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ONSTJ T U TKW ALIST.
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TUESDAY MORNING, 00T, 12,1869
THE ELECTIONS THIS DAY.
The great States of Ohio, Pennsylvania
and lowa will choose, this day, State offi
cers and members of their several Legis
latures. The chief points of interest are
undoubtedly Ohio and Pennsylvania. The
canvass has been more actively prosecuted
in these two States, and the result will be
of greater importance than that in lowa.
It is impossible to predict in advance what
the issue will be; but we have observed
much more of hope disDlayed in the Demo
cratic than in the Radical journals. The
following summary, taken from the New
York Times, cannot fail to prove as inte
resting as it certainly is an opportune re
sume of the contending candidates:
“ The tickets nominated by the opposing
parties in Pennsylvania are as follows:
Republican. Democratic.
For Governor. .
John W. Geary. Asa Packer.
For Judge of the Supreme Court.
Henry W. Williams. Cyrus L. Pershing.
“ Gen. Geary is the present Governor of
the State. The vote for Auditor General in
October, 1808, was as follows: Republi
can, 331,416; Democratic, 321,739; Repub
lican majority, 9,677 in a total of 653,156
votes. The vote for President in Novem
ber was: Grant, 342,280; Seymour, 313,-
382 ; Grant’s majority, 28,898, in a lotal of
645,662. The Legislature last year was po
litically divided as follows:
Senate. House.
Republicans 18
Democrats 15 38
Republican majority 3 24
“This gave the Republicans.a majority
of 27 on joint ballot. The State Senate
consists of thirty-three members, holding
office for three years, one-third going out
each year. Os the eleven Senators who re
tired at the close of the last session, seven
were Republicans and four Democrats.—
One Senator has resigned, and twelve arc
therefore to be elected on the 12th inst.
Ten Republicans and eleven Democrats
hold over. The Pittsburg Gazette says
that the main contests for Senators will be
in the Beaver and Bedford districts and
Philadelphia. Should the Republicans suc
ceed in the former two they will have an
assured majority in the Senate, and they
may gain one member in Philadelphia.
The Republicans had eleven members from
Philadelphia in the last House, and they
hope to increase this number in the next.
“ In Ohio the nominations for State offi
cers are as follows:
Republican. Democratic.
For Governor.
Rutherford B. Hayes.. Geo. H. Pendleton.
For Lieutenant-Governor.
John C. Lee. Thomas J. Godfrey.
For Judge of Supreme Court.
Luther Day. Win. J. Gilmore.
For Treasurer.
Sidney S. Warner. Stephen Buhrer.
For Attorney General.
Francis B. Pond. John McConnell.
For Member of Board of Public Works.
Richard li. Porter. Benj. P. Churchill.
“ General Rutherford B. Hayes, Republi
can, is the present Governor of the State,
he having been elected two years since ;
but the last Legislature was Democratic,
and elected Hon. A. G. Thurman United
States Senator, in place of Hon. Benjamin
F. Wade.
“ The. temperance men are also in the
field, and at first nominated J. E. IngersoU
for Governor, but he declined, as separate
political action on the part of the Prohibi
tionists did not meet his approval. They
then placed Mr. Samuel Scott, of Dayton,
in nomination for the position, and he has
signified his acceptance. Judging from
the result of the similar movement in
M <ine, the vote for the Prohibitionists’ can
didate will not be large.
“ At the last election in October, 1868, the
vote for Secretary of State stood as follows:
Republican, 267,065 ; Democratic, 249,682 ;
Republican majority, 17,383, in a total of
516,747 votes. The vote for President in
November following resulted as follows:
Grant, 280,128; Seymour, 238,700; Grant’s
majority, 41,428. The Legislature last year
was divided as follows:
Senate. House.
Republicans I" 49
Democrats 20 50
Democratic majority 3 7
« This gave the Democrats a majority of
ten on joint ballot. The Republicans (lur
ing the present canvass have been making
great exertions in order to overcome this
majority and to secure the vote of Ohio
toward the ratification of the proposed
Fifteenth Amendment to the Federal Con
stitution. This amendment has been heart
ily supported by the Republicans through
out the campaign, and it has been no
less heartily opposed by the Democrats.
The questions of the tariff and the pay
ment of the national bonds have also been
made prominent in the canvass.”
«> In lowa the State tickets placed in the
field are :
Republican. Democratic.
For Governor.
Samuel Merrill. George Gillcpsy.
For Lieutenant-Governor.
Madison M. Walden. A. P. Richardson.
For Judge of Supreme Court.
John F. Dillon. W. F. Brannan.
For Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Abraham Bkissell. Edward Jarger.
“ Governor Samuel -Merrill has been re
nominated, he having been elected to the
office two years since. The vote for Presi
dent last November was as follows: Grant,
120,399; Seymour, 70,040; Grant’s majori
ty, 46,359 in a total vote of 194,439. The
Legislature last year was politically di
vided as follows:
Senate. House.
Republicans
Republican majority 37 70
“ This gave a Republican majority of 107
on joint ballot. Os the iftembers of the
last Senate twenty-two Republicans and
four Democrats hold over. In 1868 lowa
voted on a proposed amendment to the
Stata constitution striking put the word
“ w lite” from the clause stating the quali
fier .ons oi electors, and adopted it by a
m ijority of 24,265 iu a total of 186,503
v- *es.”
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f-'-ie New York World says Mr. Corbin
hi . unloved Mr. Willi ou M. Evarts as
hi" missel, and it is understood that legal
pr>i ■•'l'mgs are to betaken at once, no:
on’ ••rims'- James Fisk, Jr., but against
tho ■ ■ >o< in his ernptav who hav ■ modi;
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The P. E. Church Bishops.
The New York Herald says: The Pro
testant Episcopal Church in the United
States has forty-niue Bishops. The Right
Rev. B. B. Smith, D. D., of Kentucky, is the
presiding Bishop; the Right Rev. C. P.
Mcllvaiue, D..1)., LL. D., of Ohio, the next
in seniority; and the Right Rev. F. D.
llnutington, D. D., of Central New York,
the last in the order of consecration. Bish
op Tuttle, of Idaho aud Utah, is the young
est in age, and Bishop Kemper, of Wiscon
sin, the oldest. Bishop Southgate, former
ly in charge of the Turkish Mission, and
Bishop Payne, late of Africa, are the only
American Bishops who have resigned
loreign jurisdictions. The Episcopal bench
may be thus theologically classified: Thir
ty-three High-church, two Broad-church,
fourteen Low-church. Os the “high” class,
a dozen are more or less inclined to ritual
ism—not given to its excesses, but favora
ble to many of its forms aud measures.
Such believe that the worship admits (in
symbols, at least) of altars aud incense, and
lights and jewels, aud robes and harps, and
songs and adorations, which some call
popish. They believe that the Church,
like nature, has her varied seasons, aud
should dress accordingly'; that Christian
symbolism, like the bow in the cloud, teach
es divine truth; that a flower is suggestive
of spiritual thought, that we should “ con
sider the lillies” even in Church, that we
should “ beautify the sanctuary,” “ worship
the Lord in the beauty of holiness,” bring
gifts to his altar, dwell in his courts,
“ walk about Zion,” etc. Daily prayer,
free seats surpliced choirs, choral services,
weekly communions, frequent ollertories,
elaborate decorations, systematic chari
ties, are in vogue with this class. Most of
them have their own cathedrals, which are
the centres of diocesan unity, as in Maine,
Western New York, Illinois, lowa, Indi
ana, Minnesota, Nebraska, California,
Georgia, Tennessee and Florida. The bish
ops who own cathedrals are not all, how
ever, ritualists. Lee, of lowa, and Coxe,
of Western New York, are quite the reverse.
