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, iTIJTI ONALTST.
AUGUSTA. C3-A.
TUESDAY MORNING, JAN. 25.1*70
AN IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE.
Under compulsion, Judge Jeremiah A
Black has disclosed the secret history ot
Mr. Buchanan's oonueotle** with the h ort
Sumter affair In IWI awd the positioa
assumed by his We bow learn
that Mr. Stanton and General Cass agreed
with the President that the Federal Govern
ment had no jnstMoatioa of Constitutional
law in the coercion of States. It was to
Judge Black that the country owes the
fatal “ plea of necessity,” which precipitat
ed the war and destroyed free government.
The doctrine of secession, then, has been
settled by the bayonet and by nothing else.
In the forum of reason the South stands
justified, and, iitehe melancholy result, she
has been proved a martyr to the cause of
liberty. Judge Black’s revelation puts the
Northern Democracy in a sorry plight. To
a war-Democrat the country owes the plunge
into bloodshed on a wretched pretext; to
the war-Democrats the country owes every
evil since entailed upon it, the loss of civic
freedom included. But retribution has
overtaken these men. The Radicals, whose
tools they were, have reaped all the benefits
of the late unholy strife and the war-De
mocrats who started it and made it a suc
cess are really believed by the Northern
masses to have been “ rebels and traitors”
throughout. . These valiant war-Democrats
were very eager to march against the South,
because the South was falsely made to ap
pear as the destroyer of the Constitution,
Why don’t they exhibit an equal zeal and
courage In marching against the Northern
Radicals who have not only destroyed the
Compact in reality, but whelmed the Demo
crats themselves, who faced the cannon, in
the common disgrace of mutiny, disloyalty
and defeat? General Morgan, Gen. Blair,
and other enthusiastic parties have much
greater cause for raising regiments in
1870 than they had in 1861; but their qual
ities of courage and zealotry have oozed
out of the palms of their hands, and they
stand before the world as the most misera
ble of dupes who helped overthrow the Re
public, without credit and without reward.
If they were so potent in wounding popular
liberty, why don’t they try how much
magic they possess in resuscitating that
which they have so foolishly mutilated?
Let them, if they have any sincerity at all,
quit empty mouthings and raise regiments
to expel disunionists and imperialists.
Poor fellows t They seem to have been
only fervid and brave in attacking the
weak. When an effort is really demanded
for the salvation of the principles and gov
ernment of our Fathers, they take refuge
in the pronunciation of Hamlet’s text—
“ Words—words—words."
THE NEW NEGRO SENATOR.
When Alexander H. Stephens and
HerßChei. V. Johnson, the veritable and
genuine Senators from the State of Georgia,
were not recognized by Congress, even the
most credulous “ actionists ” ought to have
been satisfied that perfidy was the guiding
idea of Radicalism. Thus persuaded, they
should cither have refused to revise their
decision, or else substituted in place of
these gentlemen two of the most abortive
specimens of Ethiopians extant. If we
were compelled to be dosed with the ne
gro, Congress should have had this dose re
turned. But, the men who are always itch
ing to show their superior strategy went
from bad to worse, because they acted upon
the mistaken notion that anything they
could do which looked like decency would
be approved by the knaves and rogues
who rule the roost at Washington. For
our part, we always ardently desired that
there should be no participation on the
part of the South, in order that she
might preserve her honor, spotless and in
order, too, that she might be saved from a
thousand mortifications. But, when some
sort of action was insisted upon, it seemed
very plain that no action could be of any
service which did not force our doctors to
take copious draughts of their own physic.
Our Atlanta correspondent seems to think
that this course would be advantageous,
even at the eleventh hour, in a case of
emergency. But it would have been Jar
more decisive several years ago. At anv
rate, whether the Georgia Legislature shall
or shall not elect the Hon. Aaron Alpe
oria Bradley in place of Dr. Miller or
Joshua Hill, the General Assembly of
Mississippi lias made a test-case very
promptly, and as it works for or against
Mississippi we may have the illumination
of a very remarkable precedent. Spine
persons think, with much plausibility, that
the election of the negro Revels will keep
Mississippi out of the Union until the ex
piration of his term, or that the Legisla
ture, by some hocus pocus, will be required
to “go back ” on Africa. The Hon. Mr.
Menard, a negro Representative from
Louisiana, was politely bowed out of his
seat by the loyal shriekers for the equal
rights of man. This would seem to be a
bad precedent for the Hon. Mr. Revels.
But Beast Butler essays td silence this
clamor. He thus spoke on the 21st inst:
“ I am delighted that General Ames has
“ been elected a senator from Mississippi.
“He js a protege of mine. I know his
“ worth. There is not a more promising
“ man in this country. Revels, the colored
“ man elected Senator, I do not know, but
“ hear a good account of him. I have no
“ doubt he will be at once admitted to his
“ place in the Senate.”
Now, here is an impartial version of
both sides of the question. The matter
must soou be decided. If the new Missis
sippi Senator be rejected, on some flimsy
pretense, there will be negro howls in the
South: If permitted full fellowship with
Sumner and the war-Democrats there re
mains a first rate chance for Aaron Al
peoria Bradley to hope that his revelry
shall be properly rewarded by the Georgia
Legislature. Great events are coincidental.
The projected removal of Sing-Sing prison
may be interpreted to mean that the Ethio
pian gentleman who once illustrated those
classic halls is about to suffer translation
to another sphere where the rogues are the
masters of the situation.
The State Agricultural Society and
the Premiums.— We flmf this singular
statement in the Atlanta Constitution:
In conversation, yesterday, with an ex
hibitor at the late Macon Pair, we were as
tonished to learn that the premiums award
ed at the late Fair have never been paid.
The reason for their non-delivery is said to
be the enjoining of the Agricultural So
ciety by its creditors. It is further said
that the people of Macon refuse to pay
their subscriptions to the Society.
We know the people of Macon too well
to believe that they would reluse to meet
their obligations, unless there was a cause
f °We would respectfully ask why it is that
the premiums have not been paid, and why
the people of Macon refused to pay their
subscriptions. There is a screw loose
somewhere.
I Special Correspondence Constitutionalist.
Matters at the Capitol.
Atlanta, Ga. January 21,1870.
Dear Constitutionalist: Time speeds
on its way to centuries when the suspense,
that now holds in thrall the hearts and
minds of the denizens of this Capital (and
its State), will occupy bat a line in the
volumes of epitomized history written and
to bq written; bi# just at the present
writing that suspense' assumes colossal pro
portions. Not that we are nursing in our
breasts the fond illusion that the better
days of the Republic are again to return
and gladden ns with .the sunsltfne of free
dom ; not that the overshadowings of a
colossal des|K>ttsm aye to be lifted from our
political sky ; but simply that we may be
saved from plunder and bankruptcy.
Many and varied are the conjectures as
to what our masters at Washington have
really done or intend to do with the Geor
gia muddle.
JOSHUA HILL AS PROVISIONAL GOVERNOR.
