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AUG-USTA. Q-A.
THURSDAY MORNING. JAN. 13,1870^
MR. BENJAMIN CONLEY AND HIS
TWADDLE.
The recent speech of Mr. Benjamin
Convey, on taking the Chair as presiding
officer of the so-called Georgia Senate, is
of that narrow-minded and
fanaticaiibdividual. He starts out by
hypocritically professing regret for the ne
cessity of his re-election, when he knows
full well that, but for his deciding vote on
the XVth Amendment and the conspiracy
entered into by himself and his cabal,
there would have been no occasion what
ever for the repetition of the grim farce
which has just been ebacted. And yet, in
the face of this fact, the man pretends that
Georgia’s undoing has been caused by the
counsel and encouragement of Democracy,
and not by the Radicals themselves. This
is an untruth, and any man less brazen
than Benjamin Conley would have blush
ed to utter it. Did Congress interfere be
cause of the rejection of the XVth Amend
ment? If so, it was just as much the vote
of Benjamin Conley that defeated its
ratiiication as anything else. Was it be
cause Georgia failed to comply with any
one of the Reconstruction acts ? We have
again and again challenged the world to
prove this allegation, and, a few days since,
the evidence of Mr. Dawks, of Massachu
setts, was produced, testifying in emphatic
terms that every requisition had been car
ried out, and the House of Representatives
endorsed this view by the admission of
Messrs. Clift and Prince to seats in Con
gress. Again : did not this same Congress
count Georgia's vote in the Presidential
election of last November, thus virtually ad
mitting that she was ft State in the Union ?
Was this interference brought about by the
unseating of the negro members of the
Legislature? This is one of the pretexts,
but we defy Mr. Conley, or anybody else,
to make good the proposition that this act
of the General Assembly violated, in any
particular, the Reconstruction acts of Con
gress. Where, then, does this sapient Ben
jamin Conley, this regretful crocodile of
the Georgia Senate, rest his charges of “bad
faith?” We call upon this wanton villifter
to abandon his wild and wicked statements.
We call upon him to show in what par
ticular the “compact has been nullnied” on
the part of Georgia ? Failing to do so, let
him stand before the people as a bold and
reckless slanderer, who plausibly hints at
‘'specific causes" and yet dares not or cau
pot argue his case upon facts. At this
point of his discourse, Mr. Conley conde
scends to furnish h, clue to his meaniug.—
Having no material in his own wooden
understanding, he appeals with mock seu
timentalitv to the vacant chair of the “mur
dered Adkins,” and incidentally to certain
“violations of law” in several parts of the
State. Dare you, Benjamin Conley, assert
with the evidence before you that Adkins
was killed because he was a so-called Geor
gia Senator? Why did you not point to
the “ vacant chair” of Ayer ? The effront
ery of so doing would have been scarcely
greater and it would have given Beast But
ler another dramatic opportunity for a
further “ promotion of Reconstruction.”
That there have been violations of law in
Georgia, wc admit. But we do most
emphatically deny that these violations
were any more frequent than in In
diana, New York, and other “ loyal
States.” Indeed, considering the provoca
tion of Benjamin Conley and his plus
Achates , R. B. Bullock, Georgia may be
truthfully presented as one of the most
peaceful States in or out of the ent're
Union. Had Benjamin Conley and his
tribe never existed, the State would have
been transcendently pacific as she would
undoubtedly have been a model of material
prosperity. If Georgia is to be taken in
hand by Congress because of a few out
rages incident to every community, let the
rule be of general application. But it is
infamous that such a pretext should be
used to degrade the State and make her
exceptionally the spoil of a contemptible
gang of partisans whose loyalty is Inst of
power ami whose patriotism is plunder.—
Mr. Conley. knows fall well that the real
reason for Georgia’s attempted humiliation
is because of her hatred of Radicalism. —
His masters in the Senate of the Uuited
States have happily relieved us from all
doubt on that subject. Georgia is out
raged because she was too Democratic and
because her vote was wanted to save the
abominable XVtli Amendment, winch Mr.
Conley himself, for selfish and sinister
purposes, mainly helped defeat. In view
of the truculent confessions of such Sena
tors as Carpenter- and Morton, relative
to the actual motive for interfering in Geor
gia, Mr. Con lev’s allusions to the “Na
tional Legislature hearing the cry of the*
oppressed ” are downright drivel or snivel
ing impertinence.
Bnt the gem of Mr. Conley’s twaddle is
bidden in this paragraph :
“ The Government has determined that
in this Republic, which is not, never was
and never can !>c Democratic—that in
this Republic, Republicans shall rule.”
Very impudent assertion is sometimes
denominated “check,” but we do not at
present remember a more extraordinary
illustration than the uncouth paragraph
above quoted. Really, in the light of
records Hie most glorious in the history
of the country, this declaration of Mr.
Conley’s is enougji to warm cucumbers.
We are gravely told by Mr. Benjamin
Conley that the Government of the United
(States never was Democratic ! If the same
high authority were to declare that shoe
leather never existed before Conley intro
duced it into Augusta the charitable sup
position would be that insanity or China
berry whisky had something to do with so
palpable au absurdity. We admit that the
Government is not now Democratic; bu.t
until Mr. Conley came to judgment, the
world failed to know that it never was a
Democracy. In sputtering out this extra
ordinary declaration, Mr. Conley, unin
tentionally perhaps, let slip the precon
certed design of his masters iu conspiracy.
He tells us the “ Governtneut has deter
mined that Republicans (Radicals) shall
rule.” Precisely, Mr. Benjamin- Conley,
precisely so. The Government has deter
mined that; by violence, outrage, fraud, op
pression, and every other evil manifestation
of power the dominion of Radicalism shall
lie perpetual. To effect this, they have, at
dift’erent stages of their career, shed blood,
lavished millions of money, created desola
tions, destroyed the right of trial by jury,
suppressed the writ ot habeas corpus, intro
duced barbarous military commissions
patented by French infidels, muzzled the
Supreme Court, and, in a thousand ways,
violated, nullified, trampled upon and pros
tituted the constitutional compact of the
Federation of States. To effect this end,
they are now abusing, with utter perfidy,
the “ Mother of States aud Statesmen
Virginia. They are striving to overthrow
the Constitutional Jurisdiction of the
Highest Tribunal of the land, so that their
infamies cau never be passed upon and au
thoritatively condemned. Likewise to ef
fect this end, they have employed such
willing instruments as Mr. Benjamin Con
ley to destroy the liberties of the people.
That the Government has “ determined
that Republicans shall rule,'’ by fair means
or foul, we know as well as Mr. Conley
knows. But the people of Georgia hurl
back the slander that this “ determination ”
has honest warrant in their bad faith or
violence; and, hurling it back, they would
remind Mr. Conley aud his fellows that
their day of insolent triumph shall ere
long pass away, and that posterity will
pillory them in shame forever.
Our New York Correspondence.
New York, January 8,1870.
