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OOJSTSTITUTIONALIST.
ATJGHJSTA. GhA.
TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 1,1869
QUITE A REVIVAL.
Since the Presidential coutest, there has
been a political apathy involving whites
and blacks alike. Several State elections
have occurred since N.{»veipber last, of
much greater importance to localities than
a general election, but the interest taken in
them was far from enthusiastic, and, in
several instances we wot of, considerable
drumming up was necessary in order to
bring voters to
have about settled the business for Radical
ism, and, without extraordinary interfer
ence from the Central or Home Govern
ments, few candidates of that party stand
much chance of a successful canvass. The
vigor and intrepidity of the gallant Demo
cratic masses of Georgia have demoralized
their opponents, who now remain almost
powerless for assault, and are rapidly
growing dangerous only to themselves as
they daily split in hopeless and discordant
factions. The danger to Democracy in
Georgia may l)e over-confidence, and the
very intensity of triumph may cause fatal
indifference, the precursor of disaster.
This, however, is a remote contingency,
and, we trust, an impossible one.
In South Carolina, —that portion of the
State touching our immediate bonier —the
political lull has been very great, until re
cently. We know that while llie whites
were ahsoin.eiy inert, the negroes were
fully their rivals in STUgarWUnfess. At cer
tain township elections, the balloting was
so meagre as almost to lie as great a farce
numerically as it was politically. The
whites, with something like a rally, might
have named and elected their candidates
for Selectmen, Surveyor, Constable, etc; but
they made no sign, and so, a mongrel ticket
was easily returned by such of the few
negroes as took any interest in the matter.
The resignation of certain of the white Se-
in consequence of the choice of a
negro Surveyor, produced anew election to
fill their places. There was no attempt
whatever on the part of the whites to carry
the day for tlieir own color ; but the ne
groes, by threats of violence and pecuniary
hurt issuing from their leaders, exhibited
somewhat of their old Loyal League fervor
and mustered in strong force. Os course,
a full negro board of Selectmen' and
some minor offices fell into the hands
of the blacks. A neighboring township
is now ruled by a negro police jury
and the Surveyor, a species of overseer
of roads, is of the same persuasion.—
It may be that the whites of our neighbor
ing State are determined to try the mas
terly inactivity policy. Such a policy
would have done very well in the begin
ning, but it is rather late in the day to
pursue now. If they do not take especial
pains to organize in their several counties,
townships, etc., for mutual protection,
there will lie a vast negro revival which
may elect a second edition of the present
Legislature. The Ynen who move their
negro puppets are encouraged to put in
motion the old machinery which proved so
effectual in the past. As long as our
friends have got into the snarl of voting in
company witli negroes, they must, it seems
to us, make the best of a bad bargain, and
by such pacific measures as may occur to
them, prevent as many negroes as possible
from voting at all, and procure as many
negro votes for their side as they can.
It is an unsavory business, no doubt;
but an energetic use of the objectionable
material forced upon them may cause all
future efforts to be less and less disagreea
able and more and more secure for the
master race. That tiie negro will eventu
ally subside and become a political non
entity, even in South Carolina, is a cer
tainty. Pending his final collapse, he is
capable of infinite mischief, which should
be checked and prevented by all author
ized and legitimate methods.
A Smalt, Affaik. —Recently, the ac
counting officer of the United States Treas
ury notified Gen. Beauregard that lie was
indebted to the Government to the tune of
SIO3O. Beauregard, In reply, sent a
voucher calling for $lO5 50 from Uncle
Sam, and requested the representatives of
that poor old fellow to deduct $lO 30 and
send him the balance due. As soon as the
Treasurer discovered that the boot was on
the other leg, he appealed to the law officer
and the law officer decided that a “ Rebel ”
could not recover such a debt. And so,
Beauregard gets no pay. But be should
frame the letters passing between him and
the Treasury Department as a reminder to
posterity that a very big government can
sometimes perform a very small dodge.
Letter from Lexington, Ga.
Editor Constitutionalist:
Crops in Oglethorpe county are very
backward; there is not more than half a
stand of cotton, and that looks sickly. If
we do not have a very favorable season in
the future, the cotton crop will lie a failure
in this section. Corn is very small and
looks badly for this season of the year.
A negro man, named Warren Haines, was
killed in our county on Friday evening
last. The particulars of the killing, as I
learn, were these: A warrant for the arrest
of the negro, Warren, was put into the
hands of a constable, who, knowing the des
perate character of the negro, summoned a
■posse cormtntus to aid him. The constable,
with his posse, found Warren in the road, a
short distance from his house, with a mus
ket in his hands. The officer rode up to
him and told him he had a warrant for his
arrest, when the negro raised his musket
• and cocked it; whereupon the constable
fired at, but missed him, at the same
instant run his horse upon the negro, get
iug the horse’s neck over the musket so
it could not be raised, but the negro step
ping backwards; endeavoring to get the gun
free so as to shoot, the constable fired again,
wounding him in the arm, and ordering
him to give up the gun, to which he replied
“shoot and bed—d; I’ll die before I will
do it,” when the constable fired the third
time, after which the negro, still' attempt
ing to shoot, some of the posse fired, wound
ing him mortally, and he died in a few
moments. Warren’s father was hung in
this county some thirty years ago for mur
der.
The Superior Court of Oglethorpe county
will hold an extra session beginning on the
second Monday in June for the trial of a
negro upon the charge of committing a rape
and murdering a white girl. J.
Crime and Summary Punibiiment.—
One W. R. Bramburg was shot and killed
on Tuesday last, at the residence of E. D.
Kennedy, on the Plank Road, 24 miles from
this place, uuder the following aggravating
circumstances:
It appears that Bramburg had a wife and
several children, whom he deserted. He
made the acquaintance of a respectable
young girl, only fifteen years of age, and
succeeded in seducing her. She was living
with her mother, who is an invalid, Bram
burg, on this occasion, visited the house,
and managed to abduct the girl—getting
seven or eight miles from her home. He
was immediately pursued by a party of the
girl’s relatives and friends. As they rode
up within sight of the blackhearted villain
and his victim, he cocked a gun at the par
ty, but one of the pursuers was too quick
lor him, ami shot linn dead. The girl was
then taken back to her mother.
[ 1 uskaloom (Ala.) Monitor.
[From the Round Table. •
Uncle Sam Taught Davis and Lee
Secession.
Andrew Joluisou, Salmon Chase, Jeffer
son Davis, and Robert Lee were youngmeiu
acquiring tlieir political knowledge about'
the same They wen; taught that the
States were (to use Hamilton’s phrase) “the
essential component parts” of the Federal
system; or, in other words, that tlffcre was
no nation, but States; that they, as their
pareuts had been, were citizens of States,
and owed allegiance thereto ; and that they
were entirely subject to the will and coer
cive authority of their respective States.—
Moreover, they knew from history that the
Federal Convention, at the instance of
Madison and Hamilton, excluded the power
to coerce States from the Federal compact
as an absurdity. And furthermore, the
Federal system had Ik-oii in operation for
about forty years, and yet State sovereignty
aud the included ami essential right of
secession were taken for granted. The only
books in which they could study constitu
tional law laid down these doctrines as
unquestionable. Said St. George Tucker,
in his commentaries, published in 1802 :
“Each is still a perfect State, still sovereign,
still independent, and still capable, should
the occasion require, to resume the exercise
of its functions as such, in the most unlimit
ed extent.” Said William Rawle, in his
commentaries (see edition of 1829): “ The
States, then, may wholly withdraw from
the Union; but while they continue they
must retain the character of representative
republics. The secession of a State from
the Union depends on the will of the people
of such State. The people alone, as we have
already seen, hold the power to alter their
Constitution.” The above authors—one
from the North and the other from the
South—were among the ablest of the early
American jurists, and their statement was
taken as truth. It was an essential and
indisputable not a mere opinion.
