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CONSTITUTIONALIST.
AUGHT ST A. GTA.
! THUESDAT MOBMNG, OCT. 21,1869
THE STATE ROAD AGAIN.
Some writer, evidently in the interest of
Superintendent Hulbert, has published,
editorially, in the Atlanta Intelligencer, two
labored articles, to break, somewhat, the
force of our criticism of the “ mg policy'' of
the “sharp and quick” individual who
manages the Western and Atlantic Rail
way. Now, from the ear-marks, we do
not believe the editor of the Intelligencer is
the author of the articles appearing under
the editorial head of our Atlanta cotempo
rary. Wherefore, we shall speak of the
writer as disconnected from the office of
the IrUeOigencer , and rather allude to him
as a shadow of the great Hulbert, and by
Mr. Hulbert immediately inspired. The
studious effort of Mr. Hulbert’s cham
pion is to distract popular attention from
our main charges, which were distinctly
enunciated as follows: First: That without
express authority from the Legislature, the
Superintendent was iu duty bound to
charge all citizens alike for services ren
dered, and, incidentally, make the road
pay as large a sum as possible into the
State Treasury, compatible with a judi
cious freight tariff as compared with other
roads. Second : That if the road was never
intended to make a reasonable profit on its
business—and under the management of
Mr. Hulbert should not be made to do so—
it was pure folly to advise the construc
tion of side lines to counteract any loss of
business threatened by rival corporations.
In the first article published in the Intel
ligencer, the writer says : “ The State Road
“is the offspring of a movement made by
“Cincinnati, over thirty years ago, to ac
“ complish what she is trying to do to-day.”
If that indeed Is so, Cincinnati should
have aided in building it. But it was built
by the hard earnings of the people of every
portion of Georgia, and, common hon
esty, should be managed for their general
welfare. If the people of Cincinnati, or any
other people., desire to avail themselves of
the advantages the road furnishes they
ought to, and are no doubt willing, to pay
reasonable rates for freight transported
over it.
The writer invites our attention to an
extract from a report made by a committee
of the Legislature in regard to buildingthe
State Road. In this report the benefit such
a road would be to the general prosperity
of the State is set forth in strong language,
and true as strong. But it so happens that
these very arguments were used purpos.ely
to convince the General Assembly and the
people that the road must be a paying one ;
that its income would be considerable and
thereby powerfully contribute to the reduc
tion of taxes.
Our attention is also directed to section
1015 of the Code of Georgia, wherein
authority is given the Superintendent to
transport lime, for agricultural purposes,
at 3 cents per bushel. Very well. If a law
was expressly necessary to give the Super
intendent power to transport limo for plant
ers at less than the regular rate, is not
another law equally necessary to empower
him to transport machinery, build side
tracks gratis, and pay for advertising the
business of miners, manufacturers, etc? We
concede that the Legislature is supreme in
the matter, and, until it shall sanction by
law the “my policy” of Superintendent
Hulbert, we again challenge his authority
to project side lines for and advertise the
business of any private parties at the ex
pense of the fund of the Commonwealth.—
And while we are on this branch of inquiry
we should likewise be pleased to know by
what right he presumed to appoint a State
geologist, especially after the General
Assembly had refused to recogize any such
official ?
Some discrepancy is found in our state
ment as to the amount formerly paid by
the road into the Treasury. We gave our
figures from memory, and, when alluding
to Governor Brown’s administration—
when gold and silver were the money
values of the country—we, of course, re
ferred only to the period antedating the
war. Major Wallace took charge of the
iroad under immense difficulties, and had,
we may say, just overcome them when he
was pushed aside to make way for the man
who made Bullock what he is. At all
events, he accomplished so much that, when
the affairs of the road were transferred,
Mr. Hulbert, even with his policy, has been
enabled to pay $25,000 per month into the
State Treasury.
No amount of specious reasoning will
blind the people to the fact that Superin
tendent Hulbert has scouted the proper
authority for his actions, and, in many re
spects, been a law unto himself. He has
acted not only without legal justification,
but without precedent and without the
plea of necessity. He is notoriously man
aging a great State property for the benefit
of a few, and not, as was always intended,
for the usufruct of the many. We fur
ther believe that he is egotistical, arrogant
and reckless. Beside, we are just as much
convinced as ever that the principle upon
which he moves is a wrong one, and, thus
convinced, we do not hesitate, and shall
not hesitate, to opppose him and his “pol
icy.”
Preaching and Practice. —The Herald
oracularly says:
“ ‘Liberties and reforms are to be granted
to the Cubans when they lay down their
arms.’ So we hear from Madrid. But all
history tells us that a people are more
likely to get liberties and reforms when
they do not lay down their arms. Let
Prim disarm the people by the gift of the
liberties they are fighting for. There is no
other way.”
General Sickles ought to make this the
basis of a new note to Prim. The Federal
Government has such a consistent record
in the premises.
TnK Way op tiie.Wind. —The New York
Herald says “ twelve months hence, from
present appearances, the Southern party
will hold every Southern State; and twelve
months hence they will drift into opposi
tion to the powers that be and in view of
something like a restoration of the old
Southern balance of power.”
Yes ; and we will drift into the possession
of money aud deal with our Eastern and
Western *' brethren” as we never kuew how
to deal with them before.
The XVth Amendment.— Just as the
Radicals are congratulating themselves
upon the safety of the XYth Amendment,
Parker Pillsbury threatens to march on
Washington at the head of a million of inlu
riated Yankee women. If Dr. Mary Walk
er, single-handed, could, throw whole De
partments into consternation, what may
not be expected of Pillsbury and his mul
titudinous spinsters ?
Not Very Big. —lt seems that WiLLiAk
B. Astor, who is worth some $60,000,000
cackles immensely over a gift of $50,000 to
the town of Waldorf, in Germany, where
his father was bom. This donation is
much less, relatively, than a copper coin
would be to a uegro washerwoman. And
yet, Mr. Astor, from all accounts, imagines
that it will reckon up a vast deal more
hereafter than a peck of “ widow’s mites."
Doubtful.- —Alluding to the horrible
Fantin Massacre, an account of which we
publish this day, the New York Sun thinks
it would probably be better to essay the
cure of the assassin’s mental disorder than
give him over to the executioner.
Wb think the man who could do that
deed had better be out of the world. Quot
ing the"«vep penitential psalms to rabid
pimals is a vain employment.
California.—The GWlden Sfeie loted;
on yesterday, for Judges of the Supreme
Court. Thfc vote Os ,the State for President
was: GfiAJfT, 54,5®; Stemtoc%:, 54578.£-
Gkant’b majority, 514, in a total of 108,070.
Hon. Henry H. Haight, the present Gov
ernor, is e Deffioctet, and Was elected ,in
1867. His term will expire in December,
1871. , 1 -i : l ft [
Grant’s Denial.—The President, in a
letter to Bonner, denies that' he had any
thing to do with the late gold panic, other
than suppressing it. He may not have had
anything to do with Fisk & Cos., but he is
unconsciously helping Bonner to adver
tise the: Ledger.
Our New York Correspondence.
New York, October 16.
The result of the elections in Ohio and
Pennsylvania are such as was indicated
they would be when the nominations were
made. The defeat in Pennsylvania, ap
pears, however, to have been caused by cir
cumstances which have arisen within the
past few weeks. The floods in Philadelphia
drowned out about half the voters in strong
Democratic districts, and scattered them
no one knows whither, and the Avondale
horror ihurt as badly in the mining dis
tricts, by reviving the feud between the
Welsh and the Irish, and driving the for
mer over to the Republicans. But for this,
Geary, who is very unpopular in his own
party, might have been defeated. But Gov.
Packer’s election would, in that case, have
been more of a personal than a party triumph;
and, with a Legislature strongly Republi
can, Would have had little significance,
beyoncj its possible effects on Mr. Packer’s
political fortunes.
But in Ohio the case was different. Mr.