Perhaps the Bishops best entitled to that
distinction are Becwith, Doane, White
house, Young, Whipple, Neely, and Kip.
None of these at all approach Father
Morrell’s standard, and can hardly equal
in catholicity, so-called, the noted English
Bishops of Salisbury (that was) or the
Sandwich Isles. Bishop Beckwith, of
Georgia, is the finest Episcopal orator.
He formerly divided the pulpit honors of
New Orleans with the celebrated Presby
terian, Dr. Palmmer. Bishop Doane, of
Albany, inherits his father’s taste and tal
ents. He is a great worker and enthusiast
for the church. Bishop Whiteliouse, of
Illinois, whatever his other qualities, is
allowed to be a great preacher and scholar.
We doubt if Cnicago or the West has an
abler one. His appointment to preach the
opening sermon at the Lambeth Confer
ence indicated his standing among his col
leagues. Bishop Young, of Florida, is dis
tinguished as an ecclesiologist and as a
warm advocate of the reunion of the Greek
and Anglican Churches. His last visit to
the East was productive of good ecclesias
tical results. Bishop Whipple, of Minne
sota, is known all over the country as the
Indian’s friend. He has done more than
any other citizen for their spiritual and
temporal welfare. Henry Ward Beecher
has written the best eulogy of this prelate.
He evidently believes in Bishop Whipple’s
apostolic succcession. Bishop Kipp, of
California, is a well known author. His
“Early Conflicts of Christianity,” “Double
Witness of the Church,” “ Catacombs of
Rome,” &c., have had a wide circulation.
He is a man of fine tastes and accomplish
ments. Bishop Neely, of Maine, is a noted
| musician. Unlike most of his Episcopal
* brethren, he can “singor say,” according
!to the rubric. He is the second Bishop in
I the United States who has led the song of
| Veni Creator Spirilus in the Office for the
Consecration of Bishops. The late Bishop
Hopkins was the first to use this musical
rendering of the service, as he was the first
to bear, or have borne, his pastoral staff on
religious occasions. Bishop Huntington's
works are voluminous, his most celebrated
being “ Milner’s End of Controversy Con
troverted.” His “ Law of Ritualism ” has
more Episcopal defenders than is supposed,
and many would practice what he taught
if they .dared. Bishop Huntington was a
musician of the first class, an architect
and an artist as weli as a theologian. His
church and diocesian school at Burlington,
Vermont, are the products of his own
hand. Few men ever possessed greater
versatility of talent.
Wh at the Carpet-Baggers Have Done
for North Carolina. —As appears from
the published acts, the pretended Legisla
ture of North Carolina, at its last session,
appropriated, in t irteen several enact
ments, the astounding sum total of $26,-
970,000. With the exception of $120,000,
this whole amount is on account of ten
railroad companies, the prime movers of
which might be found not far from some of
the most unscrupulous gamblers in Wall
street. It is not meant that North Caro
lina has a sum of money in her treasury to
meet these huge appropriations ; but still,
as they are allied appropriations in the
acts of Assembly, that name is here given
them—the fact being, however, that it is
issuals of bonds to the extent of twenty
seven millions of dollars that have been
authorized. So flagrantly absurd is much
of this legislation, that even the Radical
State Treasurer cuts the amount that can
stand the test of Urn pegroized constitu
tion of the State to $16,360,000, As even
this modified amount brings but thirty-five
cents on the dollar, it follows that at the
best the citizens of North Carolina have
their name forged to notes for $16,300,000,
whereas but a little over a third thereof, oi
-15,705,900, is ever received. Now, taking
this from the face of the bonds, there re
mains $10,594,100 on which North Caro
lina is bound, so far as carpet-bag legisla
tion can pecuniarily bind her, to pay inter
est until the bonds mature, and then meet
the principal, having for both principal and
interest never receive) anything at all.
Even for the five millions received so much
will be stolen that it is doubtful if the State
ever receives the use of one dollar in ten.
To suppose a community bound to honor
such obligations is to dignify open theft.
[Exchange.
Cot.. John Mosby Bays Fight—A duel
is in. prospect at Warreuton, Va., between
Col. John Mosby, the famous Confederate
scout, and Col. William Boyd, of flic
Twenty-first Pennsylvania cavalry. The
latter is sheritf of Fauquier county, Va.,
by appointment of General Canby, but is
bitterly opposed by Mosby, who lias used
every effort to obtain his removal. Mosby,
it is said, caused very grave charges to be
preferred against Boyd, and an investiga
tion was ordered by General Canby. Colo
nel Lee made an examination, which re
sulted in favor of Boyd. On the 2d in
stant, Mosby and Boyd met. Boyd ap
proached Mosby in a threatening maimer.
Mosby said, “Sir, I am unarmed and a
smaller man than you, bpt I am willing to
meet yon where life can be perilled equally
against life.” It is alleged that Boyd,
instead of desisting when he heard Mosby
was unarmed, attacked the Confederate
chieftain in au unjustifiable manner. The
result lias been that Mosby has challenged
Boyd in the following very decided man
ner :
Warhknton, Va., October 3d, 1869.
Bib : Your uote of the 22d is evasive. If
I omitted your offensive language it was
because I desired no explanation or apology.
My object has been to test whether you
would fight as a gentleman; and to remove
all pretext for further equivocation ; I now
quote your objectionable language. You
said that yox could prove, in Pennsylvania,
that I was a highway robber. I now de
mand satisfaction—no explanation or
equivocation—will you fight ? Col. Smith
has full authority to act.
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
John S. Mosby.
To Col. W. H. Boyd.
The London Telegraph cohsid ers_t hat Mr.
Gladstone has clone a bold act in giving
the ciiair of Modern History, at Cambridge,
to Prof. Seeley It is no longer any secret
that Mr. Seeley is the author of “ Ecee
Homo;” and, in the opinion of Lord Shafts
bury, “ Ecce Homo” is “ the most mis
chievous book that was ever vomited out
oftbejiwsof hell.” But it is not theolo
gy, but h Story, that Professor Seeley is to
i'iii. nas uCj •
.or ■>) ■ A. W lora firm at
$1.72,000.
The Days that are No More.
Oh, memories of gfeeu anil pleasant places,
Where happy birds their wood-notes twit
. lered low!
Oh, love that lit the dear familiar faces
We buried long ago!
From barren heights iheir sweetness we re
member,
And backw.ud gaze with wistful ■yearning
eyes,
A- hearts regret ’mid snowdrifts of December,
The Sumoiei’s sunny skies.
Glad hours that seemed their rainbow tints to
borrow
From some illumined page of fairy lore ;
Bright days that never lacked a bright to
morrow ;
Days that return no more.
Fair gardens with ibeii many blossomed alleys,
And red-ripe roses breathing outperiiune;
Dim violet nooks in green sequestered valleys,
Empurpled o’er with bloom.
Sunsets that lighted up the brown-leaved
beeches;
Turning their dusky glooms to shimmering
gold;
Moonlight that on the river’s fern-fringed
r< aches
Streamed, white-rayed, silvery cold.
O’er moorlands bleak we wander weary-hearted,
Through many a taDgled, wild and thorny
maze,
Remembering, as in dreams, the days departed,
The bygone happy days.
f The Argosy.
General Items.
The Rev. Dr. A. Paul Repitou, of the
Episcopal Church, Wilmington, N. C., has
accepted a call to Norfolk, Va.
