Georgia Historic Newspapers

    CONSTITUTIONALIST.
AUGUSTA. <3-A.
TUESDAY MORNING, AUG. 17,1869
LETTER FROM HON. A. H. STEPHENS.
Anything from the Hon. A. H. Stephens
commands attention.. It is needless, there
fore, to ask an audience for the following
letter:
Liberty Ham,, )
Crawfordvillb, Ga., August 11,1869. ]
Messrs. Editors Constitutionalist, Augusta, Ga.:
Gentlemen : Yesterday, I received a copy of
the Georgia Republican, of the 7th instant, pub
lished in your city, in which I see reproduced
a lace editorial of the New York Tribune,
which contains matter on which I wish to sub
mit 6ome comments to the public. Will yon
please allow me the use of your columns for
that purpose ?
The article from the Tribune is commended
to its readers, by the Republican , as an able one.
It was evidently written by Mr. Greeley him
self, and hence the greater importance of not
permitting it to pass unnoticed.
In this article, Mr. Greeley, after alluding to
my work upon the “ War Between the States,”
and late letters in reply to Judge Nicholas
upon the same subject, goes on to say :
“ Mr. Stephens’ theory is, that the Union
was a mere league of sovereign powers, and of
course dissoluble at the pleasure of those pow
ers respectively—of a minority, or. In fact, of
any one of them, so far as that one is'concern
ed. And he quotes sundry conspicuous Re
publicans—among them, Abraham Lincoln,
Benjamin F. Wade, and Horace Greeley—as
haviug, at some time, favored this view.
“ Mr. Stephens is utterly mistaken. Leaving
others to sneak lor themselves, we can assure
him that Horace Greeley never, at any moment
of his life, imagined that a single State, or a
dozen of States, could rightfully dissolve the
Union. The doctrine of Horace Grefley, which
Mr. Stephens has confounded with State Sove
reignty, is that of Popular Sovereignty, or the
right of a people to recast or modify their politi
cal institutions ami relations—the right set
forth by Thomas JcflerßOn in the Declaration
of American Independence, as follows :
We hold these truths to bo self-evident;
that all men are created equal ; that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain inalien
able rights ; that among these are life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness ; that, to secure
these rights, governments are instituted among
men, deriving their jnst powers lrom the con
sent of the governed ; that, whenever any form
of government becomes destructive of these
ends, it is the right of the people to alter or
abolish it, and to institute anew government,
laying its foundation on such principles, and
organizing its powers in such form as to them
shall seem most likely to effect their safety and
happiness.”’
“ This doctrine of Jefferson’s we have ever
received; and we have held it precisely as it
reads. The same is true, we presume, of
Messrs. Lincoln, Wade, and other Republicans.
Mr. Stephens may say it justifies the so-called
secession of the South ; we think differently.
We hold that secession was the work of a vio
lent, subversive, bullying, terrorizing minority,
overawing and stifling the voiee of a decided
majority of tils Southern people. The facts
which justify this conclusion are embodied in
The American Conflict, more especially in vol.
1. chap. xxli. According to Mr. Stephen's con
ception, a majority of the people of Delaware,
consisting of less than 100,000 persons, might
lawfully dissolve the Union, but the whole
population of New Fork, sou tit of the high
lands—at least 1,500,000 in number—could do
nothing ot the kind. Mr. Stephens’ may pos
sibly be the true doctrine, but it certainly never
was oars, uor of any Republican so far as we
know. The right we atfinn is not based on the
Federal Constitution, but is before and above
auy and all Constitutions.”
I quote him in full on the points to he com
mented on, that your .renders and the public
may thoroughly understand them, and be able
to judge fairly aud justly between us, and couie
to a correct conclusion as to whether / or he
was or is mistaken in the premises.
Now what is affirmed by me iu the first vol
ume of the "Constitutional View of the Late
War Between the States,” and what Mr. Gree
ley, with other Republicans, is; quoted therein
to sustain, is this :
“ Men of great abilitv of our owu day—men
who stand high in the Republican ranks at this
time., who had and have no sympathy with the
late Southern movement, are luily eomtnitted
to the rightfulness of that movement Mr.
Lincoln hiinaelt was fully committed to it. Be
sides him, I refer you to but two others of this
class, now prominent actors in public affairs.
They are Senator Wade, of Ohio, at this time
Vice-President of the United States, and Mr.
Greeley, of the New York Tribune, who is ‘ a
power behind the throne greater than the
throne itself.’ ”
Then after quoting Senator Wade, with com
ments on his utterances, I go on to quote from
the New York Tribune, of the 9th November,
1860, an article which is acknowledged by Mr.
Greeley to be his, and published in his history
of the war, the “Araericifti Conflict,” page 359,
vol. i., as follows:
“ The telegraph informs us that mo6t of the
Cotton States are meditating a withdrawal from
the Union, because of Lincoln’s election. Very
well: they have a right to meditate, and medi
tation is a profitable employment of leisure.
We have a chronic, invincible disbelief in Dis
union as a remedy lor either Northern or South
ern grievances.- We cannot see any necessary
connection between the alleged disease and this
ultra-heroic remedy; still, we say.it anyone
6eca fitPto meditate Disnoiou, let him do so un
molested. That was a base and hypocritic row
that was once raised at Southern dictation,
about the ears of John Quincy Adams, because
he presented a petition for ttie dissolution of
the Union. The petitioner had a right to
lnakc the request; it was the Member’s duty to
present it. And now, if tbe Cotton States consid
er the value of the Union debatable, we maintain
their perfect right to discuss it. Nay :we hold,
with Jeffersou, to the uualienabie right of com
munities to alter or abolish forms of govern
ment that have become oppressive or injurious ;
aud, if the Cotton States shall decide that they
can do better out of the Union than in it, we in
sist on letting them go in peace. The right to
secede mag be a revolutionary one, but it exists
nevertheless ; and roe do not see how one party
can have a right to do what another party has a
right to prevent—we must ever resist the asserted
right of any State to remain in the Union, and
nullify or defy the laics thereof; to withdraw
from ike Union is quits another matter. And,
• whenever a considerable section of our Union
shall deliberately resolve to go out, we shall re
sist all coercive, measures designed to keep it
in. We hope never to live in a Republic,
whereof oue section is pinned to the residue by
bayonets.
“ Bat, while we thus uphold the practical
liberty, if not the abstract right of Secession, we
roust insist that the step be taken, if it ever
shall be, with the deliberation and gravity be
fitting so momentous an issue. Let ample
time be given for reflection ; let the subject be
fully canvassed before the people; and let a
popular vote be taken in every ease, before Se
cession is decreed. Let the people be told just
why they are asked to break np the Confedera
tion ; let them have both sides ot the question
fully presented ; let .them reflect, deliberate,
then vote ; and let the act of Secession he the
echo of an unmistakable popular fiat. A judg
ment thus rendered, a demand for separation
so backed, would either be acquiesced in with
out the effusion of blood, or those who rushed
upon carnage to defy and defeat it. would
place themselves clearly in the wrong.”
I give above, this quotation in full, as I did
in the Book referred to, that uo injustice may
be done to him by partial extracts.
What I quoted him to sustain, was, as clearly
appears, the riqhtfulness of secession in itself,
and no particular theory of mine touching the
principles upon which it was based. (Does not
the article from his own paper and Boolr, above
spread before your readers, fully'sustain my
affirmation for which the quotation was made ?
