff’s drill. Wheat firmer;
red Western, 9s. 4d.@9s. 9d. Provisions dull.
. Liverpool, December 7—Evening.
Cotton heavy ; sales, 8,000 halos. Common
Rosin, 63. Turpentine, 275. 6d.
Frankfort, December 7.
Bonds firmer ajyl higher, 79@79%.
Paris, December 7.
Boune qfftet; Rentes, 70f. 57e.
Havre, December 7.
Cottou dull; spot and alloat, 121%.
New York, December 7—Noon.
Flour market quiet. Wheat I@2 better.—
Corn shade firmer. POIU, $25 50. Lard
steam, 15@15% Cotton dull and nominal at
~4%- Spirits Turpentine dull at 46%. Rosin
quiet; strained common, $3 40@2 50 ; good
strained, $2 50. Freights dull.
New York, December 7—P. M.
Money easy at 6@7. Sterling, 9%. Gold,
135%. ’63’s, 11% ; North Carolines, new, 63%;
Virginias, ex coupon, 56; new, 57 ; Tennessees,
ex coupon, 70; new, 67.
New York, December 7—P. M.
Cotton nominally shade lower; sales of only
600 bales at 34%@24%, chiefly 24%. Flour firm;
State and Western superfine, $5 65® 16 ; com
mon to extra Southern, $7 20@8 25. Wheat
2@3 better with moderate inquiry; kiln dried
white Southern, $1 12. Oats active, shade
firmer. Pork quiet ami steady; new Mess
Pork, $25 75@26. Lard firmer at 15%@10%.
Whisky quiet, Western, $1 03%@1 05. Gro
ceries dull and nominal. Naval stores quiet.—
Freights firm.
Baltimore, December 7.
Virginias, old, Inscribed, 47%@47% ; ’6o’s,
51(@52 ; sevens, 40@49%. Old coupons, 55% ;
new, 57% bid. Cotton dull and nominal. Flour
quiet and uncharged. Wheat duff ; choice red,
$3 45. Corn dull and lower; new white, 90®
90; yellow, $1 04((i)l 00. Oats firm at 70®75.
Mess Pork dull. Bacon quiet.
Wilmington, December 7.
Spirits of Turpentine quiet and steady at 43.
Rosin dull. Crude Turpentine steady ; prices
unchanged. Tar, $3 10. Cotton quiet; lair
demand at 22.
Mobile, December 7.
Cotton opened active but closed dull; sales,
1,000 bales; middling, 22%(»22%; receipts,
2,731; exports, 459 bales.
New Orleans, December 7.
Cotton % lower; middling,22%®22% ; sales,
(i 100 bales ; receipts, 7,480 bales. Gold, 130%.
Sterling— Commercial, 46% ; Bank, 4.% ; Now
York Sight, %@% discount. Flour-low
crades scarce and firm; superfine, fb l>2%@
6 75 ; double extra, $6 87%@7; treble extra,
$7 40(88 50. Corn easier at 77@78. Oats firm
at 62. Bran, $k 17@1 20. Hay- eholcC , scnrce
at $23@24 50; ordinary plenty at s2l @32.
Pork higher at $26. Bacon scarce ; shoulders,
12- clear rib sides, 16%; clear sides, 19%. —
Laid quiet and firm ; tierce, 10@10% ; keg, 17
(5817%. Buear and Molasses firm ; receipts all
sold; common Sugar, 8; prime, 11%@11%;
clarified, 12%@12% ; common Molasses, 48 ;
prime, 56@60 ; choice, 63<g65. Whisky quiet ;
.Western rectified, $1 03%@1 05. Coffee steady ;
fair, 14@14% ; prime, 10%@17.
Charleston, December 7.
Cotton dull and unsettled; middling fnoml
nally 32%; sale#, 93 bales; receipts,
exports—continent,-141 bales; coastwise, 230
bales.
Savannah, December 7.