Congress reassembles next week, and,
with its presence again In Washington the
troubles of General Grant begin. The
jobbers in Congressional action will cry
havoc ! and let slip the dogs of war, and
they will encounter a Chief Executive
who, however honest may be his purposes,
is wholly unskilled in the warfare before
him, and quite as dangerous to his friends
as bis enemies. Grant’s foreign policy, and
especially with respect to Cuba, will be as
sailed with no inconsiderable rancor, and
by his own party adherents as vigorously
as by his opponents. The financial policy,
or rather want of policy, of Mr. Boutwell,
which has been so unmercifully criticized by
the financial journals of Europe, will re
ceive an overhauling that, may do the
country good. The tariff and internal
revenue will receive attention, aud their
favorable modification will be stoutly con
tended for. Bnt it is not a little strange
that we have no purpose mentioned of such
reduction in these matters as will reduce
the cost of living. Various prominent in
terests will have their representatives in
the lobby and the floor of Congress ; but,
alas ! the people none in either place, and
the great journals of the North seem to
have also forgotten them. With us many
things are necessaries which iu Europe are
accounted luxuries. Among these, aud
principally, are tea, sugar and coffee; no
American family, above the grade of pau
pers, thinks of doing without them, though
some do uot use them every day. The cost
of these comforts, with the high price of
meats, and high rents, make up the cost of
living to our work people. The import
duty on tea, sugar and coffee amounts to
fully one hundred per cent on the value at
the port of shipment, and to this we have
to add the depreciation of the currency,
not only the cost in gold, but the duty in
gold, so that a pound of coffee which costs
eight cents at, Rio Janeiro, must bring at
least twenty cents in the hands of the
dealer in order to repay the importer.—
These oppressive burdens no one seems dis
posed to make an effort to lighten.
We have, hdwever, a well-timed agita
tion in labor circles, in resistance to re
ductions of wages, which are proposed
among various descriptions of work peo
ple. The strike of the telegraph operators,
of course, takes the lead in public interest.
The company denies any intention of re
ducing salaries, but it may well be sus
pected that the contrary is the fact, for
die re has been a most notable reduction
within a short time iu charges for tele
graphing, which seem to render a reduc
tion of salaries of operators inevitable. I
.•ecently sent a telegram to a Western cor
respondent, upon which the charges were
$2 Oi). The saum message, sent iu 1864-3,
would have cost $9 95, and there cau be
no such increase of business as will make
good this reduction; in fact, I doubt if
there is as much telegraphing now as four
years ago. The bricklayers are striking
against the reduction of their wages from
$5 to $4 per day. and there are troubles in
other trades. The prospects for employees
making good their pretensions, as they
have been able to do in the past five years.
The fearful void of able-bodied men which
the war produced has been partially filled
by immigration and by the growth of
youth to manhood. The burdens of taxa
tion have stagnated commerce and manu
factures, which are the bases of employ
meat. The high rate of interest paid on
over three thousand millions of investment
is a bar to new enterprises and risks. It.
is, therefore, inevitable that wages must de
cline, and our laboring population and all
people who are dependent upon salaries,
may deem themselves fortunate if they
shall he able to resist, their degradation to
the level of those in Europe, at, whom we
have been accustomed to point at as the
down trodden of the Old World. The pub
lic indebtedness is a monster which not
only consumes the blood and benes, but the
very souls of producers To get rid of a
public debt by paying it off, is only to
change the form, not the nature thereof;
repudiation, prompt and complete, is the
only satisfactory manner of disposing of it.
Within a few days t he cotton market has
seemed to be in a critical condition. The
Bull party appears to have lost confidence,
and the demand for future delivery has ire
come almost still, at a decline of
while cotton on the spot has declined but
in the past week. This cannot be as
cribed to the course of gold, for almost all
agree that gold is likely to react to 130
during the Spring mouths; but are some
things in the prospects at Liverpool and
at the South that cause buyers to pause.
It is now said that the East India cotton
will reach Liverpool much earlier than
usual through the Suez Canal, and that
consequently there may ne a glut of cotton
in that market in April and May, while as
respects receipts at the ports statistics
have been published which show that since
the war the receipts to January Ist have
averaged only about. 38 per cent, of the
crop, qnd cannot be estimated over 47 per
cent, for the current crop. This will give a
total crop for 1869-70 of 2,850,000 bales,
and is more likely to exceed thari fall be
low this figure. I touch upon these mat
ters bee a use I feel it my duty to keep your
readers advised of all matters bearing so
close a relation to their interests. I have
been quite disposed to the opinion that
middling upland could not tie reduced be
low 25 cents in this market, but I must
confess that my faith is a good deal shaken.
I must now address myself to your lady
readers upon that interesting and inex
haustible topic, the fashions.
Ricn, high colors are much in vogue—
bright blues, browns, garnet,, green and
Scotch plaids—while for trimmings velvet
is the material most used, satin having
fallen into some disfavor. Gros grain is
made use of to a considerable extent. Rib
bon velvet, both wide and narrow, is placed
between flounces, and narrow bands of bias
velvet arc placed at the head of flounces.
Wider bands of velvet are also placed
straight around skirts, or in conjunction
with ruches, lace or fringe. Gros Grain
is also cut and laid on in bias bands, piped
with satin or notched with saw teeth, edged
with passementerie or fringe, and as puffs,
ruches aud flounces. Satin is generally
used in thick cordings in facings and in
narrow pipings. Flounces are put on in
large pleats, all turned otic way, and gath
ered flounces are seen on the thickest ma
terials, even on a material so thick as vel
vet. Chenille and bullion fringe, aud a
heavy friuge of detached tassels is used for
the new suits, and a beautiful edging is the
new passmenterie, or crocheted gimp, in
lac o patterns of poiuls aud scallops. Large
buttons ol satin and velvet, ancl crocheted
centres, are placed in double rows down
the frout.of rediugotes, aud fastened by
•double loops of thick cord. The most
suitable trimmings for cloth and wooleu
materials are velvet, gros grain aud fringe;
for silks, flounces of the same, with velvet
bands, and for velvet, passementerie, lace,
gros faille /aciogs and satin pipings. A
material which bids fair to become popu
lar is the new American poplin, which is
made precisely like the Irish poplin, and is
as handsome, except a certain smoothness
offlnish, the cosk being fifty cents less on
the yard. The wide poplin velour, at $1 25
a yard. Empress cloths and Freuch meri
nos, are also excellent and desirable mate
rials. Satins, for evening dresses, in a fine
variety of colors, are very popular, and can
be bought for $2 50 per yard. A pret
ty evening silk may be had for $2 per yard.
* In cloaks, anew and pretty style is the
French circular, made of Seqtch plaid,
with a very deep cape trimmed with fringe,
in which are mixed the colors of the plaid.
There is no hood, but the cord and tassels
are thrown back over the shoulders, these
being, of course, in 'colors to match the
fringe. Astrachan cloaks, both white and
back, have been very much worn, the white
with long fringe bordering, being very
dressy, but the black being more useful for
the promeuade ; a muff to match is worn
with them.
