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CONSTITUTIONAL! ST.
AUGUSTA. <3-A.
WEDNESDAY MORNING. DEC. 30,1808
army reunions.
If the country is to be united fraternally
North and South, we are at a loss to per
ceivehow this consummation can t>e brought
about while the military organizations of
the North perpetuate annually the memories
of strife. It may be too much to require of
our victorious brethren that they should
cease all at once building monuments of
commemoration, paintiug battle-pictures,
and jubilating at the festive board ; but it
would be well, if they sincerely desire peace
and friendship, to draw their celebrations a
little mild and remember amidst their re
velry that, while it may be becoming for
foreign antagonists to perpetuate in marble,
on canvass or by maddest banqueting the
trophies of successful war and hereditaij
hate, such practices among kindred are dis
gusting, unseemly aud barbaric. The better
nations of antiquity disdained to immor
talize the bloodshed of their brethren and
deemed it a matter of gravest moment that
domestic wounds should be promptly healed
by removing every trespass against recon
ciliation. Is it too much to ask an emula
tion of this generosity; is it too much to
ask of Christians to do that for policy which
Pagans did of their own volition? It is
not necessary for the cause of the North, or
for the celebrity of the surviving officers of
the different organizations, that this mutual
admiration society be kept up. If their
laurels are worthy of immortality, they will
survive. If not, all the talk in the universe
shall fail to keep them from turning an
autumnal yellow. The South is, haply,
more or less callous to these exhibitions,
and from what we can gather journalisti
cally, the North is a little weary of them
likewise. We read among other items in
the Chicago limes referring to the late
gathering, this significant paragraph:
“ The ornamentation or the occasion was not
as great as could he desired. Where flags are
as plentiful as in Chicago, (here should have
been a greater display. Where science, art,
and spectacular endeavor arc so prominent as
in Chicago, the streets should have worn an
aspect more inviting to the soldier. Not :iti in
scription of welcome could be uoticed upon the
streets. A few ol the newspapers liung their
banners without, but. few else.
“ Oh, it was pitiful,
Jna whole city full
Flag* there were Bone.”
So we predict will it go on from year to
year, unless, indeed, Gen. Grant should
compel the people to affect enthusiasm
whether they feel it or not.
Among the fomenters of mischief, Gen.
Shrrman is perhaps the most conspicuous
of all at these reunions. He passes for a
great statesman as well as a soldier, lie
likewise passes among some people as it
humanitarian. For our part, we think him
very much of a fortunate pretender in each
branch of accomplishment, but have only
time to allude to one particular, that ot
statesmanship. In his last year’s speech,
he longed for an artist to paint the burning
of Atlanta. This year, he takes a lop sided
view of history. Thus, in his speech ol wel
come, he said :
“ You may search history in vain for a more
flagrant violation, a more causeless breach, of
the national compact, than that which resulted
in our civil war. Never before were a people
more ruthlessly, more unwillingly, dragged
into a long and bloody conflict ; and never
before was a Government so utterly unpre
pared lor it.”
Tlie general inference from this bold
statement is that all the forbearance was
on the part of the North and none on the
part of the South. Those who remember
the deaf ear which was turned to the Peace
Commissioners by the leading Republicans
who had resolved upon war, and the bad
faith forcing the overt act at Sumter, need
not be told anew that if ultra men at the
South were fatally bent upon combat,
ultra men at the North met them more
than half way in the measures necessary to
bring it about. Again, General Sherman
says:
“ Good men begged and implored for a little
forbearance, and, asking for terms, were an
swered back with imprecatlous.”
Is this not equally true of “ good men ”
at the South? In searching history, has
General Sherman conveniently forgotten
this remarkable document:
“ Washington, February 11,1861.
•* My Dear Governor : Governor Bingham
and myself telegraphed to you on Saturday, at
the request of Massachusetts and New I ovk, to
send delegates to the Peaee Compromise Con
gress. They admit that we were right and they
were wrong ; that no Republican Stale should
have sent delegates; but they are here and
can’t get away. Ohio, Indiana and Rhode Is
land are caving in, and there is some danger of
Illinois; and now they beg us, for God’s sake,
to come to their rescue, and save the Republi
can parly from rupture. I hope you will send
stiff-backed men, or none. * * *
“ Truly, your friend,
11 Z. Cfiandi.er.
“ P. 8. —Some of the manufacturing States
thiuk a fight would he awful. Without a little
blood letting, this Union toill not, tn mv estima
tion, be worth a curse."
If the animus of this letter is to find
yearly votaries at Chicago or elsewhere, the
day of true reconciliation is still remote.
Should, however, the minds of meu incline
to gentler themes, in future times, the land
may have a better hope and a nobler des
tiny. That there are many persons at the
North who would willingly expedite that
time, we sincerely believe. That there are
many who echo the eloquent words of the
Missouri Republican, let us, for the sake of
humanity, confidently trust. The Republi
can says:
«' Let the joyful music ring out, let the
thronging crowd cheer the gallant chieftains,
let the very air grow heavy with the incense of
flattery and adulation—for these are our vic
tors, and ‘ to the victors belong the spoils.’
“ But wc do not envy the mental composi
tion of that American citizen who can calmly
and thoughtfully read over the proceedings of
the Army Reunion at Chicago, without other
and very different emotions than those we have
ventured briefly to express. There is another
and a more sombre side to the glittering picture
which we would do well to look upon, a wail
mingling with the pawn which w« would do
well to hear. These indeed are onr victors,
decked with flowers and intoxicated with pc-r
--lumes, but have we not our vanqqished too?
These are the champions of a successful cause,
feted and caressed, the petted darlings of the
land ; hut where are the champions of the lost
cause, with their legends of wasted courage,
their heritage of hopeless defeat? The North
is clad in triumphal robes, surrouuded wilh
wealth, prosperity, and all that can minister to
national pride; the South, clothed in sackcloth
and ashes, sits in the Valley of the Snadow of
Death, with nothing hut her graves and buried
hopes to keep her company. They were our
brothers once, are they not our brothers still ?
Children of a common ancestry, with the same
kindred blood flowing in our veius and theirs ;
partners in a Revolution which tried and blessed
both sections alike, inheritors of a past neither
u. be annihilated nor forgaUon, sharers of a
in Uire from which neither can escape. Will
ihe time ever come when Northern and South
ern men may clasp hands in mutual amity,
and, kneeling aroood tire altar of a restored
Union, thank God that it was preserved am and
the wreck and devastation of fraternal strife ?
Can we, shall we of the stronger side, ever
afford to remember that Washington, ‘the im
mortal rebel,’ was a Virgiuian, and that his
houes repose in Virginia soil; that Cowpens,
Yorktown, King’s Mountain, and scores ol
other names ou the bead roll of the nation’s
glory, were bought for us by the bravery and
patriotism of their fathers, as well as ours ?
