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CONSTITUTIONALIST.
AUGUSTA. CGA.
TUEBDAY MORNING, NOV. 2,1869
ELECTIONS THIS DAY.
Elections take place this day In New
York, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Maryland and New Jersey.
New York elects a Secretary of State, a
Comptroller, a Treasurer, an Attorney
General, a State Engineer, a Canal Com
missioner, an Inspector of Prisons, two
Judges of the Court of Appeals, and mem
bers of the Legislature. In the Presiden
tial election of last year Horatio Seymour
carried the State by a very moderate
majority. As illustrating the variations
of the poll in this great Comraonweath, we
append the following tables:
Tear. Officer. Rep. I) m. Mai.
1880 President 362,646 312,510 60.136 R
1864 President 368,73'. 361,9-8 8 749 R
1866 G0vern0r...... 396, 316 352,626 13.789 R
1867 Sec.of 5tate...826,099 373,029 47.930D
Last year, the Legislature of New York
was thus divided:
Joint
Senate. House. Ballot.
Republicans 17 76 !3
Democrats 15 52 67
Republican majority .. 2 24 26
The best known candidates are Franz
Sigei. for Secretary of State and Horace
Greeley for Comptroller, both Radicals,
though differing widely on problems of
social science, and both destined, we trust,
to be most disastrously defeated.
The people of New York are to vote inci
dentally upon anew State Constitution. A
separate ballot is provided for the amended
article prescribing qualified negro suffrage.
Illinois elects members of a State Con
stitutional Convention. The great issue
will be, of course, the irrepressible negro, as
an attempt will be made to strike the word
“white” from the present Constitution,—
County municipal and town elections are
also to be held on this day.
Massachusetts elects State officers and
members of Assembly. There are three
tickets in the field Radical, Democratic
and Labor Reform. William Claplin
heads the first ticket, John Quincy Adams
the second aud Edwin M. Chamberlin the
third. Mr. Claflin is the present Gov
ernor ; John Quincy Adams has tried
several tiroes before; Mr. Chamberlin is
the son of a rich hotel-keeper of Boston
doubt thinks himself as capable of
running a State as his father is of keeping
a tavern.
From the following tables it will be seen
that nothing short of a first-class miracle
can defeat Governor Claflin and his
party:
Fep.
Rep. D m. maj.
1884—FresideDt 126.742 48,744 77.998
1808—Governor 132,’21 6',286 68,866
1888—Fresident 136 477 69 408 77 069
The Legislature of the State last year
was politically divided as follows:
Joint
Senate. House. ballot.
Republicans 38 224 282
Democrats 2 16 18
Republican majority.... 38 208 244
A member of Congress is to be chosen to
fill the place of Mr. Boutwell, whose ma
jority, at the last election, was 6,218.
Minnesota elects State officers and mem
bers of the Legislature. Horace Austin
is the Radical nominee; George L. Otis
heads the Democratic ticket; Rev. Daniel
Cobb (a Radical) has consented to lead the
Temperance column. We give some sam
ples of the State vote :
Rep.
Rep. Hum. ui).
1864 Fresident, 24,971 17,355 7,61«
1865 Governor 17,335 13.864 3 471
JBo7—Governor 34,870 29,543 5,327
1808—Prepidmt 43,642 28,072 15,470
The last Legislature stood thus :
. Joint
Senate. House. ballot.
Republicans 18 38 54
Democrnts 0 9 15
Republican majority ....10 29 39
Wisconsin elects a full Skate ticket and
members of Legislature. Lucius Fair
child is the Radical candidate for Gov
ernor and Cn arles D. Robinson the De
mocratic, nominee.
The State vote of Wisconsin has, at re
cent elections, resulted thus:
R<p
Hep. Dent. maj.
1864 President 83 458 65,884 15.574
1807—Governor 73,037- 08 873 4,704
1868-President 108,867 84,710 21 147
The last Legislature was divided as fol
lows :
Joint
Senate. House. Ballot.
Republicans 19 08 87
Democrats 14 32 46
Repub ican majority... 5 86 41
Maryland votes for a Comptroller, mem
bers of Assembly, County Commissioners,
etc.
Maryland is a strong Democratic State,
so much so, that, last year, her Legislature
had not a single Republican representative.
New Jersey votes fora portion of her
State Senate and all the members of the
Lower House of Assembly. The State
vote has been as follows:
Ren. Deni. Majoittv.
1864 President.... ..60,723 68,024 7.301 Dem.
1865 Governor 67 525 64,736 2,789 Rep.
1868-Governor 79,333 83,951 4 618 Dem.
1888—President 80,121 83,001 2,880 Dem
Last year, the Legislature was thus di
vided :
Joint
Sen .to. Housa, Ballot
Republican! 9 28 37
Democrats .12 32 44
Democratic majority... 3 4 7
Two Courts. —There is a mighty differ
ence between the Supreme Court of the
United States and an Ecumenical Council
of the Church of Rome. The one is abject,
cowardly and degraded, fearing the least
menace of a corrupt 'Congress ; the other,
whatever its supposed bad policy, will be
haughty, fearless, dignified and unappalled.
The Austrian Kaiser may fume, the Em
peror Napoleon may shrug his shoulders,
and Gen. Prim may grit his teeth—and yet
we predict these outside influences will
have no effect whatever upon the Pope and
his prelates. But let Congress but sneeze,
and every rag of ermine in Judge Chase’s
Court quivers like an aspen, and every in
dependent principle of law is metamor
phosed or thrust aside. Harper's Weekly
may caricature the Pope and his Church
men as a bevy of old women, but they
nevertheless have certain masculine attri
butes which have grown sadly wanting in
what was once a very virile tribunal of the
United States.
Dead Sea Apes. —Elsewhere we publish
an account of some very horrible doings of
Home, the spiritualist. These demonstra
tions are characterized by Carlyle as the
“ liturgies of Dead Sea apes.” Such men
as Home, however potential, are really
spiritual dwellers in Sodom. By these
manifestations men are made insane and
wbmen made fools. Piety and acts of
virtuous sacrifice seem to lie no part of
their plan, and Swedenborg was wise
when he characterized an unhallowed tam
pering with forbidden things as disorder
ly proceedings.
Washington College.— The Richmond
papers are very much exercised over an ar
ticle iu the New York Sun, which purports
to give an inside view of Washington Col
lege. According to the Sun reporter, Gen.
Lee is more dangerous than Calhoun ever
was,, and he ought to be bastinadoed for
having ex-Confederate soldiers for teach
ers. We are glad the Sun's emissary found
oat as much as he did. The Yankees did
not subjagate our minds, and what’s more,
they_never will be able to do it. There L
Petrific.— A cotemporary calls Peter
Cartwright ."one of the famous Peters—
Peter the Great, Peter the Hermit, Peter
the Fisherman, and Peter the Cartwright ;’'
but strangely omits Salt Petre, which has
made more noise than all the others.
[ Courier-Journal.
Except Peter Funk when he exploded in
the Hold Ring.
A Grant’s friends and
Jay Gould are quarreling over the punc
tuation of a telegraphic dispatch. A certain
Chapin asserts it was written thus :
Washington, Penn., Sept. 18th.
Jay Gould, Erie Railroad Office, New
York:
Letter delivered aU' m right.
[Signed] * Wm. O. Chapin.
Jay Gould declares that it reached him
thus :
“ Delivered letter. All right."
The trouble here is over a punctuation
point which, after all, may have been a
fly-speck.
® ACK Rations,—Ggm Williams, a rene
gade Virginian, who did not get the office
of Senator, thus soliloquizes:
“As for what I may have done for the
dear old State, or what I may in future be
able to do, I have done, and shall be only
doing, a duty. Nothing that I shall ever
be able to perform for hep shall be ne
glected.”
