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CONSTITUTIONALIST.
AUGK/STA. GA.
!SATURDAY MORNING, AUG. 14.1869
|Ut>ecial Correnpondanceof ihe Baltimore Gazette.
From Washington.
SENATOR FOWLER —THE UNITED STATES
SENATORSHIF IN TENNESSEE PROSPECTS
OF EX-PRESIDENT JOHNSON —AN APPEAL—
A CABINET MEETING—HOW MATTERS ARE
OFTEN MANAGED—SPECULATIONS AND
RUMORS—THE DECLINATION OF ROSE
CRANS—MILITARY REUNIONS.
Washington, August 9, 1869.
Senator Fowler, of Tennessee, is an
nounced to be in town, and I learn that lie
expressed, while at home, some surprise
that among the many candidates named to
succeed him, the newspapers had not seen
proper to include him as one among the
number. He has never absolutely declined
a ic-election. It is further said that he
makes light of the pretensions of Bailey
Peyton and Emerson Etheridge. Should
ex-President Johnson desire a seat in the
Senate, he thinks there could be no doubt
of his election. He himself would “ waive
rank” in that contingency. The great
difficulty is to overcome the horror the ex-
President seems to feel at the bare prospect
of again being involved in political squab
bles. If his repugnance on this score can
be moderated, he will doubtless receive
almost an unanimous vote in the<Tennessee
Legislature.
“ Just hei'e,” will you allow me to ex
press, for the first time, a political prefer
ence, and vehemently to conjure his Ex
cellency to withdraw his caveat. He will
meet antagonists in the Seuate worthy of
the sharpest steel gaffs he cau put ou. I
should like to see Chandler, of Michigan,
get cut in the craw, and that old blas
phemer and lying “ chronicler” of time,
Browulow, should be made to show Ills peu
feathers and stop crowing, and Sumner,
the gigantic peacock of the barn yard,
stands in great need of seeing his feet.
Besides (to stop allegory), the whining
hypocrite, Wilson,-who cried himself into
tiie Senate, and has been shedding croco
dile tears ever since, will probably be re
placed by the flobby-eyed mud turtle of Big
Bethel. There is no man in the country so
capable of ventilating the “ spoon business”
as Andy. He isn’t afraid to call a spoon a
spoon. He is wanted in the Great Na
tional Forum, and should cheerfully sacri
fice his ease for the public good. .
There is to be what is termed a “ Cabinet
meeting" to-morrow, but it does not follow'
(nor is it necessary) that all, or any of the
Secretaries , should be here in propria persona.
It is probable the President will be on the
spot, but this is by no means certain. An
idea has been started (originating in Boston)
that the being -in Washington of any
of the officials from top to bottom, is not
essential to carrying on the Government.
A Cabinet council can be held as well, it is
urged, through telegraphic dispatches, as
in convivial gatherings at the White House.
According to this theory, all that is neces
sary is that some one perfectly trustworthy
should remain at a given point to receive
and count the votes upon all important
questions. Upon extraordinary occasions,
where the Chief Magistrate desires to con
sult personally with a particular member
of his Cabinet (under the rose), he may slip
away (such are the facilities of the steam
car) to the private residence of the latter,
with a legal adviser, and there settle things
in short time—3.2o—as has been done in
respect to the Spanish and Cuban imbro
glio. And what the odds—whether these
little international entanglements are dis
entangled on the Hudson or the Potomac ?
People need not bother themselves about
the “ removal of the Capital.” It is already
“ removed,” and will be, probably, here
after “ removed ” daily.
As to what will be the subjects discussed
in’this novel manner to-morrow I candidly
confess I am not officially informed. I
have authority, however, for saying that if
anything relating to our ■foreign affairs
should come upon the tapis, Washburne
and Sickles will bo heard from —the latter
through the English and the former'through
the French cable. Some think that a
“ vote will be reached ” upon the vexed
question of the dismissal of Attorney Gen
eral Hoar for the part he took in the Yer
ger compromise (so-called.) Upon inquiry
I find that there is no foundation for this
on dit.
It is merely a matter of charity to ad
vise Radical journals to beware of prema
ture adulations of General Rosecrans, on
accouut of his declining the Democratic
nomination for Governor of Ohio. They
had better wait until they see his formal
letter of declination. A single word in this
connection: It is said that Mr. Vallandig
ham sustained the General’s nomination
upon the ground that if the “Peace Dem
ocrats” 'were to-be required to take a
“ back seat,” what are called the “ War
Democrats” should not lie over zealous to
occupy the front. There is a good deal oi
political philosophy, as well as a sprink
ling of human nature and common sense,
in this view' of things generally.
In talking with a somewhat intelligent
and very liberal Republican to-day, he did
not hesitate’to deprecate the current gath
erings called “ Military Reunions,” &c., as
calculated to keep alive sectional animosi
ty. “ What I fear most,” said he, “is that
by-and-by the thing will become fashion
able, and by no means restricted to our
owh party. Many thousands who were
imprisoned in the bastiies of America,
without cause or provocation, may take
into their heads to unite into something
like these fractional ‘ reunions’—to say
nothing of the surviving Confederate sol
diers of Bull’s Run and like disastrous de
feats of the loyal army.” Upon which I
took the liberty of teiling him his fears
were without foundation, but that his cen
sures upon the practice were no doubt just
aud reasonable, X.
[Correspondence Baltimore Gazatto.
From Washington.
AN IMPORTANT CABINET MEETING —JUDGE
DENT AND THE CONSERVATIVE REPUBLI
CANS OF MISSISSIPPI—RADICAL COM
MENTS—THE COAL TAX—A HINT TO PENN
SYLVANIA.
Washington, August 10.
A thousand rumors are afloat as to what
was done at the Cabinet council to-day. —
The extraordinary influx of officials this
morning excited unusual curiosity, and
gave rise to surmises that matters of vast
importance were to be disposed of. I might
retail what is said to have come up for dis
cussion, but refrain, as nothing has yet (5
o’clock) been elicited from official sources.
Although the subjects considered must
have been of great gravity—(the President,
and no less than four out of the seven Sec
retaries having been summoned personally
to Washington from their recreations) —
still 1 doubt if your telegraphic, dispatches
to-night can contain any important trust
worthy particulars. If the urgent business
of the nation required this hasty gathering
of some of the magnates of the land, an ur
gency of importance would seem to require
their instantaneous dispersion—for long
before the assembling of the conclave (and
but a few moments after the arrival of its
component parts) the thundering of cannon
announced the arrival at the navy yard of
a fleet of Government steamers, to bear
these “ minute men ” to other “ fields of
sport.” The ever ready Tallapoosa (one of
the fleet) will take off Secretary Robeson,
it is said, with a “ party of invited guests.”
Not a man of the Cabinet, perhaps, will lie
in the city later than a few hours after the
“ Cabinet ” adjournment. It has already
been stated that the President leaves at
once. It may, therefore, be inferred that
there is small chance for authentic news
of their doings.
“Judge” Pent is receiving some severe
blows from the Radical press. Speaking
of the status of Mississippi, Harper's
Weekly , in an article much quoted, says:
“ There are very few, and only a very
few, Republicans who have withdrawn to
ally themselves with the Democrats in a
movement called 1 Conservative ’ Republi
canism. This alliance has nominated
JudgeDeut for Governor, whose claim to
be considered a citizen of the State con
sists, as we understand, in the fact that, in
1866, he occupied an abandoned plantation
in Coahoma county* bat his enterprise
proving unsuccessful, lie left the State at
the close of the year.”