Shall we ever be sufficiently magnanimous,
sufficiently sensible, to reflect that the splendid
gallantry, the intense, unselfish devotion, the
tremendous sacrifices which rallied around
that banner, now folded and laid away forever,
belongs to us as well ns to them, and must
shine in a blazonry of living light on the
national escutcheon ? The descendants of these
who lollowed Charles, and those who followed
Cromwell, have forgotten past feuds and for
gotten Naseby aud Worcester—forgotten all
else except that Cavaliers aud Puritans are
alike Englishmen. When we or onr children
can do as much ; when the deeds of Jackson,
Lee, Johnston, Stuart, and that host of prince
ly spirits who wore the grey and died for ‘the
lionnie blue Hag,’ are blended with those of the
men who met at Chicago last Tuesday, and
jointly cherished as not unworthy the Ameri
can character, then, indeed, we shall have a
Union, ‘ distinct like the billows and one like
the sea.’ ”
THE PRESIDENT’S AMNESTY.
President Johnson’s Christmas Gift was
in the shape of an Amnesty Proclamation,
being the sixth of the series. So far as Mr.
Johnson is concerned, this closes his ac
count with the late Southern Confederacy.
But it may not close the account of Con
gress, which has taken unto itself all supre
macy, leaving Mr. Johnson but few relics
of authority. According to Andrew John
son, Mr. Davis and other prominent ad
herents of the Southern war for indepen
dence are restored to all private rights. A
two-thirds vote of Congress is still requisite
to restore them to the right to hold office.
Forney, who claims to represent Con
gress, considers the Amnesty a deliberate
sin against the XIV Amendment, “an at
tempt to pardon,” etc. Hear him :
“ The question has been repeatedly settled
that liis pardoning power dots not reach these
classes; but he seems disposed to discard all
authority, aud to terminate his career in the
Presidency by proving that his couusel in ttic
beginning of it, that ‘traitors should be pun
ished, and he made to lake a back seat,’ was
utterly insincere and dishonest. Should Davis,
Beauregard, Mason, and others, attempt to re
sume their riehts under this proclamation, a
ease will be made up of some interest. Con
gress will no doubt take early notice of it.”
Whether il is a good thing or not, we
forbear to decide. It is, in intention, a leaf
torn out of Grant’s book of Peace. For
the intention, though rather late in the day,
the South is duly obliged to Mr. Johnson.
We prefer, however, to wait and see the
exact amount of practical benefit, having
learned from both the President and Con
gress that loyally of all sorts moves in
very eccentric orbits, aud is as uncertain
as the “ Little Joker” in its dealings with
the South.
Letter fiom Hot Springs.
Arkansas, December lfst.li, 1868.
The weather has been extremely cold here
for the past week. On Friday morning last,
the 11th, at 9 o’clock the thermometer in
dicated only 8 degrees above zero. Ice three
inches thick is being housed to-day from
a pond about two miles from the Springs.—
This intense coldness will cause most of
the remaining visitors to leave for their
homes this and next week.
The Hot Springs of Arkansas will proba
bly become as renowned in the legal as they
are to the invalid world. A contest in law
has been waged for many years, by three
contestants —Hale, Gaines and Rector —as
to the pre-emptive right to one hundred and
sixty acres of land, including the springs.—
A decision in the cases was rendered by
Judge Bartlett in November, 1867, in Hot
Springs county Circuit Court, virtually in
favor of Hale. An appeal has been taken
to the Supreme Court of the State, and a de
cision will probably be made next year,
wteich will be the beginning of the end, as
the contestants will only be stayed from
further litigation by a decision of the
Supreme Court of the United States. The
question at issue is as to which of these
parties have the right to enter the land
and perfect titles, all claiming a pre-emp
tive tight under different laws passed by
Congress—no patent ever liaviug been
issued from the United States Land Office.
In the meantime, each of the parties—Hale,
Gaines, and Rector—are in possession of a
portion of the property. In 1832, Congress
passed what is known as the Military Re
servation Act, reserving from sale or set
tlement one mile square of land on which
the Springs are situated, and since that
year (1832) the land agents of this State
have refused to grant titles to any of the
pre-emptive claimants, and the question
was referred to the Departmental Wash
ington, where it lias remained undecided
for rtfteen years, but the House of Repre
sentatives, at the last session of Congress,
passed a bill ordering the sale of the Hot
Springs reservation ; the bill, however, did
not reach the Senate until the -lay of ad
journment and was not acted upon by that
body. As it will be before the Senate this
session, and has become a national ques
tion, I thought this brief outline of the case
might be of interest to some of your readers.
This county—Hot Springs—aud ten
others adjacent and proximate to it, are
poor and sparsely settled. The surface is a
mass of sharp irregular shaped hills, rising
in some places to the dignity of small moun
tains, and the cultivable land is in the
narrow valleys aud of a poor quality. The
hills being fullv seven-tenths of the whole
surface, and still the property of Uncle
Sam. I have had the pleasure ot meeting
several Georgians, who have settled in this
State, one of them, Mr. Thaddeus Taylor,
from Baldwin county, is merchandizing in
this village. He left Georgia in 1840, and
has roamed over a good portion of the
then western country of Mississippi ami
Arkansas, but lias always entertained a
lively hope of returning to the home of his
youth, “the land above all others blest, ”
before he dies.
Arkansas has, like all the Southern
States, suffered severely by the late war,
and like them, needs peace to restore her
prosperity. The cry of her citizens is:
“ Let ns have peace.” Most, if not every
one of the large planters in the Mississippi
and Arkansas bottoms, have gone into
bankruptcy, aud their magnificent places,
with improvements, are being sold under
the marshal’s hammer at nominal prices.
That portion of the State will never, in all
probability, be again cultivated to the ex
tent it was before the war. There is but one
railroad in operation in the State, and in
this respect Arkansas is far behind her
sister States. This is the Memphis and Little
Rock Road—finished from Memphis through
the Mississippi swamps to the town of
Madteon, on the St. Francis river, a dis
tance of forty miles, and from Duval’s
Bluff to Little Rock, a distance of forty
eight miles. The gap between these por
tions, of forty miles, is now being energeti
cally pushed forward and will be completed
during next year. The abundant river
navigation of the State—the best of any in
the Union—prevented railroads from being
the necessity they are in other localities.
On the Eastern front of the State the
great Mississippi washes its border for five
hundred miles; and running from the
Southeast to the Northwestern borders is
the Arkansas and White rivers—navigable
for four and five hundred miles from their
mouths; also, the St. Francis and the
Ouachita, and on the Southwestern border,
Red river. These noble rivers, with their
many tributaries, afford ample facilities for
getting to market all the products of the
State. The system of railroads inaugurated
by the initial road—Memphis and Little
Rock—crosses these streams in a line from
Southwest to Ufaftheast, and aims to draw
commerce front its natural chaunel South
ward to Memphis, and the road now in
contemplation from that city to Selma,
Ala., will give the shortestllne to the sea
board at SavamSffi, Ga. The swamp
lands of the Mississippi, “Arkansas and
White rivers, are the finest cotton lands
in the world, and under n ; State govern
ment administered fairly for the welfare
of the people, will be again, tA a large ex
tent, brought into cultivation ; but at the
present time the Radicals are in possession
of the State power, and although Grant lias
been elected upon the motto of “ Let us
have peace,” still keep up the cry of rebels,
ku klnx, murders, &e., in the vain hope of
retaining their usurped places. It is time
that ali snch nonsense was stopped ; the
election is over and the rampant Democ
racy peacefully acquiesce. The trumpeting
of such bloody deeds of horrible atrocity
committed only in imagination for party
policy, is working great injury to the South
ern States, in preventing law abiding and
God fearti#ii| l »l?bf%.from Immigrating to our
section .'"“Let usnave peace.”