Pendleton had the whole drift of events in
his favor, besides the most active efforts of
devoted personal friends (of whom no man
has a greater number), and yet Gov. Hayes
is re-elected by an increased majority over
that of 1867. This is due, in my judgment,
to the fact that Mr. Pendleton did not have
the sympathy of the leading Democrats of
other States, and especially of the North
eastern States, and received very little aid
from them. It is not ray province to argue
Mr. Pendleton’s financial policy ; but this
I will pay, that our people are becoming
more and more anxious for a return of specie
payments. The inconvenience of an irre
deemable paper has become vexatious in all
towns having a foreign trade; the existing
state of affairs may be tolerated, however,
some time longer, although its burdens are
felt to be more serious than those arising
from the taxation to meet the Interest on
the Federal debt. But anything that looks
to the aggravation of the greenback
nuisance, as it is popularly supposed Mr.
Pendleton’s policy does, would be rejected
by hundreds who are not Republicans, and
who are not strenuous champions of the
Federal credit, either; men, in fact, who
are afraid of the Radical cry of Repudia
tionists. No close observer of public
opinion at the North but must see that we
shall never be able to direct public opinion
closely to the huge Federal debt; secure its
just taxation and gradation until we get
back to specie payment. The burdens of
our tariff are greatly aggravated by the
depreciated currency, as a single fact will
show: A prime Invoice of Rio coffee in
tliis market is worth 12 cents, “ gold, in
bondadd the duty of five cents, “ gold,”
and the amount i3 17 cents, “ gold, duty
paid;!’ now comes the thirty per cent, pre
mium on gold, by which the 17 cents arc
increased to over 23 cents. The effect of
the premium on gold is felt in all the
various clianging9 of the coffee in reaching
the consumer, so that it amounts to 40 per
cent, by the time the planter is the buyer.
But when the planter sells his cotton, the
depreciated currency adds to his expenses,
so he does not net over twenty per cent, of
the premium, and therefore is subject to a
constant robbery in everything he does of
twenty per cent., through the operations of
an irredeemable currency.
A phase of the returns of the late
elections promises good results. I refer to
an approach to the equalization of votes in
different localities. The Republicans have
gained in strong Democratic counties and
Democrats have gained in strong Republi
can counties. The administration of local
and municipal affairs at the North since
the close of the war has been extravagant
and icorrupt. What with worthless pave
ment, wide boulevards and grand public
parks, taxation has more than Kept pace
with the nominal increase of values. These
things have brought odium upon which
< ever party happened to be iu power in the
several towns, as the diminished majorities
show. New York and Brooklyn send
eight members to Congress, and the local
expenditures of the two cities fall but little
below forty millions of dollar's annually.
The police, the schools, water, the fire de
partment, the courts, the public charities,
the lighting, paving and cleaning of streets,
the opeuiug of new streets, all cost sums
that seem scandalously large. The taxes
on a comfortable residence rarely falls be
low a hundred dollars, and often exceeds
one thousand dollars, per annum, and it is
constantly liable to extra assessments for
some purpose. The Democratic majority
in these cities will be greatly reduced this
Fall, in consequence ol‘ the growing dis
satisfaction with these burdens; but in the
Republican counties, where similar ex
travagance prevails, the Democrats will
make good their losses here. The fault is
in the times and not with parties, and we
have every prospect of obtaining, next
month, complete control of the Empire
State.
The sensational character which has been
heretofore achieved by the Northern press,
great as it has been, promises to be exceed
ed in the future. The people seem to demand
to be amused, rather than to be instructed
or benefltted. Sound arguments or reliable
facts, respecting matters of importance to
them, they care little for. “Business is dull,”
they seem to say; “ speculation dead ; so
your facts or your theories can do us no
good. We are tired of war, we are tired of
politics ; give us something to laugh at.”
And what is more striking is the penchant
to find something to laugh at in one’s
neighbor; piquant personal stories, lively
scandal, or comic portrayals of character,
are just the thing. A journal that attempts
to be dignified and decent is voted stupid.
There does not seem to be malice in this
new drift of public feeling ;in fact, he who
has the laugh turned upon him, and bears
it cheerfully, is voted a good fellow. But
woe to him who is over-sensitive, and be
comes fierce under the jests of the press.
Mayor Hall recently lost his temper under
some allusions to him in the Sun, and his
retorts only made people laugh at him the
more. “ Jim Fisk” laughed with the rest
when aU were laughing at him, and has
really advanced several degrees in public
opinion. Momus rules the hour ; and so we
go,
“ FROM GRAVE TO GAY.”
The record of private social entertain
ments is another feature of newspaperdora
with us, which hjs recently become promi
nent. Onedailyand one weekly journal
are almost wholly devoted to it. It has its
stronglyhold with shoddydora, and is not
so popular as “ sensation” and wit.
The attention of every one in general, of
the New York public in particular, having
been turned of late, in an especial manner,
to Wall street apd the affairs thereof, some
curious facts have, in consequence, been
brought to light, and of these the number
of reverend speculators engaged in the
very worldly transactions peculiar to that
locality is none of the least. Not a few of
these heavenly-minded individuals are pro
minent warriors in the battles of the bulls
and bears, and have proveu themselves va
lient in fight.. Ranking high among these
stands Dr. Vinton, of Triuity Church, who
has proven himself to be gifted with as
keen a vision, as to his own interest in
worldly matters, as it is to be hoped is his
insight Into the affairs of the spirit. Inde
pendently of a fine income derived from his
priestly offices, he has made, during the
course of some, years past, the neat sum of
SIOO,OOO in the street, and if,in addition to a
number of business transactions on his
own part, we take into account a still
greater number on the part of others (for
we understand that the divine in question
has had in charge not a few wards of
either sex, and to this being furthermore
superadded the still larger proportion of
everlasting souls committed to him, aud to
whom we may reasonably suppose the
greater portion of his time and attention is
given, (the little matters in Wall street be
ing unimportant and a by-play in compar
ison),; we may certainly exouerate this dis
tinguished shepherd and watchman on the
walls of Zion from the charge of sloth
brought forward sometimes by.the unbe
lieving against their clerical supervisors.
And not only have the clergy shown that
they can. hoVl their own in the battles of
the bull Sand bfeats, tint it is a ftsftt worthy
of note that two revprends now occupy
prominent positions, and are leading spirits
of the Gold Room.
Quite a sensation has been created in New
York Circles by the exhibition, at the Som
erville Ark Gallery,. of a series of pictures
entitled “The Nine Muses’;” these nine
in usee'being none other than the portraits
of nine beautiful American ladies, repre r
senting these' classic characters. The la
dies ate wtell known Iff New York society,
and were requested, mththis yiew, to sit
for their portents by the Artist Joseph
Jfaguini. Nine' more beautiful faces may
got be Seen together.
The first, as one enters, is Miss Nellie
* ; -e -!■■ ■ ■»
ffatythe, the daughter of Collector sSapythe,
and who certainly is pre-eminently beauti
ful. She bears the name of Thalia, the
divinity presiding over Comedy and
Epigram. With one hand she holds tH
classic robe, which flows loosely round her,
while in the other she holds the grotesque
mask: . **§r
The next, Miss Kitty Sullivant, appears
as Erato, the muse of Marriage, Feasts and
Dancing, and is represented playing on a
stringed instrument of antique form. A
crown of roses and myrtles is on her fore
head, while Cupid, with a lighted torch,
stands beside her.
Next is Miss Josie Blodgett, formerly of
Boston, who bears the name of Urania,,
the patroness of Astronomy. She is in a
sitting posture, wearing an azure robe,
looped with a crescent, a circlet of stars
on her forehead, while her left arm rests on
a celestial globe. Her right hand holds a
rod, with which she traces some mystic
figures.
The fourth, and, we were about to say,
the most beautiful, is Mad. de Lucca, the
wife of the Italian Consul, formerly of New
Orleans, and a daughter of Judge Kennedy.
Her dark eyes and hair give depth to her
beauty, which is not only a physical beauty,
but one of the soul. This queenly woman
bears the appropriate title of Melpomene,
the Goddess of Tragedy, and wears a crown,
sceptre and dagger. The costume in this
painting, we are informed, was copied from
the dress worn by Mad. Ristori in the
character of Pheedra, and was loaned by
her to Mr. Faguini for this picture.
The Goddess Polyhymnia, the presiding
divinity of Sacred Poetry and Eloquence, is
impersonated by Mrs. Gen. Barlow, who is
seated, her head leaning upon her left hand
and a roll of parchment in her right, a tri
pod and lyre upon one side.
The character of Clio, the Muse of His
tory, is most appropriately given to Mrs.