Bets are offered to-day that in foor days’
time Joshua Hill will be our Provisional
Governor; but the conviction is being slow
ly forced upon the mind of the public here
that we are to expect nothing from vacil
lating Grant and a Radical Congress. Rad
ical and Republican Senators write to Re
publicans here on one day that they have
interviewed Grant and that they saw him
write out the dispatch to Terry directing
him to permit the Legislature to be organ
ized without interference. On another day
they have seen the official order written out
and ready to be Bent by mail, but it never
comes. Wonder if Grant is swayed l?y
every passing whiff of a cigar, or if, as in
the days of ancient Persia, the fate of our
country is to be decided by the neighing of
a horse. Now it is hardly to be doubted
that these Senators have written truly and
that those dispatches and letters have been
written ; but it seems equally true that they
have never been sent. Whether Grant’s
voscillation is attributable to indecision,
and want of manly independence of thought,
or to more material reasons, is a matter of
conjecture; and a high respect for what
ought to be the purity of character of the
Chief Magistrate prevents any expression
of opinion on onr part.
But whatever causes may be operating
upon his imperial mind, this much seems
to be clear, that the
STAR CHAMBER
is still in full force and active operation,
and it no longer deserves the name of “ cir
cumlocution officefor the evidence
against Senators and House members is
being rapidly garnered in Terry’s military
warehouse, to be used as the animal nature
of the State may require. In other words,
Bullock and his animals evidently are the
chief objects of Terry’s solicitude. This
military tool of a Radical Congress is in
tensely Radical, whatever may be said by
some of our friends to the contrary not
withstanding. He is soft and pliable—
yea, gullible—aud really believes in the
Ku Klux Klan nature of his Geonria sub
jects. Bullock talks loyalty to him, and
he believes it. Tells him of the outrages
to negro rights that will be perpetrated if
Bullock’s faction is defeated, and he be
lieves that. Some negro comes, or is sent
to him, with a pitiful, but lying, narrative
of invasion of the colored man’s rights, and
he regards it as gospel truth. Bullock is a
man of some plausibility of address, and
can put on the manner of a gentleman. He
plies him, unremittingly, with the story of
the nigger’s wrongs, and his disinterested
philanthropy, and loyalty and unrepentant
rebels constitute the burden of his song.—
Bullock has his ear, his heart and his will
at command ; and to-dav
BULLOCK ASSERTS
that the Legislature will not be organized
in ten days. This information comes
through a black and muddy channel—a ne
gro Solon—but that Is only a proof of its
authenticity. Thus he seems to be jubi
laut, and may have triumphed. I scarcely
doubt it. What then ? Why, the “ gar
nered evidence ” will serve as a pretext to
Terry to replace the so-called ineligibles
with the “ trooly loll.” Pretext, did I say ?
Yes, even Terry, with the absolute despot
ism of his power, wants a pretext. For
though the injustice of the course is
flagrantly patent, yet he wants a coloring;
for men are often better pleased that the
truth, though known to everybody, should
be wrapped up under a decent cover, than
if it were exposed in open daylight to the
eyes of all the world.
BLACK AMERICAN SENATOR!
I notice that Mississippi has sent a negio
Senator to Congress. Why should we not
do likewise ? We are utterly powerless in
the Government at present, and if the
Radicals are so wedded to indiscriminate
political equality, let us reap, for their
gratification, the full benefit of the XVth
Amendment, (since it is to be forced upon
us), by sending a full delegation of negroes
to Congress. This scheme of poetic justice
was once thought the visionary ravings of
desperation; but now it may be true states
manship. We are mere cyphers in the Na
tional Government at best. By this coup
de main , we lose nothing, for we had no
thing, (and blessed are they that have no
thing, for it shall not be taken away from
them ;) but we may secure full control of
the negro vote, and snatch from Radical
lips the fruit of Radical toil. In the mean
time, let us arouse all our energies to the
development of the material interests of
the State aud, with returning wealth, grow
into importance. This out-heroding Herod
would certainly satisfy the Radicals of our
loyalty and we would “have peace” and
become prosperous. Afterwards we could
take the machine into our own hands, when
it was of importance, and thus regain our
balance of power in the Union.
I therefore nominate
AARON ALPEORIA BRADLEY
the Sing-Sing-singer and
W. A. GOLDEN, (C.)
the black “ Satire,” for the Georgia Sena
torships, aud appeal to the public sense of
“ poetic justice” for a confirmation of these
nominations.
Golden is at present obscure, bat he has
a sufficiency of the “cologne de Afrique”
obtained from Liberty county rice-fields
and swamps, to satisfy the most fastidious.
I shall in the future pay more attention to
his pre-eminent claims than I have in the
past. Sigma.
A New Railroad Projected from
Macon. —We hear with pleasure that ini
tial measures are now being taken to con
struct a railway from Macon through the
counties of Jones, Jasper and Newton to
Covington, on the Atlanta and Augusta
Railroad, and from thence to some point on
the Air-Line Road now being built from
Atlanta.
Mr. Jere Cowles, the founder and builder
of several of the most importaut lines now
running into Macon, is among ns once
more, and is the prime mover in this highly
important work. The city of Macon, and
the counties through Avhich this road will
pas, Avill, no doubt, subscribe liberally
when the proper time comes and when call
ed upon. It will traverse a rich and mag
nificent country not now touched by any
other road, and, when connected with the
Air-Line Road, be the direct route to the
North and West.
[ Telegraph and Messenger , 23 d.
Chattooga Affairs.—We have infor
mation from a most absolutely reliable gen
tleman that forty or fifty mounted men
passed through Cherokee county, Ala., on
Saturday evening, going towards Summer
ville, and on Sunday morning this gentle
man heard a large body of mounted men
clatter-past bis house, going from the direc
tion of Summerville. This man is strictly
reliable, and we are Confident that his in
formation is true.
Judge Kirby has no sure ground for the
opinion that they were Chattooga men, as
he did not know any ,of them save one.
We believe that the men who did this
thing came from Alabama. Hadu’t the
military better go there after them? Too
much prominence, it . appears to us, has
been given tq Chattooga affairs already,
and we believe that the ditizens of that
county dan ta’kp care of themsglves without
the aid bf the military;— Rome Cotikdr.
Five Hundred Dollars Stolen. —The
Macon 7 degraph and Messenger reports that
Mr. Dick Cain, who lives near Seago’s Sta
tion, on the Southwestern Railroad, had
about five, hundred dollars stblen from him
between 12 o’clock and daybreak Thursday
morning. He thinks a Frenchman by the
name of Banning Stole the money, and be
lieves he is now in Macon.
Stanton.
SECRETARY STANTON'S POLITICAL POSITION
IN 1869— REMINISCENCES OF THE CLOSE OF
Buchanan’s administration— the hon.
JEREMIAH BLACK’S CARD TO THE PUBLIC.
To the Editor of the New York Herald :
Since the death of Mr. Stantou some
newspaper writers have revived the scanda
lous accounts which began to be propaga
ted, I think in 1862, concerning his conduct
while a member of Mr. Buchanan’s Cabinet.
It is asserted that he came into that Ad
ministration with views entirely opposed
to those of the President and the men who
were to be his colleagues, all of whom, ex
cept Messrs. Holt and Dix, were in favor
of the Southern Confederacy, and ready to
sacrifice the Union; that supported by these
two he bullied the test; that he terrified the
President by threats of resignation into
measures which otherwise would not ihave
been thought of; that he urged immediate
war upon the seceding States, to crush out
the rebellion; that though defeated in this
by the treason of his associates, he carried
with a high hand other points of sound pol
icy ; that by these hardy displays of hos
tility to the Administration which trusted
him he promoted the interests and won the
gratitude of its enemies.