I was rejoiced, nay jubilant, over the
news of your city election. The new board
is the best that could be selected, one that
will administer the municipal affairs for
the best interest of all—white and black,
rich and poor—with strict impartiality.
And now that the Presidential, the State
and the city elections are past, let us all
work harmoniously for the good of our
grand old State, the Empire State of the
South. »-
Letter from Charleston.
Charleston, 8. C., December 25,1868.
Christmas day is usually so bleak and
cloudy, if not .actually inclement, that we
were perfectly rejoiced this morning when
we awoke to find the sky “ clear as crystal.”
Since early dawn the church bells have
kept up a clever melody, and the chimes of
St. Michael’s ring out with something like
ante-bellum sweetness upon the fresh morn
ing air.
Everybody regards Christmas a holiday
in this “ city by the sea.” There is good
cheer in almost every house, and the poor
are cared for.
It is in Switzerland, I believe,that the
custom of providing a Christmas tree for
the little birds obtaius. Many, good people
in this and yoqr city have learned a lesson
of worth from that custom, which greatly
enhances the comfort and lighter* the hearts
of hundreds of those whom we hat c always
with us.
A widow’s fair has been in progress Imre
for a week, with gratifying results.- Tester
eve, the Sabbath schools of the mfferent
denominations had their accustomed Christ
mas trees, and to-day the inmates of the
Orphan Asylum are to be gladdened by
viands, rich and rare.
And “ here’s to the friends we love” in
Augusta : May each of them have a delight
ful Christmas and a happy, truly auspi
cious New Year.
The people of this State are greatly in
terested in railroad enterprises, and are
rapidly turning their attention to the de
velopment of their material resources. The
stockholders of the Greenville and Colum
bia, and the Blue Ridge Railroads, were in
session here last week. The utmost, liar
monv prevailed. Stockholders returned
home with joy in their hearts because of
the future which seems looming up invit
ingly before them.
THE AUGUSTA FACTORY.
Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island, who
recently purchased a very valuable island
on the coast of Georgia, near the mouth of
the St. Mary’s river, was feasted by promi
nent. citizens of Charleston, at the Cnarles
ton Hotel, the other day. In the course of
remarks made on that occasion, the Sena
tor is reported to have said: “It will sur
prise the people of the South, and still
more, the |>eople of the North, to know
(what is a fact) that the best cotton factory
of its size and kind, in America, is to be
found in Augusta, Ga.; and that, in looking
at the subject from a manufacturer’s point
of view, taking the productions per hand
and per spindle, and comparing them with
the work iu other mills, running on flic
same class of goods, I find that these
Southern goods are equal to any of their
kind seen in the Northern markets.”
That’s encouraging. The truth is, we
do not know the power we possess. Our
people are on the right track, however, and
faithfully persuing it, are destined to know
all and gain all. The Macon Convention,
of recent date, must have a good effect. —
Let our people acknowledge and embrace
the truths recently and ably set forth in
your valuable journal, and they will gather
a rich harvest.
THE CITY.
Charleston is in suspense. The munici
pal election case, which was, after careful
a pel protracted examination, decided irregu
lar and void by the acting Mayor and
Board of Aldermen, is up in shape of a
mandamus before the Supreme Court at
Columbia. The decision may possibly be
rendered January sth, proximo. The de
cision of the Aldermen will probably be
sustained.
SCHOOLS.
I understand that the proper authorities
have in contemplation the erection of one
or more public school buildings in each of
the city Wards.
HAHERNEITCII.
The haberneiteh or asphaltum pave
ment, a Charleston invention, is supplant
ing the ancient kind. The compound makes
a good pavement, and one, too, friendly to
shoemakers. Mignonne.
A Word About Babydom. —Babies are
a great institution. What would the world
do without babies? What a lack would
lx* found in animal gradation if they were
missing! It would seem as if the little
end of the horn \yas broken off. And how
discordantly would sound the mighty wail
which aggrieved human nature is con
tinually sending up, if the alto cry of in
fancy was wanting to complete the parts?
What, too, would become of that great host
of artisans who cater for baby comfort and
happiness, if these incipient juveniles were
stricken from the list of being? Where
would be the manufactures of cradles, of
cribs, of baby-jumpers, of teething-rings,
of carminatives, of soothing syrups and
confections, and of all the vast multitude
of joys that are contrived to tickle the
fancy ol early juvenility. *
Looking at babydom as it is, how hard it,
is to realize the time when wc were all
babies, like these before us! How difficult,
it is to get hold of the idea that wc our
selves, the strong men and women Ve see
about us, were once weak, helpless, sense
less, puling babies, dressed In bibs and
tuckers, and nursed upon pap! Yet such
is the fact; and it is a fact which briugs
us to understand the real sympathy we
have with babydom. It presents our in
cipient selves; and when we are disposed
to bear hard upon infancy, and to think it
a kind of diminutive nuisance in hum-m
society, let us remember that we once be
longed to the tribe of babies; that, years
ago, wc used to do something at the busi
ness of crying; that we sometimes kept our
fathers and mothers awake at night; that
we required to be fed and taken care of;
that we had to be gashed, and dressed, and
put to bed that we were up to small fun
and little mischief; aud that, in short, we
were troublesome enough in Gur day and
generation; and so let us, who have got
away up among the tens, have charity for
those who are yet in the units, because we
were once as they are; remembering also,
that the
“ Last (scene of * 11,
That end* this strange, eventful history,
Is second childishness, and mere oblivion”—
that we are going on towards that con
dition, and that we may reach it, if we live
long enough ; so that, according to the old
saying, being “once a man and twice a
child,” we may, though not a very desirable
experience, renew the weakness of infancy,
and know something o£ the babydom of
extreme old age.— Motue Journal.
The artillery range reached in the recent trial
at sherbnrness, November 20, was the longest
on record—lo,3oo yards. It was attained by a
Whitworth nine-inch gun, weighing lourteeu
tons, with a shot of 250 pounds. The longest
previous range was 10,075 yards—reached by
the Lynall Thomas seven-inch gun, iu 1861.
A band of negroes in Snnth Carolina have
devoted themselves to the speciality of robbing
hogpens. There is a big pen of that sort in
Washington which we wish the niggers would
try their hand on. We are not sure hut that
Sumner, Wade and pigs of that sou, would
rather enjoy being eaten up by negroes.
Importance of Spiritual things.—Wc
are sometimes told of the nighty doings
which go on within the walii of an ex
change, where the bargains flat are made
from week to week, the commercial trans
actions which are there settlecl bear on the
state and fortune of whole classes of so
ciety ; or within the walls of | university,
where the lessons daily given <jre deposited
in the minds of assembled yepth, who, in
the coming age, are to fill the highest de
partments of public usefulness#; or within
the walls of a court house, where sentences
are passed by which character, and pro
perty, and life, the dearest of si earthly in
terests, are disposed of; or wahin the walls
of a Parliament, on Whostnfetes and deci
sions nangs the fate of nations, and those
gi eat events which figure on The arena ol
this world’s large and visible Sjwtory. But
to a man of larger vision, an eye
and a comprehension for thingsAtill larger
than these, all that we have nov#spoken of
is eclipsed and cast into the shjde by the
might and the magnificence of tlfcse doings
which take place within the ,yalls of a
church, and which concern a fer sublimer
history than that of nations—evfcn the his
tory of souls subsisting in immortal vigor
after all the empires of eartli shali have fall
en ; and on the high scale and 'reckoning
of eternity, the annals of our entire species,
from the creation of Adam to The day of
judgment, shall appear like a tile that is
told, or but a brief evolution i| the pro
gress of an administration that liver ends.
