Georgia Historic Newspapers

    CCXN STITUTIONAL J ST.
AUGKJSTA, GhA.
SATURDAY MORNING. FEB. 27, 1809
A SAD PICTURE.
We reproduce, from the New York Tri
bune, the closing paragraph of an article
detailing an interview with* Lt.
Biiain, who lias been for many months the
victim of Federal oppression. It reads cu
riously in connection with the apathetic
accounts of the dismal celebration of
Washington’s Birthday, and is rather a
grim offset to President Johnson’s latest
twaddle about the “preservation of the
Constitution.” It is bad enough that Ex
ecutive clemency should have been so tar
dy, but the sting is turned to gangrene
when even Mr. Greeley can afford to
grow indignant thereat. The Tribune says:
“ Lieutenant. Brain was a tall, straight anil
commanding looking personage when in health,
but his sufferings in prison have been so in
tense that he cannot walk without the aid of a
crutch, and is, perhaps, permanently disabled.
His right foot is much swollen from inflamma
tory rheumatism, a disease he attributes to
the unavoidable dampness of the prison,
and he is indeed a wreck of the man who
entered it nearly three years ago. He is only
twenty-nine years of age, but says, with a
truthfulness that is apparent in his looks,
that since his imprisonment he has grown
old faster than with the flight of years.-
He is a man of mild and affable mannors and
agreeable conversation, and seems in bis bear
ing to have kept himself untainted from the
prison atmosphere about him. A widowed
mother and two young daughters depend upon
him lor support, and he expresses himself as
anxious to lie with them. Efforts are being
made to secure his pardon at the hands of
President Johnson ; but, if he is not pardoned,
the Constitution guarantees him a speedy trial,
and it is made the duty of the courts and the
Government to see-that this is not only accord
ed to him, but insisted upon. Had either of
these things been done, that wretched specta
cle of a man, not convicted of any crime, com
pelled to be the daily companion of convicted
felons, would not now offend the nobler in
stincts of the American people. With a shat
tered constitution and a frame that is no longer
the subject of the will, he drags himself about
the prison, and even finds it necessary to ap
peal to the judgment of his visitor that the re
ports of some newspapers that he has lost Ins
reason are untrue. That was a sad aud painful
record which the hand of the story-writer
traced in the life of Philip Nolan, but here is a
man without a country and without a trial,
whose few years of suffering reverse the na
tural order, and make the truth of history look
lor a parallel in the tales oi Action.
ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES.
The New York Tribune proposes that.
England shall settle the Alabama claims
thus : Cheerful payment of all losses to
individuals who suffered from the exploits
of Captain Semmes, and a surrender of
Canada as satisfaction for the balance sup
posed to be due the “ Nation.” The Balti
more Gazette sees a speck of danger in this
proposition and comments upon if, ns fol
lows :
“ Already has the pre9s of the North begun
to familiarize the people with the idea of war,
aud unless the intelligence and fairness of the
country be brought to hear in this matter —
unless this question be snatched from the hands
of the reckless demagogues who seem now to
coutrol it—we shall be engaged in another war
before the expiration of Grant’s term, and cor
ruption and faction will gain anew lease of
power. If the law regulating the duties of
bblligercou iw or uu-
either, let it be amended. But let us
adhere to the taw while it is law, aad not snfler
ourselves to be forced into a disastrous contest
in a whirlwind of passion, fomented by schem
ing knaves and the * impostures ot pretended
patriotism.’ ”
Geo. D. Pkkntick.— A correspondent o
the Montgomery Mail ulludes with much
pathos to Geo. D. Prentice :
“ 1 had an interview with Mr. Prentice. lie
is not the man he was ten years ago. Indeed
liis genius is gone, and his persou is a mere
wreck. His family is broken up—wife dead,
one son killed on the Confederate side,another
settled oil a farm down the river—and the old
man, verging on three score and ten, cooks his
breakfast and dinner in his little room on the
third floor of the Courier building, and lives
only in conversations about the past. This
man once wielded an imperial power with his
wit and his music. Now, the world has whirled
past him, and lie lies on the shore a mere
stranded wreck, just as we will all lie if we
should reach three-score years through a revo
lution. Such is life! To-day an emperor, to
morrow a cypher.”
To be an editor at all is to live labori
ous days; but to be an old editor with
wits, “ like sweet bells jangled out of tune
and harsh”—that is a miserable fate. Some
men die a thousand deaths before they ac
tually turu to dust.
Mexico. —The old disease of revolution
has seized upon Mexico. In fact, glaucing
over a large portion of the globe, it would
seem that the Spanish race is in commo
tion everywhere. It is said that le bon Dieu
who granted to the prayer of St. lago the
most beautiful women, the most stately
men and the most delicious clime, refused
good government. Hence it is that Spain
is always in civic eruption and the old
curse follows the Spanish seed in alien
lands.
An Irrepressible Conflict. —News-
paper correspondents at Washington have
come to blows, as well as hard words, with
Congressmen. The quill-drivers came off
“ first bestand, in despair, the trooly loil
M. Cs. have found defenders in rival jour
nals. Mr. Broomal is determined to sweep
out all scribblers who intimate pretty plain
ly that to be a Radical Congressman is
equivalent to being an absolute thief.
The Next Congress. —Radical papers
claim for the next Congress 141 Radi
cals to 63 Democrats. This is much be
low the ordinary Democrat count, and
presages an attempt to keep up the two
thirds tyranny at all hazards an 1 in defi
ance of all right, save the right of success
ful rascality.
TnE Row in Georgia.— Singular enough
the only outrages perpetrated of late in this
State are directly referable to the Radical
factions. The New York Times mourns
over the bitterness of brethren and implies
that Congressional interference is at an
end.
“San Francisco, February 25.
“ Four hundred Chinese women arrived—
rival parlies fight over them. Great excite
ment in Chinese quarters.”
So much for the proposed XV Amend
ment.
Significant. —Late telegrams inform us
that Montpensier has been permitted to
re-enter Spain as a private citizen. It is
suggested that Louis Napoleon re-entered
France in the same way.
Our New York Correspondence.
New York. February 22.
. This is Washington’s birthday. It is a
legal holiday in this State. All the banks
are closed. The Custom House and Post
Office are opened but for a short time. The
stock, gold, produce, and other “ Ex
changes,” adjourned from Saturday till
Tuesday. The fla£s are displayed in the
foggy atmosphere from most of the Dublic
buildings. A “ grand choral service,” with
the reading of Washington’s Farewell Ad
dress, is performed at Trinity Church, in
honor of the day. These observances of
the day are something new with us. But
a few years since, the display of flags and
a brief mention in the newspapers were all
that were accorded to the anniversary of
him who was “ first in peace, first, in war,
and first in the hearts of his countrymen.”
[Mem. —A surviving “ rebel ” eulogizing a
deceased one, you know.] And lam afraid
that these new honors are not prompted by
renewed devotion to the character of Wash
ington. But our philanthropists have been
declaring, for some years past, that we have
too few holidays ; that we work to hard ;
which, as a’newspaper man, 1 can cor
dially endorse; and, therefore, in seeking
where to place these holidays, Washing
ton’s birthday was considered an available
date. That is all. No special honors to
Washington. But a convenient season for
a jollification, Lent or no Leut.
Within a few years. Good Friday lias
come to be observed by a large number of
citizens as a rigid fast day, and Easter
Monday and Ascension Day as feasts ; and
there is a growing disposition to recoguize
these days, and the day of general election
day, as legal election day, in which the
banks shall be closed and business general
ly suspended. The Jewish population of
onr city has become so great tiiat “ New
Year” festivities, which occur about the
first of September, occasion a noticeable
interruption to business v They generally
observe all our holidays, excepljtliose hav
ing a religious origin, like Goo JtFriday,
Christmas, &e. , > «
GENERAL GRANT AND THE If iffBLICAN
LEADERS. f
When tiie Senatorial contest iu this
State was at its height, Senator Morgan
found that so lHue'll had been said of his
money, and what he was going to accom
plish with it, that he could not use it, and
that many who would otherwise have
voted for it, were compelled to vote against
him or rest under the imputaiion of having
been bribed. The same idea applies to the
relations that have spruugup between Gen.
