Georgia Historic Newspapers

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AUGUSTA.
THUBSDAY MOBBING, DBO. 23.1869
THE GEORGIA BILL.
By * perversion of the troth, but in con
formity with a deliberate purpose to over
throw whatever remains of our Caastitu?
tional liberty, the Senate and the House of
Representatives of the United States have
passed a bill which farcically pretends, in
its title, “to promote the reconstruction of
Georgia.” The obfeaislblej ground for this
last interference with oar State was the un
seating of the so-called negro members of
the Legislature; but the real purpose is to
* secure, at any cost, the ratification of the
XVth Amendment and the coercion of
Democratic Georgia, by any fraud, into
Radical affiliation. We were second to
none of our contemporaries in demonstrat
ing that the ousting of the negro members
did not violate any pan, of the Reconstruc
tion Acts; that these acts did not make the
negro eligible to office; that the Constitu
tion of the State was equally silent on the
subject; that the Legislature construed our
lavs as it had a perfect right to do; that
tjie decision of the Supreme Court was
made under the Code and not under the
Constitution or Reconstruction Acts; that
this decision was a general one, and did not
touch the cases of the negro members at
all; and that, right or wrong, their cases
were res a ljudicata and could not legally be
recalled. At the same time, we unhesi
tatingly gave it as our opinion that, in the
future, the ruling of the Court would be
respected and observed, so long as our laws
remain as they are. We questioned, too,
the right of Congress Constitutionally to
interfere in this matter; and wc challenged
the press of the-North, or any Radical, on
or off the press, to contradict in argument
any of these several propositions which we
elaborately set forth. But bad men, fa
tally bent upon evil, do not seek such con
troversies, especially when they are deter
mined upon crime, and, unfortunately for
the innocent, have the power to consum
mate their villainy.
We do not doubt that the Radicals in
Congress fully intended thatuegroes should
be eligible to the franchise and to office
too; but the fact stands forth, as clear as
noonday, that they failed to frame their
laws accordingly, and so, Georgia is tb be
punished, not for any sin of her own, but
because her enemies are too clumsy as
statesmen in preparing enactments which
are the most wonderful series of blunders
on record. The Georgia Legislature may
have committed a grave error of policy in
taking advantage of this omission ; but the
right to do so, error or no error, is indis
putable, and we fancy that this right will
be exercised, from time to time, with more
and more astounding results to the existing
dominant faction.
So much Tor the past. We have now to
deal with the present and future. Natural
ly, this new outrage is calculated to fill
our people with gloom and apprehension.
To a great extent these forebodings are no
doubt well founded. We shall have labor
partially demoralized and the functions of
the so-called government wholly so. We
shall have thieves, knaves and scoundrel
fellows in high places, and Congress, the
backers of rascals everywhere, will employ
the once honorable soldiers of the Unite!
States Army to help on the roguery, the
chicane and the violence which necessarily
follow the destruction.of moral order. But
the human mind is elastic and soon adapts
Itself defensively to changed circumstances,
and it is prompt to thwart, in some salutary
way, the evil tendencies of those who essay
to thrive on riot and public plunder. The
great reliance of Congress is upou the ne
groes. We very much doubt if the Geor
gia freedmen can ever be successfully ral-
Hed'to' Radtcaitsm for another campaign
and, indeed, we are confident that they are
not in the least anxious to be made the
tools of any set of men, much less the
stock of imported and native vermin who
once succeeded in this black combination.
We can easily prevent any such design, if
the effort is worth the while, and, in any
election to come, we are sure of wiuning,
unless, indeed, sharp and quick Humbert
is reduplicated ad infinitum.
Luckily for the good name of Georgia,
the Morton bill provides for the reassem
bling of the original Legislature. This
will spare us the shame of seeing the ne
groes reseated by the two Houses as they
stood at adjournment. The Legislature
that Bullock la required to call will be a
Legislature created by Congress. It is es
sentially a sham Assembly, and we shall,
in the day of reckoning, have a noble rea
son for exploding its unlawful deeds.
When this illegal body of Congressional
tools shall have assembled together, 1t may
be the duty of all the true men thus acci
dentally connected with it to refuse par
ticipation in its procceedings, just as it
may be proper for them to abandon it alto
gether. In such a case, the Congressional
conspirators who formed this unlawful
Assembly may, by the power of a license
which defies all limit, rake up, after a
fashion, dummies to take their places. But
in this event, the fraud perpetrated will be
all the more glaring and the force employed
all the more abominable. Mr. Morton
himself, the anthor of this last iniquity, let
out the secret when he said, in his seat in
the Senate, that “ Georgia never would
adopt the XVth Amendment except under
compulsion.” The “compulsion” has come;
we are saved from stultification at last. —-
We have to thank him for another thing.
He has afforded the first square issue with
Reconstruction. Henceforth, in Georgia at
least, Congress must assume responsibili
ties which were once so adroitly thrust
upon our people. All that Congress can
do in future must be done by “compul
sion "—and compulsion invalidates con
sent. The day is coming when Mr. Car
penter’s fears shall be realized—the day
of retribution when the “ South files her
bill of exceptions,” and there will be just
judges to hearken to her claim; or the day
is coming when the cause lost in Georgia
shall be lost everywhere in the Union, and
a military despotism and popular serfdom
begin their iron task.
> u .jji-i jwb j ;
Some Possible Things.— The deposition
of Justices Brown and Warner; the eie
vation instead of Farrow (Potash) and
FannlN; llulbert’s retirement from, the
Superiptendeucy of the State fyjad, and
Blodgett's installment as his successor;
test and not least, General Alfred Teh&y,
satrap and swiftly willing witness, falsifier
and politico-military thimble-rigger, Striv
ing to be a Senator from Georgia and a col
league of Bolloce’b.
Look out for some rich developments;
some portentous tumbles, and some tre
mendous disappointments. If Joe Brown
has'to “ shuck his ermine,” let Rufus pre
pare to have no peace in this world or the
world to come. If-TERR* endeavors to be
a Senator, we shall know how the cat got
into the meal tub of his slanderous-report.
Virginia — lt is hard to say whatYir?
glnia has not done in order to get into the
Union. So far, her enormous consumption
of dirt has been positively only an appetizer
for fresh Installments 6f the article at the
hands of Butler &-Co. We now learn,
from the well-informed Washington corre
spondeut of the Baltimore Gazette, that
“ there is a determination not to admit
Virginia as she now Stands. Some scheme
will be devised and jbreed to execution by
which the State will bfl ; Secured to the
Radical party. The Radicals say we Will
take care to have no more /Tennessees and
Georgias, and it ,is now feared that Vir
glnla will not be represented in Congress
until the Governor and Legislature are ee
pured In the interests ol the Radicals.'*’ 1
Salem Dutchkr.—Wfe are'pleased to j
learn that our Mend Salem Dutchkr is
now editor in chief of the Gal veston News
by long odds the best and most prosperous
journal in Texas. Prom copies of his paper
which have reached us we recognize, in
fullest expression, the manifestation of
those wonderful gifts of composition which
made him a conspicuous person on the
Georgia and New York Press.
Tennessee. —The turn of Tennessee wil
come next. The Radical papers have raised
the yell which is always premonitory of a
new Congressional Reconstruction Act—
an act to be entitled an act to “ organize
hell.”
By All Means. —ls the original mem
bers of the Legislature are to be recalled,
let us have Aaron Alpeoria Bradley in
the collection.
[From the Missouri Republican.
The Illinois Convention.