This is the substance expressed in my
own plain English of many statements,
coming from various sources, extensively
circulated and so generally believed that if
not soon contradicted they are likely to be
received as authentic history. They are
not only false, but they must be injurious
to Mr. Stanton’s reputation ; and they are
grossly unjust to others, dead as well as
living.
I am not the special defeuder of Mr. Stan
ton, and I certainly would not assail him.
Before he fell away from the Democratic
faith our friendship was intimate and close.
There was no separation afterwards except
the separation which is inevitable between
two persons who differ widely on pnblic
subjects believed by both to be vitally im
portant. Onr correspondence of last Sum
mer and Autumn (began by himseli) shows
that I was able to forgive him my particu
lar share of the injury he had done to the
liberties of the country, and he had my
sincere good wishes lor his future health
and welfare. His political attitude towards
the Buchanan Administration previous to
his appointment as Attorney General is
wholly misunderstood or else wilfully mis
represented. He was fully with us at every
stage of the Kansas question, and no man
felt a more loathing contempt than he did
for the knavery of the Abolitionist in re
fusing to vote upon the Lecompton Consti
tution, when nothing but a vote was needed
to expel slavery from the new State, and
thus terminate the dispute by deciding it in
the way which they themselves pretended
to ivish. He wholly denied Mr. Douglas’
notions, and blamed him severely for the
unreasonable aud mischievous schism
Avhicli hq had created in the party. The
Knoiv-Nothingism of Bell and Everett
found no favor in his eyes. In the canvass
of 1860 he regarded the salvation of the
country as hanging upon the forlorn hope
of Breckinridge’s election. We knew the
Abolitionists to be the avowed enemies of
the Constitution and the Union, and we
thought the Republicans would necessarily
be corrupted by their allince with them.
As we saw the march of these combined
forces upon the capital we felt that the con
stitutional liberties of the country were in
as much peril as Rome wasAvhen the Gauls
were pouring over the broken defenses of
the city. Whether we were right or Avrong
is not the question now. It is enough to
say that Mr. Stanton shared these appre
hensions fully. He more than shared them;
to some extent he inspired them, for he
knew Mr. Lincoln personally, and the ac
count he gave of him was anything bat
favorable.
The 6th of November came, and Mr. Lin
coln was legally chosen President by the
electoral machinery of the Constitution,
though the majority of the popular vote
Avas against him by more than a million.
The question was thus to be tested by actual
experiment whether a party Avhich existed
only in one section, and which was organ
ized on the sole principle of hostility to
the rights, interests, and feelings, of the
other, could or would administer the Fede
ral Government in a righteous spirit of
justice, or whether the predictions of all our
great statesmen for thirty years must be
verified that the Abolitionists, when they
got into power, would disregard their sworn
duty to the Constitution, break down the
judicial authorities, and claim obedience to
their own mere will as a “higher law”
than the law of the land. The danger was
greatly aggravated by the criminal miscon
duct of large bodies in the South, and par
ticularly in South Carolina, where prepa
rations were openly made for resistance.
What Avas the Federal Executive to do
under these circumstances? Make Avar?
He had neither authority nor means to
do that, and Congress would not give him
the one or the other. Would he compro
mise the dispute? He could offer no terms
and make no pledges which would not be
repudiated by the new Administration.
Could lie mediate between the parties?
Both would refuse his umpirage, for both
were as hostile to him as they Avere to one
another. Nevertheless, he was bound to do
them the best service he could in spite of
their teeth ; and that service consisted in
preserving the peace of the nation. It was
liis special and most imperative duty not to
embroil the incoming Administration by a
civil war which his successor might be un
willing to approve or prosecute. It Avas
undoubtedly right to leave the President
elect and his advisers in a situation where
they could take their choice between com
promising and fighting. In fact, Mr. Lin
coln was in favor of the former, if his in
augural be any sign of his sentiments.
The mind of no man was more deeply
imbued with these opinions than Mr. Stan
ton’s. Tly?. idea never entered his head
(certainly never passed his lips) that the
President ought to make war upon States,
or put the whole people out of the protec
tion of the laws, and expose them all to in
discriminate slaughter as public enemies
because some individuals among them had
done or threatened to do what was incon
sistent with their obligations to the United
States. He knew very well that no such
thing was either legally or physically pos
sible. General Scott had reported officially
that five companies constituted the whole
available force which could be sent to the
South for any purpose, offensive or defen
sive. It is impossible that Mr. Stanton
would have undertaken to conquer the
South with half a regiment. He was
thoroughly convinced that a war at that
time, of that kind and under those circum
stances, would not only “fire the Southern
heart,” but give to the secessionists the
sympathy of all the world, aud ultimately
insure their success, while it could not help
but cripple, disgrace, and ruin the cause
of the Union. Nor did he feel pleasure in
the anticipation of any civil Avar between
the two sections of his country. From the
stand-point, which he then occupied he said
that Avar was disunion ; it was ‘blood, con
flagration, terror, and tears, public debt
and general corruption of morals, all end
ing at best not in the union of the States,
but in the subjugation of some to the des
potic will of the others. He was apt to
take a sombre view of things, and he looked
at the dark side of this subject. The glory,
profit, and plunder, the political distinction
and pride of poAver which brighten it now,
were not included 1n his prospective sur
vey.
On the 20th of November I answered the
President’s questions concerning his legal
' powers and duties, holding that the ordi
nances of secession were mere nullities; that
the seceding States were and would be as
much in the Union as ever; that the Feder
al Executive was bound there as well as
elsewhere to execute the laws, to hold the
public property, and to collect the revenue;
that if the means and machinery furnished
by law for these purposes were inadequate
he could not adopt others and usurp powers
which had not been delegated; that neither
the executive nor legislative departments
had authority under the Constitution to
make war upon a State; that the mili
tary power might lie used, if necessary, in
aiding all judicial authorities to execute
the laws in collecting the revenues, in de
fending or retaking the public property,
but not in acts of indiscriminate hostility
against all the people of a State. This is
the “opinion” which has since been so
often, so much, and so well abused, de
nounced, and vilified. Mr. Stanton did not
stultify himself by denying the plain, ob
vious, and simple truths, which it express
ed. The paper was shown him before it
went to the President, and after a slight
alteration, suggested by himself, he not
only approved but applauded it enthusias
tically. «
It disappointed the President He had
hastily taken it for granted that -Congress
might make secession a cause for war; and
in the draft of his message, already pre
pared, he had submitted the question 6f
war or peace to their decision. But the ad
vice of the law department, supported by a
powerful argument from General Cass, con
vinced him of his error, and that part of
the message was rewritten. The substance*
of the message so modified received Mr.
Stanton s hearty endorsement in everything
that regarded secession and the treatment
it ought to receive.
boon after this General Cass retired. I
was requested to take the State Depart
ment, and Mr. Stanton was appointed At
torney General upou my declaring that I
was uuwilling to leave the care of certain
causes pending in the Supreme Court to
any hands but his. This appointment
alone, without any other proof, ought to
satisfy any reasonable mind that 4111 have
said of Mr. Stanton’s sentiments must be
true. No man in his sobpr senses cau be
ll 6 that I would have used, or that Mr.