Grant and his party. His “ reticence ” has
been so extensively advertised and com
mented upon, that he is compelled to make
almost daily explanation that “it don’t
mean anythingthat it is simply a meas
ure of courtesy to those Republicans whom
lie may regard with favor, and yet be
compelled to reject, &e., &c. This is all
the veriest bosh. There is no question of
coqrtesy in it; and if Gen. Grant were a
well-balanced, intelligent gentleman, he
would make no such excuses. It were
well for him not to finally determine upon
his Cabinet until lie sends in Iheir names to
the Senate, hut there is no more improprie
ty in a public, frank and kindly canvassing
of the merits of the various gentlemen who
aspire to seats therein, than there is in
canvassing the merits of aspirants to the
Presidency; and that Gen. Grant so mis
takes the true relation—the “ eternal fit
ness” of things—is pot a favorable omen.
An apparently unimportant matter often
furnishes a key to the future.
COTTON.
The reaction during the past week is
such as I predicted from my knowledge of
Liverpool tactics. But there is little pros
pect of further decline. A fact which has
been daily presented to the eyes of those
who handle cotton, but which only just
now begins to lie commented upon iu other
circles, namely, that the bales of cotton arc
much smaller this year than last and equal
ing in proportion the increased number of
bales received, will henceforth be taken in
to the account and help to support prices.
Meantime, however, cotton goods are very
dull, and printed calicoes have declined iu
the past week a half cent to one cent per
yard; prime madders, in Spring styles,
selling at 12>i@13 per yard, find second
grades 1101 J >£.
SUGAR.
«. The speculatiojjJu this article lias Iffieif
tci j grtJWT, t»««1 tSP advance In ttl6 past
month is fully four Junta per pound on tlio
higher grades. Immense sums of money
have been made by the lucky operators.
But indications are that the highest points
have been reached. Provisions —hog pro
ducts—are declining, and bread-stuffs of all
kinds sell at low figures.
VELOCIPEDES.
11 there be a rage in the city just now—
any which we may specially note among
the variety which exist always in a metropo
lis of excitement such as tliis—it is tire rage
for velocipedes, the latest novelty perhaps.
Not that the streets are filled with them
yet, but steeds of this description and tlie'r
riders are every day sights, and are becom
ing each day more common. Ere one may
learn to manage them—for they are some
what unmanageable—ope must go to
school, and schools there are in different
localities, and scholars abundant, all learn
ing to ride velocipedes.
True, one of these machines is vastly
more expensive than innumerable rides in
cars and coaches, but then one goes at a
fa-ter rate; one is independent and Alone,
and can go up town, down town, cast or
west, just as one chooses. They cost, say,
in the neighborhood of a hundred dollars,
and that is something approximating the
value of a but then a horse must be
fed and groomed, and a horse may die at
any moment, while a velocipede neither
eats, drinks, nor may be expected to die.
Therefore economy points clearly to advan
tages on the side of the velocipedes.
But, in truth, velocipedes seem the last
sensation, and are indeed in all probability
a notable invention, and like all other in
ventions, crude as yet in comparison with
the succeeding improvements which may
reasonably be expected. Improvements, in
deed, have been already made, and, in bor
rowed language, we may describe a recent
one by two mechanics of this city : It con
sits of “a wheel eight feet in diameter,
with a tire some six inches wide, or two
narrow tires on its outer edges, with two
sets of spokes connecting with a double
centre, which fills the place of a hub, the
two sides of which are two feet and a half
apart. The operator is in the middle, and
propels the wheel by a simple, yet curious,
apparatus, in which both his weight and
his muscle are brought iuto play.” We
hear also of improvements, in velocipedes
elsewhere, and in a Western city ah re
count is published of a three-wheeled ve
locipede, upon which the inventor claims
to have ridden twenty-eight miles in two
hours and a half, and to have marie, at an
other time, a mile in two minutes and thir
teen seconds.
artists and their works.
George Inness is at present engaged upon
a fine Italian landscape, the foreground of
which is an open lawn, upon which is a
gaily dressed party amusing themselves in
various ways. The sun is setting in the
West, but the moon is rising in the opposite
horizon. Upon one side are slopes half hid
in shadow, a ruined chapel, a convent
somewhat further on, while in the distance
is an old Italian town. On the other side
is a long stretch ot' level land, clotted by
villa aud convent, and the arches of a
bridge which span a far oft' chasm, which
seems almost ghost-like in the receding
light.
James M. Hart, in Dodwovth’s building,
is at work upon two pictures, representing
Morning and Evening in the Adirondacks,
and also another large landscape, less bold,
perhaps, and more domestic in its charac
ter. A group of cattle have just emerged
from a forest, and stand gazing at an ap
proaching storm. In front is a piece of
pasture land, in which a cluster of fine old
trees rear their heads, tossed by the coming
tempest, against the darkening clouds.
Upon these falls a flood of golden light,
which is in fine contrast with the sombre
shadow of the forest which deepens in the
distance.
Mr. Wenzler, a well known portrait
painter, some fine works in that de
partment of art, which he has lately exe
cuted, and Elihu Vedder presents us with a
series of paintings illustrative of ASsop’s
fables.
At the galleries, meantime, some ad
mirable pictures are on exhibition; as,
for instance, at Leavitt and fjtrebign’s the
“ Spanish Beggars,” by Gustave Dore, and
at Putnam’s “Niagara in Winter,” by Mr.
; Regis Giguoux, the President of the Brook
j lyn Academy of Art. A fine picture by
! Bradford, “Sunset Among the Icebergs,” a
| most striking illustration of Labrador
scenery, has been purchased for a private
collection in England, and we may add that
this is one of the best ever painted by that
excellent artist. At his studio have also
been lately exhibited two ■ works by an
American artist, Foxcroft Cole, who, after
a residence of many years in France, has
recently returned. Mr. Cole has entered
with some boldness, and we may say also
with success, a field which is almost un
trodden in this country. [Scarce any of our
landscape painters enliven their works bv
figures, whether animal or human, •and
those who have made a speciality of ani
mals have devoted themselves to the wild
animals of the prairie and the forest. Mr.
Cole, however, has studied the domestic
animals, and introduces them with a most
happy effect. *
At Frye’s, “ The White Captive,’MyJe
rome Thompson, divides the honors with
his other well known works, “ The Old
Oaken Bucket ” and “ Home, Sweet Home/’
Willoughby.
The Retiring President.
HIS LAST PUBLIC WORDS AS THE OCCUPANT
OP THE WHITE HOUSE.
The committee appointed by the City
Council of Baltimore to present to Presi
dent Johnson a copy of the resolution
passed recently, inviting him to visit Balti
more on his return to Tennessee, called
upon the President on Monday morning.