It was at one time thought good policy
to elect General Grant’s relations to all im
portant posts at the South. If the follow
ing condition of his Excellency’s mind,
however, is to be relied upon, the value of
his “alliance” should begin to be com
puted and well weighed in the balance.—
The same article, alluding to the status of
Virginia, as contrasted with that of Mis
sissippi, says:
“ The circumstances, however, being ab
solutely different, we warn our friends in
Mississippi that the resemblance must not
lie assumed. The President of the United
States is not likely publicly to declare
himself upon the subject, nor should we
wish him to do so. His sympathy, how
ever, naturally belongs to those who main
tain the principles upon which he was
elected, including that generous disposition
which the Chicago platform expressly as
serts.”
A Radical sheet\here says that the move
ment in favor of the admission of coal
duty free will, in all probability, succeed
at the next session of Congress. The New
York Tribune , also, (which is high protec
tive authority) says: “ Publicly and pri
vately we have urged its admission free of
duty, and expect to do so at every good
opportunity.” These straws show that
Radical leaders despair of carrying Penn
sylvania, and have at last given the coal
monopolists of that State to understand
that the price at which they have been kept
in the traces of “loyalty" is rather too
high, and dangerous to the integrity of
other portions of the country. X.
f From the New York IlerulJ.
England.
ENGLAND AS ENGLISHMEN SEE HER—THE
QUEEN AND HER TOMB—WHY HER MAJES
TY IS UNPOPULAR—PRTNCE AND PRINCESS
OF WALES—GRUMBLINGS OF THE PEOPLE
—SPREAD OF REPUBLICAN IDEAS.
London, July 25,1869.
Have yon. or have any of your readers,
seen anew kind of veil for ladies that has
been introduced in France, and has found
its way to this country, and no doubt is
well known by this time at New York and
in Washington? I allude to a small white,
or nearly white, net, which covers the face,
aud is slightly but artfully tinged with
some kind of tint by which the wearer is
made to look beautiful as to her complexion
and sparkling as to her eyes. The first of
these veils, which it was ever my fortune to
see, was worn by a lady whom I met in a
railway carriage. Being naturally of a
conversational turn, I began talking to this
lady, who through her veil certainly looked
what racing men would call a young twen
ty-five. Presently we arrived at a station
(Swindon, on the Great Western,) where it
seems to be a rule that whether hungry or
not the traveler is bound to partake of re
freshments. The lady with whom I had
bsen traveling followed this rule—if rule it
be—and commenced to prepare for lunch
eon. To do this she was obliged to remove
her veil, and as she did so all pretensions to
youth, or even to middle age, vanished. She
was old—Hot a day under fifty, and “ old at
that” —wrinkled, haggard looking, and with
a very bad complexion, which was very
badly painted.
Need I say that all sympathy with ray
fellow-traveler vanished, and that for the
lest of my journey I was too deeply im
mersed in the limes to engage in any con
versation with her? Not that I dislike
middle aged or even olrl ladies as a rule ;
but 1 hate shams, aud this person was a
sham whose deceit had been discovered.
Now my parable means this. The lady
was England as it now is. The veil was
the covering or nationality which all we
Englishmen look through at our peculiar
institution, aud I represented the mass ot
the British nation. We arc and yet we
are not a practical people. We never ad
mit that we cati be in the wrong. We don’t
think it possible that England can in any
real matter of interest go the bad. We
either will not, or cannot, see things are as
they really are. We believe that our coasts
are impregnable. We think, or make be
lieve $o think, that the people of the coun
try are contented, and that there is no fire
burning underneath, which will, which
must, some day burst forth like a volcano.
We patch and mend and cobble where com
plete and entire renovations are wanted.
“ What is is right” is practically the motto
we have always ou our tongues, and yet we
have but to open our eyes and we should
see that If things are quiet in England it is
but the calm that precedes the storm, and
that, when the storm does burst it will be
all the more terrible because it has been so
long delayed. Let us begin at the top of
the tree.
There was a time, not many years ago,
when her Majesty Queen Victoria was the
most popular sovereign in Europe. She Is
now as unpopular and as much disliked as
any crowned head in the world. And, re
member, I do not speak of the working or
even of the lower, middle classes. Her un
popularity has not got so far down as that,
although it soon will. But among the no
bility of England you never hear a good
word* spoken of her Majesty, but very much
the contrary. The reason for this is that
the Queen has offended the nobility by her
long continued mourning and her determi
nation—which seemingly will end only
with death—not to take any part in the
courtly duties of her station. In fact, there
is no court in England, and what is more,
what is quite exceptional in history, a gen
eration of the nobility in our land has
grown up that knows not the sovereign of
England. To this must be added the fact
th«t since the death of Prince Albert the
Queen does not spend half the money, half
the immense income she is allowed by the
nation, and that her Majesty has now saved
half a million of money or about two mil
lions of dollars, which ought to have been
expended in patronizing art, promoting
trade and contributing to charities. She
does not mix with the people, is rarely or
never seen, even by the highest nobility in
the land, and, except the public business
she is obliged to transact with ministers,
she deputes all duties to the Prince of
Wales, who is, except among the wildest
of the wild yoaug men of the upper classes,
most unpopular in England. He lives, in
every sense of the word, a wild life; and,
unless public rumor is' even more TTn
trufhful than usual, he is by no means the
most faithful of husbands, although mar
ried to one of the most amiable and beauti
ful women in Europe.
The Prince of Wales is, in fact, but a
type of young men of the period. He
smokes hard, drinks hard, lives hard, plays,
is deeply in debt, and has, it is said, many
intimacies with the fair sex which by
no means redound to his credit. The Prin
cess of Wales is much loved, much admired
and much pitied. Need I say more?
The consequences of this state of things is
that society in England is left without a
leader, and, unaccustomed to walk alone, it
makes a great mess o( its attempts to get
along without a guide. Another effect of
the present condition of society in England
is that numbers of the best, ami most wealthy
families never come to London at all, but
remain all the year round at their country
seats, or perhaps the head of the family if a
peer, runs up to town to vote in his place
in the House of Lords* remains at a hotel
so long as any great party question is pend
ing, arid then goes back again. It follows,
as a matter of course, that not nearly, not
half the money that was formerly spent in
London now finds its way among the
tradesmen of the metropolis, and the dis
content caused thereby is very great in
deed. “We have to pay for a court, but
we receive nothing from it“ we support
the Queen, aud she does nothing for trade,”
is what you hear ou every side among
the trading classes. And what is more,
the grumbling not only attaches itself
to the Queen, but also to the nobility.