Mr. J. O. Snyder, Cashier of the. South
ern Express Company at Richmond, Va.,
has resigned his position, and goes to Ken
tucky to engage in mercantile pursuits.
Elijah Pearce, of Newport, R. 1., eighty
years of age, assaulted ancl battered his
son-in-law, not long ago, and had to pay
$1,150 damages.
Yopon, a rare article, from which tea is
made, grows in abundance in the lower
counties of North Carolina. It is a mar
ketable article in Wilmington.
The spire of a Methodist Church in In
diana is surmounted with a hoop skirt, to
show that the church is under petticoat
government.
The Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad
Company has purchased the wharf front
age on Broad and Federal streets, Boston,
for nearly $3,000,000.
The Greenville (Ala.) Advocate gives an
account of the appearance of Miss Jose
phine Hutton as her own attorney in a case
before the Circuit Court in session at
Greenville, last week. She cross-examined
the witnesses and made her own speech.
Mrs. Cecelia Rhodes, of Polk county, N.
C., is one hundred years old. She distinct
ly recollects when the British army was in
Rowan county, and relates many incidents
that occurred during the occupation of the
State by them.
A man named McLean fell, while intoxi
cated, between two coaches of the down
train on the Chesapeake aud Ohio Rail
road, on Tuesday, near Charlottesville,
Va., and had both legs cut off just below
the knee joint.
It may be impossible to keep lice out of
hen houses, but they may be kept down by
cleaning out the house frequently and
sprinkling it with lime. It is a good plan
to whitewash it every year, sprinkle the
floor with ashes once or twice a week, and
change the hay in the nests frequently.
Cordelia Wacle, an unfortunate nymph da
pave, of Cincinnati, attempts suicide every
little while. On Tuesday evening she
threw a brick through a counting room
window of the Cincinnati Commercial, be
cause that paper, the day before, had made
remarks displeasing to her.
The New Jersey cranberry crop for this
season, in Ocean county alone, is valued at
$2,500,000. An acre of good cranberry land
is now estimated to be worth from SI,OOO
to $2,500. The demand in market is at ways
in excess of the supply, and one Philadel
pliia dealer who sold 2,000 barrels last year
lias orders for 5,000 barrels this Fa!!.
The Little Rock Republican tries to show,
in a column, why the Democrats should
not be trusted. It would take a great
many colmnns to show why the Radicals
should be trusted, and they would have to
be immovable iron columns, to show any
thing in that direction.
A strong effort is being made to secure
the services of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston as
President of the University of Nashville.
Gen. J. has signified his willingness to con
sider a proposition from the Board of Trus
tees, andlt is understood that at the next
meeting of the Board the position will be
tendered to him.
Richard Middelton, Esq., an old and well
known citizen of Baltimore, died on Wed
nesday, The deceased was a member of
the organization known :>s the “ Old De
fenders;” being one of that number when
Washington city was attacked, in 1812, he
inarched to Bladensburg to endeavor to
rescue it from the British forces.
An old colored man, widely known in
Powhattan cpqpty, Va-, as “ Uncle Reu
ben,” and the inventor of the celebrated
“ Powhattan pipes,” was found in the
woods, near Red Lane Baptist Church,
and within a few yards of his own door,
leaning back against a tree, dead, from a
gqn shot wound. He liad his own gun,
loaded, lying across his lap. No cine lias
as yet been found as to who was the perpe
trator of the deed.
Trenton, New Jersey, is on a broad grin
over a huge joke which has unintentionally
been perpetrated upon sonic of its highly
respectable citizens! An enterprising col
ored man devised a petition to tlip Common
Council of that city, asking for an enlarge
ment of the school-house for colored chil
dren. It occurred to him that the signa
tures of certain white folks might lie ser
viceable, and lie applied for and obtained a
large number. The petition commences,
“ We, the parents of colored children!”
Asa newly-married couple were one
night lying in bed, talking oyer matters
and things, a heavy thunder storm arose.
The loud peals of thumletaud vivid flashes
of lightning filled them with terror and
fearful apprehensions. Suddenly a tre
mendous crash caused the loving couple to
start as though they fyad received an elec
tric shock. Jonathan, throwing his arms
around Jjis dear, exclaimed: “Hug up to
me, Liz, let's die {lke men!”
Arrangement of the Foub Great An
nual Faibs in Virginia and Noirrn Car
olina for 1869.—These four exhibitions
will be held during four consecutive weeks,
as follows ; Border Agricultural Society of
Virginia anti North Carolina (its third an
nual) at Danville, Va., 13th, 14th and 15tli
October. 1809; North Carolina State Ag
ricultural Society at Raleigh, N. C., 19th,
20th, 21st. and 22d October, 1869 ; Lynch
burg Agricultural and Mechanical Society
at Lynchburg 26th, 27th, 28th and 29th Oc
tober, 1869; Virginia State Agricultural
Society at Richmond, 2d, 3d, 4th and sth
November, 1869. Thus affording, in point
of time and distance, Ample opportunity
for exhibitors and visitors to attend them
ail in one trip.
The managers ot* all the leading lines of
transportation will extend the most liberal
terms to the travel and to those sending
articles for exhibition. They charge fare
and freight ou persons and articles going
to the fairs, but return persons free, and
refund freight on ai tjjci.es when returned
over the same line.
Convicted ok Forgery. —John W.
Thomas, a prominent citizen of Noi-th
Carolina,-and for many years a representa
tlve of Davidson county in the State Legis
lature, was, at the last term of Qmldford
Superior Court, convicted of perjury, and
sentenced to six months’ imprisonment and
to pay a flue of one thousand dollars. The
alleged perjury grew out of some cotton
transactions which Thomas had in South
Carolina during the war, Jt being charged
that as. agent for certain parties, he made
false returns.
Among the aspirants for principal door
keeper of the Teunessee House of Repre
sentatives, at the recent organization of
he Legis a* u.ce. wa- ,A . L B trrey, the
t print r in An i•* II I ,' N.snbi to
K »t fay -•in 11 tai-iy..years of age, but
strong a'hd'active enough to “ make a regu
lar hand” on the Lebanon Herald.
State Items.
A base ball tournament will be held
during the fair at Macon.
The Americas Republican complains of
the great scarcity of dwelling houses in
that city, which is operating to keep away
persons who desire to locate there.
We learn from the annual statement of
the Mayor of Savannah, that the bonded
debt of that city, on which she is paying
interest, is $2,051,880. The principal part
of this debt was contracted to aid the vari
ous railroads radiating from that city, a
large portion of which was to aid the At
lantic aud Gulf Road, now extending to
Bainbridge, on the Flint river, Westward
236 miles, and branching from about its
centre, 40 miles into Florida, to a junction
with the Tallahassee and Jacksonville Road,
bringing to Savannah the trade of all South
Georgia, a large portion of West Florida
and South Alabama, and almost all of East
Florida.
Rev. C. W. Howard has discovered coal
in twenty miles of the State Road, in Up
per Georgia; also, immeasurable iron.
The LaGrauge Reporter announces that a
railroad meeting has been held in Meri
wether, on the subject of a railroad from
Kingston to Columbus via Newnan, Green
ville and Hamilton. $50,000 was sub
scribed and a committee appointed to raise
more. The meeting adjourned to the first
Tuesday in November, to meet in Green
ville.
The Savannah. Griffin and North Alaba
ma Railroad Company elected Captain A.