In rcßpoitsd.to the remarks of Mayor Banks,
the President said:
Gentlemen of the Committee : I have
no response to make oil tiiis occasion fur
ther than to express the feeling awakeued
in me by the remarks you have made in
presenting the resolution adopted by the
council of your city, and in doing so I shall
confine myself to returning my siucere and
heartfelt thanks for the high compliment
you have been pleased to pay me. It
would be doing myself injustice to af
fect indifference to the evidence given
here to-day that my conduct as a public
servant is approved of by my fellow-citi
zens. 1 do feel flattered and much grati
fied at this appreciation of my services,
coming, as it does, from so intelligent and
estimable a source. I thank you most cor
dially, I thank you heartily and sincerely
for the words of comfort and commenda
tion you have given me. Language cannot
give utterance to the gratitude that fills my
heart. To feel that so many of my intelli
gent and patriotic fellow-citizens should
thus manifest for me a feeling of regard as
I am stepping out of power, is a pledge so
rare that I will remember it to the latest
day of my life. I must be permitted to
add, and 1 do it not from a spirit of egotism
or vanity, that I feel more highly honored
in laying down the authority which has
been entrusted to my keeping than I did
when I first assumed it. lam glad to take
my place once more among the people, in
whom my trust has ever been placed, and 1
cau say that, although I have not been able
to restore to them the blessings of peace
and prosperity to be found only in a faith
ful adherence to the Constitution of our
country, I have always kept that sacred in
strument as my guide. My sole aim has
been for its preservation and the permanent
good of the whole country.
I feel more pride in coming of the people,
and of bearing in common with them my
share of the burdens which all of us are
called upon to endure, than I would feel in
any office of honor and profit that could be
conferred upon me. Let us, then, keep
always in view the Constitution, which
should ever command qijr highest respect
and reverence; for when respect for it
vanishes, where shall we look for succor ?
I have frequently said heretofore that my
only aim was the preservation of the Con
stitution and the advancement of the public
good. I repeat it here, now that lam about
surrendering tiie power of the Chief Ex
ecutive, all is gone unless the Constitution
of our country is saved ; aud it should be
saved without the shedding of blood. To
me civil honors are far more agreeable than
the incense that arises from the field of car
nage. I must be permitted to say, stepping
as I a!;aU very soon out ©f power and
authority, that the path over which I have
troddea is not stained with-toe L',r.«d of
fny reuow-man. rhave striven to walk m
the way a of p-qce and good will to all men.
Let ns turn our thoughts on the preserva
tion of our country by peaceful means.
I would to-day rather wear on my face
the furrows marked there by care and re
sponsibility in the arduous paths of duty
than the glittering epaiiiettp, gr by my side
the jingling sword as the insignia of ruth
less war. Let us indoctrinate our people
with the belief that the Constitution is the
palladium of our liberty, our only safeguard
in the hour of peril. Let us cling to it as
the shipwrecked marinerellngs to the plank
which he feels to be his only ark of safety.
I thank you again for the high and flatter
ing compliment you have paid me. Your
hospitality, so kindly ottered, is accepted,
and the time when my visit shall be most
couveuient shall »ooi) tfe designated.
[From the New York World.
Grapt and Anti Grant-
Washington, February 33,
General Grant said to-day, in conversa
sation with a Western Radical Senator,
“ I really hope that the Senate and House
will not repeal the law calling the Forty
first Congress in March, as the Senate has
left ii)e only that body to deal with.’’
These few words Jjayg traveled widely.
They have been told to, repeated by, apd
mused upon by nearly every Radical Con
gressman. They are as variously construed
as qre the apprehensions aroused by them.
The foliowing facts will serve to explain
them, perhaps: It is now well known that
there is a Grant party and an anti-Grant
part vin the Senate. The Grant party are
led i.y all the Radical anti-impeachment
Senators, and also by Morton, Sherman,
Tipton and Nye, and such man as look
hack upon their votes for impeachment
as the scandal of their lives. The anti-
Grant men are Abbott, Cattel, Cole, Conk
ling, Conness, Cragin, Drake, Edmunds,
Ferry, Frelinghuysen, Howe, Howard,
Morrill, qf Yermount, Sprague, Stewart,
Stunner, Tipton, Wade, jYUliams, Wilson,
The middle men are the carpet-baggers,
who are willing to sell out to whichever
side promises and pays the most. The vote
to postpone the repeal of the teuure-of
office act in caucus yesterday precisely rep
resents all the anti-Grant men and two
carpet-baggers, McDonald and Sawyer, who
for tbe time have flopped over to the anti
rant side. These men by a trick postpon
ed <i'- civil tenure repeal bill yesterday.
App'*f&ntly, having been in the caucus,
action is to lie accepted by the pirty,
asTon a motion to take up the bill all the
Radicals but six sided with the caucus and
voted no. Though attempts will be re
newed bv Grant Radicals, who smart at the
snap-judgment of- the caucus, to take up
the bill, it is believed it will not betaken
up the bill, it is believed it will not be taken
up, and that the sart-want men rule the
roost for the few days left of the present
session. Grant accepts this fact, so to-day
he remarked that “ the next Congress will
be tiie only body he has left to deal with.”
It is known to-uight that since yesterday
the President-elect has been mad, to use a
plain word, at the trick of the caucus.—
Everything pointed to the repeal of the
civil tenure law, and the caucus blasted
all. That Grant was mad, is mad, will re
main mad, is conceded. The grave Senators,
his friends, fumed and swore and were
in a white heat of rage at the caucus trick
is a matter of evidence. In its kind, there
exists as much strife about Grant in the
Senate of the Fortieth Congress to-day as
there ever has about Johnson. The Repub
licans are divided now into Grant and anti-
Grant men. In March they will be divided
into administration and anti-administration
men. The reasons for postponement of the
civil tenure repeal bill are accepted as silly
—first, because they originated in the
bucolic brain of Wilson ; second, because
they were based upon a reported fear of
Mr. Johnson’s veto of it, when it was known
he would approve the repeal at once. The
anti-Grant men, who achieved postpone
ment by a trick, boast to-night that the
next? Senate will do the same thing. The
Grant men, who still want the act repealed,
are actually promising a carte blanche of
patronage under Grant to the Democrats if
they will co-operate to obtain repeal. They
declare, too, that no man who voted for post
ponement yesterday will ever share his con
fidence or his offices, and that such nomi
nations will be made as will be confirmed
iu executive session by the united votes of
the Grant Republicans and the Democrats,
and none other. Hence, as Graut says to
day, his appeal lies to the Forty-first Con
gress, and within it he proposes to find and
form his friends. This is the situation to
night.
GENERAL GRANT TALKS A LITTLE.
A fact has certainly leaked out amid the
mass of rumors about Grout’s Cabinet. To
day, three Republican Congressmen from
Pennsylvania had an interview with tiie
Presidentelect, and during the conversa
tion General Grant informed them that he
had decided to appoint a Pennsylvanian in
the Cabinet, but would not mention his
Dame. He also said ibc stun— ~ "*">*
point General as Secretary T
War, though luMdlUrned that the latter
gentleman tfbhldsosfcretire to h ap
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[From the Atlanta Intelligencer.
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
Thursday, February 25.
SENATE.
lhe Senate met this morning, pursuant to
adjournment, and was opend with prayer bv
Rev. .
The roll being called, and there being a quo
rum present, the Secretary read the of
yesterday.
RECONSIDERED. r .
Mr. Burton moved to reenmJi*. jS'cnio
rial acted on by the Senate on yesterday, being
a petition from Jrfbn Screven, Prcsidenf Allan
tic and Gulf Railroad, requesting the Sine to
confirm the purchase of the stock held ty tb«-
city of Savannah, in the said Atlantic an< Gulf
Railroad ; provided said purchase can be effect
ed npon fair and eqnitablc terms.
Mr. Smith, of the 7tb, moved to lay the mo
tion to reeousider on the table. *
Previous question being called, the Senate re
fused to reconsider.
SPECIAL ORDER.
To reeonvey five acres of land in the city ot
Atlanta to the heirs of Samuel MUrhtll. Dis
cussed by Messrs. Brock, Adkins and Hung'C
ford.
Mr. Harris—-That when the Senate adjourn it
will meet at 2% o’clock, to take up Hotse and
Senate bills. Passed.
Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
House met, pursuant to adjournmoit, and
was opened with prayer by the Rev. Mr. Crum
ley.
Journal read and confirmed.
