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OOE rfTITTTTICm AUST.
AU C3-TJ ST A. GhA.
TUESDAY MORNING. JAN. 18.1870
FIXING THINGS IN GEORGIA.
Although General Tebby is a “ learned
jurist,” and “indisposed to do anything
■ wrong,” he is evidently not averse to mak
ing decisions on law points eminently
ridiculous, and swift to obey instructions
from pnissant conspirators who design the
humiliation and punishment of this State.
We now learn that the person with whom
he most frequently confers is Gen. Sher
man. It seems that Sherman does not ap
prove of the trial of the obnoxious Demo
cratic members by a military commission,
rightly stating that the civil courts are
open, and that their cases should come be
fore them for adjudication. He also, it ap
pears, declares that, until by these compe
tent tribunals pronounced guilty of per
jury, no members should be arrested or ex
pelled. We also learn that, although Gen.
Belknap, Secretary of War, has no earthly
business to interfere in the matter, yet, with
true Yankee restlessness, he is itching to
do so. He favors the arrest of all members
who have been pronounced ineligible by
Attorney General Farrow and his friends,
the negroes Campbell and O’Neal. No
less a person than Ulysses S. Grant,
President of the United States, is re
ported to lie inclined the same way. So,
but for General Sherman, the Demo
cratic m'embers would have been arrested
and tried by a drum-head court martial,
notwithstanding the Morton bill provided
the only legal remedy and notwithstanding
these members accepted and risked every
responsibility in order to check, if possible,
a licentious reign of domestic knaves, pow
erfully aided and backed up by the ruling
authorities at Washington. Gen. Sherman
has had to give way in the matter of the
military inquisition and he may also have
to give way in other particulars. Against
so tyemendons a combination as the Presi
dent and Congress, it would seem im
possible to. contend with any hope of
success. Those who are really anx
ious to be undeceived and desire to know
the fate in store for Georgia, should
study up- the case of Virginia, adding to
the regular restrictions such impositions
as Radical fear and vengeance are deter
mined upon dictating. Virginia came ta
the stool of repentance like a tractable old
woman ; Georgia like a stubborn and re
calcitrant boy. Generals Grant and But
ler having charge of the camp-meeting,
the reader may judge whether their terms
of admission will be of a Christ-like kind.
Notwithstanding the odds against ns are
appalling and. we fear, insuperable, we de
sire to encourage in every way practicable
those who struggle to wrest the absolute
power of mischief from the hands of the
Bullock cabal.
A Stock Company. — The following par
agraph, taken from an editorial in the Chi
cago Po>t, a rabid Radical paper, is proof
positive that the Government is run by
jobbers: :
“A canvass of the United States Senate
shows that three-fourths of the men in it
are engaged, avowedly or through their
friends, in some form of business, the pro
fits of which are- directly increased by the
imposition of high duties on foreign arti
cles which come into competition with
them. We do not doubt the correctness of
the statement.”
Bullock knew where the weakness of
Congress was, and hence our new
troubles.
A Bright Idea. — JesseD. Bright is a
member of the Kentucky Legislature. A
few days n;n, a Hill was introduced to char
ter a benevolent association to be known as
the Abraham Lincoln Lodge, No. 6, of
Covington, when Bright sprang to his feet
with a motion that the hill be referred back
to the committee with instructions to
change the name, as he could vote for no
chartered corporation bearing that title.
Jesse D. Bright is a man of pluck,
brains and sincerity. He ought to have
been sent, to the Senate in place of Gov.
Stevenson.
Funereal. — Contemp'ating the possi
bility of Virginia’s restoration, the Rich
mond Enquirer says:
“And if wc get in the Union, let us not
“ make fools of ourselves. There is uo sort
“of occasion to give a dinner. We go in—
“ not as we went in before—but under
“heavy conditions. There is nothing to
“ make any fuss about.”
Retired. —Ver/severs indisposition has.
prevented us from an earlier notice of Mr.
T. C. DeLeon’s retirement from the edito
rial management of the Mobile Register.
There is not a more versatile and accom
plislmfliterary man and journalist in the
country. He will create a sensation
wherever he goes.
Afbaid. —Beast Butrer explains the
secret of his rigid view of Southern Recon
struction to a Virginia lady. He confesses
that he is mortally afraid of the boys now
growing up. They are not loyal enough to
suit him.
A Fatal Satrapy. —The Fifth Military
District has killed three satraps in two
years, Griffin, Rousseau and Mower.
Strange to say, the last one of these died on
the anniversary of his predecessor’s death.
A Nevada editor was presented on Christ
mas with a ‘Bible, and a bottle of whisky
was added to induce him to accept the gift.
An Eloquent Extract.
A FERVENT APPEAR FOR GEORGIA—THE
HON.TnOS. SWAIN IN CONGRESS.
Mr. Speaker, I have heard a great deal
about loyalty since the war terminated.
“O, liberty,” said Madam Roland, ‘on her
way to the scaffold, “ what crimes are they
committing in thy name 1” The moral is
not without its application.' In the name
of loyalty the Constitution has been over
turned and the. reconstruction of these
States has been held in hbeyance, until all
prospect of a just reconstruction has ceased
to exist. Loyalty springs from a proper
love of country; from an observance of con
stitutional guarantees and our form of gov
ernment, adopted in 1787, as it came to us
from our fathers.
I can not recognize the loyalty of those
who make it the pretext for sordid .agita
tion, for a renewal of the dead issues of the
war, and the cruel persecution of a pros
trate people in the mere interest of party.
The met> who delight, most in such strife,
remote from the trials and sacrifices of war
when the reality was upon the country, are
not to be trusted now ii\, their insane rav
ings and self-glorification, when all danger
has passed, and acommqn flag floats alike
over the victor and the vanquished. Loy
alty to party is not to be mistaken for de
votion to liberty and constitutional gov
ernment.
The.cqueession of .the power to control
suffrage in the States is the last vestige of
those reserved rights, not already .claimed
and appropriated in some form or other
which the framers of the Constitution so
obstinately insisted upon in the formation
of a Federal Government. Whether Con-
gress, or the Executive, or the Federal Ju
diciary is to be recognized as the supreme
arbiter hereafter, is matter ..of little con
cern, if the form of your Government is to
be changed, and the people are no longer
sovereigu in disposing of questions touch
ing their organic law.
The Constitution, with shame be it said,
has become the foot-ball of every designing
politician who has party ends so subserve.
It no longer presents a barrier against usur
pation and encroachmeut. Amendments
are being piled upon amendments, until its
identity is gone, and what is left has ceased
to be "the object of veneration and respect,
to which, in times gone by, we were taught
to cling as the ark of our political safety.”
