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CONSTITUTIONALIST.
AUGHT ST A. GhA.
THURSDAY MORNING, JAN, 27,1870
A CALCIUM LIGHT ON THE SITUATION.
During all the troubles which have over
taken Georgia since the passage of tbe
Morton Bili, we have endeavored to avoid
deceiving ourselves and,, innocently or
otherwise, deceiving others. Prompted by
this unpleasant but imperative duty, we
have been obliged to throw cold water be
times upon illusory expectations, and, as a
matter of course, received therefor the
abuse of some of our more sanguine patrons
and the unfavorable criticism or a portion
of the Press. When we were convinced
that General Terry was either a tool of
bad men or a natural tyrant, we boldly
stated our belief and the reasons for it.
When it was proposed to go into the “soft
soap” business with our satrap, we ridi
culed the idea as both fruitless and humili
ating. When a coalition of Democrats
with hybrid Radicals was proposed, we
gave it but little countenance, because we
mistrusted the individuals who had seem
ingly sloughed ofT from the extreme body
of their party, and deemed that the true
meuiu the Georgia Legislature could ac
complish a great deal more by preserving
their unity and balance of power, divested
of entangling alliances. When we saw that
the “ Governor ”of this State was backed
by an absolute military dictator, who, in
• turn, was warmly and fhlly supported by
the Radical President and the Radical Con
gress, we reluctantly but firmly pointed
out that the contest, however gallant,
was almost of necessity to be made nuga
tory. These were bitter things to enun
ciate ; but they were truths. The sooner
we become convinced of them, the better
prepared shall we be to settle udoo some
feasible scheme for counteracting them or
drawing their sting. Unless we are very
much mistaken, we are dealing with a mil
itary commander who is strongly imbued
with imperialistic tendencies, and one, too,
whose determination to bring Georgia un
der the yoke is only equalled by the power
vouchsafed him by the President and Con
gress to accomplish his purpose. Under
such circumstances, there is hat little nope
from a Legislature doctored by such a
medicine man, and we can but turn for re
lief to avenging Time and to the indomi
table and unterrifled. People of Georgia.
In the coming time, we shall scatter Ter
ry’s work to the four winds of heaven,
and, in the coming time, the grand men
and women of Georgia shall control their
own inheritance. Meanwhile, the Lord,
for some inscrutable purpose, has permit
ted the tyrant aucl the knave to have domi
nation for a brief season. But while these
murderers of our rights have but their
hour, our children shall have all time and
all eternity for redress and vindication.
These remarks are but preliminary to the
introduction of the following correspond
ence from Washington, which we clip from
the columns of the New York Herald. As
stated in our caption, it throws a calcium
light on the situation and justifies the horo
scope we drew early in this affair:
“ Washington, January 22,1870.
“The communication from Gen. Terry to
President Grant, about certain Georgia
matters, covers twenty-five pages of manu
script, and is said to be a very able argu
ment. Gen. Terry, who is a lawyer, reviews
in his communication the whole subject of
reconstruction, analyzing the powers and
duties of military commanders under the
various laws, and arriving, by a long train
of argumeut, to two very important con
clusions, as follows: First, that as military
commander he is vested with full power to
unseat all members of the Legislature who
are disqualified from holding office by rea
son of the restrictive provisions of the Four
teentn Amendment of the Constitution ;
second, that as a necessary sequence of the
above he has the right to award seats as
members of the Legislature to such parties
as may have received the highest number
of votes next to those unseated by reason of
disqualification. Gen. Terry sustains the
first point by the argument that the intent
of the law should always be taken into con
sideration, and that there can be uo ques
tion that the object of the framers of recon
struction legislation and of the Fourteenth
Amendment was to exclude from holding
office all persons who, having sworn to sup
port the United States Constitution and
having held office under that Constitution,
subsequently took arms agaiust our Gov
ernment or gave aid and comfort to
the enemy. If the military commander
entrusted with the duty of reconstruction
is denied the power of excluding rebels
from, participating in reorganizing the
States when such rebels are by the Con
stitution forbidden, uuless relieved of their
disabilities, then, in the opinion of Gen
eral Terry, the Fourteenth Amendment
must be iuoperative aud the reconstruction
legislation become a dead letter. General
Terry goes still further aud holds that, as
to the exercise of his power of excluding
disqualified members, it makes uo difference
whether such members have takeu the re
quired oath or not. If they took the oath j
falsely, then, surelj, that could not make !