And it will be shown fully hereafter that
this right of secession was considered by
the fathers unquestionable—too much so,
indeed, lor discussion. The above works
were text-books at West Point when Davis
unci Lee were cadets there. Was it not
rather wicked for Uncle Samuel to think of
hanging lus pupils for practising the pre
cepts lie specially taught them ?
Thus it was that these four now distin
guished personages were educated and im
pressed ; and it is probable that tlie views
of all of them remained unchanged during
thirty years of tlieir manhood till 1860—
the great epoch of change. Before that
they would have deemed it it monstrous
idea that the Federal Government could
lawfully hang them because the State irre
sistibly carried them out of the Union, and
compelled them to defend her, while, at the
same time, the State could have hung them
if they luid opposed her; and they could
but believe that when the Stale repealed its
ordinance of “ ratification ” it was no longer
lawful for the citizens to obey Federal au
thorities, that ratification being the only
cause of Federal jurisdiction, and the pow
er of repeal 1 icing by all law and common
sense exactly commensurate with that of
enactment. Would it not have been a hor
rible romance for two of these men, after
passing terthe evening of life in ardent de
votion to these principles, to have had the
power, and to have exercised it, of hanging
the other two —also become old, and among
the most distinguished men in the world—
for honorable consistency to these same
principles, and for obeying and defending
their States, where were concentrated all
the objects of* a true heart’s devotion—
those objects which noble and brave souls
are wont to prefer to al I the rest of earth,
and to defend even to the last drop of blood
—neighbors, friends, kindred, birthplace,
hearthstones aud altars, and the “ green
graves of their sires ?”
.[From tlie Richmond Whig.
Victor Hugo.
People who set up for being better than
everybody else, when closely examined,
may be found as earthy as the rest of hu
manity. Sometimes tlieir pretension to
superlative purity is merely a cloak to
cover selfishness and mean and despicable
vices. Os all the pretenders of this char
acter, Victor Hugo strikes us as the gross
est and most impudent—as the one whose
acts are in most flagrant contradiction to
his professions. To listen to him one
might conclude that lie was the incarna
tion of all the virtues, and especially in re
spect to political disinterestedness and in
dependence, that he outstrips even the
Decii of Roman story. And yet, if wo
heed Parisian historians, subserviency and
rapacity have been the distinguishing
traits of his career, anil these come to him
by descent from his father.
His father was the son of a carpenter in
a pretty village of the Vosges. He was
taken to Spain by Joseph Bonaparte when
King, and there amassed money by obse
quiousness and pillage. He was after
wards too happy in receiving a pension
from Louis XVIII. The first notice we
have of the poet himself relates to the re
ceipt of five hundred francs from the same
King for writing an ode on the death of the
Duke of Berry, in 1820. True to the pa
ternal instincts, he very soon got on the
pension rolls of his Majesty. The same
love of royal bounty continued unabated
with him during tlie reign of Charles X—
after whom he begged the favor of naming
his first born son. At the revolution of
1830 he lost his pension, and forthwith set
about to regain it by singing tlie praises of
tlie “Heroes of July." He met with no
encouragement at first, and redoubled l>is
efforts. At last he was rewarded with the
title of “Peer of France,” by Louis Pliil
lippe, whom he pronounced “the first gen
tleman of Europe.” He then began to sing
the glories of Napoleon, who, in his patri
otic frenzy, was nothing less than a god.
When he became hopelessly compromised,
on the accession of the present Emperor,
he fled to Jersey, where he continues in
voluntary exile, and gratifies his vanity
and selfishness by abusing the Emperor
and the Empire, at an income of a hundred
thousand francs.
A Paris editor, M. Maquet, says he one
day spoke of the shameless conduct, the
sordid tergiversation of Hugo to a venera
ble doctor, who had been for fifty years in
charge of the Lunatic Asylum at Charen
tou. The doctor replied, “ I can give you
a scientific explanation of the fact to which
you refer. I have had under my care at
Charenton the brother of Victor Hugo,
Eugene Hugo. lie died there a madman,
in a state of total alienation, deprived of
his senses, particularly of the sense of
taste, and he ate his own excrements.—
Esquirol has preserved his portrait in his
‘Treaty on Mental Maladies.’ How, if you
wish me to give my opinion on the mental
state of M. Victor Hugo—as a Naturalist,
I class him among the stercoraeious finds —
i. e. to say, among those who seek with
morbid avidity for filth and ordures. And
it is thus, in the decadence of this great in
tellect, one remarks Ids predilection for
painting tableaux. Asa doctor of the de
ranged, lam obliged to invent for him a
scientfic term, for he is a serious fool—he is
struck with moral alienation.”
Victor Hugo’s eldest sou, Charles, has
just settled in Paris and established a jour
nal there. In its first number he indulged
in many gross and indelicate reflections on
Hortense, the mother of the Emperor, and
on Louis Phillipe’s wife. A biographical
sketch of the poet, from which we have
condensed the above facts, is the jpply of
an Imperialists to it. The writer, with
great vigor, comments on the mean obse
quiousness of the point—on his sordid ter
giversations and base cowardice in flying
danger, while from a safe retreat he seeks
to foment civil war in his native country.
The poet’s heroism is not unlike that of
Wendell Phillips, who is forever preaching
blood and carnage, while he takes special
care to keep his own precious person re
mote from all peril.
Clover.— Much has been written for
years about the adaptation of clover to this
latitude. A view of the numerous clover
patches about Athens would convince the
most skeptical. Mr. Bloomfield has just
cut about two tons to the acre, and the
yield of several other lots will be about
equally as large. By August a second crop
will yield probably half as much more, or
if plowed under, will afford a richer dress
ing than other means of fertilizing would
secure. The small expense attending the
growth of hay, and the certainty of rich re
turns, would seem a sufficient inducement
to a more general cultivation of the grasses.
And yet we noticeeven many gardens about
town planted in cotton. Nothing seems to
destroy the abject allegiance of the people
to the fascinating old king.
[Athens Banner.
[From the I ondon Star.
Surgical Examination of the Siamese
Twins.