They are words of eternal life which are
spoken here, and on your receptkti of these
words it depends whether that life is to be
laid hold of, or that life of blesselness and
glory is to be forever forfeited. They are
the seeds of an unfading vegetatkm which
are falliug abroad and being scattered here;
and it will depend on the soil of your own
hearts whether they shall germinate into
briers and thorns, whose end is to be burnt,
or into trees of righteousness, to be after
wards transplanted into the paradise of
.God. — Chalmers.
Curious Freaks of a Lunatic.—David
Liter is the name of a patient at the East
ern Lunatic Asylum, who is familiarly
called “ Boss Liter,” and in his way, is a
curiosity. He is under the happy delusion
that he owus the asylum the lands
attached, and that Dr. Chipley and his as
sistants are merely so many accommodat
ing gentlemen, who have taken the man
agement upon themselves to relieve him of
the responsibility. He is a great trader
and puts at every visitor who comes to buy
eight or ten millions’ worth of property,
just as a pastime. He amuses himself by
driving a wagon, aud in this way is very
I useful. He astonished Dr. Chipley one day
by buying a drove of mules from a man
passing along the road, and had them turn
ed into the grounds, where they - rr* a loose
for some hours before the owner could col
lect them. In politics, Boss is a Clay Whig,
and has never voted any other way. lie is
tervjbly down on the Abolitionists for steal
ing some four or five thousand negroes
from him, as lie thinks, but he claims forty
or fifty negro patients who are in the asy
lum as so many restored to him, and is
under the impression that, he will got them
qll back, Ross is a respectable farmer-look
ing personage, and converses very intelli
gently on many subjects. His only cause
of unhappiness is the immense quantities of
provision which it requires to subsist his
large family, but thinks that the State will
reimburse him in time for his present out
-1 a y.— Lexingle n Gazette.
A Patient Waiter. —A few weeks ago,
as a New Orleans police officer was making
his rounds early one morning, he observed
a stranger walking to and fro upon the
sidewalk of Jackson square. The circum
stance being somewhat unusual, the officer
approached and inquired if he were not out
very early.
“Not at all, sir, I've have been out all
night,” was the rejoinder.
“Out all night?” inquired the officer;
“ why, how is that?’
“ Simply that I have been walking here
all nigjlt ,”
“ Why, isn’t that rather unusual V haven’t
you nowhere to sleep ?"
“Certainly, sir, but I choose to walk
here,”
“ For what purpose?”
“You are very inquisitive, but will
gratify you to know, I’m waiting for Some
one—a lady.”
“She’s a good while iu coming, aint
she ?”
“ Yes, but, poor thing, she ain’t to blame
they’ve got her locked, up these,’’ pointing
to the station ; “ and as soon as she gets out
we're going to get married. She’s got a
lottery ticket, and I found out lust night it
had drawn a pile. She’s no idea of it, you
know.” 'W.
“ You’ve an eye to business, I see."
“I rather flatter myself I have.”
And the lottery speculator was left to
hjs patient watch.
Dots,
Sumner declares that he will submit to uo
more white washing measures. “ No, he stops
with nothing short of lamp-blacking.
A uevv style of hat is called the “ Grant hut.”
We have not seen it, but presume it. lias a
“ brick.”
The English, to revenge themselves upon
Seward’s mischief-making administration of the
State Department, have released George Francis
Train and sent him home.
Anew candidate for a place in Grant’s Cabi
net lias sprung up in Peoria. He drank in one
day fortv-niue glasses of whisky, and was still
sober enough to say “ let ns have peace.”
On Sunday last the pastor of a New York
church administered a rebuke to Gen. Grant
for “ leaving West Point on a Sabbath morn
ing, some time since, and coining to New York,
where lie pqt up at a holij.”
An Alabama planter last year imported some
Brazilian cotton seed at a dollar per feed. It
has yielded most, prolifically this year, and lie
is very sanguine that it will prove far superior
to any other variety of seed.
The editor of ihe Springfield Republican, a
pint measure named Rotpls, who is flashing for
a place in Grant’s Cabinet, says he has such
faith in Grant that, he is “ willing to follow in
his footstens.” We doubt if any temperance
man living can do that.
It is uow stated that that remarkable book,
“ The Opium Ilabit,” was written by Mr. Hor
ace Day, ot New Haven, who lias eat eg over
fifty pounds of opium, but who freed himself
from the habit Jo leas than six weeks when lie
made up his mind to do jt.
What was-started in Atlanta for au elegant
opera house lias been converted into a capital
for the State of Georgia. The building is five
stories high, the upper one being covered by a
French roof. The ground floor is occupied by
stores, and the basement by a saloot and bil
liard room.
AM colliery explosions occur in England
soon after a sudden fall in the barometer.—
Extra ventilation at such times is said to he a
prevention. Before the last fatal explosion in
the Ardiey colliery, a scientific writer had been
predicting such accidents in the London Daily
News.
In Vermont, for five years, divorces have
numbered one to every twenty marriages. This
s the banner State of the God-and-morality
party. The loyal men down there incline large
ly to wenches of the blaok persuasion. Their
motto is not. “ dusk as India, and as warm ”
hut black as Africa and as hot.
A Washington letter writer calls Congress
“ the John the Baptist of the coming man
Graut.” But the paths of the ancient Joltn the
Baptist were “ straight.” If (Jungresj pre
pares any such paths for Grant, he w|l not
know how to walk in them.
The strong minded viragoes are going tfhoid
a convention in every New England State. Thus
doth the Lord punish the New England jeople
for their frightful sins. He scourged aieient
Egypt with vermin, and he scourged the!mod
ern Egypt with a worse curse, the tongies ol
unwomanly women.
It is reported that Frank Reno alone knew
the place where was deposited $90,000, tic pio
ceeds of one of his many robberies. Hiasister
visited him a few days before he was runilered
and tried to induce him to tell where thishoard
was concealed ; hot he refused, lolling her that
if could not live to enjoy it, no one else saould.
The secret died wilh him.
A few days since the passenger train on the
Southern Minnesota Railroad was brought to a
halt by a pocki t handkerchief being waled by
a small hoy mounted on a huge log hcsjle the
track. On being asked what was the natter,
aud why he had stopped the train,he co<Bly re
plied that he “didn’t know, but what somebody
might want to get off.”
The Alaska swindle of $2,200,000 baigs Are
in the committee. That the swindle oeurred
there is no dispute. But who got it? Ebbody
did it. That seems to be ihe arnountof the
thing. It was done, but nobody did it. But a
shrewd man will not have much diffienty. in
gathering from the evidence elicited tbit the
greater share of this vast sum was paid K> the.
members of Cangress to bribe it to pass the
bill. Tbe rumor that it was given to newspa
pers is a cunning dodge lo draw off the atten
tion from the real thief of Congress.
I Per the ConutitutisualUt..