J. White, President, and Directors, George
E. Smith, Thos. A. Grace, for Coweta; B.
M. Long, G. W. Camp, for Carroll; John I.
Whitaker, for Fayette; W. W. Chapman,
Chas. A. Tindall, Ciucinnatus Peeples, for
Spalding.
The Rome Commercial, of Friday, says:
We had the pleasure of meeting Col. B. W.
Frobel, Superintendent of Public Works,
on yesterday, who visited our city to ex
amine the shoal on the Coosa river, two
miles from town, to survey the same, and
report to the next General Assembly the
cost of removing the obstruction, and the
necessity for the same.
South Carolina Items.
F. P. Beard lias been appointed to the
South Carolina University from Richland
county.
The Columbia Plumix says an interesting
religious revival has been going on during
the past four weeks in the Marion Street
(Methodist) Church. The pastor, Rev. W.
W. Mdod, has labored faithfully and suc
cessfully. Tlius far there have been nearly
forty conversions; over twenty have con
nected themselves with the church.
The Phot nix reports that the trestle work
over Cedar creek, on the Greenville and
Columbia Railroad—about twenty yards in
length—was destroyed by Are on Saturday,
and the down trains were delayed several
hours in consequence.
In Columbia, on Saturday, the grand jury,
in their presentment to the Court of Com
mon Pleas and General Sessions, stated
that the vice of gaming is carried on in
that city to an extent and in a manner im
peratively to demand the interposition of
this body. From information presented to
them, they recommended that proceedings
be instituted against James Crawford, Pe
ter Crete and John Kendrick for gaming,
or keeping and using a faro bank; and that
W. C. Falkner, J. L. Lumsden, George
Dart and John Simpson be bound over as
witnesses to prove the same.
Dr. A. E. Norman, the postmaster at
Walhalla, has be6n removed and A. Bryce,
Jr., appointed in his place. The Oconee
Courier says that Dr. Norman was guilo
tined for political reasons.
John A. Inglis, Esq., formerly one of the
judges of the State Court of Appeals, has
been offered and has declined to accept the
presidency of Oglethorpe College, Georgia.
The origin of the five in White’s furniture
establishment, in Charleston, on Wednes
day, has been traced to the fire from a pipe
which au old woman had been smoking in
the third story of the storehouse.
At the estate sale of Mr. Pender, in
Barnwell, last week, old corn sold for $1 30.
The Journal fears that the new crop will be
held at higher prices than for years past.
The Journal announces the death of Mr.
Wm. 11. Thomson, an old and esteemed
member of the Barnwell Bar.
There is great complaint in Barnwell in
regard to the yield of cot ton this season.
The Journal says it akes nearly seventeen
hundred pounds of seed cotton to make a
bale weighing fiye hundred pounds. It is
thought by some that this has been pro
duced by the protracted drought, but we
have as yet heard no satisfactory explana
tion of the matter.
The Strike of the Longshoremen—
Almost a Riot.— The laborers employed
by Messrs. Adger & Cos., in the place of the
members of the Union who were discharged
on Friday, continue to work on the
wharves, but on Friday night and Satur
day evening there was a serious expecta
tion of a riot, growing out sis the ejetermina
tion of the Union not to allow any men to
work at less than Union prices. On Friday
night, and also on Saturday morning, every
thing passed off smoothly, but on Saturday
evening at least three hundred colored men,
With a light fringe of whites, assembled on
the Bay, between tty?, qld Fqst Offjce and
Adger’s wharf. The workmen on the
wharves were expected to knock off at
about 6 o’clock, and by that hour the angry
excitement of the colored crowd was show
ing itself in oaths and threats directed
against the workingmen in particular, and
all whites in general. A few white men
were standing by the olcKPost Office watch
ing the course of events. Thty stirred the
bile of the negroes, who gathered at once
around these inoffensive citizens. Four
policemen were on the spot, but there were
no opeu acts of violence on the part of.the
negroes beyond the throwing of ope brick,
and no arrests were made. Encouraged by
tlieir apparent security, the negroes did all
that negroes could do to bring on a riot.—
They shouted out that “ they would drink
the blood of the white men,” and that “they
were as good as any white man” anywhere.
Hooting gild howling followed, the negroes
evidently trying tq force tlje white by
standers to attack them. We are glad tq
say that the white citizens conducted them
selves with a decorom and moderation
worthy of all praise. Our people want
peace, but if they are attacked they will
defend themselves in earnest.
So mote it be !—Charleston Hews, 111/*.
Another Fire in Charleston.—An
other fire occurred in Charleston on Fri
day morning, about 4 o’clock- The News
says:
The fire, which was evidently the work
of an incendiary, commenced in the rear of
the store occupied by Mr. L. Alexander,
who kept a stock of shoes and gents’ fur
nishing goods. The stock on hand was
entirely consumed. There was on it an in
surance of $4,500, in the International Com
pany, represented here by Mr. Samuel Y
Tupper. The building, of brick, with a
marble front, belonged to the estate of Mr.
Jacobi, and was insured for $12,000 in a
company represented here by Messrs Col
burn & Howell. Only portions of the walls
are left standing.
The flames communicated to the build
ing adjoining, No. 241, qq the South but
they were soon extinguished, not, however
until the stock, consisting of fancy goods’
toys, carpets, &c., was deluged with water’
This building belonged to the estate of the
late Charles Lambert. To repair the dam
age to it from fire and water will cost
about a thousand dollars. There is no in
surance .qii it in any of the companies rep
resented here, and the agent does not know
of any insurance having been effected at
the North. It was occupied by Mr A ll
ling, who is now in New York. His rep
resentative here informs us that the value
of the stock is between $25,000 and $30,000,
on which there is an insurance in eompa- :
nies at tire North, unrepresented here of
$20,000. ‘ ’■
The building adjoining No. 241, on the
North, also caught fire and was slightly
damaged—s3oo or S4OO will cover Jt. It is
owned by Mr. Lawrence Meyers, of New
York, and is insured for $5,000 in a com
pany represeuted here by Messrs. Ileriot &
Cos,
Tlie News reports still another fire on
Sunday niglr apusnuiing an unoccupied
hetta beionr 1.1 u/.\lr. VVm. chneider,
va.ll :d at $1 'o* • / ! » ti ■is algo sup
posed to nave been the work of an incen
diary. The property was insured for SI,OOO.
f Fiora the New Orleans Sunday Times.
The Author of Lacon.
BY E Tj. s.
The youths and maidnis nl the present, day
raroly see a copy of Lneon many me even i»jr
uorunl of the name of the iiu'hor, and older
persons who have read and a.l inired the terse
brevity ol hss wisdom, have never heard, or
else forgotten, the sad ending ot the man-—the
tidal throwing away ol it misspent life, "and
rushing uncalled into eternity.
Suicide seems to have become, as the ceuttry
draws tow , r d its close, a sort of mania, perhaps
to be accounted tor in the Uuiterl S ates by the
htet that so many lives, homes, hearts and
hopes have been destroyer by the recent war.
Seeing so many notices ol sitch deaths causes
the mind to revert to remarkable suicides of
'he past. Among some old papers, published
in thirty-1 bre-and four, I lnve found the last
lines wiitten by the Kev. C. C. Colton, only a
few hours before tiking his own life. “No
man was ever more generally known for the
number and incongruity of bis pursuits, or
presents a slrouircr exarpple of a mind at, once
sordid and sublime.” To a reiined and accu
rate remembrance of ancient erudition, lie
joined a familiar knowledge ot modern litera
ture. His “Ltcon” alone attests the depth and
universality of his powers, the strength ot his
argument, and the classical purity of his slyle.