Some beautiful velvet cloaks are trimmed
with ginpure lace, headed with a
rich crochet passementerie , which has the
appearance of heavy embroidery. Anew
jacket for in-door wear is the Hungarian,
which is made of gray velvet cloth, very
short, hollowed into the back, and bordered
with feathers of the same color. In front
are gimp macarons, and square pockets
surrouuded with a feather bordering. The
sleeves are the pagoda form. Bonnets are
still necessarily small, as the hair is worn
as high as ever, though at the same time
drooping low on the neck. Some elegant
reception bonnets are made of white uncut
velvet, white corded silk or satin, and orna
mented with feather friuge and balls, or
devices of gold or mother of pearl. A
speciality of the season is a bow of velvet
or some other ornameut placed always high
on the left side. Round hats are as much
worn as ever, the most popular shape com
ing low in front and behind, with a high
sloping crown and turned up brim.
Girls’ dresses are shorter than they have
been, and are made with gored skirts, plain
high bodices, and coat sleeves cut close at
the wrist, or else Gabfielle.f asteuedbehind,
the skirts narrow and reaching to the knee.
For more elaborate dresses, the bodice is of
the low peasant shape, worn over a high
white muslin bodice. The skirts are trim
med simply with scantily gathered flounces.
Girls of all ages tyear overdresses of silk,
black alpacca or bright checked goods,
made with a broad baud for the waist,
shoulder-straps, tunic skirt and sash. These
are trimmed with ruches, inn my colored
fringes, and pipings of Scotch plaids. Some
of the prettiest dresses Scoth plaid, trimmed
with with black velvet, and
worn with a little black alpacca overdress,
cut out in squares. Velveteen, plush and
“ snow flake” cloth are the favorite ma
terials for out-door garments for little nirls,
the latter fabric being' especially in vogue
for the sack garments of infants from nine
months to two years old. These require
no lining, the cloth being thick and warpi,
though light, but they are usually bound
with colored satin, or cut out with saw
teeth on the edge.
Willoughby.
A New Use ok Chloroform. —lt ap
pears from Northern newspapers that chlo
roform is now applied to anew purpose.
Murderers are brought under its influence
to make them confess; from which we sup
pose that at a parri t ular stage of physical
insensibility the mind turns traitor, and
reveals wli it the brute passions have in
spired the body to do. Quite a startling
discovery, if true! We know that in old
times, when a man begun to talk iu his
sleep, it was held-that if his right hand lie
placed in a basin of cold water he would
answer questions very readily, and tell all
his secrets, particularly those of his love.
The maidens of other days fully believed
this; and we have known it tried. The
inducement of the condition of quasi sleep
by the use of chloroform is anew phase of
this unwary revelation of personal entan
glements. It is an interesting point, and
society needs to be well informed' upon it
for sell-protection; If chloroform is to be
the tell tale, and expose men to public
obloquy for their secret deeds, it is well
they should know it. Indeed, it will fol
low sis a matter of course, for the protec
tion of society .against this mode of expo,
sure, that laws shall lie passed, anjj a com
plete. system shall be inaugurated to shield
piaukiud from a ue,w danger and to (ortify
the well established principle of human
rights, that a man shall uot be made to
give testimony against himself.
This is an age of discovery, aud laws for
personal protection should keep pace with
the inventions which look very much like
turning men inside out and completely
revolutionizing society. We suggest the
inquiry for the lawyers, Who has a right
to place a prisoner under the influence of
chloroform ?—Richmond Dispatch.
Gerrymandering. —Although it is gen
erally supposed that all politicians at least
know the origin of the term “ gerrymander
ing,” yet Governor Ashley, of Montana
Terri'ory, in a recent message, writes about
“jerrymandering” with an initial j instead
of a g, thus entirely misrepresenting the
derivation of the world. Some sixty years
or more ago Eldridgc Gerry was the leader
of the old Democratic parly in Massachu
setts To perpetuate the power of the party
in the State, Mr. Gerry and his associates
in the Legislature rearranged and divided
the State into districts, so as to insure, as
for as possible, Democratic majorities in
the election districts, and in so doing had
little respect to the symmetry of the out
lines of the districts or natural geographi
cal boundaries. A colored map showing
these new districts was hung on the wall
of Mr. Gerry’s office, and at a distance a
portion of the State accidentally presented
the image of a sprawling lizard. One (lay
a staunch Federalist came in, and espying
this map, exclaimed, “ Why, what sort of
an animal is that there?” “Oh, that is a
salamander,” said Mr. Gerry, good hutuor
edly. “ A salamander!” replied his friend,
who in the meanwhile had examined the
map more closely, and front his knowledge
of local politics had seen what the effect of
the redistricting would be, “you had better
say a Gerry mander.” The witticism was
repeated by Mr. Gerry, and thus it came to
pass that “gerrymandering” (with the g
hard) became a slang expression for the
political device practiced by Mr. Gerry and
his friends. —Baltimore Sun.
Combining Business and Pleasure. —A
Florida correspondent of the Richmond
Dispatch gives some queer revelations of
Northern invalid life (and death) down
there. The follbwing story will suffice
what a practical “ cuss ” that chap was, to
be sure!
There was one fellow who died in Pilatka
a short t ime befbre my visit, of whom I
heard from many sources.
When he found his end approaching he
sent North for a metalic coffin, and had it
brought into his bed-room; tried it, and
found it would fit hint exactly. He was
thereupon very much satisfled ; and during
the few remaining days of his life always
spoke of himself as dead. He requested his
wife to find out whether she could send it
on by express. She dutifully inquired, and
found that they could not carry it. He
then told her to .have a box made, aud have
it made large; to put it in it; and as there
was plenty of room, to pack in some sweet
potatoes and oranges for the children ; and
“ be very careful, my dear, not to let them
turn it over, lest the oranges should be
mashed.’' So this careful, economical fa
ther died, and his wife carried out his
wishes, and very carefully carried it home
to Vermont; frtld the~children enjoyed the
potatoes, and oranges, and wished their
dear father would go and die in Florida
every Winter.
The Great Snow Storm.— The late
snow storm was more severe in the interior
of the State than it was here. Snow fell
on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, and at
Lebanon, Danville, Richmond, and that
section, drifted in huge heaps, varying from
two to eight feet in depth. Snow also fell
yesterday in that region. It was so deep
on the line of railroad from Richmond to
Stanford that the train did not connect on
Tuesday, and yesterday the train was six
lionrs iu making the thirty miles. This is
the heaviest snow storm experienced for
several years iu Kentucky.
[Courier-Journal, G th.
The Columbus Sun says: “There were
large numbers of negroes on the streets
yesterday. Planters were busily endeavor
ing to employ their services for the next
year. We overheard nine, ten, and even
twelve dollars a mouth, including rations,
offered for first-class hands, The favorite
plan is to give a portion of the crop—gen
erally a quarter or a third. The terms are
very varied. Most negroes prefer remain
ing on the old plantations, and many are
seeking ante-freedom places and former
owners. Asa class, we are told, the freed
men are willing to make contracts, and all
is getting along smoothly.”