Colton dull; sales, 500 bales ; middling, 22%
@33; prices very irregular ; receipt*. 2,381 ; ex
ports to Liverpool, 2,203.
Augusta Market.
OpFiug Daily Oonstitotiokai.ist. 1
Monday, December 7—P. M.)
FINANCIAL
GOLD—Buying st 134 and selling at 136.
81LVKR— Buying at 130 and selling at 133.
BKUITKITIK6 —For City Bonds (old) 80 lias bean
asked, but only Ti}4 offered.
COTTON.— The ottering stock ts light). Hales
were made this morning at 22V fur middling, with
only a moderate demand; but the market closed dull
and dec filing at 22c. Hales, 216 bales. Receipts, 603
bales.
BACON— We quote C. Hides, 18; C. U. Bides,
17V; B. B. Bides, 17; Shoulders, 14X0416; Bel
lies, 17 ; Hams, Dry Halt Shoulders, 13(utl t,'s ;
I Dry Salt C. R. Sides, 17.
| C( >KN—Old White, 10 ; old mixed, $1 06 from
| depot; new white, without sacks, $1 00; in ear, 95.
WJ.I K AT—Wo quote white, $2 25@2 40; red, $1 80
@2 20.
FLOUR—City Mills, $lO 50<»13 00; at retail, $1 V
barrel higher. Country, $lO 00(3)12 00, according to
quality.
CORN MEAL—SI 15 at wholesale, anil $1 25 at ro
| tail.
OATS —Bo® 85.
RYE-$i 50.
How to Judge Poultry.—As Christmas
approaches our minds naturally turn towards
turkeys, geese, ducks and chickens as being a
necessity to the full enjoyment of that season.—
The editor of the Charleston Courier, whose
knowledge of gastrouorov is certainly of no
ordinary kind, offers the following ideas which
strike us as being emphatically true:
A young turkey has a smooth leg and soft
bill, and the eyes briglifand the feet moist.—
Old turkeys have scaly, stiff feet. Young fowls
have a tender skin, smooth legs, and the breast
bone yields readily to the pressure of the finger.
The West are those that have yellow logs. The
feet and legs of the old fowl look as if they had
seen hard service in the world. Young ducks
feel tender under the wing, aud the web is
transparent. The best are thick and hard on
the breast. Young geese have yellow bills, and
the feet, are yellow and supple; the skin may be
easily broken by Iho head of a pin ; the breast
is plump and the fat white. ’ An old goose is
unfit lor the human stomach.
The Overland Monthly.—This new Cali
fornia magazine bids fair to rival any of its
Eastern competitors. Its articles are admira
bly written, breathing a delicious odor of the
Pacific coast with its huge vegetation, pure
airs, luxuriant forests, rich ores, promiscu
ous population and spasmodic earthquakes.
Some of (he writing in the November number
of this monthly, especially that which 1 rents of
the woods and waters o! California, is equal to
the. best efforts o! the Atlantic iu fioint of
scholarship and superior in point ol novelty.
There is just a perceptible spirit of religious
bigotry evinced iu the essays on foreign travel.
Excepting this blemish, Ibe Overland Monthly
is as near perfect as any reader of magazines
could desire.
The American Farmer.—This valuable
agricultural magazine roaches us with its full
December harvest of good and profitable teach
ings. In the new epoch before us, when old
systems of culture, to a greater or less extent,
are passing away, it is eminently necessary for
the true farmer to keep posted in the literature
of his calling. To do this, he must subscribe
to agricultural magazines, one of the best of
which is the American Farmer.
Tit 1! Best Example of Georgia Planting.
A friend, writing to the Telegraph, says that
David Dickson, of Hancock, will make this
year 800 bales ol cotton on 800 acres ot land.
Let us foot up the net results, as we have good
reason to believe t hem to lie :
800 bales of cotton SBO,OOO
Less labor $2C,000
Manures 10,000
Contingents 8,000-138,000
Net receipts $42,000
Blair, Smith & Cos. have just received a fine
lot of bacon, rice, sugar and whisky, which they
offer at low rates.