Sir James Simpson, the Professor of Medi
cine and Midwifery in the University of
Edinburgh, has examined very minutely
and from every point of scientific interest,
these twins, and has delivered a lecture to
the students of the University class on
these and other recorded cases of united
twins, of whom they are in many respects
the most remarkable on record. In this
lecture, which he publishes in the British
Medical Journal , he gives first their history
and description. Chang and Eug. or as
they now sign themselves, Chang and Eng
Bunker, are now 58 years of age. They
were two of several children, the rest being
naturally formed. When infants they
were attached face to face, but instinc
tive efforts from the earliest age have so
far elongated the baud as to enable them
to adopt an imperfect lateral relation to
each other. They are short, but wiry
looking men, Eng, the taller of the two.
being only five feet two and a half inches—
Chang 'an inch shorter. They use tlie outer
legs more than the inner, by standing, and
these are tlie larger in circumference.—
There is no inversion of position of the
heart and other organs, as Professor Allen
Thompson, of Glasgow, has shown to be
the general law in relation to united twins.
Neither of the respirations nor circulations
of the two brothers are synchronous. Ex
amined in Edinburgh by Dr. Aitken, when
they wfere suffering from influenza, the
pulse of one was twenty-four beats to the
minute quicker than the other. Examined
this week, in London, by Sir Henry Thomp
son aud Mr. Earnest Heart, there was less
difference—four pulsations in the minute.
In their chemical as well as their organic
functions, they are shown by Sir James
Simpson to lie two separate and distinct in
dividuals. They can walk, swim and run ;
they are keen sportsmen and good shots;
intelligent, well-informed and good men
of business. They are naturally much
accustomed to join in tlie same con
versation, but can each easily carry
on a conversation with two different
individuals. They sometimes read sepa
rately, eacii to himself, more often one
aloud to the other. Their minds, indeed,
are more dual than their bodies; the latter
are united together, but the former are not.
The band of union is formed partly by the
extension of the cartilages of the breast
bone ; it is four inches and a half long and
eight inches and a half in circumference.
When the twins have suffered from blood
diseases, as small-pox, measles, ague, they
have been a flee ted simultaneously. Never
theless. from experiments which Sir James
Simpson lias made with drugs, he con
cludes that the vaseniar connection be
tween the two brothers is comparatively
very small. On tlie question of the surgi
cal separation of the Siamese Twins,
“Chang and Eng,” says Sir James Simpson,
“have themselves no desire to be surgi
cally divided from eacii other. But some
of tlieir relatives and families have become
anxious that they should be separated, if
it were possible to do so. The operation
is certainly possible, and would tie attended
with little, or indeed, no difficulty; but it.
would be so perilous in its character that,
the twins could not, in my opinion, be
justified in submitting toi it, or any surgeon
be justified in performing it.” He then
enters into details to justify this opinion.
Chang and Eng are married to two sisters,
the daughters of an American clergyman.
Each brother has nine children. The 1 family
of Eng consists of six sons and three
daughters ; the family of Chang consists
of three sons and six daughters. Their
first children were born within, three or
four days of each other ; the others at
irregular intervals. Chmg’s ninth child
was born three months ago.
Sir W. Ferguson has carefully examined
the twins, and, we understand, concurs in
the general opinion of surgeons that any
surgical separation would be most likely
attended with fatal consequences, not so
much on account of any obstacle presented
by the structure of the uniting baud of
flesh as tlie moral effect of the disunion on
the two brothers.
| From the Lexington (Ky.) Observer anporter.
The Angora Goat. ~
ITS HABITS AND VALUABLE FLEECE.
Mr. Robert W. Scott, of Frankfort, who
has been breeding Angora goats since
1860, says of these noble animals: The
color of pure-bred and full-blood animals
is almost invariably white, though some of
the earlier descendants of imported ani
mals were brown; some being grey, and
some black also, in their native country,
varying a little perhaps in species, or fami
ly of species. Tlieir gay and intelligent
appearance, their cleanly habits, active and
playful disposition, make them attractive
on a farm ; while in their natures they are
so docile that they may be raised so as to
be as familiar about the house and yard as
the dog or the cat. Though they have
great curiosity and enterprise, they also
have strong local attachments, and, after
wandering all day, will generally seek their
usual shelter at night, especially if the
weather is inclement. They do not break
fences, or clear them at a single bound, as
most other stock do, but will piss through
a hole which is already made, will climb up
a rail which leans at about forty-five de
grees, or will bound on top of, and then
over, a low fence. Any good farm fence,
five feet high, will keep them securely.—
Like other stock, they are more trouble
some after they have acquired roaming and
breechy habits. They bear coupling, hob
bling, and tethering better thau any other
stock.
In their diet, they are not particular, eat
ing in winter what they have rejected in
summer. On large farms much the greater
portion of tlieir diet will consist of weeds,
brushes, briers, fallen leaves, brush, &c.,
and they are truly valuable for keeping the
premises clean. In winter short grass and
corn fooder is ail that is required even by
the breeding flock.
Tlie wool-bearing goat is just now a
subject of great interest to our manufac
turers, for tlie time is not far distant when
tine and rich worsted stuffs will be made
in tiiis country from its wool, rivalling the
gorgeous, durable, and brilliant fabrics of
the far-famed Cashmere. We are already
making worsted stuffs and lustrous Or
leans goods; and all that is now wanted is
looms and skillful workmen. These to
begin with, cau be imported. Descriptions
and representations of the Indian Cashmere
looms, and the Persian shawl looms, etc.,
are now in possession of our Agricultural
Department, and preparations are on foot
to establish extensive manufactories.
There are in the United States from 3,000
to 4,000 of these wool-bearing goats of the
best known breeds. In this country these
animals are improved in size, weight, and
quality of the fleece. Three-fourths hlood
yield a fleece softer than the imported ani
mals, but not so long. This is more than
England can boast of. France has been
more successful, but not as successful as
our breeders in the acclimation of this goat.
We conclude by expressing tlie belief
that the girl is now living who will wear,
on her wedding day, a Cashmere shawl of
American manufacture. We advise farm
ers to look into tills matter, and if they
make a fortune out of the goat business,
thank us for the suggestion.
What is a Family?—On Monday last,
Dr. J. 11. Cooke, ordinary of Coweta coun
ty, had before him an application for home
stead under the constitution and laws of
Georgia, from Col. Joe Calhoun, a bachelor,
aged (50 years. Col. Calhoun’s creditors
filed objection to the passage on order by
the ordinary assigning homestead in.this'
case, on the ground that the applicant was
not the “ head of a family,” in a legal sense.
It was admitted that he had neither wife
nor children, but had" servants in his em
ployment, and his counsel contended that
this fact constituted him the “head of a
family.” The ordinary sustained the ob
jections, and the applicant appealed to the
.Superior Court. —New turn Herald.
Raspberries in Georgia.— Hon. S. F.
Gove has left at this office three of the most
improved varieties of the raspberry, scarlet
and yellow, by way of showing that the
best French raspberries can be produced in
Georgia under unfavorable circumstauces.
These have been grown without working,
and have been suffered to succor freely for
the purpose propagation, and yet the fruit
is large and fine. He thinks, with ordinary
care, the best varieties of this fruit can be
abundantly produced in this section of
Georgia. —Macon Telegraph,
[For the Constitutionalist.
At Sadowa.
At Florence, last year, in Carnival week,
An Austrian Boldier wooed a Southern maid,
His form was graceful, and liis words were soft
And she believed the promises he made.