Mr. Hudson moved to reeousider so much of
the Jonrual of yesterday as relates to the idop
tion of the report of the Committee on the Lu
natic Asylum. This report requires and appro
priation from the Btnte of $83,000. Motion to
reconsider prevailed.
Mr. Williams, of Dooly, moved a rejonsid
eration of so much of the Journal of yesierday
as relates to the passage of the hill exempting
ail capital invested in manufacturing lrep tax
ation for five years. He believed the bßlpast
legislation and unconstitutional, and waiisd all
capital equally taxed. Motion laid ou thepble.
Yeas, 90 ; nays, 43.
Mr. Shumate moved a recousiderationfof so
much of the Journal as relates to the aetpu of
the House yestci day upou the resolutiojcon
solidating the enrollment committee aii the
special committee appointed to examine. (Jerks.
Motion to reconsider prevailed, aud the rnolu
tion was adopted.
[Reconsideration seems to belheorderm the
day. Jt is an expensive amusement. |
Mr. Crawiord, trom the joint specialfora
mittee appointed to examine into the gneral
management of the Western and AtiaDtiaßail
roail, made a report. Five hundred copi* of
which were ordered to be printed.
On motion of Mr. McDougald, Mr. .q. B.
Butts, of Marion county, was here swormn.—
He Lakes the place ot Mr. W. M. Butts de
ceased.
On motion of Mr. Anderson, the bill crelitig
a Land and Immigration Bureau was take! up
and read. On the passage of the bill, thefeas
aud nays were required to be recorded, ail re
sulted in yeas ?6, nays 58. So the bill paseil.
Mr. Sparks—A resolution inviting the lon.
W. D. Williams to a seat on the floor dejiug
his stay in the city. Adopted.
Mr. Bryant—A resolution granting the lon.
W. P. Pierce a seat on the floor. Adopted
Mr. Maoll, Chairman of the Committe< on
the Blind Asylum, made a report, which va«
takeu up and referred to the Comtuittiy or
Finance. . a
On motion of Mr. Bryant, the edneafinal
bill was taken up and made the special f'Jer
for Monday next.
BILLS BEAD THIRD TIME. V
a tail to /»akc it unlawful in Henry eoniv
for-tax collectors to receive jury certificates V
paHhiicut qf ffou) any persons exc.it
those to whom they tyerc issued. VyithdtaJi.
A biil to pegqlate ifie mapuer of farming it
penitentiary convicts. /
Mr. McCombs offered a substitute, whicbjff
lows the farming out of as many as fifty So
viets to one contracting party.
Mr. Williams, ot Moigan, offered the foil liv
ing amendment :
“ If lijeie is not demaml at any time for [ll
the convicts, it shall be lawful for contraclls
to employ the surplus force, subject to thejr
der of other contractors not having the uuuijh
embraced iu the bill-”
Mr. Tweedy moved to lay the bill and s|>-
stitute on the tattle. Lost.
Mr. Anderson favored file original bill ad
opposed the substitute. He made an eioqupt
appeal to members to break up the present ste
tein of letting out convicts, and moved that ne
whole matter be referred to a special eoininitle
of three, for the purpose ot perfecting a billL
Mofiop prevailed.
Mr. Bainuin -4 resolution that a pomuiille
of three from the Rouse auil two from oe
Senate be appointed, to report an early day »r
adjournment. Rules suspended,and reaolutifri
taken qp and adopted —yeas, 99 ; nays, 26.
Mr. Bolden-A resolution inviting (.'oi. Rl
bert to a seat on the floor. Adopted.
Mr. Hudson moved that the House take
at its evening session local bills ou a third reii
ing. Motion prevailed.
Mr. Tumlin—A resolution to amend seetifc
16, on quorum and debate, of the rules goverj
ing the Honse. This resolution prevents mej
bers voting in the minority moving a reconsil
eralion. 4 r Qt MUipu up.
House adjourned.
rSpecial Dispatch to the Cornier.)
Soutli Carolina Legislature.
Columbia, February 25.,
The House, to day, rescinded the action if
Friday iast in passing the Charleston electu i
bili, for the reason that the question was raisi I
that the same w.is passed by iwo votes lei
than a constitutional quorum. It was agai i
read a second time, anil ordered to be engros
ed for a third reading to-morrow, by a vote <:
yeas 72, nays lfi. The vote ou Friday was yes
50, nays 11. The constitutional representatio i
is one hundred and twenty-four, but not moi:
than one hundred and twenty have ever a>
tended-
Holliman introduced p, bjll to- prescribe tit*.
mode of electing clerks of court, sheriffs anl
probate judges.
The bili for the codification of the laws w<
read a third time, passed, and retuiued to thf
Senate, amended.
Id the Senate, a resolution to adjourn tini
die on March the 4th was adopted and sent toj
the House for concurrence.
The following were read a second time and
ordered to be engrossed : A bill to authorize
the City Council of Charleston to levy certain
taxes; a bill to charter Cherry’s Ferry ovcij
Seneca river; a bill to amend an act to regu
late the manner of keeping and disbursing
funds by certain officers j a hill, to establish a
public ferry in York conn.!)'; a bill from the
House to recula e the agen.i sos insurance
companies not incorporated in tliis State.
The title of the University hill was changed
to an act, and ordered to he enrolled.
A bill to incorporate the South Carolina
Building and Savings Association, No. 2, passed
and was sent to the House.
Tbe Senate concurred in the House resoliu
tiot that no bill or resolution ot a permanent
chaiacter be introduced after March Ist.
The Charleston Mercury's Farewell.—
We have received tbe farewell address of the
proprietor of tbe Mercury to its subscribers.—
After announcing the final suspension of the
Mercury, Col. Rhett, late proprietor and editor,
sketches the political condition of the United
States,land the rodJWflft "North and
Sonth. ind future policy
people ofJJKrSouth. The Mercury bas long
hoenjlHJVie, earnest and high-toned chainpkm
of tßf South’. If, In our opinion. Its Demo
cracy Was not sufficiently conservative and pro-,
gressive we have always given It credit for.lie
tone, independence and ability. It was true to
its own (uuvictioQß, and intensely Southern in
its principles, and for its devotion to the State
of Bonth Carolina, it will not soon be forgotten.
A gallant knight has been compelled to leave
the field. Those ol us who remain to fight may
well imitate at least his tone, his gallantry, his
devotion and his fidelity.— Phoenix.
Indians in South. Carolina.—The Colum
bia Pkcenix states that John Hams, Chief of the
Catawba Indians, now numbering about eighty
five, and residing on the Catawba in York and
Lancaster Districts, is before the Legislature of
Boutta Carolina soliciting an appropriation to
aid in * 'he removal of his tribe to the West,
whereit is expected a union with the Chero
kees aud Choctaws will be formed.
The Little Shoe in the Corner.
Yes, Faith is a goodly anchor;
When skies are sweet as a psalm,
At the bows it toils so stalwart
Iu bluff broad shouldered calm;
And when, ever breakers to leeward
The tattered surges are hurled,
It may keep our head to the tempest,
With its grip on the base of the world.
, But, after the shipwreck, tell me
What help in its iron thews,
SHU true to the broken hawser.
Deep down among sea-weed and ooze ?
I” Die breaking gulfs of sorrow,
When the helpless leet stretch out,
And find in the de pR of darkness
•N o footing so solid as doubt.
riien better one spar of memory,
. 'ru br ° feen plank of the past,
* 1 55* our , human heart may cling to,
hopeless of shore at last!
Wjje Mrit iu spendid conjectures,
despair,
With.* o er the thin worn locketl
of deathless,;,air I
know it; f
$ ' trdodoitoHi* of such as she ?
put mat is pang’s very secret— \
Immortal :i»<ay from me I J
There is a natrow ridge in the graveyard \
Would scarce s'ay a child in his race : 1
and my thought it is wider
Than the star-sown vague of space.