Buchanan would have made, the appoint
ment if Ave had not both known with per
fect certainty that lie agreed Avith us en
tirely on those fundamental doctrines of
constitutional law to Avhich we were com
mitted. The faintest suspicion of the con
trary Avould have put the Attorney Gen
eral’s office as far beyond his reach as the
throne of France. We took him for what
he professed to he—a true friend of the
Union, a devout believer in the Constitu
tion, a faithful man, Avho Avould not violate
his oath of office by wilful disobedience to
the laws. lam still convinced that he did
not deceive us. If he abandoned ‘ those
principles in 1862 the change, hoivever
sudden and unaccountable, is not satisfac
tory evidence that he was an imposter and
hypocrite in 1860.
He did not find Mr. Holt and General
Dix contending alone (or contending tt all)
against the President and the rest offche
Administration. Mr. Holt, on the sfl of
March, 1861, appended to his letterg»f re
signation a strong expression of his grati
tude for the “ firm and generous support ”
which Mr. Buchanan had constantly ex
tended to him, and pays a warm tribute to
the “enlightened statesmanship and unsul
lied patriotism ” of the outgoing President.
General Dix was not there at all when Mr.
Stanton came in. He Avas appointed a
month afterwards, when there was no dis
agreement in the Cabinet. He took up his
residence at the President’s house as a
member of his family, and remained there
during the Avhole time of his service as
head of the Treasury Department. He per
formed his duties faithfully, firmly, and In
a way which met with universal approba
tion. Ido not recollect that he had ojm.
word of serious controversey either with
the President or anybody else. If, there
fore, Mr. Stanton was at any time engaged
in dragooning the President and hectoring
his colleagues, he could not have had Mr.
Holt and General Dix for his backers.
There were disputes and serious differ
ences of opinion in the Cabinet during the
period of Mr. Stanton’s service; but his
share in them has not been truly stated, tr
am not writing the history of those times,
and therefore I say nothing of what others
did or forebore to do except so far as may
be necessary to show Mr. Stanton’s acts
and omissions in their true light.
Before the election it was determined
that the forts in Charleston harbor should
be strengthened so as to make them im
pregnable. The order was given, but the
execution of it was unaccountably put off.
When General Cass ascertained that the
delay was acquiesced in by the President
he resigned. Two weeks aftenvards Major
Auderson, commanding Fort Moultrie and
apprehending an attack, threAV his garrison
into Fort Sumter. Simultaneously came
certain commissioners from South Carolina
demanding the surrender of the latter fort
to the State. The character of the answer
that should be given to the Commissioners
and the Question Avhether Fort Sumter
should be furnished Avith men aud pro
visions Averc discussed for three days, each
day running far into the night.
On the one side it was insisted that the
surrender of the fortress was so utterly in
compatible with our plainest duty that the
demand itself was a gross insult. To leave
it in a condition which would enable rebel
lious citizens to take it if they pleased was
still worse, for that would be merely au
other mode of making the surrender, and
a worse one, because it would lie fraudulent,
and deceptive. Major A'nderson should,*
therefore, be immediately so reinforced
that “ his castle’s strength would laugh a
siege to scorn,” and then-no attack would
be made. This last, instead of being dan
gerous, was the only measure that gave us
a chaace of safety; it would not bring on
hostilities, but avert them, and, if wa?
must come at all events," the possession of
Fort Sumter, which corntnauaed the other
forts, the harbor, and the city, Avould be of
incalculable value to the Government of
the Union.
To this there was absolutely no answer
except what consisted in saying that the
fort could not be relieved without difficul
ty and danger of successful opposition;
that South Carolina would take it as an
affront; and that it was tantamount to a
threat of coercion. The replication was
easily made. There was no danger of even
an attempt at resistance to a ship-of-war ;
the statements made of the hostile power
AA T ere mere brag; if South Carolina took
offense at our preparation for the safety of
our own men aud onr own property she
must already be in a temper to make a re
conciliation impossible; and as to coercion,
let her take care not to coerce us, and she
would be safe enough.
At length the President produce! his de
cision in the form of an answer to the com
missioners. While it Avas far from satis
factory to the Southern members, it filled
us with consternation and grief.
Then came the desperate struggle of one
alone to do what all had failed to effect.
It was painful in the extreme, but unex
pectedly short and decisive. The President
gave up his first ground—yielded the points
on which he had seemed most tenacious.
The answer to South Carolina was essen
tially changed, and it was agreed that Fort
Sumter should have men and provisions.
During these discussions Mr. Stanton
was always true, but the part he took was
by no means a leading one. He said many
times that he was there only that I might
have two voices instead of one. On no oc
casion was there the slightest conflict be
tween hi lb and me. He exhibited none of
the coarseness which some of his later
friends have attributed to him. He never
spoke without the greatest respect for his
colleagues and the profoundest deference to
the President. He said no word to the
President about resigning. He told me
that he would resign if 1 did; but when
certain concessions were made to my wish
es he expressed himself perfectly satisfied.
He did not furnish one atom of the influence
which brought the President round o« the
answer to South Carolina. Nor did he
ever propose or carry any measure of his.
own, directly or indirectly, relating to the
secession troubles. He uniformly profess-"
eel to be as anxious for the preservation of
the public peace as any man there.
It Avould be a wrong to the memory of
Mr. Stanton not to add that, so far as I
know, he never gave countenance or en
couragement to those fabulous stories of
his behavior. Jeremiah S. Black.
A Type Setting Match.— George A.
Barber, a compositor on the Cincinnati
Commercial, having published a challenge
to the craft, wherein he holds himself ready
to set type against any other man for teii
consecutive hours, for a purse of SI,OOO,
the New York Tribune says the challenge
has been accepted by Geo. Aresburg, of the
New York Times, who has put down the
forfeit money. Since the art of type-setting
has been known, the question of how many
types, according to printers’ measurement,
could be set up and corrected in ten hours’
time, has been an open one, and now that
an opportunity is to be given of settling it,
the printers of the country will not cease
to speculate upon it until the event has
pgased. It is claimed by those acquainted
with these men that each has set as much
as 17,000 ems of type in ten consecutive
hours. When the reader is informed that
17,000 ems are equal to about 40,000 sepa
rate pieces'of metal, he will have a basis
upon which to calculate. To do this, one
piece must be lifted in each moment, the
timeof justifying each line, and transferring
each stickful to a galley, included. Should
the match take place, and should either
perform what is claimed he can do, it will
surpass anything before known of mechan
ical motion. The test copy is to be a mes
sage of the President, run into one stolid
paragraph, and the type is to be nonpareil. |
Shoo, Fly!
This ludicrous, yet popular song with the
masses, is quite old, having been 6Uug long be
fore the war, by the negroes in Georgia. It is
well known that a fire-engine bore the name of
“Bho-Fly,” in Savannah, as far back as 1856,
having derived its name from this simple and
senseless song. Asa matter of cariosity to
hundreds who have had the chorns ringing in
their ears on every band, for several weeks
past, we give the words of what may truthfully
be termed the song of the period.
SHOO, FLY ! DON’T BODDBR ME !
I think I hear de angels sing,
I think I hear de angels slug,
I think I bear de angels sing—
De angels now are on de wing.