Till, Ariadne-like, she woke to find
Her dream had vanished with the morning
beams.
And with her gay ribbons, laying aside
Her pleasant pictures and her youthful dream 3 .
More beautiful now, with her saintly face,
In garments of verge and a sable hood,
She took np her cross, with a heart subdued,
Aud a fairyonng nun, went about, doing good
The battle was done, and the setting sun
Ilis level rays cast, on the blood red sands,
And the nun was there, wilh her sweet, pale
face,
And her gentle ways and her meek white
hands.
The foe had fled and had left his dead.
That Austrian garb, does it wake no chord
In tlie poor, palennn, as she passes on
With a helping hand ami a soothing word.
A little apart from that bloody heap
Os Austrian dead, came a feeble groan.
And the nun knew not, till she saw him there.
That in all that time lie had dearer grown.
And she knelt down there, but she could not
speak.
For her heart went back to the old glad days,
And she pressed one baud to her throbbing
heart, \
And held up tlie cross to his dying gaze.
But he waved it off, with a feeble hand,
“ 1( she would forgive me, I then might seek
Forgiveness for all, and to die in peace.”
And tlie nun prayed Ihen, for the strength to
speak.
“ Oh, soldier, believe, by the love she bore,
Your cruel desertion is long forgiven.
Tlie pain and the sorrow lira wrung her heart,
Have only prepared her son! for Heaven.”
And tlie soldier smiled, at the well known tones,
But he spoke no more, and lie died just there,
Aud the nun beut. low, and she kissed his lips,
And her while hands passed through his sun
bright hair.
And she thought, dice more, of the old sweet
time,
And she looked once more on the poor, white
face,
And she left him there, with a silent prayer
That liis soul might taste j»f tlie Heavenly
grace.
Maria Lou.
Woodvillb.
The Old Dutch Church—Centenary
Exercises Laying the "Foundation
Stone of a New Church in Fifth Ave
nue,—One. hundred years ago yesterday,
the Old North Dutch I Informed Church, on
the corner of Fulton and William streets,
was dedicated to religious purposes. Tlie
imperious demands of commerce have at
last doomed this venerable place of wor
ship to extinction, as they have so many
similar places in the lower part of the city,
and tlie Consistory of the Reformed Dutch
Church of New York have .determined to
demolish the building, and devote tlie
money saved from the support of the ser
vices there, and gained from the sale of the
property, to missionary workfn oilier fields.
A portion of the ground will, however, be
reserved for a chapel of prayer to Is; erect
ed thereupon.
Yesterday morning and evening cente
nary services were held at Hie church, and
during the afternoon the foundation stone
of anew Dutch Reformed Church was laid
with appropriate ceremonies i*t the corner
of Fifth avenue and Forty-eighth street.
In the morning, addresses were delivered by
Rev. Thomas DeWitt, IHMEk&mT by Rev.
Talbot. W. Chambers,JjKjHji and in the
evening by Rev. CharieMKgHßari'en, Rev.
Isaac. Ferris, D. D., LL wbMv. M. S. Hut
ton, I). I)., Rev. 8. M. WclWlHdge, D. I).,
and Rev. J. M Ludlow. '
These gentlemen gave a number of inter
esting facts, statistics, and dates respecting
the early times of tlie Dutch Church in this
country, and respecting the founding of tlie
Fulton ytreet Church. In 1014 tlie Hol
landers came to this country and founded a
trading port; in 1623 they had the first
agricultural emigration here, in 1626 a lit
tle churc.i was established ; in 16<>4 the
colony was ceded to Great Britain. After
that the emigration from Holland fell off
almost entirely, aud many of the Holland
ers who were in New York city moved
away, aud settled on the banks of the Hud
son, the Mohawk, the Passaic, and the Rap
pahannock. Up to 1764 the services of the
churches in this country had been conduct
ed in the Dutch language, but in that year
the Rev. Dr. Ladley, a Scotch minister, who
had been transplanted to Holland, was call
ed to the ministry of tiie Dutch Church
here, and preached in the English language.
He was very able and energetic, as well as
highly esteemed, and he exercised such an
influence upon tlie growth of the church
that in a few years anew place of worship
was called for, and was erected. This was
the Fulton Street Church. Dr. Ladley was
tlie first minister of the church, and tlie
services from the very first until tiie present
time have been conducted in English. St.
Paul’s Church, at the corner of Vesey street
and Broadway, was erected in 1766, three
years before the Fulton Street Church was
erected. There was, said Dr. DeWitt, a
friendly rivalry in the erection of these
buildings, and where are there two build
ings so old that were fit to attract so much
attention to them in respect of their struc
ture.—New York World , 20f/t nil.
A Singular Accident.— A few days
ago, as two young men by the name of
Stovall and Harris, of Franklin- county,
were traveling together on horseback, Mr.
Stovall’s horse, being rather spirited and
hard to control, became angry with the
horse Mr. Harris was riding, and in at-
bite the horse chanced to seize
Mr. ITurns by the ankle, and snatched him
from his saddle, at the same time crushing
the bones of the leg, which he still held
firmly between his teeth. After Mr. Harris
had been held in this condition for some
time, and several times severelv pawed by
the horse as he held him, he was released.
At last accounts his physician thought am
putation would lie necessary. Mr. Harris
is an estimable young m;in, and has many
sympathisers in his singular misfortune.
[Athens Banner.
Great Velocipede Feat.— The fastest
time ever made on a velocipede in Europe
or America was- made last eveniug at the
Jersey City Veloeipedrome by W. H. Rus
sell, of this city, on a 80-inoh wheel. South
in ay and & Co.’s machine. Mr. Russell rode
twenty-eight times round the rink, one
mile, in the unprecedented time of two
minutes, and comparisons of this gait with
Dexter’s or any other stock will be odions.
Up to this Lime llndium’s 3:0(5 time at In
dianapolis was the fastest in America, and
Morct’s time, one mile and seventeen yards
in 2:41, the fastest in Europe. The Soutli
mavd machine lias a cog-wheel combina
tion which triples the speed with one-third
the velocity of treadle movement and
double the power.
[New York Jlerahl, 26 1 h nit.
. An association called the “ Order of the
Eagle” has been organized at Derby, Conn.
They propose to save the country. The
method is to swear in all the members to
support the Constitution of the United
States, to vote for the best men for office,
irrespective of party lines, and when serv
ing in any capacity to refuse all bribes. If
the order should become universal, and
nobody commit perjury, the country would
be saved beyond a doubt.
Sensible.— Heaven help the man who
imagines he can dodge enemies by trying
to please every body. Other people have a
right to their opinions, so have you; don’t
fall into the error of supposing they will
respect you more for turning your coat
every day to match the color of theirs.—
Wear your own color in spite of wind or
weather, storm or sunshine. It costs the
vacillating and irresolute ten times the
trouble to wind, shuffle and twist, that it
does honest, manly independence to stand
its ground.
BY TELEGRAPH
[Special Dispatch to the Constitutionalist.
New York Stock Closing Quotations.
REPORTED BY HOYT & GARDNER.