Your logic, my friend, is perfect, *
Your morals most drearily true;
But the earth that stops my dar log’s ears
Makes mine Insensate too. i--
Console, if you will; I can hear it; ~* , 'J ;
’ ris a well-meant s Ims of breifi,h
But- not all the preaching since Adam
Has made Death other than Death.
Communion in spirit! Forgive me, y
But I, who am earthly and weak,
Would give all my incomes from droany-.atid.
For her rose-leaf palm on my cheok !
That little shoe in the comer.
Bo worn and wrinkled and brown—
Its motionless hoik w eon'utes you, , «
And argues your wisdom down. ’
Georgia Itemß. *>*
A tobacco manufacturing company has com
menced work in Columbus. They employ
some twenty-five or more hands. They talK'
the weed from the leaf, and put it iu any com
mercial shape desired. Their presses and ma
chinery are all new.
An effort is being jnade to induce Bishop
l ierce, of the Methodist Episcopal Chnrch, to
take np his residence at Atlanta.
On Sunday last a stabbing affair occurred io
Col ambus. Georgia Foran was stabbed by
Camp. Clegg, the blade oi the knife touching
his left lung. Clegg was arrested and put in
jail to await the result of Foran’s injuries.
Savannah Students.—ln an article under
the above heading in Monday’s paper, in speak
ing of the examination at Washington College,
Virginia, we stated that A. C. Davenport, Jr.’,
who distinguished himself in several classes’
was from New York, and a son of Major fl. M.
Davenport, formerly of this city. The latter
part was a mistake. Maj. Davenport has been
a resident of Savannah for many years, and was
only temporarily residing in New York at the
time his son entered college. We are glad to
make this correction, as some of our citizens
might have inferred from the paragraph alluded
to that Savannah had lost one of her best known
citizens.
The Georgia Medical Society and Dr.
Jas. J. Waring.—in this ease Judge Schley
pronounced the decision of the Court last Mon
day, refusing the maudamus, asked by Dr.
Waring, to onmpel the society to readmit him
to professional fellowship.— Macon Telegraph.
Governor Bullock has offered a thousand
dollars reward (or the arrest of Richie, who
murdered the sheriff of Pickens county.
Eggs are plentiful at ten cents a dozen in
Grifßn. The editor of the Georgian saw an
express car on the Macon and West Point
Railroad the other day almost entirely loaded
with eggs, indicating that they are even more
plentiful above. Upon the whole, the egg
crop is decidedly heavy.
The State Fair.—The premium list for the
Stale Fair, to be held in Macon on the second
Tuesday in November next, will soon be issued
in pamphlet form, and, in addition to the list o(
premiums, will contain the rules and regula
tions governing the action of the officers of the
Fair and those competing for prizes, and mueh
other interesting matter hearing upon the sub
ject. Bv the lights in which we now view the
subject, we have no doubt that the Fair will Be
one of the grandest a flairs that ever same off
in the State. The central position of Macon ;
her accessibility from nil points ; the Icuowii
liberality and hospitality of her citizens; and
the eminent administrative ability in such mat
ters, which characterize the executive commit
tee of the State Agricultural Society, all give
us the assurance that the fair will ---*-
a croud to Mrtcon as was never before witness
ed or recorded in the history of the city.
Meanwhile let every planter, mechanic, arti-
Z. an and housewife in the State set about pre
paring something valuable or interesting for
exhibition, and li a ve it here at the Fair in No
vember next. Let ns prove to the world, and
to carpet-baggers particularly, that some things
can he done in Georgia as well as at the “ hub
of the universe:”— Telegraph.
The question of the confidential character of
a telegraphic message has recently been raised
in England on the trial of the election eases.- -
The judges presiding over these new tribunals
are authorized to “call for papers,” hut great
complaints are made because Judge Keogh
compelled the manager of the Magnetic Tele
graph Company to produce a bundle of tele
grams bearing on the Dublin election. The
manager protested, assuring the court that the
company had always considered a telegram as
sacred as if a seat were attached to it. The
judge, however, advised the mauager“not to
mind what the company thought; he had the
telegrams, and ipust prodqce them, although,
of course, he had only done his duly in object
ing.” The English journals, in commenting
on this order, argue that telegrams are letters
dispatched by means of electricity, and that, iu
compelling their production, Justice Keogh
acted in precisely the same way as if be had
'instructed one ol the officers of his court to go
down to the candidate’s private residence, break
open his writing-desk and seize bis letters.
Firb. —A fire occurred yesterday afternoon,
in the brick building occupied by C. Sparks,
qgent, in Exchange street, behind the old post
office, destroying some loose cotton, which was
being picked by a number of colored women,
preparatory to packing for shipment. The
origin o( the lire is attributed to a match yrhieh
v/as ignited Sty flip tycto.ep when beating the
dirt out ol tile eottou. The building is owned
by a Mr. Awry, who is living at the North, and
is insured iu the ageney of Mr. A. 8. Johnston,
Hayne street, for $2,000. It sustained slight
damage. The cotton destroyed belonged to
Mr. 8. P. 2lnckgr, and wqs insured in the agency
of Uolbnrn & Howell, for SI,OOO. A great deal
of it was saved. By the energetic and prompt
action ot the firemen, the flames were confined
to the buildiug iu which they originated.
| Charleston Netos, 25 th inst.
A colored man, J. 8. Richardson, of Wash
ington, has addressed a note to Mayor Bowen,
as chairman of the committee on the sale of
tickets for the inauguration ball, stating that a
nnraberofhis friends from Philadelphia and
New York would be i.i Washington on the 4th
of March, and asks whether any distinction on
account of color is to be made in the sale of
tickets. Mayor Bowen addressed him a reply,
in which he says that “ any person of respect
able character and standing in this community
who applies and pays for a ticket to the inau
guration ball, to be held in the north wing ot
the Treasury Department, will not be deniedr-at
least so far as my action is concerned. The
question of color never having arisen in the
committee, 1 cannot, of course, decide for
them.”
A Diver Drowned.—On Saturday, about 2
o’clock, a white man, known by the name of
“ Poland John,” was engaged in Jiving in the
dock ©f Adgcr’s wharf, for a barrel ot lead which
had fallen overboard. He dived twice, and hav
ing found the missing barrel, descended a third
time and succeeded in attaching the book* to
it. Having done this, he gave the signal, and
the barrel was safely hauled np ; bnt the unfor
t*\pate diver became hogged (it is supposed) in
the rfivjd and was drowned. About a half hour
subsequent waa found, and the cor
oner being iiTvJLsSd, immediately summoned a
jury of inqnestTpy w bem a verdict, io accord
ance with the a»« ve tacts, was rendered. The
deceased was g no wn about the whsrvet,
having been in the diving business lor
several years.- j/r, \ mveß „o relative*.
u | Charlesto* Courier.
* *
Bank of extefisive
establishment it is stated that sixty folio vol
umes or ledgers are daily filled with writing in
keeping the accounts! To produce these sixty
volumes, the paper having been previously
manufactured elsewhere, eight men, three steam
presses and two hand presses are continually
kept going within the bank. In the copper
plate printing departments 28,000 bank notes
•rethrown off daily, and so accurately j s the
number indicated by machinery, that to pur
loin a single note without detection is an im
possibility.
A Velocipede Race Against Time.—Pro
fessor Sweet, of Providence, R. I, a well known
pedestrian and rope walker, is to commence, on
the first day of June next, the unparalleled feat
of propelling n velocipede, of his own manufac
ture, a distance of 3,000 miles in thirty days,
averaging 100 miles per day, for a wager of
$5,000. During the trip he is to ride the veloci
pede 150 miles in twenty-four hours, and one
trial will only be allowed.
BY TELEGRAPH.
[Special to the Constitutionalist,
New York ('losing Stock ({notations.
New York, February 20—P. M.
The following are the closing quotations this
day:
American Gold, 131%.