Strange, indeed, it seems, that a mind so bouuti
tu’dy stored slionld have branched out into such
a compound of heterogeneous occupations. He
passed successfully through the tedious years
allotted to the education of a “ foundation
boy,” at Eaton ; had obtained a fellowship at
King’s College, Cambridge ; possessed one ot
the quarters of the new Church, Tiverton,
Devonshire, and ultimately became Hector ot
Kew. Therefore it may lie said,, that up to a
certain period of his life, he had received
nothing but benefits at the hands of fortune;
and his untoward disrepute and ultimate ruin
were attributable to himself alone.
For several years previous to his ' isit to this
country, his eccentric habits procured for him
an unlortunafe notoriety. A propensity fol
low gambling houses, and pot-house politicians,
excluded him from that honorable rank in so
ciety to which he would iiave been entitled by
his education and connections. The gambling
tables of St. James were his daily resort, ant!
he was ever remarked for his desperate play
and the large amount of his stakes. Little
seems to he known of his career during two
years residence in this country. From here
he went immediately to Paris where he was
soon remarked pursuing adventurous specula
tions at the tables of “rouge ct noir” and
roulette, and to all appearances well stocked
with cash. Some times bis gains were enor
mous, and he would count, over his winnings in
public cases, and vaunt his system of play with
a boasting air ; hut when he lost, would grow
furious and threaten destruction to the tables.
Whatever might leave been his success on
particular occasions, he invariably lost or
squandered his hoarded gains, and would fre
quently he reduced to the greatest misery and
distress. N>w he practiced as a horse dealer—
then figured as a wine merchant—then again as
a picture dealer, in which last commerce he
lost, nearly all of his means. No one felt more
sensibly the accumulated horrors of an aban
doned aud isolated position, and a “clouded
name;” lie would frequently spvnd whole days
in bed, in his mean apartments in the “ Hue tie
Chartres,” drawing from the fruitful resources
of his tniud that relief and abstraction he sought
in v.iiu among his fellow men. From this con
dition lie would lie aroused by some cue who
knew him in better days. Still one thing de
mands our pity; long before the disastrous
close of ins reckless life, he was afflicted with a
painful disease, and his bodily sufferings were
almost intolerable. He quitted Paris for Foun
taineblcuu, at a time when the cholera was
raging in all its fury, with the design of avoid
ing the danger of that, then mysterious, epi
demic. He had, however, no sooner arrived al
his destination, than be tell into a state oi ex
ciueiating pain from bis old complaint, and
obtaining the opinion of a medical practitioner,
an operation was found unavoidable,, and an
agreement was made for it to he performed tht
following morning. He spent the evening con
versing iu Ids usual manner ; before retiring to
rest he wrote for some time. About foui
o’clock in the morning the teportof a pisto'
was heard in bis apartment, and the unfortu
nate man was found dead, the weapon lying
rear him. On his table lay a manuscript', tht
ink scarcely*iiy, containing the following lines
leading one to think “Superior wit to madness
is allied.” These lines prove, as did some o
his posthumous works, that doubt and scep
ticism were the haunting demons of his il:
regulated but brilliant mind :
THE LAST WORDS Os TIIE 4UTI)QR 0? L^OOfci.
How long shall man’s imprisoned spirit groan
’fwixt doubt ol Heaven and deep disgust ot
Earth ?
Where all worth knowing never cut he known.
And all that can be known, alas! is nothing
worth.
Untaught by Stint, by Cynic, or by Sign,
And all the spoils of Time that load their
shelves.
We do not quit, but change our joys in age,
.Joys framed to stifle thought, and lead us
from ourselves.
The drug, the cord, the steel, the flood, the
flame,
Turmoil of action, tedium of rest,
And lust to change, though for the worst pro
claim
How dull Life’s banquet ii—bow ill at case
the guest,
Kuown were the “ bill of fare” before we taste,
Who would not spurn the banquet and the
board—
Prefer the eternal, but oblivious fast,
To Life’s trail, fretted thread, and Death’s
suspended sword.
He that the topmost stone of Babel planned,
And he that braved the crater’s boiling bed—
Did these a clearer, closer view command
Qf Heaven or IleU, we ask, thau the blind
herd they led ?
Or he that in Valdarno did prolong
The night, her rich star-studded pige to read—
Could he point, out, ’mid all the brilliant throng
His fixed and final borne, from fleshy IhraL
dom freed.
Minds that iiave scanned creation’s vast do
main,
And secrets solved, till then to sages sealed,
Whilst Nature owned their intellectual reign
Exlinet, have nothing known—or nothing
have revealed.
Devouring Crave! we might the less deplore
The extinguished lights that in thy “ dark
ness” dwell,
Wouldst thou from that lost zodiac one restore,
That might the enigma solve, and Doubt,
man’s tyrant, quell.
To live in darkness—in despair to die—
Is this indeed th ; boon to mortals given ?
Is there no port—no rock ot refuge nigh—
There is— to those who fix their anchor,
Hope, in Heaven.
Turn then, O man ! and east all else aside ;
Direct thy wandering thoughts to things
above—
Low at the “ cross” bow down, in that confide,
Till doubt be lost in failb—and bliss secured
in love.
Tbe caption of those lines plainly indicate
the pride of Colton in being the “Author of
Lacou,” for such he always signed himself, and
his “ ruling passion was strong in death.”
Jefferson, September 24th.
Gen. Robert E. Lee.
The following poem was written by Captain
Thos. F. Roche, formerly ot Loring’s com
mand, A. N. TANARUS., on the occasion ol Geu. Lee’s
visit to Baltimore iti behalf of the Valley Rail
road. It speaks for itself, and we venture the
assertion that there is not a true ntati nor wo
man in the South who, alter readiutr it, will not
say, “ God bless thee, Robert Lee
God bless thee, noble General!
God bless thee, Robert Lee !
Qur Southern hearts throb warmly now,
Once more we dream we're free ;
Once more our vivid fancy brings
Sweet memory's treasured store,
And we tread dear Dixie’s soil,
And fight our battle o’er ;
Again we proudly, fondly rest
Our lives, our hopes on thee;
In thought we grasp again our swords,
Resolved to die with Lee.
’Tis hut dreaming, Uncle Robert!
Our banner loyed is furled,
And of our glorious struggle goue
Scarce thinks a heedless world.
Our hopes have goue—onr cause forgot,
Unsung our myriad dead :
And from our bosoms yesterday
Hope’s shadows e’en have fled ;
Yet grasping now thy noble hand,
Old memories sweet of thee,
Arise and speed our beuisen—
God bless thee, Robert Lee!
Thy good gray head relentless time
Has silvered wbitjer now,
And pressed liis wrinkled signet on
Thy noble, shunless brow;
Thy lorm he bowed—yet durst not steel
The lofty, kingly mien,
That stamped thee, leader in eaqh fray,
First hero in each scene.
Our hearts to-day again are bright,
For full of love are we:
We can’t repress our battle-cry,
Hurrah for General Lee!
Tennessee Finances.— Secretary Fletch
er in a letter In reference to the state of
the finances in Nashville, takes a hopeful
view and savs that after consultation with
near y every member of the Legislature has
failed to find one who was in favor of re- :
pudiatiQh.
BV TELEGRAPH.