* * * * *
In conclusion, Mr. Speaker, permit me
to say that when 1 reflect upon the fearful
advances of Congressional encroachment;
when I consider, the inevitable consequen
ces of this recommendation of the President
of the United States in reference to the old
State of Georgia ; when I see high civil de
partments of this Government in the hands
of mere military men, with strictly milita
ry training and education; when I behold
the States that formed this Union degrad
ed, disfranchised, deprived of their just and
equal representation in the House, and held
in suspense for attempting to exercise their
functions as integral parts of our Federal
system; when I witness the gradual but
certain approaches that are now making to
hold in check and neutralize whatever of in
dependence has been leftiu the Federal judi
ciary, that last hope of a tottering Cons’i
tution ; when I hear the. honorable gentle
man from Massachusetts, Mr. Butler, at
the head of the Reconstruction Committee,
threatening to seifce in the interest of the
Federal army the wealthy and powerful
corporations of the lapd to swell still
further its already overgrown power, I say
in all frankness and sincerety, that I look
with gloomy forebodings to the future of
this great country.
[From the New York Hr-rald.
The Latest Sensation.
THE “ WOLF-AND THE LAMB ” BACK IN THE
FOLD—RETURN OF THE REV. HORACE
COOK WITH HIS YOUNG INFATUATION
LIVELY EXCITEMENT UP TOWN —THE BO
HEMIAN PRESS IN A NIGHTMARE —THE
PASTOR IN PRISON —THE PUPIL WITH HER
PARENTS.
For two days the sensation press of this
city has been in a convulsion of slang and
has exhausted its red hot vocabulary and
extensive imagination over the elopement
of Rev. Horace Cook, Pastor of the Seventh
street Methodist Episcopal Church, with
Miss Mattie Johnson, a sixteen year old
school girl. Everything that could be said
to lend a dime novel aspect to the affair was
done bv those papers, and when they found
themselves at a loss for facts they had no
hesitation whatever in deliberately conjur
ing up scenes and “reminiscences” that
had no foundation in fact. Whatever may
be the grievousness of the pastor’s present
fault it was scarcely necessary to “ throw
water on a drowned rat ” by publishing a
category of Imaginary former offenses, as
the papers alluded to have done. Rev.
Horace Cook is as penitent a sinner now as
need be.
A nightmare settled on these sensation
mongers last night when it was reported
that Mr. Cook and Miss Johnson had re
turned to the city, and as it is well known
that many bank defalcations, with an ab
sconding cashier as an appendix, are some
times eventually explained by the fact that
urgent business necessitated an instant de
parture, so the Bohemian scribes feared lust
uight that their vindication would recoil
en themselves, and that an examination in
volving no one in “ wrong ” would result
in this case.
Miss Johnson was
RETURNED TO HER HOME
last evening, and lias brought joy to that
home as a prodigal daughter. Late in the
afternoon Mr. Johnson received anony-.
mous information that his daughter was in
the city and was at one of the principal
hotels, and together with his son lie atonce
instituted a diligent search and succeeded
in finding her at one of the leading up-town
establishments. She immediately repair
ed home with him. Shortly after the fact
of her return was announced at a meeting
held in the Seventh Street Methodist
Church, and the excitement equalled that
of a first class revival.
She stated to her father that Mr. Cook
wept to the school house on Friday after
noon last, and made arrangements with her
to leave Immediately. She obeyed, and they
left that evening for Philadelphia. Having
arrived there, her “flighty” companion
went, to a hotel and hired a room, to which
lie escorted liis youthful charge, and in
stantly took his departure, since which
time until twelve o’clock last night, she
had neither seen or heard anything of him.
It may also be a matter of interest to the
inquisitive to know that ,there is not the
slightest reason to suppose that Miss John
son is not as chaste a young lady as when
she left her parents’ home last week; on the
contrary it is asserted that she is in uo wise
harmed save in the matter of unenviable
and unfortunate notoriety.
WHY SHE LEFT.
The general belief is now that Miss John
son was a young religious enthusiast, and
that Mr. Cook had acquired that singular
spell-power over which, as is well known,
often results from the development of an al
most lanatical degree of so-called religious
ardor. There is also reason to suspect that
the yon ug girl had the misfortune not to have
concealed "from him the existence of this
fascination which he exercised over her
acts, and that in a moment of semi-infatu
ation, or, perhaps, of a light insanity
brought on by great mental agitation, he
requested‘her to fly with him and she blind
ly assented.
At midnight last night Miss Johnson’s
relatives stated that they Knew nothing of
the whereabouts of Mr. Cook, but that they
kuew that he had been in this city once or
twice at least since last Friday, and believ
ed he was erratically roaming between New
York and Philadelphia.
BIS POSITIVE WHEREABOUTS
became known in a very emphatic fashion,
when, about ten o’clock, as the reporters of
the World were closing up their reports, a
violent kick was heard at the editorial room
door. “Come in,” exclaimed one. The
door opened and in strode a tall man, dress
ed in a clerical suit of black. He wore his
hat low over his eyes, and this, added to
the whiskers about his face and his mus
tache, completely hid his face from view.
Shutting the door behind him with a hang
that resounded throughout the room, he
walked up to the first desk at which he
saw a gentleman writing.
“Is the editor in?” he inquired in a loud
tone.
“What is your business, sir?” was the
question ne received in lieu of an answer.
“ My business, sir, is this : I am Dr.
Cook, and I come here to get satisfaction
for the slanderous article published in your
paper this morning concerning, me.” He
then became extremely violent in his man
ner and action, and so threatening in his
language that the editor seut out for a po
liceman, who with some difficulty took
him in charge.
On arriving at the station house the edi
tor made a formal complaint against Cook,
who, as the sergeant proceeded to write
clown h:s “pedigree,” gesticulated in a
theatrical way.
“What is your name?” asked the ser
geant..
“ Horace Cook,” was the reply.
“ What is your occupation ?”
“ A minister of the Gospel.”
The sergeant looked up at him with a
sneer, but Cook did not perceive it, he be
ing too intent upon “ taking the measure ”
of the complainant.
ROCKED UP.
“ Take him dowu stairs,” ordered the
sergeant as he finished writing.
“Come along with me, sir,” said the
doorman, taking him by the arm.
“ I’ll go along with you,’’.replied Cook ;
“ but if I had that man in my power lor
five minutes I would ” /
“Come now, sir, we will have to go,”
continued the doorman.
“ Well, I’m ready,” and down the steps in
a sort of homed way the “ minister of the
Gospel” tottered—for he was evidently very
weak—and in a few seconds he was placed
in a cell and the key was turned in the lock.
He sat down on the stone seat for a mo
ment after the doorman had goiie, and,
with his face buried in his hands, rocked
himself to and fro, a moan escaping from
his lips every once in a while as though he
was suffering the most Intense agony. All
of a sudden he started to his feet, and, still
holding his forehead between his hands as
if endeavoring to crush the pain-that was
tortaring him, peered out between the iron
bars. The prisoner next to him was gaz
ing at him intently, not knowing who the
new arrival was.
“ Have yon a knife about you ?” asked
Cook, in a hnsky voice, and his eyes
glared fiercely as he spoke.
“ What do you ask that for ?” asked the
other prisoner.
“ Well, if you have one let me have it,
and ask no questions,” replied Cook.
At that moment the doorman came down
and lit the gas to its full height, and the
prisoner who had been asked for the knife
beckoned toliiinto come to the grating of
his cell,-and then informed him of what
Cook had requested. Thus put upon his
guard, the doorman told the sergeant oi
the state of affairs, and' two men were at
once placed in cells opposite to the minis
ter, to watch his movements and give an
alarm in case of his being detected in any
attempt to take his life.