He helped subjugate and disgrace the
“ dear old State,” and we are glad the
aforesaid “ dear old State ” elected him to
stay out in the cold.
Broad Gauge. —Bishop Simpson, head
of the Methodist party North, married off
his eldest daughter, the other day, with
great splendor and the “ visionary gauds
of this dying world." Grant was on hand
and magnanimously presented the groom
with the consulship to Brindisi—a gift so
very mean that even a miserable carpet
bagger rejected it with disdain.
Just So.—The French agitators want to
rifl themselves of Napoleon and his em
pire, but they have no idea what sort of
man and what sort of government to sub
stitute. A French dose of Grant and
American Republicanism may, some day,
make them wish Napoleon had lived for
ever.
The Cockroach. —Hartford (Connecti
cut) housekeepers appeal to the newspapers
lor a correction of the cockroach nuisance.
Mrs. Stowe has recently been in that
town. If the housekeepers could only get
Costar to make a preparation of her .
Doctors. —Mrs. Dr. Lockwood
applied for admission to the law class of
Columbia College, but was rejected. The
intimation goes that she was too young
and too pretty. Now let some old and
rawbone specimen apply.
A Girl of the Period. —Dubuque re
joices in a female who sits at the front win
dow of one of the hotels, leaning back
upon her chair, with her feet on the sill.
Progress, you know!
< .'qnsistent.—M. St. Beuve, the great
philosopher, died a consistent infidel. He
directed that his body should be placed by
the side of his mother’s coffin, but not via
the church where she used to pray.
Not Alive. —One of the executioners of
Col. Orton Williams pronounces the un
fortunate victim very dead. It must be
his spook that rides a black horse in Cuba.
That Beefsteak —Father Hyacinthe
ate meat on Friday because he had a dis
pensation so to do.
Shocking Murder near Yongesboro.—
A horrible affair occurred near Yongesboro,
on the Montgomery and West Point Road,
six miles from Opelika and twenty-two
from Columbus, early Friday evening. A
very old white man, named Watson, had a
negro, aged about eighteen years, in his
em ploy. He was a stout fellow, and been
engaged some twelve days. Friday morn
ing Mr. Watson carried two bales of cotton
to Opelika and sold them, realizing some
two hundred dollars. Oil his return, almost
within the reach of his home, he was met
by this negro, who knocked him down and
beat out his brains, robbed him and de
parted. When the train passed yesterday
numbers of white men and negroes were
searching lor the murderer. Telegrams
were sent here, describing the fugitive, and
the officers put upon the watch. About
noon Deputy Marshal Colvin and one of
the corporation hands, arrested, near the
brick yard, a negro answering to the de
scription. He denied the charge, but it is
said he has admitted that he knocked a
man down in Opelika. He walked from
Yongesboro. The name of the murderer is
George Holling. This fellow says his
name is Wm. Riley and is employed by one
Moiling, of Opelika. He had anew re
peater and other articles recently purchased,
Which, with the money found on his per
son, amounted to S6O. We are also told he
had bought liberally from a store in Cooley
ville, which he left there until his return.
It is also stated another negro came here
with him, and departed yesterday on the
Montgomery train with anew repeating
pistol, boots and other articles. The negro
arrested has been lodged in jail. Parties
were in the city late to identify him.
Since the above was in type, Deputy
Marshal Colvin informs us the man mur
dered, Mr. Anderson Watson, was over
sixty years of age. The negro held him by
the. throat while he beat his brains out with
a rock. A gentleman has fully identified
the negro arrested as the one who, on the
wagon with Mr. W., passed his house Fri
day afternoon. The negro denies every
thing. He had quite a stock of goods,
when arrested, in Cooleyville. The killing
was for money. Mr. W. is represented to
have been a hard working man.
[Columbus Sun.
HiLDEBnAND.—The St. Louis Times con
tains a very remarkable and interesting
letter, purporting to have been written by
this desperate man, who has been a terror
to the part of the country in which he lives
ever since the close of the war. It would
appear that lie lias been goaded into his
present position by the wrongs and perse
cution of his enemies. He declares his
anxiety and wish for peace, but prefers
death to being taken alive and dealt with
according to law. He has been so hunted
down by his enemies that he has failed
every time he has settled down to a quiet
life to induce them to let him alone. He
asks simply to be let alone. As be is a man
who, although driven to desperation, is not
utterly depraved or without some redeem
ing qualities, it would, perhaps, be better
that Executive Clemency be extended to
him, and he be permitted to return to his
wile and children and take care of them,
Instead of biding and being hunted to
death. He alleges with much earnestness
that many of the charges of cruelty and
murder brought against him are untrue,
ajKljthat lie is disposed to live peaceably
with all meD if permitted to do so. The
story he tells of the scenes through which
he lias passed reads like the adventures of
Rob Roy Macgregor. He seems determin
ed to sell his life as dearly as possible if
the attempts to arrest and try him are per
sisted in. In the mean time he warns all
men what they must expect if they persist
in trying to capture him. Altogether he is
a most romantic character in these matter
of-fyet days. If he can only settle down
and write for the Ledger his fortune is
m ade.— Courier-Journal
“A most estimable lady, who for many
years has ornamented society by her grace
and accomplishments” in New Orleans, has
been deserted by her husband, an ex-colonel
of the Union army. The New Orleans
Times says : “ Quite recently he invited the
lady,and her children out to walk, and
stopping casually on a corner, asked them
to wait there a few minutes until he re
joined them. Much to the surprise of all,
an hour passed without his returning.—
Fearing some calamity, the lady started
home. There, to her horror, the servants
informed her the man had put his trunks in
an express wagon and started off. The
house had been stripped of every article of
value. Plate, jewelry, and even the casket
containing her diamonds, were gone. A
not*; curtly informed the distracted woman
her deceiver had suddenly been called away;
and now the fact is developed that he has a
wife and four children In the North.”
Mr. Chase consulted, among others, the
rjH S « dent of a Philadelphia bank as to
pc ng some motto upon the bills, as In
has been stamped upon
Some of the coins. After mentioning several
scriptural texts that had occurred to him
the Secretary asked the banker’s opinion!
“Perhaps,” wasAhe reply, “the mSst ap
propriate would be, ‘Silver and gold haw
I none ; but such as I have l givethwC”
The project was not carried further.
A Chicago member of the Virginia House
of Delegates is worth $100,(XXI. We an
nounce, for the benefit of ladies of Radical
proclivities, that he is unmarried. As he
is a phenomenon, we suggest, also, that he
is a propei- subject to be “ intervened ”
Let’s have his opinions on matters and
things in general, by all means.
[From tho 8K Louis Time*, 26th.
Hilderbrand.
AUTHENTIC letter from HIM—HIS OWN
STATEMENT OF AFFAIRS FROM THE BE
GINNING OF THE WAR TO THE PRESENT
TIME.
Memphis, Tenn., October 17,1869.
To the Editor of the St. Louis 2 itnes :
As “-fair play ” is one of the jewels of
American character, and as it is considered
right and proper to give even the “ devil his
due," I hope you will not refuse to give to
the public, through your widely-read pa
per, Sam Hilderbrand’s own statement of
his history since the beginning of the late
terrible war ; to the end that fair-minded
men may Judge whether there was not
some good reason and strong provocation
for the desperate deeds charged against me.