'Associated Press Dispatches.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, October 10.—Bom well, in his
Speech at. Philadelphia, sap*, - lie was aware
of the differences ol opinion as io ihe piiynieiil
e! the public debt, in tin maimer contemplated
by the administration, and would therefore
state, in a single sentence, the administration’s
entire policy with reg.rd to the public debt, as
he comprehended it : It. was that the debt was
to lie paid, principal and interest, according to
the terms of the contract, in Coin, or that
which men will receive as the equivalent of
coin, without any abatement whatever.” [Great
applause.]
Washington, October 11—Noou.—The De
partments and banks are closed.
St. Thomas had earthquakes, on the 17th of
September, almost equal to those of JBG7
In the Supreme Court, the Yergcr case will
he heard Friday, as to the question of jurisdic
tion. Tbe Brown case, from Texas, is to abide
the decision in Yerger’s.
Judge Fisher, in the Schureman case, sus
tains the motion for arrest of judgment on ac
count of a defective indictment. There are
thirteen other counts upon which Seburetuan
can be tried. Schureman was connected with
stealing notes from the Treasury and altering
them Turner, the negro Postmaster at Ma
con, Gi., is implicated in thecaae.
Washington, Octoberll-P. M.—The Court
of Claims met, but adjourned without business
in respect to ex President Pierce.
Farragut is getting well.
The President thinks the proposed purchase
of St. Thomas a had movement.
A large number of cotton eases on the pres
ent doekel’of the Supreme Court have been
taken up on appeal from the Court of Claims.
Many cases remain on the docket of the Court
of Claims, in which the same questions are in
volved as those taken to the Supreme Court.
Attorney General Hoar wil’, at an early day,
make an effort to advance these eases before
the Supreme Court, in order that those before
both courts may be settled. These cases grow
out of claims for cotton captured by the Uni
ted Stales authorities during the rebellion,
which was sold, and the net proceeds covered
into the Treasury.
Boutwell is still absent.
General Geo. B. McClellan will domicile at
the Metropolitan during the Winter.
lion. Jacob Thompson, of Mississippi, is
here.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Wilmington, October 11. — The case, of the
Cuba was opened this morning by Mr. G. P.
Lowery, of New York, who appeared with Col.
George Davis, late Atftorhey General of the
Confederate Statt-s, and Judge 0. P. Mears, of
this e’.ty, for the Republic of Cuba, by reading
the eeini;iis-mn of Commodore Iliggiiiß, as an
officer of the (Lilian Navy, and also a formal pro
test by him agau-si. the exercLe of jurisdiction
by the civil courts ov< r bis ship, she being a
public ship of war of a recognized nation
After staling the character of the vessel, Col.
Higgins solemnly protests in the name, and for
the honor ol (,’uha, against any detention oi
interference with his ship. The conclusion
of the protest is as follows : “ And now having,
for the dignity and honor of the Republic of
Cuba, made protest against the exercise of
a jurisdiction over public ships unknown
among nations and being willing and
desirous to have the truth known to al)
nations ami persons, and particularly the citi
zens of the United States, and do declare it is
untrue ; that the said vessel lias not, in any ol
her preparations, offended .against the neutrality
laws of the United States of America, in tht
manner charged, or in any other manner, and
aver that the said vessel is now in the same
condition, in every respect, as when she was
purchased from the Government of the United
States, in the mouth of June, 1809, except a
few immaterial alterations not relating to her
character or use as a war vessel; and except,
further, that the said vessel, since the said pur
chase, and while out of the limits of the United
States, arid more than twenty days after the
departure therefrom, and after we had
entered a British port, arid had been there
seized by the public authorities, exnmii.ed
and discharged, and bad cleared I hcrelrom, and
then, and tug tail then, was she -old and deliv
ered to the Republic of Cuba, and was fitted
out and armed upon the high seas, and beyond
the jurisdiction of tbe United St iles and of nl!
other mi.ions ; that, the proceedings aforesaid,
so far as being in Disregard of the right and
dignity ot the United Hiatus, were conducted
in a careful and Irno respect, therefor, and un
der th- sanction of well established principles
of public laws.
“ Edward JFLggi ns,
• “ Commodore Cuban Navy,
“Commander of Cuban steamship Cuba.”
Iu order to allow the Government time to
; produce witnesses. United States Commission
i er Rutherford continued the case till Saturday
j next, at 10% o’clock.
GEORGIA.
Savannah, October 11—The Democratic
vote lor Mayor and Aldermen is overwhelming.
Out of four thousand five hundred registered
| voters, the Democrats will poll four thousand.
! The negroes, generally, are voting with them,
j Everything quiet,
[second dispatch.]
! Savannah, October 11.—Col. John Screven,
; Democratic candidate for Mayor, and the entire
i Democratic Board, are elected by about three
; thousand majority. The official vote will not
; be known until to morrow. The negroes gen
t eraliy voted with the Democrats.
I VIRGINIA.
Richmond, October It.—Can by issued an
order to-day postponing uulil after the ad
mission of the State the appointment of State
proxies iu railroads. This order will likely
leave till the railroad organizations -as they
stand at present until the permaueut State gov
ernment gets into effect,
KENTUCKY.
Louisville, October 11.—One huudred and
forty-three delegates have registered, mostly
from the South. Millard Fillmore held a re
ception at the Court, House.
NEW YORK.
Nfw York, October 11.—The Euterpe de
parted with original cargo for Havana.
FOREIGN?
London, October I*.—Martin, (he Fenian,
died at the King’s College Hospital, n thou
sand persons attended the funeral. The mourn
ers wore green scarfs.
Four hundred people met at Nottinghill, io
favor of an extension ot Fenian amnesty.—
The speeches were inflammatory, but, the meet
ing orderly.
Vienna, October 11.— Francis Joseph joins
Eugenie at Constantinople, October 24tb,
when, accompanied by the Sultan, the party
will proceed to Suez via Joppa and Jerusalem.
The French, Austrian and Turkish fleets will
ponvey the party,
Madrid, October IL General Pierrad, re
cently captured and imprisoned at Tarragona,
escaped.
Paris, October 11.—The. coal miners’ strike,
in Aubin, continues. A large meeting iu the
arondi sement of Bellville was forcibly dis
persed. Several hurt. A large meeting, at
Mulhansen, of manufacturers io consider the
American cotton question aud other collateral
subjects. The meeting denounced tbe recently
concluded commercial treaty, and urged the
substitution ot customs tariff.
Tbe defeated party of Spanish Republicans,
driven across tbe lines, was promptly captnrM
by French authorities. A Republican demon
stration at Madrid is apprehended, but tbe
Government is taking great precautions.
CANADA.
Quebec, October 11.—A scow crossing Mau
rice river, from Point Chouteau, was swamped,
and fifteen men drowned.
Toronto, October 11.—Volunteers through
out the country are ordered to hold themselves
in readiness lor immediate service. The Gov
ernment apprehends another Fenian raid.
MARINE NEWS.
Savannah, October 11. -Arrived: Steamship
Rapklan, from New York.
Cleared: Schooner M. E. Gray, for Havre.
Wilmington, October 11.—United States
revenue cutter McCulloch arrived from Savan
nah yesterday.. United States gunboat, Com
mander Wilson in charge, arrived to-day at
2 o’clock, which has eleven guns.
Charleston, October 11. —Arrived yester
day, steamer Pioneer, from New York. Bark
•John Bright, from Philadelphia; brig C. V.
Williams, from New York.
Sailed yesterday, steamer Manhattan for New
York; schooner Tropic Bird, for Portland.
MARKETS.
Lonron, October 11—Evening.—Consols,
93%. Bonds, 84%. Sugar quiet, both spot
and afloat.