The peerage no longer commands that re
spect, so to speak, which was formerly paid
to the ofllce of a legislator, although that le
gislator derived his power from a heredita
ry right. There have of late been so many
scandals respecting the money matters, the
private lives and - the general conductor
men in high position that a title has not
the charm it once had for the English pub
lic iu general: In a word—although a
stranger might live,years among ns and not
discover it, tor we don’t like washing our
dirty linen in public—England is very fast
becoming republican in its opinions, and
many years will ncApass before these opin
ions will be no longer kept secret, but
spokeu from the housetops. Not that I
think we shall ever see a physical revolu
tion iu the country, but I aru quite sure we
shall see a moral one—one that will entire
ly overturn many of our existing and time
honored institutions aud will give us anew
start in the family of nations. Yon will
ask how ting change in English ideas has
been brought about. I reply that the man
ner in which our poorer artisans and agri- I
cultural laborers have been forced to emi
grate has by degrees brought its own re
venge upon the wealthy and- titled of'the
land. Wherever or whenever you talk with ,
the working classes (and by this term I
understand all persons, whether educated
or not, who are depending upon their own
labor for their daily bread) you hear the
same remarks. One man has a brother who
is in the States, lie left England three years
ago penniless; he is now well to do and able
to help his friends in England. Another has
a cousin, who sold his furniture in Loudon,
took out the proceeds to America, and upon
it has in two years dug the foundations of
a fortuue. A third, who has for years
been earning a bare pittance at his profes
sion or trade, has gone to New York, made
money, come home to marry the girl he
was engaged to, and will start by next
steamer for Boston. I could, had I the
space, give you the history of some two
persons of my own acquaintance who have,
within the last three years, gone to the
States, and are now doing as well as they did
badly when over here. All this must have
—and it has had—an effect upon the pub
lic mind here ; for, remember it is not only
the poor Englishman who visits the United
States in these days. Not a week ago, Is
was dining in company with a member of
Parliament, a young man, who is heir to a
very large property. He has lately return
ed from America, where he spent six or
seven months. I asked him how he liked
your country. His reply was: “If I had
not the many ties I have in England, I
would sell all my property and go to the Uni
ted States. It is the first country, and the
people are the most hospitable and kind on
the face of the earth. Apart from all ideas
of money-making, I would rather live in
the United States than' in any other land.”
This- was, remember, from a young En
glishman, of good family, with plenty of
money and everything he could possibly
desire in reason; and it is the same with
all.
Men are now only beginuing to see that
a republican government is the surest
guarantee for advancement, and that at the
present day the one only chance which a
man has of getting on in the world is to
live under republican rule.
[COMMUNICATED J
A Sepulchre of the Ages.
Mr. Editor : Doubtless most of your
readers have heard of the Charleston Phos
phates, but few, probably, have any distinct
idea of the nature and extent of the deposits
thus designated, and a brief account of a
recent visit to one of the mines may per
haps prove not only interesting but in
structive.
A pleasant drive up Charleston Neck —a
portion of the way over a fine shell road,
bordered by the fertile and highly culti
vated truck farms, or market gardens, for
which that locality is noted, brought ns
into the neighborhood of the Wando Mines,
situated on the Ashley river, uiue miles
from the city.
We first caught sight of the picturesque
works of the Wando Company from an ele
vation of some twenty feet above High wa
ter, whence the land slopes gradually to
the river brink. Making oitr way over
ground already worked, we come to the
open trench where some fifty or sixty hands
were engaged with picks and spades, laying
bare the precious nuggets—not yellow met
al, to be sure, or even of gold bearing quartz,
but of a mineral destined to prove of more
real value to the State than all the precious
metals within her borders.
The stratum, which varies in thickness
from six to sixteen inches, crops out at the
margin of the river, but at. the opposite
end of the trench, which extends back to
the base of the hill. It lies perhaps eight
inches below the surface. The nodules
which the men were throwing out (popu
larly called “ phosphate rocks,” and known
in more scientific parlance as “conglom
erates,” “ corprolites,” and “silicious
boulders”) were of all sizes, from that of a
nut to a foot or more in diameter; irregu
lar in shape, but bearing a strong general
resemblance to each other; water-worn
and perforated in all directions with holes,
large and small. A fresh fracture of one of
these nodules discloses the forms of fossil
shells and bones,similar to those found in the
marl bed below, and when broken or rubbed
together they emit a fa?ted odor. They
nre embedded in sand and clay, in some
places packed very closely together, and in
others more sparsely interspersed. The
bones and teeth of extinct animals are occa -
sionally thrown up with them. The
nodules are thrown into large heaps, as
they are taken from the mines, whence,
after drying awhile, they are conveyed in
small cars, running on a tram-way, to the
washer; here, by means of an ingenious
apparatus, driven by steam, the rocks
are thoroughly washed and thrown out
upon a platform, ready to be conveyed to
the wharf and shipped to the manufactory
in the city.
Such is a rough outline (the principal
points only touched) of what I saw oil the
occasion referred to at that particular spot.
To give the reader an idea of the magni
tude and importance, as well as the inter
esting character of this new source of
wealth now opened to the State and to the
whole South, it will be necessary to take a
more general view of the subject.
The phosphate rocks, now proved sus
ceptible of being transmuted—not literally
and directly into gold—but into cotton
and corn, and thus into greenbacks, have
been familiar not only to the planters who
turned them up in their cotton fields, the
cultivation of which they obstructed, but
also to men of science, for half a century
at least; but no one till lately seems to
have suspected their real value. The marls
in the vicinity of Charleston, however,
were known to be exceedingly valuable on
account of the large per centage of phos
phate of lime which they contain. The
digging of these marls led to the discovery
of that great bed of fossils known to geolo
gists as the Charleston fish basin, and
indirectly to an appreciation of the value
of the phosphatie nodules.
The phosphate bed underlies a large ex
tent of country. The stratum crops out
on the banks of the Ashley, Ashepoo and
Combahee rivers, but is most heavily de
veloped on the first-named. The rock has
been found forty miles inland, and it is es
timated that in some instances an acre of
land will produce 500 tous of the rocks.
In this region—the great Charleston ba
sin—are found the most wonderful remains
of extinct animals. There are quantities
of bones, mostly of fishes and reptiles, many
of which were of gigantic size, such as the
Megalonyx and the Saurian. The bones
and teeth of the shark are also numerous.
Some o' the latter, perfectly preserved, are
of enormous size, weighing from two to
two and a half pounds, and as large as a
man’s hand. Bones of other fish and land
animals are also found; in fact, we seem to
have opened here one of the great tombs of
the ages, in which the remains of thousands
of generations are jumbled up together.
The phosphate nodules themselves seem to
be a conglomerate of shells and bones em
beded in silicious rock, which when broken,
shows their forms very distinctly; and ana
lysis gives from 50 to 70 per cent, of phos
phate of lime, and from 6 to 7 per cent, of or
ganic matter—in fact,.their composition is
almost precisely that of recent bones depriv
ed of the greater part of their organic matter.
It is plain, then, that we hove here in large
quantities the basis for just the fertilizer
the Southern planter or farmer needs to re
store his worn out lands, and to preserve
his fresher soils in all their pristine fer
tility. This is no longer a mere matter of
theory.
The fertilizer of the Wando Mining aud
Manufacturing Company lias now been
thoroughly tested, and is. shown to be not
merely equal to the best of the standard
commercial manures made elsewhere, but,
especially in sustaining the plant against
drought and promoting the early maturity
of the crops, (vitally important considera
tions,) superior to them all. Having seen
something of its effects upon various kinds
of crops, I am not surprised to learn that
it is gaining favor wherever known. Hav
ing for its base the phosphate rock of the
Charleston Basin, and being ammoniated,
rendered soluble, and combined with al
kaline salts, itTorms a concentrated mix-'
ture which can be made immediately and
fully available as plant food.
“ Agricola.”
A Good Old Age.— The Nashville Ban
ner says a negro called Lucy Thurman is
alive, healthy and able to walk, in Albany,
Kentucky, who, by indubitable records,
was born in Hanover, Va., in 1750, and is
nqjv 119 years old.
[From the Round-Table. <
Indecent Women.