Missouri Ratifies the Fifteenth
Amendment. — J3t. Louis, January 7 —The
Missouri Legislature ratified the Fifteenth
Amendment to-day. The f vote in the Sen
ate was 22 to 3; in the House, 86 to 3,4.
The. House adopted a resolution asking opr
members to sustain the bill in regard to
graduated bonds.
(From the Citizen.
Queen Esther.
BY MILLIE W. CARPENTER.^
The young Queen Esther rides in a carriage
Up and down through the summery land ;
Princes have sued lor liw iniud iu marriage,
And noble knights areather command.
Bhe lives in a palace high and splendid ;
Wonderful tapestry covers her floors ;
Bhe walks in state, by a page attended,
And soldiers iu uniforms guard her doors.
Her windows look on a park with cedar
.And oak trees shaded’; she counts the deer
That cross the walks while her maiden's read her
Songs of Lancelot and Queen Guiuivere.
Os silk and velvet are all her dresses,
While bands of rubies and strings of pearls
Circle her arms with diviue caresses,
And shine and shimmer among her curls.
She has a pony—a cap and leathers, _
And grooms lu sCarlet ride at her back ;
Wherever she goes a great crowd gathers,
ADd scstterß blessings along her track.
Ah ! this is the way Queen Esther dreamed it ;
But Esther really lives iu a house
Battered and old ; the weather has seamed it
With streaks of mildew, and white sheep
browse
Instetd efi deer in the wintry garden-;
The roan steed neighs in a rough shed nigh,
• While Rollin, the chore-boy, is the warden
Who tends the gate as she passes by.
Os cotton and wool are all her dresses ;
No cap with feathers adorns her head ;
The only jewels known to her tresses'
Are pansies purple and roses red.
No ring of rubles adorns her finger ;
She lias no carriage, and only < tie
Beggarly suitor is seer to linger
About her door when the day is done.
Yet she is happy. I ween, us any
High born ludv that lives in the land,
With robes, and gems and atondiicßs many,
Aud servants and suitors ather cotfiiuand.
If Esther truly had wealth a plenty,
With nolhirg to do bnt laugh and be gay,
These pleasures, that seem so bright at twenty,
In a score of years would vanish atVay.
Cotton— 6oo,ooo Bales Received at
New Orleans. —The great staple begins
to pour into market quite briskly, and the
levee presents very much the aspect of the
olden time. The receipts are ahead of last
year’s to date., by some six or eight thous
and bales. If the negroes had not got tired
and left the lielcjs, or if those who have
been heretofore relied on to pick (he cotton
had turned ont promptly, the receipts
would have been much larger than last
year. The prospects are of a long season
The amount shipped to all the ports ex
ceeds that of last year by two hundred
thousand halos, and the general estimate is
that the total receipts of the year wiil ex
ceed last by five hundred thousand or six
hundred thousand bales. If the whole la
bor in the cotton States conloTtSve been
controlled and properly directed, that
amount would have been doubled. It has
beeu proved this year that the picking torce
is not equal to the producing force, and
that the production of cotton is only limit
ed by the quantity of the labor which our
Maulers can command. Had the colored
women aud children, who now waste their
time and debase their faculties and bodies
by idliug about the cabins, turned out
when the fields were white with cotton, and
earned their dollar a day by picking cot
ton, the crop would have been five hundred
thousand bates larger. Thus, thirty mil
lions of value ha ve been lost to the country
and the world. — New Orleans Times.
Land Sales in Barnwell —* he Barn
well (S. C ) Journal says :
On Monday last quite a crowd assembled
here, notwithstanding the day was disa
greeable and cold. A large lot of property
was disposed of by the sheriff, clerk and
probate judge, as Allows: 22b acres, F.
Holman's land, fold for S2OO ; 5 eighth
Shares of 355 acres, Chevaux’e land, brought
SIOO ; 250 acres, IT. Brunson’s laud; for
S2OO ; 11 tracts of lands near Aiken, be
longing to the estate of S. il. Weeks, brought
$0,500; one other tract, also situated near
Aiken, and belonging to the estate of David
Segler, sold for $3,050. A lot iu the town
of Bamberg, containing lour acres, for
$3lO. A tract of lan I near the village of
Barnwell brought $2,000. Several tracts of
land near Midway, containing 2,227iacres,
sold as follows : Tract A, 339 acres*- $2 30
per acre; tract B, 408 acres, $3 95 per acre;
t ract C, 307 acres, $2 85 per acre ; trjiet.D,
635 acres, for $2 per acre ; tract E, contain
ing 51(5 acres, for $2 per acre. This laud,
we understood, was afterwards sold bv the
buyers for $4 an acre.
Business Failures.— Statisticians have
announced that the total number of busi
ness failures in the United States in 1869
was 2,799 against 2,608 in 1868, and the
aggregate liabilities were $75,054,1)00,
agaiust $63,774,000 the previous year. In
1867 there were 2,780 failures, with $96,060,-
000 liabilities, the largest number since
1861, during which year there were 6,993,
with liabilities amounting to $207,21p,000,
which sum was exceeded by 1857 with,4,932
failures, and liabilities aggregating $291,-
750,000. From this it appears that the fail
ures of 1869 have not been excessive, neither
in number nor amount, in view of the dull
ness ot trade, the depression existing the
greater part of the year, and above all, the
large depreciation in values which the year
has witnessed. The unpaid obligations of
the parties who failed, in proportion to the
volume of trade aud to the capital now
employed in business, form a per cetitage
far less than in any ante-war year subse
quent to 1850; so that, instead of creating
alarm as to the present, or distrust as to
the future, the failures of 1869 indicate a
strength and stability at once gratifying
and assuring.
New Mormon Platform.— The Salt.
Lake Weekly Tribune, published by Elders
Harrison, Godbe, Tullidge & Sherman, has
come out with anew platform, advocating
ah entire reform in the Mormon Church,
its main features being: No dominant
priesthood; no more missionaries to be
sent abroad ;. reduction of tithings; abol
ishment of centralizing power and mercan
tile cooperative institutions; abolishment
of the word Gentile and all civil and reli
gious persecutions; advocating the church
power to be invested in twelve apostles,
and that plural marriages are to be sup
ported only when based on pure affection
and refinement; women to be better edu
cated and respected; the ordinance of the
priesthood of the gospel to remain intact.
It claims that the movement is supported
by over six thousand Mormon members of
the church, and the ablest writers and
speakers.
Kentucky Legislature—Sena tors
Draw and Sumner
fort, January 6.—Mr. Talbot, of Boyle
county, made an onslaught on Congress in
the Senate to-day, by Introducing a sferies
of joint resolutions declaring the bills of
Senators Drake and Sumner, now pending
in Congress, touching the jurisdiction of
the Supreme Court, to be both unconstitu
tional and destructive of personal liberty,
and subversive of free institutions. The
resolutions instruct the Kentucky mem
bers in Congress to vote against said bills,
and directs the Governor to have a copy of
the preamble and resolutions transmitted
for the information of Congress.