We congratulate the Conservatives of
Illinois upon the sensible and skilfnl man
ner in which their representatives have
managed the organization of the Constitu
tional Convention, and the very satisfac
tory success which has attended that man
agement thus far. As our readers are
aware, the balance of power iu the conven
tion was held by some half dozen “ Inde
pendent Republicans,” who, though avow
ing the same political faith as the straight
out Radicals, tempered their creed with a
sufficient amoont of wisdom and discretion
to virtually emancipate them from strict
party drill In other words, these gentle
men went to Springfield not in the interests
of Radicalism, but in the interests,of Illi
nois ; not for the purpose of dividing the
spoils among a little pack of hungry and
blatant “ loyalists,” but to give the State a
sound and efficient organic law, worthy her
present position and adequate to her future
needs. They were met in the same spirit
by the Democracy, and the latter, instead
of driving away the independents by insist
ing upon greater concessions than they
could consistently grant, gracefully yielded
the point, and.conferred upon Hon. Charles
A. Hitchcock, of Chicago, •an Independent
Republican, the Presidency of the Conven
tion. The remainder of the offices were
fairly distributed ; each nomination of the
allies being carried by a handsome ma
jority, and the parliamentary machinery is
now working with a smoothness and har
mony which promise the happiest results
for the people of Illinois.
Next to the prospect of securing these
results, we confess that the unexpected and
overwhelming discomfiture of the intense
Radical element affords U3 the profound
est pleasure. Our sister State, for ten
years past, has been saddled, ridden and
spurred Ly a faction whose sole ambition
was to maintain its grasp of power at any
cost and at all hazards. The leaders of
that faction have promulgated ideas con
ceived in the bigoted and intolerant atmos
phere of New England, and utterly unfit
ted for the tastes and requirements of the
young and large-hearted West; and these
ideas have been shaped into legislation by
obedient servants, and sent forth to crip
ple the energies and retard the progress of
a noble Commonwealth. Only one barrier
stood in the way of the complete accom
plishment of the Radical programme, and
that barrier was the Constitution of the
State. This instrument, though in many
respects faulty, was yet permeated with the
leaves.of old-fashioned Democratic princi
ples, and could not therefore be moulded to
to .suit the designs of the modern
reformers. It was resolved to wipe
the Constitution out of existence, and sup
ply its place with another which should
afford ample scope for the designs of the
revolutionists. When the Constitutional
Convention' had been ordered, aDd before
the election for delegates had occurred, the
Radical press and orators throughout the
State were busy suggesting aud preparin a
those measures which, it was hoped, would
perpetuate the dominion of that party in
definitely. The possibility of a Conserva
tive majority iu the convention apparently
never entered into the calculations of these
self-confident, manipulators. Os course
Radical influence would preponderate in
thaCbody, and of course laws would be
framed of the unadulterated Radical stripe.
Several prominent journals of this political
persuasion have even gone so far as to
quarrel in regard to the manner In which a
negro suffrage pill was to be crammed
down tile popular throat.
Illinois is likely to have a constitution
j free from the narrow spirit of partisanship,
liberal and enlightened in its conception,
clear and comprehensive in its details—
such a constitution, in fact, as Radicalism
has neither the desire nor the ability to
construct.
The 14th and 15th Amendments.
ARTICLE XIV.
Section 1. All persons born or natural
ized in the United States, and subject to
the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the
United States and of the States wherein
they reside. No State shall make or en
force any law which shall abridge the priv
ileges or immunities of citizens of the Uni
ted States ; nor shall any State deprive any
person of life, liberty or property without
the due process of law, nor deny, to any
person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.
Sec. 2. Representatives shall be appor
tioned among tin- several States, according
to their respective numbers, couuting the
'whole number of persons In each State, ex
cluding Indians not taxed. But when the
right to vote at any election, for the choice
of electors, for President and Yice-President
of the United States, Representatives, in
Congress, the Executive and Judicial offi
cers of the State, being twenty-one years
of age, and citizens of the United States,
is in any way abridged, except for partici
pation in rebellion or other crime, the basis
of representation therein shall be reduced
in the proportion which the number of such
male citizens shall bear to the whole number
of'male citizens twenty-one years of age,
iu such State.
Sec. 3. No person shall be a Senator or
'Representative in Congress, or elector of
President and Vice-President, or hold any
office, civil or military, under the United
States, or under any State, who, haying pre
viously taken an oath, as a member of Con
gress, or as a member of any State Legis
lature, or as an executive or judicial officer
of any State, to support the Constitution
of the. United States, shall have engaged in
insurrection or rebellion against the same,
or given aid and comfort to the enemies
thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of
t wo-thirds of each House, remove such dis
ability.
Sec. 4. The validity of the public debt of
the United States, authorized by law, in
cluding debts incurred for payment of pen
sions and bounties for services in suppress
ing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be
questioned, But neither thS United States
nor auy State shall assume or pay any debt
or obligation incurred in aid of insurrec
tion or rebellion against the United States,
or any claim lor the loss or emancipation
of any slave; but all such debts, obliga
tions and claims shall be held illegal and
j void.
Sec. 5. Congress shall have power to en
force, by appropriate legislation, the pro
visions of this article.
ARTICLE XV.
Section I. The right of citizens of the
United States to vote shall not be denied or
abridged by the United States, or by any
State, oil account of race, color or previous
condition of servitude:
Sec. 11. The Congress shall have power
to enforce this article by appropriate legis
lation.
The Result of Flunkeytsm.—ln view
of the recent action of Congress, we should
not omit to congratulate the State Agricul
tural Committee on their remarkable suc
cess in conciliating Northern sentiment
with regard to our State. The invitations
,0 distinguished Radical Congressmen, Bul
iock s special train, and the strained hos
pitality of the committee, have, clearly
worked like a charm !
We told the managers iu this business
that we should be kicked for our courtesy
and we rather think they now begin to be
lieve we spoke the truth. Well, we shall
know better next time. .Whether we shall
do better is another question, for it is a hard
thmg to beat self-respect into some people’s
skulls. At least, the editors of Georgia
3m R° P 5? Sed ‘.“t d' B g us t!ng flunkeyistn
will hardly again be charged with a disor
ganizing and mischievous spirit.
[Savannah Republican.
Just As We Swpposed ! —lt turns ont
as we learn from a Northern gentleman
who is thoroughly posted concerning the
antecedents of his Bovinity, that he is not
a native of New York, as is generally sup
posed—he hailing from Albion, where one
of the State prisons is located, and which
would, by the way, be a suitable lodging
for him. We thought it Impossible that so
much unadulterated meanness could be
found in, or connected with, a New Yorkeri
We were right. He is a native of witch
burning, degro-loving, free-love, “ God and'
morality” Massachusetts—the “ head-cen- J
tre” of all the diabolism and all the other
isms of New England | And, vefily, he has
proven himself a worthy representative !
[Athens Watchman.
[From the Atlanta Constitution, 22d.
The Coal Convention.
In accordance with the-call of Col. Hoi
bert, some twenty-four or five Railroad
officers, coal operators and dealers, manu
facturers and members of Board of Trade,
assembled at the freight depot of the Geor
gia Railroad.
On motion of Col. Hulbert, Col. L. P.
Grant was called to the Chair. He tried in
vain to be excused. .
R. C. Robson, Esq., was requested to act
as Secretary.
The following gentlemen were found to
be in attendance:
Railroad Officials—Col. E. Hulbert, Super
intendent w. and A. R. R,; S. K. Johnson,
Supt. Ga. R. R,; L. P. Grant, Supt. A. and W.
P. R. R. A. J. White, President M. & W. R.
R.; Col. A. L. Colyar, President Suwannee
R. R.; M. R. Tuttle, President Knoxville
and Kentucky R. R. ; Col. Mark A. Cooper,
President Cartersville and Van Wert Rail
road.
Coal Operators—Mr. Hazel ton, Etna
Mines; CoL A. S. Colyar, Suwannee Mines;
Gen. John B. Gordon, Wm. Lenoir, Georgia
Mines; R. C. Robson, Castle Rock; R. E.
McEwen, of McEwen, Wiley & Cos; A. 8.
Mariner, of Wilcox & Cos.; W. R. Tattle,
Anderson county; E. G. Eaton, Valcan; A.
C. Ladd, Alley, Soddy and Sale Creek.
Coal Dealers—Milo Pratt; P. Pelham;
R. A. Johnson; E. Parsons; J. M. Born, Jr.
& Cos.; Ladd & Parkhurst.