I feel, I leel, I feel—
Dat’s what my modder 6aid :
De angels pouring ’lasses down •
tlpon dis nigger’s bead.
CHoKtrs: Shoo fly ! don’t bodder me !
Shoo fly, don’t bodder me!
I belong to Compauy G.
I feel, I feel, I feel,
I feel like a morning star;
I feel, 1 feel, I feel,
I feel like a morning star;
I feel, 1 feel, I feel,
I feel like a morning star;
I feel, I feel, I feel,
I leel like a morning star;
If I sleep iu de sun, dis nigger knows,
If I sleep in the son, dis nigger knows,
If I sleep in de’sun, dis nigger knows,
A fly come sting him on de uo6e.
1 feel, I feel, I feel —
Dai’s what my modder said :
Whenever dis nigger goes to sleep,
He must eober up his head.
Chorus : Bhoo, fly, don’t bodder me! etc.
[Correspondence of the N. Y. World.
Troppmann.
CURIOUS REVELATIONS OP FRENCH PRISONS.
We have fearful tales of Russian prisons
which make the blood run cold, but we re
gard Russia as out of the pale of civiliza
tion ; the barbaric East begins as soon as
Poland’s furthest frontier is crossed.—
French prisonsare worse—or seeftt worse—
for civilization laves their portals with its
restless, ever clearer waves. Torture is
still used iu French prisons, and, as it
comes, it is heralded by a damnable con
trivance, which makes the prisoner—even
though he be innocent—feel utterly help
less. This contrivance is secret imprison
ment. He is shut ont from all the world.
His parents cannot reach him. He cannot
summon legal advice. His prayers can
reach no priest. Letters and newspapers
cannot penetrate to him. He is as one
dead. He is made to feel his utter helpless
ness. His door is suddenly and frequently
opened. He is roused at midnight and
taken to the iudge’s office in the prison,
and remains there an hour or more to be
told that the judge has not time now to
question him. The turn-key, the servant
who brings victuals, the fellow-prisoners
with whom he is thrown (and who are se
lected from among the spies, and encour
aged by hope of reward to worm all his se
crets from him, or rather to force him to
confess guilt, despite his innocence), harass
him to make discovery. If he refuses, he
is placed in a dungeon where he cannot
take rest; he has nothing to rest on but
rotten, reeking straw; daylight does uot
enter, the scanty air is polluted by stale
dejections. It is notorious that persons
have, under these tortures, confessed them
selves guilty when their innocence was un
doubted. A few months ago a woman was
arrested on a charge of infanticide. The
iguorant village physician swore she had
recently been delivered. In a few weeks
-the poor woman was brought by tortures
to confess that she had indeed been guilty
of infanticide. This acknowledgement
wrung from her, she was made comforta
ble. Her trial was to come off in three
weeks. The night before her arraign,
meut she was delivered of a fine
boy! When, nine days afterwards, she
stood at the bar, her confession was shown
her and she was asked why she made it,
she ingeniously replied: “ They made me
riiake it.” A different course has been pnr
; soed with Troppman, for the judge (’tis the
judge who is the torturer!) varies his sys
tem with the “ patient.” Besides, Tropp
man could not deny the crime. It was de
sired to get from him the fate of Kinclr,the
lather, the disposition of the latter’s body,
and the discovery of his accomplices, if he
had accomplices. He was rather coddled.
He had what he wanted. I have a suspi
cion an attempt to make him drank was
r more than once made, that iu the fumes of
intoxication his tongue might be loosened.
The two most plausible, agreeable, and in
sinuating “sheep” (this is the name spies
go by) to be found iu Mazasjail were alot
ed him for companions, and instructed to
do all they could to make him unbetid, and
in the familiarity of conversation trip
into confession a word here and a word
there, winch, put together, might form a
chain long enough to reach the bottom of
that well where Truth is said to hide. This
system proved judicious. In the warm at
mosphere by which he was surrounded his
reserve thawed. Two theatrical strokes
were put on him. His father and mother
were each required to write him a letter,
dictated by the police, and exhorting him in
the most pressing manner to reveal all he
knew. He has a brother, a marine, who was
brought up here from Brest, and suddenly
ushered into the murderer’s cell. Troppman
was for an instant confounded, but as his
brother threw his arms around him and, sob
bing, embraced him, he recovered his self
possession. His brother conjured him to re
veal the names of his accomplices: “Your
execution would be the death of our poor
mother, and God knows you have already
brought grief enough to her. Do reveal
the names of those who aided you, and save
your whole family from the disgrace of
your death on the scaffold. You cannot
have committed all those murders alone.”
Troppman remained silent. After his
brother’s departure he walked up and down
his cell muttering words which could not
be caught. Then he threw himself on his
bed and for some time sobbed bitterly. He
refused to sup, and wept until a feverish
sleep brought forgetfulness of the dreadful
past and the terrible future. He has not
since this interview recovered the merry
carelessness which has hitherto marked
him. His eyes gleam incessantly with
anger and ferocity, and his whole bearing
is so menacing that it has been thought
judicious to increase the watch set over
him, lest he should forestall justice. He
constantly declares that he will not be
guillotined, but will commit suicide imme
diately after sentence of death shall have
been passed upon him. He speaks of his
crimes without the least remorse; he con
siders it as a merchant regards an unlucky
speculation. He confesses that he obtained
only a few thousand francs by his eight
murders, and says: “ These few thousand
franc notes were necessary to enable me
to make a weaving machine' ivhich would
have made my fortune. I should next have
invented other machines, and then I
should have become extremely rich.
Once wealthy, I should have travelled
everywhere, there would not have been a
spot under heaven’s cap I should not
have explored.” His mind dwells on the
possession of immense wealth—the wealth
of an Edmond Dantes. He is never tired of
talking of M. Alexander Dumas’ novel,
“ Monte Christo.’ l He still contemplates
breaking prison, and says: “To carry
out uiy plans requires a great deal of money,
and tills money I shall procure. The day I
obtain it I Hhall leavehere, and all those who
now execrate and despise me will be hum
ble and cringing at my feet” The keeper
of Ma/.as Jail, where all the notorious crimi
nals of the last twenty years have been Im
prisoned, haH closely and thoroughly
studied Troppman's character. It was at
first believed the follow must be Insane, but
all the medical men who have made mental
disturbance the study of their livos have
examined him, and have name to the con
clusion that he is sane. The keeper of
Muzas jail says he has never In all Ids ex
perience seen such cold, calculating, pre
meditated ferocity as Troppmau shows
every hour, of the day. One of the most ex
traordinary Incidents of this crime (and you
knbw It has been fertile in extraordinary
incidents) is the following, which I find in
all the newspapers, and is, l believe, true :
At Lille, the other day, a very flesh-look
ing, pretty girl, seventeen years old, Maria
Police of that city, and asked him tp take
the necessary steps to have her admitted to
Troppman’s cell, 'rim General Commis
sioner asked, “ What have you to say to
him ?” She answered, “M. Troppman is
all alone ;he requires attendance, attention,
and some amusement, Were I to go to
keep company with him the rest of the time
he has to live, I should be extremely amiable
to him and he would, I am sure, leave me
the 4,000 francs (about SBOO gold) he still has
in his possession.” The General Commis
sioner, horrfled by such unblushing ijhiflo
rallty, attempted to show the young girl
how dishonorable, disgusting, »nd sinful
was her scheme. His words were lost upon
her, for whenever he stopped to recover
breath she said: “Butthose 4,000 francs
are going to be lost, and besides, the poor
man must suffer so much all alone.”