them any better entitled to hold office tliau j
before the act of perjury. As to the second
point, to wit, that he has fall power to
award seats to such persous as received the
next highest number of : votes, General
Terry contends that it is an absurd inter
pretation of the law to deny it. All per
sons who were in fact disqualified under
the Fourteenth Amendment, and received
votes fbr office could not be sworn in legally;
the votes cast for them were entirely void ;
no amount of swearing could make them ■
valid afterwards. A disqualified candidate :
under the Fourteenth Amendment, he con
sidered, could not be elected legally auy
more than an idiot, a non-resident, a duellist
or auy rpeinber of any other class In the
list of disqualified. Yotes for any such
persons might be counted, but they should
afterwards be thrown out as blanks and
only the legal votes considered. For these
and other reasotis the General conteuds
that he has full powers, but, nevertheless,
he writes to the President to ask whether in
case these views are put in force he will lie
sustained <by the Administration. Senators
Thayer aud Morton, together wit h Ben But
ler, being apprised of the nature of General
Terry s communication, waited upon the
President this morning to ascertain his de
cision. Tbe President received them warm
ly, and very frankly stated that he bad very
recently said to both Secretary Belknap
and General Sherman that his own opinion
was that General Terry should be allowed
to manage the reconstruction of Georgia
in whatever waj? his judgment and discre
tion might suggest. He believed General
Terry to be a. sound lawyer, and that he
was better calculated to understand the
real position of affkfrs In ; Georgia and to
know what course ought to be pursued,
than any body else. Unless flea. Terry
should do something flagrantly Ifi violation
of law, he ought not to be interfered with.
He (the President) would have been better
pleased had General Terry not asked at all
for instructions, as he (Terry) was invested
to a great extent with absolute power as
military commander, and should act on his
own judgment, but as he had asked for in
. attractions he, the President, sett that he
was bound to send an answer tothe com
munication. In reply to a question from
one of the trio as to what would be his
answer to Terry’s communication, the Pre
sident was understood to say that .he would
telegraph Terry that the Administration
Would sustain him in the views contained
in the communication. _ x The President
further said that he would see Belknap aud
Sherman and have the answer sent to-day.
It is understood that Secretary Belknap to
night telegraphed Terry that he might go
ahead, with tin- assurance that the Admin
istration would sustain him.” ; j i
The force of despotism and sophistry
pan no farther go. First , our satrap pro-
claims himself omnipotent. Second, being
omnipotent, he can purge the Georgia Le
gislature to suit his owa purposes and the
purposes of the party whose emissary he
is. Third, as the ordering of new elections
in cases oj; disqualification; would eventuate
in the return of Democrats, he, being om
nipotent, will rather give seats to Radical
' contest*!# whc&todJWt Sliest bn the
list. Fourth, the swearing process of the
Morton Bill i9 a mere trap and does not
effect the right of a Democrat to hold his
seat, Ufider any circumstances. General
Terry having sketched his plan of recon
structing Georgia, President' Grant ap
plauds it as the scheme of a sound lawyer
and man of discretion. Whereupon, in
stead of instructing Terry to “ ease up,”
the President tells him to drive ahead , with
assurances of being the Adminis
tration and all ita pow& and influence! Such
is the situation. Shall we fear it? No!
Shall we humble ourselves abjectly before it
and its concocters ? No! We should re
gard it with steady eyes and undaunted
souls. We should resolve that though
powerless to prevent present aggression we
shall yet keep invincible in the faith. We
should prepare to make sacrifices, if need
be, rather than yield to corrupt and coward
ly influences, for the sake of present ease.
We should be true to ourselves and rest
Gibraltar-like on the reliance that the
Future will be kind and true and glorious
for us aud our prosperity, the machinations
of tyrants to the contrary notwithstanding.
If we are desperate, if we are faithless, if
we are cowardly, if we are corrupt, much
that the Future has in store for us of re
nown aud blessing will be takeu away.
But, as the Lord livetb, being patient, true,
; intrepid and honest, we shall not perish by
the lAspot’e power, blit rather rise in
fhajesty ofl the day when he lies howling.
Chief Justice Chase and the Fif
teenth Amendment —While the resolu
tion to ratify the proposed Fifteenth
Amendment was under discussion in the
Ohio House of Representatives, on Wed
nesday evening, the following letter from
Chief Justice Chase was read:
Washington, November, 1869.
Hon. Thomas Yealman:
My Dear Bir: The eyes of the whole
country are upon the Stat£ of Ohio. On
your vote depends the passage of the Fif
teenth Amendment. I am for universal
suffrage and universal amnesty. The
amendment must be put through the Legis
lature at all hazards. 9- P. Chase.
[From tbe Missouri Republican.
Prentice.
“ George D. Prentice,” says the telegraph,
“ died this morning at ten minutes before
four o’clock.” It is not true. Such men
as George D. Prentice never die.