Was I '■'■utterly mistaken f" Qr did* lin any
way confound State Sovereignty with Popular
Sovereignty ? What difference Mr. Greeley eees
between State Sovereignty and Popular Sover
eignty I know not. By State Sovereignty I.
understand the sovereignty of the people com
posing a State in an organized political Body.
But what I affirmed and quoted him to sustain
rested upon no distinction between these
phrases. It was simp)/as to the rightfulness
of the act in itself, on the part of the people of
a State, without reference to the source of the
right. My comments on this question in the
Book, page 518, are a« follows. I give them in
full also that it may be clearly seen that pc in
justice was done to him:
“ What better argument could I make to
show the rigbtfulness of secession, if the
Southern §tates, of their own good will and
pleasure, chose to resort to it, even for no
other cause than Mr. Lincoln’s election, than
is herein set. forth in his own pointed, strong,
and unmistakable language V It is true, he
waives ail qnestions of Compact between tbe
States. He goes deeper into fundamental
principles, and plant:; the right upon the eter
nal troths announced in the. Declaration of In
dependence. That U bunging up principles,
which T have not discussed, not because I do
not endorse them as sound and correct, to tbe
-word and letter, but because it was not neces
sary for my purpose. Upon these immutable
principles the justifiablencsa of Georgia in her
Secession Ordinance of the 19tti of January,
1861, will stand clearly established for all time
to come. For if, with less than one hundred
thousand population, she was snch a people in
1776 as bad the unquestiouablevight to alter
and change their form ot government, os they
pleased, how much more were they snch a peo
ple, with more than ten times the number in
1861 ? The same principle applies to all the
States, which quit the old apd joined the new
confederation. Mr. Greeley here speaks of the
Union as a Confederation, and not a Natiiu.
This was, perhaps, the unconscious utterance ot
a great truth when the true spirit was moving
him.
“The State of Georgia did not take this step,
however, in withdrawing from the Confedera
tion, without the most thorough discussion.
It is true it was not o dispassionate discussion.
Meu seldom, if ever, enter into such discus
sions with perlect calmness, or even that de
gree of calmness with which all each snbjects
ought to be considered. But the subject was
fully canvassed before the people. Both sides
were strongly presented. In the very earnest
remonstrance against this measure made by me,
on the 14th of November, 1860, to which you
have alluded, was an appeal equally earnest for
just snch a vole as he suggests in order that
the action of the State on the subject might be
‘ the echo of an unmistakable, popular fiat.’ —
Qn the same occasion I did say, in substance,
just what he had so aptly said before, that the
people of Georgia, in their sovereign capacity,
had the right to secede if they chose to do so,
and that in this event of their so determining
to do, upon a mature consideration of the ques
tion, that I shonld bow in submission to the
majesty, of their will so expressed !
“ This, when so said by me, is what it seems
was 1 the dead fly in the ointment ’ ot that
speech ; so sadly ‘marring its general perfauae.’
This was ‘ tbe distinct avowal of the right
of the State to overrule my personal - convic
tions and plunge me,’ as he says, ‘into treason
to th<y Nation.’
“ Was not the same ‘ dead fly in the oint
ment ’ of his article of the 9th of November,
only five days before? And if going with my
State, in what he declared she had a perfect
right to do, plunged me into treason to the Na
tion, is he not clearly an accessory before the
fact, by a rule of construction, not more strain
ed than thaL laid down in the trial of State
cases, by mmy judges not quite so notoriously
iufamous as Jeffreys? By a rule not more
strained than that which would make out trea
son in the act itself ! But I do not admit the
rule in its application either to the accessory or
the principal.”
So much for the allegation that I was utterly
mistaken
Now let me turn upon Mr. Greeley and ask
. how it i6 with him in the premises ? Was he
not “ utterly mistaken ” when he said so vaunt
ingiy for himself, in the article now under re
view, that “ Horace Greeley never at any mo
ment of his life imagined that a single State or
a dozen of States could rightlf dissolve the
Union /”
Did he not expressly say, on the 9th ot No
vember, 1860, through the columns of the Tri
bune, that “ if the Cotton States shall decide that
they can do better out of the Union than in it, we
insist on letting them go in peace. The right to
secede may be a revolutionary one, but it exists
nevertheless ; and we do not see how one party
can have a right to do what another party has a
right to prevent. We most ever resist the as
serted right of any State to-remain in tbe Uuion,
and nullify or defy the laws thereof ;to with
draw from the Union is guile another matter /”
But, besides what I quoted him as sayiug, did
he not on the 17th day ot December, 1860, three
days before the secession of South Carolina, in
the Tribune, assert:
11 If it" (the Declaration of Independence)
"justified the secession from the British Empire
of three millions of colonists in 1776, we do not
see why it would not justify the secession ofJive
millions of Soutkrons from the Federal Union
in 1861. If we are mistaken on this point, why
does not some one attempt to show wherein ana
why?"
Again: Did he not in the Tribune, on the
2-3d day of February, 1861, five days after tbe
inauguration of President Davis at Montgom
ery, use this language:
" We have repeatedly said, and we once more
insist, that the great principle embodied by Jeffer
son in the Declaration of American Independence,
that Governments derive their just powe> s from the
consent of the governed, is sound and just; und
that if the Slave States, the Cotton States, or ths
Gulf States, only choose to form an independent
nation, they have a clear moral riort to
HO SO.”
These quotations from the Tribune Lsee set
forth by ex-President Buchanan in his work
entitled “ Buchanan’s Administration,” page
97. I take it for granted they are correct.—
Then how in the face of all these proofs can the
Tribune now say that “ Horace Greeley never, at
any moment of h ; s life, imagined' that « single
State, or a dozen States, could rightfully dissolve
the Union."
Is not this a fall, and explicit acknowledg
ment of the right of a State to withdraw or
secede f Did the Southern States ever attempt
to dissolve the Union in any other way than by
peaceably seceding or withdrawing from it ? Mr.
Greeley knows, aud the world knows, that they
did not.
Oue other remark upon this editorial now
under consideration.
In it Mr. Greeley says:
“According to Mr. Stephens’ conception, a
majority of the people of Delaware, consisting
of less than 100,000 persons, might lawfully
dissolve the Union, but the whole population
ol New York, south ot the highlands—at least
1,500,000 in number —could do<iotbing of the
kind. Mr. Stephens’ may possibly be the true
doctrine, but it certainly never was oars, nor
of any Republican, so far as we know. The
right, we affirm, is not based on the Federal
Constitution, but is before and above any and
all constitutions.”
Just so, let it be said to Mr. Greeley, with
the doctrine advanced by me in the Book re
ferred to. It is not based on the Federal Con
stitution, but upon the authority that made
that compact. It is based upon principles ex
isting “ before and above any and all constitu
tions.” It is based upon the Paramount Au
thority (call it Popular Sovereignty or State
Sovereignty, or by any other name) by which
all organized States or Peoples can rightfully
make or unmake State or Federal Constitutions
at their pleasure ; subject only to the great
moral law, which regulates and governs the ac
tions and conduct ot Nations !
My conception, however, involves no such
DOnsense as that exhibited iu his statement of
it, touching the relative populations of the
whole State of Delaware, and a portion only
(being a large minority however) ot the popu
lation of the State of New York. Populations
in this respect must be looked to, and consider
ed, iu their organized, character. The doctrine
advocated by me with all its corollaries rests
upon the fact that Delaware, however small
her population, is a perfectly organized State—
is a Sovereign State—and as such is au integral
member of onr Federal Republic and that New
York with her ever so many more people is no
more. The doctrine is that ours is indeed a
Federal Republic—constituted, not of one peo
ple in mass, as a single Republic is, but com
posed of a number of separate Repub lies.