The publication pf George Peabody’s will
shows that he has given the bulk of his
estate to public charities. He had, how
ever, provided handsomely for his relatives
during his life. The story that he left
$5,000 to charming Mrs. John Wood; the
actress, proves untrue. He names as his
executors Sir Curtis M. Lampsou and
Charles Reed, of London, and George Pea
body Russell, H. Singleton Peabodv aud
Chas. W. Chandler, >of the United States,
and to the two first named he gives in com
pensation for their services the sum of
£5,000 each. The, will bears date Septem
ber, 9,18G9.
A bill was introduced in the South Caro
lina Legislature cm Friday last to extend
the limits of the city of Charleston to the
Six Mile. Hou((e, and to provide for anew
election jn October next.
Atlanta Fire Department.— At the
annual election, on Monday night, for Chief
Engineer and Assistants of the Atlanta
Fire Department, the following gentlemen
were chosen: W. R. Biggers, Chief Engi
neer; O. H. Jones, First Assistant; M. M.
Wilson, Second Assistant.
[From the Atlanta Cenatituliou.
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE. .
The Radicals Adjourn the House to
Juggle.
SENATE.
Tuesday, January 11,1870.
Senate was called to order by President
Conley.
Prayer by Wesley Prettyman.
Senator Iligbee suggested the swearing
in of the Secretary and his Assistants.
Seuator Speer did not see any necessity
for it uutil the Seuate was properly or
ganized.
Senator Speer moved that the Senate
adjourn until to-morrow morning, at 10
o’clock.
Carried by 17 yeas, 14 nays.
Seuator O. F. Welsh arrived this rooming
from Alaska, and will be sworn in to-mor
row.
E. D. Graham, Senator from the 3d Dis
trict, is expected to arrive in a day or so
aud quality.
HOUSE OF HE PRESENT ATI VES.
Tuesday, January 11, 1870.
The House met this morning at the hour
of 10 o’clock, and was called to order by A.
L. Harris, Chairman pro. tern., who arose
and announced that the calling of the roll
having been suspended at the county of
Haralson, would progress with the count}
of Hart.
Members were then qualified as follows :
Hart—James Allen (col.)
Harris —and Samuel Williams.
Burke—John A. Madden.
Heard—M..Sh a ok i e for and.
Henry—J. A. Maxwell.
Houston —J W. Matthews, C. C. Duncan,
and H. R. Felder.
Jackson .
Jasper—T. M. Allen, (col.)
Jefferson , Alex. Stone, (col.)
Johnson .
Laurens—George Linder, (col.)
Lee—Samuel Lindsay and G. F. Page.
Liberty—W. A. Goldin, (col)
(The blackest satire on the name we ever
saw.)
Lincoln—Platt Madison.
Lowndes—J. M. O’Neal.
Lumpkin—W. P. Price.
Macon—Robert Lumpkin (c). This wise
legislator declined to write his name, but
condescended to make his mark.
Madison .
Here the name of .T. B Moore was called.
Capt. Scott stated that Boon was dead, and
that S. H. Weir, elected under Gov. Bul
lock's proclamation in Boon’s stead, was
here ready to.qualify. Harris refused to
allow him to qualify until after the organi
zation of the House.
Marion .
Mclutosh—T. G. Campbell. Jr. (c.)
Mcrriwether , W. D. F. Hall.
Miller .
Mitchell .
Montgomery—-J. J. McArthur.
Monroe , G. H. Glowers (c).
Milton—G. W. Hook.
Morgau—A. J. Williams aud Monday
E’ioyd (c).
Murray—J. U. Harris.
Muscogee—Jas. G. Mauil. and Abraham
Luith (c).
Newton—A. 11. Lee and J. F. Harden.
Oglethorpe—C. W. Adkins and J. Cun
ningham.
The House then adjourned until 10, a.
in., to-morrow.
} Y TELEGRAPH.
FROM ATLANTA.
TIIE HOUSE NOT YET ORGANIZED.
HARRIS STILL SERVES IIIS MAS--
TERR.
ANOTHER HALT FOR JUGGLING
PURPOSES.
BULLOCK AND TERRY AT OUTS.
LARGE SUMS OF MONEY OFFERED
FOR BITTER-END VOTERS.
DEMOCRATS TO ACT WITH CON
SERVATIVES.
BULLOCK HIRE 4 OUTSIDE DEMO
CRATS.
[S|»e ial to t e OoiiPtUntionaliet,
Atlanta, January 12.
The Senate was called to order by Con
ley at 10 o’clock.
The certificate of David G. (dotting, Sec
retary of State, was read, containing a list
of Senators who had taken the required
oath under the act of Congress, after which
the Senate adjourned.
The House met at 10 o’clock and was
called to order by A L Harris, Clerk pro
tern. •
The Clerk proceeded to call the roll, com
mencing with Paulding county, and slow
ly called until he reached Troup county,
wlieu the ponderous Harris, it being 12
o’clock, announced a recess until 12 o’clock
to-morrow. This took the Democrats and
Conservative Republicans by surprise, as
they expected the House to organize to-day;
but Bullock aud Blodgett are throwing
every obstacle in the way of organization,
and using Harris as a tool to accomplish
that end.
When J. B. Bryant’s name was called,
Fitzpatrick, of Bibb county, said he desired
to die a protest against that gentleman
taking his seat, but failed to do so. Mr.
Bryant was sworn.
It is rumored that Bullock and Gen. Ter
ry are at loggerheads. Bullock wanted
Terry to have a number of Democrats ar
rested by the military, whom, he alleged,
lnid cominitied perjury in taking the oath.
Gen. Terry refuse to lend himself or al
low the military to he used for any such
purpose.
It is understood that large sums of
money have been offered certain Conserva
tive Republicans if they would act with
the Radicals, but these propositions have
been spurned.
The Democrats held a caucus this after
noon. Everything passed off harmoniously.
It is understood that they agreed to act
with the Conservative Republicans in the
organization of the
that Gov. Bullock has employed some out
side Democrats to influence Democratic
members of the Legislature to act with the
Radicals in organizing the House.
[Special to the Coustitulioualist.
NEW YORK DISPATCHES.
New Yoke, January 12.
Cotton, on the spot, is very dull at 35,
but for future delivery, active ; low mid
dling, for April, 35%.
Gold closed strong. There is less ap
prehension of a rupture of the Gold Board,
which has checked speculation.
An Adams Express car, the South,
was burned to-day near Princeton.
Important modification, of the whisky
laws are proposed.
Willoughby.
[Associated Press Dispatches.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Wilmington, January 13.—A number of
officers of the United States Coast Survey
went down the river on the United revenue
cutter to-day, to make examination of the
bars, &c., preliminary to the survey that
commences to-morrow.
VIRGINIA.
Richmond, January 13.—The Grand
Lodge of the Knights of Pythias; in session
here, selected William 11. Wade, of Rich
mond, Grand Chancellor ; J, William Mor
gan, of Lynchburg,, Vice Grand Chancellor;
Water W. Goshen, of Richmond, Grand
Scribe, aud J. B. Vaugan Grand Banker.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, January 12—Noon. —The
Senate is considering Sumner’s finance bill,
the object of which is an early restoration
of specie payment. Surfiner said there were
more important matters pending than the
complete restoration of the South.