“ Celebrated for forty; years as an editor
and poet.” O wise young man 1 did you
never guess that he was “ celebrated for
forty years as an editor ” because he was a
poet ?
And such a poet! Every paragraph that
he wrote was inwrought with the gleam
ing fancies of transcendent genius. His
wit was not so far superior to that of a
thousand others; but always there flashed
across it the tender lights that sparkle in
the eyes of no men but lunatics, lovers and
poets. His wisdom was uot so much
greater than that of his fellows; bnt it was
wrapped in such garb as for three thou
sand years had hidden the nakedness of
Solomon, a garb which both reveals and
conceals, aud, like the watch crystal, most
conceals itself, most reveals what is set
next it. For the rhythm of meaning is
poetry; the rhythm of metre is its meretri
cious incident.
So far as regards expression, the pen of
Prentice is probably the most facile of
which America may boast. So little did
mere phraseology cost, that hundreds of
private letters ran out from him in a
strangely sweet musical jingle, like tink
ling of waters from some perennial spring.
And so little did he value the,airy trifles
that bubbled from his prolific brain, that
so recently as his 66th year he had never
even attained a collection of them. It was
only when chance occasion roused him to
partial consciousness of his power that he
loomed in majesty massive as Milton’s,
showing the wondering world what a mar
vellous poet the hard necessities of cruel
fortune had cramped into the narrow mold
of journalistic routine. As, when in 1867
the unveiling of the statue of Clay lifted
also for a brief moment the veil from half a
century of public turmoil, the thousand
memories of his mighty mind, like riderless
war horses charging unconsciously in dis
ciplined compactness, surged upon the as
sembled multitudes in that unparalleled
ode which no man who heard will ever live
to forget, one of the most magnificent
crowns that rests upon mortal brow.
Those who knew him loved him. It is
doubtful whether he leaves in the whole
world an enemy; he certainly had not in
the whole world an enmity. He loved
everything that God had made; and what
he lovrd he trusted. So utterly guileless
was he that the most worthless scoundrel,
stamped with broadest stamp of Satan upon
his face, could go to him at all times confi
dently, sure never to be suspected of wilful
falsehoods Evil glanced from his moral
nature like hail from the granite hills, leav
ing behind it neither trace nor taint. To
look in his eye Ju the presence of profanity
was to see his soul shrink as®child shrinks
from a blow or a brute from a thunderbolt.
Even when lie was most oppressed by uu
happiest circumstances, even after he had
furthest yielded to the bias of au ill-regu
lated life (for your true-born genius rarely
concerns himself with the culture of his
passions, neque se nimium trigere, nec subja
rere servMer), one would as -soon dream of
censuring a. strayed Jamb, or of imputing
vice to assure virgin. Only his poor body
paid the penalty.
What shall be his place in the temple of
fame, it is scarcely for us, who live yet in
the magic of his presence, to determine.
Asa political polemic, instinct wit a biting
bitterness that had no place in his heart,
he is of yesterday—nay, of a buried genera
tion. He was never an editor in the later
signification; aud though he were, the
storms of a single year would almost suffice
to level his gf;t*« “ The struggle for life ”
(how few it sparest) has spoiled us of his
Iliad. Blithe will float away to our chil
dren’s grandchildren enthroned upon a
score of beautiful fragments, girt with the
mystic halo that ever lingers about God’s
most gifted creations.
So bid we onr lost friend good night.
Wise and good, untroubled be
The green turf that covers thee!
Thence in gay profusion grow
All the sweetest flowers that blow!
Pluto’s consort bid tbee rest!
M tcus pronounce the blest!
To ber home tby shade consign !
>[ake Elysium ever thine!
J . 1 "■ 1 mm
A in New York.—We
learn from the New Y.qrk flerald of the 21st
instant that Dr. John Murry Cttniochan,
the eraingßt surgeon, has been nominated by
the Governor of the State of New York for
the position of Health Officer of the port of
New York.
Dr. Carnochan is a lineal descendant of
General Israel Putnam, and was born in
Savannah in July, 1817. When quite young
he entered the High School at Edinburgh,
Scotland, where studied for several
years, and graduated with thje highest hon
ors. He then entered the University, where
he completed his humanities and returned
to ths United States, in the seventeenth
year of his age.
He determined to be a surgeon, and en
tered the office o£ Valentine Mott. He soon
took his degree as Doctor of Medicine, and
devoted himself ardently to the study of
remained six years in attendance upon the
clinical lectures of the principal hospitals
in Paris, London and Edinburgh, and
familiarized himself with the practice and
modes of treatment of the most distinguish
ed surgeons in Europe. Upon his return
to the United States he fixed upon the city
of New York as his home, where he soon
acquired great distinction as a surgeon, and
secured an extensive practice.
