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CON OKALT ST
AUGUSTA. GhA.
THUESDAT MORNING. JAN. 20,1870
HOW THE TEST MAY BE MADE.
The consummation of Reconstruction in
the South is very desirable. So long as
the South remains as food for the monster
of Radicalism, he will never,try his fangs
upon tbfe North. When the South shall
have ceased to furnish any more nutri
ment, necessity will compel aggression
elsewhere, and then the real danger of the
dominant party will begin. Mr. Sumner
and the extremists know very well that so
long as Reconstruction remains as au open
question in tire South, the Radical party
will continue to thrive. While disruption
is maintained, the issues of the war and
the everlasting slogan of “ loyalty ” can
be used with tremendous effect among the
ignorant, stupid and sensitive masses
East and West- Heqqe it is the ultra wing
or Radicalism has never yet made an hon
est effort to restore the Union, and never
will. The leaders of this ultra wing do
not wish to push their experiment into the
loyal States if .they can avoid it, and they
do not intend yielding their grip upon the
South while she can be made useful as a
sort of target at winch to Are tliein arrows
of loyalty. Ju3t as Bollock keeps up agi
tation in Georgia in order to subserve his
own selfish schemes, and the schemes
of the men whose emissary he is, so
the potential Radical chiefs perpetuate
chaos over all the South in order to blind
the people to their evil designs. Now it is
getting important to us that Southern Re
construction should be' finished up. We
confess to a longing to see the job finally
settled, so that the beast which has been
ravening upon us shall be forced to seek
victims iu other States beyond. This he
will be obliged to do sooner or later, and
the soouer the better for everybody. When
he shall have laid his claws upon a State
unused to such vileness, the drama will be
come interesting indeed, aud the end of
beastliness or the end of liberty will soon
be brought to a solution. Senator Mor
ton, in anticipation of this time, has
already enunciated his doctrine in the
premises. lie reduces it to a maxim, thus:
“ The power of Congress to establish republi
can. institutions in the. insurrectionary States
of the South is not less than the power to pro
tect republican institutions all over the Union."
So, when Kentucky, Maryland and New
York are to be taken in hand, we shall rot
hear of the “establishment of republican
institutions,” but the “ protection of repub
lican institutions.” This “protection”
will probably take place in case one of the
States of the North refuses to abide by a
bogus XVth Amendment ratified by fraud,
force and infamy. Speaker Hitchman, of
New York, has already dared Congress to
count New York among the ratifying
States, and, from the following extract of a
speech delivered in Congress December 20,
by the lion. John T. Biun, of New Jersey,
we have articulate muttering! which may
swell into a storm. Mr. Bird said :
“I tell the majority not to suppose that
their unholy purposes are accomplished
when they have passed this bill and com
pelled poor Georgia to go under tin: yoke.
Think not that all others wilt fear the grim
visage of Radicalism and also bow the neck
in humble submission. No ; if I under
stand the temper of the people, this strange,
unnatural, and outrageous interference with
the rights of a free people will never be ac
cepted by those who sincerely love a con
stitutional form of government honestly
and faithfnlly administered. You may ap
pend this change to the Constitution, but
the people of many States will neither re
spect nor obey if. ’lt will be denounced as
Illegitimate, and those who stand as its
sponsors to-day will in the hour of its peril
flee from its vindication. It will be ignored
and resisted. Great and sovereign States
will not, yield to an intolerable degradation
at the dictate of force, whether it be aimed
at them through a Congressional majority
directly or through the action of a far off
State.”
Let us suppose the XVth Amendment de
clared ratified. Suppose Kentucky, for
example, in spite of it, should refuse to per
mit her negro population to go to the polls.
Some of these debarred blacks may make, a
case. Then the Courts of Kentucky will
pronounce the Amendment unconstitutional
and void. Congress, in such an event, must
perform “ protect republican institutions ”
in the State of Kentucky. Troops must
be sent there and Kentucky must be
coerced. When the Federal soldiery have
to protect republican institutions in
every reluctant State there will be a
high old time in this country. The, mo
ment. a«y loyal State has to be overrun
witli bayonets there will happen one of
two things—an “ unpleasantness ” which
will end in sweeping Radicalism and all
its deviltry from the face of the earth, or
an abject submission. to tyranny which
will ultimately prove the South's avengej\
Hence, in order that the test, may be made
in another locality, and, in order that, being
made, it shall have the prompt effect of
causing a revolution or an universal des
potism, we are anxious that Reconstruc
tion shall be, as soon as possible, a finished
thing in the South. Had we stood aloof
qince the close of the war, the test would
have been male long ago and the whole
matter concluded. Our puny, piddling in.
. terferences have played iijtOjthe enemy’s
hand and furnished him his best ammuni
tion. Now. let the good men of the State
stand clear from a villainy they cannot,
preveut. When all is done here, anti there
is nothing more left for loyalty to fatten
upon, let those growing boys, who so
frighten Beast Butler’scl reams, put thA
ears to the ground and listen for thunder'
on the border*
ELIGIBILITY OF GEORGIA LEGISLATORS.
—Oiie of the Senators of the Georgia Legis
lature, wdiose eligibility is contested, has
submitted to the military board convened
to inquire into the facts his protest against
such inquiry, on the ground that it is not a
legally constituted body; that it has no
legal jurisdiction over the question, which
belongs to the civil courts alone, and that
because pf his "having been registered a
voter and declared such by'General Meade
his eligibility to vote and hold office was
recognized and admitted by the Govern
ment of the United States. The protest is
quite lengthy and is very forcibly written ;
but it will avail nothing. It is q great pity
that reconstruction iff -Georgfh ’'cannot he
successfully consummated without resort
to military tribunals. The Governor of the
State and his clique are not satisfied with
the political complexion of the Legislature.
They are determined that the majority
shall consist of men who will do just as
they demand without question. Thus it is
that we find a board of military officers in
quiring into the qualifications of members.
It Is a somewhat significant fact, thongh by
no means a remarkable one. that all of the
representatives whose eligibility is ques
tioned are either Democrats or are Repub
licans opimsed to Governor Bullock and Ills
followers. — New York Herflffl.,,
.■ ,! ! ■ • f ■~ : rr* ■>. ■
All Right.— The Atlanta Constitution
says that Bullock and his gang are •“ex
tremists,” whose overthrow it advocates.
Upon that, we strike hands with it. .
[Columbus Biin.
Our New York Correspondence.
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i New, York, January 17,1870.
Among the most potable political occur
rences of the week is, of course, the actiou
of the House of Representatives in the case
of Virginia, and this is not so remarkable of
itself as the fact that the entire Republican
cress of this city sustained the minority of
who acted with the Dem
ocrats, and thus made a small majority of
the House. The Radical Tribune, the
moderate limes, and the Conservative Post
and Commercial Advertiser, were a unit iu
opposing the efforts to longer exclude the
“ Mother of Statesmen and of States ” front
her representation in the Federal Congress.