Wm. M. Johnson, a woman of commanding
presence and intellectual countenance
Crowned with laurel, she is seated engaged
in writing on a roll of parchment, support
ed on a marble slab.
Calliope, the Goddess of Epic Poetry, is
holding a manuscript of the Iliad in one
hand, and in the other a trumpet. Miss
Lizzie Wadsworth is here her beautiful
representative.
Exquisite aud appropriate is the selection
of Mrs. Geo. Ronalds for Terpsichore , the
Muse of Dancing, and in no description is
it possible to give an idea of the etherial
grace and lightness of her figure, enveloped
in zephyr-like folds of floating drapery.—
She is the purest of blondes.
Last of all, but far from least, we note
Euterpe, Miss Minnie Parker, well known
as a fine amateur singer. To Euterpe is as
cribed the invention of the tragic chorus.
Willoughby.
Report from the Committee on Taxa
tion, by Hon. Henry W. Hilliard, of
Georgia, Chairman.
One of the most important subjects be
fore the Commercial Convention at Louis
ville, if not the most important of all, was
the subject of taxation. Upon a resolution
offered by Hon. PI. W. Hilliard, a commit
tee was appointed to consider it, and the
following report was made by him, pro
posing, as will be seen, the almost total
abandonment of the present Internal Rev
enue system. We invite attention to this
very important and interesting matter.
The report and resolutions, after a speech
from Mr. Hilliard, were adopted unani
mously :
The committee, to whom was referred
the subject of taxation, report: That they
recognize the necessity of taxation for the
support of the Government, and feel the
importance of a strict adherence to the
obligations already entered into by it. It
is clearly proper to adopt a system of tax
ation that will not only provide for the
necessary expenses of the Government, but
insure the prompt payment of the interest
upon the public debt, and furnish the means
for its extinguishment. Taxation neces
sarily derives its character from the form
of government under which it exists. Un
der monarchies the object is to provide for
the expenditures of a government always
splendid, often extravagant, and aiming at
its own aggrandizement rather than the
welfare of the people. Under a republican
system the great object should be to protect
the people, encourage their industry, and
develop the resources of the nation, while
its legislation should be directed to the ad
vancement of the prosperity and happiness
of the masses, rather than the augmentation
of its own power. In the government of
1 he United States the proper form of taxa
tion is the simplest. The existing mode of
taxation is complex, extravagant and op
pressive. It is the opinion of your commit
tee that the present system of internal reve
nue taxation should be derived from a few
sources, and those such as tax the follies,
extravagances, and vices of the people,
rather than the honest industry of the coun
try. It is better to tax luxuries than arti
cles that enter into the necessary consump
tion of families in humble circumstances.
Your committee, therefore, recommend that
the internal revenue should be collected
from taxes laid upon the following articles:
Licenses, stamps, tobacco, liquors, distilled
spirits, aud from land sales, fines and for
feitures. As the laws now stand there can
be collected from these sources the follow
ing amount of revenue:
Licenses $25,000,000
Stamps 15,000,000
Tobacco, cigars and snuff 21,000,000
Miscellaneous receipts (aud
sales, forfeitures, &c.) 25,000,000
Fermented liquors aud domestic
wines . 6,000,000
Distilled spirits 60,000,000
Custom duties 175,000,000
Total $327,000,000
At the present time, it is a conceded fact
that $800,000,(XX) will provide for the ex
penses of the Government, the payment of
the interest on the public debt, and a sink
ing fund of one per cent, upon that debt,
which will pay the whole of it in thirty
years, thus leaving, after meeting all de
mands, a surplus annually of $27,000,000
derived from these few sources, inde
pendently of the accumulations from the
progressive industry of the country.—
The actual receipts from the sources
named under existing laws verily the above
statement, and your committee are clear
and earnest in the opinion that the people
should demand aud require from the hands
of their representatives immediate legisla
tion for the reduction of taxation to the few
sources enumerated, not only as presenting
a simple form for the collection of revenue,
more in accordance with a republican gov
ernment, but as tending to allay agitation
of the repudiation of the debt of the nation;
for, in onr judgment, much of the restless
ness of the people in regard to that subject
arises from the burdensomeness, inequality
and inquisitorial character of the present
system. The plan of taxation proposed by
your committee at once diminishes the
large number of revenue officers, the great
expense of the present system, and abates
the irritation engendered by the manner in
which it is carried oat. The espionage upon
the business transactions of the people is
daily becoming more odious, and unless
some plan of relief lie adopted, will prove
to be intolerable. As before stated, it is
only required to provide means for carry
ing out the Government, and the payment
of the principal and iuterest of the national
debt. Taxation is at all times a subject of
complaint, and no government should lay
taxes beyond the actual necessities of its
economical administration, while they
should be collected in a manner as simple
and inoffensive as possible. Your commit
tee believe that they have shown how an
ample revenue may be derived from a few
sources. Their charaeterprecludesany great
expense in collecting the taxes imposed on
them, and the system promises an exemp
tion from the irritation that results from
the existing plan. Taxation which touches
the luxuries, the vices, and the follies of a
people is never a subject of complaint, and
the articles named by your committee as
sources of revenue belong mainly to that
class. It is believed that not a single dis
senting voice will be raised against the
plan thus proposed—a plan that at once
simplifies the system of national taxation,
relieves the people from expenses, espion
age, and frauds, while it diminishes official
corruption, and lifts the burden from the
legitimate labor of the country, relieving
the honest man who makes his correct re
turns from the payment of taxes that
should be paid by those who evade the
laws. Your committee would further say,
that in order to prevent any falling off in
the amounts set down to be derived from
custom duties, when this plan is put in
actual operation, and the flooding of the
country with imported goods for the bene
fit of the foreign manufacturer, npon the
resumption of specie payments. Congress
should, and will, doubtless, adjust the
tariff so as to suit the new condition of the
business of the country. The rate of deities
may be increased in proportion as the price
of gold and foreign exchange may recede,
thus keeping the cost of importations at
the present scale, Including the existing
rate of foreign exchange. This could be
followed by a gradual redaction of such
increase from time to time, until brought
down to the original rate. Commerce
would adjust itself to this legislation, and
import would b* held back In View of the
reduction provided for; so that the coun
try would not suffer from a sudden decline
in prices. The steady reduction of the
volume of irredeemable currency, and the
consequent reduction ofprlcis, wouMpfe.ee
the manufactured and agricultural produc
tions bf the country on a footing that
would enable them to enter into iuccessful
competition with those of other nations in
the markets of the world.
In regard to the system of taxation
existing in some of the States, we respect
fully suggest that it should be amended.
Local taxation should be equal, attdlbased
upon values, and the actual property of the
citizen. It should be the object of the
State to tax capital rather than labor. In
dustry should be rewarded and enterprise
encouraged. In too many instances there
is a heavy tax laid upon the business of
the man who is trying to maintain his
family and accumulate some means for
their support. Every man should be per
mitted to earn his bread in the sweat ofJ»is
face, without paying a heavy tax fofthe
privilege. In some instances we observe
that legitimate business is taxed, as if It
were the object of the State to pnnish or
destroy it. It should be the policy of the
State to encourage industry, and to make
its territory as inviting as possible to all
who seek to carry on an honest business
within it limits. Therefore, be it
Resolved, 1. That this convention ap
prove of the plan proposed by its Com
mittee on National Taxation for simplify
ing the present internal revenue system,
and for reducing the sources of revenue to
the few set forth in the report, aud reoom
inend its speedy adoption by the Congress
of the United States.
2. That the Secretary of the convention
be instructed to forward a copy of the fore
going report and resolution to the Presi
dent of the United States, the Vice-Presi
dent, the Speaker of the House 6f Repre
sentatives, and the Secretary of the
Treasury, and the Governors of the several
States.
f Correspondence N. Y Journal of OomracTce.
The Pantin Massacre.
THE MOST HORRIBLE CRIME OF THE AGE.
Paris, October 1,1869.