“ INTERVIEWED.”
A little after ten o’clock a Herald report
er called to see him. He was then pacing
up and down his cell, with a white hand
kerchief bound about his head, and with
his hands pressed tightly against his fore
head. His mental agony was evidently in
tense. '
“ Are you Mr. Cook, sir?” asked the re
porter.
The man started and looked at liis interlo
cutor as if anxious to see in him some sym
pathizing friend. Not recognizing him, he
replied sharply, as he turned upon his heel'
and resumed liis monotonous walk up and
clown his narrow quarters:
“Yes, sir, that’s my name."
As lie came up to the grating again after
his walk to the furthermost part of the
cell, the reporter said:
Mr. Cook, I am the representative of the
Herald , and would like to have a little talk
with you; if you have any statement to
make it may be of service to yon and—
The man stopped walking and looked
through the grating for a few seconds
without uttering a word. He then turned
about and began to walk again, exclaim
ing, pelulently, as lie left the gateway :
“ I don’t want anybody to do me any ser
vice !”
“ But I am not desirous of making a
‘sensation’of this,” replied the reporter;
“ some papers”—
“ Yes, sir,” exclaimed he, as he strode up
to the iron grating, and then turned away,
tugging fiercely at the white handkerchief
about his head. In a second he returned,
and grinding his teeth as though endeavor
ing to control some inward passion, and
leaning his face, which was as pale as that
of a corpse, against the stone facing of the
door, he resumed:
“ Ybs, sir, you are right; some papers
have made sensation of this affair, and if
they had not I would not have been here.”
Idie prisoner being evidently disinclined
to converse, the reporter left,* leaving him
walking up and down his cell, tugging at
the white handkerchief about his head as
fiercely as ever.
Agricultural. —The Savannah News
condenses the following interesting infor
mation from the Report of the Department
of Agriculture for November aud Decem
ber, iB6O.
Respecting the. condition of the corn
crops in Georgia, compared with last year,
the average is B—s. The quality of the
crops is 9—4.
In regard to the cotton crop of the State,
the report shows that tiie indicated pro
duct, compared with last year, is 9—5. The
indicated product (lint) per acre in pounds,
150.
The report states that there was a finer
and much larger yield of corn in Carroll
county than was expected, while in Chat
tanooga county jin- yield fell forty percent,
below that of last year.
The reports from different counties in the
State'regarding the cotton product is as fol
lows
Brooks County.—Not so large as was
anticipated.
Chattahoochee County.—Better than was
expected.
Pulaski County —The aggregate cotton
product equals the crop of last year.
Franklin County.—About one-third of a
cotton crop.
Spalding County—Better ■'than was ex
pected.
Pike County.—The cotton crop suffered
severely from drought and rot.
Carroll County.—One-tenth larger than
was expected in October.
Chattooga County.—The yield not as
large as last year, but the increased acre
age makes the aggregate product as large.
Johnson county.—Nearly equal to last
year.
Stewart County.—Reduced nearly .fifty
per cent, below that of 1868, owing to the
drought.
Barlow County.—Quality superior to
that of last. year.
. In Johnson comity the sugar cane, peas,
and potatoes were injured by the drought.
It speaks in the highest terms of the State
Agricultural Fair held last fall, both in re
gard to the “ number and character of its
visitors and the extent, of country repre
sented. It states that-the t'rst white frost
occurred at Atlanta on the 16th ot Novem
ber, and also refers to the aerolite which
fell at Columbus on the 6th of November,
and which was heard for thirty miles
around. It states, also, that the peach
trees were in blossom on the Ist of Novem
ber, and that brilliant falling stars were
observed at Berne, Georgia, on the 13th of
November.
The Mysterious Looking Grasses.—
Congress is perplexed over a mysterious
little hill of $20,000 for looking glasses (!)
in the Treasury Department. Mr. McCar
tee, Superintendent of the Treasury at the
time the purchases were made, denies all
knowledge of the matter. Mr. Mullett was
before the. House Appropriation Committee
on the 10th, but could give no satisfaction
as to who was responsible. It is the inten
tion of the committee to strike out the ap
propriation asked for until something more
definite is known.
Under Radical rule there have been from
one to two‘hundred “ grass widows ” and
pretty girls of various degrees of grassi
ness, who have been drawing salaries as
clerks in the Treasury Department, but
most of whom owed their posjtion there, it
has been said, to the favor of forty or fifty
“ leading Senators and members of Con
gress,” who have th-uff been enabled to
maintain one or more mistresses in Wash
ington, year in and year out, at the people’s
expense. It has been said that the Treasu
ry Department lias been turned into a
grand bagnio or assignation house—and
certainly some of tiie evidence elicited at a
certain investigation in 1862 did look like
it. These “ leading Senators and members
of Congress ” are mostly married men ; and
they are accustomed to justify the severest
measures of vengeance upon the Southern
States by a load talk about the “interests
of morality” and “ progress.” These are
the men who are ruling the country. No
doubt there have been some respectable
and deserving women employed in the
Treasury Department; but the indications
seem to be that they did not constitute tiie
majority. But few are now employed.—
Better pay the bill and hide the disgraceful
record from sight .—Hartford Times.
Tennessee. —The Washington corres
pondent of the Baltimore Sun, writing un
der date 10th inst., says that a plea for
Congressional interference in Tennessee has
been nearly perfected. One feature of it
is the proposition for passing a general law
prohibiting all persons who are disfran
chised by the third section of the Four
teenth Amendment from participating in
State or Federal positions. It is said that
such a law would break up the Nashville
Convention.
Poriticar Disabirtties.— lt is' stated
that as soon as the Reconstruction Com
mittee dispose of the reconstruction mea
sures before them, they intend to prepare a
bill removing political disabilities, from all
persons who are disfranchised by the Four
teenth Amendment. The present under
standing is that the bill will be universal
in its character. A similar measure is
already pending in the Senate.
Minister Wnshburne sends to. the State
Department information of a decree of the
French Government reducing postage on
letters from France to the United States to
sixty centimes for ten grammes, instead of
eighty centimes for.seven grammes. In
other words, it is a reduction of four cents
with an increase iu the postal weight.
. [From Garald Massey’* New Volnme.
The Lady Marian.
This is my Lady Marian,
She walks iu our world, a Shining one l
A Woman with an Angel face,
Sweet gravity aud teuder grace ;
And where she treads this earth of onrs,
Heaven blossoms into smiling flowers.
This is the Lady Marian.
One ot the spirits that walk in white \
Many dumb hearts that sit in night
Her presence know, just as the birds
Know morning, murmuring cheerful words,
Where Life is darkest, she doth move
With influence ot visible Love.
This ia the Lady Marian.
Her coming all your being fills
With a balm-breath from Heaven’s hills •
And in her the light is mild ’
As though the heart within her smiled,
And in her bosom sat to sing
The spirit ol immortal Spring. '***'
This is the Lady Marian.
One of God’s treasures for the Foor i
She keepeth opgn heart and door.