When the war began 1 was leading a
quiet, peaceful life, trying to provide for
ray family in an honest though humble
sphere of life. In the condition of affairs
in my part of Missouri, I had made up my
mind to keep oat of the troubles and take
no part in the war. In 1862 my brother,
Frank Hilderbrand, went into the State
Guards under Jeff Thompson. On Frank’s
return to see our mother and family, he
was captured by a mob headed by young
McElvane. By McElvane’s order, Frank
was killed after his capture—his head was
mashed, his body mangled and cut to pieces
in such a shocking manner that the most
barbarous savage would have blnshed to
have been guilty of the deed. His body
was then thrown into a mineral hole fifty
feet deep, and left to rot.
The next outrage committed on my kin
dred and family was the murder or my
brother, George Washington, and a Cana
dian named Eustache Lanjlusky, who was
engaged to be married to my sisteivMary.
The last murders were perpetrated by men
in uniform, and who were soldiers in the
Federal army. Two weeks after these out
rages my sister Mary died of trouble and a
broken heart.
Two weeks later these men came to my
mother’s house and loaded several wagons
with her property, drove off all our cattle
and set fire to her house, the best stone
dwelling in the settlement. My poor, dear
broken-hearted mother seeing the house
burning, sent my little brother Henry to
those heartless wretches and asked for the
family Bible, as a relic to be kept when all
else was gone. Not dreaming of harm to
the little, tender boy, what can express her
horror and agony when these demons shot
my little brother, not twelve years old,
through the bowels, and a fiend then put his
foot on his head and cut his throat ? Thus
were these atrocious deeds of blood and
cruelty and robbery committed on my kin
dred and family. Let any man put the
question to his soul whether such outrages
would not have aroused him to desperate
retaliation at a time when law no longer
had power to avenge a man’s wrongs lor
him and for the sake of justice. And yet
even then I bore these accumulated outrages
without lifting a hand to avenge my broth
ers’ and sister’s blood. Loving my darling
wife and little children better than I did
anything on earth, I forced my heart to
bear on in silence. Though crushed like a
worm, I refused to sting the foot that crush
ed me.
During all these outrages I had resolved
to not go in the Southern army, nor to
meddle in the troubles in any way. I re
moved from Red river to Flat Woods, dis
tant twenty-five miles, hoping that no harm
would befall me or my wife and children, if
I would get out of the Immediate neigh
borhood of those who had murdered and
outraged my family.
But, to my surdrise, about the middle of
May, just when my crop was looking well,
aud hope was strong that I would be left in
peace, about sunrise one morning my house
was surrounded by McElvane and his crew
of some thirty or forty men, all well armed.
I remembered the fate of my brothers
and friends, slaughtered in cold blood, like
sheep, after their capture, and I knew there
was no hope of mercy or justice from such
demons; no hope except in the courage
and strength which God had given me.
The die with me was cast. I had sought
peace and quiet, bnt the bloodhounds had
trailed me. I was at bay. The conflict
that I had fled from was forced upon me.
The alternative was life or death.
I met my pursuers at the door. 1 stiot
down two of them in their tracks, made a
rush for the woods and escaped. Finding
it impossible to live at or near home, I
went to Arkansas, and afterward got my
wife and four children. The two men that
I killed In my door was the first blood ever
shed by me. Then, when a price was set
on my head, I determined to revenge the
death of my brothers. I rode several times
from Arkansas before I could get to shoot
McElViiue, the infamous butcher, who had
murdered my brothers and sought my life.
Then I meant to harm no one else if they
would leave me, undisturbed, hut some of
tlie soldiers, piloted by Jim Craig, a very
handsome spy, undertook to have me killed.
In self-defense I turned loose on them aud
made many of them who sought my life
bite the dust. I often met them in the
woods. They all knew me, and would of
fer to assist me They would make an ap
pointment to bring me provisions to my
hiding places, and would pilot soldiers
there to try to have me captured. 1 al
ways killed that kind of men. I have cap
tured many Union soldiers, bnt I never
hurt or treated them unkindly, unless it
was one who had brutally treated South
ern prisoners, and I knew it.
I have had hundreds of hair-breadth es
capes for my life; bnt I know there is a
merciful God that knows and does all thiDgs
right—an All-powerful hand has protected
me. I have twenty times been suddenly
waked, and fled from my bed, when a show
er of Yankee balls would riddle the bed I
had sprang out of. Iha ve had my clothes
torn from my body with Yankee bullets,
but two only ever drew blood from me.
I wish to say that I saw a Republican of
June'last, which contains some charges
against me that are not true. It speaks of
many cruelties committed by Hilderbrand
in Callaway county, which are utterly un
true. I never was in Callaway county in
my life. It also charges me with cruelty
to a little boy. That is also false. I never
harmed a woman or child in my life. 1
warred only with men who had made war
on me. I was also accused of taking stock
of Jim McLane to the amount of $6,000. —
The neighbors ail know that Jim McLane
always lived from hand to month, and
Dever had anything to be stolen or taken
from him.
I wish now to add a few remarks to ex
plain my late troubles.
After the excitement about the war, and
its troubles seemed to die out, and men
seemed disposed to heal over past sores, in
the Spring of 1863, 1 came back to St.
Francois county and talked to many of the
good people of the county concerning the
propriety of returning to my old home.—
All i spoke to of all parties said, “ Sam,
come home.”
I came back in good faith. I moved to
my mother’s old place and lived there six
months. I theu moved to Hillsboro and
stayed there until last Fall. Finding it
hard to make a living there, I moved on the
Missouri river, near Rush Tower, and
chopped wood all last Winter. I then
moved back to the Three Rivers, on the
Sam Herd place, to raise a crop. There I
lived and worked until the 4th of June last,
when I was waylaid and shot by Jim Mc-
Lane, or Walter Evans, and two others,
that I or my friends my yet call to account.
Jim McLane, McQuinn, and others, way
laid my house to murder me in April last
for several days. On the 4th of June I was
shot through the thigh at my house.
I went to my uncle Williams’, where they
attacked me six days after. They shot all
day at me there. I selected Jim McLaue,
whom I kDew only by description, and shot
him from the house. Sheriff Breckinridge
and the balance of his party took good care
of their scalps after I killed McLane. It
was theq 3 o’clock, and as I had eaten no
breakfast or dinner, I cooked my own sup
per aud ate.it while they kept firing at me.
I was often amused to see my old aunt
Williams dodging the balls as they came
in through the cracks. They fired the
house and. as I had finished my supper, l
abandoned my burning fortification. As I
went out 1 counted thirty-five men that
were guarding the burning house. I saw
Geo- Doggett, Asa Jackson, Jo McGahan
and Hills’ boy. When the house got too
hot for comfort, I left it, and walked within
six feet of some of the guard. They seemed
blind, or at least they did not offer to shoot
me.
I wish to say to the Radicals in and about
Farmington to beware how they mistreat
my wife and children, as I hear they have
had them under arrest by order of the
drunken Bowen; and I will say to Bob Hill
and Joe McGahan to walk smoothly ; and
not let my family suffer. They helped kill
my brothers, but they have not yet killed
me;
Jim McLane was a tool in the hands of
that infamous creature and coward, Gust.
St. Gem, of St. Genevieve, who will some
day, no matter where he may hide himself,
have to answer for many crimes lie planued,
and was top. cowardly to execute, but got
others to do for him. McLane murdered
Judge Burks, of St. Genevieve, and preach
er Polk, over eighty-three years of age.
I wish to say to Governor McCiurg that
I could have easily killed him while he was
in Farmington, if I had wanted to do so,
bnt I look on him as a gentleman, and that
he is misled by listening to lies from bad
men, who are Radicals.