New Yoke, May 31—P. M.
The following are the closing quotations
this day:
American Gold 138%
Adams Express 59
New York Central.. ..:. 189%
Erie 28%
Hudson River 147%
Reading par
Michigan Central 126
Michigan Southern 109%
Cleveland and Pittsburg....; 97%
Chicago and North Western 93
Chicago and North Western, pref 104%
Milwaukee and St. Paul 79
Milwaukee and St. Paul, pref 81
Lake Shore 117
Chicago and Rock Island 126
Toledo, Wabash and Western 77
Toledo, Wabash and Western, pref.. 82%
New Jersey Central 110%
Pittsburg and Fort Wayne 107
Ohio.and Mississippi 35%
Hanibal and St. Joseph ....119%
Hauibal and St. Joseph, pref *
Tennessee, old 67%
Tennessee, new 64%
Georgia. Sixes.. 82%
Georgia Sevens.. .7 95
North Carolina, old 59%
North Carolina, new 55%
Alabama Eights
Alabama Fives
Virginia Sixes 57
Missouri Sixes 88%
Pacific Mail 81
Western Uuion Telegraph 43
Stocks steady, except Pittsburg, which
sold at 108, and Michigan Southern at 20.
Hoyt & Gardner.
[Associated Press Dispatches
WASHINGTON.
Washington, May 30. Occasional
flowers thrown on Confederate graves at
Arlington produced disturbances which
were checked by euards who prevented
their decoration. This policy was enforced
upon the authorities by ruffians, supported
by thoughtless persons who gathered and
trampled upon the flowers. This act and
the necessity to guard the graves is univer
sally deplored, but the vast and mixed
crowd rendered the guard necessary, other
wise there would have ix'en rows and pro
bably bloodshed.
Heavy storm to-day.
WASHrNOTON, May 30—Noon.—Dr. David
Turner has been appointed Collector of the
port of Georgetown, Virginia.
The Government Juts advices of an en
gagement between the troops and Indians
near Fort Griffin, Texas, in which fourteen
Indians were killed.
Washington, May 31—P. M.—John 11.
Gould lias been appointed Collector of First
Georgia District.
Four first-dass iron clad revenue cutters
will be constructed by the Treasury De
partment.
Wade visited Grant to-day, receiving ins
commission as Government Director of the
Union Pacific Railroad.
Stephen A. Douglass’ mother is dead,
aged 80.
The President departs for Annapolis
Thursday, and for West Point on the 10th.
Internal Revenue for the month, $20,250,-
000.
The commander of the Pacific Squadron
is ordered to give all possible aid to the
American-Ohinese Telegraph Company.
The negro Bassett, Minister to Hayti,
has received his instructions. He is in
structed to present, but not to press for
the present, a settlement. Bassett is per
sonally instructed by the President to
assure the Haytiens of his good will.
Longstreet, in replying to demands from
the War Departmcnnt for sums claimed
against him at the date of his resignation,
demands vouchers, with original endorse
ments, and concludes thus: “The confu
sion incident to the stirring events of the
last ten years has led to the loss of a great
many of my papers, leaving me no other
recourse than to ywur records.”
TENNESSEE.
Memphis, May 31.—The Supreme Court,
at Brownsville, decides unanimously that
the right to vote is secured to tiic citizen
under constitutional declarations and bill
of rights; that the elective franchise stands
equally high with the right to hold proper
ty, which, once vested, cannot be with
drawn without due process of law, and
that the power conferred by the Legislature
upon the Governor to set aside the regula
tions are illegal, and the Governor’s action
in the matter null.
ALABAMA.
Montgomery, May 31.—Messrs. Bing
ham, Loughbridge and Eldridge, of the
Congressional Committee to investigate
charges against Judge Busteed, reached the
city on Saturday next, Judge Busteed ad
journed court to-day until Wednesday, 12
o’clock.
The Immigration State Convention meets
to-morrow. A number of delegates have
already arrived.
NEW YORK.
New York, May 31.—1n the Old School
Assembly, resolutions were offered convey
ing Christian salutations to Presbyterian
Churches of Southern States, and express
ing the desire that the day is not distant
when all Presbyterians will be united in a
great organization that shall cover our
whole land.
The steamboat Norwalk, recently sunk,
has lieen raised.
VIRGINIA.
Richmond, May 29.—Decoration of Union
soldiers’ graves to-day. A large crowd,
white and colored, visited the National
Cemetery. The seventeenth infantry were
marched to the cemetery, and participated
in the proceedings.
. FOREIGN.
Liverpool, May 31.—Motley received
addresses of welcome from the Liverpool
and American Chambers of Commerce, and
proceeded to London.
• MARKETS.
London, May 31—-Noon.—Consols, 93%.
Bonds firm at 79%. Sugar quiet and
steady, both spot and afloat; spot, 395. (id.
@4os.
London, May 31—Evening.—Consols,
94. Bonds firm at 80%. Sugar—afloat,
easier.
Liverpool, May 31—Noon.—Cotton
quiet; uplands, 11% ; Orleans, 11% ; Fri
day’s stock afloat incorrect; correct figures,
(503,000 bales instead of 502,000 bales.
Liverpool, May 31—Afternoon.—Cotton
quiet and steady. Lard linn at 70s. Ba
con, 60s. Turpentine, 28s.
Liverpool, May 31—Evening.—Cotton
shade more active; uplands, 11%; Orleans,
11%; sales, 12,000 bales. Wheat. 9s. 9d.
Frankfort, May 31—Bonds, 80.
Havre, May 31—Afternoon. — Cotton
opens quiet, both spot and afloat.
Havre, May 31—Evening.—Cotton
closed quiet and steady; spot,. 140; afloat,
135%.
New York, May 31—Noon.—Money, - 7.
Sterling, 9%. Gold, 138%. ’62’s, 22% ;
North Carolinas, 60; new, 55%; Virginias,
ex coupon, 57%; new, 62% asked; Ten
nesses, ex coupon, 67%; new, 64%.
New York, May 31 —P. M.—Govern
ments strong; ’6l’s, 22%; ’64’s, 17%;
’6s’s, 1 8% ; new, 20'; ’67’s and ’6B’s, 20;
40% 9%. Southern Securities steady;
Virginias. 67%; new, 61% ; North Caro
linas, 59%; new, 55; Louisianas, 72% ;
Tenncssees, 67% ; new, 64%. Money easy
at 6@7. Sterling quiet at 9%. Gold de
clined, 138. Stocks excited and strong.
New York, May 31—Noon.—Flour un
changed. Wheat drooping. Corn declin
ing. Mess Pork, s3l 25. Lard—steam,
19%@19%. Cotton Arm at 29. Turpen
tine, 46@4fi%. Rosin dull at $2 42%@5.
Freights quiet.
New York, May 31—P. M.—Cotton
active at a % higher; sales, 4,000 bales at
29%. Flour s@lo lower; superfine, $5 25
@5 55. Wheat opened lc lower and dosed
firmer: Corn I@2 lower. Pork firm and in
fair demand, s3l 37%@31 62%. Lard
easier; kettle, 19%@19%. Whisky dull
and nominal. Rice dull; Carolina, 8%@9.