In this Federal Republic the little Republic
of Delaware by the Constitution of the United
States, which sets forth the terms of the com
pact between these several Repnblics compo
sing the Union, has jnst as much political
power in the enactment of all Federal laws, as
the great Republic ot New York has, without
any regard to their relative, respective popula
tions. In the Congress of States, which is
provided for by the Constitution to take charge
of ail Federal matters entrusted to its control,
Delaware, to-day, with her little over one hun
dred thousand population stands perfectly equal
its political power to New York with her nearly
forty times that number ! Congress under our
system means the same now it ever meant. It
means the meeting or assemblage of the States
composing the Union by their accredited
representatives in Grand Council. In this
Grand Council or Congress of States, Del
aware has as much political power as New
York. It is true in one House of this
Congress, her one member has but littfb
showing against the thirty odd members of
New York. Bnt her equality of power is main
tained in the other. Here this perfect equality
of political power -between ail the States is as
distinctly retained under tbe second Articles of
Union as it was under the first. No law can
be passed by the Congress if a majority of the
E&tates through their “Ambassadors” in the
Senate object.
It is on this principle, that the six New Rug
laud Slates with a fraction over three millions
ol population, under the census ol 1860, have iu
the last- resort in the Council Chambers of the
Congress six times as much power in determin
ing all questions before them, as the State of
New York, though New York alone has a
population of over half a million more than ail
these other States together ! It is upon this
principle that these six States have as much
-power in the administration of the Government
as the six States ot New York, Pennsylvania,
Virginia, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois had with
their aggregrate population of, thirteen and a
half millions in 1860 !
These are facts which neither Mr. Greeley
nor any body else can successfully controvert.
Our 6, therefore, being a Federal Government
is and must be, as all other Federal Govern
ments are, “ a Government of States, and for
States,” with limited powers directed.to specific
objects ; and not a Government in any sense or
view for the masses ol the people of the respec
tive States in their internal -and municipal af
fairs. This great sovereign, power of local self
Government, for which Independence was de
clared and achieved, resides with the people
of the respective States.
A ready and sufficient answer to Mr. Gree
ley’s distorted “ conception ” about the politi
cal power of the comparative populations of
Delaware and New York may be given to him
from his own doctrines. It is this : If a ma
jority Os the people of Delaware, after due de
liberation aud full consideration have the same
right, whether by virtue of State Sovereignty
or Popular Sovereignty, to withdraw from the
Union which they had to declare their inde
pendence of Great Britain, which he admits they
have, it does not therefore follow that lisa than
half the population of tbe State of New York
can, with equal right, carry that State out,
against the will of the majority, though the
minority in New York wishing so be five
hundred or five thousand times greater iu num
bers than the majority iu Delaware! He may,
therefore, not be alarmed at any of the legiti
mate consequences of his own doctrines !
What he says about secession having been
carried in the Southern States by a‘ violent, sub
versive, bullying,! terrorizing, minority, over
awing, and stifling a majority of tbe people of
these Btates, Is nothing but bald aud naked as
sertion, which cannot be maintained against the
facts of history. The question was as thorough
ly discussed as any ever was before the people.
Conventions were regularly called by the duly
constituted authorities of the States, and mem
bers duly elected thereto, according to law.
in all the States, which seceded before
Mr. Lincoln’s proclamation of war. These
elections were as orderly as elections usually
are in any of the States on great occasions. In
these conventions Ordinances of Secession
were passed by decided majorities ! It is true
that a large minority in all these conventions,
save one, and in all these States, were opposed
to secession as a question of policy ; very few
in any of them questioned the Right or doubt
ed their duty to go with the majority. But af
ter Mr. Lincoln’s proclamation of war—after
his illegal and unconslitntibnal call for troops
—after his suspension of the writ of Habeas
Corpus, no people on earth were ever more unan
imous in any cause than were the people of the
Southern Stales, in defense of what they deem
ed tbe great essential principles of American
free institutions! There was not one in ten
thousand of the people, iu at least ten of the
Southern Slates, whose heart and soul were not
thoroughly enlisted in the cause ! Nor did any
people on earth ever make greater or more
heroic sacrifices tor its success., during four long
years of devastation, blood and carnage !
A majority of the people, over-awed and ter
rorized by a minority ! indeed !
If so, what became of this majority when
the Confederate armies, which stood between
them and their deliverers, were overpowered ?
Where is this majority now, even with the
sweeping disfranchisement which silences so
many ot the over-awing tyrants ? Why has it
not been permitted to exercise tbe inalienable
right of self-government, even with the re
enforcement of the enfranchised blacks ? Wby 4
are so many of these States, till this day, held
under military rule, with their whole popula
tions “ pinned ” to very bad Goverment by Fed
eral bayonets, under the pretext of their contin
ued disloyalty f This assertion, as to the state
of things in the beginning, is as utterly ground
less in fact, as it is utterly inconsistent with the
gratuitous assumptions on which the present
pretext is based!
Is it not amazing, Messrs. Editors, that Mr
Greeley in the face of the facts for the last four
years, to say nothing of those of the war, when
according to his showing the Administration at
Washington in rushing into it, were in “Abe
wrong.” I say to omit all mention of the
wrongs of the war, its immense sacrifices of
blood and treasure, is it not amazing in jbe
highest degree, that Mr. Greeley, in the face of
the facts of the last four years onjy, should now
repeat the principles of American Inde
pendence as his creed? Have not the constitu
tions of ten States, as made and adopted by the
people thereof, founded on such principles and
organized in such form as seemed to them most
likely to effect their safety and happiness, been
swept from existence by military edict ? Have
not the people in these ten States, including tbe
arbitrarily enfranchised Blacks, been denied the
right to form new constitutions “ laying their
foundations on such principles and organizing
its powers in such form as to them shall seem
most likely to effect their safety and -happi
ness ?” Have they not beeu required and liter
ally compelled to form such constitutions as
seemed most likely to effect the safety and se
curity of the dominant faction at Washington ?
Is this holding up to our gaze these immuta
ble and ever-to-be-reverenced principles of the
Declaration of Independence, at this time and
under the present circumstances, intended only
as mockery added to insult, injury and outrage!
Yours, very respectfully,
Alexander H. Stephens.
Removal of the National Capitol.—
An enthusiastic meeting of tlxe citizens of
St. Louis was held on the 10th instant. The
following resolution was passed :
Bcsolved, That the meeting favors the call
ing of a national convention at St. Louis
for the purpose of mutual consideration of
the subject of the removal of the National
Capitol to the Mississippi valley by chosen
delegates from all States, and by thus
doing hasten the final settlement of the
question. A committee of five was ap
pointed, to which the whole subject should
be referred, with authority to make all
proper arrangements fojr holding a conven
tion. > »
Tennessee has slaughtered Stokes in an
out and out style. Even the district that
he counted upon as his stronghold—every
candidate has a stronghold somewhere—
has laid him out as stiff as Paddy’s daddy
when he was nine days dead. There is
only one bad sign in this Tennessee elec
tion. This is, that the victors already dif
fer as to what their victory means. If
they quarrel over that, they will waste
their triumph.— if. K Herald.
A Washington letter says: “ Nearly a
hundred small post offices in various sec
tions of the country, mostly Southern
however, have been discontinued in conse
quence of the negligence of the postmasters
to make returns, thereby allowing their
names to go on the black list of the Sixth
Auditor’s office.”
It is said that grindstones are obtained
at only two places in the United States—
Berea, near Cleveland, Ohio, and Huron
county, Michigan.— Exchange.