State (terns.
The residence of Mr. James Levy, in Cov
ington, was totally destroyed by Are on
Friday morning. Origin of fire unknown.
No insurance.
Middleton Roberts shot and Instantly
killed a negro named Isaac Spradlin, in the
streets of Jackson, Butts county, on the
13th instant. Roberts has not yet been ar
rested.
I Mrs. Doctress F. M. Oliver, of Cincinnati,
Ohio, will soon be in Atlanta to deliver a
lecture on the subject df Woman’s Rights.
In Savannah, on Friday afternoon, a
negro man named Edward Bliss, was
caught iu the machinery, while assisting in
unloading the Oriental steamship, and
crushed so that life is despaired of.
The body of an old man named Peter
Whitty, was found floating in the river at
Savannah, on Friday morning. He had
been absent from home three weeks
The Macon Tel-g. aph and Messenger says
a gentleman who recently traveled over
the State Road reports it iu a bad condi
tion. He says the cross-ties are rotten, and
trains in consequence liable to run off at
any point.
D. Appleton & Cos., New York, will
shortly publish “ The Light of the House
hold,” a thrilling book, written by a gifted
daughter of the late Gen. Chas. R. Floyd, of
Camden county, in this State.
Mr. A. T. Bennett, member of the Legis
lature from Jackson county, has returned
from Atlanta, having declined to take the
required oath, through fear of prosecution,
though legally authorized to do so. His
place will, we presume, be filled by Dr. Long,
who received the text highest vote, and isf
a Democrat.
The Chattanooga Times says that a dele
gation, composed of A. G. Sharp, late
Mayor of that city, and several other capi
talists, have gone to Atlanta to get the
Legislature to take some action looking to
the annexation of Chattanooga to the State
of Georgia.
The Republican is urgently calling for
more wharf room at Savannah, and says
that on Friday nearly the whole river front
was covered with vessels—in a great many
places lying three abreast—besides there
are a large number lying at Venus’ Point
and Tyhee.
The Great Gold Muddle—Mrs. Gen.
Grant Makes $35,000. — Washington, Janu
ary 33.—Fisk and Gould both testified yes
terday before the Banking Committee.—
They asserted that, by the representations
of Corbin, the brother-in-law of Grant,
which were sustained by corroborating ev
idences of his intimacy and influence with
the President, they were led to believe that
President Grant had decided not to sell
the Government gold. They therefore
bought. On the first transaction, Mrs.
Grant’s share of the profit was twenty
five thousand dollars, which was re
mitted to her. They fully implicate But
terfield, and held one million on margin
for him. —Special to Charleston News.
by" telegraph.
FROM ATLANTA.
BULLOCK PROROGUES AGAIN.
HE CONDESCENDS TO GIVE REA
SONS.
WANTS TIME TO COLLECT HIS AN
IMALS.
TERRY STILL COUNTERSIGNS
EDICTS.
BULLOCK OPINES THE HOUSE WILL
ORGANIZE.
FATTY’S GAVEL FALLS LIGHTER.
[Bpeei;il to the Constitutionalist.
Atlanta, January 24.
The Senate met to-day. at 12, m., and ad
journed. i
The House met at 12, m., when an order
was read from the Great Provisional, pro
roguing its session to 10 o’clock to-morrow.
The order was attempted to be bolstered
by the threadbare reason of the necessity of
awaiting decision in the cases of members
charged as being ineligible. Anew plea
was also put. in—the absence of several
Radical members, whose presence was ne
cessary to the success of Bullock’s de
signs.
Bullock said his opinion was, that the
House would organize to-morrow.
Terry, as heretofore, endorsed the order.
It was noticed that the gavel of “ Fatty”
Harris did not descend quite so imperious
as heretofore.
Messrs. Hughes and Carpenter were
sworn in.
The House adjourned to 10 o’clock to
morrow.
The Military Board, to-night, is still en
gaged in preparing a report for Terry.
[Associated Press Dispatches.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, January 23.— The presence
of Prince Arthur causes little excitement.
He walked to aud from church with Mrs.
Thornton.
The Express says Senators who saw the
President this morning, say he advised
those who desired the adtnissiou of Virginia
unconditionally toinake no further efforts
to carry this point; it being evident that
the Senate would not pass any bill without
imposing some conditions upon the admis
sion of that State.
Bingham favors taking up the Virginia
Bill and putting it on its passage.
Butler favors its reference to the Recon
struction Committee. The best opinion is,
that the House will pass the bill as it came
from the Senate. The Democrats will all
vote against its reference to the committee,
where Butler can hold it indefinitely.
It is stated, in answer to many letters,
that persons desiring relief from political
disabilities should send formal petitions
addressed to Congress, setting forth the
facts in the cases. There seems no proba
bility of the passage of a general relief bill
this session.
Washington, January 24—Noon.—The
Reconstruction Committee met aud unani
mously agreed to report the Senate Vir
ginia bill and press its passage to-day, if
possible. Bingham accepts it. and the Re
publlfcans, as far as heard, will vote for It.
In the House, several bills were under
regular call.
A contest arose over the reference of the
postal telegraph bill, which was finally re
ferred to a special committee of seven—a
triumph for the friends of the bill.
The Senate business is unimportant.
Washington, January 24.—P. M.—Re
venue, $617,000.
Delano will recommend that the Indian
Territory be formed In assessive and collec
tion districts for the purpose of collecting
tax on tobacco, whisky and malt liquor.
The Ways and Means Committee seems
to favor raising the duty on all manufac
tured steel aud Iron.
The Supreme Court, to day, decided in a
case, coming firom the Northern District of
Alabama, that the plea of Contederate
authority is no Justification for the indict
ment, arrest and imprisonment of a party
for treason against that power by its courts,
officers and grand juries.
Gov. Walker holding that the joint reso
lution adjourning the Legislature oi \ lr
ginia is void, without his approval, he will
proclaim a convocation as soon as the
President Signs the bill. „ ,
Nominations —.lames G. Tracy, Post
master, Houston, Texas ; Hamilton uay
lov, Collector of Customs, Pearl River,
Miss.; James P Butler, Collector of Cus
toms, BrazOs de Santiago ; Isaac Strail,
Appraiser of Merchandize, Savannah; Geo.
O. Pecfct Collector of Revenue Second North
Carolina; William L. Pern old, Assessor
Fifth Virginia ; Davld Haterback, Attor
ney for North Carolina ; Luclen B. Eaton,
& .4k : . 11 4 ~. ~ f.iTl -
Marshal Western Tennessee; Commodore
John Rodgers, Rear Admiral.
In the Senate, Morrill qualified as Fes
senden’s successor; 1 ' < •'
Tfie bill to provide a Natioual currency
of coin notes and. to equalize the distribu
tion of circulating notes was taken up and
discussed to executive session.
In the House, among the bills introduced
was one resuming possession of lands
granted to Arkansas for a railroad from
Mississippi, via Little Rock, to the Texas
boundary; one paying letter carriers $1,200
per annum; one increasing Judges of the
Supreme Court and defining jurisdiction
of United States Courts; one conveying
certain property in Beaufort district, South
Carolina, for school purposes; one paying
black and white soldiers equal bounties;
oue establishing postal telegraph which
was referred to a special committee of
seven.