We want Olive Logan to stand back,
please, and to hide her diminished head in
die cloud of tarnished obscuritw whlqh
must fall upon her now. Let lmr take a
backseat—leave the front ranks if brazen
sensationalism, and*retire to the tear ifttb
drooping wings aud abashed pen;|for there
are yOtfinore audacious ch.unpioiilof inde
cency, who take the banner of fboldness
Iroin out her hands, and assume the coin
mand of this most forlorn hope. J-
Who will dare to doubt now but that we
are makiyg fearful strides ? Here is an
evidence of it unblushingly printed apd
published in a late issue of a sheet which,
unless more decently conducted, m4st sooner
or later gather to itself all nnnatqral, mor
bid and corrupt productions. We mean
the Revolution :
“ The true idea is tor the sexes to .dress
as nearly alike as possible. We have seen
several ladies dressed precisely lire gentle
men, who appeared far more elegant afcd
graceful tfikn any than we even saw.
young lady in Fifth aVenue dressed in nine
costume for years, traveling alj over Eqt
rope and this country. She says it would
have been impossible to havei seen anjl
knowu as much of life in woman’s attire,
and to have felt the independence and se
curity she did, had-her sex been proclaimed
before all Israel and the sun.”
We are sorry for that graceful and ele
gant young lady in Fifth avenue, who has
seen and known so much oflife in Euro
pean cities, and every man who reads this
article will be sorry for her as well; for
who, indeed, would like to have on record
that his daughter, or wife, or sister, or the
woman who holds his heart in the hollow
of her hand, should have been familiarized
with the sight of those myriad harvest
fields of Satan which abound in all coun
tries, and through which men pass, know
ingly or unknowingly, on the dangerous
journey of “ seeing life ?”
If a woman so far forgets her sex, through
a derangement of intellect, or a morbid
fanaticism, or an inordinate craving for the
forbidden, or through natural depravity
and inclination to evil, or to adopafeascu
linc attire, then we maintain that must
per-forceflnd herself on that platform which
to women who are women must always re
main a terra incognita. She must, we repeat it,
come into contact with the direful ingenui
ties of abandonment which the devil’s in
spilation begets in human minds for the de
struction of souls.
We believe the hardest stone flung at the
dead body of Adah Isaacs Menken by her
sisters was, that it was a frequent custom
of hers to “ see life ” in Paris disguised in
-male attire. They were infinitely more
severe ou her for this than for her naked
performance as Mazeppa. And yet look at
the absurd inconsistency of these Woman’s
Rights advocates. They howl over the
scant drapery of the British blondes, which
could not have been so offensive as the
Menken in Mazeppa, and in the same
breath they insanely insist on clothing
them in a costume which is a far greater
challenge to impurity and insuit, when
worn by a woman, than any stage toilette
ever devised.
We may be accused of using strong lan
guage; but we insist that no'language is
sufficiently forcible to express our disrelish
—our disgust—to the theories put forth in
Mrs. Stanton’s article on “ Woman’s Dress,”
and it is truly time to use strong words, if
strong language has any efficacy, when
such reading matter as that is put into the
hands of hundreds of innocent girls aDd
women whose modesty is their chiefest
glory. We do hope the whole thing Da
jest, even though it would be but sorry wit;
and we will eagerly apologize and prompt
ly retract our accusations if. the Revolution
ladies explain it as such, and ouly tell us
what the point is and where the laugh
comes in. We confess We see no joke in it
as it lies.
Long enough has the innate, chivalrous
courtesy of man towards woman tolerated
this nuisance, and too long has the almighty
Press been playful and made small joke's ou
the antics of these mistaken women, among
the whole crowd of whom there is not —we
are ungallant and truthful enough to say
it—one solitary case of real, undiluted
genius; not one with the unmistakable
stamp of brain, or the bountiful dbrine tire
of originality. No, not one, even if they
should eat opium, and rant end write
driveling pruriencies until the earth should
wither; not even though our gifted Presi
dent, (save the mark !)' wlio is an acknow
ledged and world-renowned authority on
literary subjects, should over and over
shake bauds with them, and deokue his
entire approval and admiration of their
writings, as he did the other day to one of
their great guns at Long Branch—under
protest, however, and in a state of most
evident and pitiable terror.
Who has not seen a big Newfoundland
dog dozing peacefully, unmindful of the
belligerent barking of an insignificant little
poodle, who persisted in rending the air
with shrill bravado, but never disturbing
the placidity of the superior animal, who,
supremely conscious of his superiority and
strength, reclines quietly, never stirring be
yond an occasional half-playful down stroke
of his ponderous paw, arrested into gentle
ness half wav, lest its weight might crush
the little noisy torment? But should the
little dog, by force of its own insensate
yelping, bring on itself hydrophobia, and
be a thing of danger to other little dogs,
the great paw is strong and steady enough
to crush and silence.
*Nbw, the Revolution is a very little dog
indeed, but it is showing dangerous symp
toms, and all the great dogs are not dead
yet, and perhaps some of our big dailies
may put their paws on ic.
Ecuador —Earthquakes—Civil War—
Military Executions.— Panama, July 31,
1869.—Earthquakes continue to be felt
along the coast and through the interior.
On the 21st of July, at half-past 7, p. m., a
sharp shock was experienced at Guayaquil.
At half-past 9, p. m., on the same day it
was felt at Payta, and at midnight quite a
severe shock was experienced at Callao.—
In no case, however, was any harm done.
On the 23d ancL 24th of julv a heavy
shower of ashes fell over the city of Guaya
quil, which was supposed to proceed from
the old volcano, Pichinchi, on the side of
the hill containing which is situated the
city of Quito. This volcano and that of
Cotapaxi have both been in a state of ac
tive corruption recently.
Mr. E. P. Larkin, the Superintendent of
the Petroleum Oil Company at Tumbes,
near Payta, lias come up on the present
steamer en route for New York.
On the 10th of July a decree was issued at
Quito by the National Convention declar
ing the republic in a s'ate of war, and in
vesting the Executive with the necessary
power to save the country from the pirati
cal invasion with which it is threatened;
and the General-in-Chief, Gabriel Garcia
Moreno, lias been called intp active service
and invested with all the powers delegated
to the Executive. ■ ' '-■*-• 19
On the 18t.h Captains Jose Mafia Cabera
and Pablo Nieto were sentenced to be shot
by a military court martial for the part
they took in the revolutionary movement
on (lie 19th of March. The sentence was
carried into effect on the 19th inst., at 5
p. in., when the unfortunate men were shot
in fiont of the barracks, their companion
in prison, Capt. Fernandez, against whom
there was not sufficient evidence to con
vict, being sentenced to be present and wit
ness the execution.
The country is in a terrible state and the
stiictcst despotism reigns everywhere.
1 lie earthquake, which has been rioting
around Cairo for a couple of months, visited
its old haunt near New Madrid, Mo the
other day and opened a frightful chasm in
the earth, into which the
emptied its flood with the r»ar of a lnurb
cane. The most severe earthquake ever
known in the United St.-d.es occurred in the
same locality ih 1811. Jiat barticu
la rJocaHty should be the favorite Isold of
Jf^ kes . se^ ns ln no wav remarkable
to perils whofiavc visited It. T*e coun
try lias every appearance of suitably
for earthquakes, and lor very little eisA
A Steamboat on a me
chanic in Memphis has produced k plan for
t nirr r n Bte r boßt ’ he claims
to use -n e speecl of MJ 4 one now
in use, while it will cost little n»re than
athalf O t. P hC Okl Plan / 11 ca « a7oberun
SSSmA , expense labor, anp fuel. It
IV! and and ? to compartment, \vater and
air tight, and cannot be snaiafttl so as to
sink. F'rc l„ the hold can tJSned to 2
and wili he readily ex
tinguished by steam, for which suitable ap
paratus is provided. “ p
Idaiyn.