That heart a liofy well of wealth,
Brimminglife-waters, quick with health •
That door an openimr you look through ’
To find owr side of Heaven’s blue.
This is the Lady Marian.
Baker's Cat.
A CALIFORNIA STORY BY MARK TWAIN.
Whenever Dick Baker, of Dead horse
Gulch, was out of luck and a little down
hearted, he would fall to mourning over
the loss of a wonderful cat he used to own
(for wtiere women and children are not
men of kindly impulse take up with pets’
for they must love something.) And he
always spoke of the strange sagacity of that
cat with the air of a man who believed in
his secret heart that there was something
human about it—may be even supernatural
I heard him talking about this animal
once. He said, gentlemen, I used to hgve
a cat here, by the name of Tom Quartz,
you’d a took an Interest in, I reckon— most
anybody would. I had him here eight
years—and he was the remark ablest cat I
ever see. He was a large gray one, of the
Tom specie, and he had more hard, natural
sense than auy man in Ins camp, and a
power of dignity; he wouldn’t a let the
gov’ner of California be familiar with him.
He never ketched a rat in his life—’peared
to be above it. He never cared for nothing
but mining. He kuowed more about min
ing, that cat did, than any man I ever see.
You couldn’t tell him nothing about dig
ging—and as for pocket mining, why he
was just born for if. He would dig out
after me aud Jim when we went over Lhe
hills prospecting, and he would trot along
behind as for as much as five miles, ii‘ wc
went so far. And he had the best judgment,
about mining ground—why you never see
anything like it. When we went to work,
he’d scatter a glance around, and if he
didn’t think much of the indications, he
would give a look as much as to say, “ Well,
I’ll have to get you to excuse me,” and
without another word he’d hystc his nose
into the air and shove for home. But if
the ground suited him, he would lay low
and keep dark till the first pan was washed,
and then he would sidle up and take a look,
and if tneere was about six or seven grains
of gold he was satisfied—he didn’t want no
better prospect ’n that—and then he would
lay down in onr coats and snore like' a
steamboat till we’d struck the pocket, and
then get up and superintend.
Well, by and ivy, up comes this quartz
excitement. Aud everybody was into it—
everybody w'as picking and blasting in
stead of shoveling dirt on the hill side—
everybody was putting down a shaft in
stead of scraping the surface. Nothing
would do Jim but we must tackle the
ledges, too, and so we did. We commenced
putting down a shaft, and Tom Quartz; tie
begin to wonder what in the Tbckeifs it
was all about. He hadn’t ever seen any
mining like that, before, and lie was all up
set, as you may say—he couldn’t come to a
rigid understanding of it no way—it was
too many for him. He was down on it,
too, you bet you—he was down on it pow
erful—and always appeared to consider it
the enssedest foolishness out. But that
cat, you know, he was always agin new
tangled arrangements; somehow lie could
never abide ’em. You know how it is with
old habits. But by and by Tom Quartz
begin to git sort of reconciled a little,
though he never could altogether under-'
stand that eternal sinking of a shaft, and j
never panning out anything. At last in
got to coming down in the shaft himself,
and try to cipher it out. And when he’d
«ot in*-- blues, and feel kind o’seruffy, ag
gravated and disgusted—knowing as lie
did that the bills was running up all the
time, and we warn’t making a cent —he,
would curl up on a gunny sack iu the
corner and go to sleep. Well, one, day
when the shaft was down about eight foot, j
the rock got so hard that we had to put in i
a blast—the first blasting we’d ever done |
since Tom Quartz was born. And then !
we lit the fuse and dumb out and got fifty 1
yards—and forgot and left Tom Qu.irt.z |
sound asleep on tiie gunny sack. In about
a minute we seen a puff of smoke burst up
out of the hole, and then everything let go j
with an awful crash, and about four mil- j
lions tons of rocks and dirt and smoke and
splinters shot up. about a mile and a half
into the air; and, by George! right in the
midst of it was old Tom Quartz, going end
over end, and a snorting and a sneezing, j
and a clawing and a reaching for things
like all possessed. But it warn’t no use,
you know, it warn’t no use. And that was
the last we see of him for about two miu
utes and a half, and then all of a sudden it
begin to rain rocks and rubbage, and di
rectly he come down lter-whop about ten
foot off from where we stood. Well, I
reckon he was p’raps the orneriest looking
beast you ever see. One ear was sot back
on his neck, and his tail was stove up, and
his eye-winkers was swinged off, and he
was all blacked up with powder aud smoke
and all sloppy with mud and slush from
one end to the other. Well, sir, it warn’t
no use to try to apologize—we couldn’t sav
a word. He. took a sort of a disgusted
look at hisself, and then he looked at us—
and it was just exactly the same as if he
had said—“ Gents, may be you think it’s
smart to take advantage of a cat that ain’t,
had no experience of quartz mining, but I*
think different’—and then he turned on
his heel and marched off home without
ever saying another word.
That was jest his style. And may be
you won’t believe it, but after that you
never see a cat so prejudiced against quartz
mining as what he was. And by and by
when he did get to going down in'the shaft
again, you’d a been astonished at his saga
city. The minute we’d touch off a blast
and the fuse’d begin to sizzle, he’d give a
look as much as to say, “ Well, I have to
get you to excuse me,” and it was surpris
ing the way he’d shin out of that hole and
go for a tree.
Sagacity ! It ain’t no name for it. ’Twas
inspiration !
I said, “Well, Mr. Baker, this prejudice
against quartz mining was remarkable,
considering how he came by it. Couldn’t
you ever cure him of it,?”
“ Cure him ! No ! When Tom Quartz
was sot once, he was always sot —and yon
might, a blowed him up as hiuch as three
million times and you’d never a broke him
of his cussed prejudice against quartz
mining.”
The affection and the pride that lit up
Baker’s face when he delivered this tribute
to the firmness of his humble friend of
other days, will always be a vivid memory
with me.
The meanest man in *Wiseonsin runs a
saw mill in Wood county. His name is
George Hiles. A son of Mr. Alexander, of
Viroqua, was killed while in Hiles’ employ,
and the father, on going to bring Jjome the
body of liis son, had a bijl of $44 50 to pay
to Hiles, made up of items like these: For
washing the body and laying it out, $5;
for going across the street for a coffin,
$3 50; for placing the body in the coffin,
$3; for plain rough board coffin, $8; for
taking inventory of the effects of the de
ceased, $lO, and so on.
Dr. J. C. Ayer, the celebrated medicine
man, was in our cilv Wednesday, and paid
us a visit. The Doctor is on his way to
Florida, and after a tour of that State, will
visit Atlanta to take a look at the menage
rie there. We would suggest that he take
with him three or four boxes of his cele
brated pills, and “ purge ” the Legislature
of the unclean bile there assembled.
[Savannah Republican.
“The Princess of the Moon."—A Con
federate fairy story, written by a lady
ofWarrenton, Va., and dedicated “to the
children of the South, who suffered during
the late war.” Published at Warren ton,
Virginia; and also, for sale by Mr. D. Quinn,
Augusta.