Nothing cau exceed the inconsistency of
the Federal Administration with respect
to Virginia. But let that pass. Anew
day dawns upon her. • ,
Does not the easy victory which has
been gained in this matter over the extreme
Radicals carry us back to 1865 aud 1866,
when President Johnson attempted to turn
back with violence the triumphant Radi
cals? Could not powe% and patronage,
wisely exerted then, have guided and con
trolled, when it was certain to be over
whelmed in a more decided effort ? Does
it not now teach the men of the South this
lesson: Never cease the effort to reach
your true position, but be careful to gauge
each particular struggle to what is practi
cable, rather than to" what you may think
just. By consenting to accept temporarily
less than vo.u claim, yqu do not forfeit any
portion of what may remain. The time is
rapidly approaching when the South may
take a higher ground than it has been able
to since the close of the war. Civil rights
restored to her people, and the military sa
trapies abolished (it scarcely matters how
or in what form), parties may be construct
ed on the basis of the public debt and
finances, in the conrse of which the old in
habitants of the South, white and black,
will be drawn together by au irresistible
impulse.
Another notable development of public
opinion is the utter indifference with which
the Republicans regard the exploits of
your “ Gov.” Bullock. They are scarcely
alluded to except in the brief telegraphic
dispatches, and the defection of Mr. Bry
ant, in your House, is barely mentioned.
It is evident that Bullock’s schemes have
no sort of sympathy among any considera
ble portion of the community at the North,
although the party whip carried them
through Congress. Within a short time
there have been efforts to resuscicate the
credit of carpet-bag bonds, issued in the
name of several Southern States. The pur
pose expressed regarding those of South
Carolina, to pay interest in gold, is noted,
and some spasmodic efforts at economy
and decency in North Carolina are paraded
before the public. They have somewhat
stimulated the demand for their bonds.
But the improvement appears to be spas
modic. There is little faith in the general
public in these securities. The expedients
above noted are believed to have been re
sorted to for the purpose of enabling hold
ers to sell before the final collapse of car
pet-baggers.
The Federal securities, issued to raise
means for the prosecution of the late war,
must be regarded as an injury by most
Southern people, and yet many men of pro
per spirit and honorable character may
think it best to submit uncomplainingly
to an injury; but the carpet-bag
bonds of the Southern States are believed
with us to beau insult, as well as injury,
to the Southern people, which they will
throw off’and resent at the earliest possible
moment. This is why they are so much
distrusted; and it is almost uniformly
believed that the Southern people, in repu
diating them, will perform a most natural,
if not commendable act. Georgia bonds
haVe been well regarded, as are those of
Maryland, Kentucky, and all other States
which have escaped the thrall of carpet
baggers ; but the schemes of Bullock and
their possible success have a depressing in
fluence upon them. I annex latest quota
tions for leading Southern securities.
Off’d. Ask’d.
Tennessee 6’s, ex conpon 54 54%
Teuuessee 6’s, new bonds 4SJ„'
Virginia 6’s, ex coupon 53 53%
Virginia 6’s, new bonds 60 60%
Georgia 6’s Bl
Georgia 7’s, new bojjds 80 th 1)1%
North Carolina 6’s 40 43
North Coroli uas, new bonds 22% 23
South Carolina 6’5... 79 82
South Carolina, new bonds 77 79
Missouri 6’s 87% 87%
Louisiana 6’s 69%
Louisiana 6’s, Levee bonds..... 64% 66
Louisiana B’s, Levee bonds 80 80
Alabama s’s 63
Alabama B’< 93 95
The affair of Cooke the reverend abduc
tor of a child of his congregation, lias as
sumed a phase of interest in its relation to
the press. He visited the World office and
made an assault upon Mr. Croly, its man
aging editor, in resentment of some publi
cations made respecting his former life.
The assaulted editor has been treated by
his contemporaries in other journals very
much as is a wounded monkey by its com
panions ; set upon with every manner of
personal abuse and contumely. The posi
tion of managing editor of a great New
York dady is a very thankless one ; hated
and feared as he must be by nearly all
newspaper subordinates, they eagerly make
the most of his misfortunes
The commercial community of New York
have for yeafS suffered from the depreda
tions of organized gangs of robbers to an
extent involving an annual loss of about
$500,000; these robbers confining their
operations exclusively to the different
wharfs and piers; one-third of the estimated
e«m, however, going into the pockets of
the police and also of the watchman paid
to protect especially this class of property.
'Tiie watchmen, indeed, are but illy paid,
when the risk and exposures of.tlieir calliug
is taken into consideration; so much so
that there is to them but little stimulus
for any great exercise of integrity ; they
receiving scarce even more than a couple
of dollars per night, if so much, while, how
ever, the company by whom they are fur
qjshert, “ The Merchants’ Police,” is paid
by the merchants at. the rate of from three
to four dollars per night. Thus tempted,
the watchmen not infrequently are unfaith
ful , are conveniently opt of the way just
when their guardianship is most needed,
etc, etc.; or, If a watchman bg found who in
his charge is Incorruptible, instances have
not been wanting where lie has been ruined
by injurious reports, or frightened away by
anonymous letters, and other devices of a
like nature.
These river thieves have a regularly or
ganized system of government, with Presi
dents, Secretaries, Treasurers, and Execu
tive Committers; hold stated meetings,
work on the co-operative system, and have a
large contingent fund set apart fiat different
uses, particularly for feeing counsel in e>se
oneof their number gets into difficulty. The
arrival of vessels containing vain vole car
goes is often known to these gangs as soon
■as to the consignees or the owners, and
measures taken to secure a portion.
The class witr, reap perhaps the greatest
reward from these robberies are the junk
men, who, for instance, pay about six dol
lars for a bag of sugar worth sixteen dollars,
fourteen dollars for a bag of coffee worth
forty dollars, and so on in that proportion.
Thev realize thus an enormous profit on the
goods obtained, and wbiph they sell in junk
stores established in conveqipgf localities,
and soon grow rich. Some few fepnest
junkmen thereare, but fewand far between,
and quite unable to complete with the ma
jority of their class.
A branch of the robbers are denominated
the “ coffee milkers,” whose special avoch
tion it is to visit, in a surreptityops way,
the lighters loaded with coffee, and open,
ing one bag after another, extract from
ten to fifteen pounds from each, and one
bag being filled in this way, it is dropped
down to the boat in waiting below, and
another and another is in succession filled,
the process continuing until the approach
of danger, and the watchman, meantime,
being most conveniently fast asleep. A
“coffee milker” is discontented if his gains
per night do not reach as high as from
$l5O to S2OO. Each lighter has a captain
and two or three men, and it has been said
that eight out of ten are directly or indi
rectly engaged in the profitable business of
“milking” their own sacks.
Another class of river thieves, who work
principally by daylight, are denominated
“ wharf rats,” and are composed chiefly of
bid women and little girls and boys. These
are provided with bags, baskets, or capa
cious pockets, and are in the habit of saun
tering near bags of wool or bales of cotton,
snatching np a handfhl and stowing it
away ; and it may be supposed that any
other articles which may come In their way
are by no means amiss, and though some
times detected, yet the value of what they
have stolen is usually so small that the
owner does not take the trouble to prose
cute. The total of these robberies, how
ever, is by uo means insignificant, and we
have heard of an old woman who employs
regularly twelve little boys and girls iu
this way, and has grown comparatively
rich on the profits.
Henry Ward Beecher’s congregation
seem not only most fully to endorse the*
free love doctrines of which he was the ex
ponent in the recent McFarland and Rich
ardson affair, but even generously to re
ward the same, as they have very lately in
creased his salary, which already reached
the sum of twelve thousand five hundred
dollars, to twenty thousand, by an addition
of seven thousand five hundred. Mrs
Stowe’s latest production, also, though pro
nouuced by ail as only a weak aud verbose
repetition of former statements, and quite
destitute of anything in the way of proof,
must bring her doubtless, however, a large
sum of money, as it is having a large sale.