Manufacturers—W. Pendleton, of Pendle
ton & Boardman, Founders, Augusta.
Boards of Trade—W. F. Herring Augus
ta ; J. S. Peterson, Atlanta.
Colonel Hulbert briefly explained .the ob
jects of the meeting.
J. S. Peterson, Esq., read letters from
several coal companies and dealers.
The Knoxville Iron Company said that
they had contracted to deliver 100 car loads
of coal in Atlanta in November, but could
only ship about 40 car loads, iu conse
quence of want of transportation. They
had orders for 100 car loads for December.
McEwen, Wyley & Cos., of Knoxville,
stated that they had orders for 2,500 bush
els per day, and could fill them, was there
transportation sufficient.
Wilcox & Cos., of Knoxville, say that
they are nine car loads per day behind, in
filling orders.
The Vulcan Works have orders for 17,000
bushels monthly, and could increase it to
30,000 bushels, with transportation.
The Etna Mines has orders for 100 tons
per day, but is not half filling orders.
About 10-12 of orders are for factories.
Unless more transportation can be secured,
Schofield’s Rolling Mill will have to stop.
The Fertilizing Company have already
stopped.
The Castle Rock Company not doing
anything, owing to lack of cars.
A. C. Ladd could sell ten car loads where
he now sells one, if he could get it promptly.
E. Parsons has sold 70 car loads. Could
sell 700 car loads by April, if cars were put
on.
J. M. Born, Jr., & Cos. have sold 566 car
loads. Were there cars sufficient to trans
port the coal, 2,000 tons would be used.
Suwannee Mines ship this season 5,000 to
6,000 per day. They have now 25 cars in
coal trade. To supply the demand, 500
cars is necessary.
Hon. Mark A. Cooper responded to calls
in a few pointed remarks. The wealth of
the country depended on the coal trade. The
railroads should afford transportation.
Gen. John B. Gordon gave his experience
in coal mining, depicting the great need of
the trade, in forcible and eloquent remarks,
and demonstrating the economy of coal—
its benefits to factories and railroads.
A. J. White, President of the Macon and
Western Railroad, depicted the condition
of Southern railroads Id an able and point
ed speech. He urged a compromise between
both parties.
Col. A. S. Colyar made a pertinent aud
sensible, speech, demonstrating the com
munity of interests of railroads and coal
miners. JJe said that both would make
more money by shipping large quantities
of coal at small profits, thau small quan
tities at large profits.
*Mr. Hazelton, of the Etna, spoke ol’
Georgia as pre-eminently a manufacturin*
State, and the importance of cheap coal to
the development of manufacturing.
Mr. Leroy Drewry, general agent of sev
eral English lines of steamers, then ad
dressed the convention in behalf of estab
lishing a coal depot at Brunswick. He
had examined the harbor at Brunswick,
and it was the finest he had sfeeu. Vessels
of any draft could come up to it at any sea
son of the year without fear of disease. It
would lead to building up a return trad- 1 .
Col. Hulbert endorsed the suggestion,
and expressed his willingness to reduce the
freight on coal to the cost of transporta
tion.
R. 0. Robson suggested that the coal cars
might be to bring lumber here ou
their return.
Gen. Gordon stated that there was a
great deal of lumber at Brunswick, which
could be purchased at a low price, which
might he brought here.
Capt. A. J. White said that the Macon
and Western Road would furnish-cars to
supply all the points along that road. This
announcement met with hearty applause.
Col. L. P. Grant and S. K. Johnson
pledged themselves for their respective
roads, to do all they could to supply cars
for the trade.
Col. Colyar stated that Col. E. W. Cole,
of the Nashville and Chattanooga Raßroad,
would put on fifty coal cars.
Between 350 and 400 cars are needed for
the trade. There are only about 150 now
in use.
On motion of Col. Hulbert, the following
conimittees were appointed to report at 10
o’clock this morning :
On Railroad Transportation—Col. E
Hulbert, S. K. Johnson, A. J. White, W. R.
Tuttle, Mark A. Cooper and L. P. Grant.
On Present and Prospective Demand-
Col. A. S. Colyar, Mr. Hazelton, Gen. J. B.
Gordon, A. S. Mariner, A. C. Ladd.
On Supply and Demand—Milo Pratt, P.
Pelham, E. Parson, J. M. Born, Jr., R. A.
Johnson.
The meeting adjourned until 10 o’clock
this morning.
Col. John A- Wimpy. —ln our issue of
this morning was a dispatch from our tele
graphic correspondent at Washing, stating
that the New York Tribune, of the 18th,
published intercepted letters, proving that
Col. Wimpy, of Georgia, had been engaged
in counterfeiting United States currency*
Col. Wimpy called on us this morning,
and makes the following statements, which
he says the next issue of the Tribune will
contaiq;
About the first of October, a firm in New
York, signing itself Wpgan 4b Cos., wrote to
parties in Dahlonega several confidential
communications, proposing to sell counter
feit money, The Dahionega people believed
that persons there had some of the currency
to pass upon them.
Col, Wimpy says that after consultation
with Dr. Vandyke, and T- H- Killgore, of
Dahlonega, and P. O’Conner, of Atlanta, he
uudertook to ferret the matter out, and for
this purpose entered into a correspondence
with Wogan & Cos. He succeeded in get
ting an interview in New York the 12th
inst., and had arranged to meet them again
011 the f 3th, at the Astor House, at which
time he expected tq Jjave arrested two of
tlie parties.
They suspected, however, that .Colonel
Wimpy was acting the detective, and failed
to meet him on the 13th. The letters he
wrote them he says were iu decoy. They
then gave his letters to the Tribune for
publication.
These ajp the facts as detailed to us by
Col. W ifl )py, who says he can prove them,
and who farther says that he would pave
received a handsome sum of nk>ney from
the Government for his services.
[Atlanta Constitution.
.....ji m* 11; —— r/i
Governor Bullock. — A gentleman in
forms us that Judge Orr, ofSonth Caro
lina, who has jifet returnerl from Washing
ton, informed him that Gov. Bußock was
money by thousands? He has a
fine suit of room&rkeeps-a flue carriage v at
his disposal, and eutertains [! tjfga)itiy and
lavishly. Orr asked if Bullock was a man
of much wealth. When int'ortfied 'that he
was not, Orr said that (he ought to be, to
throw money, away as he did.
We offer five thousand dollars reward, to
be paid out of the. Radical Ku Klux fund,
for information where Governor Bullock
gets his money. We have been informed
that the Executive was hard-up for money
at the Louisville Commercial ’Convention,
and lias been privately impecunious since,'
up to his departure for Washington.
His sudden flush of money is remarka
ble. The gubernatorial salary would hard
ly pay one of the gubernatorial entertain
ments in Washington.
Bnt the secret must out some day 1 . The
reckoning will come. Sooner or later it
will come, Who doubts .that the people of
Georgia, are paying for this sumptuous
feasting for Georgia’s injury?'
[Atlanta Constitution*
K’E Living.— Writing of the cost
a Washington hotel,/ f* Mack ”
e Cincinnati Enquirer that S7OO
a week ip mot considered alfigh figure for
rooms and accommodations at the Arling
ton. There are twa families living there at
the rate of $50,000 per annum each. One
is the family o&’.GeneraK iFreiiioiit, and the
(other of a private citizen qf. Washington*
who thinks he saves money by the opefa-'
tion." ■ • '
■ in t —i. .j; .
- Tjie death of Lincoln still serves in
'/Rhode-Inland as an evangelical warning,
against the wickedness of theatre-going.
Prayers J Don’t Like.
I do not like to hew him pray
Who loans at twenty five per cefcfc,
For then I think the borrower may
* Be pressed to pay for food and rent.
tb*t Book we all should heed,
Which says the lender shall be blest.
As Sure as I have eyes to read * ' 1 *
It does not Say ** take interest.”
I do not like to hear him pray
On bended knees about an hour,
For grace to Spend aright the day,
Who knows bis neighbor has no flour.