All I have written is every word true. I
do not want to be killed yet awhile;
neither do I wish to till any one If they
will let me * alone. My eneraieil * have
charged me with being a thief daring the
war \ J was not - All that I fairly cap
tured I gave away to the widows and or
phans who had been robbed and were suf
fering.
I will refer to any honest man who knew
me whether I was not an honest man. In
the latter part of/August the Radical gov
ernment of Missouri had four or five hun
dred armed men hunting me down, and
declared martial law. What a tempest one
poor hunted man can raise! It is because
of guilty consciences. They know the
wrong they did, and know that vengeance
should fall upon the guilty.
I have had two bushels of Radical bullets
shot at me, bat only two ever drew blood.
The old Indian when he fired 14 shots at
Gen. Washington and missed every shot
said that the Great Spirit turned the balls
aside. God has bullets
aimed at my life, and I put my trust in Him
and believe the balance of ray days will be
spent more„happily.
I am in as fine spirits and good health as
I ever was. My wound is entirely healed
and I am good for many years of life if my
foes Allow me to live in peace; and if they
do not, on them be the cousequences.
Let spies and informers keep at a safe
distance from me. Ido not think I can be
easily trailed, but still it is safest fort any
person that has adesire to hunt up Hilder
brand to let that alone. Remember the
greenhorn that started out to hunt grizzly
bears in California.
In order that those who knew meaud my
family may know that the writer of this is
“Bam” Hilderbrand, and not a fictitious
person, I will here give the names of my
wife and children: My wife, Margaret;
children. Henry, Rebecca, Mary Elizabeth,
Nancy Katherine, Margaret Ann, George
Washington. Yours,
Sam Hilderbrand.
[Ed torial Coi renponcknca of tbo Chicago Universe.
Astounding Hobgobblin Phenomena.
NATURE TURNED UPSIDE DOWN IN LQNDON
—DOINGS OF HOME, THE GHOST-RAISER—
-lIE FLOATS OVER WALLS AND THROUGH
WINDOWS THE AIR FULL OF VISIBLE
SPIRIT FORMS SPOOKS EVERYWHERE—
MYSTIC MUSIC—MESSAGES FROM ADAH
ISAACS MENKEN.
London, England, >
September 28,1869. )
Thrilled the other day by the recital of
remarkable experience contained in a let
ter written to us by Signor Damiani, we
involuntarily exclaimed, “Oh ! that this
great throbbing, doubting world could
witness these wonderful phenomena.” A
book of great merit, inter related with this
thought of phenomenal spiritualism has
just fallen into our hands, fresh from the
pen of Viscount Adare. The introduction
by Earl Duriraven, who is on the most in
timate terms with the medium, D. D.
Home, exhibits a fine taste and high schol
arly attainments.
“It has been my object, 4 ’ says Lord
Adare, “in writing of these seances of Mr.
Home, to divest my accounts of all sensa
tional elements ; aud for fear of exaggerat
ing in any particular, I have simply re
corded the bare facts I witnessed. To put
down on paper accurately what others,
with myself, have seen, or to report even
the substance of what is spoken in a trance,
is extremely difficult.” * * * It is well
to meution that I have witnessed many
persons make, at their first seance, every
effort to account for the phenomena by
trickery and mechanical contrivance, and
failing in that, to reduce them to the effects
of some unknown force. I have invariably
found them, provided the seance was suc
cessful, very soon obliged to admit that
these phenomena caimot be acco|nted for,
except on the supposition that (hey are
caused by an unseen, bnt active mud rea-,
soiling, intelligence. I have printed names
>n full, whenever obtaining leave to do so,
knowing how little value is generally at
tached to statements, unsupported by the
testimony of more than one person.” Lord
Adare gives to the public, in this book,
the names of fifty persons as witnesses of
these spiritual manifestations. These in
dividuals are well known and responsible.
Some belong to the aristocracy, some are
scientists, some are eminent in the pursuit
of literature, <iud others in the law, phys
ics and the military department. We take
pleasure in furnishing for our readers the
gist of some of the wonders seen at these
seances, and recorded by Lord Adare.
SEANCF. NO. I—SHADOWY FORMS-JtfirviSl
ßLE ACCORDEON PLAYERS.
During this sitting, in the presence of
Dr. Gully/ Mr. Earl, Mrs. Thayer and
others, the table began to vibrate with
great rapidity, and danced round the room
in various directions. It was tilted up to
an angle greater than forty-five degrees.
The surface was smooth, polished ma
hogany, yet the candles, paper and pencil
did not move. Feeling cold currents of
air pass across my face and hands, a chair
standing against the wall, at a distance
of perhaps five yards, came suddenly away
from the wall, and placed itseif beside me
at the table. The effect was startling.
Mrs. Thayer saw a shadowy
between Home and myself; I was touched
lightly upon the head. An accordeon being
brought, Home took it, holding the lower
part with the keys hanging over, the edge
of the table, when it began a tube, resem
bling a voluntary upon the organ; the
melody was perfect and the expression
beautiful. While ihe accordeon was being
played, I looked at it two or tbi'ee times
under the table. All were-permitted to do
the same, demonstrating the fact that it
was played without visible hands.
SPIRIT BIRDS.
Present, Mr. Jenckin, Mrs. Jenckin, Mrs.
Homing, Mr. Russell and others. The
manifestations commenced witlrthe usual
vibration of the floor and our chairs, and
also the cold currents of air passing over
the hands of those present. Curious sounds
were heard, sometimes between the chirp
ing of a bird and the whistling produced
by birds’ wings. Soon tjje spirit-roice was
heard distinctly. During the time of the
rustling of the birds’ wings and the spirit
voices, Mr. Home engaged in social con
versation, showing that the sounds were
not produced by ventriloquism.
floating tables.
Present, Lady Galway, Lord Adair, Mrs.
Scott IlusseU and others. A vei*y large
table, seven feet long and five feet wide,
vibrated, at first strongly, and then sprang
forward violently, as though forced by a
mighty, mysterious power. The table was
lifted in the air, and vibrated sufficiently
strong, at a later hour in the evening, to be
felt iu the next house. Music was heard,
and other remarkable manifestations de
monstrating the reality of a future exist
ence.
A LORD LIFTED IN THE AIR BY UNSEEN
HANDS.
During this sitting the seance was exceed
ingly harmonious. ' Mr. Home, entranced,
spoke beautifully, and was elongated, from
his natural height, five feet ten inches, to
six feet four. Lord Dunraven placed his
hands on his feet, and they were fairly ou
the floor; others unbuttoned his coat, and
he was elongated again ; the space between
his waistcoat and the waistband of his
pantaloons being four or five inches He
also grew in breadth and size all over but
there was no way of testing to what ex
tent. Spirit voices were heard and snirit
forms were seen.
HORRIBLE GRAVEYARD INCANTATIONS
Lord Dunraven, Charles Wvnne, Home
and Lord Adair went to the Abbey, and’
while standing near the altar, Home was
entranced, and by the expression of his
face appeared to be in great agony H ,
head and hands became luminous. An owl
flew round the old Abbey- screeching T
attributed the noise at first to Hou.ef'but
as he passed me he said, in a most awful
ioice, No, it is not mi; von nre
token,” He kneeled upon the ground, waiv!
ed his hands;-gud appearing in «reat dis
tress, said: “Do you see that tombstone
with a light shining upon it? it woUld be
better, a million times better, to lie there in
the cold, dark clay, than to spend ;™
upon years, every momerit of which Is
eteruity, in wandering here;—O' lam so
weary-*, weary?” Soon he awoke from
his trance in a nervous state. Etranced
again, we saw him approaching and evi
dently raised from off the ground for Wa
floated by in front of us at I height which
carried him over a broke® wall \vhiov,
S«SSa TO, 5*
&k£TOj nd m,lbm
THE ghost OP an AkciENT MONK.