It is advertised everywhere under the title
of “ The True Story of Lady Byron.”
The legitimate drama, of which there
seems to have been a bona fide revival,
flourishes most at Booth’s and at Niblo’s.
which, for three years past, has been given
up to the spectacular aud sensational. Here
Mr. Fechter has made his debut in “ Ruy
jiias,” which play is still being presented,
and in which he is supported by Mile. Car
loita LeClercq, who impersonates the char
acter of the Princess. In a musical way,
however, there is scarce anything to at*
tract, there boing.no opera of any sort, and
uo singer of celebrity before the public in
any other way. The artists are all absent
in other cities, but doubtless will return
for a Spring season, when there will be a
sutficienc3' to gratify the popular taste.
Willoughby.
Taking the Oath.
The Atlauta correspondent of. the Cin
cinnati Commercial gives the following
picture of “ Taking the Oath ” by the nigs
aud scalawags:
Since the war the human intellect has
been racked in attempting to produce
oaths that would make loyalty to bloom
and blossom in the savannas and-swamps
of the South ; that would cause a man to
fall down and worship the flag that he
hates, and kiss the hand that smites him.
But of all the oaths yet manufactured
sent down here, the tightest one is that
which accompanied the Georgia bill, and
which each member of the Legislature
must swallow before he can take his seat.
Ben Butler and Bullock are said to have
spent many a weary hour in its manufac
ture, and to have rejoiced with exceeding
great joy when they contemplated the
tiling after ail its finishing touenes had been
put ou. In additiou to other matters, too
numerous to mention, a man must swear
that he never held any sort of an office un
der the State government while Georgia
was out of the Union. With one sweeping
clause, it includes all officers from Gov
ernor down to a freight car brakeniau on
the State Road.
I went up this morning to the room of
Major Williams, at the Capitol, who is en
gaged in administering the iron clad frog
to all members who h ive the nerve to
take it.
One of the Solons was present, looking
at the thing through his spectacles, and oc
casionallj»stopping to clear out his throat.
It was evident that he contemplated mak
ing way for it to go down. Alter leading
it two or three times, he made the observa
tion that “ she was pretty tight.” Never
theless, he took it, and his name was duly
recorded witli a great deal of solemnity, in
a half dozen books, where it will be handy
for the Radical smelliug committee and
their omnibus load of lawyers whom they
have employed to prosecute all cases of
perjury under the act.
“ How many have taken it?” I inquired
of Major Williams.
“Only about thirty, and some of them
negroes.”
“ Do the negroes take it without much
difficulty ?”
“Oh, yes; they will take anything.—
There can’t be no oath fixed up that they
won’t, take, % you give them a chance.
They love to swear.”
From the room where the frog is admin
istered to tiie Governor’s’reception apart
ment the route is easy, but. one door being
between. In fact, the only way to reach
the frog is to go through the reception
room. Here were collected a miscella
neous throng, without distinction of race,
color or previous condition. A bevy of
clerks, with their heads nicely combed,
their clothes nicely brushed and their boots
nicely blacked, were dodging about, mak
ing a great, bustle, and not accomplishing
anything particular.
Two btirly negroes, with no white blood
of consequence in them, were seated at, a
table, each with a mammoth pen and holder
behind ids ear, after the manner of a fash
ionable hotel clerk. One was reading the
morning papers, and the other was writing,
taking care however not to use the pen be
hind iiis ear, but another one, that behind
the ear probably being exclusively for or
nament as an honorary distinction.
Presently a small swarm of Colored mem
bers came in—full fifteen thousand dollars’
worth, if we were back in good old Dem
ocratic times. Among’them was Senator
Bradley, from Savannah, who has tiie repu
tation among the Democrats of being a
“ mean nigger.” The Senator was well
dressed, wore a plug hat, sported eye
glasses, carried a cane, and had his hands
closed in kid gloves. He certainly has the
address and manners of a gentleman.
The returned prodigals—not exactly
prodigals either—were in the jolliest humor.
“ Didn’t I tell you we’d meet again. All, I
know’d it,” to which another replied by
wondering what the “Democrats think
now.” After a great deal of hand shaking
and ■general jollification, they adjourned
into the frog room to swallow that animal.
Bradley was sworn first, and see filed to
take down the thing with a relish which a
Democrat would have envied. He signed
his name in a plain, bold hand, iu a man
ner indicating that he was accustomed to
the use of a pen. It was much better than
Horace Greeley could have done.
I From the New York livening Po3t, January 12.
A Note of Warning from a Radical Or
gan.
In April, 1805, the last insurgent against
the United States laid down his arms, and
in January, 1870, nearly five years later,
the United States House of Representatives
refused to admit Representatives from Vir
ginia, on the ground, the sole ground, that
Virginia is a rebel Stale. During these
live years the Republicans have had an
oyervyhelming majority in Congress ; have
passed what laws they pleased ; have even
caused the adoption qf speh amendments
to the Constitution as they thought neces
sary ; and yet, with all this power, after
nearly five years of peace, they have not
been able to get all the States represented
in, Congress. Do the Republican leaders
believe that this is to their credit as states
men'! 1 Does it never occur to them that
thg (post desirable of all things, to the aver
age citizen, is it to see all the States repre
sented In Congress; and that a man who
voted yesterday to keep; Virginia out still
longer helped to give the nation another
disappointment ? “But I believe Virginia
js not fit to enter Congress,” says such a
Congressman, to his complaining constitu
ents; “surety, if it is dangerous to the
UnioU to admit tyer, ybn would not have
nge vote to let hfeMn?” “No,*’is the reply;
“but how much longer will it be danger
ous ? How many many more years will
you gentlemen require, before you have
adopted safeguards enough ? And, more
over, did it never occur to you that it may
be as dangerous to:fbe Union —it evep may
be more dangerous to the Union —to keep
Virginia out, than to let her in? The men
in Congress who yesterday voted to keep
Virginia out of Congress act as though
they believed the’peoplo would grieve over
a thoroughly restored Union. But, on the
contrary, no one thing would to-day give
the people of the whole country more satis
faction ; for nothing would they so quickly
and universally light up their houses, and
make a holiday, as for the event the con
summation which, was yesterday once more
indefinitely return of all the
States to Congress, On questions of states
manship men fnay reasonably differ; and
we will not doubt that those who yesterday
Voted to keep Virginia oat did so from a
sincere conviction that they thus best serv
ed theirconntry. Bat to such a man it can
scarcely fail to be a melancholy Reflection,
that he can only serve the Union tjyper
’ ' ,a ■* sM a •** / r«*»or®.
petuating disunion ; whHT to a politician
acting thus, it must be disagreeable to
know that while lie keeps the States ont, he
ruins his party. . *
[From the Nu wfitprk Evening Peat.
Awful Revelations in l|gard to Shaks-
A most interesting anqpnportant revela
tion has just been made whe life of Shaks
peare, by which the chflKbter pf that de
praved writer and mostMckmous man will
come at last to be prop||^Kmdersfood.
Shakspeare was not most pro
lific author of calculat
ed tocurrupt the yoirtnqßais own age and
all succeeding ages (throiSi the dramatic
merit, nay, unquestionable genius, these
plays unhappily exhllfi&d) —he was a
homicide, a Thug of < a man
habitually given to rnurdft, and led bv this
baleful proclivity to llii 'M||fi i 11 j 11 of con
stantly maltreating Mr«Bhakspeare and
keeping late hoars wSH? pot-hose com
panions.