15V ft MM A. ALICE BROWNE.
Forever,’as (he low winds cry.
And the sad sunsets hlooui and fade,
And shape of beauty wanders liy—
The phantom ota soul betrayed !
She weeps—not that the votive throne,
Like pale idolaters, shall pour
Libations ofdiviuesl son"
Upon her ruined shrine no more !
For in the dark world of her dreams,
O’erswcpt by homeless wind and wave
Athwart the awful shadow gleams
The phantasm of a nameless grave :
Dead ! in the glory of his years!
She walks the desolate place of tombs
Girt by the unresting sea of tears,
Or Winter raves, or Summer blooms.
For her the blossom never wakes,
Nor morning lifts her sunbright wing;
Only a cold white splendor breaks,
And Winter fades in drearier Spring.
But ah, she hides her guilty face,
And weeps amid her fallen pride,
When fthUigbtdWMps with tender grace
The lqJt gravaculhe suicide !
| Prom the Utah Daily Reporter, July 24.
A Mormon Sensation.
THE SONS OF JOSEPH SMITH PROPOSE TO
DISESTABLISH BRIGHAM’S PET INSTITU
TION—BRIGHAM BLASPHEMES THE “ ELECT
LADY OF GOD.”
A few dayrfiiagffV? mentioned the fact
that William Alexander and David Hirum,
the younger sous <sf JoSjph Smith, the Mor
mon prophet, were on their way to Salt
Lake City to set up the standard of thetre
cognized or anti-polygamy church. A sin
gular interest attaches to the name of Da
vid Hyruno. A few months before Joseph’s
death he stated that “ the man was not
born who was to lead this people, but of
Emma Smith should be bora a son who
would succeed in the Presidency after a
season ot disturbance.” Joseph Smith was
killed June 27, 1844, and the son, named
from his father’s direction, David Hyrum,
was born at the Mansion House in Nauvoo,
on the 17th of the succeeding November,
This prophecy is secretly dear to thousands
of Mormons who are weary of the tyranny
of Brigham Young, and yet hold to their
faith in Joseph Smith. A few days ago
the young men reached Salt Lake City, and
soon called upon Brigham Young and an
nounced their intention to organize their
church at once, asking permission to de
fend their faith in the Tabernacle, propos
ing to argue with the Brighamites from the
original Mormon books.
We have but scant reports of the inter
view, but it is said to have been very warm.
Brigham was very angry at their presump
tion, and denied them the use of the Taber
nacle, sending word at the same time to
the Bishops to shat them out of the ward
meeting houses. The brothers, at one point
of the conversation, denied that their father
ever 'practiced polygamy, citing their
■ mother's testimony; to which Brigham re
torted that their mother “ was a liar and
had been proven a thief,” with much more
of the sort. Be it remembered that the
lady thus spoken of is the Electa Cyr:a, or
“Elect Lady of God,” in Mormon theology,
who was the glory of their early history.
Like Pope Pagan, of the “Pilgrim’s Pro
gress,” Brigham doubtless gnaws his nails
in vain rage that he cannot, as in former
times, let loose the vengeance of his Nauvoo
Legion upon these sectarians and crush the
rebellion in blood. If his power were now
equal to his feelings, we should have re
peated the story of the Morrisites, when a
high civil functionary of Utah led the
Legion in broad day to slaughter men and
women who had surrendered themselves
prisoners. But nothing more than petty
persecutions will be attempted at this late
day, and we earnestly hope the young men
will succeed in their enterprise. Os their
religious principles as opposed to Brig
hamism \vg know little, but recognize in
them tolerant men, good citizens, and loyal
subjects of the United States.
The Chicago Triumph of Surgical
Skill. —A singular operation was recently
performed by a physician of our city which,
in its character and results, is the most ex
traordinary and successful surgical feat
that can be found in the records of Ameri
can surgery. The facts of the case are
briefly these: Sometime since, Mrs. J. B.
Childs came to this city from Lee Centre,
111., to visit some friends on Sau’gamon
street. During her visit she began to suf
fer from an olcl rupture, which for several
years had been a source of pain and con
stant trouble. This attack was so severe
that she was obliged to summon medcial
aid, but the physician not relieving the suf-.
sering of the afflicted woman, he was dis
missed, and Dr. L. Dodge summoned, who
at once recognized the true condition of
his patient, and requested that a surgeon
be called. In the examination which fol
lowed it was revealed that the intestine in
volved in the rupture had mortified, and
the only chance which remained of saving
the life of the sufferer was to perform the
delicate operation of removing that part of
the intestine which had undergone decom
position, and afterward secure the extremi
ties of the sound intestine, thus restoring
the natural passages. This dangerous and
difficult operation was successfully per
formed, and four feyt and a half of the in
testiut»were taken from the patient’s body.
Afteed|ftiting the sound part of the intes
tine *<llo abdomen was carefully stitched
up, and for several days the patient was
kept jn a perfectly quiet condition, and
fed upon liquid diet. Fourteen days have
.elapsed since the operation was success
fully performed, and the lady has so far
recovered as to be able to walk about in
Iter room, and is allowed a generous diet,
which is heartily relished.
f Chicago Republican.
Boston Shoe and Leather Market.—
In the boot and shoe market there has been
a brisk movement during the past week,
and the shipments of goods have been un
pvccedently large, amounting to some fifty
thousand cases, which is fully two thousand
in excess of the corresponding week last
year. These heavy shipments are due to
the decline in through freight charges to
the South and West, which has induced
manufacturers to hurry up. their work and
dispatch orders placed with them early in
the season. The Western jobbing trade,
which has been holding'back for some time
past, is now fairly represented in this mar
ket, and buyers are operating quite freely
and apparently with more confidence. The
stock of heavy goods, at the opening of the
season, was very large, but it has been con
siderably reduced of late, and the prospect
now is that all the work made up will be
wanted. But manufacturers are disposed
to be cautions and wait for ciders. The
jobbing trade has not yet started up to any
extent, and small dealers from the interior
are late in the market. The leather market
is dull, and, with considerable accumula
tion of stocks, prices of nearly all grades
of rough upper are lower. Sole leather is
quiet and steady. Shoe manufacturers are
sending off large quantities of goods, but
rather slacking up on the production.
[Boston Commercial Bulletin, Aug. 7.
Compulsory Education in Connecti
cut.—Connecticut, which has as good a
common school system as there is in the
United States, now virtually compels chil
dren to avail themselves of its advantages.
The last General Assembly passed a law
which requires three lponlhs’ of schooling
each year as the legal condition of employ
ing minors under fourteen yeiy;* of age. If
any manufacturer or othi*r person shall
hire a minor contrary to the provision of
the law he forfeits one hundred, dollars to
the State treasury for offense: The
schools of the State are free to all, and-now
the poorest people are compelled to educate
their-children, since their employment is
absolutely conditioned uiion such educa
tion. It is noted that the manufacturers
throughout the State cordially approve of
the new law, and only a few laboring men
oppose it.
A Tennesseean has invented a machine
fqycleailwiy cotton, which takes the bolls
just as they tire gathered, and converts
them by a single process, into a ribbon of
snnn cotton, composed of filaments laid
parallel to one another, and in much better
condition than cotton prepared in the old
fashioned way.