They are found all over the South, in the'
loyal league, quarries. The freedman turns
the handle while the obsequious white
brother grinds his axe sharply. These
grindstones will burst one of these days,
and somebody’s nigger will be hnrt wid dat
foolishness.—Galveston DUpatch.
State Items. .• ‘‘l
• The Dawson Journal says of the cropS Hi'”
Terreli, that the rust in cotton is not
spreading so fast, and tbe blight sun is do.
ing good service ror the cotton plant, and
for those saving fodder. No caterpillar in
our immediate neighborhood, but hear ol
them at a little distance, and expect to hear
of them all over the country soofi.
The Macon Telegraph says tlmtthe differ
ent railroads leading to and from Macon
furnish to colored passengers precisely the
same accommodations for the same money
that the whites receive, aud first class carsi
for each are as much alike as two blacks!
eyed peas. If there is any favor shown toi
either class of passengers it is to the color- 5
eel; for they generally occupy the rear car,
which 4s, we believe, considered the safest.
There is, therefore, no ground for com-,
plaint-if a colored man Or woman is refused
admission to the cars set apart for the
whites.
Terrell county has sent a bale of new
crop cotton to -Macon, classed as strict
New York middling, from the plantation
of Messrs. Brightwell & Williams. Sold
at 35 cents, and,shipped to New York-
Houston county has also sent a bale,
from Mr. W. p. Allen. .
A correspondent of the Mountain Signal ||
reports the recent discovery of valuably
gold mine in Forsyth county, yielding n
half pennyweight to a gallon panful®
taken from the vein.
Col. E. Hulbert, Superintendent of tV
Western and Atlantic Railroad, recent™
presented a bell for the new Presbyterian
Church in Adairsville. '
John B. Code, the Express agent at
Newuan, has disappeared. Nothing fur
ther yet known. * . Mi
The Rev. J. W. Brihkerhoff writes to tie,.
Savannah Republican, that the respite for
Jesse Watkins is asked for to get up evi
dence clearing him.
The LaGrange Reporter will be publish
ed tri-weekly, in October, if encouraged to
do so. We wish our contemporary well.
The Dawson Manufacturing (Company,
Maj. O. O. Nelson, President, employs 70
hands, making cars, mills, etc.
A revival is progressing in the- colored
Methodist Church in Milledgevillc. Thirty
members have been added to the church.
The Atlanta Constitution learns that the
following young men have beeu appointed
to free scholarships in the State University.
J. J Collier, Talbot county, Georgia; J.
M. Renfroe, Brooks county, Georgia ; Gar
land Head, Upson county, Georgia; Jas.
T. Willis, Bibb county, Georgia; .J. J. 1
Julian, Carroll county, Georgia; —a-
Jones, Elbert county, Georgia. Great ac
tivity prevails in the University in the
preparations making for the ensuing ses
sion, September Ist. Besides the law pro
fessors,"and those of the high school, there
are ten professors in the" University, so
that all the departments are thoroughly
organized for instruction.
The Rome Commercial states that seven
miles of the Selma, Rome and Dalton Rail
road have Ixftn graded beyond that city.—
This portion of the road comprises the
heaviest grading, and every effort will be
made to complete the road by the first of
January.
[From the Pall Mall Gazette.
A Convent Case.
CRUEL treatment of a faIIen*NUN—SUC
CESSFUL CONCEALMENT OF HER TORTURES
FROM THE CIVIL AND ECCLESIASTICAL AC
THORTriES.
The case of th<lmprisoned nun at Cracow,
which led to the ivqt riots there, forms
the subject of an article in the Vienna
Presse, from which we learn that the name
of the prisoner is Barbara Übryk, and that
the statement that she has been confinetk
for twenty-one years is correct. The civil
authorities were informed of the fact by am
anonymous letter in a woman’s handwrit
ing, and the bishop of the diocese was com
municated with. A judge visited the con
vent and found in a cell, seven paces long
by six paces wide, an entirely naked, liall
insane woman, who, at the unaccustomed
view ol light, the outer world, and human
beings, folded her hands and pitifully im
plored : “I am hungry, have pity onune ;
give me meat, and I shall be
This hole, for it could luH'dly *e catena
chamber, besides containing all kincSfc of
dirt and filth, and a dish with rotten wfcr
tatoes, was deficient of the slightest decant
accommodation. There was nothing—no
stove, no bed, no table, no chair—it was
neither warmed by a fire nor by the rays of
the sun. The judge instantly ordered the
nun to be clothed, and went himself for
Bishop Galecki. The bishop was deeply
moved, and, turning to the assembled
nuns, he vehemently reproached them
for their inhumanity. “Is this,” he
said, “ what you call love of your
neighbor ? Furies, - not women, , that
are, is it thus that you propose .to en
ter the kingdom of heaven?” The nuns
ventured to excuse their conduct, bufcjhP
bishop would not hear them.' “ Silence,
you wretches!” he exclaimed; “ away, oqt
of iny sight, you who disgrace religion.”
The father confessor, Piantkiewicz, ad old
priest, who was present, dared to observe
that the ecclesiastical authorities uwere
aware of this scandal, whercupoie -tlm
bishop and prelate, Spital, denied Ms jjfceu
tion, and at once suspended the fathqjphfl
fessor, and also the superioress, whowSe
sceuded from an old honorable PolishyoLble
family- The bishop ordered nun MWara
Übryk tp be brought, into a clean cell, and
there to be dressed and nursed, which the
lady supeflor obeyed very reluctantly.—
When the unhappy nun was led away, she
asked anxiously whether she would be
brought back to her grave, and when asked
why she had been imprisoned, “she answer
ed : “ 1 have broken the vgw of chastity,
but,” pointing with a fearfully wild ges
ture, aud iu great excitement to the sisters,
“ they are not angels.” The lady superior
declared that Barbrra Übryk was kept in
close confinement since 1848 by order of
the physician, because of her unsound
mind. But this physician died in 1848,
and the present physician, Dr. Babczynski,
who has been practicing in the convent for
the last seven years, has never seen Barbara
Übryk. On account of the importance of
tlje case, the Attorney General has taken
the matter iu harpl. The exasperation of
file people knows no bounds. Jt is stated
that the bishop intends tp dissolve the con- N
vent.
Bill of Injunction vs. Brunswick and
Albany Railroad Company and N. L.
Angier, Treasurer of the State of
Georgia. —The parties complainants are
Robert Habersham, Anthony Porter, Win.
B. Hodgson, Francis Sorrel, R.©. Arnold,
S. Cohen, Wm. Hunter, A. Partridge
and James Monahan, tax payerswand citi
zens. Henry Brigham, President, and T.
R Mills, holder of bonds of State of Geor
gia ; Eliza A- Jones, administratrix of M.
B. Jones, holder of capital stock of Bruns
wick and Florida Railroad Company, At
lantic and Gulf Railroad Company, Central
Railroad and Banking and South
western Railroad Company.
The bill claims that the franchises of the
Brunswick and Florida Railroad Company
were never legally sold, under the direction
of Henry S. Welles, to the parties controll
ing them at this time ; that there was no
legal foreclosing of the mortgage by the
State of Georgia, but the whole transfer
was fraudulent, null and void. That there
is a prohibition under the charters of any
road being built within twenty miles of the
same, with or without aid from the State
Which right, by various acts of the Legis
lature and deed of release, is now the prop
erty of the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad
Company. TKhfr the act approved March
18, 1869, giving aid to the Brunswick and
Albany Railroad Company, is unconstitu
tional ih this, that it recognizes an obliga
tion ten the part qf the State of Georgia
which was incurred in th.e insurrection and
rebellion against the United States wfifrfh
under the fourteenth amendment’’ is held
“ illegal and void’’—besides matiy other
points.— Macon Telegraph.