These facts have transpjfbd at this period,
by reason of the discovel!b>of an old manu
script, in the family of tWJUherstows, giv
ing the substance of cofflwprsateons between
one Mrs. H. B. Cherstowinid Mrs. Shaks
peare, a short time befofe the death of the
latter. The manuscript »as been published
by Loring, of Boston, in' a compact pam
phlet, which will be generally accepted as
one of the most valnablefeontributions ever
made to English literarjfhistoFy.
Mrs. Shakspeare wasf tnduced to with
draw the veil from th#’ blackness of her
husband’s character chiefly that the fatal
effect of his writings, \Wiieh had already
begun to wane in nogadaritv. might be
forever therefore negSKr v When the
English people came to setjfhim in his true
colors, they would no lajkger tolerate his
literary remains either-jfcfcbe library or on
the stage.
The malevolent it seems,
was accustomed to alluitif the authors of
inferior dramas, whose plots he had stolen
and immortalized, into (gie neighborhood
of Stratford and there skip them, burying
the bodies under a crab tse or a mulberry
k tree, which lie called an elder
tree, as convenience suite# His daughter
was his fiendish in this work,
and his wife was fully aejj&ainted with the
facts, but neither expfiKd' Them iu Mr.
Shakspeare’s lifetime, nor abandoned her
red-handed lord, with whtqm, however, her
subsequent life of thirty-pne years was one
convulsive struggle with’** a divided duty.”
The terrible tragedies Shakspeare, in
deed the whole of his .lnmjoral writings,
have a new* significance When read by the
light of these astounding developments. A
hundred passages of the direst remorse will
occur to any reader acquainted with the
great, guilty dramist, in'which it is clear
that his mind was clweUbuH!ipon the fear
ful details of his mtfnnßus career. In
deed, Mrs. Shakspeare jKd Mrs. 11. B.
Cherstovv, her friend, twe painfully im
pressed by a suspicion thaT his gifted mind
was at times unhinged. 9
The old manuscript refcltes the curious
circumstances under wjtjch Mrs. Shaks
peare came to confide Cherstow the
dreadful secret—how Mr&LS. sent for her—
how she (Mrs. H. B. C.) went to Stratford—
how, having taken a memorandum of the
interview to London, sheasked for time to
consider the propriety of.Wiaking it known
to the world, and rather waiting
until everybody who count deny the state
ment should be dead, &j., &c.
But enough. Let all who feei interested
in having Shakspeare consigned to ever
lastiug infamy buy the pamphlet, which
may be obtained of any news agent for ten
cents, and “ sup full of horrors.”
A Reminiscence of Byron.
HIS VISIT TO TIIE UNITED ST VI ES FRIGATE
CONSTITUTION, IN 1822.
A correspondent dfolie Boston rlmre
script writes :
In 1844 I was lieutenant on board the
United States ship St. Louis, in the China
seas, commanded by Isaac McKee
ver, who one day ihrbfffife&ihe In the course
of familiar conversatiohfythat he was on
board the frigate Constitution, and officer
of the deck and watch, when Lord Byron
visited the Constitution In 1822. He said
Lord Byron was very much embarrassed
by liis reception, all the. officers being as
sembled on deck in full uniform and the
marinesdrawn up underarms to receive hi in.
Count Gainbra, the fattier of the too cele
brated Countess Guiccioli, accompanied
him. An elegantly Itound volume of an
American edition of bigjpoems was lying
on the cabin table, which he examined,
with the remark that it was the handsoin-
est compliment ever paid him.
At that time the prbnuueiation of his
name was disputed in the United States,
and Commodore Jacob Jones, who com
manded tiie Mediterranean squadron, of
which the Const! tuttafiAvus the flagship—
a mail of great simplicity of character—put
the direct question tqfthim: “Pray, my
Lord, which is the mors correct pronuncia
tion of your name—||e-Lon or Byron?”
Lord Byron’s reply, tfenigh not a direct
one, settles the as to which he fa
vored. He hesitated aTrioment, said Cap
tain McKeever, and then said : “ My grand
father tutted me. By-roft; my mother called
me By-ron ; my guardian, lie-ron !”—inton
ing his voice, and speaking of his grann
father with pride, of hi|£inother with affec
tion, but of liis guapfijfjpi with contempt.
Yet, notwithstanding^this declaration, I
have seen his name Avrittcn in his own
handwriting—either on, the walls of the
Bridge of Sighs, or jpn a column of the
Temple of Thesus at Athens, I forget which
—and spelled Beron ofc Birou, certainly not
with a y.
He remained a fnty frotir on board the
Constitution, and wlipn he left was escorted
on shore in the commodore’s barge by Cap
tain McKeever, then a young lieutenant.
At the lauding, Lordßyron politely invited
Lieutenant McKeeveSto come and see him,
but with this cautioiw- “ I am not an early
riser.”
Lord Byron mentions in his journal of
letters that a lady begged a rose from him
—that lady was MrsJßmith, the wife of our
Consul at Smyrna, tl believe. She pulled
the flower to pieces, *nyirig s he intended a
leaf for eacli of her fi male friends, the ad
mirers of bis Lordshi »’s poems in America.
The next day he soul her a volume of his
poems accompanied a note. And it was
in allusion to this vli t and its incident that
he wrote Tom Moore’ “He would rather
have a nod from an American than a snuff
box from an Emp*r.” The commodore
offered to place a schooner of the squadron
at his disposal to tafcehim to Greece, where
he died, but he dellhied. At ihe time.of
this visit Captain McKeeVer said lie was
handsome and distingue, and his hair was
long and curling, uul be wore whiskers
His hair was lxnck, but generously
sprinkled with gray&nd he was beginning
to be corpulent. 1
A Munificent Ped.if.ct. —Mr. James Le
nox, of Fifth Avenue, New York, proposes
to bestow a splendid gift upon that city in
the form of a publief ibrary, and a bill has
been introduced inti the State Legislature
to enable him to execute his design. The
bill is to give an »c of incorporation to
the Lenox The generons donor
proposes to furnish hi lot of land, and give
three hundred thoAand dollars, or any
larger sum that ,»y be needed, for the
erection of the binding. In addition, he
will hand over tol|he trustees his entire
collection ofstatuajjr, paintings and books
as a beginning forphe library, aqd lie de
clares that no fartafer sums of money shall
be withheld tb&tlbay be demanded to
make if the finest Mbrary in the country.—
His own library ispaid to be the most val
uable private cajection in the United
States, The mmjjlcent spirit of Mr. Le
nox is also ill us tinted in the Presbyterian
Hospital, now in sparse of erection in New
York, at a cost of,|ne million dollars.
Full River. —'ftje rains of last Monday
afternoon and nigft raised the river at this
point about 14 i«t' and yesterday after
noon it was the fullest river we have had
, for the last year ojpyo. The water courses
all through this are now out of
their banks, and.fwagoning will be sus
pended for a daytjor two in consequence.
There were not a fan If dozen wagons from
the surrounding qtiuntry in the city yester
day, and but very few strangers.
[Macon telegraph and Messenger.
- . - '
Burglars brokeopeu the front door of the
Castleton (Vt.) National Bank with nitro
glycerine, on Monday night, and got $6,400.