A resolution passed declaring that, In
the opinion of the House, owing to its
secular duties, the Committee on Elections
is a judicial body ; in deciding questions,
should act according to all rules of law as
purely as though each member was under
oath in each case. Passed, by yeas, 138;
nays, 25.
The House theu took up the Virginia
bill, and, after very sharp debate between
Bingham, Butler and Farnsworth, mostly
of a personal character, the House con
curred in the bill as it came from the Sen
ate. It was passed by a strict party vote.
Adjourned.
VIRGINIA.
[first dispatch.]
Richmond, January 24.—The news of
the final passage of the bill admitting the
State was received here after dark. There
appeared to be a general feeling of welcome
relief, but none of the demonstrations of
joy that followed the news of the passage
of Bingham's unconditional bill in the
House.
[second dispatch.]
Richmond, January 24.—The City Coun
cil, upon the receipt of the intelligence,
passed a resolution hailing with delight
Virginia’s return to the Uniou, and request
ing General Cauby to fire one hundred guns
iu houor of the event to-morrow.
Lynchburg, January 23.—A sleeping
car of the train which left here 5:20, Friday,
was thrown from the track by the break
ing of a wheel, dragged some distance,
thrown down a precipice and dashed to
pieces. Conductor Millon, Gen. Wm. C.
Roddy, of Mississippi, and ten othcr'occu
pants were severely bruised. The injured
passengers were placed on other cars and
proceeded on their journey.
LOUISIANA.
New Orleans, January 23. —Charles
Horn, assistant foreman of Washington
Fire Company, was shot and killed last
uight by an unknown negro. A negro was
accidentally wounded by a shot from the
same party.
The British bark Nictaux, at anchor in
the river, having cleared for Liverpool with
1,900 bales of cotton and other cargo, todk
lire in her hold. She was to the
levee and pumped full of water. The
cargo was damaged by fire and water.
The Gas Company threaten to cut off the
city’s supply of gas if their bill is not paid
by the first of February.
The claims set up by Mrs. Myra Clark
Gaines, to ownership of a large portion of
the city of New Orleans, has been exten
sively commented on recently by the city
papers. The opiniou of lawyers and others,
published, goes to show that Mrs. Gaines
has no valid claim. This morning’s Times
publishes an article from Hero, custodian of
notorial records, showing that Daniel
Clark sold the last of this property In 1810,
thus divesting himself of all ownership.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Boston, January 24.—The Julia brings
Haytien advices to the 14th.
The Provisional Government has decreed
an export tax of four cents per pound on
coffee, commencing first, ot February.
Troops have been sent South to suppress
unimportant disturbances, which threaten
ed the new governments. Otherwise,
everything is quiet.
CALIFORNIA.
San FrancisCo, December 23.— The war
ship Jamestown has arrived —seventy-seven
days from Fejee Islands. English settlers
from Australia and New Zealand are ar
riving in large numbers at the Feejee Is
lands, to cultivate sea island cotton, which
is said to yield fabulously.
OHIO.
Cincinnati, January 24 —The Distillers’
Association protests against Delano’s de
cision in favor of forty eight hours’ ferment
ation.
The cigar makers are on a strike.
KENTUCKY.
Louisville, January 23.—Geo. D. Pren
tice is dead, aged 68.
FOREIGN.
Paris, January 23.—Rochefort’s sentence
includes deprivation of political rights, but
don’t interfere with his position of Deputy.
Liverpool, January 24.—The Coliery
riot at Sheffield promises serious results.
It is anticipated that five hundred Euro
pean clergymen will attend the Evangeli
cal Alliance at New York, September sth.
In a fire panic at St. Joseph’s Chapel,
yesterday, fifteen persons were trampled ,to
death and a great many Injured.
Madrid January 24. —The Duke Mont
pensier has been elected deputy from
Oneida.
MARINE NEWS.
Charleston, Jan 23.— Arrived: Steamer
Tennessee, New York; steamer Saragossa,
New York; schooner Tennessee, Green
point, L. I.
Sailed : Schooner S. H. Woodbury, Jack
sonville ; schooner Kate Walker, Satllla.
Charleston, January 24.—Arrived : Str.
Falcon, from Baltimore; bark Pepita, from
Matanzas; brig Union, from St. lago de
Cuba; schooner M. A. Holt, from New
York.
Sailed : Steamer Adalia, for Liverpool.
Savannah, January 24.—Arrived: Str.
Livingstou, from New York ; schooner Ze
phaniah Steelman, from Philadelphia.
Cleared: Ship Therese, for Liverpool,
and brig Phetis, for White Haven, England.
MARKETS.
London, January 24—Noon.—Consols,
92%. Bonds, 87%.
Liverpool, January 24—Noon. —Cotton
quiet; uplands, 11% ; Orleans 11%; sales,
10,000 bales, lied Western Wheat, 7s. 9d.
@7s. lOd.
Later. —Cotton firmer; sales, 15,000 bales.
Breadstuffs firmer. Pork firm. *
Liverpool., January 24—Evening.—Cot
ton buoyant; uplands, 11%; Orleans, 11%;
sales, 18,000; speculation and export, 6,000.
bales. Lard active at 725. Turpentine,
28s. 9d.
Paris, January 24—Noon. —Bourse open
ed quiet. ‘Rentes, 73f. 70c.
New York, January 24—Noon.—Stocks
strong. Money easy at 6®7. Exchange
long, 8%; short, 9%. Gold, 121%. ’62’s,
coupon, 15%; Tennessees, ex coupon, 54%;
new, 47%; Virginias, ex coupon, 54%;
new, 62; Missouri’s, 87%; Louisianas, old,
67; * new, 64; Levee Sixes, 63; Levee
Eights, 76; Alabama Eights, 94; Alabama
Fives, 6(1; Georgia Sixes, 87092; North
Carolina Sevens, old, 40; new, 24; South
Carolina, new, 76.
New York, January 24—P. M.—Money
easy at 5®7. Gold steady at 121% ; declin
ed, closing weak at 120%. Governments
fraction lower, but firm at close; 62’s, 15%;
Southerns generally dull.
New York, January 24—Noon.—Flour
5(910 better. Wheat quiet and firm. Corn
quiet and unchanged. Pork quiet; mess,
S3B. Lard firm at 16%@17%. Cotton
more steady at 25%. Turpentine quiet at
45%. Rosin quiet at $2(92 05 fqr common,
and $2 10 for good strained. Freights
quiet.
New York, Jauuary 24—P. M.—Cotton
firmer ; sales 4,500 bales at 25%. Flour
state, and Western 6@lo better on low
grades ; Southern rather active at $5 50®
9 75. Wheat closed quiet and unchanged,
Corn dull; new mixed Western, 94®98,
Mess Pork steady. Lard quiet and heavy;
kettle, 17%@18. Whisky, sl. Rice dull
at 6@7. Sugar quiet. Coffee dull. Molas
ses dull. Turpeutlue, 45@45%. Rosin, $2
@B. Freights steady.