“teioosneM he had
£ a to a man dreMed
brown gown—a costume
Shureh TL h L ordeT in Catholic
h?was\J„w friar — told Home
“® u ? able to leave the earth. Some
psychologic law seemed to hold him to
scenes of his Mortal life. Finally
be ,ed bttc k to ths church, where he
iSSS?* I }* Upon coining to him
selfhe told ns the spirit would be better
ba PP ler f °r what had transpired that
we were about to leave,Home
alr i Charlie Wynne
Bl “ d<,w “ OTe |
ADAH ISAACS MENKKN HKENAN HEARD
FROM.
Buckingham Gate; present, Lord Lind
say and others This seance was deeply
interesting. Immediately after the com
mencement of the sitting, manifestations
commenced and several messages were re
ceived from Adah Menken. Lindsay saw
two spirits on the sofa and others in dif
ferent places. Adah Menken entranced
Home and spoke through his organism.
MB. HOME FLYING IN THE AIR.
After a little quiet, Home was taken up
in the air and -carried out of one window,
and brought into the window of another
room. During the session there was a
rushing sound of wind, the chirping of a
bird heard, which, at times, changed into
the form of tongues or jets of flame. Then
entranced again, he spake in an unknown
tongue for a time, and" then the spirits
said they had that day been discussing the
subject of the miracles at the day of Pente
cost, and that the spirits present, aided by
higher intelligences, had prodneed the
sound of the wind, of the bird descending,
of the unknown tongues with the inter
pretations, and the tongues of fire, to show
that the same phenomena could occur now
that transpired in the uncorrupted Chris
tian ages. The remarkable phenomena re
corded in this book, of nearly 200 pages,
issued only for private circulation, are
thrillingly interesting and convincing.—
We hope that Lord Dunraveu, with the
other titled gentlemen and ladies who wit
nessed those spiritual manifestations, will
soon see the necessity of throwing the vol
ume into the book-markets of the world.—
“ Freely ye have received, freely
Post Office Report.— The forthcoming
report of the Postmaster General will show
the total number of stamps, envelopes and
newspaper wrappers sold during the year
to be 502,722,560, the total value of which
is $15,078,000. Receipts and expenditures
for the year euding the 30th of last June—
Receipts, $18,344,570 72, being an increase
of 12per cent, on 1868; expenditures,
$23,698,131 50, an increase on 1868 of 4%
per cent.
A Prussian Cotton Claim. —At Wash
ington a day or two since, counsel laid the
cotton claim of George 8. Wei bom. a Prus
sian subject, before Baron Von Gerolt, the
Prussian minister, who will call for a com
mission to act upon it at an early day.—
This claim amounts to $113,000 in gold.
A decided improvement in theatre con
struction has been introduced in Munich.
The orchestra has been lowered three feet,
bringing the heads of the performers and
their instuments below the level of the stage,
so that the view of the spectators is entirely
uninterrupted. Other leading theatres in
Europe will follow the example, which has
already been copied at Booth's Theatre in
New York.
The Rev. Thomas Noble, an eloquent En
glish clergyman, is said to be only one inch
taller than Tom Thumb.
BY TELEGRAPH.
[Associated Press Dispatches.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, November I —Noon.
Belknap was installed to day.
Unreliable hints regarding the annual re
ports are published. It seems certain,
however, that Boutwell and Delano will
oppose a change in the taxes.
There arc questions of veracity between
the Paraguayan minister, McMahon, and
the members of the Argentine Legation here.
The Committee of the Louisville Con
ventioa interview the President Wednes
day.
in the Supreme Court, the case of Tlior
ingtou vs. Smyth & Hartley, from Alabama,
the decision below was reversed, and the
cause remanded for anew trial. This de
cision gives validity to obligations within
the Confederacy, computing dollars at the
value of Confederate notes at the time the
obligation was incurred.
Washington, November I—P. M. —The
following is a fuller statement of the case
-■of Thorington vs. Smyth & Hartley: A
bid in equity for enforcement of vender’s
lien. Smyth & Hartley purchased Thor
inglon’s lands, and gave a promissory note
lor ,>art pay. The transaction occurred in
Without modirVlng circurnKUtmiii*.
Thorington would be entitled to a decree
for the amount and interest. The defense
pleaded that only Confederate notes were
current; the land was worth only $3,000
in real money; the contract price was
$45,000, $35,000 whereof was actually paid
in Confederate notes, and a note for
the remaining ten thousand was to be
discharged in the same manner. And it is
claimed on this state of facts: that the
vender is entitled to no relief in the United
-States Court, which claim was sustained
by the Court below, and the case dismissed.
The questions before the Supreme Court,
upon appeal, are, first., Can a contract
for the payment of Confederate notes,
mark' during the late rebellion, between
Parties residing within the so-called Con
federate States, be enforced at all in the
courts of the United States? Second, Can
evidence be received to prove that a prom
ise, expressed to be for payment of any cf
other than lawful dollars of the United
States ? Third, Does the evidence in the
record establish the fact, that the note for
ten thousand dollars was to be paid bv
agreement of the parties in Confederate
notes ?
The first question anwsered aflrmatively.
The second question answered affirma
tively with the following remarks : “ We
a v clearly of opinion that such evidence
nnst be received in respect to such con
t act, in order that justice may be done be
tween the parties-, and that the party en
titled to be paid in these Confederate dol
lars can only receive their actual value, at
tlie time and place of the contract, in law
ful money of the United States.”
On the third question, the Court says:
“ We do not think it necessary to go into
a detailed examination of the evidence in
the record. It is enough to say that it has
left no doubt on our minds that the note
for the 110,000 to enforce payment of
which suit was brought in the Circuit
Court, was to be paid, by agreement of the
parties, in Confederate notes.”
The Supreme Court decides that issues
of the Tennessee State Bank, previous to
the war, are good tenders for Tennessee
State taxes. A mandamus was issued com
pelling county officers to receive these
notes for State licenses.
Iu the case of Samuel B. Paul Vir
ginia, indicted for issuing insurance poli
cies without a State license, the Supreme
Court affirmed the decision of the lower
court, holding that corporations are not
citizens in the meaning of the Constitution,
and that issuing insurance policies is no
part of commerce.
Revenue to-day, over $1,000,000.
'ilie Pacific Railway Commissioners’re
port says it will require over $1,000,000 to
complete the Central and $1,500,000 to com
plete the Union Pacific Road. The report
says the officers of both roads are working
in good faith.
Washington, November I.—Boutwell
directs (he Assistant Treasurer at New
York to give notice that the sale of gold
and purchase of bonds will be continued
•vithout change during November.
The debt statement shows a decrease of
nearly seven and a half millions; coin bal
ance, one hundred and seventeen millions ;
currency balance, seven and a quarter mil
lions; shipment of fractional currency to
Charleston and New Orleans, fifty thous
and ; to Mobile, twenty-five thousand dol
lars.
MISSOURI-
St. Louis, November I.— The Stonewall
Committee report C 5 bodies. Only the col
ored steward and chambermaid have been
recognized.
VIRGINIA.
Richmond, November I.—Gov. Walker
has designated November 18ili as a thanks
giving day.
The city is very full of strangers, to at
tend the State Fair,, which opens to-mor
row.
LOUISIANA.
New Orleans, November I. —Weather
clear and pleasant. All Saint’s Day. The
Cemeteries tastefully decorated and attend
ance large.
MARINE NEWS.