Our Corn Prospects in the West
The Cincinnati Commercial, of a ltte date
says: > ’
“ The corn is suffering from the drought
A quiet heavy general rain within a few
days, followed by warm weathea would
make millions of-bushels of com The
roads are masses of dust„ Each wagon on
the highway has its pillar of cloud The
trains raise a fog, and patent ventilators
that keep the dust and cinders from flying
through the open windows, are in demaift.
Bp. | The Batted' of a Baker.
J"# Blown, lie was :» baker man,
A baker-man was Joe ;
was known to want for aught,
yet lie kneaded dough
And he was rngge.l, hearty, tod,
And had a lout? life leased,
And all because he rose up with
Flis early rising yeast
To never ckeaf his cantomcis
* This man wis early taught j
And yet his loaves were always light,
His pie crnst rather shori !
And he was geu’rous hearted, too,
I, Aud kind unto the needy,
\ And neat and tasty in his dress,
Although his cakes were seedy 1
>
With him none dared to bandy jokes,
Vvfteftt’er he sougpt the mart's,
For well they knew hift;fepartee
Were sharper than tarts.
And while i say bis skill was great
In getting up a muffin,
His pastry filled to months of all,
Aud needs no further puffin’.
J Tis said he Was*a lemp-raoce man ;
If 60, 1 can’t tell why
He mixed with wheat and corn meal, too,
A trifle of the rye !
When age at last o’ertook the man,
His frame grew bent and sore.
And like the cake he used to bake,
His head, was frosted o’er.
And when he died all mourned his loss,
With no sectarian bias.
For he bad been a friend to all,
A goo.l man and a pie-ous.
HIS BPITAPH.
yUkeuealh this crust of up-heaved earth
® A well-bred baker lies,
'And, like the rolls housed to mould,
We hope at last he’ll rise.
iFrom the Macon Telegraph.
Madame H. M. Turner in High Dudgeon
-She Plays a Game of Buff on a Rail
- road Conductor and Gets Beat at it.
A prominent gentleman of this city gives
us the “ points” of a very interesting affair
which occurred on the Central Railroad,
between this city aud Augusta, on Thursday
last.
It appeals that Madame Turner, wife of
the late negro postmaster of Macon, left
VV ashington on Tuesday last, to visit her
husband in this city, to |ook after his com
focf and, perhaps, the postal arrangements
of‘Gaprgia generally. On leaving Wasli
ingioa she purchased a first-class ticket,
and-entered the passenger car and seated
immediately behind several white
ladles from South Carolina. She attracted
no. attention until the trains arrived at
Florence, S. C., where the white ladies got
oft’, as up to that time it was thought the
colored madame was only a servant to
the ladies. She was not disturbed, how
ever, and retained her seat until she reach
ed Augustg. At this point she seemed to
have been inflated a little with the idea
that as she was now in Georgia, and within
the jurisdiction of her distinguished lord,
she could ride in any car she pleased and
cdeduct herself accordingly. 'So, when the
twin started for Macon, she~again entered
the car appropriated to the nse of the white
passengers, and seated herself in front of
our informant and, one or'two lady passen
gers. In a short while after she had taken
her seat, and after the train had started,
three or four negroes entered the car aqd
seated themselves around the colored Mad
ame, and the company was sopor engaag&Ap
a lively and rattling little confab, which
attracted the attention of*tne white-passen
gers The madame was heard ta remark
Jo one of her sable tliatyihe iftd
a first-class ticket on that road, aucMifton-*
bed to ride where, she pleased. She mad*
L tli is remark in a tone of voice which show-
Kn that she intended to be heard by the
pvhites, and it was, doubtless, uttered for
their benefit; for the next nioint>ut *be pro
duced her ticket and, bouncing out of her
seat, submitted it to a geullcumu from, this
city for inspection, who returned ieayith
the remark that he-jjas no railroad inan,
but he kneW enough of tickets to know that
it would not make he*+seat good in that
car. She again seated herself and asserted
her intention to stay where site was unless
forcibly ejected.
By this time ibc conductor came through
the train, taking up and examining tickets.
In a few moments after he had passed
through the car, a colored train hand en
tered and, approaching the festive madame,
he informed her that site must take a seat
in the next car. She indignantly refused,
and reasserted her intention to retain her
seat. The train hand retired and in a mo
ment the conductor appeared, who informed
his interesting customer that if she did not
take the car prepared for those of her color
he would force her to do so. This raised
her postal highness to fever heat and she
asserted roundly that she would not move;
that she was as good as anybody and so
was her money. The conductor had his
doubts about this—particularly if she got
her funds from Turner and told her that
force would be resorted to if she did not
move. She retorted. “Try it on.” The
conductor retired, and the next moment a
tall, brawny, s out looking man, entered
the car, and walking square up to his work,
remarked to the madame, “You must get
out of here.” “ I won’t,” was the reply.
“-Then I’ll make you,” said Brawny. “ You
can’t," said she. “ I’ll show you then,” and
with this Brawny seized her by the arm,
and in an instant he had her out of one car
into anqthep.
Our informant saw no rqore of the “ ob
streperous ” feminine; but the conductor
informed him that when he took up her
ticket she thrust it at him as if it was a
dagger, with the remark: “You shall bear
of me again, sir, [’ll show you who lam
and vyhat you are.” And thus the interest
ing matter stands, awaiting further devel
opments.
Tip: o*vtkrf.illak scourge of the
cotton field is making its appearance in
alarming numbers throughout the country.
Yesterday Captain Ford, who is planting
near the city, brought to our office several
stalks of fine, thrifty looking cotton, in full
bloom, and some of it ready to open, which
were covered with this pestiferous worm,
and the leaves of which were literally rid
dled by their ravages Captain Ford has
one field of about fifty acres which, a few
days ago, promised him an abundant yield,
but which is now fast being devastated by
the encroachments of the caterpillar. The
cotton in this county, where it has beeitat
all attended to, is looking well, but if this
pest should continue its ravages, we fear
that our planters will be deprived of at
least half of their well earned product
when it comes to be picked.
[Selma (Ala) Times.
Tip Chops. —The prospects of a fair cot
ton crop are still encouraging. The rust
is not general, nor destructive, except in
spots, confined, in most parts, to gua'nored
lands, and, it is presumed, the present de
lightful weather will have a tendency to
arrest it in its progress. Some of our plan
ters make no .complaint of rust.
The caterpillar is stripping a few fields,
in this county, while in many otners it has
not yet appeared. We see no indications
of serious damage from this source. Indeed,
the most critical period lias passed, aud
should a general attack be made late in the
season, it will probably be more an advan
tage than otherwise*
Allother crops are in a flourishing con
dition, and promise an abundant yield.
f ßainbridge Argus , 14 th.
Rust in Cotton.— The plantations in this
section are suffering terribly with rust.
We hear many say that it is worse than the
caterpillar, and that, notwithstanding the
hopeljii prospect for'agood crop two weeks
agofthe yield this eeasOn will be less than
it wa3 last. It was Maddening to hear these
men, in whose success car failure we are all
so largely interested, give such gloomy ac
counts of their fields. Nearly every fanner
reports good corn—how unfortunate they
did not plant more of it! With lull cribs,
some rust could be borne. But without
corn, and no meat, and rustjdestroying cot
ton, the picture is not bright.