Stocks—Adams Express, (50% ; New York
Central, 104%; Erie, 05%; Hudson River,
106%; Reading, 92% ; Michigan Central, 117% ;
Michigan Southern, 97% ; Cleveland and Fitts-
Surg, 91 ; Chicago and N. Western, 82%;
Chicago and N. Western, pref., 91;
Cleveland and Toledo, 105%; Milwaukee and
St. Paul, 00; Milwaukeeand St. Paul, pref.,7B%;
Lake Shore, 105% ; Chicago aud Rock Island,
96% ; Toledo, Wabash and Western, 67% ; To
ledo, Wabash and Western, pref., 76% ; New
Jersey Central^ —410%; Pittsburg and Fort
Wayne, 102% ; ChMu and Mississippi, 37% ;
Hannibal aud St. Joseph, 115 5 llawtiilw) and
St. Joseph, pref., 112; Tennessee, old, 00%;
Teuurseee, new, 65%; Georgia Sixes, ;
Sevens, 92 ; North Carolina, old, 63 ;
new. 60% ; Alabama Eights,
94 ; 00.
Gold weak. Governments
V I T7 >
buoyantJE easy.
L. 6 ' lloyt & Gardner.
V [Special to the CkpistitutiouaUst.
Georgia leste^^re.
sr* T -
TheS l coiisffiued morning
discaseiqf Ae claims o! the heirs of Mitchell
to Ibe State property kn<»wu as tjfe City Park,
4 iusif given for railro- vA ' / Mr. Welboru
\ speech hi t.. ° <f ■tfr. Cand
’ ''''' »• "Y-wow/t- nstitutional
Atyles.) 4BBr A'iSenatc
W"yTocl7T He is to resnmet his
..eV -iJs-’v morning. t
u V re:Ue n new judicial circuit
I* >lP* - Un*' T ANARUS, ' o/gomery, Johnson, Laurens,
\ To)flic, Tn jask/, Wilcox and Irwin, and to be
I called the Oconee Circuit, passed.
Tbe bill introduced by Mr. Sparks in refer
ence to the municipal election, and vetoed on
the ground that, it required a voter to present
his certificate of registration when voting, and
also required twelve months residence in the
State before voting in the city election, was, on
■ motion of Mr. Sparks, made the special order
for Monday next.
A bill increasing the fees ot sheriffs, ordina
ries and clerks was lost.
The office of State geologist was refused to be
created.
The hill was lost to appropriate money for
the State Agricultural Society.
The bill that not more than twenty convicts
can be hired to oue person, and also to authorize
the principal keeper t 6 appoint his own over
seers, who must be master nircbioJf, ■» -passed.
There was some excitement
from Washington early this ’ estab
canvassing, however, most agrfiai.'9f»'l|*y &C.
simply to nothing. In refC| (U(# j lA*
the next session of Congret.» tt9 t\r ,
vorablc for the Democracy, aS, . DE3 , .*■
manifested by some of the present'' J .t ■> to
hold over until next session.
Speeches of Speers and Wooten, iu the Sen
ate, arc looked lor on the Mitchell claim with
much anxiety, as their remarks will be a legal
argument in favor of the claimants.
[Associated Press Dispatches.
W ashington.
Washington, February 20 * Noon.
The naturalization treaty with to pro
vides reciprocally that five years ur ',.«-rhptect
residence secures alienation and •’citizeuship.
Declaration of intention don’t secure rights ot
citizenship. Naturalization voided and origi
nal citizenship renewable by two years' resi
dence in original country. Tbe extradition
treaty of 1861 remains in force.
The House is on the deficiency hill.
The Senate is on payments of Southern Sen
ators tor full term. Objections were made that,
some held Federal offices during tbe lime.—
Kellogg stated he had held an office and would
not avail himself of Senator’s pay if awarded.
Nearly all in same fix. «
The Senate Finance Corarnillee reported
Schcnek’s bill strengthening public credit,
without amendment. Made special order for 1
o’clock to morrow.
Washington, February 26—P. M.
The lobby has lost all hope ot action on pn.
'"*♦«* mie this
Full Cabinet. **■•*•*-
It is understood tbe Senate will amend (lie
Memphis and El Paso Road bill, requiring
completion wiibin a certain time.
Gen. R. S. Granger is ordered to report to
Stoneman for duly.
The following is among the various versions
of Grant’s reply to McClure, of Pennsylvania,
when he ventured advice regarding the Cabi
net officer to be chosen from Pennsylvania :
“ I am not tbe representative ot a political
uarty, although a party voted for me.”
MeClnre said : “Then in my conversalion on
the subject of your administration, 1 have
spoken from a mistaken standpoint and they
have been illogical to you. 1 have nothing
more to say on the subject.”
Gen. Sherman has arrived.
Sherman will maintain bis domestic estab
lishment till June.
Gen. Clingman, of North Carolina, visited
Graut. P'b
A delegation of Baltimore ladies the
President in behalf of Lt. Braine. r ) be Presi
dent's reply is regarded as favorable.
The Clerk of the House excludes Louisiana,
Georgia and other contested seats from his
initiatory roll of the. next House.
Naval Paymaster Winslow, son ol Comman
der ol Winslow, is dead ot malignant scarlet
fever.
Representative Dclaiio had a very long in
terview with Commissioner Rollins to day.
Habeas corpus for the Tortugas prisoners was
argued to-day ; Philip Phillips for prisoners;
Assistant Attorney Ashley opposing.
Congressional,
Washington, February 26.
Tlie Senate postponed the consideration of
paying Southern Senators.
Considered the conference report on suffrage
amendment to recess. Discussion renewed to
night.
House.— The Military Committee reported
evidence in regard to the army, showing a
quartermaster general has fourteen thousand
men under his control. The committee recom
mend that the Staff should receive orders trom
the General, instead of Secretary of War, and
consolidation of quartermaster, pay and sub
sistence departments ; also, artillery, engineer
and signal corps. The report makes other re
commcudqtionc.
The deficiency bill was again considered. It
amounts now to $20,000,000— appropriation
heavy.
Mr. Harvey, Minister at Portugal, was again
/rased f
/ Recess. '
— ; ~«*
Penn^^anijt.
r * i jDadadelphiA, February 26.
Tie hi! creating a metriipolitanNpolice for
’■Akie eitywas defeated in the Legislatnre.
, • Harrisburg, February 26.
Governor Gary declares he carver wrote or
telegraphed Grant in regaL&-*{o his Cabiuct;
| if presented, they are forge-A^cs.
Virginia.
J Richmond, February 26.
The. ensej-,! Jas. t>ant, ou trial for killing H.
Rives Pollard, severd hundred citizens having
been qu'jfcopned tgd only two found who had
nqf.iurnlf Zgfizbtoa, the sheriff was directed to
soramoßWzttn for the jury irom Alexandria
and Norihlk.
In the circuit, court to-day a charter was
granted Joseph Donnegan and other citizens of
Georgia and Florida to build telegraph lines
through and in Virginia—capital stock not to
exceed one million and a lyUf.
West Virginia.
Wheeling, February 26.
The bill locating the capital of West Virginia
at Charleston, Kanawha county, passed the
Legislature.
Kentucky.
Louisville, February 26.
Thos. E. Wilson, senior partnor of Wilson,
Isler &Cos., druggists, committed suicide; aged
61.
Tennessee.
Nashville, February 26.
Senter’ Speaker of the House inaugurated
Governor. His inaugural foreshadows no
policy.
Florida.
Key West, February 26.
A Spanish man of war is outside of Sand Key
watching the Peruvian monitors.
F’oreign.
[BY CABLE, j
• Madrid, February 26.
llie ministry made important statements of
motives for religious interference.
St. V incent Jesuit College was suppressed
beca.use the members construed against the
Government.