The House is considering the navy yards.
Virginia will be up in both Houses pre
sently.
The Elections Committee will give pre
cedence of Northern over Southern con
tested election cases.
Weatfier warm with drizzling rain.
Washington, January 12— P. M.—Rev
enue to-day, $368,000.
The weather continues unsettled.
Banks has arrived from his European
tour.
Judge Wood, Circuit Judge under the
new law, commences his session this week
in Mobile.
A meeting of the postmasters of the
principal cities is in session here.
The Naval Committee are considering a
bill for the construction of iron-clads equal
in all respects to the best of the English
and French.
Among to-day’s nominations is Joseph
L. Requa, for Collector of Customs at St.
John’s, Fla.
Spinner has purchased a million and
three-quarters of ’62’s for the sinking fund,
from accrued interest of sinking fund bonds.
Drake’s amendment to the Virginia bill
will fail, and the original bill will pass the
feuate. The result in the House is more
uncertain, as new members are constantly
arriving, and discussion will probably be
prolonged two or three days.
Sunnier, in the Senate, presented a pro
nrotest, signed by thirteen persons, against
Virginia's "admission.
Thurman said every one of them were
office holders, who would lose their offices
upon the admission of the State.
In the House, the resolution of the New
York Legislature withdrawing assent to
:he Fifteenth Amendment was presented
and tabled.
Garfield introduced a bill abolishing the
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Aban
doned Lands.
A bill was introduced repealing the act
of June, 1862, defining additional causes
for challenge, and prescribing additional
oaths to grand and petit jurors in United
States courts;
Virginia was resumed.
Farnsworth, discussing the bill, said it
would almost be better to follow the Bible
recommendation, and “swear not at all,”
thau to have this eternal repetition of
oaths, which excluded intelligence, worth
and wealth from public office.
Paine, another member of the Recon
struction Committee, favors the bill.
Without action the House adjourned.
The Senate discussed Virginia to adjourn
nent. The discussion was quite bitter, in
volving crimination and recrimination
among Republicans, without, however, any
definite action.
LOUISIANA.
New Orleans, January 12.—C. W. Cain
rnack, charged with the killing of Nixon,
surrendered to-day, aud was committed to
the parish prisou. .
The Senate passed a bill to amend the
constitution, removiug political disabili
ties ; passed a bill appropriating $250,000
for the pay of members, etc.
The bill prohibiting gambling through
out the Slate, imposing heavy fines adS
penalties, passed both Houses, and goes to
ihc Governor. Similar fines and penalties
are imposed by this bill upon officers failing
to enforce the same.
The derangement of the telegraph, occa
sioned’ by the strike of the operators here,
is virtually ended. Superintendents Comp
ton and Flattery have been doing duty as
operators for some days, with assistance
obtained from adjacent points. General
Superintendent Van Horn arrived this
morning from Louisville, bringing seven
operators, making a full supply for the
New Orleans office.
GEORGIA.
Atlanta, January 12.—Both Houses ad
journed, after swearing in a few members.
Gen. Terry today issued an order placing
Warren, Taliaferro, Wilkes, Lincoln, Co
lumbia and Glasscock counties, as a sub
district, under command of Major Kline,
with instructions to arrest persons violat
iua: the laws aud disturbing the peace.—
Also an order removing the present sheriff
of Warren county, and appointing J. C.
Norris sheriff.
NEW YORK
Albany, January-12.—The striking tele
graphers resumed work to-day, declaring
they had been deceived regarding the mat
ter.
FORTRESS MONROE.
Fortress Monroe, January 12.—Twelve
Spanish gunboats are in Hampton Roads
to-day; they will probably sail to-morrow.
FOREIGN.
London, January 12. —Gladstone pre
sided at a meeting which matured a plan
for the international workmen’s exhibition
here next Summer.
The Crown has seized some of Peabody’s
laud, on the ground that, being an alien, he
could not, hold real estate. The Probate
Court takes a similar view of the case.
Violent dissensions exist in the Anstriarf
Cabinet.
Paws, January 12.—1n the Corps, a mo
tion was made rendering the Emperor’s
family amenable the law. Rochefort
said Noir was one of the people, and the
people should judge his murderer, who,
though a cousin of the Emperor, must not
escape.
Ollivier promised them justice, saying,
in the course of his speech, “We are for
justice, law and moderation ; if you force
us, we will be a power.”
The entire edition of Rochefort’s paper,
the Mirsellam, was seized-by the authori
ties to day.
Havana, January 12. — Telegraphic com
munication is re-established with Santo
Spiritus, Calgo Ovilae, and other points in
the Cinco Villas district, whence the insur
gents seem moving towards Principe.
MARINE NEWS.
Savannah, January 12. — Arrived: Steam
sbip Montgomery, New York.
Cleared : Bark J. J. Hannis, Bristol, Eng
land ; schr. Hattie Marion, Charleston.
Charleston, January 12.—Arrived :
Schooners E. B. Shaw, Baltimore ; Win.
Allen, New York ; .T. M. Broomall, Phila
delphia ; Sy! van. Wood’s Hole.
Sailed : Brig Romand, Barcelona.
Wilmington, January 12.—Arrived :
Steamer Empire, New York.
Cleared : Gary, Baltimore.
Lucille off shoals ; brought to the city
and kept afloat by pumps.
MARKETS.
London, January 12—Noon —Consols,
29%. Bonds, 87. Tallow, 465. 3d. Sugar
quiet, both. Common Rosin, 5s 9d@6s.
Liverpool, January 12—Noon.—Cotton
quiet; uplauds, 11% ; Orleans, 11% ; sales,
10,000 bales. Red Western Wheat, 7s lOd
Oils. Beef, 102. Lard heavy.
Liverpool, January 12—Evening.—Cot
ton dull; upland, 11% ; Orleans, 11% ;
sales,lo,ooo bales ; export and speculation,
2,000 bales.
Paris, JanuaryTS.—Bourse opened and
closed quiet. Rentes, 13f. 80c.
New York, January 12—Noon.—Stocks
strong. Money, 7. Exchange—long, 8% ;
short, 9%. Gold, 122%. 5-20’s, 62; cou
pons, 16% ; Tennessees, er coupon, 54 ;
new, 49% ; Virginias, ex coupon, 51; new,
57 ; Louishums, old, 70 ; new 69 ; Levee 6’s,
66 ; B’s, 80%; Alabama B’s, 93; Alabama s’s,
6s; South Garolinas, old, 77; new, 77.
New York, January 12—P. M.—Money
decidedly easier at 6@7; banks were free
lenders, causing increased ease ; discounts
easier; prime business notes, B@lo. Ster
ling dull at 8%@8%. Gold weakened,
closing at 121%. Governments weaker;
62’s, 16. Southerns stronger.