[ Columbus Enquirer, 10th.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
in the case of Goodrich, Wineman <fc Cos.,
of Charleston, 8. C., has decided that man
ufacturers of medicated bitters, for medici
nal use, and containing but twenty-five per
cent, of alcohol, are exempt from rectifiers’
tax, aud are to pay only the usual manu
facturers’Jicenses.
The IsßAEiiinsH Synod at Leipsic.—
The first Israelitlsli Synod met on the 28th
of June, at Leipsic, in Germany. It was
called in pursuance of a resolution adopted
at ihe International Israelite Congress, at
Cflssel. Representatives were present from
all parts of Germany, Austria, Hungary,
the Danubian Principalities. Belgium, Eu
cluud, St. Thomas, the West Indies ami the
United States, principally of the reform
school.
Professor Lazarus, of Berlin, editor of
the Vaslker Psychology, was elected Presi
dent. The Synod continued in session two
weeks, and adopted several measures of
great importance to the denomination.
At the instance of Rev. Dr. Phillippson,
of Dresden, a series of resolutions, embody
ing a declaration of principles, were adopt
ed by a unanimous vote. They are as fol
lows :
1. That the Synod, in conformity with
the teachings of Moses and the doctrines of
the prophets, and in recognition of the du
ties and habits of modern society and
State authority, considers Judaism to be in
accordance with the grand principles of
tnimanitarianism, of equality before the
law, equal rights in the Government, and
perfect freedom of religious thought and
expression.
2. That it is the development and estab
lishment of these principles that the safety
of present and future Judaism is assured.
3. The internal peace of all religions,
their mutual respect and equality in the
battle of truth, shonld be one of the aims of
mankind, such battle to be carried on with
spiritual weapons only.
4. It is the object of Judaism to acknowl
edge, express and advance these principles.
A convention of laymen was also held to
take into consideration temporal affairs,
over which Dr. Koiiner, of Leipsic, presid
ed. The most important measure adopted
was the appointment of a committee to me
morialize Alexander 11, consult with prop
er authorities and take measures to re
move the Jews of Western Russia, who are
represented to be in a suffering condition,
to other provinces of the empire, as well as
other countries.
A similar convention will be held in the
United States in a few years.
BY TELEGRAPH.
| Associated I’ress Dispatches.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, August 15.—Congressman
Bowen lias commenced legal proceedings
against the Mackeys for alleged slanderous
publications in the Charleston News, of the
13th.
Gov, Scott, of South Carolina, is here
after the State’s quota of arms.
Washington, August 16—Noon- —A let
ter from Dent to Grant is published, where
in Dent protests against Grant’s support of
the bitter-enders, claiming that the Gov
ernment foiled the bitter-enders in getting
possession of Mississippi under the defeat
ed but now supports them.
DeaPfexpresses the opinion tiiat, notwith
standing Cabinet support, the bitter-enders
will be defeated in Mississippi.
Supervisor Perry, of North and South
Carolina’s reports the seizure of forty thou
sand bexes of tobacco, within his district,
aud much machinery. It may be confi
dently stated that the assertions regarding
Hoar’s opinion, the Cabinet’s instructions,
aud Canby’s intentions regarding exaction
the test oath from the Virginia Legislators,
are speculations. Nothing definite has
been determined. ,
Washington, August 16—P. M.—Acting
•Secretary Richardson has prepared instrue
ti&ns to Collectors, Naval officers, Survey
ors and Appraisers, in which he reminds
them that in accordance with existing re
gulations, no subordinate officer of the
%ustoiVis,ean be removed or appointed vyith
c*jfc the previous sanction of the. Secretary
of the Treasury.
Receipts'from Infernal Revenue, from all
sources, for the year ending June 30, were
as follows: Distilled spirits, $43,800,000;
tobacco, $22,2i)0,000; fermented liquors,
$5,600,000; incomes, $23,100,000; stamps,
$15,505,000; total, $110,205,000. Seventy
seven districts ate yet to be heard from.
Revenue to-day, s79ft;ooo. Coin in the
Treasury, $107,000,000, including certifi
cates.
The Interior Department is drawing
heavily on the Treasury, this month, for
pensions—a singla warrant amounting to
$10,000,000. There are $08,000,000 worth
of legal tender tens. afloat—s23,ooo,ooo
worth have been taken up since the order
for their withdrawal.
NEW YORK.
New York, August 16.—The Federal
building in Chambers street is crammed
with people, anxious to wituess the pro
ceedings in the Pratt case. United States
troops, well supplied with ball cartridges
and rations, are still guarding Marshal
Barlow. Pratt will be produced before tire
United States Commissioner at 2 o’clock.
It is rumored that a requisition for the
prisoner lyas beep received from General
Reynolds.
Later proceedings in the case of the Gov
ernment against J. 11. Pratt, came to a
stand this afternoon by the discharge of
Pratt by United States Commissioner
Osborn. The announcement of the decision
was received with cheers by an excited
crowd of about two thousand persons. 1
George W. Rutter, President of the First
National Bank of Memphis, was arrested
here topday, charged with the embezzlement
of $600,000 of tlie Tennessee School Fund.
Rutter is in jail.
In discharging Pratt, Osborne said:
“ Himself and 'the. Attorney General had
pursued the course they had because they
deemed it right to maintain the authority
of the United States. It was simply and
purely because there were no facts suffi
cient to hold the prisoner that he should
order his discharge.” Pratt left the court
with his friends. The soldiers returned to
Fort Schuyler.
VIRGINIA.
White Sulphur Springs, W. V., August
16.—The committee appointed by the Na
tional Board of Trade to report upon the
most feasible route for the transportation
of the heavy products of the West to the
Atlantic coast, met here to-day. Reports
were submitted from Wm. M. Burwell, of
New Orleans, Thomas M. Monroe, of Du
buque, and Robt. W. Hughes, of Virginia.
They were read, and all three referred to
Mr. Hughes to be digested into form. The
committee will remain in session several
days.
' George Peabody has donated to the trus
tees of Washington College, of which.Gcn.
Lee is President, sixty thousand dollars, to
establish the additional Professorship re
cently proposed by Qen- Lee. Mr. Pea
body’s health is improved so much that he
was able to dine at the hotel to-day- As
he appeared leaning on Gen. Lee’s arm, the
crowd gathered around with demonstra
tions of congratulation on his convales
cence.
FOREIGN.
Pakis, August 16.—1n honor of Napo
leon’s one hundredth birthday, the Empe
ror has amnested press and political offend
ers, and deserters from the army, navy and
merchant marine service.
Havana, August 10. —The collision be
tween the reporter of the Associated Press
and the Censor has been compromised, De
rodas ordering the news, whether good or
bad, to be transmitted.
Newspapers represent that Jordan lias
fled to the mountains, but that Quesada is
threatening Espiritu Santo.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Philadelphia, August 16.4LThe block
ade runner Hornet, hailing from Portland,
Me.; Liverpool, via Havana, was
captured under suspicion of intention of
violation of the neutrality laws. The Hor
net had twenty-five men aboard, armed
with revolvers, and was attended by a tug,
which escaped.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Philadelphia, August 16.—The Na
tional Labor Convention assembled to-day
Two hundred delegates are present.
MARINE NEWS
Savannah, August 16.—Arrived : Bark
Kentville, from Newport, Wales.
Charleston, August 16.—Arrived;
Henry Burden, from Jacksonville,
markets.
London, August 16-Noon .-Consols,
Bonds steady.
Weather fair.