Weiiave received this little offering al
most at the hour of our going to press. It
is from the pen of one of the loveliest, tru
est, and most wrong-suffering ladies of Vir
ginia—a lady, too, of bright intellect. As
better than any words we could speak, we
-will give her own brief “ Introduction to
the Princess of the Moon,” only premising
that this little volume costs but fifty cents,
and that the proceeds are devoted to the
building of a Parochial residence beside the
scantily supported Catholic Church of
Warrenton:
INTRODUCTION.
“ Little Southern Readers :
When we wish to amuse child ren, we create,
in onr imagination, a race of beings called'
1 Fairies,* and cause them to accomplish as
many wonderful things as , possible. This
was my occupation, for. the pleasure and
happiness of my little ones, when sitting
before a cheerful hickory tfre one chilly
November evening.
“ It was a few months after the close of
the war, and I was a guest at ‘ Mecca,’* a
beautiful Virginia home (the war had de
prived me of my own), and on that evening
my feelings were particularly sad from
brooding over the sufferings of our dear
Southern people, wiyhi mv reveries were
interrupted by a bevv of dear, bare footed
little rebels, who, without ceremony, sur
rounded me and begged for a fairy story.
Os course I could not, resist their entreaties;
so, after assuring them that, in reality,
there exist no such creatures as fairies, I
drew apon my fancy for the following
story:
*Dear children, we have not a fairy to
watch over us, but a Father in Heaven,
who pities our sunny land, and manifests
Himself to ns in our afflictions. He places
us in a ‘ place of purification,’ much more
beautiful than the one inhabited by Ran
dolph, for ours is this bright world, filled
with furniture more dazzling than any
made by the hands of man; the flowers,
the birds, the hills and vales; the silvery
streams, blue skv and glorious sun ; the
stars, and that lustrous silver ’lamp, the
moon—what palace ever possessed such
heavenly ornaments as these? But let us
remember that, with all its beauty, our
world, like Randolph’s prison, is only one
of probation, to prepare and purify us for
the eternal mansion, where the flowers will
not fade, nor all that is bright and beauti
ful perish. Here we are to learn and prac
tice virtue—which, like the fairy’s violets,
will become jewels to adorn our crown’s in
heaven.' And when our Father wills that
we should suffer through the "wickedness
of others, we must remember all the time
that it is He who afflicts ns, and then we
shall feel less resentment against the in
struments of his wrath.
“ I speak especially to yon, little suffer
ers of the South, who during the war
waged against us, endured hunger and
cold ; were made homeless and fatherless.
How well you remember that chilly night,
when driven from your homes by brutal
soldiers—the burning, the horrors which
ensued; you, prior little wanderers from
Atlanta, and children of burning polnm
biu; you starving ones, whose tears for
bread broke many a widowed mother’s
heart; you, shivering ones, who watched
the contents of your scanty wardrobe with
tearful eyes as they were torn and scatter
ed to the winds and flames. That Sunday
frock ! how yon grasped the treasure and
begged it might be spared. Alas! the
torch lighted and cons imed it even in the
sanctuary of your arms. Ah ! you recol
lect all these scenes well—too well; but re
member, too, dear children, it was God
who willed it all. You, little son of the
brave papa, whose last words, on leaving
for the war, were: “Protect thy mother
and si- ters, my boy.” How bittir the tor
ture that bound thee, hand and foot, whilst
thy sisters were insulted and thy mother
weeping. Thou canst not yet think that
heaven willed this. 1 see thee shake thy
head ; thy tears of indignation return, and
thou feelest in thy heart a desire for re
venge. Ah ! it was a cruel shock to thy
young nature, trained to chivafy from thy
cradle. Turn thy <erttze above- when recall
ing tint, sorrow of the past; Aver look up
to Hi in who permitted thy grief, and He
will yet pour the balm of-consolation into
thy wounded si-ul.
“ But I will tire my little readers if I at
tempt to describe each oue-’s sufferings. A
record lias already been made of them, and
at the great day of justice the sorrows, as
well as the crimes, of every one will be
made manifest.
“That the angels who watched over our
brave land during the unequal struggle
may have borne your tears and prayers to
Heaven, where you will find them changed
into bright crowns, is the heartfelt prayer
offered for each one of von by
“ The Authoress.”
*ln W >rrent n.
New Way of Making Tobacco Yellow.
—One of our subscribers informs us that a,
gentleman in Franklin county, whose crop
of tobacco last year was so inferior that he
fund it impossible by the usual process to
cure it yellow, originated an entirely new
method which succeeded admirably. His
plan was to build at the barn an immense
log fire, as if preparing to kill hogs ; to heat
rocks red hot and scatter them all over the
floor of the barn ; then with buckets to
throw water all over the heated rocks,
thereby raising, a perfect fog of steam in the
house. The result was a beautiful yellow
cure of his entire crop. This is something
new to us, but the source of our informa
tion is entirely reliable, and we commend
the subject to theoretical .and practical in
vestigation of our intelligent planters lor
what it may be worth.
[ Chatham ( Va) Tribune.
’ Appalling— Two Sons of Gen. Qtd.
Pillow Murdered.— The. Huntsville In
dependent, of the 12th, says: We learn from
Conductor Stephenson, of the Memphis and
Railroad, that on Sunday night
last, two sons of Gen. Gid. Pillow, who had
been living on the plantation near La
grange, Alabama, were shot anff killed by
a party of disguised men. One of them
was riddled with bullets. It is not posi
tively sure that the other was killed, but
next morning his horse was found with
stains of blood on the saddle, and the young
man had not been heard from. This is in
deed a terrible tragedy. Our informant
conid not give the cause, but we hope to
-havefull information to-day.
'The colored folks of Washington are vig
orously pressing for what they call their
’• rights ”in every direction. Friday even
ing they Held a meeting, at which the tone
of all their speeches was, that the present
school system must be broken down, and a
reorganization had, on such a basis that
there will be a general mixing up of white
and black children tn all the schools, and
now they have got a bill through one
branch of the City Council requiring ho
tels, restaurants, saloons and other places
of entertainment to receive them on the
same terms as they do white persons, under
penalty of a. SSO fine for each violation of
the law. The other branch of the Council
will probably adopt it at the next meeting.
Demoralized Negroes.— The Mariana
(Fla.) Courier says: “There are not less
than three hundred negroes in this county
who have moved on public lands and ceased
to labor on the plantations, except when
the pinch of hunger compels them. A ma
jority of them are without a visible means
of support, and have, it is thought, lived to
a great eqtent on the live stock, which has
been on the decrease for the last three
years. This class furnishes most of the
criminals for the penitentiary, and is a
great drawback to the more thrifty and in
dustrious of their color.
Incendiarism Still Rampant.—Wo re
gret to state that, on Saturday night last,
the barn and stables of our esteemed fellow
citizen, Henry T. Wright, Esq., Were de
stroyed by Are. Mr. Wright lost a quantity
of corn, and his whole store of fodder, pea
vines, and forage generally. He was fortu
nate enough to be able to rescue all his
horses and mules from the flames. There
remains no doubt as to the fire having been
the work of an incendiary.
[Edgefield (8. C-) Advertise)'.
BY TELEGRAPH.
[Associated I’ress Dispatches. -
WASHINGTON.