I resume my pen at a moment when all
Paris is ringing with the details of the ffiost
horrible atrocity which has ever, perhaps,
figured in the annals of crime.. Everything
else is forgotten in presence of the shock
inflicted on society by this most frightful
violation of the primary law on which its
constitution depends—the security of hu
man life. We had euongh of sensational
matter, and more than enough, Heaven
knows, before this terrible Pantin massa
cre occurred, to keep public attention alive
and in a state of excitement. A Govern
ment tumbling, or rather having already
tumbled to pieces, and nothing apparently
being got ready to replace it; a half con
stituted Legislature; a sick Emperor; a
weak, wavering, reactionary and unpopular
Ministry; a clamorous, revolutionary press,
growing bolder every day in its language
and attacks; a discontented and disap
pointed population, full of vague aspira
tions, but in reality hardly knowing what
it wants, or how to carry out in practice
its newborn enthusiasm for political liberty.
Here were elements sufficient already for
confusion and bewilderment; to say nothing
of such incidents as Father Hyacmthe fling
ing his carol and sandals in the Pope’s ftce,
by way of revealing that the secret disor
ders and dissensions of the religious world
were as ready to break out into ebullition
as those of the political. But all these,
and foreign affairs and troubles to boot—
Spain, Cuba, Prussia, Baden, the reported
insanity of the Emperor Alexander, as
much as the decayiug streuth and intelli
gence of the Emperor Napoleon—all
have been swept aside in presence of the
horrors of that field of Pantin, of which
posterity hereafter may well relate that it
is called a “ field of blood” until this day !
A mother and six children murdered and
gashed and mangled, and just thrust under
the sod, with their hands almost sticking
out of the ground, as though that Were
sufficient burial for concealment, on a spot
within half an hour’s walk from the walls
of Paris, and traversed by railway trams
from morning till night. Pantin' lies be
tween Paris aud Bt.. Denis (itself a mere
faubourg now of the capital,) aud passers
to and fro “ nose” the unsavory locality,
which was already a by word of abomina
tion to the inhabitants as a receptacle of
the night carts of the metropolis. Truly,
indeed, may it now be said to be a field of
bad odor, for here has been enacted a scene
of which the relics* when found, remind
one of a quarry of wild beasts, or rather of
wild men ; such, for instance, as that which
Defoe describes when he makes Robinson
Crusoe visit the carnage which remains
after a banquet of cannibals. The ddec/.a
membra and ripped bodies of the victims,
cut up and lacerated as well as murdered
might well seem to have first provided a
horrid feast for the monsters who su ataan
gled them after slaying. The dctafflTof
their condition when drawn from thesright
layer of earth which covered them, and of
the subsequent post mortem examination
of their injuries, are perfectly sickening.—
What a spectacle rises up to one’s mind’s
eye as one attempts to realize the scene of
horrors ! The screams of the woman and
her children, rising upon the darkness aud
silence of the night; the fearfully inter
mingled sounds of blows and gashes,
and shrieks and lamentations—“ Rachel
weeping for her children”—which must
have intervened before the assassins
could have pursued, overtaken aud done
their work ou all their victims and
reduced all again to a silence more
awful even than their cries! And then,
immediately, comes the involuntary ques
tion : Who couljl have done all this?
Who, and how mny, and with what sud
denness, rapidity and unprepared ness, for
him, or them, to have escaped detection or
observation, by sight or sound, even in the
very act V The mother was strong and
resolute; there were boys of sixteen and
fourteen years of age, besides the ydnnger
children, whose first instinct, one would
think, would be to fly, shouting for help,
in all directions at once, and who were
to be followed, overtaken and brought
back to the shambles. Yet, at the moment
when I write, justice has as yet lakl her
hand but upon one man, or rather vouth,-
barely twenty years of age, and far from
robust in appearance, and stamped him as
the sole or chief perpetrator of the dreadful
deed. Here is one, certainly, of. the chief
mysteries to be yet cleared up in this terri
ble crime. It can scarcely be necessary for
me to repeat here, at any length, the end
less details, more or less relevant, which
will reach you in the published statements
of this dreadful transaction. At the pres
ent moment the shocking story, divested
of extraneous circumstances and irrele-
vances seems to amount simply to this: An
industrious and saving mechanic named
Kinck, with his wife and six children (all
by the same mother), lived at Roubaix.—
The eldest son, Gustave, was eighteen the
second sixteen, and so on down to' the
youngest child of three or four years. They
had accumulated considerable property for
people in their station, to the extent of
seventy thousand or eighty thousand
francs. The family appears to have been
for some time what the French term
en l'air , as to their future movements and
residence, the father wishing to return
to his native province of Alsace, and the
mother not liking to do so. Hence a good
deal of gossip and talking of their-affairs
and prospects among themselves and their
neighbors. Among the latter were the
Traupmanns, and chiefly the son, swoun"
man of about twenty, With whom jhnek
the elder seems to have been connected
both in business matters and also to have
been very communicative as to his proner
ty and future intentions. This Trann
mann, who is clearly described as beiuff
of that class of young Frenchmen, somf
merous in the present age, who are indocil
ispauperiempah-who will brook anything
but poverty, and yet have no mind to wait
till they can enrich themselves by honest
exertions-appears to have formed the de
liberate determination to possess himself
some time or other, of the property of the
Kinck family, and to avail himself of his
knowledge of their affairs only for that
purpose Accordingly, when-he knew of
mid perhaps instigated, the denature of
Kinck the father to Alsace (who £d D re
viously remitted thither, through
ofoce at Guebwiller, a sum of francs
w.th a view to his projective settlement in
that part of the country), Traonmann
either joins himself to or followsTK
murders him (as is supposed) on thTroSi
and attempts to get the 5,500 ff an S ou t of
the post office in his name.
he allures Gustave Kinck to Guebw Hci in
his father’s name, thinking, probahil thit
the „„ would be sure
and then he goes off to Paris hinnSf cal’
culatmg, first, to draw Gustave afW
with the 5,500 francs in his pockrt 5
then the wife and family, with alf’thefr
other securities and property a *i there
murder them all and take po’ssdSi'on
Aud. extraordinary as it
ro,r^»rQ v .xrisS
to Guebwiller, and, though he rtd nht
get the money from the post 6 o J° e
did go to Paris, lured on byTm™.™
writing to him in his already dead father’s
name, and was there murdered, in the ex
pectation, doubtless, of finding Ae fi ?00
francs in his pocket, or at l&t ’ L one
more of the family put out
Pursuing his horrible plan, Tratnmami
next proceeds (still personating RhE* the
father) to Wire the rest of his previ to de
structlon, and actually succeeds ii bring
ing to Paris the mother and he* flt e othlr
children; in murdering, or having them
murdered as abqve; in possessing!) i msel f
of all (heir securities, and in amvingat
M|vre, en route for America, with the
property In his possession. There he was
arrested and made a confession, implicat
ing the Kincks, father and son, as princi
pals in the murders of their family, and
representing himself only as an accessory.
His story was utterly incredible from the
first, and every circumstance has since
gone to prove its falsehood. There can,
indeed, be little doubt that Traupmann
has been the sole Concoctor and instigator
of the crime, though it is hardly probable
that he could have been the sole perpetra
tor of it, unless he had succeeded in first
drugging his victims. The chief mysteries
to be unraveled are, first, the time and
manner of the murder of the elder Kinck,
and the place of concealment of his body ;
secondly, whether the younger Kinck was
murdered before, as seems probable, and
how long before his mother, and brothers,
and sisters ; and lastly, who and what per
sons, if any, assisted Traupmann in the
final butchery. No doubt all these inci
dents will ere long be cleared up and ex
plained either by the confession of the chief
criminal or by the investigations which are
now being actively pursued in every direc
tion.
' Mr. Beecher’s Book Farming.
ASTONISHING SPECULATIONS IN SWINE—
PUMPKINS FROM WATERMELON SEEDS —
THE CROP OF DRIED APPLES—WORKING
ON SHARES BEAUTIFUL SWEARING
BEECHER WORKING FOR HORACE.
[From Mark Twain’s “ Bucher's Private Ilabits.”
Mr. Beecher’s farm consists of thirty-six
acres, and is carried on on strict scientific
principles. He never puts in any part of a
crop without consulting his book. As
soon as the library is complete, the farm
will begin to be a profitable investment.—
But book farming has its drawbacks. On
one occasion, when it seemed morally cer
tain that the hay ought to be cut, the hay
book could no:, be found, and before it
was found it was too late, and the hay was
all spoiled.