Ostrich Modesty.—A few days since a
party of ladles at Stretford, Conn., essayed
a bath at the beach. While frolicking amid
the waters, a boat load of men came sailing
by, and one of the naiads becoming fright
ened, made for the shore, throwing her
skirts up over her head, like unto the pur
sued ostrich.
[From the At'auta Era.
The Educational Convention.
SECOND DAY.
The convention met yesterday morning
at, nine o’clock. President Tucker in the
chair.
The minutes of the last session, were read
and approved.
W. G. Whidby was made a member of
the Association.
General John B. Gordon and Rev. David
Burkhart were also made members.
The special order of the-morning was
then taken up. This was Mr. Martin V.
Calvin’s report upon popular education, to
gether with a resolution offered by Prof.
G. J. Orr, inquiring into the best plan for
educating the masses, white and black.
The resolution was published yesterday.
Professor Orr spoke flrst, and urged his
resolution at some length.
Professor Mallon followed in a good ar
gument in favor of popular™! ucation.
Business suspended to admit Prof. S. P.
Sanford, S. M. Smith and G. F. Cox.
Business further suspended, and Prof.
Bonnell introduced a resolution that when
the convention adjourns, it adjourn to meet
in Macon on the 17th of November.
Prof. Mallon suggested Savannah. With
drawn, and Mr. Bonnell’s resolution adopt
ed.
Prof. Orr’s resolution was so amended
as to require the committee to report to
the Association at its convention in Macon.
On motion of General John B. Gordon,
it was further amended so as to require the
committee to report to the Executive Com
mitte, and the latter to report upon the
former report, submitting both to the con
vention in Macon. Adopted.
The resolution as amended was adopted.
The President instructed the Treasurer
to pay Jwo dollars to Pat Fitzgibbon,
keeper of the City Hall, for his attentions
to the convention.
The committee appointed to report on
Prof. Willett’s report, through Prof. Orr,
recommended its adoption and publication.
Adopted.
Mr. Calvin’s report was referred to the
committee raised under Professor Orr’s
resolution.
Dr. Means introduced a resolution in
viting lady teachers to become members of
the Association, and lend their aid in the
work. Adopted.
Prof. Orr presented the report of the
committee appointed to select subjects for
committee reports to the next meeting, of
the Association. The following subjects
were recommended:
The comparative merits of the two sys
tems of teaching Orthography, by oral and
by written recitations.
Is uniformity of text books throughout
the State desirable and practicable?
The best system of school discipline.
The best system of college discipline.
Success in teaching the Mathematics.
The modern method of teaching the an
cient languages, by applying the principles
of Grammar as soon as learned, in progres
sive lessons.
How many hours per diem should chil
dren be confined to study in school, and
how'should these hours be distributed ?
Should the sexes be separated, or taught
together during the course of their educa
tion ?
School architecture and school furniture.
The system of graded schools.
Should the pupils of common schools be
required to prepare their lessons at home
or in school ?
Should the infliction of corporeal punish
ment in the schools be in public or iu pri
vate ?
The best method of enforcing neatness.
The report was adopted.
On motion of Prof. James, thanks were
returned to Messrs. Phillips & Crew for
furnishing the Association with stationery
free of charge; to the City Council for the
use of the hall, and to Patrick Fitzbibbon
for his attention to the body.
By Prof. Willett—
Resolved, That the reports and papers
which may be submitted to the Publishing
Committee, be published by the committee
in such way as will give such matter t.he
widest diffusion without expense to the
convention. Carried.
Gen. John B. Gordon, in a brief address,
presented the claims of a series of school
books published by Richardson & Cos., of
New York.
Dr. Means moved to appoint as many
committees on text-books as may be neces
sary, reports to be made at the next annual
meeting. Adopted.
Mr. Woodbury, in behalf of the Tennes
see Educational Convention, extended an
invitation to the. convention to visit the
former on Lookout Mountain next week.
By Mr. Mallon—
Resolved , That the next annual meeting
of the convention be held in Savannah, on
the first Tuesday in May, 1870. Adopted.
A committee was appointed to ask the
Legislature for an appropriation of
dollars to defray the expenses of the Asso
ciation.
The thanks of the Association were tend
ered to Mr. Woodbury for his invitation.
Thanks were also tendered to President,
Secretary, Railroads, city papers, etc.
The convention then adjourned to meet
in Macon on the 17th of November.
Breaking Up of the Macon Banditti.
The Macon Telegraph , of the 11th, says :
Within the last few days the city police
have arrested two of a gang of negro bandit
ti organized in this city about three years
ago for the sole purpose of conducting a gert
oral robbing, thieving, and plundering busi
ness in this and neighboring States. Five of
the gang have been arrested within the
last few months. Their names are Bob
Wagnon, Levi Shepherd, Willis Brown,
Burwell Rhodes, and Henry Conley, alias
Shop Hudgins. They have been nearly all
over the States of Georgia and South
Carolina, and have perpetrated some of the
blackest and most damnable crimes known
to the criminal code.
Burtwell Rhodes, who was arrested here
on Saturday last, acknowledges to have
stolen from a jeweler in Charleston, S. C.,
fifteen watches and a lot. of jewelry, last
month, and it was a portion of this lot'of
watches and jewelry that was found in his
possession at the time of his arrest. He
says he sold the balance along the railroad,
when making his way from Charleston to
this city. He admits that he is a member
of the gang of villains to ivhich we have
referred, and it was by his companions that
our police were advised of the presence in
this city of Henry Conley, another member
of the gang. Henry had taken a temporary
“ sit” as waiter at the Lanier House, anil
as soon as he learned that Col. Cummings,
Chief of Police, wanted to see him, he
bounded out at a back window of the din
ing room and made for the swamp. Col.
C. immediately procured a horse, and start
ing several policemen in different directions
to head off the rascal, gave him hot pursuit
on his horse, and iie was captured before
he got to the woods. When caught he had
a few days’ provisions concealed about him.
Henry once belonged to Mr. Bart. Hudgins,
of .Tones county, and is the chap that, stole
a mule from that gentleman last, mouth.
Wiley Thomas and Lewis Travis, two
more of the gang, and about the worst in
the lot, are now figuring in South Carolina;
but it is believed that Travis has been
arrested in Charleston, and is nowin jail
there for stealing a fine watch. It will be
remembered that at the time of his arrest,
the Captain of the Police in that city ad
dressed a letter to Colonel Cummings, noti
fying him of the arrest, and describing the
negro and property, which letter we pub
lished in the Telegraph. Bnnvell Rhodes
says Wiley and Lewis are both in Charles
ton, and that they perpetrated a heavy
robbery, not long since, in Aiken, S. C.
It was a member of this same gang who
recently raped a white girl iu one of the
northern counties of the State, and for
whom a large reward has been offered.
For nearly two years this gang of in
fernal scoundrels have prowled about the
country, from place to place, perpetrating
all manner of crimes and villainies; but
justice at last is overtaking them, and one
by one the scoundrels are being arrested.
Only two or three more of the gang are at
large, but they are known, and will be
caught and punished as sure as fate. The
people of Macon will rejoice to learu that
the banditti is well-nigh broken up; for they
have sulfered a vast amount within the
last three years from their depredations-
A Heai.thy City. —The Rome Commer
cial, speaking of health, says that out of a
population of 8,000, which that city now
boasts, it does, not know of one case of real
sickness, and that there has been but one
death there in the past month.