Washington, January 16.—There was a
meeting of the Indian Commissioners and
Senate anti House Conimiqtees of Indian
Affairs, Secretary of the Interior and Com
missioner of Indian Affairs yesterday.—
The sense of the meeting was against fur
ther treaties with tribes.
Washington, January 17—Noon. —The
committees did nothing. In the Senate,
many petitions were presented. The House
refused the use of its hall to the President
and committee of the National Labor
Union to expound their views.
Washington, January 17—P. M.—Reve
nue to-day, $840,000.
The Honolulu Minister was presented to
the President Saturday. He is a Maine
Yankee.
A'bert Spry and" John Bonnor, promi
nent actors in the gold panic, testified to
day; other witnesses will be examined to
morrow.
Terry’s dispatches indicate that three
Senators and ten Representatives are clear
ly disqualified, and will be expelled by mil
itary order, still, however, leaving the Leg
islature in the hands of Conservatives.
Prince Arthur arrived Saturday. Fes
tivities in in’s honor, so far as the pro
gramme announces, exclusive of dinners,
one of which is by Fish and one by Grant.
Among the nominations is D. ft. Star
buck, as District Attorney for North Car
olina.
In the Senate a petition was presented
urging reduced rate of licenses to maimed
soldiers.
Sumner, from the Committee on Foreign
Relations, presented a bill regulating ocean
cables; also providing for the payment of
French claims prior to 1801.
Virginia was resumed.
Stewart desired that the House bill be
put on its passage.
Sumner refused to allow the bill to be
read more tlmn once.
Conkling suggested the House bill be
offered at the proper time as a substitute.
Morrell, of Vermont, declared Virginia
unfit to be admitted, either with or without
conditions. He would, however, rather
trust rebels of the South than Democrats
of the North. Governor Walker was not a
fit representative of loyal men.
Morton proposed amendments that the
restrictions of the Fourteenth Amendment
forever apply to Virginia, and making ac
ceptance of office conflicting therewith
penal.
Finally Stewart’s motion prevailed, and
the Senate bill was laid aside and the
House bill considered.
Edmunds then moved his amendment
exacting restrictions of the Fourteenth
Amendment.
The discussion continued quite tamely,
Thayer closing with an hour’s speech,
when he was interrupted by a motion to
go into executive session.
In the House, under the regular call, a
resolution directing the survey and ex
amination of the west bank of the Potorhac
from Georgetown to Harper’s Ferry, to re
port the practicability of erecting a rail
road along said bank.
A joint resolution by Butler, providing
that acts of the Tennessee Legislature and
of the Judiciary or Executive, held by per
sons disqualified by the Fourteenth Amend
ment, null. Referred to the Judiciary Com
mittee.
The balance of the day was devoted to
discussion of the apportionment for the
Forty Second Congress.
Sherman lias telegraphed the approval of
Reynolds’ action, approving installation of
Davis, and Flannagan as Lieutenant Gov
ernor of Texas, and convening the Legisla
ture.
Butler arrived and spent most of the dav
In the Seuate.
The friends of Virginia’s admission, pure
and simple, are v discouraged. To-day the
speeches showed no changes, and were
mostly of a spread eagle character.
GEORGIA.
Atlanta, January 17. — l The committee
appointed from both Houses addressed the
following to Genera! Terry: The under
signed committee appointed at a meet
ing of both Houses of the General Assem
bly, irrespective of party, having objected
and protested against the manner Os organ
isation of sakl Qgyqiuy *ugn ufrifr «« illugai,
unconstitutional sto. figtathbriaod by law
and precedent, respectfully request the
General commanding, that as It has
been decided to transfer- the question
of eligibility of members from the fo
rum recognized by the Constitution and
laws to that of a military com mission,
that after investigation of the record
and facts in the several cases have been
completed, the same be submitted to
the Judges of the Supreme Court of Geor
gia, the highest judicial tribunal of the
State, for their opinion as to the eligibility
of members whose seats are questioned.
Trusting, General, that the foregoing re
quest may be granted, we respectfully ask
an immediate reply.
Signed by J. E. Bryant, Chairman;
Caldwell, Scott, Burns, Priee, Candler,
Williams, Osgood, Holden, Shumate and
Harper.
Col. J. E. Bryant states that on assem
bling of the House he did not say the acts
of Congress were illegal and revolutionary;
he always supported the reconstruction
acts of Congress and the present act of
Congress.
Nothing done in the Senate.
The House met and read an order from
Bullock, approved by Terry. The order
gives time, pending the investigation of the
right of certain persons to hold seats under
the reconstruction acts, to persons desiring
to take the oath to do so, until Wednesday
next, at noon.
Recess ordered.
r l he decision of the court-martial as to
eligibility of certain members will he ren
dered to-morrow. '
The House will probably organize on
Wednesday.
FOREIGN.
Pout au Prince, December 25.—The
revolutionists demanded the surrender of
refugees, who sought refuge in the Ameri
can Consulate. The Consul maintained
the sanctity of the consulate by the assist
ance of English and French men-of-war.
Salnave is captured and imprisoned.
The French and English commanders
have assurances that there will be no
bloodshed.
Liverpool, January 17.— The ship Ke
nilworth, from New Orleans December
14th, is a total wreck in Caernarom Bay.
A part of the crew was saved.
Paris, January 17.—The motion to post
pone debate on Rochefort’s arraignment
failed by 39 to 19.
Ollivier opposed postponement.
Several deputies received menacing let
ters in case the Chamber authorizes Roche
fort’s prosecution.
The city is tranquil, though anxiety is
manifested regarding the Rochefort de
cision in the Corps Legislate.
Rome, January 17.—The Council sat four
hours Saturday. The oldest legate com
plained that speeches were too long, and
that obligationsWf secrecy had been .vio
lated by members.
The Empress of Austria, after receiving
a commission from the Pope, left the city.
Over three hundred fathers refused to
sign a petition •in favor of infallibility.
Many others returned evasive answers.
The opposition propose a counter petition,
and assert the certainty of sufficient adhe
rents to defeat infallibility.
London, January 17 —The 7 ablet, Cath
olic organ, says the report that it favors
infallibility Is erroneous.
The 7’iwiri’thinks the presence of French
troops may encourage the Pope to insist on
infallibility, notwithstanding the reluct
ance of the Council.
Havana, January 17.—A memorial, sign
ed by one thousand Spaniards, lias gone to
Spalio, requesting the Cortes to postpone
reforms in Porto Rico. The people of
are unprepared to received the proposed re-*
forms, and prefer to wait until Cuba is rep
resented in the Cortes.
The Cleopatra and France arrived from
Vera Cruz, with Seward and party on
board, who will remain a week in Havana.
WEST VIRGINIA.
Wheeling, January 17. —The Star of
Pittsburg, loaded with 140,000 bushels of
coal, collided with the pier of the railroad
bridge at Belair and sank with seven
barges, and exploded as she went down.—
One woman killed.
ALABAMA.
Montgomery, January 17. —1n the Sen
ate, the bill taxing railroads and their
property for the benefit of the State, and
exempting from county tax, was discussed.
Bills were introduced repealing all the lot
tery charters and to expedite the building
of the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad.