Mr. Beecher raises some of the finest
crops of wheat in the'country, but the un
favorable difference between the cost of
producing it and its market value after it
is produced, has interfered considerably
with its success as a commercial enterprise
His special weakness is hogs, however.—
He considers hogs the best game a farm
produces. He buys the original pig for
$1 50, and feeds him S4O worth of corn,
add then sells him for about SO. This is
the only crop he ever makes any money on.
He loses on the corn, but he makes $7 50
on the hog. He does not mind this, be
cause he never expects to make anything
on corn any way. And any way it turns
out, he has the excitement of raising the
hog anyhow, whether he gets the worth of
him or not. His strawberries would be a
comfortable success if the robins would
eat turnips, but they won’t, and hence dif
ficulty.
Two years ago Mr. Beecher’s far-sighted
ness warned him that there was going to
be a great scarcity of watermelons, and
therefore he put in a crop of twenty-seven
acres of that fruit. But when they came
up they turned out to be pumpkins, and a
dead loss was the consequence. Sometimes
a portion of his crop goes into the ground
the most promising sweet potatoes, and
comes up the most infernalest carrots—
though I never have heard him express it
just in that way. Mr. Beecher’s most dis
astrous experience was the time he tried to
raise an immense crop of dried apples. He
planted fifteen hundred dollars’ worth, but
never a one of them sprouted.
Mr. Beecher’s farm is not a triumph. It
would be easier on him if he worked it on
snares with some one ; but lie cannot find
anybody who is willing to stand half the
expense.
Mr. Beecher never swears. In all his
life a profane expression has never passqflU
his lips'. But if he were to take it into his
head to try it. once, he would make even
that disgusting habit seem beautiful; he
would handle it as it never was handled
before, and if there was a wholesome moral
lesson hiddeu away in. it anywhere, he
would ferret it out and use it with tre
mendous effect. Panoplied w ith his grand
endowments—his judgment, his discrimina
ting taste, ids felicity of expression, his.
graceful fancy—if Mr. Beecher had a mind
1o swear he would throw into it an amount
of poetry, and pathos, and splendid im
agery, and moving earnestness, and resist
less energy, topped off and climaxed with
a gorgeous pyrotechnic conflagration of
filigree and fancy swearing, that would as
tonish and delight the hearer, and forever
after quiver through his bewildered mem
ory an exquisite confusion of rainbows
and music, and thunder and lightning. A
mui of a, high order of intellect, and appre
ciation could sit and listen to Mr. Beecher
swear for a week without getting tired.
Mr. Beecher is very regular in his habits,
lie always goes to bed promptly between 9
; and S o’elock, and -never upon any account
allows himself to vary from this role. He,
is just as particular about getting up,
which he does the next day, generally. He
has to preach, and he lias to make the ded
ication speeches for ail sorts of things, and
he is obliged to make a few remarks on
nearly all distinguished occasions, because
very often Mr. Greeley is busy, and cannot
come. And besides, he lias to carry on his
farm.
Slurs on Women.— Of all the evils pre
valent among young men, avc know of
none more blighting in its moral effects
than to speak slightingly of the virtue of
women. Nor is there anything in which
young men are more thoroughly mistaken
as the low estimate they form of the integ
rity of women—not of their own mothers
and sisters, but of others, who, they forget,
are somebody else’s mothers and sisters.
Asa rule, no person who surrenders to the
debasing habit is to be trusted with any
enterprise requiring integrity of character.
Plain words should be spoken on this
point, for the evil is a general one, and
deep-rooted. If young men are sometimes
thrown into the society of thoughtless or
lewd women, they have no more right to
measure all other women by what they see
of these than they would have to estimate
the character of honest and respectable
citizens by tiie developments of crime in
our police courts. Let our young men re
member that their chief happiness of life
depends upon their utter faith in women.
No worldly wisdom, no misanthropic
philosophy, no generalization, can cover or
weaken this fundamental truth. It stands
like the record of God itself—for it is no
thing less than this—and should put an
everlasting seal upon lips that are wont to
speak slightingly ot women.
[American Odd Bellow.
Short Rules in Rural Economy.—
Paint all tools exposed to the weather, and
if with a light colored paint they will not
heat, warp or crack in the sun.
Dipwell seasoned shingles in a lime wash,
and dry them before lay inn, and they will
last much longer, and not become covered
with moss.
Dip the end of nails into grease, and they
will drive easily into hard wood, where they
would otherwise double and break.
In plowing or teaming on the road in hot
weather, always rest the horse on an emi
nence, where one minute will be worth two
in a warm valley.
In setting out young orchards, always
register the varieties immediately in a book,
where they may be referred to iu a few
years, when the trees commence bearing,
and the labels are lost, and names are for
gotten.
In laying a garden for fruits and vegeta
bles, place everything in drills or rows, so
that they may be cultivated by a horse, and
thus save the expense of hard labor.
When board fences liecome old, and the
boards begin to come off, nail upright,
facing strips upon them against each post,
and the boards will be held to their places,
and the fence last several years longer.
Another Victim of Military Tyranny.
—A telegram dated Marshall, Texas,
October 14th, says Colonel R. P. Crump,
recently acquitted before the Military Com
mission, died at Jefferson, to-day, at 2
o’clock, another victim to villainy and
military tyranny. After nine months im
prisonment in the stockades he was turned
loose, broken in fortune and ruined in
health, to die in the bosom of his family.
The cliivalric spirit that never knew ignoble
fear and that could not be subdued, has
been broken ; the heart incapable of wrong
or deceit,' lies cold and pulseless. Knowing
the malice and villainy that encompassed
Jefferson, he was urged to leave, but re
fused to do so. His life has paid the forfeit.
Large Fire in Fernandina—Twenty
Thousand Dollars’ Worth of Proper
ty Destroyed.—A destructive fire occur
red in Fernandina on Tuesday afternoon.
The Are broke out in Dr. Clay’s handsome
residence, which was entirely consumed,
together with Mr. McGinnis’ residence ad
joining. The dwelling of Judge McGehee,
Judge Hammond, and three or four others,
caught Are, but were saved with slight
damage. The Are, fortunately, was in the
outskirts of the town, otherwise the town
must have suffered much more severely, as
the wind was blowing freshly from the
southwest. The loss Is estimated at $20,-
000. Dr. Clay’s residence was the largest
in Fernandina, and not insured. Mr. Mc-
Ginnis’ property was partially insu red.
, / [ Jacksonville (Fla.) Union, 14 th.
The gin house of Mr. George Jordan,
about ten miles west of Albany, was de
stroyed by fire on Thursday last.
BY TELEGRAPH.
[Special Dispatch to the Constitutionalist.
New York Closing Stock Quotations.
REPORTED BY HOYT & GARDNER.
Nsir York, October 20— P. M.
The following nre the closing quotations this day :
American Gold j.. 739
A-tams Express '
New York Centra! .192%
Erie 31%
Hudson River '."'.’.'.‘.164%
Reading ggjj
Cleveland and Pittsburg I 98
Chicago aud Northwestern 71%
Chicago and Northwestern, pref 84%.
Milwaukee and St. Pau1...... 60%
Milwaukee and St. Paul, pref 81%
Lake Shore 93%
Chicago and Rock Island 107%
Toledo, Wabash and Western 66
Toledo, Wabash and Western, pref........ 65
New Jersey Central 101
Pittsburg and Fort Wayne.... 84%
Ohio and Mississippi 27 V
Hanibal and St. Joseph 110%
Hanibal and St. Joseph, pref 109
Tennessee, 0'd.... 61
Tennessee, new 64%
North Carolina, old 47 '
North Carolina, now £9%
Alabama Eights 90
Alabama Fives 81
Virginia Sixes &o%
Missouri Sixes 87%
Paciflc Mail 73%
Western Union Telegraph ! 36%
Stock market closes steady.
I Associated Press Dispatches.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, October 20—Noon.—John
son’s friends here are not so confident. It is
stated that Governor Isham G. Harris bitterly
opposes Johnson.
Washington, October 20—P. M.-Revenue
to-day, $278,000.
John W. Jenkins, a Wells Republican, lias
been appointed District Attorney for Virginia.
The Indian Commissioner h.-s confirmation
of the prevalence of small-pox among the Up
per Missouri Indians,
Davicl Carr has been appointed Collector of
Customs at Petersburg, Va.
There was a special Cabinet meeting to-day.
Nothing transpired.
Supreme Court proceedings were unimport
ant.