Id rather aee him go to mill
And buy the luckless brother bread,
And see bis children eat their fill,
And laugh beneath their humble shed.
I do-nk like to hear him pray.
1 Let*leasing*on the widow be,”
Who never seek* her home to say, : a
“ If want overtakes yon, come to me.”
I hate the prayeK, so J<3j&and long,
That’s offered Tor th<rofr’pbin’s weal,
By him whq sees him 'brushed to wrong,!
And only with the lips doth feel.
I do notlike to hear fier pray.
With jewelled ear and silken dress,
Whose toils all day,
fur
With folded* hiuids and face demure,
They lift to heaven their “ angel eyes,”
Then steal the earnings of the poor.
I do not like such soulless prayers ; »
If wrong, I hope to be forgiven ;
No angel wing them upward bears—
They’re lost a million miles from heaven.
[From the Newark Daily Journal, December 17.
Bribing an United States Detective.
. A NEW YORK LAWYER CAUGHT IN HIB OWN
TRAP. *
' One would scarcely think, to look at the
pleasant, round, jolly face and well condi
tioned person of Mr. Ichabod Nettleship,
that he is one of the smartest detectives In
the service of the United States under tin;
charge of Col. H. C. Whitely. Still it :s
eminently so, and yesterday witnessed the
enactment of one of his .richest cases, being
the handing over to justice of a New York
lawyer and a colleague named Phillips, the
one having attempted to bribe and the oth
er for conspiracy*
It will, be remembered by our readers
that last Tuesday a, week ago, a liquor-sell
ing place, at No. 20 Bank street, carried on
in the name of one Ritterrnau, of New York,
was seized by the Government officers, and
the persons carrying* on the business arrest
ed-for doing a wholesale business instead
of retail, for which they had only been
licensed.
The parties arrested were Charles Phil-'
lips and Henry Wilson. They were held in
SI,OOO bail each for examination the follow
ing Friday. In the meantime Detective
Nettleship, who had charge of the case,
waited on by one H. Lowenburg, an attor
ney and counsellor, of No. 133 Nassau
street, New York, who represented himself
as counsel for Phil lips aud Wilson. Re
tiring to a private room, where he had the
detective all to himself, he quickly came to
the point and said he wanted to have “ th s
thing fixed.” The “boys,” he said, were
poor, and he (Nettleship) could make noth
ing put of the case by pushing it. By this
time the officer perceived the shadow of a
green-backed mouse, and thought he would
see how far the man of law would go, to
he told him he would see what could be
done. They parted, and Nettleship did
proceed to see what could be clone, and : t
once communicated his suspicions to Col
onel Whitely, District Attorney Keasbey,
Com. Whitehead and others, by all of whom
he was advised to go ahead. One or two
other meetings took place between Nettle
ship and Lowenberg, aud it was all arrang
ed that the examination of the accused
should be put off, that the five hundred
gallons of liquor should be rescued from
the Collector by a fraudulent bond, and
that the case against Lowenberg’s clieni s
should virtually be quashed. For th : s
Nettleship was to receive S3OO. Now for
the denoumenl.
Everything was all arranged, and “Ne *
tie’s” plans. fully matured by yesterday,
and in the .afternoon. Lowenberg appear?:
to fix the thing up completely. The persu
who was to sign the bond that woul.
“ rescue” the liquor was on hand also—s,
brother of Phillips, one of the accused. The
bond was duly signed and delivered over
to Deputy Collector A. Matthew’s, and then
all retired from “Nettle’s” room except
himself and Lowenberg. Then the latter
as soon as the door had been locked, count
ed out S2OO aud threw it on the table, say
ing: “I must have the other SIOO for my
fees.” Nettleship at first and purred, but
finally picked up the roll of greenbacks—
the “ mouse” whose shadow he had seen
some days before—and placed them in his.
pocket. All this little transaction was
closely watched by Mr. Russell Applegate,
who was secreted in a coal closet iu the
room, and whose eye was at the back of a
nice little hole that had been purposely
pierced in the lintel of the door “Come
alougnow,” quoth the detective,* 1 and we’ll
get the bond fixed by the Commissioner.”
In he went to Mr. Whitenliall’s office,
closely followed by Lowteitberg. Nettle
ship, throwing down the roll of bills, then
said : “ There, Mr. Commissioner, is S2OO
this man has given me as a bribe to clear
his client.” As he spoke he turned to poor
Lowenberg, who for several mpmepts could
not realize his exact position. He finally
stammered out in broken English, “ I didn’t
give you any money.” Nettleship replied
that he thought he himself had a hard
cheek, but he (Lowenberg) had a harde r
cheek still. ‘This scene can be better
imagined than described.
To sum up, Lowenberg and Newton
Phillips were then arrested and each held
in $5,000 bail, Messrs. Jacob Lagewicz and
S. Scheuer becoming the bondsmen. The
penalty, in case of conviction, is a fine three
times the amount of the bribe offered and
three years State prison. In conclusion, it
is due to Mr. Nettleship and the other
officers to say that no case of the kind conld
have been more adroitly worked.
Christmas—The Letter “X.”—A cor
respondent writes from Mississippi:
“In your last Register I saw the expres
sion, 1 Cross Purposes, a Xmas Story.’ I
am totally ignorant in regard to the ex
pression ‘ Xmas please enlighten me as
to whence it is deriyed, and why used.”
The letter X, being the initial of the title
of the Redeemer, in Greek, has in aU ages
since the Christian era been used as an ab
breviation of the sacred name. As thus
used, it is not the Latin “ar,” but the Greek
chi, corresponding with the hard sound of
“ ch ” in “ Christ.”
The discoverer of America was wont to
use for his sigqafure the abbreviation
“XPO Ferens”—not “x ? ’ and “p,” but
the Greek chi and rho —that is, Christofe
rcns, the equivalent of Christophorus ; and
it may be remarked that the “x” in the
old Spanish orthography, where- “i ” has
since been substituted, (as Xalapa, Oaxaca ;
now Jalapa, Qajaca), stands for .the Greek
letter, and not for the Latin character of
corresponding form.
In the old times, when paper was a rare
commodity, and writing a rare accomplish
ment, and a laborious task, the use of ab
breviations was habitual. Thus originated •
the use of “ye ” for the, “ym ” for them ;
and Xtian , and Xmas were then as common
as Mr. and &c. are now.
We are reminded, by the subject of this
explanation, of the- origin -of the fish as a
sacred symbol, its name in Greek, fcJahys
being composed of the initiate of the phrase
lesus Christus Theou Tios Soter —Jesus
Christ, God’s Son the Saviour.
f Mobile Register.
The Daughter of Yan Born’s Slayer
(Takes the Black Vwl- I The secluded
and elegant chapel of tlie Convent of the
Visitation, on Cass avenue, Was crowded
yesterday with ladies and gentlemen, the
occasion being the interesting and impres
j sive ceremonials connected wttij tfre public
! reception into conventual life of two young
ladies, one assuming the irrevocable or
black veil, and the other the white symbol
of her novitiate.
An episode of this character is one o
peculiar attractiveness, even to.those im
mersed in secular concerns, and whatever
j creeds may be embraced in the audience,
; none can be indifferent or insensible to its
influence. Id itself, the spectacle of two
fitif girls in the radiant bloom of youthful
life, deliberately adjuring the world, which
means everything earthly mqst treasured,
and assuming the obligations and entering
the permanent seclusion of conventual
exiflepcf, has a serious, if a half mournful,
hfiagtjr of iMown.j But tvheii it has anoex
e<T foTt tile s’olelljimy of religious ceremo
nials, it becomes one which leaves on
the m)nd-.» ; vivid and enduring impres
sion.’ " ' ' '** * "
The lady who assumed the black veil
yeptefftey was Miss Clara Peters, daughter
of Or. Peter*. She is a convert, we are in
formed, from the Protestant faith, and in
her profession as a nun evinces the reality
and earnestness of her cdnvictions. It is a
year ago since she entered the order and
assumed the white veil. She becomes iu
religionlSifiter Mary Paula.