LivErpooL, August 16-Noon. -Cotton
'-!% ; sales,
. CS ; Bombay shipments to 10th,
10,000 bales. Oljiers unchanged.
Liverpool, August 10. Afternoon.—
Colton Unchanged Bivadslutfs quiet. Red
Wheal , 10s. 2d,,105.:;d. Lard, 7.L.
ini erpool, August Hi—Rveiling—Cot
ton firmer; uplands,J3% ; Orleans, 13%;
sale-;, in, 1)00 bales, whereof 5,000 are forex
port, and speculation. 'California Wheat
declining
K is, August 16.-Bourse heavy. Rents,
701. 7c.
Havre, August J6.—Cotton firm ; both
spot and afloat, 160%.
New ork, August 16—Noon.—Stocks
weak and unsettled. Money steady at G@
?• St Sr!J n tr lon S' short, 10. Gold,
134. 62 p, 23%; North Carol inns, 56; new,
50; V irginias, ex coupon, 55% • new, 60%";
Tenuessees, ex coupon, 62; new, 52' Lou
isianas, old, 71 % ; Levees, 74!.; ; Louisiana
eights, 84% ; Alabama eights" 83>£ a%md;
fives, 64 asked ; Georgia sixes, 83; sevens,
91 H-
New York, August 16—P. M.—Govern
ments closed steady. Southerns weak.
Money, 6@7, with exceptions at 5. Sterl
ing very dull at 9%@10. Gold heavy at
133%. Stocks closed steady.
New York, August 16—Noon.—Flour
firm and quiet. Wheat firm. Corn l@2c.
better. Pork dull at $33 20. Lard dull;
steam, 20. Cotton quiet at 33%. Turpen
tine, 43. Rosin—strained, $2 35. Freights
firm.
New York, August 16—P. M.—Cotton
quiet and firm; sales, 400 bales at 33%.
Flour firm and so active; super
fine, s6@7 60; Southern unchanged.—
Wheat 1(52 better, but less active in conse
quence of extreme scarcity of freight; Win
ter red Western, 1 70%@1 75. Corn-
Western mixed, $1 17@1 20. Pork steady.
Lard shade lower; kettle, 20%@20%.
Whisky active at $1 15. Rice quiet and
firm; Carolina, 9%. Sugar very firm.—
Coffee active. Turpentine, 43@43%. Ro
sin, $2 25@8. Freights firmer; cotton,
sail, 3-16ths.
Baltimore, August 16.—Cotton—nomi
nal, 33%@83%. Flour—small business.
What firm ; red, $1 60,«1 70 Corn steady;
white, $1 10, yellow, $1 14 0at5,56@58.
Rye, $1 1651 18 Pork, $34. Bacon
shoulders, 16%. Lard, 20(521. Whisky,
$1 14 ; Virginias old, 47% bid, 48 asked’;
North Carol insas new, 50 bid, 52% asked.
Cincinnati, August 16.—Flour higher;
family, $64*6 30. Provisions quiet and
firm. Mess Pork, $33 50 offered, $34 ask
ed. Bacon—shoulders, 15%; clear sides
19% ; hams, 23@24. Lard, 20%.
Louisville, August 16.—Provisions firm.
Pork, $34 50. Bacon—shoulders, 16% •
clear sides, 19%; hams, 22%@23}% Lard
20%. Whisky, $1 09. 2
St. Louis, August 10.—Whisky, $1 15.
Pork, $34 25. Bacon firm ; shoulders, 15%
@l6; sides, 19@19%.
New Orleans, August 16—Cotton
sales, 75 bales; low middling, 30@30% ; re
ceipts, 75 bales. Flour—superfine, $5 75;
double, $6 50; treble, $6 75. Corn dull;
white, sl. Oats, 64@65. Bran, sl. Hay,
$27. Pork held at $35 50. Bacon, 17,19%
and 20; hams, 23@25%. Lard—tierce, 20
@20%; keg, 22@23. Sugar firm; com
mon, U@l2; prime, 14%@14%. Molasses
dull; reboiled, 60@70. Whisky, $1 12%@
1 15. Coffee inactive ; held, fair, 15@15%;
prime, 16%@16%. Sterling, 47%. New
York Sight,% premium. Gold, 132%.
Mobile, August 16.—Cotton closed dull;
sales, 30 bales; low middling, 30; receipts,
18 bales ; exports, 175 bales.
Savannah, August 16.—Cotton—Re
ceipts, 4 bales
Charleston, August 16 —Colton quiet;
salts, 23 bales; middling, 31%; receipts,
none.
VyILMINGT..N, August 16.—Spirits of
Turjieritine, 39. Rosin steady at $1 60@
4 7i. Crude Turpentine, $2 50@3. Tar
shade lower—s 2 25.
Augusta Daily Market.
■ Office Daily Constitutionalist, >
Monday, August lt>—F. M. j
FINANCIAL
GOLD—BuII. Baying at 133 and gelling
at 135.
SILVEB-Nominal. Baying at 126 ami sell
ing at 130.
COTTON— Continues dull. Middling,3o@3l.
Salee, 31 bales.
BACON—Continues firm. We quote C
Sidta, 21% ; C. R. Sides, 21; B. B. Sides, 20 ;
Shoulders, 18%; Hams, 21@26; Dry Salt
Shoulders, 16%@17 ; Dry Sait O. R. Sides, 20.
CORN—DuII; market overstocked. We
quote choice white, SI 27%; mixed, SI 27%,
from depot. Large lots would not bring SI 25
if pressed.
WHEAT—We quote choice white, SI 70@
1 80 ; amber, SI 60@1 U 5; red, |1 50@t 55.
FLOUR—City Mills, 01d,56@9; Dew, |7 50
@10; at retail, SI barrel higher. Coun
try, S6@9, according to quality.
CORN MEAL—fI 30 at wholesale, and SI 40
at retail.
TEAS—No supply. Selling at SI 50 for
seed.
Death of a Modern Samson.—Captain
John W. Rimscll died in Franklin county,
Kentucky, lust week, aged 75 years. The
Louisville (Jourlev-Journal says :
“ He was famous among Western pio
neers for his strength and intrepidity. He
served in the war of 1812, was a member of
the State Senate, and an intimate personal
and partisan friend of Henry Clay. He was
for many years a Mississippi steamhoat cap
tain. The incidents of his fbree of will and
power of command would fill a volume.
On one occasion, in New Orleans, he had
a personal rencounter with the pirate La
fitte, and, unarmed, whipped him, ancf
ejected him from a ball room On another,
while landing at Natchez, a passenger of
his boat was robbed by the gang which then
infested the portion of the town bordering
on the river, aud known as ‘ Natchez under
the Hill ’ By surrounding with his crew
the house in which the robbers took refuge,
he passed a cable around it., and under
threat of pulling it, with its intimates in
the river, iie compelled restitution of the
money, and made himself a terror to the
thieves and gamblers ivho then infested the
river towns. Os his great strength, persons
who knew him only in his later years, when
enfeebled by age, would have had but lit
tle conception, though when in his prime
it ivas known from Pittsburg to New Or
leans he had lifted a shaft weighing 1,647
pounds, and that he had carried entirely
across the deck of the boat an anchor of
1,242 pounds weight.”
• Save the Man with the Bed Hair.—
A few days ago, a fishing boat opposite the
landing at Jolinsonville capsized, and four
men were left struggling helplessly in the
river. There was no means of saving them,
and a number of people on the bank wit
nessed the spectacle, but did not seem in
clined to make an attempt at saving the
drowning men. Presently a gentleman
with a wild look ran down to the water’s
edge, and cried out in a most piteous and
frantic manner, “ O, save the man with the
red hair ; for God’s sake save the man witli
the red hair!’’ His appeals awoke a sort o(
enthusiastic philanthropy in the bosoms of
the bystanders. A raft was quickly rigged
up from logs, and in a short time the poor
fellows were brought to land almost dead.