Baltimore, January 24.—Cotton dull
bat firm. Flour favors buyers [Howard
street superfine, $4 75@5. Wheat firm;
prime to choice red. $1 30(31 45. Corn
firm; white, 98®$1 02; yellow, 95. Oats
steady at 53(355. Pork, $29 50<330. Bacon
firm and active; shoulders, 13%. Whisky
closed active at si. Virginias, old, 48%;
Ws, 58; ’67’s, 54; Coupons, old, 51; new,
58; North Carolinas, old, 40 bid.
Louisville, January 24.—Corn, sacked,
83. Provisions quiet. Mess Pork, S2B 50.
Bacon—shoulders, 13%; clear sides, 16%.
Lard—tierces, 17. Whisky, 85.
Cincinnati,) January 24.—Corn un
changed.
Wilmington, January 24.—Spirits of
Turpentine strong at 42.' Rosin quiet;
strained, $1 50. Crude Turpentine, $1 65@
2 80. Tar 25c. higher—s 2 10. Cottou
quiet steady at 23@23%.
Weather cloudy; thermometer, 64.
Mobile, January 24.—Cotton in good
demand, closed firm; sales, 2,500 bales- mid
dling, 24@24%; receipts, 1,520.
jkNkw Orleans, January 24—Cotton ac
tive at 24%@24%; sales, 7,350 bales; re
ceipts since Saturday, 12,374 bales- ex
ports to Liverpool, 4,203 bales. Flour’flrm
at $5 37%, $5 85 and $6. Corn firm at
$1 10. Oats, 70. Hay easier at $33. Mess
Pork held at S3O. Bacon scarce at 14%
Lar( l quiet at 16%@17; keg!
17%@18. Sugar quiet at 12%@12% for
prime. Molasses—prime, 69<§70. Whisky
quiet at 97%@51 05. Coffee active and
firm; fair, 15%@15%; prime, 17%@17%.
Continuous rains restricts business. Gold,
121%. Sterling, 31%. Sight, par@% dis
count.
Charleston, January 24.—Cotton firm;
sales, 400 bales; middling, 24%@24%; re
ceipts, 869 bah‘B.
Savannah, January 24.—Cotton—re
ceipts, 2,951 bales; exports, 2,877; sales,
1,000; middling, 24%; market firm and ad
vancing.
Cincinnati Semi-Weekly Market.
REPORTED by MORRIS & REID,
Produce and Provision Brokers, Room No. 9,
Pike Opera Building, Cincinnati, Ohio.
j Cincinnati, January 19,1870.
Provisions.—There has been considera
ble activity in bulk meats and bacon past
two days, and would have been more ex
tensive, but packers held out of reach. Or
der demand is increasing, and as they be
come larger prices will steadily advance.
Hogs.—Receipts to-day, 2,249; total to
date, 337,062 ; up to same time'last season,
356,555; receipts being light, drovers are
firm, and demand good at s9@lo, gross, for
light to heavy averages; dressed, sll@
11 40, net.
Green Meats—Shoulders, 10@10% ;
sides, 12%@12% ; hams, 14%@14%, as to
averages.
Bulk Meats iu better request and held
firm—shoulders, 11%; c. r. sides, 14%;
clear, 14%, loose; for fully cured %c. high
er, packed.
Bacon in good demand ; about all sold
that is ready at 13 for shoulders ; 15% for
clear rib; 16 for clear, and at the" close
higher prices are asked ; hams, sugar cured.
19(319%.
Lard in request at 16%, but held firm at
17 for kettle rendered.
Mess Pork—Under a good order demaud,
prices advanced yesterday to $27 50, at
which price it is held firmly; would meet
ready sale at $27.
Whisky—High Wines firm at 93, sharp
cash.
Corn—New shelled or ear, 78@80 in ele
vator, sack included cost 10c. per bushel
more.
Oats—Black or mixed, 53 ; in bulk, 58,
including bags.
Flour—Remarkably quiet; superfine,
$4 50@4 75; extra, $4 85@5 10; family,
$5 35@6, as to brand and quality.
Morris & Reid.
Rates of Freight from Cincinnati to Augus
ta, Oa., via Louisville Short Line Railroad.
Bacon, per 100 lbs., $1 03.
Pork, per bbl., $2 26.
Flour, per bbl., $1 64.
Corn, per 100 lbs., 68.
Grain and Oats’, per 100 lbs., 74.
Augusta Daily Market.
Ofpicis Daily Constitutionalist, )
Monday, January 24—P. M. j
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 \opeued with a good
demand at 23%@24 for iniddliug ; closed active
at 24. Sales, 571 hales. Receipts, 460 bales.
BACON—Fair demaud. We quote C. Sides,
18@19 ; C. R. Sides. IS@lB% ; B. B. Sides, 15
@15%; Shoulders, 18; Hams, 21@28; Dry
Sail Shoulders, IB@lß% ; Dry Salt C. K. Sides,
CORN— New is beginning to come in treely,
and is selling at, ft 35@1 40 from depot.
WHEAT We quote choice while, $1 55;
amber. ,$1 50; red, $1 45.
FLOUR—City Mills, new, $6 50@9 00; at
retail, *1 $ barrel higher. Cuuutry, #6@9,
according to quality.
CORN MEAL—SI 45 at wholesale; fl 60 at
retail.
OATS—Bs@sl 25.
PEAS—Scarce at $1 60.
Circulars in Circulation.— We saw a
copy of a circular yesterday, made up of
the affidavits of several of our most re
spectable citizens, substantiating the vol
untary part which Foster Blodgett assumed
in the organization of a company in this
city, called the “Blodgett Volunteers,” at
the"head of which he entered the Confed
erate service; and also testifying to his un
successful struggle to obtain the office of
Major of the 3d Georgia Regiment. In
this circnlar is found also an expose of his
artful dodging to secure the office of post
master in Augusta, in the matter of taking
the test oath. One of the affiants, we ob
serve, avers that Blodgett informed him
that the appointment was secured by his
son, E. F., taking the oath, the similarity
o'" name misleading the authorities at
Washington. We got but a glance at the
circular, thousands of which are in circu
lation, we learn, around Atlanta and in
other localities of Georgia, where the sub
ject of the biography is not so well known
as here.
A Murdkiier Arbesteo. —Chavis, the
Indian connected with Reynolds’ Menage
rie, who shot and killed Mr. J. T. K. Dar
gan, at Graham’s Cross Roads, S. C., on
the Northeastern Railroad, on the 18th in
stant, has been captured near Orangeburg.
An exciting rgee occurred before his cap
ture, the Sheriff and his posse pursuing and
firing seven shots at him. He was cap
tured in the river swamp, .up to his neck in
water, and has been committed to jail.
Wait for Mas “ Bullock.”—We are in
formed that a gentleman connected with
the Port Royal Railroad had yesterday se
cured five or six colored hands, and was ac
companying them to their labors on the
Hue of the road. The. railroad party were
met and interviewed by a strapping buck
negro, who, ascertaining the destination of
his colored brethren, remarked that they
had better return to the city and wait a
day, until they heard from “ Mas Bullock.”
And they returned.
Fine Stock.—if any of our readers de
sire to purchase mules, they should visit
thq Kentucky and Tennessee Stables, be
longing to Capt. C. Toler, where they will
see oue of the largest and best conditioned
lot of mules ever brought to this market,