BY TELEGRAPH,
[Aigociated Cress DUpu'ches.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, August Iff- -Noon. -Doubts
regarding the Christian name of his suc
cessor, enabled the resignation of the Mis
sissippi District Attorney, Adams, to lie
received, pending IPs resignation.
Washington," August Iff—P. M.--E. C.
Bainbridge lias been appointed Postmaster
at Old Point Comfort, Va.
The War and Navy Departments have
transferred to the Treasury Department the
power to contract for the recovery of all
vessels, both Confederare and Federal,
sunk during the war iu Southern and other
waters. The entire matter has been as
signed by the Secretary to the division of
captured and abandoned property in his
office.
Revenue to-day, half a million dollars.
NEW YORK.
Buffalo, August 12.—Goldsmith’s Maid
won the ten thousand dollar trot in three
straight heats, beating American girl and
Geo. Palmer. Time: 2:19%, 2:19% and
2:19%, being the fastest aggregate time
ever made.
New \ ork, August Iff. —Barlow has a
company of United States soldiers at his
office, to resist any attempt to arrest him
for contempt in violating McCann’s order
relative to Pratt.
An evening paper says it is rumored
J udge McCann has directed the sheriff to
call out his posse, if necessary, to enforce
the order of the court discharging Pratt.—
It is rumored that the 09th regiment has
been ordered under arms to enforce the
sheriff’s authority. Judge McCann will
do all in Ms power to avoid a breach of the
peace, but will sustain the dignity of the
court at all hazards. Gen. Barlow is con
fident that he has sufficient force at Ms
command to resist any attempt to res
cue the prisoner. A collision seems in
evitable.
TEXAS.
Galveston, August 13. —The British
brig Hannah Lizzie, Ferguson, master,
from Liverpool to Galveston, went ashore
on North breakers, at midnight, on the
lltli, and tilled with water yesterday. She
is probably a total loss. The crew are
safe.
Worms have appeared in cotton on a
number of farms along the Guadaloupe
and San Marios rivers, but few have ap
peared iu uplands.
CALIFORNIA.
San Francisco, August 13.—A conven
tion has been called to nominate indepen
dent candidates for municipal offices.—
Never, since Vigilance Committee days,
has there been so much interest in munici
pal affairs. There is unusual stringency in
money, and mining stocks are completely
demoralized. The bottom of the market
seems to be falling out.
VIRGINIA.
Richmond, August 13.—A riot occurred
between the whites and blacks at Heath
ville, Northumberland county, in which a
sailor killed a negro. The sailor was
committed to jail, and at night was rescued
by the whites. Canby has sent a detach
ment of troops to that point.
ALABAMA.
Montgomehy, August 13.—Two more
bales of cotton, of the new crop, were re
ceived early this morning—one raised in
Lowndes.-county, and one in this.county;
one bale to be expressed immediately to
Lehman, Bros., New York.
FOREIGN.
Parts, August 13.—The Emperor signed
several decrees of amnesty for press and
political offenses.
Havana, August 13.-—The Juniata ar
rived yesterday. All qualities of sugar
have slightly declined.
Madrid, August Iff.— Estavtus, at the
head of 500 Carlists, entered Spain from
France at Puigcerda. The entry of other
bands at various points is expected. There
is considerable excitement at Malaga, ow
ing to the Republican movement there.
London, August 13.—A yacht race of
45 miles, for Ryde Town Plate, valued at
£IOO, took place. Yachts engaged, and
time: Oimara, sfi. 19m.; Aline, sh. 24m.;
Guinivere, sh. 34m.; Egera, sh. 39m.; Con
dor, sh. 57m. The Egera won the plate by
allowance of time.
MARKETS.
London, August 13—Noon.—Money,
92,%. Bonds, 83%. Sugar quiet.
Liverpool, August 13—2,[P. M.—Cotton
active; uplands, 13%; Orleans, 13%; sales,
15,000 bales ; stock afloat, 676,000 bales, of
which 19,000 bales are American.
Liverpool, August 13—Afternoon.—
Breaclstuffs firm. Red Wheat, 10s. 2d.@los.
3d. Lard, 755. Pork, 102s. 6cl.
Liverpool, August 13—Evening.—Cot
ton active ;• uplands, 13 ; Orleans, 13% ;
sales, 12,000; for the week, 75,000; exports,
16,000; speculation, 10,000; stock, 250,000,
of which 123,000 are American; total stock,
15,000 more than estimated, while American
of the week is 10,000 less.
New York, August 13—Noon—Money
steady at 6@7. Sterling,9%. Gold, 134%.
’62’s, 23%; Virginias, old, 58 ; new, 60%;
Louisianas, old, 71%; Levees, 64%; Ten
nessees, ex-coupon, 61%; new, 51%.
New York, August 13—P. M.—Govern
ments closed steadier; ’62’s, 23%; South
erns heavy. Money, 6@7. Sterling con
tinues dull at 9%<910. Gold dull at 134%.
Stocks unsettled.
New 1 t ork, August 13—Noon.—Flour
more active and sc. better. Wheat I@2
better. Corn dull. Pork quiet; mess,
$33 12%. Lard firm; steam, 20%@20%.
Cotton firm at 33%. Turpentine firm at
43%@44. Rosin —strained, $2 30@2 35.
Freights firm.
New York, August 13—P. M.—Cotton
firm; good demand; sales, 2,500 bales at
33%. Flour active; shipping brauds ad
vanced; superfine, $5 95@6 35; Southern,
$6 95@7 45. Wheat 2<g3 better; more dot
ing for export; Winter red Western, $1 70
<3l 75. Corn rather heavy; mixed West
ern, $1 15@1 17. Pork steady. Lard
firmer; kettle, 20%. Whisky, $1 12%®
1 13%. Rice—fair request; Carolina, 8%
®9%.~ Sugar less active. Coffee firm.—
Molasses dull. Turpentine, 43%@44. —
Rosin, $2 30(38. Freights firm.
Baltimore, August 13.—Cotton steady.
Flour—fair business but scarcely so firm.
Wheat lower; receipts large; red $1 60(9
1 65. Corn —white, $1 09; yellow, $1 15.
Oats, 60. Mess Pork $34934 25. Shoul
ders, 10%; hams, 24(925. Lard, 19%@
20%. Whisky firm at $1 13. Virginias,
old, 48 bid ; 48% asked.
Louisville, August 13.—Provisions very
firm. Mess Pork, $34. Bacon—shoulders,
16; clear sides, 19%. Lard, 20%<922. —
Whisky, $1 08.
Cincinnati, August 13.—Whisky, $1 08.
Provisions firm. Pork, $33 50. Lard, 20,
neither ottered freely at quotations. Bacon
firm.
Wilmington, August 13—Spirits Tur
pentine, 39. Rosin, $1 55(94 50. Crude
Turpentine unchanged. Tar, $2 25.
Weather clear and warm. Wind, S. S. E.
Thermometer, 81.
Mobile, August 13—Cotton.—Receipts
of the week, 122; exports coastwise, 745;
stock, 371; sales, 565; sales to-day, 75;
. closed quiet; low middling, 30; receipts,
44 bales; exports, 90.
New Orleans, August 13— Flour—Su
perfine, $5 75; double, $6 50; treble, $6 62%.
Com dull; mixed, $1; white, $1 05. Oats
firmer at 65. Bran, sl. Hay dull at $29.