The civil authorities ordered to take charge
ot certain church property, because of the con
duct of the clerical party, exposed objects of
art in the churches to destruction. Serrauo
urged the minority to pursue n conciliatory
policy, in view of the firmly rooted aud inexo
rable principles held by tbe majority. As for
himself, he promised them loyalty, patriotism
and abnegation.
Paris, February 26.
The Sultan has issued.a circular thanking the
Great Powers for the attitude takeu in the late
conlerence.
Havana.
Havana. February 26.
Bod us superceding Dulce causes excitement.
The steamer Cricket, from Charleston for
Havana 9th, has not arrived, lt is supposed she
landed provisions on the const.
The government ordered all Arailable troops
to Cicnfuegbs and other menaced towns.
Marine News.
Savannah, February 26.
Arrived—Ship Ellen Sontherd, from Liver
pool ; schr. Malloy, from Baltimore.
Cleared—Bark Gyova, for Montevideo ; brig
Patriot, for Rio Janeiro.
Wilmington, February 26.
Sailed—Steamer Pioneer, for Philadelphia.
Charleston, February 26.
Arrived—Steamer Charleston, from New
York ; steamer Sea Gull, from Baltimore ; schr.
A. G. Grace, from Baltimore; brig Adelaide,
from New York.
Sailsd—Steamer GolJpn Horn, for Liverpool;
steamer Magnolia, for New York ; steamer Fal
con, for Baltimore ; schr. Eldorado, for Balti
more.
JVlarket.s.
FOREIGN AND DOMEBTIC.
London, February 26,-Noon.
Consols, 93. Bonds, 80%. Sugar—spot, 395.
6d ; afloat, 30s. 6d. Turpentine, 335. 3d.
Liverpool, February 26 -Noon.
Cotto.i heavy ; upland, 11% ; Orleans, 12% ;
sales, 5,000 bules ; week, 57,000 bales ; exports,
8.000 bales ; speculation, 10,000 bales ; stock,
282,000 bales ; American, 108,000 bales ; stock
afloat, 309,000 bales ; American, 145,000 bales.
Pork dull. Lard, 745. 6J.
• Liverpool, February 26—Afternoon.
Yarns and Fabrics at Manchester flat and
nominal. Breadstuff’s dull and unchanged.
Liverpool, February 26-Evening.
~ Cotton easier, not lower • t*" ’
\ Vjcans, 12% : 'S OOO ba >es.
|t J Pakw. venruary 26.
Bullion increased, 11,000,000.
Havana, February 26.
Sugar quiet. Exchange steady.
New York, February 26~N00u.
Stocks dull aud unsettled. Money easy at
6@7. Exchange, 9. Gold, 132%. '62’s, 16% ;
North Carolines, 63 ; new, 60% ; Virginias, ex
coupon. 56%; new, 61; Tenuessecs, cx cou
pon, 66% ; new, 65%; Lonisianas, old, 72% ;
Levees, 69%.
New York, February 26—P. M.
Governments strong. ’62’s, 17%. Southern
Securities firm; 'l’enuessees, 60% ; Virginias,
58%;new,61: North Carolinas, 63%; Lonisianas
71; Levees, 69; South Carolinas, 71. Money
easy, 5@7. Gold weak, 131%. Sterling, 9.
Stocks closed dull and unsettled ; Central, 01%;
► Erie, 36.
New York, February 26-Noon.
Flour dull and droop ; ng. Wheat dull and l
lower. Corn 1 better. Pork quiet; new mess,
#3O 75@32 12%. Steam Lard steady ; barrels,
19%. Cotton quiet, at 29%. Turpentine
drooping at 54%. Rosin quiet at $2 50.
Freights firm.
New York, February 26—P. M.
Cotton steady; not. very active ; sales of 1,400
bales at 29@29%. Flour dull and declining;
superfine State, $5 70t5|i6 25 ; common to
fair extra Southern, *6 85<®6 90. Wheat heavy.
Corn I@2 better ; mired Western, new, 91 @93;
old, sl@l 01%. Mess Pork shade firmer; new,
s3l 75@fw. Lord firm ;• kettle, 19%@20.
Whisky tjirtet and’ nbChnnged. Rice dull.
Sugar quiet and firm. Naval Stores quiet.
Freights steady.
Baltimore, February 26.
Coton weak; nominally 29. Flonr and
Wheat dull and unchanged. Corn—white, 94(75
95 ; yellow, 88@90. Mess Pork qniet at $32 50.
Bacon quiet; shoulders, 15@15%. Lard quiet
at 20%.
Cincinnati, February 26.
Whisky dull at 93. Mess Pork firmer at $33.
Bacon firm and in good demand ; shoulders, 14;
clear sides, 17% ; held % higher at close. Lard
dull at 19.
Louisville, February 26.
Pork, $32 50. Lard, 19%. Bacon-shool
dera, 14%; clear sides, 17%. Flour, $5 50@6. —
Corn, 60@63, Whisky, 93.
St. Louis, February 26.
Pork less active, $32@32 50. Bacon active;
shoulders, 14@14%; clear sides, 17%@17%.
Lard firm at 19. Whisky steady at 92.
Wilmington, February 26.
Spirits Turpentine dull. Rosin active, ?t 75
®2. Crude Turpentine uuehangmd. Tar steady,
$1 80. Cotton flat.
Mobile, February 26.
Colton—Receipts of the week, 3,651 ; ex
ports, 9,787 ; coastwise, 1,050 ; stock, 57,571;
sales, 5,000 hales; nothing done today; re
ceipts, 1,062 bales; exports, none.
New Orleans, February 26.
Cotton—Sales to-day, 1,700 bales ; for the
Week, 15,600 bales ; stiller, but not quotahly
higher; middling, 28 ; receipts to-day, 2 678
hales ; week, gross, 24,025 hales ; net, 22,907
bales ; exports to-day, 3,573 hales ; week, Liver
pool, 9,241 bales ; continent, 4.578 hales ; coast
wise. 5,462 bales ; stock, 147,245 bales. Gold,
133%. Sterling, 43% ; Commercial, 42 ; New
York Sight par<&% premium. Flour quiet;
superfine, $0 25; double, $7; treble, $7 25.
Corn lower at 7S. Oats scarce at 80. Brau,
slls. Hay—prime, $29@30. Mess Pork firm
at $33. Bacon firm ; shonlders, 14% ; clear rih,
17% : clear, 17%. Lard firm ; tierce, 19%(®20;
keg, 21%@22. Sugar firm ; common, 12%<%
13 ; prime, 15% ; yellow, clarified, 17@17%.
Molasses steady ; prime, 80<5?81. Whisky dull;
Western rectified, 92%<®$1. Coffee steady ;
fair, 15@16 ; prime, 17%@18%.
Charleston, February 26.
Cotton dull and nominal; sales, 50 bales ;
middling, 28% ; receipts, 304.
Savannah, February 26.
Cotton dull and nominally 28; sales, 150
bales; receipts, 646 bales.
Weather cold. Wind strong all day, North
North East.
Augusta Market.
Or/icit Daily Constitutionalist, )
Friday, February 26—P. M. \
FINANCIAL
GOLD—Buying at 133 and selling at 138.
SlLVEß—Buying at 130 and selling at 133.
COTTON.—Onr market to-day has been quiet but
firm, with «light demand, closing at 27)4 for middling;
offering stock limited ; sales, 241 bales ; receipts, 400
bales. The slock on hand to-day i< estimated at
19,760 hales.
BACON.—Stock large; light demand and prioes
easy. Wc quote C. Sides, 20; C. R. Sides, 19)4 ;B.
B. Sides, 19; Shoulders,
Dry Salt Shoulders, 16)4 ; Dry Salt. O. R. Sides. 18)4.
CORN—Supply large and market dull. White,
$1 12381 IS from depot.
WHEAT—We quote white, $2 40®2 80; red, $2
@2 20.