[Written for The Universe.
Waiting.
nr AUGUSTA COOPER BRISTOL.
“I believe you do not expect to marry till
you get to Heaven. I will agree to wait if you
will.”
Aye, I will wait 1
Though years are dread with length, and Time
is drear,
Across the purple darkness of the sea,
A single sunbeam falls, divinely clear,
Fainting its one bright rainbow all for me,
And I, who never yet complained of Fate,
Will bravely wait.
And thou wilt wait!
Over Life’s surging ocean, dim and wide,
Thou hast sent out the promise; and, be
hold.
The starry lilies crown the rising tide,
And white swans float upo'u the liquid gold;
And soft winds blow toward me sunset
gate,
For thou wilt wait!
Heaven bids me wait!
The angel of.iny dreams who floods my sleep
With bo-uty, until uiirlu the /lay transcends.
And from whose emil-embrace I wake to weep
Refreshing tears—he also nobly bends
From the dreid giorv of his angel state,
And bids me wait!
Then, ii I wait,
The martyr’s highest courage be thy grace !
A saint’s endeavor to thy soul he given !
For thou must meet that champion lace to face,
And welt contest the older el.nuij.ot Heaven ;
And hold high tournament before the gate,
If I should wait.
Why should I wait-?
Pbe, hunger of 4 ji y soul is iuiiuiic ;
The latest birth ol beamy near or tar,
Thon drawesf, till '.ho 11 wulke-st in ihe light.
Like a god stepping on from star to star !
Love’s changeful universe, is thy estate—
Why should 1 wait ?
Though I should wait,
I would not, could not keep thee, for an hour,
Or hold tbce lroui thy upward lengthening
track;
Drawn ever on by some uew seraph power,
Thy dear, dark eyes will never once look
back,
Aud I—oh,1 —oh, I shall U; Heaven desolate,
Who dared to wait!
[ (from the Missouri Republican.
The freight Obstruction South.
The numerous complaints from the South
of the delay in receiving consignments from
St. Louis, and the apparent discrimina
tion by certain Southern roads against the
commerce of St. Louis, has at last provok
ed the attention of memoers of the Union
Merchants’ Exchange, and the following
call was circulated yesterday, receiving the
accompanying signatures:
We, the undersigned, agree to attend a
meeting of the merchants of this city, to be
called at an early date, to consider the an
noyances and delays to which we are sub
jected in shipping to all interior points in
the Southern States, for which some im
mediate remedy is imperative.
St. Louis, Dec. 29, 1809.
EIOII G. Smith & 00.,E. O. Stanard,
Henry Arnes & Cos., Meyer & Guye,
John J. Roe & Cos., J. S. Manson,
Devi Ashbrook & Co.,Derby & Day,
James Reilly & Cos., Maxwell & Patterson,
F. Whittaker & Sons, Marmaduke&Brown,
Fletcher & Cos., Geo. R. Robbinson,
Yeager & Cos., Gilkeson & Sloss,
B. R. Pi-gram, Woods, Maude & Cos.,
Baker & Post, Kercheval & Cos.
Shrvock & Rowland,
Iu pursuance of this circular a meeting
has been called at the Southern Hotel
(Parlor 5,) for Tuesday night, the 4th
proximo. We have heretofore published
letters from the South fully setting forth
the delays imnosed upon freight from St.
Louis, and it is unnecessary to recapitulate
individual cases now. The question to be
met by our merchants is, shall the supply
ing of the interior of the cotton States with
articles of produce aud merchandize pass
from St. Louis to other cities affording no
better markets, and only obtaining prece
dence by a more regular and quicker transit
of freight through a better control of rail
road lines of communication ? This matter
should be fully examined, the missing or
obstructing link of communication ascer
tained and the proper remedy suggested
aud applied. To do this requires concerted,
determined action, and we trust the mer
chants of St. Louis will not only attend the
meeting thus called, bu t go prepared. Enter
into the subject with vigor.
The California Whisky Frauds.—
I referred a day »r two ago to an pxpoS'
made by Sen - tor Cole in reference to vvhis
ky r;ngs m California and elsewhere. Wlmt
was said in debate has not met the public
eye. He was much severer upon Delano,
Fulton & Cowan than was represented
e.ther in the official report or in others not
authorized by contract with the Senate.
The facts seem to be these: A. very large
quantity of liquor, upon which duties had
not been paid as rectified, was sent from Ohio
to California. The revenue officers report
ed the fact to Delano, who ordered a chem
ical test to be applied, which was done, and
unquestioned evidence afforded that the li
quor was rectified. The whole shipment
was, therefore, under the orders of Delano,
seized by the California officers. It was
further shown that this fraudulent prac
tice had shut up effectually every honest dis
tillery on the Pacific coast. Shortly after
the seizure anew light seemed to have
dawned upon the Revenue Department,
and Messrs. Cowan and Fulton were dis
patched to California, who finally made a
report which Mr. Cole charges to have
been in the interest of the defaulters, and
having satisfied himself that the Commis
sioner contemplated to release the condemn
ed liquor —in fact had issued an order to
that effect—he felt himself forced to threat
eu Delano with bringing the matter before
Congress, iii order, as he alleged, to pre
vent as well a fraud upon the Gevornineut,
as one working manifest injury, and, in
deed, ruin to the honest distillers of his
section. In the interim, the Commissioner
had withdrawn his order and referred the
matter to the Secretary of the Treasury
proforma. Technically, therefore, the caSe
is not, at this moment , before the Revenue
Bureau. And this is the defense interposed
by the friends of Delano in the Senate 1
Thus the matter stands; but I hear Mr.
Cole is gathering facts and materials with
which to fully expose the inner workings
of this nefarious business. Avery large
number of Radical representatives have in
view similar expositions with respect to the
Internal Revenue system.
f Wash. Cor. Balt. Gazette.
It is now stated in New Hampshire that
the robins do not go South in Winter. A
few years ago. two men, crossing the Sand
wich Mountains, discovered a deep valley,
and approaching if, found it clothed with
hemlock, spruce, fir and tamarack, growing
so near together that it was with difficulty
they could make headway between them.
Before they came to this growth the snow
was over a foot in depth ; after entering it
it was not six inches, the residue lying on
the tops of the lower trees making quite a
roof and excluding much of the light of the
day. After making their way a few rods
they were surprised to find the place an
extensive robin “ roost,” occupied by thou
sands, and so thickly were they congre
gated that they might have killed numbers
with their walking sticks in crossing the
premises from south to north, about thirty
rods.
The Star Chamber Court of General
Terry, to try protested members of the
Legislature, and the Supreme Court of
Georgia, both in session in the same town
and at the same time, fills the reddest Re
publicans and the darkest hued Radicals
with iueffable delight.
Tell Brown, Warner and McKay to lay
aside their robes, and get down from the
bench, until the Star Chamber or Drum
head finishes its work, and by that time we
shall have no need of a Supreme Court of
the State, for the State itself will be dead.
Chips.
The Correct Solution.— The Atlanta
Express explains the abnormal abdomen of
organizer A. Harris, the four hundred
pounder, by premising that he had swal
lowed a drum. Substitute mail bags—Sor
rowed from the P. O. D. when he was post
master at Savannah, to haul corn into his
plantation near that city—and you have
the explanation. If further Information is
desired npon the subject; Mr. Woodward,
Special Agent of the Post Office Depart
ment for Georgia, Is fully competent to give
It.— Macon Telegraph and Messenger.