Liverpool, October 11—Evening.—Cotton
opened quiet but closed irregular; uplands,
12%@12%; Orleans, 12%@12% ; sales, 7,000
bales. Wheat, 9s. Od. Beef, 86s.
Paris, October 11.—Bourse opened fi«m.
Rentes, 71f. 87c.
Havre October 11.—Cotton opens firm and
qn>< : on spot, 147%; afloat, 188.
Havana, Onober 11—• tuck of sugar in Ha
vana and Matanz is, 267,000 boxes, 300 hogs
heads ; quotations nominal; buyers and sellers
apart.
New York, October 11—Noon.—Market
strong on Vanderbilt stocks ; steady and firm
on balance. Money, 5@7. Sterling, 9 ; short,
9%. Gold. 130%. ’62’s, 20% ; Tennessecs, ex
coupon, 61%; new, 56; Virginias, ex coupon,
51%; new, 53%; Louisiana.*, old, 70; new, 66;
Levees, 64% ; SV, 84% ; Georgia 7V, 90; North
Carolina*, old, 49% ; new, 43 ; South Caiolinas,
new, 65.
New York, October 11 —P. M.—Govern
ments closed dull;’62’s, 20. Southerns dull.
Money very easy ; supply more than abundant
at 5@7; discounts very dull; prime paper, fat
bank. Burling dull at 9. Gold quiet, but
firmer at 130%. Blocks heavy, but steady at
close.
Nf.w York, OctoborHl — Noon. — Flonr dull
ind s<g:lo lower. Wheat drooping. Corn 1
better. Pork dull at S3O 75. Lard quiet.
Cottou lower at 26%. Turpentine, 27%@28.
Rosin quiet; common, $2 20; strained, $2 25.
Freight* quiet.
New York, October 11—P. M.—Cotton fully
% lower; sales, 2,500 bales at 26%. Flonr
heavy ; superfine State, $5 50@5 65; common
to fair extra Southern, $6 lU@6 55. Wheat
heavy and lc. lower ; Winter Western, 38®
1 42. Corn scarce ; mixed Western, 98@fl 05.
Pork heavy at S3O 50@30 87. Lard firm; ket
tle, 18@18%. Whisky heavy at fl 21. Itiee
quiet; Carolina, B®9. Sugar active and strong.
Coffee linn. Molasses steady. Turpentine, 47
@4B. Rosin, $2 25@S. Freights declining;
cotton, steam, %; flour, sail, 2s. (id.; wheat,
9s. lOd.
Baltimore, October 11.—Cotton quiet at
27. Flour dull and weak ; holders disposed to
make concessions to effect sales. Wheat dull ;
prime to choice. $1 40@1 47. Corn firm:
Southern white, $1 10@1 12; low grades, sl@
I 05. Oats dull at 58@60. Rye, SI 10@l 15
Pork quiet. Bacon firm. Whisky, St 21 @
L 22. Virginias, old, 45% ; coupons, new, 53
bid.
Louisville, October 11.—Pork, s3l 50.
Bacon—shoulders, 17 ; sides, 20%. Lard steady
at 19. Raw Whisky, $1 15.
Cincinnati, October 11.—Pork, s3l. Lard,
17%. Bacon firm and quiet; no shoulders
out; smoked sides, 20.
Wilmington, October 11.—Spirits Turpen
tine lias advanced to 42% ; sales, 1,100 casks.
Rosin quiet; No. 2. $1 75. Crude Turpentine
. active at $1 50®2 55. Tar declined 15e.—sales
at $2 35. Cotton unsettled at 28@24 for mixed
grades.
Mobile, October 11. —Cotton in fair demand;
opened at outside ; closed quiet at quotations;
sales, 1,000 bales; middling, 24@24% ; receipts,
2,098 bales ; exports, 1,406 bales.
Slight frost this morning.
New Orleans, October 11.— Cotton lower
at 25%; sales, 8,450 bales; receipts, 8,840 bales.
Fiour drooping; superfine, $5 70; double,
$5 75; treble, $0 10. Corn scarce at $1 20.
Bran, $1 20. Hay scarce at $32. Pork, retail
ing at $34 50. Bacon scarce; jobbing, 18%@
21%; clear.2l %@21%; hams,2s. Lard quiet;
tierce, 18%@19 ; keg, 20%@21. Sugar—com
mon, 12; prime, 14%. Molasses—re-boiled,
G2%@75. Whisky firm at. $1 32%. Codec—
stock light; lair, 14%@15%; prime, J6%@
16%. Gold, 130%. Sterling, 40%. New York
Sight, % discount.
Charleston, October 11.—Cotton steady ;
sales, 450 bales; middling, 25% ; receipts, 1,289
bales ; exports coastwise, 1,296 bales.
Savannah, October 11.—Cotton—Receipts,
2,234 bales; exports, 1,029 bales; sales, 300
bales ; middling, 25 ; market dull.
Augusta Daily Market.
Office Daily Constitutionalist, >
Monday, October 11—P. M. j
FINANCIAL
GOLD—Buying at 1.30 and selling at 133.
SlLVEß—Buying at 125 aud selling at 130.
STOCKS—Securities am generally dull ;
Georgia Railroad, 103@104 ; National Bmk in
demand at 110.
COTTON—The market opened firm at 24%,
remaining steady until New York dispatches,
and closing weak and unsettled at 24% ; sales,
444 bales ; receipts, 582 bales.
BACON—Firm with an advancing tendency.
We quote C. Sides, 22%@23 ; C. R. Sides,
22@22%; B. B. Sides, 21%; Shoulders, ID;
Haras, 21%@2i>%; Dry Salt Shoulders, 18;
Dry Sait C. R. Sides, 21%.
CORN—Small supply. We quote choice
j whit), II 55 from depot.
WHEAT —We quote choice white, II 70®
j 1 80; amber, $1 60@1 70; red, $1 50.
FLOUR—City Mills, new, $7 50(5,0 50; a
retail, $1 Ig} barrel higher. Country, s6@9,
| according to quality.
! CORN MEAL—SI 50@|1 60 at retail.
OATS—9O@*l 25.
j PEAS—No supply. Selling at 11 50 for
seed.
CITY
Meeting of the Second Ward Dem
ocratic Club. —The meeting of the Dem
ocratic Club of the Second Ward was well
attended last night. The meeting was or
ganized by Mr. John Phinizy, President,
taking the Chair.
On motion of Roswell King, Esq., Mr.
Kent Bisell was requested to act as Secre
tary.
Mr. King, from the Executive Committee
for the past year, presented the resignation
j of the committee, which, on motion, was
received.
Mr. Phinizy then offered his resignation
as President, of the Club.
Mr. King asked a reconsideration of the
resignation presented by the. President,
and, referring in complimentary terms to
Mr. Phinizy’s qualifications for the posi
tion, nominated him for re-election as Pre
sident of the Club, which was accomplish
ed by acclamation, amid the cheers of the
assemblage.
Mr. Phinizy, with some hesitation, on
account of age and business interferences,
accepted the position so flatteringly be
stowed, and announced the meeting ready
for business.
On motion of Mr. Denning, the meeting
proceeded to the election of two Vice-
Presidents, which resulted in the choice of
Roswell King, Esq., and Dr. Sterling Eve,
by acclamation.
Mr. King placed Kent liisell, Esq., in
nomination as Secretary of the Club, and
he was also chosen by acclamation.
The Chair appointed the following gen
tlemen a committee to select an Executive
Committee for the Ward, viz.: Messrs. S.