The other ypung lady who made her first
profession was Misg Jane Sheppard, ap
parently not more than twenty years of
age.— St. Louis Republican, Dec. 17.
" - .
“ What is conscience ?” asked a teacher.
“An inward monitor J’ was the reply of a
.smart little fellow. “ And what is a mon
‘itor ?” “ One of the iron-clads.”
Edgefield Items.—The Advertiser, of
Tuesday, gives the following items:
'A. Ramsay', Esq., present Clerk of the
Court of Edgefield, has been appointed a
magistrate, for this place, by the Governor.
Murder of a Negro. —Two negro men,
Riley Capers and James Capers, have this
day, (Tuesday 21st), been brought to town
and lodged in jail, for the killing of a third
negro man, named Duncan Kennedy. The
latter was so cot and stabbed that death
ensued. This happened at Mr. Stahmore
Watson’s, on the Ridge, on Saturday, the
18th Inst.
New Postmaster. —Mr. J. Ward Hey
ward, late of the constabulary force, has
been appointed postmaster at this place.
This we consider a good appointment, in
asmuch as Mr. H. possesses business capa
city, and has conducted himself during his
brief sojourn in our village as an honest,
accommodating and courteous gentleman.
A Live Programme for a Live News
paper.—This schedule is mapped out for
the conduct of a real live newspaper by
the Richmond -ra
If you shonld by acetdeut make any mis
take about anybody, do ndt be persuaded
or bullied into retracting it. The Illumina
tor never blunders. You mast of coarse
pay some respect to the religious feeling of
the community—but rtotflr overdo this—
you must rather ipatrqpfrß the clergy and
Christianity. Never_speak well of anoth
er paper. Swear frequently (that vour cir
culation ha? doubled. In : articles conflict
ing with previous articles, set out by say
ing, “As we have repeatedly urged,” &c.
The great thing we want is a Hoe paper—
therefore, no snivelling about honor and
the like. Adapt yourself to the world of
America and the 19th century. Who wl'l
say that the Press habitually speaks the
truth?
The Railroad to Chattahoochee
Work on this road is rapidly progressing.
The grading is now finished to* within six
miles of the river, and the iron to lay the
whole track between Quincy and Chatta
hoochee, a distance of over twenty miles,
has been purchased. It Is expected trains
will be running to the river by February.
By means of boatSreoußecUon will be made
with this point, and choice of three ports—
Jacksonville, Fernandiua and Savannah —
will be offered to shippers. It will be
shorter by over a hundred miles than the
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad Line. When it
is opened freights must decline. The road
will be pushed as rapidly as possible to
Mobile. We get this information from a
high official. As yet the Barnett Hue of
steamers have not been purchased, but soon
will be. —Columbus Sun.
An Attendant at the Asylum Killed
by a Lunatic.— On Wednesday last, Berry
Hall (colored,) the principal attendant in
the department for the colored insane, was
killed by one of the negro patients named
William Albert. Hall and another attend
ant were eating their dinner, when Albert
entered the room, and observing an axe
near the door of a closet where wood was
kept, seized it and struck Hall, cutting a
frightful gash in his head and neck, which
produced death almost immediately. The
madman was seized by the other attendant,
whose cries soon brought help, when he
was disarmed and locked in his room. An
inquest was held by Coroner Cushing an 3
a verdict rendered in accordance with the
above facts .—MittedgeoiUe Union.
The Municipal Election.— At last, and
without a convention, have the elements
come to terms, and al I the tickets have
been withdrawn from the municipal con
test, except.Mr. H. A. Bmith and Maj. Z.
B. Hargrove. Both gentlemen are good
Democrats, aud either would make a good
Mayor.— Rome. Daily.
A duel, concerning a lady, came off at
Aquia Creek, Virginia, a few days ago,
between Colonel McNamara, a politician,
and a broker named Varnura, both of New.
York. The latter was wounded, probably
mortally.;
Mark Twain says: “To be hanged in
New Hampshire is happiness—it leaves an
honored name behind a man, and intro
duces him at once into thebestNew Hamp
shire society in the other world.”
A. T. Stewart bid one million and niuety
thousand dollars for the New York Hotel
on Wednesday. But the parties in the
interest of the heirs to whom it belongs
added $5,600 and took it. It is under a
rent of $56,000 a year.
By TKLKKI BA PH.
{Special to th« Constitutionalist.
NEW YORK DISPATCHES.
New York December 22.
Cotton, steady with more spiuuing de
mand, but no general activity.
GoLDaulvaiicert on rumors that' BoutweH
would st-ij) stiles for some months.
’Atynituti Porter .prediets the early annex
ation of St. Domingo,
It is charged that the a-saults upon
Grant’s Cuban policy are promoted by the
late Attorney General Evarts.
WILLQUanBY.
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TA«Byriated Press Dispatch*#.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, December 22.—Senate—
The Committee on Military Affairs were in
structed to consider the propriety of in
creasing Lieutenant Generals to three and
decreasing Major Generals to three.
Mr. Williams explained that the object
of the bill regulating immigration was to
bre i k u p the bust ness of Koopmanschap aud
other coolie contractors.
Without action, after a short; executive
session, the fc'enate adjourned to January
10th.
House—Mr. Dawes held that equally in
Wisconsin and Massachusetts, as in Geor
gia, it was the duty of Coqugress tp main
tain republican governments, and that
Congress was judge of the facts and the
occasion. , '
Without business, the House adjourned
to 10th of January.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, December 22—Noon—In
the House there is a general debate. The
Senate is discussing the bill regulating
Chinese immigration. There is a wide
diversity of opinion expressed. Howard,
Pomery and Conklin oppose many restric
tions of the bill.
The committees did nothing. A bill was
introduced to repeal so much of the statutes
as prohibit the State of Georgia from or
ganizing thp militia.
The President syill sign tffe Georgia bill
at 1 o’clock.
Bullock departs Southward to-morrow.
Washington, December 22—P. M.—
Revenue, $850,000.
The Miantonomah and Terror will escort
Peabody’s funeral fleet.
The Georgia bill has been signed.
The Alabama claims correspondence is
published. England consents to transfer
negotiations to Washington. Fish’s letter
concludes: “At the present stage of the
controversy, the sole object of the Presi
dent is to state the position and maintain
.the attitude of the United States in the
various relations and aspects of this grave
controversy with Great Britain.”
Confirmed—All the Circuit Judges but
Woods, Pear re and gawyer. Also, Aker
man, as Attorney for Georgia, Jennings,
Assessor Fourth ' G eor s^; White, Assess
or Fourth Virginia; Shelby' Postmaster,
Rome,. Georgia; Headerlight, Collector
Fightli
Collectqr Sjsth.yiyginia..
Sumner’s new Virginia InlJ dpclares
the present government provikicnial', directs
the Commanding Geri&ttf to call the Legis
lature together ‘Avithin thirty days, and
exact the test oath of July 2d, 1:802. • Upon
ratification ofitlje Fifteenth Amendment by
the Legislature thus organised,'the State
to be admitted to representation. Nothing
new in the other provisions. . °
Hoar’s nomination was laid on the. table
—equivalent to rejection.
At the last moment objections to Wood’s
confirmation lycre withdrawn, and he was
confirmed.
No action on diplomatic or consular
nominations. ’ 1 r
Lines slow. Western markets failed.
> VIRGINIA,
Charlottesville, December 28.—Avre
was examined tdday, for the killing of Dr;
Anthony for the alleged seduction of his
daughter. The testimony was the same as
at the inquest, with the additional, that the
widow of the deceased testified that hfer
husband had Ayre*s dne hill for* sß,ooo,
payable at ten days’ notice, but there had
nevfer’beeh any ! trouble about the money.
The examination was .continued until to
morrow. . . A. • ... ri . '
Richmond, December 23—OtaS 1 460 co--
lpred men have left this vicinity within the
past week, to so, tq work In Louisiana and
Mississippi: It Is eitimated that ovet 2,000
have left.the ttate within the Inst month
for the Booth.