BY TELEGRAPH"
• v ; {* ■■ < f'iif'i "~ rT
" {Special to tbe Constitutionalist.
FROM ATLANTA.
ALL IN A MUDDLE !
THE DRUM-HEAITcOURT-MAHTIAL
STILL AT WORK.
Atlanta, January 19,1870.
The House met to-day, at twelve o’clock.
Harris, the fat tool of the fat Bullock, be
ing in tbe Chair and acting as master of
ceremonies. The presiding Coant Fasco
commenced his arduous labors by residing
a pronunciamento from Governor Bollock,
endorsed by Satrap Terry, adjourning the
House until Monday next, at 10 o’clock.
This seemed to rile as well as disconcert
the moderates of both parties, and Mr.
Scott vented his just indignation. He ask
ed Harris if discussion would be allowed.
Harris replied that no discussiou would
be permitted.
Scott, very much excited, retorted : “Are
we puppets obeying the will of masters ?
I ask, in the r.ame of the people, If the
Treasury is to be depleted by these con
stant procrastinations of organization ?”
Tlie presiding Count Fasco answered
nothing to these interrogatories, deeming,
no doubt that, a puppet himself, the mem
bers of the Georgia Legislature had no busi
ness to be anything else. As to the deple
tion of the Treasury, that is one of the pecu
liarities for which loyalty is famous.
Though discussion was not permitted the
puppets by Puppet Harris, tbe qualification
of members was allowed by that, generous
functionary, and he finally informed Capt.
Scott of that fact.
Capt. Scott, having no words of his own
to ventilate his righteous wrath, replied
that “ if swearing was the onJy thing al
lowed, he would like to have Bill Arp’s
cussing man present, in order that the
affair should be fitly illustrated, no other
human being having the power to do it
justice.”
Rawls, of Effingham, was qualified.
The Senate met at 10, a. m., but at once
adjourned till noon, meeting again at 12
o’clock.
The Hon. Aaron Alpeoria Bradley took
off his dirty yellow kids, cocked his eye
glasses on the peak of the nose, squinted
furtively around, and prepared to make one
of his celebrated orations. Before, how
ever, ids false teeth could grind out the
thoughts struggling for utterance, he was
suppressed on a point of order.
Having put an extinguisher on the Hon.
Aaron Alpeoria Bradley, the Senate ad
journed until Monday next, at 12 o’clock.
The drum head court-martial, alias the
Military Commission, met to-day, at 10
o’clock.
Anderson’s case was reopened to allow a
certified copy of his appointment as Notary
Public -of Houston county to be put in
evidence. The bayonet inquest then ad
journed till 10 o’clock on the morrow, in
order to give defending counsel time to pre
pare arguments and also to give Farrow an
opportunity of preferring charges against
the members of the House.
Chief Justice Brown has been closeted
with the Military Commission.
[second dispatch.]
Brown’s opinion is creating a good effect
in all quarters. Warner concurs.
The Radicals are in caucus.
It is said the State Iload money was paid
on the debt contracted on account of the
Opera House.
[Associated Press Dispatches.
GEORGIA.
Atlanta, January 19.—The Senate met
at 10 o’clock and took a recess to 12 o’clock,
and then adjourned till Monday next, at. 12
o’clock
The House was called to order'at 12.
One member qualified. No more appear
ing, an order was read from Gov. Bullock,
approved by Gen. Terry, taking recess till
Monday, 12, m.
Pending investigation the Board of Offi
cers met at 10, a. m. Counsel for defense
not being ready with argument, the Board
adjourned till to-morrow,at 10 o’clock, a. m.
Ex-Governor Brown, Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of Georgia, gives his official
opinion on the eligibility of legislators. He
says:
I consent to the publication of my views
on this question because denied the privi
lege of giving my reasons for the opinion
expressed under oath iu Senator Welborn’s
case before the Military Commission now
sitting to inquire into the eligibility
of members of the Georgia Legislature,
when I stated that I did not consider the
position held by him such office as was
contemplated by the Constitution and the
reconstruction acts of Congress. I appear
ed before the Commission under military
order as a witness on the part of the prosc
tion, and as my opinion there expressed
goes on record, I see no reason why I should
not do what I was not then permitted to
do, put upon record the reasons which lead
me to this conclusion.
Article 1, section 3, of the Constitution
of the United States, and the Fourteenth
Amendment and the different nets of Con
gress, known as tin; reconstruction acts,
being ip pari materia like other laws where
the subject matter is the same, must be con
sidered and construed together.
The third section of the sixth article of
the Constitution of the United States de
clares that members of the several State
Legislatures, executive aud judicial officers
of the United States and of the several
States, shall be bouud by' oath or affirma
tion tb support the Constitution. The
third section of the Fourteenth Amend
ment is, no person shall be a Senator or
Representative in Congress, elector of Presi
dent and Vice-President, or hold office, civil
or military, under the United States, or un
der any State, who, having previously taken
an oath as a member of Congress, or as an
officer of the United States, or as a member
of any State Legislature, or as any execu
tive or judicial officer under any State, to
support the Constitution of the United
States, shall have engaged in insurrection,
or rebellion against the same, or given aid
or comfort to its enemies; but Congress
may, by a two-thirds vote of each House,
remove such disability.
The act of 2d March, 1867, known as the
Sherman Bill, provides that no person ex
cluded from the privilege of holding office
by the proposed amendment to the Consti
tution of the United States (the 14th) shall
be eligible to election as a member of a con
vention to frame a constitution for rebel
States, nor shall such person vote for mem-
bers of such convention.
The first supplemental reconstruction
act, of 23d March, 1867, prescribed au oath
for voters at elections to be held for con
ventions of rebel States. This oath re
quired the voter to swear that he had never
been a member of any State Legislature,
nor held an executive or judicial office In
any State, and afterwards engaged in re
bellion or insurrection against the United
States, or given aid or comfort to the ene
mies thereof, or never taken oath as a mem
ber of Congress of the United States, or as
an officer of the United States, as a mem
ber of any State Legislature, as executive
or judicial officer of the State to support the
Constitution of the United States and af
terwards engaged in insurrection or rebel
lion against the United States, or given
aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.
The second supplemental act, of the 19th
of July, 1801, puts legislative construction
upon the above oath; it enacts that the
true intent and meaning of the oath pre
scribed shall be that no person who has
been a member of a Legislature of a State,
or held executive or judicial office of $,
State, whether he has taken an oath to
support the Constitution of the United
States or not, whether holding such office
at the commencement of the rebellion or
held it before, who afterwards engaged in
insurrection or rebellion against the United
States, or given aid or comfort to the ene
mies thereof, is entitled to be registered or
to vote, and the words “ executive dr judi
cial office of said State,” in said oath, shall
be i construed to iuciude all civil offices
created by law for the administration of
any general law of a State or for the ad
ministration of justice.
The act to promote reconstruction in
Georgia requires that, each Senator and
Representative, before taking his seat,
shall, In addition to the oath requited by
the constitution of Georgia, take an oath
that he has been relieved from disabilities
by act of Congress, or an oath that he has
never held office or exercised the dairies of
Senator or Representative in Congress, nor
been a member of the Legislature of any
State in the United States, noij held
any civil office created by law for the
administration of the general law of the
State, for the administration of justice in
any State,or under the laws Df the
United States, nor held office in the mili
tary or naval service of the United States,
and thereafter engaged in insurrection or
rebellion against the United States, or gave
aid and comfort to its enemies or rendered,
except in consequence of direct physical
force, support or aid to insurrection or re
bellion against 'the United States, nor held
office under or given support to any gov
ernment of any kind, organized or acting
,in hostility to the United States or levying
war against tbe United States.