[Savqtmafy JleptMica%.
The Woman Suffrage Movement.
Tea® MitN*Kv m & rams
CROWING AND THR RpOSTERS CACKLING.
The Natioual Woman Suffrage Conven
tion held a convocation in Washington on
Tuesday, and crowed lustily for the ballot.
The following strong minded luminaries
and their male adherents expatiated on the
universal suffrage sensation, which has
bound them in vigorous, if futile, war upon
the doctriqe of male supremacy and exclu
sive pantaloons privileges: Mrs. Stanton,
Miss Susan B. Anthony, Miss Phoebe Coz
zens, Mrs. Wright, Mrs. Paulina Davis,
Senator Pomeroy, Hons. J. M. Scovel and
A. G. Riddle, Profs. Willcox, Wolf, and
others.
FEMALE SUFFRAGE STRONG AS GRANT.
Mrs. Stanton-, as President of the Con
vention, said it had assembled to discuss
the project of giving the right
to the women of the A,u attempt had
once been made in Congress.by Mr. Julian,
butt'd not succeed ; now they had hopes
o f effecting the passage of a Sixteenth
Amendment to the Constitution. Unless
the Republican party would speed this
amendment the Democrats would have the
glory of doing it, as they bad done in" the
West. The woman suffrage question in
Wyoming was no joke, as many were in
clined to believe. It was a reality. She
could not imagine how any thing ennobling
to man would be disgracing to women.—
She had no doubt but that in 1872 the
ticket bearing woman’s suffrage would be
as good as the one that elected President
Grant.
A WESTERN FEMALE LAWYER SPEAKS.
Miss Phoebe Cozzens, who had studied
law in St. Louis, was proud to be a Western
woman, and was well aware of the fact
that “ Westward the star Os the empire
takes its way.” Like a Western woman,
she would say to all, “ Dare to do right,
dare to be true.” The West was in favor
of the movement. “ All hail Wyoming !”
didn’t have time before death.
A letter was read from J. Stuart Mill,
the great apostle of the female movement,
who was broken fully into harness by his
wife, regretting that he had so many things
to do before he died, that he could not at
tend the convention.
SENATOR POMEROY WANTS ANOTHER AMEND
MENT.
He felt highly gratified to see the conven
tion assembled, and to hear its object dis
cussed. He would cast his vote to give the
franchise to woman, not because she was a
woman, but because she was an American
citizen. He would not make her vote, but
let her do so if she chose. Another amend
ment was certainly needed. A Chinaman
or an African could not be naturalized in
this country. The naturalization laws
ought to be changed.
CL\RA BARTON APPEALS TO THE SOLDIERS.
A communication was read from Miss
Clara Barton, written in Geneva, Eu
rope, and addressed to her soldier friends.
She says : ‘ When you were weak and I was
strong 1 toiled for you. Now you are
strong and I am weak, because of my work
for you, 1 ask your aid. I ask the ballot
for myself and my sex. As I stood by you,
I pray you stand by me and mine.”
FEMALE BALLOTS TO SAVE THE COUNTRY.
Mrs. Stanton felt the insult of the Fif
teenth Amencment, and must have a Six
teenth Amendment. Now send back to
Clara Barton the answer that she was about
to be invested with the rights of American
citizenship. This would be the best answer
to her. Thev tell us wait until the negro
had citizenship given him. Was this not
humiliating to us V Were the claims of the
negro of more force than those of the
mothers and daughters of this country.—
She felt that nothing could save this nation
but the force of tiie moral power that
woman would bring into the political
arena. Freedom in the church and State
was the great ultimatum to be attained.
NO BOUNTY ALLOWED ON CELIBACY.
A motion was made to adjourn, but not
put, owing to a gentleman in the audience
desiring to advise the convention to adopt
resolutions allowing unmarried women to
have the exclusive control of their prop
erty. Mrs. E. C. Stanton, however, thought
this was giving a bounty on celibacy, and
declared the convention adjourned till 2
o’clock, p. m.
SUSAN ANTHONY PRESSES BUSINESS.
By this hard-worked disciple, the follow
ing resolutions were introduced and laid
on the table for debate, in the afternoon :
Resolved, That the National Woman’s
Suffrage Convention respectfully ask the
Forty-First Congress of the United States—
First. To submit to the Legislatures of
the several States a Sixteenth Amendment
to the Federal Constitution prohibiting the
disfranchisement of any of their citizens oil
account of sex.