LOUISIANA.
New Orleans, December 22.—The Re
publican devotes a column and a half, edito
rially, to Collector Casey. Demands of the
President Casey’s removal and the appoint
ment In his place of a true, honest and able
Republican, sympathizing with and enjoy
ing the«steem and confidence of the Re
publican mass, and bf Louisiana. The
complaint against Casey is that he retains
in position Deputy Collector Herwig and
other ardent and devoted Democrats. Ca
sey is a brother-in-law of President Grant,
and the war being waged by tb e Republican,
and its party promises to be active and in*
teresting.
There was a heavy storm yesterday eve
ning, and the telegraph is interrupted.
ALABAMA.
Montgomery, December 21.—1 t has been
raining all dav, and the river is rising.
The Leo left to-night for Mobile, with
over 1,000 bales of cotton.
A great many persons are going through
from Alabama and Georgia to Texas.
FORTRESS IVpNROE.
Fortress Monroe, December 22.—The
Spanish gunboats have reached tho Capes
and anchored in Lynn Haven Bay.
FOREIGN.
Havana. December 22.—1 t ’s reported
that the insurgents are moving towards
Camagrey. The Spanish authorities dis
credit the. rumor. Villamil’s insurgeiUi
were dispersed, and forty-two killed. Also,
thirty-three insurgents killed in the Amador
mountains.
A Spuiish frigate has arrived with
thirteen hundred troops, aud all have gone
to the field.
Several plantations have been burned in
the vicinity of Villa Clara.
Marseilles, December 22.— Advices con
firm the loss of the British war steamer
Deer Hound between Athens and Malta,
and Sir Stafford Northcote, Secretary of
State for India, is believed to have perished
Paris, December 22.—A subscription has
been opened for the expelled Spaniards.
MARINE NEWS.
Savannah, December 22. Arrived :
Steamships San Jacinto and Hnntsville,from
New York; Tonawanda, from Philadelphia;
schr. Vulture, from Havana; Clarence
Smith, from Philadelphia ; Leonora, from
Richmond ; ship Lady Russell and Louisa,
from Liverpool; brig Perriman, from East
port, Me.
Cleared : Schrs. Lucy A. Orcuttand En
terprise, for Jacksonville. , 1
Charleston, December 22. —Sailed : Str.
Maryland, Baltimore. Arrived : Schr. Ad
miral. Off the port: Ship David Brown,
Newport, England.
Wilmington, December 22.— Arrived :
Str. Hyde, New York; the steamer Lucille,
from Baltimore, was driven ashore near
Inlet Bay, last night. Tuus have gone to
her assistance. Condition unknown.
MARKETS.
London, December 22—Noou.—Cousols,
93)3. Bonds, 85%. Sugar—spot, 395. 6d. ;
quiet afloat. Tallow firmer.
Liverpool, December 22—Noon.—Cot
ton opens dull; uplands, 11%; Orleans,
11% ; sales, 10,000 bales.
Liter.— Cotton unchanged. Pork and
Lard flat. Tallow, 445. 9d.
Liverpool, December 22—Evening.—
Cotton—upland, 11% ; Orleans, 11%; sales,
10,000 bales ; export and speculation, 2,000
bales. Breadstuff's dull and unchanged,
Paris, December 22.—Bourse opens dull.
Rentes, 72f. 45c.
Havre, December 22. —Cotton opens flat
and quiet at 13G on spot.
New York, December 22—Noon—Stocks
firm and feverish. Money, 7. Exchange—
long, 8% ; short, 9%. Gold, 120%. Bonds,
13 ; Tennessee 6’s, ex coupon, 57% ; pew,
44 ; Virginias, ex coupon, 48 ; new. 53% ;
Louisiana 6’s, old, 68 ; Levee 6’s, 61% ; 8 -.
•78 ; Alabama B’s, 94 ; s’s, 61 ; Georgia 6’s,
;81 ; 7’s, 93 ; North Carolinas, old, 42 ; new,
39% ; South Carolinas, new, 81%.
New York, December22—P. M—Money
easy at G©7. Sterling, 8%©8%. Gold
closed active at 120%. Goverments closed
firm ; ’62’s, 18%. Southerns very strong.
Stocks closed feverish.
New York, December 22—Noon—Flour
dull and declining. Wheat dull aud i
lower. Corn dull and nominally I©2 lower.
Pork dull aud unsettled ; mess, $31@31 25.
Lard heavy at 18%. Cotton heavy at 25%.
Turpentine steady at 48%©44. Rosin firm;
strained, $2 0502 10. Freights dull.
New York, December 22—P. M—Cot
ton favors buyers ; sales of 2,000 bales at
25%. Flour heavy ; superfine State, $4 45
<134 70 ; common to fair extra Southern,
$5 40©t5. Wheat—moderate export in
quiry ; Winter red Western, $1 3201 34.
Corn heavy; mixed Western, $1 1301 13%.
Mess Pork heavy at $31031 75. Lard— ket
tle, 18%©19. Whisky, 99®$1. Groceries
steady. Naval Stores quiet. Freights steady.
Baltimore, December 22. — Cotton nomi
nally 25. Flonr quiet and steady. Wheat
very firm ; prime 10 ch uce red, $1 3501 40;
white, sl''6s©l 75. Corn active. Pro
visions quiet. Whisky. sl. Virginias,
old, 42% ; coupons, new," 54% bid.
Mobile, December 21. — Cotton — demand
limited; market closed weak; sales, 1,000
bales; middling, 23%; receipts, 1,883; ex
ports. 2,475 bales.
Mobile, December 22.—Cotton—demand
fair; closed quiet at inside; sales, 1,250
bales; middling, 23%©23%; receipts, 980;
exports, 264 bales.
New Orleans, December 21.—Cotton
dull and unsettled at 2i}%©23%; sales,
2,900 bales; receipts, 7,967; exports coast
wise. 254. Corn easier at $1 12%©1 15.
Ilay dull and lower ; prime Western, $250
26. Pork weaker ; uew mess, $32 25. Ba
con dull and lower at 15%, 19% aud 20;
hams, 25. Lard, 18%©19. Sugar dull at
13012% for prime. Molasses—prime, 670
68. Others unchanged. Gold, 120%. —
Sterling, 30%. New York Sight, % dis
count.
New Orleans, December 22.—Cottou
active at 23%@23%; sales, B,lob bales; re
ceipts, 6,853; exports—Liverpool, 6,097;
Bremen, 2,164. Corn lower at $1 10. Oats
j—Bt. Louis, 64^65; Ohio river, 62. Bran,
$1 15. Hay, $25. Pork dull and lower at
s3l 50. Lard—tierce, 19@19%. Whisky
quiet at $1 05@1 10. Others unchanged.
Gold, 120%. Sterling, 30%. New York
Sight, % discount.
Savannah, December 22.—Cotton—re
ceipts, 3,601 bales ; sales, 250 bales ; mid
dling, 23% ; market dull.
Charleston, December 22.—Cotton dull
and easier; sales 200 bales ; middlings 23%
@24; receipts 2,000; exports coastwise 478.
Augusta Daily Market.
Office: Daily Constitutionalist, )
Wednesday, December 22—P. M. j
FINANCIAL
GOLD—Buying at 120 and selling at 122.
SlLVEß— Buying at 110 and selling at 120.
BONDB— City Bonds, 83@85.
STOCKS—Georgia Railroad, 100, ex-divi
dend.
COTTON—The market opened with a fair
demand at 23 for middling, but closed with a
downward tendency. Sales, 872 bales. Re
ceipts, 1,362 bales.
BACON— Fair demaud. We quote C. Sides,
22 ; C. R. Sides, 21%; B. B. Sides, 21; Shoul
ders, 18; Hams, 21@20; Dry Salt Shoulders,
lfi; Dry Salt C. R. Sides, 19@20.
CORN—New is beginning to come |n freely,
and is selling at II 80@1 85 from depot; o!d
scarce at $1 45@1 50 from depot.