There are different constitutional and
statutory provisions' upon this subject
which it is.necessary to construe together
to arrive at a just conclusion as to the true
scope and meaning of the oath prescribed
for members of the Legislature by act of
Congress. I apprehend" that comment is
unnecessary to convince any latvyer or in
telligent person that the terms executive
and judicial officers mentioned in the third
section of the sixth article of the Constitu
tion of the United States as originally rati
fied, and in same terms in the Fourteenth
Amendment to the Constitution and act
of 2d March, 1867, were intended by the law
givers to refer to and embrace the same
class of officials and none others. I con
clude, then, that no officer is included in
disqualification who did not have authority
to administer the general law of the State by
applying it to particular cases or persons
who did not have authority to admin
ister justice, as bv trying cases between
man and man, and rendering judgment in
some way binding on persons or property,
or who did not have authority to execute
some general law of the State by carry
ing it into cornplcteeffect. Construing the
constitutional provisions and acts of Con
gress together, I see no other rational con
clusion as to their true intent and meaning.
The Fourteenth Amendment intends to
disqualify only such persons as the general
acceptation of the term executive, legisla
tive or judicial officers of a State or officers
of the United States, such as were con
templated by the framers of the original
Constitution when they directed that they
should take an oath to support the Consti
tution of the United States. With all due
deference, I must say that the position in
sisted upon for the exclusion of the class
of officers consisting of State Librarian,
Road Commissioner, Notary Public, Ven
due Masters, Lumber Measurers and Militia
Officers, Keepers of Penitentiaries, Lunatic
Asylums, Jfcc., is simply absurd.
While 1 admit there may be difficulty in
drawing a line with perfect accuracy be
tween officers or persons acting under the
laws of the State who are and those who
are not embraced in disqualification, proba
bly the nearest approach to general‘rule
would be to say that public civil officers of
the State, commissioned by the Governor,
who accepted commissions and qualified
prior to the passage of the ordinance of
secession who were by law required to take
the oath to support the Constitution of the
United States, are to be considered officers
for the administration of the general laws
of the Stateor the administration of justice,
and are disqualified.
Tbe act of Bth December, 1816, required
all officers, civil and military, to lake an
oath to support the Constitution of the
United States and the Slate, but the act
proceeds lo show what is meant by officers,
to which it applied, when it adds, “and the
form of said oath so to be taken and sub
scribed shall be forwarder! with the lindimns
to qualify said officer, or be taken and sub
scribed at. the time of receiving said com
mission.” The class of officers who were to
fake the oath then appears to be such only
as received commissions. 'This is no
doubt the broadest sense in which the frain
trs of the Constitution intended to use the
terms executive and judicial officers.
I apprehend the Congress of the United
States would dismiss application for re
moval of disabilities made by a Notary Pub
lic or Stale Librarian, appointed under the
law as it stood iu Georgia prior to the war,
Road Commissioner, Road Overseer, Exec
utor, Administrator, Grand Juror and the
like, with the prompt reply, “ You are un
der no disability, and need no relief.”
In conclusion, I see no legal reason why
a person who held the position of State
Librarian. Notary Public, Road Commis
sioner, officer of militia, or officer of a mu
nicipal corporation, if iu the latter eases
they had no general civil jurisdiction to
administer a general law of the State or
administer justice, may not safely take tin
oath prescribed by the Jate act of’ Congress
for members of the Legislature of this State.
Very respectfully,
Joseph E. Brown.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, January 19--Noon.—The
Chronicle has the following special:
Jackson, Miss., January 19.—-Governor
Alcorn is elected United States Senator for
the term commencing oug year from next
March. General Ames is elected for the un
expired term of five years. There was a great,
contest for the term expiring in 1871, and
the election was almost unanimous.
In the House, the General of the Army
was asked by what authority or under
what law officers of the United States army
occupy scats in the Georgia Legislature.
In the Senate, the Judiciary Committee
reported adversely to the bill making rules
of evidence in State courts prevail in Fed
eral courts.
The committees did nothing.
Washington, January 19— P. M.—Reve
nue to-day, $568,000.
The screw steamer Congress will sail in
a few days for Samana, as the flag ship of
Commodore Green. The steamer Colorado
will relieve the Delaware as flag ship of
the Asiatic squadron.
The Elections Committee report in favor
of VanWyck.
The friends of Virginia seem much dis
couraged by the course of events to-day.
The grand object has been to got tho bill
back into the House. Additional amend
ments and much delay are apprehended.
In the Senate a, communication was re
ceived from Mr. Fillmore, enclosing resolu
tions of the Louisville Commercial Conven
tion, relative to the Southern Pacific Rail
road.
After a discussion of the franking privi
lege, Virginia was resumed.
Wilson moved the recommitment of the
bill. TIPs was voted down.
A motion to postpone the whole question
to February, and an amendment admitting
Congressional delegation on the fourth of
March were withdrawn, when Edmunds’
amendment was adopted by 45 to 16, and
the Senate adjourned without final action.
In the House, a hill was introduced
amending the bankruptact, exempting from
its operations certain life insurance policies.
The League Island uavy yard was dis
cussed.
A bill continuing the income tax passed
with the following text:
Resolved, Ac., That whereas doubts have
arisen and conflicting decisions been made
In the diflbreut departments of the Govern
ment iu regard to the construction of the
laws relating to tax on Incomes, it is here
by declared to he the true Intent and mean
ing of the act relating to tiiht subject that
all persons are liable to the paymeut of
their proper income tax accruing and to
accrue, for and during and up to the end of
the year 1870, and that the assessment and
collection of any such tax accruing in the
year 1870, aud remaining uupaid on the
first day of January, 1871, may, under the
existing provisions of the law, he made in
the said last mentioned year.
The pension appropriation bill is $30,-
000,000. Passed.
Whittemofe offered a resolution author
izing the Committee on Freedmen’s Affairs
to send lor persons and papers, in reference
to the employment by the Bureau of per
sons who committed perjury in taking the
test oath. Passed.
Adjourned.
VIRGINIA.
Richmond, January 19. —Representative*
of both the Republican and Conservative
parties have uriited in preparations for t
public demonstration on the day of the
State’s admission. A joint committee has
applied to the Washington authorities for
the loan of cannon for firing salutes, and
their application has been granted.
Gen. Oanby to-day directed James C
Taylor, the Attorney General of the State
elected last summer, to assume the duties
of that office, his disabilities having btin
removed by Congress.
ALABAMA.
Mobile, January 19.—The British ship
Indian Chief, from Cardiff, with railroad
iron, previously reported ashore on the
outer bar, went to pieces yesterday, and
was broken in two. The crew was' saved,
with 350 bars of iron.
, The American ship Mermaid, Cant
Howard, cleared for Pensacola on the 14ti
inst. by A. J. Ingersoll & Cos., went ashore
on west bank, outer bar, yesterday mornim
Efforts were made to pull her off, but failed’
It is hoped she will be rescued.
LOUISIANA.