In the House, Mr. Brown, the recently
elected Democrat, was sworn in, haying
been returned to the Legislature, from
Chambers county, by an almost unanimous
vote. Bills introduced were all local.
LOUISIANA.
New Orleans, January 17. —The gam
bling houses have been closed, in conformi
ty with a recent act of the Legislature.
A bill granting the privilege of State aid
•and right of way for branches, etc., to the
New Orleans aud Chattanooga Railroad
passed the House. It meets with opposi
tion from the city press.
NEW YORK.
New York, January 16.—The Nipsic, of
the Darien expedition, sails to-morrow.
The steamer Yantlc and store ship Girard,
composing the rest of the fleet, sail soon.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Charleston, January 17.—A fleet of
thirteen Spanish gunboats from New York
via Hamptou Hoads, under convoy of the
steamer Isabella Cattoliea, lias put into this
harbor for coal and supplies. They expect
to remain about two days, when they will
leave forCubi.
MISSOURI.
St Louis, January 17.— There was a ter
rific thunder, wind, and hail storm, creating
panic in the theatres. Several persons were
considerably hurt.
MARINE NEWS.
Charleston, January 16.—Arrived :
Steamers South Carolina and Magnolia,
from New Y T ork.
Charleston, January 17.—Arrived:
Schrs. Annie Gilles, Baltimore ; Hud and
Frank, Norfolk.
New York, January 17.—Arrived : We
ser, Saragossa, Fairbanks, Cromwell, and
Niagara. \
Savannah, January 17 —Arrived : Schrs.
Union Flag, Providence ; Lucy Ames and
Josiah, Baltimore ; steamship Barnes, New
York.
Cleared : Brig Penniman and schr. Lucy
M. Collins, Jacksonville ; steamship Al
hambra, Boston.
MARKETS.
London, January 17—Noon— Consols,
92%. Bonds, 86%.
Liverpool, January 17—Noon.—Cotton
buoyant; uplands, 11%; Orleans, 11%;
sales, 15,000 bales.
Later. —Pork flat. Lard dull.
Liverpool, January 17—Evening.—Cot
ton firmer, not higher; uplands, li% ; Or
leans, 11%; sales, 15,000 bales ; specula
tion and export, 3,000 bales.
Havre, January 17—Cotton opens firm
at 137%, both spot and afloat.
New York, January 16—Gold closed
yesterday at 121%. __
New York, January 17—Noon—Stocks
unsettled. Money easy at o®7. Exchange
—short, 9% ; long, 8%. Gold, 121%. ’62’s,
coupon, 15% ; Tennessees, ex coupon, 53%;
new, 47 ; Virginias, ex coupon, 53% ; new!
60 ; Louisianas, old, 70; new, 66 ; Levee 6’s’
64% ; B’s, 80 ; Alabama B’s, 93 ; o’s, 63 •
Georgia O’s, 80; 7’s, 90; North Carolina 7’s’
old, 41 ; new, 24% ; South Carolina 7’s, old,
78%; new, 75%.
New York, January 17—P. M.—Money
easier ; mixed collaterals, 6 ; Governments,
5; supply largely exceeds the want, and
money is still flowing this way. Sterling
heavy at 8%@8%. Gold, 121%. Govern"
ments active and stronger; ’OS’s; 15%.
Southern Securities,generally firmer!
New York, January 17-Noon.—Flour
shade better. Wheat l@2c. better. Corn
dull and heavy, jfork dull; mess, $27 62
ffiii l). Lard dull at 16%®16%. Cotton
steady at 25%. Turpentine quiet at 45.
hosin drooping at $2 07% for'common and
10 for good strained. Freight* jlrm.
New York, January 17—P. M.’—Cotton
opened steady but closed weak; sales
3,500 bales at 25%. Flour s@lo better on
low grades. Wheat less active at noon’s
advance, and slii fliers are holding oft'. Corn
declining; new mixed Western, Bft®9o
Pot k firmer; new, $28@28 25. Lard heavy •
kettle, 17@17%. Whisky a shade firmer at
sl. Groceries dull. Turpentine, 44%@45.
Rosin, $2 10®8. Freights firmer; cotton
steam, %; flour, sail, 1®4% ; wheat sail’
5%. ’
Baltimore, January 17.—Cotton firm at
20@25%; offerings light. Flour dull and
weak; quotations unchanged. Wheat
steady; prime to choice red, $1 35® 1 45.
Corn—receipts small; white, 98®$1 ; yel
low, 90®91. Provisions firmer and in good
demand; former prices unchanged. Pork,
$24 50®30 50. Bacon—shoulders, lo%@
14. Lard, 17%@18. Whisky, 98(®99.
Louisville, January 17.—Corn un
changed. Provisions quiet. Pork, S2B
Bacon—shoulders, 13%; clear sides, 16%.
Lard, 17%. Whisky dull at 93.
Cincinnati, January 17—-Corn dull
large supply—7s®76. Whisky firm at 93’.
1 ork held at 26%; no sales. Bacon quiet
held firmly; shoulders, 13; sides 15%’
Lard inactive; no sales
St. Louis, January 17.—Corn advancing;
mixed, 76@78 ; yellow, 80; white, 82@87.
Whisky dull at 99. Pork dull at ,s27®
27 50. Bacon quiet ; shoulders, 13%;
clear sides, 16%. Lard nominally at 15%@
Mobile, January 17.—Cotton—market
closed quiet; sales, 800 bales; middling,
24; receipts, 1,768; exports, 18 bales. ’
New Orleans, January 17.—Cotton
firm at 24%@24%; sales, 3,550 bales ; re
ceipts, 11,669 bales; exports—to Amster
dam, 1,820 bales; to Barcelona, 1,120 bales.
Flour, $5 37%, $5 87% and $6 25. Corn
easier at $1 05. Oats', 70. Bran, $1 30.
Hay, S3O. Pork, $29. Bacon scarce and
firmer at 14, 16% and 17%. Lard firmer at
17@17%; keg, 17%@18%> Sugar firm;
prime, 11%@12%. Molasses—prime, 66@
68. Whisky, 90@$1 05. Coffee easier;
fair, 15@15%; prime, 16%@17%. Gold,
121%. Sight, % discount. Sterling, 31%.
Charleston, January 17.— Cotton—good
demand and firm ; sales, 500 bales; mid
dling, 24,1g@24)4 ; receipts, 1,103 bales.
Savannah, January 17.—Cotton—re
ceipts, 3,695 bales; exports, 875 bales;
sales, 350 bales; middling, 24%; market
quiet.
Augusta Daily Market.
Office Daily Constitutionalist, )
Monday, January 17—P. M. 5
FINANCIAL
GOLD—Buying at 120 and selling at 122.
SlLVEß—Buying at 116 and selling at 120.
BONDS—City Bonds, 85.
STOCKS—Georgia Railroad, 104.
COTTON—The market opened with a good
demand at 28% for middling ; closed quiet at
28%@28%. Sales, 387 hales. Receipts, 467
bales.