To "B. A. L”
BY JINNT WOODBINH.
Sweet Rosa, gifted child of songfj
Thou queen of heart and mind ; (W
My heart, like an Rolian Harp,
Touched by the murmuring wind
Responds with sympathetic note
Whene’er with sad refrain-
Thy lute gives vent to feelings deep
In plaintive song again.
Thy simple lays of home’s sweet joys
Thrill many a lonely heart,
Who feel, having missed such sac-ed ties,
They’ve lost life’s better part.
And those, who are blessed with love’s pure gems,
In one unbroken chain,
Feel humbly that this life should be
One long thanksgiving strain 1
And, oh I when touched by sorrow’s hand,
Thy heart wails forth in song ">"W
Os wild lament for those wlio’ve joined
The pale, white-cheeked throng,
Who in yon silent city sleep—
Bicep drearalestly and well- -
Os aching hearts which beat response,
No words may fitly' tell.
“ Five little graves I” My friend, thou lisßt
Rich treasures up iu heaven;
For oh! ftom everf little form
Thou to the sod hast given,
An angel bright triumphant rose
To sparkle in tliy croton ;
Then faint not thou beneath the cross
That weighs thee sadly down.
My friend 1 if fond affection’s prayer
Could color life’s dull page,
Thine had home only picture’s bright
From infancy to age.
For oh I thy warm and genial heart,
And charms —thy very
Win all to thee—so to be loveo' 1 — , .
Is i-imply tojlie known.
In tlie sweet, sacred quart of home
Thy every word is iM b ;
Amt yet thou reigneat, by love alone, '
And not tlnough feng and awe.
Thy smile, whi re'e-r It beams, a rare
Magne.tic charm imparts,
And friends, a host, iu love have crowned
Our Rosa, Queen of Hearts!
Augusta, G a., November, 1868
Decisions of the Supreme Court of Georgia.
Delivered at Atlanta, December 22,18G5.
FUKNIStIEn BY N. .1. HAMMOND, SUJMUSMB COUKT
TtEPOKTEK, EXI’iIESSI.Y FOR THE ATLANTA
CONSTITUTION.
The Georgia Railroad ]
Ranking Company. Assumpsit—
us. ( From Richmond.
F. M. Eddienian, et. al. ]
This ease was argued with Miller vs. Gould,
and is controlled by it. Judgment affirmed.
Johnson and Montgomery for plaintiffs iu
error.
11. W. Hilliard for defendant in error.
J. Percy Green, et. al. 1 Equitv _ fVom Whit .
i u'j ( field.
James H. Lowry. >
Brown, C. J.
1. An obligation was given by J. Percy Green
to Lowry in February, 18G5, lor $2,500 in Con
federate Treasury notes, tor the board of his
three sisters while he was absent in the army,
when one dollar in gold was worth forty-six
dollars in Confederate notes. On the 18th
November, 1805, before the ordinance of the
constitution for sealing Confederate contracts
could have been well understood by the de
fendants, said Green, who was inexperienced,
and his sister Julia just of age, who boarded
with Lcwry, and was under his protection, till
about the time it was given, executed a note,
payable one day after date, for $450, which was
to he in lieu of the obligation of Green for the
$2,500 Confederate note; wliicl) the makers
charge was given in that shape, an the fraudu
lent representation and false promises of
Lowry, that, they should have two or three
years within which to pay it, and that lie hav
ing taken advantage of their inexperience and
of their ignorance of their legal rights, in ob
taining the note, brought suit on it in a short
time.
Held, That, the court, erred in refusing to
allow evidence tending la prove these facts to
go to the jury, and in ordering a verdict for the
plaintiff for the nmottul called lor by the face
of the note,
2. The note having been exentleil at a time
wlieu tin* no lies did not know it was necessa
ry to place a revenue stamp upon it, and on
the fact being ascertained, said Green having
voluntarily placed the necessary stamp on the
note, and again delivered it, to the payi—, where
by tin* Government rye-lived tfas revenue to
which it was entitled, Green wili not now he
allowed to controvert the fact that the note was
legally stamped. Judgment reversed.
MeCulehin and eHiewmako tor plaintiff iu
error.
W. Ft Moore for defendant iu error.
VV. W. Whitlock, et. «/.3 E „ n , ty _ frora
Jane Vann, et. al. $ Thomas.
BitoyyN, C. J.
lly t*ie thin) item of the will of A. V. lie gave
to his wile during her widowhood, certain
negroes and other personal property, and admit
five hundred and twenty acres of land, known
as Ills “ Home Place ” In case of her marriage
the negroes were to he divided into three lots
—she to take one, and his two youngest sons,
each one share, and his said two sons to take
tlie balauce ol the property in said third item,
including the “ Home Place,” which was to he
held hy their guardian till they were of age.
Testator afterwards sold the “ Home Place ” to
K. for SIO,OOO and took notes and gave, bqnd
for titles. After this sale he added a codicil to
his will, in which he expresses liis purpose to
give direction to a “ certaiu fund that he shall
have,” and recites the tacts of the sale of the
“ Iforac Place ” for SIO,OOO, agd directs that
‘‘said sum of money” be reinvested hy his
executors in a plantation for the use of his wife
during her lile or widowhood, and it she should
marry again, said plantation to go to his two
youngest sons, as set forth in ihe third and
fourth items of his will. He afterwards col
lected $3,500 of the purchase money, which he
used, and soon after died. The balance of the
purchase money has never been paid, the title
to the “ Home Place ” remains in the estate,
and K. the purchaser, is insolvent:
Held, that there was an ademption of the
specific legacy to Ihe. extent of the $3,500 col
leefed and used hy the testator before fiis
death, and as (.here js pqtjjtng for the codicil
to act upon till the purchase money due at Ids
death (which is the ‘'certain fund” that was
the object of it.) is collected, the codicil, made
under a mistake, did not revoke Hie will, as to
the ltoiife plnpe ; und that the widow and the
two youngest sons take it tinder Hie third item
of life will, lint should the purchaser at a fu
ture time pay .the balance of the purchase
money ana interest, and compel a conveyance
of the land, the codicil vyi|l Him; attach to the
fund, when so paid in, and it will be the duty
ot the executors to invest it in a plantation for
the widow and children, as directed in said
codicil. Judgment reversed.
A. B. Wright, J. L Seward and William
Dougherty for plaintiffs in error.
A. D. Mclntyre for defendant in error.
Miles G. Dobbins, 5
vs. > Equity—from Chatham.
A. Porter, tt. al. 4
McCay, J.
Where a bank made an assignment of its as
sets for the benefit ot its creditors, and a large
port ion of the assets was fn money at a market
value, and a creditor, nearly twelve months
after the assignment, filed* a creditor’s bill,
charging that six months after the assignment,
and again shortly before the tiling of the bill,
he had demanded his shore of tlnj j«#ehnsse'ti! '
from the assignees and they had-rsfnsed *0 pay
11 i 111 unless lie would release llio hank from the
whole of his claim, and the hill prayed an ac
count : Held, that the bill was not demurra
ble. It there was complication as cause lor
further delay, it ought to be set up by way of
defense, it cannot be assumed. Judgment re
versed.
W. Dougherty for plaintiff in error.
Jackson, Lawton and Bessenger for defend
ant in error.