CißalilestOn, October 31.—Arrived .-
Steamships Minnetonka, New York, and
Sea Gull, Baltimore; barks Dan Justo,Jla
mariscotta,Me.,and Mary Killam, Yar
mouth, ts. S.; schr. Glengary,Philadelphia;
brig J. A. Devereux, Boston.
Charleston, November I .—Arrived :
Steamer Weybosseit, from New York;
brig Foraento, from Matanzas.
Wilmington, November I.—-Cleared:
Rebecca Clyde, for New York.
Savannah, November 1.--Arrived:
Steamships America, from Baltimore; St.
Thomas, from A9plnwall; schooners Aman
da Flanagan, from Philadelphia; Ocean
Traveler, from Richmond, Va.; bark Os
wingo,i£ram St Andrews, N. B.
New Yoke, November I. —Arrived:
CKyof Paris.
MARKETS.
London, November I.— Holiday.
Liverpool, November I.—Cotton opens
Ann; uplands, 12012%; Orleans, 12%@
19% ; sales, 15,000 bales. Red Western
Wheat, 9s2d@9s 3d Others unchanged.
Later. —Breadstuffs quiet. Lard flat and
unchanged.
Liverpool, November I—Evening.
Cotton closed firm ; uplands, 12%; Orleans,
12% 1 sales, 15,000 bales; exports and
speculation, 3,000 bales. Corn, 30s.
Havana, November I.—Stock of Sugar at
Havana and Matanzas, 138,000 boxes, 2,500
hogsheads —holders demand an advance.
New York, November I— Noon.—Stocks
weak and unsettled; New York Central
sold down to 3 per cent, since call. Money,
6@7. Sterling—long, 9; short, 9%. Gold,
128%. ’62’s, ex dividend, 15%; Tennessees,
ex coupon, 60%; new, 58%; Virginias, ex
coupon, 50; new, 51%; Louisianas, old, 66;
Levees, ex dividend, 60%; Alabama B’s, 91;
Georgia 6’s, 84%; 7’s, 91; North Caroliuas,
old, 47; new, 38%.
New York, November I—P. M.—Gov
ernments closed heavy ; ’62’s, 15%. South
erns dull. Money became suddenly active
towards the close, and rates advanced to
6@7; discounts dull at 10018. Sterling
dull at 9. Gold dull at 128%@128%.
Stocks excited and unsettled.
New York, November I—Noon. —Flour
dull and rather heavy. Wheat unchanged.
Corn shade easier. Mess Pork, S3O 50.
Lard quiet. Cotton quiet at 26%. Tur
pentine quiet at 46®47. Rosin moderately
active; good strained, $2 22%. Freights
dull.
New York, November' I—P. M.—Cot
ton a shade firmer, closing quiet at 26%.
Flour unchanged. Wheat a shade firmer.
Corn opened heavy, but closed a shade
firmer and more active. Pork heavy,
closing at S3O. Lard unchanged. Whisky
heavy at $1 20@1 21. Rice steady; Caro
lina, B@9. Sugar steady. Coffee firm. Mo
lasses dull. Turpentine, 46%@47. Rosin,
$2 28. Freights steady.
Baltimore, November I.—Cotton quiet;
low middling, 25%. Flour quiet and un
changed. Wheat firm; red, $1 3G@l 43.
Corn dull; white, sl@llo. Pork, $33.
Bacon quiet. Lard, 18@18%. Whisky
very dull and receipts increasing, $1 17®
1 18. Virginias, old, 45% asked; ’67’s, 48%
bid ; coupons, new, 53 bid.
Cincinnati, November I.—Whisky dull
at $1 10; demand light. Pork dull at s3l;
now held at S3O 50; buyers off. New Lard,
16%. Bacon—stock exhausted. Coni in
fair demand ; new, 58®60; old, 83®85.
Louisville, November I.—Provisions
firm. Mess Pork, s3l. Bacon—shoulders,
16% ; clear sides, 20%. Whisky, $1 10.
Wilmington, November I. — Spirits Tur
pentine—nothing done. Rosin steady at
$1 55®4 50. Crude Turpentine steady.—
Tar steady. Cotton quiet at 24%@24%.
Mobile, November I.—Cotton in good
demand; stock offering good ; market
closed steady; sales, 1,600 bales; middling,
24%; receipts, 3,339 bales; exports, 160
bales.
New Orleans, November I.—Cotton
active ; middling, 25 ; sales, 6,600 bales ;
receipts, 5,063 ; exports Saturday, coast
wise, 1,581. Flour dull, $5 25@5 50 and
$6. Corn—mixed, $1 10; white, $1 12.
Oats, 63@65. Bran, $1 10. Hay dull ;
prime, $27. Mess Pork held at $32. Bacon
—sugar cured hams, 28% ; shoulders re
tailing at 17% ; clear rib, 20; clear sides,
20%. Lard dull—tierce, 18@18% ; keg,
19%@20%. Sugar quiet; centrifugal, 12%;
prime, 13%. Molasses quiet; centrifugal,
65@75 ; prime, 80®85 ; choice, 85®@90. —•
Whisky dull and lower ; Western rectified,
$! 23@1 24. Coffee quiet and firm ; prime,
10'.,@17; fair, 15%@15%. Gold, 128%.
Sterling, 39%; Sight, par.
Charleston, November I.—Cotton in
good demand and steady ; sales, 650 bales ;
middling, 25; receipts, 2,131 bales ; exports
coastwise, 594 hales.
Savannah, November 1 .—Cotton— re
ceipts, 3,651 bales ; sales, 1,200 ; middling,
24% ; market active.
Augusta Daily Market.
Office Daily Constitutionalist, }
Monday, November 1 -P. M. 5
FINANCIAL
GOLD—Buying at 128 and selling at ISO.
SlLVEß— Buying at 153 iind'selling at 127.
BONDS—City Bouds, 87.
STOCKS—Georgia Railroad, 105.
COTTON— Market opened Steady, closing
quiet; middling, 24. Sales, 702 bales. Receipts,
760 halos.
BAt ON Finn with an advancing teudeucy.
We quote O. Sides, 22 ; C. It. Sides, 21%;
B. B. Sides, 21 ; Shoulders, 18; Hams, 21%@
26%; Dry Salt. Shoulders, 17 ; Dry Salt C. R.
Sides, 20%.
CORN—Sin ill supply. We quote choice
whnj, $1 30(051 35 from depot.
WHEAT—We quote choice white, *1 70®
l 7o ; amber, $1 60; red, Si 50.
FLOUR-City Mills, new, *7 50@9 50; at
rei.iil, SI $ barrel higher. Country, |6@9,
according to quality.
CORN MEAL-11 40@fl 50 at retail.
OATS—9o@*l 50.
PEAS—None.
CITY ITEMS.
The Medical College Exercises.—
The able and eloquent address of Prof.
DcSaussure Ford, at the opening of the
Georgia Medical College on yesterday, was
listened to by quite a large number of our
citizens, who experienced much genuine
pleasure and valuable instruction there
from. The address opened with the state
ment that forty thousand deaths occurred
in Georgia every year, many of which
could be attributed to the practices of
quacks and moutebanks, whose audacity
is only equaled by the credulity of their
many victims. He lucidly and with much
feeling depicted the two-foid duty of the
true physician and the position he ever oc
cupies in the community wherein he lives,
and the influence he must ever exert for
good or evil uponHliose who trust and give
him their confidence. Gave an amusing
sketch of the quack who practices simply
for the accumulation of money, and buys
his diploma “at a price,” with the legiti
mate results of such impositions upon the
human family. Referred them to the laws
of Georgia relating to medicine and
medical men, exhibiting their error in
some respects, and absolute folly and ab
surdity in others, urging upon the think
ing man a careful examination of them in
detail, and a modification of some, with a
repeal of others, which retarded the pro
gress and materially impeded the growth
of medical science, and affected the oppor
tunities for the accomplishment of good
by the charitable and learned physician.