[From the New York Commercial Bulletin.
Tea.
The arrival of tea of the new crop which we
may soon expect in considerable quantities,
will impart new interest to this branch of trade.
The shipments to England from ports have thus
far largely exceeded the shipments for the same
time in 1867, but this would seem to arise from
an earlier marketing of the crop rather than
from any great excess in the (quantity of it. —
The following review from the London Pro
duce Markets Review will be found interesting :
11 In common with most articles of produce
tea has suffered from the nnsetiled slate of the
. country, consequent npou the near approach
ol the election and the transactions this week
have been below the average ol the season. —
The continued large deliveries, however, give
tone to the market; aud as stocks in the hands
of both wholesale and retail dealers are ex
tremely light, there is a constant and steady de
mand going on, although not sufficient to k.'ep
pace with the large quantity of tea now being
poured iuto this market. There is no falling
off in the demand for common tea, which has
been taken largely, both lor export and home
use; I here are now very few parcels of old im
port, iii first hands, and no great quantity is
field by speculators, as a large proportion of
this class of tea which has recently been sold
belonged to the latter, having been bought in
the spring of the year at Is 3d to is 4d. This
scarcity has caused a slight advance in common
Congou, but it has not exceeded %and lb The
last telegram from China, dated Hong Kong,
October 19, gives the export to date, 100,000,01)0
lbs., nr an increase Ol only about 4,51)0,000 lbs.
for the fortnight.
This would seem to indicate that the advices
from here have at last produced some good
effect, and that a more rational course of pro
ceedings would naturally follow, but, as a tele
gram from Shanghai, dated October 14, refers
to the tea market as firm, with au active de
mand, we confess we are unable to understand
such an anomalous state of things, especially as
we are assured upon positive testimony, that
merchants are tow losing upon nearly every
contract made, and as the state of the market
here must have been well known in China be
fore the 14th of October. We arc glad to no
tice that the later arrivals from Foo Chow
bring a belter class of Kaisows than we had by
the earlier ships, as althought here have been
but very few parcels of fine tea, the medium
kinds have lately sold extremely cheap. A
small sale of ludinn tea was held on Tuesday,
and as a large proportion consisted of tea of
really desirable character, there was fair com
petition, and nearly the whole sold at lull
prices. There is a sensible increase in the de
mand lor fine Asams, in consequence ot the
general inferiority of Hie China crop. In
Greens there has not beeu much doing, al
though prices are much lower than they were
last year. In seeDted teas and Oolongs there is
no change. Common Oolong is slightly dear
er, but brokcu leaf, being rather more plenti
ful, has slightly declined.
Officers in Bankruptcy.—Charles McKin
ley, Esq., Register in Bankruptcy lor the
Third District, died a few days since. We
learn that Judge Erskiue will select Lawson
Black, Esq., Register in Bankruptcy in the
Seventh District, to. wind up the unfinished
business left by McKinley, and will also in
struct the clerks to refer eases which may hcrc
aftcr arise in the third district to Mr. Black for
adjudication.
Owing to Hie promotion of Garnett Andrews,
Esq., to be a Judge of the Superior Court, Mr.
Register Foster, we hear, has been selected to
attend to the business in Judge Andrews’ late
district.
Mr. Register llesseltine, of the second dis
trict, attends to the bankruptcy business iu
the first district, which was the district of Hon.
Joshua Hill, lately elected a member of the
United States Senate.
f Savannah Republican , 2d inst,
A*Neuko Kills Another for Ten Cents
—A negro killed another negro at Taylor’s
Mill, in this county, last-Saturday, under the
following circumstances, as related to us : The
former owed the latter ten cents, and, after
some dispute over it, the money was handed
over, across a Are place; the hill fell into the
fire and was burned. The one claimed the
money paid ; the other denied it; a quarrel en
sued, when the one to whom the money was
due struck the other over the head with a
piece ot board and killed him. “ Let us have
peace.”— Forsyth Advertiser.