BACON —Fair demand. We quote C. Sides,
18@19 ; C. R. Sides, IS@lB% ; B. B. Sides, 15
@15% ; Shoulders, IS; Haras, 2J@23; Dry
Salt Shoulders, 18@13% ; Dry Salt C. R. Sides,
17@17%.
CORN—New is beginning to come in freely,
and is selling at $1 35@1 40 from depot.
WHEAT— We quote choice white, fl 55;
amber, $l 50; red, $1 45.
FLOUR—City Mills, new, $6 50@9 00; at
retail, *1 $1 barrel higher. Country, f6@9,
according to quality.
CORN MEAL—fI 45 at wholesale; fl 60 at
retail.
OATS —85@$ 1 35.
PEAS—Scarce at $1 60.
The British Minister, Mr. Thornton, is
putting his house in order—the fine proper
ty of Mr. Charles Knapp, 278 I street,
Washington—for the reception of his Royal
Highness Prince Arthur, who is expected to
visit that city during the present month.
Prince Arthur is the third son and seventh
child of Queen Victoria, and was nineteen
year%old on the |st of May, 1869. His full
name on the British Imperial Calender is
Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert.
CITY ITEMS.
“ A Helping Hand for American
Homes.”— Decidedly one of the most splen
did as well as most useful books we have
ever seen is the one thus Entitled, which
we get from the publishing house of Moore,
Wilstach & Moore, Cincinnati, Ohio. It
is compiled and edited by Lyman C. Dra
per, Secretary of the Wisconsin Historical
Society, and W. A. Croffnt, author of “ 'Hie
History of Connecticut.” The compilers
designed to make a book which should
prove a compendium of knowledge for
every household in town or country, and
admirably have they succeeded in their
task. There is scarcely a department in
scjence or art not touched upon graphically
and the difficulty would be to say what is
not rather than what is discussed. It is
somewhat on the order of “ 10,000 Re
ceipts,” Gut is something much higher in
grade than a scrappy imitation of that
excellent work. We would rather rank it
as a necessary companion to the “ 10,000
Receipts,” and those who have the one
work will be glad to get the other, while
those who have not a copy of the “Receipts”
"'ill gain much and lose nothing by ob
taining the “ Helping Hand.” To the far
mer’s family it will indeed prove an invalu
able stand-by, and, when not doing active
duty, it will ornament any centre table.
We feel assured that a book at once so sub
stantial in its contents and so superb in its
binding and general typography is destined
to great popularity. We are requested to
state that agents are wanted for its sale.
For terms, apply to or address E. A. Miller,
Greensboro, Georgia.
Repeal of the South Carolina Town
ship Act. —The Columbia Phoenix properly
remarks that in repealing the Township
Act, the Legislature has done well. It was
a foolish piece of legislation in the begin
ning. Mr. Armin, who' appears to have
been prominent in the repeal, said, in refer
ence to the act.
Like every other creature, in accordance
with the law of- nature, it had to die. It
was, he said, created by the Senator from
Charleston, Mr. Corbin. He had tried,
three weeks, to nurse it, but he had to yield
it up. The flat had gone forth that it was
to die, and die to-day, and he thought they
would bury it. This township law is a
creature from a Northern climate, and can
not live in Southern atmosphere. It is im
practicable, in Mo, and in regard to the
jury law connected with it, they would
soon have someting better.
We see it stated that the act, as originally
framed, would have cost the State about
$1,165,000.
Larceny of Sacks. —William Milieu
(colored) was arraigned before Justice Ells
yesterday, charged with stealing empty
flour sacks from his employer, Mr. Fred
Damish, a city baker. William plead
guilty, and, on motion of Mr. Damish, was
let off with a small fine—ten dollars. Mr.
D. paid the fine and costs and took the re
pentant bagger agjin into his service.
William said it was the first time that
he had ever stolen anything. This is about
the 7001st time that the police have detect
ed negroes in their very first theft. We
omitted to mention that policeman Harley
arrested the culprit on Saturday night, be
fore Mr. Damish was aware of his loss.
Whipped His Spouse— Robert Beall, an
industrious colored man, living in the
neighborhood of the “ Red Doors,” became
somewhat irate at his wife—Maria—on
Sunday morning (who was rather personal
in some of her allusions to his.habits gen
erally), and attempted to put an end to her
sermonizing by beating her with a garden
I'a.kf. Maria eonglifc ajonfriwat u,<.
of her minister, "Esquire Ells, who issued a
warrant for the arrest of Robert. Robert,
when called to taw, pleaded guilty, and
paid a fine of $5 and costs.
The “ Cosmopolitan Monthly.” —This
is very much an improvement on what we
once knew as “ Scott's Monthly." The make
up is handsomer, and the articles have
more freshness. \Ye notice anew fiction
called “Ma jor Martinet,” by the veteran
Gilmore Simms; a clever essay on
“ Words,” by I. W. Averv, and the Reviews
and Notices of the editor. We trust the
new monthly may by successful.
Recorder’s Cq»r r—One or two color
ed cases were adjudicated, yesterday, by
his Honor the Recorder. Discharging a
musket within the city limits by a ver
dant “gemman” from the rural districts
subjected the handler of cold iron to a
slight fine. Another sable-lined individual
was complained of by his better half for
“ flgh ten ness and drunkenness,” but hi?
case was continued.
Got a Situation.— Newton Green (col
ored), charged with stealing a gun from his
step-father, was permitted to settle the case
upon payment of cost. A young planter
appeared in court and advanced the funds,
for Newton, the latter accepting a situa
tion from the planter and promising to be
a good boy.
River News.— On Sunday, at 3, p. in.,
the river was 9 feet in the channel. Yes
terday, at 3, p. m., it was 15 feet 10 inches.
The steamers San Antonio and Katie ar
rived at their wharf on Sunday night.
Farm and Home.— The January num
ber of Farm and Home is at hand. It con
tains a variety of contributions, original
and selected, of great and abiding import
ance for the farming community.
Wc ieavu trom the Columbus Sun , of the
11th instant, that the Central Railroad
Company have bought the large steamer
Atlanta, running on the Chattahoochee
river, at a cost of $12,000. The steamer is
represented as being of the first class, and
was originally built in Pittsburg at a cost
of $35,000. We presume she is intended to
run in connection with the other steamers
owned by this road plying on that river.
The proprietor of the Washington Intelli
gencer, Mr. Delmar, in the issue of Ids paper
on Monday last, announces its discon
tinuance, and says “ that having lost sever
al thousand dollars in it already, aud being
in poor health, he has resolved to discon
tinue its publication.”
Prentice hits Forney ns follows : Forney,
in the Philadelphia Press , says the ex-Queen
of Spain will appear in history as “Isabella
the Bad." Slie and Forney will make a
pretty pair on the same page of history—
she as “Isabella the Bad ’’and he as “ For
ney the Sight Worse.”
COAL CHEEK COAL,
FROM ANDERSON COUNTY, TENN.
OrDERS for this Coal left oil Broad
street, at stores of Wm. H. Goodrich' &
Son and Edward O’Donnell, or at my
yard at Georgia Railroad, corner Jackson
and Fenwick streets, will receive prompt
Svttention. WM. P. DEARING,
decl7-eod2m Agent,