WHEAT—We quote choice white, fl 55;
amber, II 50; red, fl 45.
FLOGS— City Mills, new, |G 60@9 00; at
retail, ft barrel higher.' Country, sß<@9,
according to quality.
CORN MEAL-11 45 at wholesale; $1 60 at
retail. 1 :
' QATB-85@f 1 25.
PEAS—Scarce at $1 «0,
Wheat Head Reaper.— The Columbus
ftyn describes the model of a machine de
signed to reap the heads of wheat, and
leaye the stalks in the field, exhibited by
Mr. J. H- Vardeman, of Harris comity. It
is intended for one or two horses. On a
revolving axle, propelJM by the motion of
the wheels of the vcliicle, is attached a
filler qf jnward curved teeth, at
the base qf yr&iQh js a knife kept by the
same power In horizontal movement. As
ttyejftachifie s6ves thropgh thp fields the
heads are combed inward by the teeth and
severed‘from ithe stalks by; the blade and
: delivered! Into
tor a grain to escape; tor if one should fee
scraped off by-the teeth: it .would fall into
the boxi) The economy consists 1n the fact
tba* aH‘ K shocking ”IS avoided,; the wheat
can be ttfcn %bct to around
which, after threshing,.no piles of stalks
would aeeiHXM§latf,<and thq-ptalks, which
are useless tot anything else, are left in the
fields plowed in andtnjrieh'Yfiesoil.
Qtber k4vantages c|n bereadllyimaglntd.
The number of laborers are greatly lewejjn
ed. A caveat has been filed.
CITY ITEMS.
The Magazines— The Galaxy for Janu
ary U, as usual, very readable and quite
brilliant. Charles Reade’s new novel is
continued and Mrs. Edwards’ “ Busan
Fielding ” concluded. Mr. Stedman has a
poem on the late Admiral Stewart which
Impresses us as being a curious mingling
of the sublime and ridiculous, the last verse
being especially illustrative of the latter
attribute. Walt Whitman has a yawp
which is a yawp. Justin McCarthy has a
sketch entitled “ Science and Orthodoxy in
'England.” It is a vigorous bit of good
English, bat adroitly concocted so as to
catch the ear of the Northern people and
make religion ridiculous when confronted
with such men as Huxley and Tyndall.—
There are other articles of much merit. T -
The editorial department is-exceedingly
well managed.
Lippincotfs Magazine for January is the
best number we have seen for several
months. We note especially a beautiful
Christmas story entitled “ The Fairy and
the Ghost.” This magazine is one of the
most conservative, as well as most able, of
the Northern magazines and gladly weU
comes, and pays for, contributions of merit
from Southern writers.
The Old Guard for December is as pun
gent as ever, and as true to rigid Demo
cratic principles. The “ leader,” on “ Con
servative Southern Victories,” is trenchant
beyond description. It assumes, and with
at the South has there been one square
perfect truth, that neither at the North nor
issue made with Reconstruction and Radi
calism ; a species of cowardice, in both
sections, preventing this desired ordeal and
combat. We regret to learn that C. Chann
cey Burr retires from the Old Guard with
this number. His place will be taken by
Dr. Thomas Dunn English, a writer of
much power and versatility. If any South
ern man wants good Democratic doctrine,
such as will kindle his blood and make
him feel good all over, he should by all
means subscribe to the Old Guard.
The Overland Monthly for December is
fuilyupto Its mark as a first-class maga
zine and still retains the peculiar reputation
of being a novelty in its line. It Is so dif
ferent from every other periodical and so
much fresher and getierally healthier, that
we never think of it in connection With
other publications of the same external
description. Nearly all of its articles are
striking and attractive, as well as instruc
tive, but the feature of the magazine is
undoubtedly the marvellous contributions
of its editor, F. Bret Harte. There is noth
ing to be compared with them in our litera
ture, and one instinctively turns the pages
to.flnd tlrslof all bis unmistakable sketches.
The December number has one of these
characteristic brain-cameos. It is called the
“ Idyl of Red Gulch” and can not be read
without feelings almost impossible of an
alyzation. Mr. Harte is possessed of a
glorious gift of true imagination, as well as
a clear judgment, and he has used his
faculties In the noblest manner.
Scott's Monthly for December has about
the same look and the same tone as of yore.
Its contents, original and selected, are very
well 5n their way, but there is a sad lack
of vitality about this periodical. The new
management, promise great attractions for
the year 1870 and we trust they will receive
a liberal encouragement to persevere i 1
their praiseworthy but arduous undertak
ing.
The Central Railroad— Col. Lamar,
of the Columbus Sun, has been sojourning
at Savannah. He is delighted at her pros
perity, and thus explains it:
“What has given her this wonderful
power and advantage? The answer is
plain. The management of her great cor
poration, the Central Railroad, a much ma
ligned and misunderstood company. In
minor details, its management may be sub
ject to criticism aud animadversion. In
deed, it may at times and in some localities
be unfair and unjust, but the fact stnuds
that it has made Savannah the seaport of
the South, aud in this it has benefited
every foot of soil in Georgia and every man
who owns an interest in it. Aud tor this,
if for nothing more, this road is entitled to
the earnest aid and support of Georgians of
all sections. Savannah is quite as sound
and healthy politically as she is financially
aud commercially. The day of Bradley &
Cos. is gone forever, and our brethren of the
seabord have so much money, and conse
quently so many frieuds, that they smile
rather than shudder at being a second time
ejected from the ark of the Union.”
A Distillery Seized and Destroyed.—
At an early hour Tuesday morning, As
sistant Assessors E. A. Cory, David Por
ter, H. 8. Belcher, aud W. F. Holden, Depu
ty Collector, J. E. H. Couturier, Guager,
aud Thos. R. Harper, Assessors’s Clerk, of
the Revenue office in this city, seized a still,
of the capacity of 120 gallons, for alleged
violation of the Revenue laws, in Colum
bia county, on the Fury’s Ferry road, about
eight miles from 4-Hgqsta. The still
was the property of Mr. James Burrough,
who was arrested by Assistant United
States Marshal Porter, and gave bond sub
sequently in the sura of $2,000 for his ap
pearance when required. About five thous
and gallons of corn mash, ready for dis
tilling, were turned into an adjacent creek,
aud the building destroyed.
Macon and Augusta Railroad.— The
Macon Telegraph and Messenger says that
three of the brick pillars on which the
bridge of the Macon and Augusta Railroad
is to rest, and which will span the river
about one mile below that city, are com
pleted, and work on the fourth is under
headway, and will be completed in a short
while. Most of the timbers for the bridge
are on the ground, and so soon as the pil
lars are ready, the woodwork will imme
diately commence. The grading of this
road between Macon and fifllledgcville is
pushing along with commendable alacrity,
and soon, if not already, the Work of put
ting down the track will begin.
Railroad Accident—Effects of the
Storm. —Yesterday morning, the old pas
senger shed at No. 16, on the Georgia Rail
road, tyas blown down across the track by
the furious storffi prevailing. The locomo
tive of the down passenger train, due here
at 5% o’clock, a. m., ran into the ruins,
and was thrown fronuthe track. None of
the passenger coaches were disturbed. No
personal injury resulted. In consequence
of the accident, the passengers did not reach
the City until 10% o’clock, a. m./yesterday,
having been transferred to a train sentfroin
Augusta. The up morning train for Atlan
ta proceeded on usual schedule time,
Worth Attention. Retail liquor
dealers, nnder license,are only permitted by
the Revenue laws to sell liquors in quanti
ties of than five gallons, without sub
jecting themselves tq sq additional license
tax of SIOO, as wholesale dealers, or to the
penalty of SI,OOO fine and six months’; im
prisonment. Several cases of violation of
this regulation have recently been compro
mised in this district by forfeiture qf stock.
The officers are now determined to pash
future offenders to the full extent of the law
covering the case, aud we give our readers
the benefit of this intimation, that they may
govern themselves accordingly.