New York, January 12—Noon.—Flour
5 lower. Wheat 1 lower. Com 1 lower. 1
Pork heavy and declining ; mess, $27 25@ j
28. Lard heavy at 16%@16%- Cotton dull ■
at 25%. Turpentine firm at 46@47. Rosin .
firm at $2 15@2 20 for strained. Freights
New York, January 12—P. M.—Cotton i
favors buyers; sales, 1,000 bales at 25%.
Flour heavy and s@lo lower; superfine
State, $4 60@4 85; common to fair extra
Southern, $5 45@6. Wheat heavy; white
State, $1 50; Winter red and amber West
ern, $1 2G@l 29. Corn I@2 lower, but
more active; new mixed Western, 85@93 •
old, in store, $1 0431 05. Pork heavy ;
new, $27 50@28 25. Lard dull and un
changed. Whisky, $1 02@1 03. Groceries
dull- Turpentine, 46@46%. Rosin firm at
$2 1532 20 for strained.
Baltimore, January 12.—Cotton heavy •
nominally, 25. Flour dull and unchanged'
Wheat very firm for choice Maryland ; red
Pennsylvania very dull at $1 2531 28
Corn firm ; white, sl3l 02 ; yellow, 90@92.
Oats dull at 53@57. Rye active at sl@
1 10. Pork quiet at $30331. Bacon
shoulders, 14. Lard quiet at 18. Whisky,
|l@l 02. Virginias, old, 43%; ’66’s, 55;
77’s, 51 ; North Carolinas, new, 24 bid.
Cincinnati, January 12— Corn steady at
80382. Whisky firm at 93. Provisions
dull aud nominal. Pork offered at $27.
Lard—kettle, 16%. Bacon—shoulders, 13;
sides, 15%316.
Louisville, January 12.—Corn, 90395.
Pork. S2B. Bacon—shoulders, 13% ; clear
sides, 16%. Whisky nominal, 93.
Wilmington, January 12.—Spirits Tur
pmtinedull. Rosin dull at $1 60@3 37%
for No. 2to No. 1. Crude Turpentiue
steady at $1 6532 80. Tar steady at $1 85.
Cotton dull at 22%323.
Mobile, January 12.—Cotton—fair de
mand-; market closed quiet; sales, 1,000
bales; middling. 23%; receipts, 321 bales;
exports, 715 bales.
New Orleans, January 12.—Cotton dull
and easier at 24% ; sales, 4,200 bales ; re
ceipts, 3,975. Bran, $1 30. Hay—prime,
$37 50 Mess Pork, $39. Bacon, 14316% and
17. Lard—tierce, 17% ; keg, 18%. Others
unchanged. Gold, 121%. Sterling, 31%;
New York Sight, % discount.
Charleston, January 12S—Cotton quiet;
sales, 200 bales; middling, 24%324%; re
ceipts, 1,172 bales.
Savannah, January 12.—Cotton—re
ceipts, 2,325 ; sales, 700 bales ; middling, 24;
market firm.
Augusta Daily Market.
Office Daily Constitutionalist, )
Wednesday, January 12—F. M. s
FINANCIAL
GOLD—Buying at 120 anil selling at 122.
SlLVEß—Buying at 116 ami selling at 120.
BONDS—City Bonds, 85.
STOCKS—Georgia 'Railroad, 104.
COTTON—The market opened with a fair
demand at 23%@23% for middling, and closed
dull with a downward tendency at 23%. Sales,
604 bales. Receipts; 694 bales.
BACON—Fair demand. We quote C. Sides,
22; C. R. Sides, 21% ; B. B. Sides, 21 ; Shoul
ders, IS; Hams, 21326; Dry Salt Shoulders,
16 ; Dry Salt, C. R. Sides, 19@20.
CORN —New is beginning to come in freely,
and is selling at $1 30@1 35 from depot; old
:earce at $1 45@! 50 from depot.
WHEAT —We quote choice white, $1 55;
amber, $1 50 ; red, $1 45.
FLOUR—City Mills, new, f6 50@9 00; at
retail, $1 $1 barrel higher. Country, -s6(c§9,
.recording to quality.
CORN MEAL-ll 45 at wholesale; $1 60 at
retail.
OATS—B5@$l 25.
PEAS-Searce at SI 65.
CITY ITEMS.
A Murderer Respited. —»ln June last,
a negro man named Ben Godby killed Mr.
Adkins D. Lewis, of Burke county. This
murder w&s one of unusual atrocity, but
the negro was allowed the full privileges of
the law. After a fair and impartial trial,
Godby was found guilty aud sentenced to
be hung to-morro v, the 14th of January.
A deputation, consisting of Sheriff Byrd, his
deputy, and other guards came, lust eve
ning, to this city for the purpose of taking
the condemned man to Waynesboro this
morning, preparatory to dealing with him
as the law commanded. Their intention?,
however, were frustrated by a respite of
sixty days, served by Mr. DeGraffeureid,
by direction of the “ Governor.”
The considerations which influenced the
grant of this respite to a negro murderer,
who cut down :i highly respected citizen in
his own field, inflicting no less than twenty
one wounds upon his person, with a weapon
which would 'bring the blush to the cheek
of au absolute savage to handle, are said to
have been based upon a petition forwarded
to the Executive Department bearing the
signatures of a large number of negroes and
a few white men’s names, obtained in this
city. The wife of the murderer lets been in
this city for the past few days, endeavoring
to secure names to the petition. Several of
our citizens, to whom application was
made, properly declined to have anything
to do with the document. Who signed it,
we have no means of ascertaining ; but
whoever did must have been guided by
total ignorance of the heinous crime of
which the condemned negro had been con
victed, or a deliberate purpose to lend
themselves to defeat the ends of justice.
It if, to say the least, a stretch of Gnbcr
natonial sympathy to extend a respite to a
murderer stkdeeply dyed in blood upon the
strength of a petition forwarded from a dif
ferent county to that in which the crime
was perpetrated, the signers of which can
not be presumed to be sufficiently familiar
with the details to determine as to the
claims of the murderer upon Executive cle
mency. It is only another illustration of
the promptness of Governor Bullock to en
dure, extenuate and even pamper negro
criminals, while lie paws and bellows, ever
and anon, around Washington, of out
rages charged to the account of the while
people of the State. The pardoning power,
vested in such hands, becomes an engine of
oppression rather than a grant of mercy to
the people of the State, and its exercise in
cases parallel R> the one here instanced, of
a respite to the perpetrator of a most bru
tal and cold-blooded murder, a dangerous
experiment.
Wc are not prepared to assert that the
respite extended indicates an ultimate full
pardon. For the sake of law order,
and the protection of those rights which
the courts were organized to guard, we
hope not. The citizens of Burke county
feel, aud feel keenly, the outrage of justice
which would be accomplished in the ex
tension of Executive clemency to this mur
derer, and the result of its interposition
can but be productive of disorder and law
lessness in its worst phases. Has the “Gov
ernor” perception sufficient to discover
this?