H. Crmnp, W. J. Vason, Henry Myers,
Jos. B. Reynolds, Ker Boyce, and M. Mad
rey, to which, on motion, the Chairman
was added.
Col. W. J. Vason cited the meeting to the
registry fee of $1 imposed by the City Coun
cil. He considered the imposition of this
fee as conflicting with the constitution of
the State and acts of the Legislature. It
was a poll tax, and tbe State constitution
prohibited the levying of a poll tax, except
for educational purposes, and there was no
evidence that the amount arising from this
fee would be applied in that manner. Col.
V. argued his position at length, and would
move, if he could get a second, the appoint
ment of a committee of three to inquire as
to the authority of the City Council to
exact this fee.
Mr. John Phinizy, Jr., replied pointedly
to Col. Vuson, holding that the fee was
charged in lieu of a road tax, and not as a
poll tax, and, as such, the City Council had
authority to impose it. He further held
that the meeting had nothing whatever to
do with the discussion of the question
which had been sprung; that it had been
convened for the reorganization of the
Club, with a view to preserve the interests
of the city in the hands of the Democratic
party, in which it was now held. Mr.
Phinizy concluded amid the cheers of the
meeting.
Col. yason rejoined at considerable
length, presenting his views with earnest
ness and spirit, holding the question raised
as germain to the organization of the club.
That the imposition of the fee would ex
clude a large proportion of the voters of
the city from the privilege of franchise, to
which he considered every citizen entitled,
who could take the oath required, without
reference to the paXment of the registra
tion fee. He concluded with a renewal of
his previous motion for the appointment of
a committee, which met with a second.
Col. V. was again followed by Mr. Phini
zy, who maintained his former position as
to the constitutionality of the action of the
City Council in affixing a registration fee.
Mr. P. still contended, however, that the
meeting had nothing to do with the discus
sion of the question, and, in conclusion,
moved to table the motion of Col. Vason.
The Chair put the motion of Mr. Phinizy,
which prevailed, with but two'or three
dissenting voices.
On motion of Mr. King the former rules
of the Club were adopted for its future
government.
At the suggestion of Mr. King it was de
termined that the meeting adjourn to next
Monday night, after which the assemblage
dispersed.
A Man Severely Beat.— At the Augus
ta Arsenal, on Friday, Dr. W. C. Flowers,
w 'ith a stick, severely beat Mr. Michael
Gaines, who, for three years past, has been
employed as gardener at the Arsenal. The
face and head of Mr. Gaines are severely
bruised and his nose broken. He now lies
at his residence, in the upper part of the
city, in quite a critical condition, and there
is some apprehension felt by his attending
physician in regard to the ultimate result
oi his injuries. The beating, as we learn,
was administered because of the refusal of
Gaines, as gardener, to deliver some sweet
potatoes, demanded of him by Dr. Flowers,
without the order of Col. Flagler, Com
mandant of the Arsenal.
A warrant for the arrest of Dr. Flowers
was issued by Justice Me Andrew, on Holi
day night, and the defendant was before
that officer yesterday morning. The pros
ecutor not being able to attend the exam
ination, Justice McAndrevv admitted Dr.
Flowers to bail iu the sum of SI,OOO, for
his appearance, two weeks hence, to an
swer a charge of assault and battery with
intent to murder. The prosecutor was re
presented by W. Milo Olin, Esq., and the
defendant by George G. McWhorter, Esq.
Had Fortune.— Yesterday morning an
aged and infirm man, known as Professor
Ainsden, was received into the City Hos
pital. He has been known in this city for
more than thirty years as a school teacher,
and is represented by those who know him
as having been a fine classical scholar,
being a graduate of Dartmouth College.
For the past few years lie lias eked out an
uncertain aud scanty subsistence, passing
his days in wandering the streets and his
nights wherever lie could screen himself in
a friendly shelter, without home or protec
tion. He is now well stricken in years and
sorely afflicted, his once stalwart form bent
beneath the weight of years and accumu
lated disease from dissipation and ex
posure.
Recorder’s Court.—'The following cases
were disposed oi yesterday morning:
Joe Brown (colored), for violation of the
6th section—riding on the sidewalk. Dis
missed on payment of cost.
James Ferrell (colored,) violation of the
18th section. Plead guilty and fined $3
and cost.
Robert Kent (colored), violation of the
Ist section—draying on the Sabbath. Dis
missed on payment of cost.
Osborne Fullerton (colored), violation ofy
drumming ordinance. Plead not guilty.
Found guilty, and fined $lO and cost.
P. & M. Gallaher. —We have hereto
fore called the attention of our readers to
the fact that these gentlemen have resumed
the dry goods business in this city. Their
stock is now complete in all the attrac
tions of style and quality for the current
season, and is well worthy the attention of
purchasers. They are in daily receipt of
the latest patterns which appear in the
Northern markets, keeping their establish
ment up to the full measure of a first class
store. At 190 Broad street is the place.
Going to Rome. —The firm of Messrs - .
G. Volgcr & Cos., the widely known tobac
conists of this city, has been dissolved by
the withdrawal of Mr. W. J. Hiller, who
designs to establish himself in business in
the flourishing mountain city of Rome.
We part with Mr. H. with regret, and com
mend him to our Roman friends with the
best wishes for his future success among
them, assured that they will find iu him a
valuable acquisition, alike iu a personal
and business point of view.
State Elections. —'To-day elections are
to be held in Indiana, lowa, Nebraska,
Ohio aud Pennsylvania; in West Virginia,
October 23; in Arkansas aud Louisiana,
November 1; in Alabama, Florida, Illinois,
Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michi
gan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New
Jersey, New York and Wisconsin, Novem
ber 2 ; iu South Carolina, November 28—
(to 1111 vacancies in the Legislature.)
Hatch’s Carriage Repository. —This
establishment, recently removed to a com
modious store-room iu the Augusta Hotel
block, is now one of the decided attractions
of Broad street. It is constantly supplied
with the most handsome and attractive
equipages, as well as the most serviceable
vehicles. See advertisement.
Hot Cakes. —Messrs. Whitehead & Cos.
advertise a supply of superior new-hulled
buckwheat. This inaugurates thehot-cakc
season, and, with Stewart’s celebrated
“ amber syrups,” no person need go with
out a capital breakfast.
Augusta and llartwelu Railhoad. —
It will be seeu by the notice in our adver
tising columns that the committee ap
pointed to confer with tire City Council of
Augusta will meet in this city this morn
ing at 11 o'clock.
Personal.—Capt. John A. Grant, of the
Port Royal Railroad corps, was at the
Planters’ Hotel yesterday, engaged in mak
ing arrangements to advance the work on
that enterprise.
The woodruff wagonT
Is JUSTLY CELEBRATED as being the
BEST WAGON made for the South.
Our Agent, A. HATCH, has the exclusive
sale of this Wagon at AUGUSTA.
Every Planter should see these Wagons
belore buying of any other Maker.
Every genuine WOODRUFF WAGON has
our name painted ou the Back Axle.
TOMLINSON DEMAREST CO.
620 Broadway, N. Y.
We also manufacture FINE CARRIAGES
and BUGGRSS, of all the Fashionable Styles.
Catalogues furnished by Mail,
A. HATCH, Agent,
scp3o-2awlm Augusta, Ga.
DRY SALTED BACON.
lO BOXES Dry Salt LONG CLEAR SIDES
10 Boxes Dry Salt SHORT CLEAR
SIDES
5 Boxes Dry Salt SHOU LDERS
On consignment and for sale by
octia-1 J. 0. MATHEWSON,