Liquor dealers meat pav one dollar on every
hundred ever twenty-five thousand, whether
sales at wholesale or retail.
The Indian Commissioner reports favorable
regarding the Indians of the Southwest.
Troops are ordered to Florida for revenue
duty. -
Gen. McDonald has received instrnctions and
is assigned to duty as Supervisor of Internal
Revenue in Arkansas aud Kansas. There was
a struggle over this appoiutraent, and the re
suit is the defeat of Senator Drake, of Missouri.
file last ballot in the Tennessee Legislature,
in full, is, Johnson, 41 ; Etheridge. 29; Cooper,
5 ; Ewiug, 4 ; Peyton, 6 ; Fletcher, 12 ; M. S.
Brown, 8 ; Milton Brown, 2.
VIRGINIA.
Richmond, October 20.—The Legislature ad
journed to-day to meet the second Tuesday
alter Congress shall admit the State to the
Union.
For some time past the authorities at Wash
ington have been apprised of the existence of
a gang engaged in the manufacture and sale of
counterfeit Internal Revenue tobacco stamps.
A detective was sent here to catch the parties
engaged, and to-day the following persons were
arrested, charged with having in their posses
sion and getting the counterfeit stamps : Fred
erick Bounaseb, ex-Deputv Collector Internal
Revenue ; Capt. Thomas W. Roach, ex-detec
tive of Revenue Department, aDd Lient. John
H. Stone, late United States Whisky In
spector, and at present special detective of
the. Post Ofliee Depat.ment. Counterfeit stamps
to the amount of SB,OOO were seized in the
hands of Bonnaseh ; they were 60 pounds to
bacco stamps, class .32. The United States
Commissioner bailed Bonnaseh and Roach in
ten thousand each, and Stone, against whom
evidence is not so strong, in $5,000, to appear
on the 22d inst. It is stated that the bogus
M imps are sent from the manufactory in New
York and aio pretty thoroughly cilcuiated in
the South.
TENNESSEE.
Nashville, October 20.— There were two
ballots in (tie House to-dav. On 1 lie first John
son received 32 voles; Etheridge, 21; A. J.
Fletcher, 11 ; E. H. Ewing, 4 ; N. D. Brown, 7 ;
T. A. K. Nelson, 2; Billie Peyton, 2; M.
Brown, 4 ; necessary to a choice, 55. Tfce re
sult of the ballot was enthusiastically applaud
ed by Johnson’s irlends. On the second ballot.
Johnson received 32; Etheridge, 21 ; Fletcher,
12; Peyton, 2; Ewing, 1; Brown, 0; Nelson,
5; M. Brown, 4. The Senate vote was : Jobn
m>u, 11; Eiheridge, 8; Peyton, 4; Ewing, 1;
Henry Cooper, 1. One ballot in the Senate :
Johnson, It; Etheridge, 8; Pevton, 3 ; Ewing,
1 House—Johnson, 32 ; Etheridge, 21 ;
1 I etc her, 18; Peyton, 3; N. D. Brown, 7 ;
Emery, A ; Milino Brown, 2; Nelson, 1. Total
for Johnson, 43 ; Etheridge, 29; scattering, 33.
Nashville, October 20--P. M.-In a joint
s !.-Sioo to day, two ballots were had. On the
first ballot, Johnson received 40 votes; Ethe
ridge, 30 ; se altering, 38. On the second bal
lot, Johnson received 41; Etheridge, 29; scat
tering, 38. There being no choice, the Legis
lature aajourned until to-morrow. The scat
tering votes, mostly complimentary, wiil doubt
less soou be consolidated. Two members were
absent to-day.
ILLINOIS.
Chicago, October 20.—The massacre of
twelve of a surveying party under Capt.. Buck,
on 1 lie Republican river, is reported. The
Indians captured a mail coach near Apache
Pass, killing the driver. Col. Slone and tour
soldiers of the Twenty-first Infantry were act
ing as an escort. 3’he pursuing soldiers killed
twelve Indians.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Wilmington, October 20.--The case of
ofac ers of the Cuba comes up before the United
Si ite s Commissioner to-morrow. The ease of
the vessel will be tried at next terra of the
United States District Court, which meets in
November.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Philadelphia, October 20.— The full official
vote makes Geary’s majority 4.596; that of
Williams, for Supreme Judge, 8,703.
OHIO.
Cincinnati, October 20 —The College Build
ing, containing Lam-.’s College, the Young
Men’s Mercantile Library, the Chamber of
Commerce, and several stores and offices is
burning.
FOREIGN.
Havana, October 20.—The papers to-day
publish three intercepted documents, which,
if true, prove the Republican rising In Bpuin
the woi*k ol the Cubau insurgents.
Madrid, October 20.—At Valentia, after
capitulation, the troops were fired upon. The
troops returned the Are, hostilities were re
sumed, and fighting continued at the latest ad
vices.
Three thousand more troops are ordered to
Cuba. The Republican leader Salvochia was
killed yester lay.
I’aius, October 20. —The bookbinders are
striking.
Two international committees met at Cairo
to regulate the couditioos of the Suez Canal
transportation.
London, October 20.—Derby is sinking
slowly, and is unconcious.
MARINE NEWS.
Charleston, October 20.—Arrived : Steamer
J. W. Everman, Philadelphia; sehrs. G. Law
rence, Virile, Carrie Holmes, New York.
Savannah, October 20.—Arrived : Steamers
Magnolia, and Montgomery, New York ; sebr.
L. A. Boyles, Richmond, Va.
MARKETS.
London, October 20—Noon.—Consols, 93%.
Bonds, 81%. Sugar firm.
Paris. October 20.—Bourse opens dull.—
Rentes, 70f. 95c.
Liverpool, October 20—Noon.—Cotton
opeus quiet; uplands, 12%@12%; Orleans.
; sales, 10,000 bales.
Liverpool, October 20—Evening.—Cotton
quiet and unchanged ; sales, 12,000 bales ;
speculation and export, 3,000.
Havre, October 20 — Noon.—Cotton opened
quiet and firm ; spot, 148 ; afloat, 138.
New York, October 20—Noon.—Stocks
steady, shade ofl from closing prices yesterday.
Money, 6@7. Sterling—long, 9@9% ; short,
9%. Gold, 130. ’62’s, 20; Tennessees, 61 ;
new, f>4@54%; Virginias, ex coupon, 50% ;
mow, 53%; Louisianas, old, 68; new, 67;
Levees, 63% ; B’s, 84 ; Alabama B’s, 95 ; Geor
gia 6’s, 84% ;7’s, 90 ; North Carolinas, old, 47’;
new, 39 ; South Carolinas, uew, 67.
New York, October 29—P. M.—Govern
ments closed quiet ; Southerns quiel; Money
quiet and steady at 5@7. Sterling stronger, 9%
@9%. Gold dull and steady.
New York, October 20—Noon.—Flour un
changed. Wheat dull. Corn drooping. Pork
dull at S3O 75. Lard dull. Cotton very quiet;
uplands, 26%. Turpentine, 45%@46%. Rosin
steady ; common, $2 20 ; strained, $2 22%.
New York, October 20—P. M Cotton
heavy and % lower ; sales, 3,200 bales at 26%.
Flour unchanged. Wheat B@s lower; Winter
red Western, *1 45@1 48%; Illinois, fl 30@
188 ; white Michigan, $1 50@1 57; extra
choice, $1 67. Corn heavy and I@2 lower;
mixed Western, $1 04@1 06. Pork heavy at
S3O 75. Lard and Whisky unchanged. Rice
dull. Sugar fairly active. Coffee, Molasses
>and Naval Stores quiet. Freights firmer; cot
ton, by steam, %and.; flour, sail, 2s. fid.
Baltimore, October 20.—Cotton firm at
26%. Flour quiet; Howard street superfine,
$5 62%@5 75. Wheat dull at $1 45@1 50.
Corn—white, slls@l 20; yellow, $1 08@112.
Oats, 58@60. Rye, $1 16. Pork quiet at $33.
Bacon—shoulders, 17%@17%. Lard quiet at
18%@19. Whisky, $1 20@1 21. Virginias,
old, 45; ’fifi’s, 50%; ’67’s, 47% bid.