The Mayor and Aldermen ]
of Savannah I Case—from Cbat
vs. j ham.
Miles D. Culleusand wife. J
McCay, J.
A municipal corporation, the owner of a
market, the stalls of which it rents, is hound to
keep the pavement in front of the stalls in a
safe condition, and if u citizen of the corpora
tion is injured, through aueglectof bis duty
by the officers of the corporation, the corpora
tion is liable to the extent of the injury receiv
ed. Judgment affirmed.
E. J. Harden, by llie Reporter, for plaintiffs
in error.
Thos. E. Loyd for defendants iu error.
J. J. Pierce 1
vs. (Equity— from
Thomas Morgau, Survivor, of ( Richmond.
E. M. Bruce & Cos. J
McCay, J.
Equity will not entertain jurisdiction for a
tort , as such, except to prevent it.
When A, a warehouseman, files a bill against
B and C, partners, also warehousemen, alleging
that they, as factors lor D, had, in conjunction
with D, illegally got possession of certain cot
ton which had been stored with A hy various
parties, and had removed it out ot the Stute, to
be sold 011 D’s aecouut, and prayed that B and
C be onjoined from paying the proceeds to D,
aiid that they be decreed to account to A for
thfc value of the cotton. Held, that this a bill
for account and that the true owners of the
POtton, A’s principals, ought to be made par
ses to the bill.
2. Equity requires all parties at interest
within the jurisdiction to be parties to a bilL-r-
Wlien a hill is Sled against H and C, partners,
who are both served aud answer, the uiil pray
ing an account, and one of the partners dies:
Held, that his persoual representatives must
be made parties to the bill, unless it affirma
tively appears that he died non-resident, and
that there are no effects in the State iu which
his estate has an interest.
When a bill is filed against a partnership,
and after botli have answered, ouc of the firm t
dies, it is not error to permit, before parties
are made, an amendment correcting a misno
mer as to the Christian name of the deceased
partner.
Wbeu a suggestion is made of the death of
the party and eulered on the Judge’s docket, it
is not error, even alter judgment, to allow the
eulry to be made, tntne pro tunc, ou the min
ute*. if is only the correction of the neglect
oP'Uus clerk.
it is We duty of the clerk to transcribe into
the minutes all the entries on the Judge’s
docket, showing action in the cause, when the
action does not otherwise appear ou (lie min-
Judgment affirmed.
Walton A, Shewntake lor pliinliffiu error.
Johnson & Montgomery for defendant in
error. 4
Miss Buisle Institution at Edgefield.—
We take pleasure lu directing the attention of
our readers to the following highly conipliment
of Miss Buie’s school. It is taken
from tlie columns of the Edgefield Advertiser.
Owe good people will also remember that
JtAtjge A. P. Aldrich will deliver tt lecture here
on the oth of January lor the benefit of the
school, and we hope will attract, as he well
d«teryes,,4 fine audience:
11 It affords us the sinecrest pleasure to call
the attention of our readers, and the public
generally, to the advertisement ol this Institu
tion ; and to be enabled to say that all the
indications point to its successful estahlish
thfhl.f ' its long and prosperous career.
“It otters education to all, hut its grand fea
luj-e of benevolence —one which should recom
mend it wherever shines Ibe Southern sun—is
to educate the destitute orphans of Confederate
soldiers free of charge. For this last named
purpose, Miss Buie is making most laudable
efforts. And to further her effort, in this lie
half, a distinguished and gifted Carolinian —
Judge A. P. Aldrich—will deliver, in Masonic
Hall, Augusta, Gu., <m Bill January next, an
edifying and entertaining lecture on • Modern
Fashions and Fast Women.’ As many Edge
field people as possibly can, should bv ail
means attend this lecture. And Judge Aldrh h,
we are told, is to be followed by other dis
tingnished gentlemen of South Carolina and
Georgia.
“Os Miss Buie we need not speak. As tile
• Confederate Soldiers’ Friend,’ site is known
stid honored far and near. Site is good and
frni’, a woman ol enlarged benevolence, and
one accustomed to hard and conscientious
work.
“ If ever there was a time when an Institution
ol learning, especially one so aide as Miss Buie
promises us, deserved liberal encouragement
and tli largest patronage, surely that period is
the present. We are just beginning to recover
from the desolating effects of the late war.
Poverty and the absorbirg interest of. social
and political change have rendered till scientific
and literary pursuits both distasteful and im
practicable. But now, let the deficiencies of
the pist lie supplied.
“ We truly believe that in commending Miss
Buie’s Institution to the patronage of the pub
lic, we are indicating a means of wholesome
and liberal culture, which none will ever regret
having availed themselves of.”
Why Women Should Vote.— Some enthu
siastic advocate of female suffrage gives the
subjoined reasons why the sex should have the
right to vote. We have no doubt of the truth
of the first reason given, blit cannot accept,
without some further proof, the second. The
fourth leasou offered by the fair applicant is
decidedly an advancing one, and, as the “ less
er of two evils,” they should certainly be per
mitted to enjoy the glorious privilege. Wa
have no question but that many a “ dear
Oapt—” would rejoice In the opportunity to
run lor office, if only to get one vote :
Because one sober woman walking to the
poll is heller lliitii fifteen men reeling there.
Because women would lie Content with small
er Inibes than men, and thereby save candi
dates a deal of expense.
Because men have had the franchise so long,
and have made such a mess of it, that women
ought to fie allowed a trial,
Because women, if much longer denied the
franchise, will spitefully degenerate into men,
wear male attire, use male language, adopt
male imprecations, build male clubs, and te
tuse to dance in step.
Because inotlii rs in possession of the fran
chise would tm able, to say, “if you’ll marry
one of my daueliters, Mr. Allgood, I’ll give
you rnv vole and interest.”
Because I, who write these reasons, want to
give a vote for dear Captain , at, j wouldn’t
you like to jatow hi* name?
At an election of officers ot the Consistory
5.% P.\ It.-. S • 33d degree A . and A.-. Scotch
Kite, the following were elected and installed
for the ensuing terra of three yean :
J. D, Butt, Commander in Chief.
Charles J. Goodrich, First Lieutenant Com
rounder.
A. M. Brodie, Second Lieutenant Com
mander.
Wrn. J. pcillaid, Minister of State.
Thos. H. Nelson, Chancellor.
R. L. Meilwaine, Keeper of the Seals.
Win. R. Bchtrmer, Secretary.
Josiah Mosher, Treasurer.
Wm. G. Goodrich. Master of Ceremonies.
John Oslcy, Jr., Captain of Host.
P. S. Jacobs, Beau conifer.
Wm. Craig, Bearer Vexelluru Belli.
John E. Navy, Sentinel.
Illustrious Brother B. B. Russell, after install
ing the officers, retired to the honored post of
Post Cojjpiander in Chief.
Old ” P. G."—lt seems that P. G. is not only
classic ground with ns but has a namesake in
New Milford, Conn , where it is likewise held
in veneration and celebrated in rich and beau
tiful verse (?) Read the following, and speak
no more harshly ol a spot so “ sacred and
dear i”
New Milford, Conn , rejoices in some odd
names ol places, to wit: Bear Hill, Netio, As
potie, Jerusalem, Puglane, Hard Squabble and
Pinchgut, the latter place lining immortalized
in verse by a native poet :
“Silas Hill built a mill
On Pinchgul Bandy plains;
There wasn’t any water
Within a mile and a quarter,
Unless ihere came a ruin.”