Pork, $35 50. Bacon quiet but firm at 17,
19% and 20; hams, 23025. Lard firm;
tierce, 20%; keg, 22023. Sugar—common,
11012; prime, 14014%. Molasses dull;
re boiled, 60@70. Whisky, $1 12%®1 15.
Coffee dull; fair, 15015%; prime, 16%0
16%. Cotton—receipts for the week, gross,
1,037 bales ; net, 366 bales; exports—Havre,
1,921 bales; coastwise, 788 bales; sales,
1,601 ba'es; stock, 1,449 bales; sales to
day, 399 bales; low middling, 30030%;
receipts, 121 bales; exports coastwise"7
bales. Gold, 133%. Sterling, 48%. New
York Sight, %®% premium.
Savannah, August 13.—Cotton—Re
ceipts, 8 bales.
Charleston, August 13.—Cotton quiet;
sales, 56 bales; middling, 31%; receipts,
none; exports coastwise, 5 bales.
Local News.
Ihe New Railroad Bridge.—Onera
tions are in lively progress on the prepara
tory work or the Charlotte, Columbia and
August,a Railroad bridge,'across the Sa
vannah river at the loot or Washington
street. Several car loads or granite have
been received from the Batesville quarries
near the line of Edgegold and Lexington,
B. < -, for the construction of the stone
piers to support the structure. Mr. W.
Murdoch, contractor for the masonry has
a force busily engaged in excavation’, the
budding of a caison dam, aud the sinking
of a frame at the point selected for the
location of the first pier iu the bed of the
river from the Georgia shore. A centri
fugal pump has been put in operation, hav
ing a capacity to discharge 1,200 gallons of
water per minute, and yet it is apparent
that a pump of still greater capacity will
be required to exhaust the water within
the dam to a point which will admit of
undisturbed excavation for a foundation.
The bridge, we learn, is to be of the
“ How Truss” patent, of five spans, 180 feet
each in length, making the extreme length
from abutment to abutment 900 feet. It is
to be supported on four stone piers, built
from the bed of the river, and abutments at
each end of the same material; aud will,
when completed, rank with the best and
most approved railroad bridges, North or
South, in point of safety and durability.
The contract for the erection of the super
structure has been taken by Mr. Renno, of
North Carolina, whose reputation as a suc
cessful bridge builder is so generally ac
knowledged. It is contemplated that, with
favorable weather, the entire work will be
completed by the flrst of January.
DnuMMEns Arrested in Charleston.
—On Tuesday last, as we learn from the
News, Mr. John Blundell, traveling agent
for the liquor house of G. B. Powell & Cos.,
of Philadelphia, and Mr. Geo. W. Palmer,
traveling agent for the liquor hqpse of Geo.
W. Bayaud, of New York, were arrested
in Charleston, for violation of the city or
dinance, requiring traveling agents and
itinerant salesmen to take out a license be
fore offering goods for sale by sample, pat
tern, or otherwise. They were before the
Mayor for trial qp Wednesday, when Mr.
Blundell, pleading ignorance of the law,
was allowed to pay a tax of |3 per hun
dred on an order taken by him for S2OO in
goods. Mr. Palmer flanked the authorities
by exhibiting a permit from Mantoue &
Cos., city merchants, to solicit in their
name, as agents of the house he represent
ed. The arresting officers stated that they
believed Mr. Palmer obtained the permit to
solicit after he had been informed of the
arrest of Mr. Blundell. The Mayor thought
the whole affair very suspicions, and that
way of doing business a very good plan to
defraud the government, but as he could
not discredit the statement made by a
member of the firm of Mantoue & Cos., that
they were agents of the house Mr. Palmer
represented, he must believe it all fair and
legitimate; but would require Col. Simons,
counsel, to make out legal papers, showing
that this business was legitimate, before he
would pass upon the case.
Georgia Manufactures in the Cincin
nati Exposition. —At the exposition of
textile fabrics in Cincinnati the cotton
mills of tile South were fully represented,
particularly those of Georgia. Special men.
tion was made of the cotton yarns from
the Foutenoy Mills, and also of the osna
bergs from Jewell’s Mills, in Warren coun
ty. The first premium of SSO for cotton
fabrics was awarded to the Pulaski Manu
facturing Company, of Tennessee, and the
Macon Manufacturing Company, of this
State. The prize was awarded for “ 36-inch
medium brown cottons,” and special men
tion was made of the 4-4 sheetings exhibited
by the same company. The Eagle and
Phoenix Manufacturing Company, of Co
lumbus, received a premium of $25 for the
best pair of cotton blankets, and a premium
of the same amount for the best piece of
cotton warp tweed.
The Crops in Macon County—Cotton
Badly Ruste.d. —The editor of the Ameri
cas Courier lias been on a visit to Macon
county, and reports of the crops*
“The cotton, a few weeks ago, was very
promising. The weed is large, and aliout
half filled With fruit. The rust lias spread
over entire fields, and the bolls are opening
rapidly. The crop will be largely cut off—
at least one-third. Had the crops escaped
the rust, the planters, between Oglethorpe
and Reynolds, would have realized the
largest yield per acre they have had for
years.
“ The corn crop is medium. Some fields
had excellent corn, whilst in others the
crops wore sorry. *
“ We have never seen trees so laden with
delicious fruit as we found them iu many
orchards we visited. Some orchards are
greatly damaged by the breaking of the
trees from the weight of the fruit.”
House Thief Around. —On Tuesday
night the stable of Mr. Thomas Cartledge,
who lives in Edgefield county, about, twen
ty-nine miles up the Savannah river, was
entered, aud a fine mare, about three years
old, stolen. Mr. Cartledge was in the city,
yesterday afternoon, in pursuit of the thief.
On Thursday afternoon, Mr. Harrison But
ler, residing near Hamburg, discovered a
a spare-made man, with light moustache,
riding an animal answering the descrip
tion of the mare stolen from Mr. Cartledge,
with a rope bridle ami patched up saddle,
and the inference is that the thief is now
somewhere in the vicinity of this city for
the purpose of disposing of ihe stolen filly.
Hon. A. H. Stephens. —The Southern
Recorder learns from a gentleman of Mil
lcdgcville, who spent a day recently with
lion. A. 11. Stephens, that Mr. S.’s health
is very good, and that he is slowly but cer
tainly recovering from the accident which
has for months deprived him of locomotion
and caused him so much suffering. Witli
the assistance of crutches he moves fre
quently through the passages of his airy
house. Notwithstanding his situation, his
indomitable mind is occupied iu the pre
paration of the second volume of his great
work, “ The History of the Wat between
the States,” which in a few months will be
given to the press.
Respited Again.-Tlic negro, Jerry Wat
kins, sentenced to be hung for the murder
of young Wilson, near and who
has been already twice respited by Execti
tive clemency, has received another inter
position of Gubernatorial sympathy, iu
having liis execution postponed to Septem
ber 10th. T-he Savannah News says, in con
nection with these respites:
We are of opinion, that if the object of
these suspensions is to give time for the
preparation of the condemned for an
abundant entrance into the kingdom of
heaven, it will scarcely be accomplished.
Watkins is an unmitigated and hardened
scoundrel, and has never, either before,
during or afterhis trial and condemnation
exhibited the slightest spark of penitence
for his horrible crime.”
Provisions in North Georgia.—The
Dalton Citizen reports corn worth sl@l 10
ftom wagons; wheat dull, and ruling at
ft 10(91 25. .