Postal Telegraphy.— lt is stated that
the Postmaster General will, during the
present session of Congress, * recommend
legislation looking toward the addptien of
a postal telegraph: 1 system by ' the Post Of
fice Department. Senator Ramsey, the
Chairman of the Postal Committee in the
Senate, is said to be a very warm advocate
iof this plan, and believes the dayiiktoofcfar
distant when the Government will adopt it.
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Tm* Opera —Last night a small but
well pleased audience witnessed the rendi
tion by the Galton Opera troupe of the
“ Village Fiddler ” and the Chinese extra
vaganza of “ Ching-Chow Hi.” Several of
the ballade in the first were well sang, and
we thought the duet, “ I know l ought hot
to own it,” by Miss Blanche Galton and
Mr. Kelleher, especially worthy. Mr. Clark
possesses a voice of some power and culti
vation, and is well worth hearing. The
comic song of Mr 0. J. Mlers was folly ap
preciated by the audience, and resulted in
an encore.
The extravaganza, however, We certainly
admired most. It was amusing through
out ; the characters well sustained, and de
cidedly a hit. Miss Susan Galton was ex
ceedingly pretty and attractive iq her be
coming costume as * Pet Ping Sing," and
her song of “ The Lover and the Bird ”
most perfectly and happily rendered. It
afforded au opportunity to exhibit her com
pass of voice and the care which has been
bestowed upon its training. The audience
heartily applanded her, and she sang in re
sponse “ Cornin’ Thro’ the Rye ” with floe
effect. To-night will be presented “ The
Marriage by Lantern and Too Many
Cfloks,” one of Offenbach’s Operas. There
is merit in the company and the perform
ances will afford entertainment and pleasure
to onr citizens.
Gone Glimmering— The Edgefield Ad
vertiser says that Richard Reals, the “ Eng
lishman,” carpet-bagger, John Brown raider,
and United States Internal Revenae Assess
or for Edgefield, has resigned his office as
Assessor, and gone the way “ Ward’s geese”
went. The “ poor girl,” the “ simple Irish
man," the wife of the said Reals, is still in
Edgefield, and is apparently roaster of the
situation. Happy riddance.
i«i|i atoli '
Gen. MAGRungR.—We now learn that
Gen. Magrudcr will not be able to come to
Augusta before some time In March next.
We regret this postponement of his lecture,
but trust that when he does come a rousing
welcome will be in store for him.
Change in Georgia Railroad Sched
ule.—On and after Sunday next, the night
passenger train will leave Augusta at 10
o’clock, p. m., and arrive In Atlanta at 8
o’clock, a. m.; the night passenger train
will leave Atlanta at 5:45, p. m., and arrive
in Augusta at 8:30, a. m.
Without Heads. —A terrific storm of
wind and rain burst upon the city, yester
day morning, between 3 and 4 o’clock, ac
companied, as the very wakeful ones say,
by a slight fall of hail. The rain continued
durlDg the entire forenoon, subsiding about
midday, leaving threatening clouds impend
ing.
The Savanuah river is a very sensitive
stream, and as easy swelled as the gold
market from the puncture .of the bulls’
horns. Under the rain yesterday, it rose
about 18 inches, registering at the city
bridge, at a late hour In the afternoon, 7
feet 6 inches.
The proprietor of one of our central
hotels, about the breakfast hour, yesterday
morning, gave a youug man an umbrella
“ punch.” Not relishing the beverage, the
young man had the landlord before Magis
trate Snead, to explain as to the nature of
the decoction, aud the defendant was re
quired to give bond in SSOO, to be present
at the next term of the Superior Court.
Henry Jones, a dusky Hamitc of sharp
practices, played sneak thief yesterday on
a sl2 shot gun in the store of Mr. W. W.
Haughton, with which he attempted to
“go off” in a great hurry. He was chased
by Mr. H., overhauled and taken before
Justice EHs, where the gun was discharged,
but the th'ef sent “ up for ninety days ;” on
the chain gang.
There seems to belittledispositionamong
the boys of thecity to make the day hideous
with the braying of tin horns, to herald the
approach of Christmas. That’s good taste.
Among boys of a larger growth, other
horns ” are in circulation, and are of good
taste, likewise.
</ We noticed a ludicrous burlesque on an
<>l«j artillery caisson yesterday, winding its
way througigkthe mud on Broad street, con
sisting of a ricketty buggy, with a fifth
wheel attached to the reir, the structure
drawn by a very lean mule of strong family
resemblance to like quadrupeds whom we
repeatedly assisted with artillery burdens
during the late “onpleisantness.” The
only ammunition with which this “caisson”
seemed to be loaded was a very ungainly
and jagged sample of that with which tba.
Radicals have riddled constitutional liberty
—the “ American of African descent.”
There was a considerable mobility indi
cated by our “ country cousins” yesterday,
notwithstanding ihs Inclement weather.
A good supply of the Christmas fluids and
solids were dispensed, to the satisfaction of
numerous purchasers and the intense grati
fication of the fortunate sellers.
In Charleston, on Tuesday, Mr. S. C.
Black sold SII,OOO city of Charleston sis
per cent, bonds at 55 cents; $5,000 for 54
cents; $4,000 for 53% cents per share. 85
whole shares South Carolina Railroad and
bank stock for 58% to 58% cents per
share. 50 whole shares of Bank of Charles
ton stock for $24 25 per share.
Mitchell county offers SSOO for the appre
hension of Dock Maples, the murderer of
young Newsome, on Tuesday, the 7th In
stant, at Camilla.
Extcutors? Notice.
PERSONS indebted to the Estate of
Ann;* Gaines, late of Richm >nd county, deceased, and
those having elaidis against said Estate, mu*t present
them within the time prescribed bv law. ' 1 .1
ROBERT RENT,
THOMAS P. BEARD,
Accosts, November 11,1869. Executors.
novlMw
CNKORGIA, RICHMOND OOUNTY—Wbere-
A »*, Frederick Winter applies to me for Letters
of Administratlqn on the estate of Jeremiah Winter,
late of said coqnty, deceased :
These arc, therefore, to cite and admonish, all and
singular, the kindred and or-ditors of said deceases,
to be and apoeur at my office, on or before the first
Monday in January, 1870, to show cause, if any they
have, why said letters should not be granted. ■
GlVeti under my hand and official signature, at office
in Augusta, this 2?d day of November. 1860.
novl3-8> SAMUEL LEVY, Ordinary.
State of Georgia, Richmond ooun-
Wher,»as, Eugene Lahiche applies to me
tor Letters of Administration on the estate of Wtl
lilUiL,ulw ’ ¥? Rlehmond county, deoeasea.
Thee 6 are, thafefbjrMo. fcite find Admonish, all ana
singular, the Vindredatnd creditors of saiddepeaeed, to
be and.appear at n»v office, 0 n or before the first Mon
day in January, 1870, to show cause, If any they
have, why said letters should not be granted. * ■
Given nnder my hand and official signature at office
in Augusta, this 20th day of November, 1889.
EORGTA, RICHMOND COUNTY.—Wbers
as, James K. Harper applies to mo for Letters
of Admi metmlon, with the Id ft annexed, oh tb* ea
4*Kh«tat Cocks, lata of said county, deceased
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish,all and
singular, the kindred and creditors of said deceased,
00 or before the first
Monday InHanOary, 1870,' to show cause, if any they
have, why-sMd letters Should npt bo granted. '
Given under my hand and official signature, at office
In Augu«ta,tbki ifiid day of November, 188 Q.
nov33-30 BAMUEL LEVY, Ordinary.
RICHMOND OOUNTY.-WBen,
of^g^!S?,appn^tanm?o™LettSSmf < DiSiiis l sS l o*nf
These are, therefore, td ! cite and admonish, all and
singular the next of kin *qd creditors of said deceased,
to be and appear at iny office, on or before'the first
Monday in March, 1870, to show oau?e, if any they
have, why smd letters should iV6t he granted.
Given under ray band and offifial signature, at office
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