“Demorest’s New Year’s Number.—We
only echo the universal opinion, when we say
that this Magazine improves with every year, if
not with every successive number. Other
Magazines preserve the same tone, the same
features, Ihe Same style (never rising above the
dead level,) which they have for years past; tint
Demorost's is progressive, always fresli and full
of i.'itf'ryy and instructive information. A
ueyv feature for tins year is the ‘ Ladies’ Club,’
which seems already to have a long list of mem
bers. The fashions and patterns are sensible
and practical as usual. $3 yearly. Send 15
cents Mtor a specimen, to Hi IS Broadway, New
York.”
Richmond Academy.— Among our very best
institutions oi learning, wc feci no hesitation
in placing ihe Richmond Academy. Some of
our best and ablest citizens received llieir
education there in days gone by, and t'ie stand
ard of perfection which existed in those days
is just as high and difficult to attain as then.
Tliis Academy, besides possessing a very able
and efficient corps of instructors, lias many
other advantages which recommend it to the
public, and we veuture the assertiou tint the
present large attendance will be greatly in
creased at the next term.
" "'VoboijjLS.—We have received from the pub
lishers, Messrs. E. J. Hale 3fc Sons, No. lfi
Murray street, New York, a work of the above
name. It is a “ Tale of Disappointment and
Distress, compiled, arranged and edited from
the letters and other manuscripts of Rolaud
Yernon, Esq., and from contributions by, and
conversations with, the Vernon family, of
Rushhrook, South Carolina, by Beujamin Rob
iuson,” This book is neatly gotten up, typo
graphically, and from a glance through its
pages, we would pronounce it quite interest
ing
J. M. Bcudell has 350 sacks of Liverpool
salt for sale at No. 0 Warren Block.
BY TELEGRAPH.
ASSOCIATED PRESB DISPATCHES.
AV" aslrington.
Washington, December 27.
The aclors and proprietor of flic Canterbury
Hall, whose programme included the French
“CanOau,” were arrested during the play for
indecent exhibition.
A dispatch from Lynn says only five build
ings were burned. Loss $500,000.
Congressman Beck lias written to General
Breckinridge, who is in Canada, to return at
once. It is expected that Jacob Thompson, J.
M. Mason and General Early will return at the
same time.
Au appeal has been issued by the Washington
National Monument Committee asking min
isters of the various churches throughout the
country to take a collection on Sunday pre
ceding February 22d, in furtherance of the
completion of that monument, signed by An
drew Johnson, ex officio President; Gen. Grant
and W. W. Corcoran arc among the Vice-
Presidents.
Washington, December 28.
It is stated that Mr. Davis is urged to sur
render himself again to imprisonment, when
the habeas corpus will bring him before the
Supreme Court, whereby the potency of the
President’s amnesty will be really tested.
It is stated that Mason, Slidell, Benjamin,
Breckinridge, inquired regarding the exact
protection which amnesty affords.
A delegation of Georgia negroes is here to
protest against the present admission of Geor
gia.
Senators’ dispatches sent lienee say. Grant is
determined to root out whisky, railroad and
other rings, even if he has to fill every civil
office from the army or navy.
Grant leaves Wednesday, to he absent a week.
McCulloch has returned.
Butler is preparing a speech against resump
tion of specie payments..
New York.
New York, December 28.
The failure of Storms, Turber & Cos., retail
dry goods merchants, is announced.
Hopes are entertained of favorable settle
ment by Lathrop, Ludington & Cos.
Virginia.
Richmond, December 28.
Gen. Stoneman has directed the Mayor to
hold in custody Sally Anderson, who was re
eently released by Judge Underwood.
foreign.
[BY CABLE. |
London, December 28.
'flic Eastern question is more threatening.
The conference is not absolutely certain. The
Porte declines yielding any of the points neces
sary as a lr'sis of compromise.
The Times and Standard editoiially con
demn the conference as useless.
Brussels, December 28.
The Independence Beige says the prospects ol
the conference are reassuring.
Athens, December 28.
Thursday the foreign Ministers of Greece
officially declared that they would make any
sacrifice for the maintenance of her rights and
independence.
Paris, December 28.
The French Chambers will assemble on the
Bth of January.
'■*. Vienna, December 28.
The Porte will decline adherence lo the con
ference if tae terms of his Cretan ultimatum
are mooted.
Havana.
Havana, December 28.
The revolutionists destroyed the light house
at Lucretia channel, thereby endangering navi
gation of the Bahamas.
It is reported that eight hundred filibusters
landed at Coebonos on the 18th inst.
It is reported Hint. 1,800 troops, at Santiago,
are surrounded by 10,000 insurrectionists.
Several jars of strychnine were among the
insurrectionists’ baggage captured at Moron.
General Latorre sailed, on Friday, for San
liitgo, with troops.
Six hundred Government troops are closely
besieged at Manzanillo, where, in consequence
of hail food, the cholera had appeared.
Accounts ol the battle at Moron entirely con
flicting.
IVtarine TM ews.
New York, December 27.
Arrived-Steamers Saragossa, Gen. Grant,
Gen. Barnes.
New York, December 28.
Art ived —8 traf.oga, Thames.
Savannah, December 28.
Arrived yesterday—Steamship Karnes. New
York; schooners Conservative, New York;
Grand Pree, Boston.
Sailed yesterday—Steamship New England,
from New York—put in here lot coal—for Key
West.
Wilmington, December 28.
Cleared yesterday - Pioneer, Philadelphia;
Mary Sanford, New York.
Charleston, December 28.
Arrived—Steamer Magnolia, New York ;
schooner Mary Ripley, Philadelphia
Sailed—Steamer FaL-on, Baltimore; schooner
Rosalie, Harbor Island, Bahamas.
ATarkets.
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
London, December 28—Noon.
Consols, 92}£. Stocks quiet.
Liverpool, December 28—Noon.
Cotton qn'et; sales, 12.000 bales. Red West
ern Wheat ’.ls. lOd. Flour, 20s. fid. Corn,
38s. Gd.
New York, December 28—Noon.
| Money active at 7. Sterling, 9%. Gold,
i 134%. Governments firm and advancing; ’tiff’s,
10%; North Carolines, 64%; new, 62%; Vir
ginias, ex coupon,s6 ; new, 50%; Tennessees,
| ex coupon, 00% ; new, G9@69%.
New York, December 28—P. M.
Money' stringent at. 7 and commission. Ster
ling dull at 9%. Gold, 134%(»135. Govern
ments active; ’tiff’s, 11 (311 % ; State Bonds in
good demand ; Tennessees, old, 70(370%; new,
09(370 ; Georgias, 81 % ; Louisiana Levees, 60%.
New York, December 28—Noon.
Flour and Wheat dull and declining. Corn
1c lower. Mess Fork declining—s 26 75. Lard
declining; slenm, 17%(317%. Cotton quiet
and steady at 25@25%. Turpentine firm at 45
@45V£. Rosin moderately active; strained,
common, $2 35 hid, $3 40 asked. Freights
quiet.
New York, December 28—P. M.
Cotton closed a shade firmer; sales, 2,100
bales al 25(325%. Flour, $8 and favors buyers.
