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About Tri-weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 18??-1877 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 26, 1870)
, 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,