Sugar quiet and unchanged, Coffee steady.
Molasses quiet and firm. Naval Stores
quiet. Freights unsettled.
Baltimore, May 31.—Cotton firmer.—
Flour steady. Wheat dull and unchanged.
Corn dull; white, 87@88; yellow, 88@90.
Pork firm at SB2. Bacon firm ; shoulders,
14%. Whisky very dull—sl 02. Virginias,
old, inscribed, 49% ; 66’s, 55; North Caro
linas, new, 55—a1l bid.
Cincinnati, May 31.—Whisky unsettled;
98 ottered ;$1 asked. Mess Pork, s3l 25.
Bacon—shoulders, 13% ; sides, 16%@17%.
Lard held at 19. •
Wilmington, May 31.—Spirits of Tur
pentine steady at, 42%. Rosin shade bet
ter ; strained, $1 75@1 77%. Crude Tur
pentine, $1 70@2 80. Tar, $2 24.
Mobile, May 31.—Cotton —Low mid
dling, 26(526% ; sales, 100 bales; receipts,
342 bales; exports, 1,275 bales.
New Orleans, May 31 .—Cotton—M id
dling, 28@28%;sales, 2,000 bales; receipts
since Saturday, 1,429 bales; exports, 2,928
bales. Gold, 138%. Sterliug, 51% ; New
York Sight, par@% premium. Flour—
ss 37 ; double, ’ss 75 ; treble, $6 50. Corn—
white, 95. Oats, 75. Bran, $1 25. Hay—
prime, $29. Pork, $32 75. Bacon firm at
13%, 17%, 17%. Lard—tierce, 18%; keg,
19%'. Sugar—common, 9%; prime, 13%@
13%. Molasses dull; fermenting, 40-355. —
Whisky—Western rectified, 97%@51. Cof
fee—fair, 15%; prime, 16%@17. ~
Savannah, May 31.—Cotton—market
closed firm ; middling, 27 ; sales, 350 bales;
receipts, 136 bales..
Charleston, May 31.—Cotton in fair re
aucst; stock light; good grades firm; other
kinds steady; sales, 150 bales; middling,
27%; receipts, 253 bales.
' CITY ITEMS.
Trial of Mr. E. A. Cor v.—ln pur
suance of adjournment on Saturday after
noon, the trial of Mr. E. A. Cory, on the
charge of destroying official papers, was
commenced yesterday morning before
United States Commissioner J. R. Davis,
John S. Davidson, Esq., appearing for pros
ecution, and J. C. C. Black, Esq., for defense.
Defendant’s counsel moved that the war
rant lx> dismissed, on the ground that the
affidavit exhibited no violation of United
States law, and read from 17th section of
Internal Revenue Act to sustain liis mo
tion. The prosecution expected to sustain
itself as to wilful oppression and extortion.
The time of the offense was not specified,
and the charge was not sufficient in law.
The counsel for the prosecution rejoined
that the Court held it to be within its
province to inquire as to whether an of
fense had been committed against the Gov
ernment at any time.
The Court ruled that it was merely a
preliminary examination, to establish that
the paper destroyed was an official paper ;
an informality in the warrant might be
taken advantage of on the trial proper.—
Under this ruling the case proceeded:
I l ’. T. Lofton testified : This paper is
Form 97; an abstract; regarded an office
paper ; it is not absolutely necessary to file
it, before an Assistant Assessor can draw
pay; it is to be'filed by the 15th of the
month; by custom, Assistant Assessors
Mere permitted to dran- pay, before it
was filed; as an officer of’the United
States Government, regard it as an office
paper.
Crow-examined. —Assistants required to
file this abstract by the 15tli; if not filed
by such time, I understand the same sheet
must represent itself the following month;
I was not Assistant Assessor at the time
when the abstract was filed; had an order
in March to turn over my papers to Asses
sor.
John A. BoiiLEirtestified—Am acquaint
ed with forms; this is a copy of alphabeti
cal list required to be furnished Assessor
from book kept by Assistant; only one
copy Is made out, known as abstract sheet,
and turned over to Assessor, to make out
consolidated report; Assessor could not
make out consolidated report M'ithont It,
unless he had access to Assistant’s book;
regard, it as a proper office paper.
Crow-examined. —lt is a mere copy from
Assistant Assessor’s book ; Assessor could
not make out consolidated return M ithout
it; would not be in form for Assessor to
make up return from Assistant Assessor’s
book; have known them to be torn up
where mistakes M'ere made, and new ones
made; has been the practice that papers
frequently fail to reach office in time, and
were laid over to next month ; impression
that February and March would both lx;
brought in on March list; was Assistant
Assessor; left office in February; common
occurrence for returns of country Assessors
to come in behind ; was in Assessor’s office
early in Bom'lcs’ administration; could
give nothing that would be of authority
from that office; vouchers must accompany
list sent in by Assistant Assessor.
lie-direct. —Form 97 is an original paper,
so far as Assessor’s office is concerned;
they arc sent in by Assistant Assessors; a
copy is made by Assessor for Collector; is
bound in book i'orm as official record ; coun
try Assessors frequently send in returns
with errors ‘Of calculation, which are cor
rected in Assessor’s office.
Cross-examined. —With vouchers of origi
nal abstract, another list could be made
out.
lie-direct. —Assessor has frequently made
out new lists when Assistants had made
errors in calculation ; otherwise, consider
it a stretch of authority; in my opinion,
Assessor wonld have no l-iglit to make out
list without informing Assistant.
Cross-examined: —lf the abstract was
claims for services rendered before Assist
ant was dismissed from office, it would be
proper to file it, after his dismission.
A. S. Hill testified—Have heard Mr.
Bohler’s testimony ; substantiate it as to
form 97 being an office paper ; Assessor
himself would not be authorized in de
stroying such a paper.
Mr. Rlack did not propose to offer testi
mony, as it was a preliminary examination
to determine whether the case should pro
ceed.
John S. Davidson addressed the Court,
claiming that the evidence had proved that
the paper in question (Form 97) was an
ofllce paper.
The defense did not reply.
The Court thought that the official char
acter of the paper was established, and
would go on with the trial. Would post
pone the trial to Wednesday, if desired.
Defense preferred to go on with trial,
ami prosecution answered, ready.
Mr. Black resumed his motion to dismiss
warrant. Court would sustain the war
rant, and the trial proceeded.
Loftin testified —Was Assistant As
sessor during February, March, and por
tion of April ; as Assistant (as I under
stand the law), was entitled to pay for
services ; owing to correction made, now
claim from Government $625 for services
perlormtd ; notice of indebtedness served
ou Government, made out on Assistants’
monthly pay uccount; it is account of
number of days of service ■ rendered by
Assistant’s Assessor, certified by Assistant
Assessor and approved by Assessor.
Defense objected to testimony of destruc
tion of pay list, as destruction was not
named in allegation of affidavit; it was
the loss of abstract sheet and vouchers
charged.
Prosecution held that the questions pro
pounded to witness were to prove that tlifc
papers were valuable to him, setting fortli
claims of service.