New Orleans, January 19.—The Citi
zens’ Bank has accepted the fiscal agenev
of the city. h ’
Alfred Hennen, an eminent citizen and
lawyer, is dead, aged 84 years. The courts
all adjourned iu respect to his memory.
Another of the Couturier-Passan Avila
sugar fraud cases, involving one thousand
boxes, was decided this evening. The case
went to the jury at 5 o'clock. They return
ed in an. hour a verdict in favor of the Gov
ernment. Sugar condemned.
MISSOURI
Bt. Louis, January 19.—Pierre Chou
teau and ex-Senator Green are dead
Missouri adopted the Fifteenth Amend
ment.
RHODE ISLAND.
Ppovidenck, January 19—Rhode Island
has ratified the Fifteenth Amendment.
FOREIGN.
Paris, January 19—Traupman was exe
cuted this morning. Ilis last, words loud
ly spoken were: “ I persist I have no ac
complices.”
It is now certain that Prince Pierre Bo
uaparte will be tried at Versailles The
same high court will try Prince Murat, for
striking a magistrate recently.
MARINE NEWS.
Savannah, January 19.- Arrived: Steam
ship Sau Jacinto, from New York- Hunts
ville, from New York ; Carroll, from Balti
more ; schooners Thomas Boose, from Rich
mond and Kcilder, from Boston.
Cleared: Steamships Leo, for New
York, and Pioneer, for Havana; shins
Burmah, for Liverpool, and Moravia, for
Baltimore; schooner C. & C. Brooks for
Jacksonville.
Charleston, January 19.—Arrived:
Steamer Maryland, from Baltimore; schoon
er Alexander Young, from Philadelphia •
schooner Ida Richardson, from New York!
Sailed: Steamer Sea Gull, for Balti
more ; schooner J. M. Broomall, for Jack
sonville.
MARKETS.
London, January 19—Noon—Consols.
92%. Bonds, 84%.
Liverpool, January 19— Noon—Cotton
steady; uplands, 11%; Orleans, 11%; sales,
12,000 bales. ’
/Alter. —Cotton firm ; sales, 1.‘>,000 bales;
actual sales yesterday exceeded the pub-’
lished estimate by 5,000 bales. Pork dull.
Bacon, 575. Od.
Liverpool, January 19—Evening—Cot
ton steady; uplands, 11%; Orleans, 1l 7 .,<;
sales, 15,000 bales ; speculation and export’,
4,000. Naval Stores tinner.
Paris, January 19—Noon.—Bourse open
ed quiet. Rentes, 73f. 35c.
Havre, January 19.—Cotton opened
quiet, both spot and afloat.
New York, January 19—Noon—Stocks
unsettled; off from yesterday’s prices
Money easy at (tffl. Exchange—Loudon,
8%; short, 9%. Gold, 121%. ’62’s, coupon,
L>%; Tcnnessees, ex coupon, 58% ; new.
45% i Virginias, ex coupon, 55; new, 61:
Louisiana 6’s, old, 69%; new, 66; Levee
6’s, 65%; B’s, 78; Alabama B’s, 94; s’s 63-
Georgia 6’s, 80; 7’s, 90; North Carolina 7’s,
old, 41%; new, 24%; South Carolinas/old,
82%; new, 75%.
New York, January 19—P. M Money
easy at 5@6. Sterling firm ; improved de
main! at B%'q?9. Gold steady, closing at
121%. Governments steady - ’62’s, 15%.
Southern Securities weaker iu Tcnnessees
and North Carolinas; generally firm on
balance.
New York, January 19— Noon.—Flour
du!! and declining. Wheal dull and in
buyers’favor. Corn dull and heavy. Pork
dullI; mess, $27 75.tc28. Lard dull at 16%
Gs 16/4- Cotton dull at 25%. Turpentine
steady at 44%. Rosin quiet at $2 0502 10
for strained. Freights firm
New York, January 19— P. M —Coitou
heavy aud drooping ; sales of 29,0(10 bales
at 25%. Flour heavy, and in buyers’ favor;
common to fair extra Southern, $5 400
5 95. Wheat—Spring shade easier; on
Spring rather more doing for export ; Win
ter closes 1 better, with fair middling de
mand; Winter red and ain fair Western,
$1 25@1 27 ; white Michigan, $1 35. Corn
dull ; now mixed, 80097, latter for very
choice; old, $1 01@1 04. Pork hejivy and
lower at $27 50@37 75. Lard firm ; kettle.
17017%. Whisky firmer atfl 01%<31 03%.
Groceries and Naval Stores quiet. Freights
firm.
Bai.ttmore, January 19.—Cotton quiet
an<t steady. Flour firmer hut not active;
prices unchanged. Wheat steady; prime
Lo choice Maryland, $1 40,31 45; Pennsyl
vania, $1 2001 23. Corn active; prices
unchanged. Provisions unchanged in every
respect. Whisky scarce at. 99051. Vir
ginias, old, 49%; ’66’s, 57; North Caro
linas, new,24 bid.
Cincinnati, January 19.— Corn dull at
To'tTfl. \Y bisky dull at 93. Provisions
unchanged. Pork, $27 50; $27 offered.
Bacon in fair jobbing demand; shoulders,
13; clear sides, 16. Lard—kettle, 16%@17.
Mobile, January 19.—Cotton in good
demand; closod quiet hut firm; sales, 3,250
bales, part after close yesterday ; middling,
24; receipts, 1,135; exports, 1,662.
New Orleans, January 19.—Cotton ac
tive and advansed %—23%@23%; sales,
10,200 bales; receipts, 7,734 bales'; exports
to Boston, 675 bales. Hay, prime, $34.
Pork, $29 50. Bacon scarce and firmer at
14%014% ; clear rib, 17 ; no clear in mar
ket. Lard—tierce, 16%; keg, 18. Others
unchanged. Gold, 121%. Sterling. 31 %.
Sight, % discount.
Savannah, . Januafry 19.—Cotton—re
ceipts, 2,778 halos; exports, 3,811 bales
sales, 600 liales; middling 24%; market
firm.
Charleston, January 19.—Cotton—fair
demand and firm; sales, 500 bales- mid
dling, 24%@24%; receipts, 979; exports
coastwise, 561 bales.
Augusta Daily Market.
Office Daily Constitutionalist, )
Wednesday, January 19—P. M. (
FINANCIAL
GOLD—Buying at 120 ami selling at 122.
SlLVEß—Baying at 116 aud selliug at 120.
BONDS—City Bonds, 85.
STOCKS—Georgia Railroad, 104.
COTTON—The market opened with a good
demand at 23% for middling; closed easier
quotably without change. Sales, 587 bales.
Receipts, 576 bales,
BACON—Fair demand. We quote C. Sides,
18019 ; C. R. Sides, 18018%; B. B. Sides, 15
015%; Shoulders, 18; llams, 21023; Dry
Salt Shoulders, 13013% ; Dry Salt C. R. Sides
17@17%.
CORN—New is Iteginning to come in freely,
and Is selling at $1 3501 40 from depot.
WHEAT—We quote choice white, $1 55;
amber, $1 50 ; red, 91 45.
FLOUR—City Mills, new, 96 5009 00; at
retail, 91 barrel higher. Country, 9609,
according to quality.
CORN MEAL—9I 45 at wholesale; 91 60 at
retail.
OATS—BSO9I 25.
PKAB—Scarce at fl 60.