Sheriff Byrd promptly determined to obey
the order served upon him, and will leave
the prisoner in jail here, where lie has been
contiued since he was sentenced. It has
been intimated to Sheriff Byrd that he will
be summoned to Atlanta, in all probability,
for conference with the “ Governor ” in re
gard to the case, for which he is fully
ready.
Class in Book-Keeping.— Attention is
directed to the advertisement of Mr. Wm.
M. Pelot, late Principal of the Charleston
Commercial College. In the sciences of
book-keeping and penmanship, this gentle
man has achieved distinction, North and
South, for the complete and rapid accom
plishment. of his pupils. In our own city
he is reinembereed, and bears flattering tes
timonials of his success in teaching here on
a former occasion. Those who desire to
perfect themselves in all the modern im
provements, European and American, per
taining to book-keeping in all its branches,
will not have a better opportunity than
that presented by Mr. Pelot.
Prizes for the Firemen’s Celebra
tion. —We are informed that the Augusta
Fire Department will, present at least the
following prizes for contest at the celebra
tion on the 22d of February, to which we
have before alluded.
One prize for second Glass steamers.
There being no second class steamers in the
city, this prize has been arranged with a
special view to the contest between a com
pany from Charleston and one from At
lanta, expected to be present. These steam
ers will be limited from 60 to 155 pounds of
steam, with, flfteeu minutes to play, after
attaining 60 pounds of steam—no other al
owauce of time to be made. '
Two prizes for third class steamers, lim
iced from 60 to 135 pounds of steam, to play
under same regulations as provided for
second class eugines. Steamers to use any
sized nozzle desired.
Two prizes for hand engiues—first aud
second class.
One prize for hose reels—to run 300 yards,
run off 300 feet of hose, attach to plug and
play 20 feet from nozzle in quickest time.
One prize for Hook and Ladder Compa
nies—to run 300 yards, place ladders on
Lafayette Hall, ascend and descend, and
adjust ladders oil trucks in quickest time.
A private prize is to be awarded to the
local company turning out the largest num
ber of uniforms.
The visiting companies will contest for
the Department prizes with the local com
panies, above enumerated, no separate
prizes having been arranged for them. If
carried off by our visitors, under these cir
cumstances, the prizes will doubtless be all
the higher appreciated.
Officers aud engineers of companies, local
and visiting, will constitute a board for the
classification of engines.
Fertilizers—The Dickson Fertilizer
Company. The lively appearance of affairs
about the works of the Dickson Fertilizer
( ompany indicate that the season of trade
in this line is opening fairly.
We learn from one of the officers of this
company that near three thousand tons of
freight has been handled in their ware
houses in a few weeks past, partly,of In
coming materials and partly shipments of
the manufactured article— Dickson’s Com
pound. Planters who visit the city are
invited to visit aud inspect the works, and,
we venture to say, no one will fail to be in
terested wlio does so. Nothing is conceal
ed from customers, all of whom may go and
see how the compound is made, and what
it is made of. All the elements are there,
including a line stock of No. 1 Peruvian
Guano, bone,'potash, uitre cake, and what
not, good and warranted pure, and neces
sary to a prime commercial fertilizer.—
Over one thousand tons of this article
have been sold already this season, and the
company anticipates prompt sales for all
that remains on hand. The price is now
at the reasonable figure of SO6 per tou on
board thd*cars, something lower than
most of the leading guanos in the market.
We trust trade may be lively, aud the
last pound of all good fertilizers sold—for
the more there is used, the more prosper
ous the crop will be.
Three Hundred Dollars Stolen.—
On Tuesday afternoon last, the residence
of Mrs. Mary Pferfcr, more generally known
as Mrs. Benjamin, who owns a small bakery
on Broad street, a few doors below the
upper Market, was robbed of S3OO in United
States currency. The money had been
placed in a small box in a bureau, and was
liie accumulations of the unfortunate lady,
to pay bills due in the conduct of her busi
ness. which yields a support for herself aud
three children. A negro woman, Martha
Hewitt, formerly in the service of Mrs.
Benjamin, had just rcturrted to work on
the premises on Tuesday, aud was the only
one known to have had access to the room
where the money was deposited, she having
gone there to pack away some clothes
which she had been washing. Nothing
was missed but the money, the box in which
It was deposited remaining undisturbed.—.
The negro woman was arrested by the
police yesterday, after which Mrs. Benja
min appeared before Justice Ells and made
affidavit charging her with the larceny. The
case was tor a hearing to-day,
the prisoner standing committed. None
of tlie money has yet been recovered.
Negro Fight. —Yesterday morning,
about, 11 o’clock, a country negro, Sheppen
Williams, ami Peter Blair, a city darkey,
had a disturbance on Broad street, in front
of the store of Messrs. G. A. Whitehead &
Cos., in which a pistol was drawn, but. not
fired. Blnir had requested the country
darkey to change some money for him ; the
latter regarding It a sharper's dodge to as
certain the state of his finances, declined,
when the former cursed him aud motioned
as if to draw a pistol. In this not. he was
anticipated by Williams, who promptly
produced his shooting iron, which was
wrested from his grasp by Blair, when the
former knocked the latter down and stamp
ed him. The combatants were separated
and marched to police headquarters, where
they were arraigned before Recorder
| Crump for violation of the 18th section.
Williams was dismissed, on payment of
cost, and Blair was fined $5 and cost, or
ten days on the chain gang.
The Immigrants are Coming. —We had
the pleasure yesterday, says the Charleston
Courier, of seeing Mr. F. W. Bruggemann,
the agent of the Newberry Immigration
Society. He is just from New York, hav
ing arrived in the Manhattan, accompanied
by fifty-three German irants. Eight
of tnese have gone to Grahamvillc, nine to
Camden, and the remainder to Newberry
and Laurens. Mr. B. has brought on one
hundred and twenty-six immigrants with
in the last six weeks, and expects from
three to four hundred more in the next two
months. And we say let them come and
welcome. We should like to see thousands
of them. There Is room for them and there
is work for them.
Hearing Postponed. —The hearing of
Robert Ashley, the negro drummer, arrest
ed on Tuesday afternoon under a charge of
manipulating to his pecuniary profit S2O
belonging to a colored woman, Peggy
Wiggins, from South Carolina, was post
poned by Justice Ells yesterday, the prose
cutrix failing to appear at the time speci
fied. There is reason to believe that the
old woman has been tampered with by
some of her Augusta brethren and sisters,
and possibly by a mean white man, to in
duce her not to appear at all in the case,
her mouth being closed by the restitution
of the money lost, and the payment of the
costs. '
Turned Over to the Military.— Our
Atlanta dispatches announce that Gen.
Terry, yesterday, issued an order, making
a sub-district of the counties of Warren,
Taliaferro, Wilkes, Lincoln, Colombia and
Glasscock, under command of Major Kline,
with instructions to arrest persons violat
ing the laws and disturbing the peace.
He also hoists into authority the noto
rious Chap Norris as sheriff of Warren
county, displacing Sheriff Railey. Look out
for drum head tribunals and sweat boxes,