The Court overruled the objections of
defense.
Witness resumed. —Assessor in list approve
act before paying; papers were of value
to me; were only evidence in office to
establish my claim ; lists tiled, are, original
abstract sheet, required of Assistant Asses
sor, to be rendered monthly, to Assessor,
containing work perform ed*by him during
the month—a true extract copy from his
book ; are valuable to Government because
Assessor is required to file this sheet in his
office; validity of Assistant Assessor’s claim
is determined by them; copies are drawn
off in duplicate or triplicate for Collector,
who proceeds to collect taxes set fortli in
lists; lists destroyed involved loss to Gov
ernment, as it now stands of $451, from fact
that Assessor, in face of instructions, has
been unable to make any use of them ; can’t
answer where the papers were destroyed;
can trace them to Assessor’s office; tliey
have lieen destroyed, to the best of my
knowledge; and belief; Mr. Cory acknowl
edged that he destroyed them ; he made the
acknowledgment, In Assessor’s office, Third
District of Georgia, on 26th of May ; lie
did not state cause of destruction; merely
said he destroyed them, and was re
sponsible; did not subsequently state to me
the cause of the destruction of the papers ;
am not on friendly terms with Mr. Cory;
have had no connection with him since
February.
Council for defense asked if his Honor
would admit this evidence; he did not de
sire to argue all these small points.
Prosecution—lntroduced it to prove the
motives which had actuated the defendant,
to establish tlie character of oppression;
thought it would take wide range, even to
the late trial of Col. Bowles.
Defense—From gentleman’s own state
ment, his Honor conld see the necessity of
shortening evidence. Had as much right to
examine into impeachment trial of Andrew
Johnson. *
Court—Thought all that was essential
was to establish destruction of papers and
their value.
Witness resumed —Defendant (Cory) did
state that he was my bitterest enemy ;
Cory now occupies position of Assistant
Assessor and chief clerk in Assessor’s of
fice ; occupied same position when the pa
pers were destroyed.
Cross-examined—Served as Assistant As
sessor up to night of 2d of April; as I un
derstand it, I would be entitled to make
list for the two days in April ; cannot say
wliat I was discharged for; the papers
M'hich I say in affidavit Cory destroyed
were acknowledged by him to have been
monthly lists and vouchers of assessment
made by me in my division ; that is all he
acknowledged; I swear in affidavit that
the vouchers were missing; the vouchers
were discovered in Cory’s private desk,
When pressed, by Assessor Belcher; deskis
in office; I cannot say how often I demand
ed vouchers ; never demanded them of
Cory; when I sought for vouchers from
Belcher, he stated that the papers were not
in his office; Belcher took letter of mine
from Washington from Revenue Commis
sioner, and read portion to Cory, who then
produced the vouchers from his desk;
don’t know that Belcher ever demanded
them of Cory; Belcher had been In office
twenty-six days; this was not the first de
mand I had made on the office; my pay ac
count Mas not destroyed, nor assessmeiA
vouchers; only the monthly list; vouchers
wore given to me ; Belcher said they were
all there; Belcher still contended that
there Mas no evidence in office of my ser
vice ; Belcher declines to allow any ab
stract sheet to be made from book ; the ab
stract must be in handwriting of Assistant
Assessor, in conformity to instructions of
Revenue Commissioner.
A book was handed witness, who identi
fied it as used by him while Assistant, to
gether with a bundle of vouchers in copy.
Prosecuting 'Attorney objected, contend
ed that the copies were made from vouch
ers since commencement of trial. Admit
ted by defense. Prosecuting Attorney held
that from evidence, privilege could not
be exercised by other than Assistant As
sessor.
Defense introduced the point to show
that the pajiers now presented would an
swer the same purpose of the original—
that no offense had been committed.
Witness resumed —The papers submitted
would not answer the purpose of original
lists, because Assessor Belcher refused to
allow me to make a copy from the book ; 1
consider that lain bound to make a re
turn in my own handwriting; I presume
the vouchers here submitted correct; this
list should be in office on 15th; Assessor is
allowed to 20th to close returns ; I placed
these papers in hands of Supervisor Saf
fold about the 15th of April; tliey had
never been returned to the office by me ;
was instructed by Assessor, on 2d day of
April, to turn over all papers to my suc
cessor; received order signed by O. F.
Gregory, which I declined %*> respect,; re
spected order of Assessor; money for my
services comes directly from Collector ; As
sessor must approve accounts; neither
Howies nor Belcher have approved my ac
counts; cannot say that the desk from
which Cory took papers was locked; this
is the letter I received from Washington,
from Supervisor Saffold—[identifyingdocu
ment which prosecuting attorney intro
duced ; the letter read.]
Witness resumed . —Saffold does not sign it
officially ; (lout know tiiat at the time he
was not a Revenue officer; heard that his
resignation M-as tendered about the Ist of
May; Mr. Cory, under present circum
stances, could prevent me, by withholding
access to books, from securing my claims
against the Government ; Cory, as chief
clerk, has the power to prevent me from
getting pay, indefinitely ; Belcher refused
me access to books ; Belcher stated that my
papers were not in the office ; Cory stated
afterwards that the vouchers were in the
office; owing to destruction of lists, the
papers had availed nothing to the Govern
ment, and my labor is ' not recognized ;
Belcher refuses to allow any one to supply
these lists ; and Cory assumes responsibili
ty of their destruction ; I, as well as the
Government, have been injured; Cory has
no right to supply vacancy of list destroy
ed, without taking it from original sheet
made out by myself and furnished to Asses
sors office ; Cory could not have made copy
of list from anything else, except from the
vouchers and book, which lie had no right
to do ; Belcher’s reasons lor not allowing
any one to draw lists from book and
vouchers, to supply vacancies were, that it
would not do, it would not answer his pur
poses ; when Cory made acknowledgment
of destruction of papers, in Belcher’s office,
Belcher was present, and one of his clerks ;
Cory stated to Belcher that he was respon
sible for destroying the paper; Belcher
claimed that he M as.
Cross-examined. —The validity of my
claim is recognized, but the evidence of
service is denied ; Belcher has several
times refused to admit my claim ; I told
him that the Commissioner’s letter au
thorized him to settle with me, without
responsibility, but lie refused to admit it,
stating that the whole matter had been
placed within his jurisdiction.
lie-direel. —T considered it my duty as
Assistant Assessor, to make out monthly
statement, in my own handwriting (as I
understand ti.« to lie filed and recog
nized as an original ~imet or monthly list
by the Assessor ; such statf».«,„ts J 'have
made, and am now informed that itn-n.
no evidence in office of Assessor of the
3d District of Georgia that I am entitled
to monthly pay for February, March, and
part of April ; the evidence is not there,
because E. A. Corey, Assistant Assessor
and clerk, acknowledges having destroyed
sueli original list; Belcher had a letter
from Commissioner of Revenue, on 26th of
May. ,
At this stage, the further hearing of the
case was postponed to 4 o’clock, p. in.
The afternoon sitting of the Court, was
devoted to the examination of witnesses
for the defense, J. E. 11. A. 11.