Looisvillb, October 20.—Corn, 85. Pork
steady at s3l 75. Bacon heavy at 17% ; sides,
20%. Lard, 18. Whisky, slls. ' a i
Cincinnati, October 20—Corn dull at 85.
Pork, s3l. Lard dull at 17%@17%. Bacon
dull; shoulders, 16% ; sides, 18%; no inquiry
ofimportance.
Wilmington, October 20.— Spirits Turpen
tine firmer, 41#. Rosin —fair request for lower
grades ; strained, $1 52#. Crude Turpentine
unchanged. Tor, $2. Cotton quiet at 24#@
Mobilk, October 20. —Cotton in fair demand;
closed quiet; sales, 1,200 bales; middling,
24>£ ; receipts, 1,076 bales ; exports, 140 bales.
New Orleans, October 20.—Cotton firm at
25 ; sales, 4,500 bales ; receipts, 6,166; exports—
Havre, 2,665 ; Liverpool, 3,220. Pork lower,
$32 50. Molasses, 65@90. Whisky, $1 27#@
1 30. Others unchanged. Gold, 129#. Ster
ling, 41#; New Fork Sight, # discount.
Charleston, October 20.—Cotton firm and
in good demand; sales, 700 bales; middling,
25#; receipts, 1,136 bales.
Savannah, October 20.—Cotton—Receipts,
2,198 bales; sales, 450 bales ; middling, 251/;
market firm.
Augusta Daily Market,
Office Daily Constitutionalist, )
Wednesday, October 20-P. M. S
FINANCIAL
GOLD—Buying at 130 and selling at 133.
SlLVEß—Buying at 125 and selling at 130.
CITY BONDS—Active at 88@90.
There is very little circulation of the small
notes of United States currency; the Banks
are cashing checks in large notes, and refuse to
receive them on deposit.
STOCKS—Securities are generally dull;
Georgia Railroad Stock dull aud declining at
102@103; National Bank in demand at 110.
COTTON—In consequence of the coulinned
and increased stringency of the money market,
the sales have been very light, and some few
sales have been made upon credit. We quote
middling firm aud in fair demand at 24#@24#,
closing unchanged ; receipts, 814 bales ; sales,
276 bales.
BACON—Firm with an advancing tendency.
We quote C. Sides, 22#@23 ; C. R. Sides,
22@22#; B. B. Sides, 21#; Shoulders, 19;
Haras, 21 #@2o#; Dry Salt Shoulders, 18;
Dry Salt C. K. Sides, 21#.
CORN—Small supply. We quote choice
whil3, $L 50 from depot.
WHEAT—We quote choice white, $1 70@
1 75; amber, $1 e 0; red, $1 50.
FLOUR—City Mills, new, $7 50@9 50; at
retail, *1 $ barrel higher. Country, s6@9,
according to quality,
CORN MEAL-SI 50@$1 60 at retail
OATS—9O@$l 50.
PEAS—Selling at $1 50.
CITY ITEMS.
Unfortunate Fatal Affray. —A most
unfortunate fatal difficulty occurred be
tween Mr. John P. Foster and Mr. W. R.
McDonnald, two respected citizens of Au
gusta, yesterday morning, between 8 and 9
o’clock, in the vicinity of the Lower Mar
ket, in which, we regret to say, the latter
lost his life from a pistol fired by the for
mer, and in the progress of which Mr.
Foster sustained a severe wound from a
pistol shot in his right thigh, the ball enter
ing just below the groin and passing
through the thigh, without, however, in
flicting other than a flesh wound. The
body of deceased was penetrated by three
Dalis, two of which entered the cavity of
the abdomen, on the right side, and the
third the right thigh. Mr. McDonnald is
said to have fallen after receiving the third
wound, and expired almost immediately.
From the point where the deceased fell,
his body was removed to an adjacent store
and thence to hi.s father’s residence on Ellis
street.
The difficulty had its origin in a dis
pute concerning the ownership of a cow
slaughtered by Mr. Foster, some three or
four weeks ago, and had been resting in
abeyance between the gentlemen since that
time.
Tite deceased leaves a sorrow-stricken
family of a wife and four small children,
whose circumstances under this sad event
claim universal sympathy.
At eleven o’clock, yesterday morning,
Coroner Rhodes empannellcd the following
jury, to investigate the killing: J. W. Rigs
by, Foreman; John F. Miller, Henry P.
Arlington, B. Morris, Thomas Moffatt, F.
M. Loftin, Martin New, B. F. Fraser,
Henry Goins, Alex. Taut, John Philpot,
and George Brown.
Dr. H. A. Bignon was present, and made
a pout 'mortem examination of the body of
tlie deceased in presence of the jury, after
which the following witnesses were ex
amined, and the following testimony elicit
ed :
Du. 11. A. Bignon testified:
1 have examined body of deceased; find
three gunshot or pistol wounds, two of
which enteral the cavity of the abdomen,
on the right side; one of which wounds en
tered midway between the crest of the
ilium and the linear alba, the other on a
line, with the. first described wound, blit
about five inches below it. The third
wound is in the right (high, about the
junction of the upper and middle thirds.—
The wounds, in my opinion, were sufficient
to cause death—either of the wounds in the
abdomen would have caused death. I am
a practicing physician of this city and
vicinity.
W. B. Hayes testified :
I was standing in market, speaking to
Mr. Coleman, a gentleman of whom Mr.
Foster got a cow, which Mr. McDonnald
claimed. I saw Mr. McDonnald standing
about midway of Centre street crossing, on
Broad ; I made remark to Coleman, “ that
was the gentleman that claimed that cow.”
My attention was then called toTny stall ;
when I turned back, I saw McDonnald
striking Foster over the head with a stick,
Foster running back from him, and at the
same time drawing a pistol from the
right hand pocket of his pants; Foster
commenced shooting, McDonnald follow
ing him up all the time and strik
ing him with a stick; they fought in that
manner until near the centre of the rail
road track; in front of Bidgood’s store,
where McDonnald fell; I ran up to Foster,
who told me he was shot, and I commenced
to extinguish the fire on his clothes ; a
policeman ran up at that time; Foster said
he gave himself up; was a gentleman, fnd
would go with him (the policeman) any
where ; I called Moore’s express wagon,
when Foster got into it, and started off
with the policeman; I saw after this that
McDonnald was in Bidgood’s store; don’t
know whether he was carried there or
walked there; I then returned to my busi
ness in the market. 1 consider the stick
used by McDonnald as medium sized ;
McDonnald struck Foster both before and
after Foster drew his pistol; Foster walked
over from the market to the point where
McDonnald was standing; I did not hear
Foster say what he went there for; I did
not hear McDonnald call Foster.
T. 11. George testified :
Between 8 and 9 o’clock this morning I
was standing on corner of Centre and
Broad streets; I saw Foster coming from
the market; he (Foster) and McDonnald
stopped, and were talking; I then turned
my back on them and talked with Mark
Griffin; I heard scuffling; I turned and
saw McDonnald and Foster trying to
twist a stick out of one another’s
hands; in the scuffle, the stick fell
on the ground; Foster made for the stick
and got it, and drew it back, like he was
going to strike with it ; McDonnald then
caught hold of the stick, and wrenched it
from Foster’s hand ; McDonnald struck
Foster at this time with his fist; he (Mc-
Donnald) then stepped hack and commenced
treating Foster over Hie head with the
stick; Foster commenced backing, thiow
ing tip his arms, knocking off the licks, un
til he got to the edge of the railroad, when
he drew a revolver, McDonnald still strik-
ing him over the head with a stick ; when
Foster drew the revolver I heard the re
port of a pistol; McDonnald was then
about the centre of the railroad; I saw
pistol In Foster’s hand ; heard three re
ports of shots fired after the first mention
ed ; saw the smoke; at the fourth shot Mc-
Donnald fell, about the centre of the rail
road ; Foster then turned and started to
the market; I am confident Foster fired
the pistol; after Foster started to the mar
ket I went to the place where the 1 fuss
commenced, got McDonnald’s hat, and
placed it on his head ; I then left McDon
nald and went where Foster was; they had
stopped Moore’s express; a policeman ar
rested Foster; Foster told the policeman
that he gave himself up; I did not hear a
word between Foster and McDonnald pre
vious to the scuffle; the stick was a com
mon-sized stick; when McDonnald and Fos
ter first met the former had the stick in
his hand; this happened in city of Augus
ta, Richmond county, Georgia.