FLOUR—City Mills, sto 00@13 05 ; at retail, $1
barrel higher. Country, $lO 00®12 00, according to
quulitv.
CORN MEAL—SII6 at wholesale, and $1 25 at re
tail. ""
OATS—SI 10.
PEAS—I 40.
RYE—sl 76.
An unusually large amount of mutilated and
worn out bank notes and fractional currency is
coming to the Treasury for redemption, and
the call lor new money has been so grint that
the Currency Bureau wns not nble to meet it
without drawing on whnt was printed some
time ago. It is ascertained on inquiry that we
have made a good deal of our money of shoddy
paper; that is, of rantiiated notes ground up in
the Treasury Department and made over again.
The currency from Ibis stock, printed by the
hydrostatic process, proves to be of very infe
rior quality, and, of course, is easily worn out
in handling. Orders have been given that no
more grinding np of old notes shall be done,
hereafter only the best kind of new stock
shall be u»c,a in making Government money.
Two hundred and eigbty-fonr wives and one
hundred and seventy six husbands filed peti
tions for divorce in Chicago last year.
Local ISTews.
The Courts.
City Court.
The following business was transacted ill this
court on yesterday :
Linton & Doughty t>s. Radford C. Rhodes—
Order taken to sell cotton.
State vt. Samuel Levy—Malpractice in office.
A not.pros, was entered at request of prosecu
tor.
State vs. George Page—Common cheat and
swindler. Nol. proa, entered.
State va. Jim Gardiner amt William Early,
(col.)—Larcehy. Early tried and acquitted.
State va. Henry Ector, Cicero Brown, Susan,
Nathan—Larceny from the house. Brown,
Nathan, and Ector were sentenced by the court
to pay a fine of twcuty-flve dollars each, or
work on chain gang three months, and then
pay costs and he discharged.
The criminal docket being finished, thocourt
took np the appeal aud tried the following case :
Jas. P. Fleming va. George Cooper—Com
plaiut. The jury had uol agreed at adjourn
ment pf court.
Court will meet at ten o’clock to-day and
continue the trial es cases on the appeal docket.
Recorder's Court. ,
Before 8. H. Crump, Recorder.
The following case was tried yesterday :
City va. Win. Violation 18th section
Fined $5 and costs.
Magistrate’s Court.
Before Judge W. Milo Olin.
The following, case was tried before Judge
Olin on yesterday :
State va. John Moore, (col.)—Charged with
stealing two' weeding hoes. The defendant
plead gnilty apd was sentenced to sir months
on the chain gang, and to pay a fine of one !i»d.
dred dollars.
Velocipedes.,—The attention of inventor
seems ot present to be directed to the con
struction of velocipedes, and new machines of
every description are reported. Thus, a New
York mechanic has devised n monocycle, or
single machine, which consists of a wheel
eight feet in diameter, with a tire six inches
wide, or two uarrow tires on Its outer edges,
which fills the place of a hub, the two sides of
which arc two feet aud a half apart. The op*
rator is in the middle, and propels th'tvliich
by a simple yet curious »ppsr**nre brought
both bis weight and hi»
into play. *uree-wbceled velocipede ha»
I* l DcAppear.incc, which is described as fol
tß'ws: The whoels are forty-two inches in
diameter, and are propelled by means of a
double hand-crank, no treadle being used. On
each side of the hub of tho forward wheel is a
grooved pulley, and attached to the straight
portions of the crank are two more pulleys,
the four being connected by belts. At each
revolution of the pulleys the vehicle is pro
pelled a distance of sixteen and a half feet,
and when an ordinary rate of speed is attained
it rims quite easily. Its weight is forty-nino
pounds, and the inventor claims that it will
sustain two hundred pounds.
Ladies Should Read Newspapers.—The
Charleston Xeu>s has the subjoined well written
and sensible article on this subject, which we
have ever regarded as ot the utmost importance
to the advancement of intellectual culture in
every family:
“ It is a great mistake in female education to
keep a young lady’s time and attention devoted
to only fashionable literature of the day. If
you would qualify her for conversation, you
must give her something to talk about—give
her education w’th the net nil world, with tho
outer world, and its transpiring events. Urge
her to read newspapers ami become familiar
with the present character and improvement ot
onr race. History is of some Importance; hot
our thoughts and onr concerns should be main
ly for (he present time—to know what |n<)
improve the condition of it. Let her Hl'o am
intelligent opinion, and be able to sustain in
telligent conversation concerntua *v,t vnmt&t,
moral and religious improvements of our time.
Let her gilded annals and poetns on the centre
table be kept part of the time covered with
weekly and dally journals. Let the whole fam
ily—men, women and children—read news
papers.”
Mrs. Lincoln. —The above named lady in
some respects is certaiuly a most remarkable
woman, and like many of her sex is never satis
fied with what would appear to others to he
“sufficient unto the needs” of any one woman,
but must apply to Congress for more. In re
ply to her application to Congress for a pen
sion the following statement is made iu regard
to her income last year:
“ From her husband’s estate, $30,000 ; from
Congress, $25,000; from general contributions,
sso,ooo—grand total, $105,000.”
Enough, we would suppose, for one poor
widow woman, but not sufficient for her, it
seems.
Sales of Gold for Six Years —The offi
cial recapitulation of gold and silver coin sold
on account of the United States Irorn January,
1863, to January 9, 1860, shows $238,500,000
The largest sales were in 1867, viz; Nearly
$59,000,000 in New York. In 1868 over
$39,000,000 at New York anil St. Louis. The
taxes on the entire amount sold in those
years were $148,000, commissions $263,000,
premiums $108,222,000, net receipts about $346,-
500,000.
General Butler's Economy.— Gpo. But
ler slated in bis recent speech on the army bill
that the adoption of his amendments would
save the country $7,000,000 upon officer’s pay
alone, next year. The estimates of the Pay
master Goueral for the same time foot up ouly
$6,157,000. It will, therefore, boa shrewd
piece of financiering that will save $7,000,000
out of $6,157,000.
Fame of Congress.— The reputation of Con
gross is not growing any better. “They tell”
dreadful stories about it, and few are exagger
ated. A correspondent of the Chicago Republi
can declares that “ the elegant apartment oppo
site the main doorway of the United States Sen
ate Chamber is * notoriously the greatest assig
nation place in Washington.’ ”
TnE River.—The old Savannah, on yester
day, was a “roaring torrent,” indeed. The
late rains have raised it to almost on a level
with the banks, and as a consequence the back
water has overflowed the canal, wbieh is higher
than has been known for months. Yesterday
evening it was falling. We learn from planters
along the river that it has in some cases inter
fered with the planting.
Agent for TnE Equitari.e Life.— We are
pleated to know, ns will be seen by advertise
ment, that our worthy fellow-citizen, Col.
Charter Campbell, has been appointed agent at
this place for the above well known company.
Maggie Mitchell Married.— The Toledo
Blade says that in July last Mr. Henry T. Pad
dock, late of that city, and Miss Maggie Mitch
ell, the accomplished and popular actress, were
uuited in marriage at New York, which place
the twain intend to make their future home.—
As the lady had. a number of professional en
gagements to fill, it was deemed best to keep
the fact of her marriage a secret from the pub
lic, and it was made known to but few #f the
friends of either party. Mr. Paddock lsft To
ledo last week to take np his residence in New
York. —National Intelligencer.
The Hnmholdt (California) Register SRys that
if the hitter rivalry between the Central and
Union Pacific Railroad Companies continue to
widen and deepen, and finally resulls in the
building of two roads, instead of one, across
the continent, the people will have great cause
to be thankful, as competition is whnt they
want above all cUe. If the Union Pacific at
tempts to pass on to the Pacific with an inde
pendent line, the Central Pacific will find the
means of self-preeerYation in ao independent
line by way ot St. Louis,