Marsh, Edwin Belcher, and David Porter
testified, in detail, to such an extensive
length, that we fail to find room for it.
The opinion of the Court, as announced
here, will furnish an idea of the character
of the evidence elicited :
•OPINION OPTHE COURT.
It is the opinion of the Commissioner
that, the prosecutor has failed to establish
the importance of the paper alluded to in
the warrant as to its value, although de
struction of the same, as charged, was ad
mitted by the defendant, E. A. Cory. The
defendant is ‘dismissed, as well as the war
rant issued against Belcher.
The Commissioner, while lie has dis
missed the accused, deems it his duty to
furnish a copy of the evidence to the Com
missioner of Internal Revenue at Washing
ton for his consideration.
Crops in Washington County.— By a
letter from Sandersville, we are advised
that the corn crops in that section are
promising. Cotton is complained of, as
suffering considerably from the cold. —
Wheat is put down at an average crop.
Dry weather prevails. The freedmen are
working and behaving well.
: TnE Railroad Embboolio
City Attorney, Again.—On TUuAday
tost it was stated in the local columns of
this paper, upon what we deemed good au-
that the South Carolina Railroad
had offered to compromise all the litigation
upon the payment to them of one hundred
thousand dollars of the bonds of the Colum
bia and Augusta Railroad at par.
Gen. A. R. Wright attorney of the City
Council, in a card in the Chronicle and Sen
tinel, denied that such a proposal was made,
and in conclusion said, “I beg'to ask]
would it not be well for those who attempt
to inform the public on matters of great
interest to inform themselves iirst of the true
condition of affairs lieforc attempting to
enlighten the public. To this denial of the
attorney of the city, we replied by copy
ing an article from the .Chronicle ami Senti
nel of the 21st inst., admitting that such a
proposal had been made.
lo parry this direct contradiction of his
card by his own journal, Gen. Wright
puts in the plea that lie was absent from
the city, and the information was furnished
by an official of the South Carolina Rail
road. But does that relieve him from the
dilemma ?
We also stated in our article of Tliuts- I
day that the South Carolina Railroad hail I
made an offer—an off-hand offer—to the (
City Council of Augusta lo waive all its I
rights under Hie contract of 1861, if the City 1
Council of Augusta would waive all its
claims for alleged breaches of former con
tracts by that company.
The attorney for the city denied this
statement, and we rejoined by publishing
the official documents. The public can
judge if such a proposition was made.
General Wright, in his article of “ One
Word,” seeks to break the force of this di
rect proof against his denial, by quibbling
on the “ off-hand," as the proposal was
made in the same note that contained an
other proposition. But this sophistry is
too thin to mislead any one. The fact is
patent to all wtio read the note of Judge
Gould and Mr. Hull, attorneys lor the
South Carolina Railroad Company, that
they did make a direct proposition to the
city of Augusta alone to waive all claims
under their contract if the City Council of
Augusta would do the same; and the fact
stands prominent, despite tin; denial of the
city attorney to draw attention from these
irreconcilable statements. Gen. Wright
takes the occasion of our remarks that lie
could hardly lie expected to maintain a
nicely balanced consistency while attempt
ing to edit a pajier and look after the inter
est of the city and the Columbia and Au
gusta Railroad, to blow his own trumpet
and that of the Chronicle and Sentinel, by
republishing a few certificates of postmas
ters as to the circulation of the two papers.
He and his paper are welcome to all the faino
that will redound from the puff'. We are
content to let the CoNSTrrimoNAUST
stand ii|x»n its ou t ii merits. Butthe public
whose welfare brought forth the card of
the city attorney, with so many “ it is not
trues,” may see the connection of the two
questions ; we do not.
A word as to this question of circula
tion. Gen. Wright, in his article last Sun
day, says the certificates M'ere “ taken at
random from a large number of like char
acter now in my (his) possession.” The
public may judge of the animus and fair
ness of this statement by comparing it
with the full lists of such certificates pub
lished in the Chronicle and Sentinel, on the
10th of January last, and noting that tln*>
random selection contains only those most
favorable to that paper; and also noting
another, and very important fact, that in
that original list, published without cause
or justification, many post offices are en
tirely omitted—and why '<
The fling in regard to the Constitution
alist publishing the official advertisement*
of the Governor and of this county is be
neath notice.
Steamboat Excursion. —Through the
courtesy of Mr. B. L. Willingham, Presi
dent of the Planters’ Accommodation Line
of Steamboats, about a hundred of the
merchants, business men and citizens of
Augusta, yesterday afternoon, enjoyed the
pleasant recreation of an excursion down
the river.
It was proposed to make the trip on the
new and handsome steamer Carrie, but
owing to the necessity of some slight re
pairs to her machinery during the after
noon, her elder and well-fltted associate,
the Katie, was brought into requisition.
A few minutes past 4 o’clock the bell
sounded, and the Katie, under command of
her genial and accomplished Captain, Gib
son, danced out into the current as if a
thing of life and conscious of the part she
was to play in promoting the pleasure of
the party. On board was the energetic
and thofongh-going President of the Line,
Mr. B. L. Willingham, the popular and ac
complished chief officer of the Carrie, Capt.
Johnson, and Mr. Henry Edmouston (of
the firm of Stovall & Edmonston, agents
for the line in Augusta), who united their
respective strength in promoting the en
tertainment of their guests with a success
flattering to themselves and the interests
they represent. The burden of the prepa
ration and dispensation of refreshments
fell on the shoulders of Mr. Edmonston,
who punched and smoked the party to their
entire satisfaction.
The Katie glides I gracefully down to
Bender’s cut, about ten miles from the
city, giving the dusty denizens of town a
"Lance to snuff the rural breeze and feast
the eye on th« scenery along the banks and
stretching out to the extent of eye-shot on
either shore. At this point, her prow was
turned toward the city, and leisurely she
retraced her way, mirth and jocularity
ruling throughout. Some of the colored
deck hands, when not engaged in their
official duty, gave an amusing variety to
the occasion, by giving samples of the
light, fantastic toe, drawn in barefoot on
the forward deck in true old
style. About sundown the party arriVefl
at the wharf, all the better for the sflporfc
but pleasant recreation afforded by\»ur
river friends.
The Planters’ Line is now most thorough
ly furnished in the matter of freight and
passenger accommodations for the river
business between Augusta and Savannah.
With the controlling direction of its ener
getic President, and efficient officers on the
Garrie and Katie, it will lie found to sub
serve the interests of both planters, and
merchants who may have occasion to avail
themselves of its advantages.
The First Through. —The flrst through
package from San Francisco ’over the
Pacitlc Railroad, by express, for parties In
tills city, Mils-receive!l here on Thursday.
It was thirteen days-makiug the trip, hav
ing left the Pacific end on the 14tli and ar
rived here on the evening of the 27th. -It
was about five inches square, valued at
$75, and cost $4 75 for express freight and'' 1
insurance. That is a great deal cheaper
«cent per cent.” than some charge? that
have lately been re nor ted over regular lin«
from New York. But tills package w'os for
a lady, and ordinary merchandize conies to
gentlemen—that may make a difference.
[Columbus Enquirsr ,