The excited man then became pacified, and
drawing a long breath, he said, “He owed
me five dollars.’’ —Nashville Press.
Ben Butler for toe Senate. —Andy
Johnson is certain to go the Senate, and
Ben Butler is organizing things in Massa
chusetts in order that" he also may get
there presently, in place of that nobody,
Mr. Henry Wilson. This is well. We
shalj be rejoiced to see Andy and Ben side
by side on that splendid arena, and to note
their tilts. There is fun in the future.—
Here we are again, ijr. Merryigan.”
Arrest of Haughey’s Murderer.—Dr.
A. B. Collins, the carpet-bagger, who kill
ed Dr. Haughey, the Radical candidate for
►Congress, was arrested in the city lately by
acting Sheriff Scott. It is said that he ac
knowledges that he did the shooting.
[Montgomery Mail.
The cargo of African slaves recently
landed in the Cinco Villas District, Cuba,
were captured and immediately liberated
by the insurgents. Their condition was
represented as extremely wretched.
Local News.
Another Lying Affidavit —Tun Ne
gro Admits False Swearing.— ln this
cU -V« yesterday, was developed another
probl ot the flimsy material,, aye, absolute
lying, which is resorted to in the maim-,
tact,ure ol'libellous affidavits, In the hope to
make out a case against the white people
ot Georgia. On Thursday last a negro
woman, giving her name as Jane Meyers,
appeared before Justice Lyons, and was al
lowed to make the following affidavit:
Georgia—Richmond County •
Personally appeared, Jane Meyers, who
being sworn, deposeth and saith that on
lhursday morning, August 5,1809, about
day-light, in the county of Burke, in the
State of Georgia, deponent and her mother,
Dafena Meyers, occupied a house on Mr.
Kit Meyers’ plantation, about one and a
half mile from the boundary line of Rich
mond county. On said morning we were
aroused from our sleep by the breaking of
the outside door. Three white men, not
disguised, but unknown to me, entered,
struck my mother with a hatchet, I escaped
with my babe, came outside, heard my
rno'ther cry out, “Oh Lord, what have I
done for you to m urder me ?” I fled to the
edge of the wood ; saw the house on fire; it
and the body of my mother was consumed
in the flame. I left Burke the same day
and came to Augusta.
her
Jane X Meyers.
mark.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this
9th day of August, 1869.
Ellis Lyons,
Not. Pub., Ex. Off. J. P.
The original affidavit, of which the above
is a copy, was forwarded to Governor Bul
lock, and by him turned over to General
Terry. This latter officer immediately or
dered Captain W. F. Barnhardt, of the gar
rison stationed at Warrenton, to proceed
to Burke county and investigate the alleged
outrage. Captain Barnhardt arrived in
this city on Saturday, and sought a confer
ence with the magistrate who had taken
aud forwarded the affidavit. The result
o; this conference developed that said officer
knew nothing whatever of the affiant
whose affidavit he had taken, further than
her appearance before him on the day in
question. To meet the demands of the
military officer charged with an investiga
tion of the matter, the magistrate sought out
the residence of the negro woman. During
,his investigation, lie elicited sufficient in
formation to justify the conclusion that
there ivas not a particle of truth contained
in the affidavit which she had made before
him. He accordingly sued out a warrant
before Justice Reynolds,-upon which she
was arrested and committed to jail until
yesterday morning, on a charge of false
swearing. .
The woman was brought out for trial,
yesterday morning. Previous to her legal,
trial, she had an examination before Cap
tain Barnhardt, in the presence of several
witnesses, to whom she admitted that
every particle of her affidavit was false;
that her mother newer lived in Burke coun
ty; that she was still living in South Car
olina; and that she hail made said affidavit
with a view to secure pecuniary aid from
the members of the church in this city. As
the result of the legal examination of the
case, the prisoner was remanded to jail, in
default of bail, to aivait trial for her crime
at the next term of the Superior Court.
This furnishes a key to the general
character of the testivnonj' upon which
these mischievous and lying affidavits
against the character of the people of
various sections of the httate are predicated.
We find here that the affidavit of an
unknown negro woman, admitted by an
appointed magistrate' is all that is essen
tial to influence thecomraission of a United
States officer to proceed to the section in
dicated aud.make an examination. What
a profundity of judgment and discretion
must be exercised by Gov. Bullock and
Gen Terry, when they can be enlisted to
champion the cause of such unreliable and
degraded creatures. It will require an in
creased appropriation of Congress to pay
the cost entailed by the military in answer
ing and investigating tiie villainously false
allegations of negroes who are permitted to
make affidavits of outrages, without any
Regard by the magistrate as to the most
remote probability of the truth of their
statements.
Governor Bullock and the military au
thorities are certainly wasting their ammu
nition on very small game, when they un
dertake to trace to an authentic source all
the affidavits which may be taken by indis
creet and inefficient magistrates, and it is
high time that this infamous affidavit busi
ness was checked, and some little respect
paid to the character of the white people
ivho are thus misrepresented.
A Puzzle. —ln order to afford amuse
ment for those of our readers who are fond
of working out arithmetical problems, we
print the following puzzle, which we are
satisfied will command tjieir best efforts:
“Episcopal .School in Augusta. —We
are glad to be able to announce that the
Episcopalians of this city have succeeded
in building anew school, which will soon
be opened with a competent corps of in
structors in charge. The building is situ
ated on Kollock street, near the corner of
Telfair, and just one door below the Church
of the Atonement. It is a neat wooden
structure, of the Gothic style of architec
ture, and in dimension is sixty feet tony by
thirty feet wide. The building is divided
into twoHne rooms, each of which is four
teen and o, Iwlf feet long by eleven, feet in
width."—Chraolm d' Sentinel, loth.
Tlte questions to be determined, as we
understand, are< as to what material was
employed by the carpenters “ in building a
new school,” and what became of the miss
ing feet in length and width of building,
unaccounted for in the division of the
building into two rooms ?
An Attempt at Larceny. —David Ma
thews, alios Youngblood, the unfortunate
fresh water, colored sailor, who was pom
meled for his indiscretion on the wood
boat, Annie Lee, on Saturday, and after
ward visited with costs in a malicious pro
secution which he brought before Justice
Ells, was before that officer, yesterday, on
a charge of attempting to steal from the
dwelling of Polly Ann Smith (colored).
Convicted and sentenced to six months
on the public works.
The Columbia Bridge to be Rebuilt.
—A meeting of the stockholders of the old
Columbia (S. C.) Bridge Company was held
on Friday last, Rev. Wm. Martin presiding.
The following gentlemen were elected di
rectors: Dr. John Fisher, F. W. Green,
Esq., Dr. John B. Adger, Col. Wm. Wal
lace and Maj. John Meighan. The Board
of Directors were instructed to take imme
diate steps towards rebuilding the bridge,
q.nd make application to the Legislature for
an amendment of their charter. It is ru
mored that Col. E. P. Alexander will be
made President of the company.
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A French Bull. —A group of persons
were discussing the probabilities of the
comet coming iu contact with the earth
and the consequences thereof, when u
Frenchman remarked, “Shentlemen, we/
shall see what we shall see, if we live loua'
enough, and if we do not live long enougl
we shall not want to see what "wa shall seer