The peroration directed to the students
was replete with sound sense and eloquent
and appealed with much pow
er to their understandings, while touching
the heart with its fervor and pathos. We
give but the faintest outline of the address
which contained very many beautiful
thoughts, sound logic and richness of im
agination. The Georgia Medical College
may well feel proud of her young but able
Professor, and can confidently look for
ward to his successful future.
The College begins the ninth session with
twenty-seven students, which is a larger
number than at any previous opening since
the war.
.The Macon Sensation. —The supposed
murder in Macon turns out to have been a
huge “ goak.” One of the parties arrested,
with blood on his breeches, accounted for
it by revealing a sore leg. The Telegraph
says: „
He had been on a sort of a • bender ’ at
the grocery named, on the night of th e sup
posed murder,*and not noticing that be
was bleeding profusely, had stood around
the counter aud against the wall smearing,
both with blood, and leaving marks, that
but for this explanation, would have been
very apt to have hung somebody, if the
drover could not have been found. The
whole thing having thus been exploded gs
a‘huge sell,’ the Mayor immediately on.
dered the release of all parties arrested and
the city was again quiet.”
A Charming New Work.— A veryjen
tertaining new work has just been issued
by the Messrs. Legler, of the Hamburg
Brewery. It is securely iron -bound, and
is put up in a shape convenient for trans
portation abroad or home use. We have
been kindly donated with an office copy,
which has been fully tested by our fall
force, and pronounced equal to the best
Milwaukee, Chicago or Northern produc
tion of the beer makers. In the name of
all; thanks to the Leglers and success to
their enterprise,
Burnt Cork.— The attractions of burnt
cork are prodigious. Masonic Hall was
jammed, last night, with woVshippers.—
Several ladies were present. Many gentle
men invested their dollar for the privilege
of a cachination at the mock and gross
humor retailed so cheap by the feeble imi
tators of the original “ nigger.”
The M man and brother” was allowed to
fringe the audience in the back part of the
hall, just to convince him that the pro
prietors made no distinction on account of
“ color, race or previous condition” if he
had the requisite stamps. As usual, their
in-scents at the shrine of Mom us was emitted,
with a fervor that was far more compli
raeutary to the performers than agreeable
to those of the audience who were forced
to stand in close communion, whether of
that faith or not.
The performance embraced some merito
rious and amusing features. The ballads
of “ Sig Bidaux ” were rendered with good
effect. We thought the “ basso profundo”
went into “Dublin Bay” under stress of
weather, and failed to get out during the
performance. In the “La Bayadere des
Sultanes Favorites ” —that’s what the pro
gramme called it—<was a cross between a
third rate Tahietau dance and a weak
Black Crook exhibition of male leg timber
partially done up iu wench’s apparal. But
this was part of the ebony opera, we pre
sume, and as such, deserves to be touched
lightly, for fear of the adherence of lamp
black. The double Song and dance, chant
ed to that novel air, “ Walking Down
Broadway,” was unmistakably poor and
gave no satisfaction. The flute solo was
well received, the satisfactory execution of
his part, resulting in the flutist being com
plimented with a recall. The views pre
sented in concluding the performance were
highly interesting, and elicited general ap -
probation.
Convicted of Vagrancy.— A German,
giving his name as John Kinzer, and rep
resenting that he came to this city a few
(lavs ago from Savannah, was charged be
foul- G. A. Snead, J ustice of the Peace, yes
terday, by the overseer of Mr. Johu Phinizy,
Mr. Rollison, with vagrancy. The accused,
under the evidence, seems to have been
loitering around the premises of Mr.
Phinizy for a day or two and admitted to
firing the woods, by which a portion of the
fencing of Mr. Phinizy caught fire and was
consumed. He was sentenced to twelve
months on the public works.
Application for a warrant in this case
was made to Justice Ells, who declined to
issue the process, believing the accused to
be somewhat demented. This opinion we
heard expressed in other quarters. It is
also represented that this unfortunate man
had announced himself as in search of
work. While we heartily concur in the
enforcement law, if what we have learn
ed concerning this man be fact, we are per
suaded that the court before which he was
convicted of vagrancy has held him to ac
count in rather a harsh manner. Twelve
months is certainly a long period to con
sign a man to the chain gang—the extent
of the law within magisterial jurisdiction—
and the offender so sentenced should be
convicted up mi the strongest possible evi
dence that he is a professional vagrant,
which does not seem to appear in this case,
the convict having beeu iu the community
but a few days.
A Negro Constable Arrests a White
Man. —Yesterday morning, a white citizen
of Augusta, Mr. James Gallalier, was sub
jected to the humiliation of being placed
under arrest by the negro constable, (Morti
mer Mayum, vve have heard his name call
ed) who derives his authority from the ap
pointment given him by one George Snow
den, a negro magistrate rejoicing' Iff the
dispensation of the law by virtue of the
confidence reposed in him by the individual
who happens to inhabit the Executive
Chair.
This negro constable, so far as we are
advised, exercises Hie functions of his office
without the least shadow of legal authori
ty. lie has never appeared before the Or
ditvtrv of the county and qualified as a
constable, which has beeu required of all the
white constabulary, prior to entering upon
the discharge of the duties pertaining to
the office. It is designed, we understand,
to test in a legal manner, the rights as
sumed and exercised by this ambitious
negro, whose oppressive acts in his new
role is beginning to attract attention.
In the meantime, the best remedy which
can be applied to him, by both white and
colored citizens, whom he may seek to
annoy by his illegal visits, is, perhaps the
toe of a boot. This will at least develop
the authority under which he assumes to
act.
V Hog Thief Comes to GniEF.—A negro
hog thief, sailing under the alias of Dick
Campbell, was before Justice Ells, yester
day afternoon, charged with stealing and
killing a sow of the value of S2O, the prop
erty of a colored man. He found himself
so completely cornered with the evidences
of guilt traced out by the police, that he
plead guilty, and was sentenced to six
months’ labor on the public works.
Salem Dutcher. — Mr. Dutclier is now
the editor of the Galveston News. Mr. D.
is a man of noble intellect and a thorough
jourualist. It is impossible for him to con
trol a newspaper without impressing his
strong individual characteristics upon it,
and so we feel assured that, under his man
agement, the Galveston News will become
a power In the State of Texas.
Georgia Railroad.— The following ex
hibit of the gross receipts of this road, for
the. mouths of September and October, 1868
and 1800, will show its pvoperous condition:
Gross earnings for Sept., 1868 $78,000
“ “ “ “ 1860 119,000
' norease in Sept., 1869 over 1868.... 41,000
Gross earnings for October 1868 $98,000
“ “ “ “ 1869.... 140,000
Increase in Oct., 1860, over 1868.. .. 42,000
Change of Schedule —On reference to
the advertisement, it will be seen that the
leaving time of the Aiken accommodation
train is to be changed on aud after Wed
nesday, so as to leave Augusta at 2, p. m.,
and arrive at Aiken at 3:30, p. in.; Jeavc
Aikeu at 7:50, a. m., and arrive at Augusta
at 9:fo, a. m.
River News.— The steamer Katie ar
rived at her wharf yesterday morning,
about 11 o’clock, with a full cargo of gene
ral merchandize from Savannah, which port
she left on Saturday morning. The Katie
left on her return trip yesterday afternoon.