Wheat nominally lower. Corn heavy ; white
Southern, $1 03(3)1 03; yellow, $L 07. Pork
drooping. Lard shade easier ; kettle, 17(®17%.
Whisky quiet. Rice dull ; Carolina, 8%@9;
Orleans Molasses, 75(380. Turpentine, 45%@
40. Rosin, $3 35(37 50. Freights firmer ; Cot
ton, steam, %@5-10.
Baltimore, December 28.
New coupons, 50; North Carolines, new,
03 bid, 03 asked. Flour extremely dull.
Corn firm--white, $1 15(31 17; yellow, 87(3
SS. Oats dull alo3@oß. Provisions unchanged.
Louisville, December 28.
Floor—superfine, $5 50(30. Corn, 03@65.
Pork, S2B. Lard, 18. Bacon—clear sides,
17%.
Wilmington, December 28.
Spirits Turpentine, 42. Rosin steady ; strain
ed No. 3, $1 SO. Turpentine, $3(33. Tar, $2.
Cotton, 23 for business stock.
Mobile, December 28.
Cotton—sales, 2,000 bales, including 500 after
market closed Sffurday ; firm at 23%; re
ceipts, 1,563 ; exports, 1,285.
New Orleans, December 28.
Cotton sliffer; middling, 23%<®23%; sales,
9,000 bales ; receipts, 7,811 bales ; exports, 4,100
bales. Gold, 135%. Sterling, 47; Commer
cial, 45%@46%. New York Sight, % discount.
Flour—low grades scarce and firmer; superfine,
#7 50 ; double, $7 G2%<37 75 ; treble, $8(38 50.
Corn quiet at 78. Oats, none on landing; 09
<370 from store. Bran, $1 40. llay easy and
firmer at $20(327. Mess Pork dull at S2B 50.
Bacon scarce; shoulders, 14 ; clear rib, 18% ;
clear, 19<319% ; hams, 17(i/)18. Lard firm ;
tierce. 18(4<318)1;,'; keg, 19@19%. Sugar active
and firmer ; common 9(39% ; prime, 12%(3
12%; yellow clarified, 12%(312%. Molasses
active and firm ; common, 54(300 ; prime, 04
(306; choice, 08(370. Whisky quiet.; Western
rectified, $1 17%. Coffee steady; fair, 14%@
14% ; prime, 10%(317.
Charleston, December 28.
Cotton stiff; sales, 435; receipts, 2,718; ox
por.s coastwise, 700 bales.
Savannah, December 28.
Cotton firmer and in good demand ; mid
dling, 24(324%; receipts for two days, 8,004
hales ; exports, none.
Augusta Market.
Chick Daily Constitutionalist, ?
Monday, December 28—r. m. >
FINANCIAL
HOLD—DuII ; buying at 134 amt sotting at 136.
SlLVEß—Buying at 130 atid selling at 133.
COTTON.—There was a good demand throughout
tlie day, bnt business was somewhat restricted by
the small and undesirable slock offering Wc quote
middling at 23*@2S*. Bales, 1,034 bales. Km
1,437 bales.
BACON —Scarce. We quote C. Bides, 18; O. R.
Bides, 17j6@18; B. B. Sides, 17; Shoulders, 14;
Bellies, 17; Hants, 10@23; I>fy Balt Shoulders, 13;
Dry Salt C. K. Sides, 10.
CORN- White, $1 10; mixed, $1 06 from depot;
new white, without sacks, $1 00; with sacks, $1 06©
l 10; new mixed, without sacks, $1 00; new, in ear,
00.
WHEAT—We quote white, $2 26@2 40; r«d,sl 80
@2 20.
FLOUR— City Mills, $lO 60@13 00 ; at. retail, $t V
barrel higher. Country, $lO ot>©l2 00, according to
quality.
CORN M KAlr $1 16 at wholesale, aud $1 25 at re
tail.
OATS -So®Bs.
RYE—sl 60.’
25T35 W
BOOT and SHOE
stums®
Major I. P. GIRARDEY
Respectfully announces timt
lie lists removed his superb stock of 800 I'S
ami SHOES from
No. 213 (o *236,
Next below Kknnky «& Gkay’b, ttinl second
store above Central Hotel, where lie will
be, pleased to see his numerous friends and
the public generally.
If you want Gent’s, Youth’s and Boy’s
sewed BALMORALS, call at
1. P. GIRARDEY’S.
If you want Gent’s Double Upper ami
Double Sole Waterproof BOOTS, call
at
I. r. GIRARDEY’S.
If you want Gent’s fine Waterproof BO< )TS,
call at
I. P. GIRARDEY’S.
If yon want Gent’s l’ump Sole BOOTS, call
at
1. P. GIRARDEY’S.
If you want Ladies’ Glove lvid GAITERS
or BOOTS, call at
J. P GHMHBWf I *--
If you want Ladies’ Pebble Leather GAIT
ERS or BOOTS, cal', at
I. P. G.RARDEY’S.
f you want the best assortment of Con
gress GAITERS or BOOTS of all de
scriptions, call at
I. P. GIRARDEY’S.
If you want the best assortment of SHOES
GAITERS or BOOTS for Children, call
at
I. P. GIRARDEY’S,
Where you will be sure to find the best
value for your money.
sep3o-declß-thsatu6m
Apples Potatoes, Onions.
IO BBLS. NORTH BUN AI'PLKS
20 hbls Selected NORTHERN POTATOES
10 bbls SILVER SKIN ONIONS
Received and for Bale by
JAMES O. BAILIE A BROTHER.
KjTA regular supply of the above r coived weekly.
C/RAOKEUB, CHEESE, TEA, COFFEES and
SUGARS, NEW BUCKWHEAT, SYRUP and
FLOUR. A fresh supply of finest quality received and
for sale by
JAMES O. BAILIE A BROTHER.
Fish, Hams, Tongues, Fanned
Fruits, Vegetables, &c.
60 KITS and hah bhle MACKEREL, Ac.
800lbacboice HAMS
36 BEEF TONGUES
30doz TOMATOES, GREEN CORN and
PEAS
30 doz PEACHES, PINE APPLES. Ac
20 doz fresh SALMON and MACKEREL
20 doz CANNED MEATS
Received and for tale by
JAMES G. BAILIE A BROTHER.
Wines and Liquors
Os THE BEST QUALITY, received and for
sale by
JAMES G. BAILIE A BROTHER.
FANCY GROCERIES
FOR CHRISTMAS.
Received and for rale by
JAMES Q. BAILIE A BROTHER.
Wood and Willow Ware,
Received and for sale by
.TAMES G. BAILIE A BROTHER,
dccl6-tuthga 305 Broad street
G. P. CURRY,
Exchange Broker,
189 BROAD STREET.
AUGUSTA, C47Y..
DKALKR IN
EXCHANGE GOLD,
ILV B SNK NOTES,
STOCKS and BONDS.
Collection promptly attended to.
National Bank of Angus a, Ga., )
DtCKMBER 14, 1808. (
An election for six Direc'ors of this Rank, to serve for
the euaning year, will be held at the Ranking House, on
TUESDAY, the 12th January next, between the hours of
10 o'clock, a. m , and 2 o'clock, p. m.
decls-law4w G. M. THEW, Cashier,