Alexander Kilpatrick testified:
I was standing near corner of Centre and
Broad streets; McDonnald was standing
about the middle of Centre street cross
ing, on Broad street; Foster approached
him (McDonnald) and struck him with his
fist several blows; McDonnald dropped his
stick; Foster got it, and struck at Mc-
Donnald a tfcne or two; McDonnald took the
stick away from Foster, and kept hitting
Foster with it, the tetter rwnjftteg bick,
fending the licks with his arms; I heard a
pistol fire; at the second shot I saw a
pistol in Foster’s hand; at the fourth fire T
saw McDonnald ktlliu thecSofthe
ket whP tTaC V Fost * r for the mar
ket, when a policeman arrested him; Foster
gave himself up ; Foster called for an ex-
Honse WaS ° tt take hlm to the Court
Jack Smith (colored) testified:
not sec the first of the difficulty; l
was about the centre of the market when
it commenced ; I saw Foster with pistol in
hand, and saw him fire three shots; when
he fired the last shot, I saw him (Foster)
turn round like he was going into the
market, when a policeman arrested him •
at the time McDonuald was shot he was
striking at Foster with a stick; did not
see Foster strike at McDonnald.
Louis Orie testified:
About twenty minutes past eight o’clock
this morning (20th October), being on duty
in the market as a policeman, my attention
was called by the reDort of two pistol shots;
i see what was the cause, and
louud Foster running backwards before a
gentleman having a stick raised over his
head; before I got near Foster I saw him
shoot twice in direction of gentleman before
mentioned; the latter fell after a few steps;
I arrested Foster; lie told me lie was shot,
ancl asked to he conveyed to a doctor; I
clui not see McDonnald strike Foster—only
saw him with the stick raised ; McDonnald
was advancing on Foster, and the latter was
backing; the stick held by McDonnald was
the oneusually carried by him ; I did not
see McDonnald with a pistol.
Allen W. Shaw testified:
I was in Rigsby’s store when the diffi-
C - U i ty «°rr C u Um ; and; 1 heard a cry from out
side, There’s a fight;” I ran to the door,
aud saw McDonnald beating Foster over
the head with a stick ; Foster was retreat
ing backwards ; after he got a little on the
other side of the railroad track, and Mc-
Donnald about the centre, he (Foster) drew
his pistol; I saw the smoke from two balls
which struck McDonnald, after the pistol
was fired by Foster; McDonuald fell, and
was picked up and carried to Bidgood’s
store, where lie died iu a short while.
George Hale (colored,) testified :
I saw McDonnald standing on the cross
ing, about the centre of the street ■ saw
Foster coming out of the market; did not
pay any attention; I was stopped in the
street; heard Billy Gilbert say: « Look at
that gentleman striking Mr. Foster with
a stick.” I turned, and saw Mr. McDonnald
striking Foster over the head with a stick;
saw Foster throwing his hands up, as if
trying to catch the stick; I saw McDonnald
strike Foster four times on the head with
the stick; Foster was backing; McDonnald
was advancing; while backing, Foster was
trying to get his pistol out; in pulling out
the pistol it went off in his (Foster’s) pock
et; Foster got his pistol out, threw his
hand behind him ; cocked the pistol and
fired; McDonnald still followed Foster
when the latter fired again ; McDonnald fell
about midway of the railroad track.
Daniel F. Tanner testified :
I was talking with Foster, inside of the
market; to the best of my recollection,
I oster called McDonuald’sname in the con
versation, which was in reference to a cow
hide and horns in the market; I saw Mc-
Donnald passing the street, and remarked to
r oster: “There’s McDonnald now Foster
went towards McDonnald, calling him (Mc-
Donnald) ; the latter stopped ; they had
some conversation, I do not know of what •
I saw Foster strike McDonnald with Iris fist
twice; when Foster first approached Mc-
Donnald, the latter held a stick in his hand
when Foster struck McDonnald 1 lie stick
fell and Foster picked it up, slrikin" at
McDonnald with it; the latter then took"the
stick away from Foster, and struck him
with it repeatedly; I then saw Foster fire
Iris pistol three times; 1 saw McDonnald in
the act of falling; after Foster struck Mc-
Donnald with his fist, the latter struck at
the former with his fist.
Alter the conclusion of the testimony,
the jury conferred together, and returned
the following verdict:
AVe, the jury, who, being duly sworn and
charged to inquire, on the part of the State
aforesaid, when, where, how and in what
manner tin; said Win. R. McDonnald came
to his death, do say, from the evidence pro
duced before us, that the said William
R. McDonnald came to his death from inju
ries received on his body by throe gun-shot
wounds, two balls entering Lhe abdomen
and one the thigh; said gun or pistol held
and fired in the hand of John P. Foster;
said shooting and killing, in our opinion,
being manslaughter.
Under this verdict, Coroner Rhodes sued
out a warrant for the arrest of Mr. Foster,
who waived an examination, and was ad
was admfttea to bail in the sum of |".TMTri7
before G. A. Snead, Justice of the Peace,
for ibis appearance for trial at the January
term of Richmond Superior Court.
A Fisticuff and Sta rhino Case.—
Yesterday morning, Harry Salisbury and
another colored warrior, whose cognomen
was not ascertained, mutually agreed to
adjourn to the river bank, at the foot of
Mclntosh street, to adjust, a personal dif
ference in a fair and square fist, wool and
skull tight. Reaching the ground of their
selection, it seems that they concluded a
satisfactory result could be much easier
reached by the use of knives. The weapons
were produced by them and the carving
process commenced, whicli resulted in
Salisbury inflicting a slight cut on the arm
of his antagonist. Their amusement was
curtailed by the Interference of a gentle
man, who succeeded in arresting Salisbury,
who was sent to the guard-house. The
unknown wounded negro made his escape,
and had not yet put iu an appearance at a
late hour last evening.
Drugs, Chemicals, Fancy Goods, Etc.
—We invite special attention to the adver
tisement of Messrs. W. 11. Tutt & Land,
importers and jobbers in American, Eng
lish, German and Mediterranean drugs, etc.
The reputation of this establishment is so
thoroughly established aud so generally
acknowledged that we deem it unnecessary
to say more than call attention to the fact
that it now has iu store, and is daily re
ceiving one of the largest stocks ever
brought to the South, which the proprie
tors advertise to sell at prices that defy
competition, and they are not the merchants
to misrepresent facts. We advise dealers
to give them a call.
An Accomplished Gardener.—ln our
edition of yesterday employment was soli
cited for a gardener, who professed a perfect
knowledge of his work. The person thus
advertising is Mr. Nacherot, a Frenchman
of intelligence nnd experience, who has
received two prize-medals from the schools
of agriculture in his native country and
also a diploma testifying to his thorough
proficiency in all the details of his art. Wc
venture to say that Mr. Nacherot will sup
ply a want long needed in Augusta. Noth
ing adds more to the enchantment of fine
dwellings than the artistic disposition of
the natural beauties surrounding them.
Will Be Present, if Health Permits.
—The Macon Journal add Messenger is In
formed (hat a communication was received
iu that city on Tuesday from ex-Presulent
Jefferson Davis, dated at Baltimore, Md.,
in answer to the Invitation tendered him
by the Executive Committee of the Georgia
Agricultural Society, in which he grace
fully acknowledges their kind remem
brance, and states he is now on his way to
the State of Mississippi, and that if his
health will permit him to he present at
our State Fair he shall be happy to at
tend.
Where’s the Blame ?—We find the fol
lowing paragraph in the Columbia (S. 0.)
Phamix :
Some one says: “ The Pope is making a
crusade upon the improprieties of dress
and we learn ‘lays the blame on the
shoulders of the ladies.’” The Pope is at
fault We have examined the shoulders
of Indips, and haven’t found a blame ihintr
there. ®
We presume Our cotemporary submits
this as a naked proposition. If so, the
shoulders of the ladies arc sufficiently broad
to bare it.
Small Bills.— We see it stated iu the
Washington papers that Treasurer Spinner
intended to put in circulation, on Monday
last, $70,000 in twos of the new legal ten
der notes, and that he expects to be able to
supply a like amount daily thereafter, nntil
the bank note companies are ready to fur
nish notes of every denomination, as re*
quireO,