Receiving Stolen Goods.— Jack Smith
(colored) was before Justice Ells, yesterday
afternoon, charged by Mr. Peter Jennings
with receiving a number of bottles of soda
water and ale, knowing the same to have
been stolen. W. Milo Oiln, Esq., repre
sented the defendant. The case was sub
mitted to a jury, who returned a verdict of
“not guilty," and the defendant was dis
charged.
Fire at Bamberg.— We learn that a de
-stKpctive conflagration occurred at Bam
berg, 8. C., on Saturday night, by which
general buildings were consumed. No
fbrt.l3s^ particulars at hand.
RsconiijEß’a Court.—Aaron Robertson
and
yesterda. f ’Uilng, charged with violation
of the The former was fined
$5 and costflnd the latter dismissed.
THE GHOST OF KING SOLOMON, IF
the spiritualists could raise it, would admit
t at there is something “ new under the sun ”
1 HALON’S VITALIA OR SALVATION FOR
IHE HAIR, is thoroughly original. There has
be . nothiDg like it since time began. It is the
oai\ transparent and harmless fluid in eilst
enoe that will restore the natural color to gray
hair, withOQt discoloring the akin,
novS-tuthuM
The Bells of Shandon.
With deep affection and recollection
I often think of those Shandon Bells,
Whose sounds so wllff would, in days of child
hood,
Fling round my cradle their magic spells ;
On Uils I ponder, where’er I wander —
And thus grow fonder, sweet Cork, of thee;
With Bells of Shandon,
That sound so grand on
The pleasant waters of the River Lee.
I’ve heard bells chiming, full many a clime in,
Toiling sublime cathedral slirlne;
While at a glib rate, brass tongues would vi
brate—
But all their music 6poke naught like thine;
For memory dwelling on each proud swelling,
Os tby belfry knelling its proutf uotes free,
Made the Bells of Shandon
Sound more grand on
The pleasant waters of the River Lee.
I’ve beard bells tolling “ Old Adrian’s mole” in
Their thunder rolling lrom the Vatican,
And cymbals glorious swinging uproarious
In the gorgeous turrets of Notre Dame;
But thv sonnds were sweeter (ban the Dome of
Peter
Flings o’er the Tiber, toiling solemnly—
Oh, the Bells of Shandon
That sound so grand on
The pleasant waters of the River Lee.
There’s a bell in Moscow, while on tower and
kiosko,
In St. Bophia, the Turkman sits,
Ami loud in the sir calls men to prayer,
From the tapering summit ot tall minarets;
Such empty phantom I freely grant them,
But there’s au anthem more dear to me—
’Tis the Bells of Shandon
That sound so grand on
The pleasant waters of the River Lee.
Notice to the Compstitors
FOR THE
Math* wson Prizes,
Under the Award of the
COMMITTEE OF THE AGRICULTU
RAL CLUB OF RICHMOND
COUNTY, GA.
The undersigned, Hie committee (o whom
has beeu entrusted the charge of awarding the.
Premiums offered by ,T. O. Mathewson, Esq.,
of Augusta, Ga., for the purpose of ascertain
ing the greatest quantity of COTTON and
CORN which a single acre of land can be uado
to produce by tlie skillful application and
proper use of the SOLUBLE PACIFIC
GUANO, under scientific culture, do hereby
auuouuce that they desire to make up the list
of contestants, and to obtain all the informa
tion necessary for an impartial award.
The Prizes are in possession of the commit
tee. These Prizes are:
For Cotton.
Ist. SILVER PITCHER, value, *75 ; for the
greatest growth from one qere of land.
2d. SILVER GOBLET, value, *SO; for the
next greatest growth from one acre of land.
3d. SILVER CUP, value, *25 ; for the third
greatest growth from one acre of land.
For Corn.
Ist. SILVER GOBLET, value, *SO ; for the
greatest yield lrom one acre of land.
2d. SILVER CUP, value, *25 ; for the nest
greatest yield from one acre of land.
3d. GOLD MEDAI , value, *25; for tbo third
greatest yield lrom one acre of land.
The Conditions
Upon which the award will be made are as
follows :
Ist. That tIieBOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO
only and no other fertilizer shall have been ap
plied to tie land.
2d. That each acre, either of Cotton or Corn,
shill be measured by two disinterested persons
familiar with the pi ‘in ting and culture, who
snail certily the same to the Committee, and
shall also certify to the character of the con
testant.
3d. That contestants for cotton premiums
shall furnish the Committee journals, showing
the date ol each picking and the quantity picked
of seed cotton.
4th. That the ginned cott&n shall lie sold in
jbe Augusta market, be inspected by the Com
mittee, who shall be furnished with the market
samples thereof, and have the privilege ol re
sampling and the warehouse weights. 3
sth. That the corn shall be hauled from the
field in the presence of two respectable farmers
of the neighborhood, who shall record the
number ot wagon loads and the dimensions of
the wagon-bodies used, that it be shucked and
meaoiired in the ear by barrels, the gross
weight ot each barrel filled, and the weight of
l V- empty burrel recorded, each fourth barrel
mil all fractional parts to be shelled, and the
£belled corn weighed, the whole record cerii
f All planters or farmers desiring to contend
for the foregoing prizes will furnish to Dr. J.
8. Walker, Chairman of the Committe, Au
gusta, Georgia, their names aud post office, and
the names of their factors, to whom, also, all
communications should be addressed.
Th>- lists will be closed on the 10th dav of
NOVEMBER next, and all applications should
hi made on or before that day.
J. B. WALKER Chairman.
A. R. WRIGHT,)
A. BAKER,
8. D. LINTON. ( „
J. G. TUCKER, /‘Committee,
J .1. COHEN, I
G. HRY \N. J
oetßth-alu6&e2
FARMBK© !
INCREASE YOUK (|; -P OF
f*ye Oais, Pol hops, runups
and 'irass,
AS WEI.T, AS
APD To I IIK FERTILITY OF YOUlt SOIL,
iiv a .lunictotu and economical
MODE OF
M A. NURING.
Surely the man U a public benefactor who
m kes
‘‘ Tw.i spear* of grass to grow
Where but one grew befoje.”
1 will give a “ Money Guarantee ” of the
purity of each “ Manure” I sell.
I keep constantly on hand, and offer for
sale
Pure No. 1 PERUVIAN GUANO, from Chin,
cha Islands
Pure SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO, “John
S. Reese & Cos.”
Pure GROUND BONE FLOUR, uuburnt find
unsteamed.
Pure GROUND LAND PLASTER, at S2O per
tou.
LIVERPOOL SALT.
J.O. MATHKVVSON,
285 Broad street, Augusta, Ga.
oct6-eoJsilc*t
J. J. BROWNE,
gilder, looking glass
AND
PICTURE FRAME MAKER.
OLD FRAMES REGUILT TO LOOK
EQUAL TO NEW.
OLD PAINTINGS CAREFULLY
CLEANED, LINED AND VARNISHED.
ISS BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA.
jy2s-su3m
COOKE’S
CLOTHING STORE,
ESTABLISHED 1830, -
208 Broad Street, 203
rn
r-L HE Cheapest, Oldest aud Best House In '
Augusta, offers a large, new and well selected
Stock of
READY MADE CLOTHING
HATS . M
GENT’S FURNISHING GOODS,
, . Ot every grade and variety,
At Wholesale aud Retail.
WEST BLANCHARD, H. S. JORDAN,
Georgia. South Carolina. '
0c127-c2m
IrO MILL OWNERS
Mill ©tones,
Bolting Cloth,
Smut Machines,
AND ALL KINDS OF MILL FINDINGS,
FOR SALE AT THE LOWEST
OASH PRICES,
By WM. BRENNER, j |
107 Brv djetreet, August*, Ga,