Second. To strike the word “ male” from
the laws governing the District of Co
lumbia.
Third. To enfranchise the women of Utah
as the one safe, sure, and swift means to
abolish the polygamy of that Territory.
Fourth. To amend the laws of the United
States so that women shall receive the same
pav as meu for services reudered the Gov
ernment.
THE OI.D SPEECH MAKER AFTER CONGRESS.
Miss Anthouy then expressed her views
as to the Constitution of the United States
and of the several States. She was greatly
iu favor of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments. Any word she might utter
in regard to these amendments she spoke
under the impression that the Fifteenth
Amendment was a fixed fact. But the
Sixteenth was needed. The question arose
why she did not bring her Sixteenth
Amendment t,o the different Legislatures
of the States. She remarked that she
came to Washington and to Congress be
cause Congress bad been the first to throw
: obstacles in the way of women by insert
| ing the word “ male ” in the Constitution..
j She was tired of this continual talk about
i female suffrage. She had been speech mak
ing now twenty years, and was tired of it.
She wanted action now, and would not be
satisfied until Congress had acted iD their
behalf.
SCOVELL ORATES HEROICALLY FOR THE
HENS.
At the evening session, Scovell believed
in heroism. Grant won with the sword at
Appomattox what Charles Sumner con
tended for half a century—an idea That
idea is the liberty of all, limited by the
like liberty of each. The civil rights bill
did little good till you armed the African
with a ballot. Then the old master touched
his ha l to the new citizen—his old slave.—
And why? Because lie was a power in the
land ? it is only God-like to use power for
humanity; and that is how we propose to
use it. Congress must hear us—shall hear
qs—because we speak in the voice of the
people for the people. And I speak to you
as a man, as a gentleman; yes, and as a
lawyer, when I tell you your boasted
amendments are as the small dnst of the
balanee till the Sixteenth Amendment is
written—graven—in the text of your Con
stitution—the guarantee for posterity, the
liberty for all , limited only by the like liber
ty of each. Then we will have a country,
never again clasping the Bible with the
handcuffs of slavery,b*i', a land where we,
men and women alike, can worship a cora
njou God, before whom there is neither Jew
nor (Gh'eek, ‘S white isale” or female, bar
barian, Scythian, bend of free. [Applause.]
A GIANT NO xom HW3T3 TJgAN f. Tffmfß.
Mrs. Wilbur advocated human rights.
The largest giant had no more tights than
Tom Thumb. It was brain, not force, that
governed the world. A small hand was
able so discharge a musket, guide an en
gine, or edit a paper as well as a large one.
The womanly in nature should be express
ed by woman, the manly by man ; the two
were distinct, and could not he blended to
gether without spoiling the harmony of
the whole. Although she was unable to
tell how soon or how late it would be be
fore women attained the desired object, the
ballot, how long the war between the sexes
would last, the women would certainly
fight it out.
RIDDLEICUOUS LOGIC OF A LAWYER.
Biddle, A. G., complimented by the gen
tle aW fascinating Susan as being an ex
cellent aufl honest lawyer, was an earnest
advocate of woman’s rights, because he
Claimed the same rights for his daughters
imttoii* /VJliiK.O htiOßUhiH 1 » ‘ ':■«?<
as for his sons; he wanted for them the
same atmosphere, the same public opinion,
the same prestige. He was not prepared to
say that man should be subjected to wo
man. Still they should be on an equal
footing, and if so, the peace was in no dan
ger. Women were dffeiu heard to exclaim,
“ I wish I was a mau.” This elucidates
how keenly they feel their position.
The following letter was read by Prof.
Willcoi, and received with applause:
LETTER FROM MRS. O’DONOVAs|(ROSSA).
11 University Pmce, >
New York, January if; 1870.)
J. K. H. WiUcox, Esq.:
Dear Sir : I deeply regret that my ap
proaching voyage to Ireland will debar me
from the pleasure 1 should otherwise ex
perience in accepting the invitatfcn extend
ed to me by the Universal Franchise Asso
ciation, and conveyed to me iniffour letter
of the 13th instant, yet, in dweunavoid
able absence from the approaebinff Woman
Suffrage Convention, be pleased to express
for me, to its distinguished supporters, the
assurance of my profound sympathy with
the cause they so bravely advocate, and my
earnest desire for its speedy triumph.
1 wish I could in person .tender my
thanks to the noble women whh first have
dared
“ To leap the rotten pales of prejudice,
l)i»yoke their necks from custom and assert
None lor.dlier than themselves but
That which made
Woman and man !”
But as 1 am unable to gratify my desire
on this point, I shall leave toyou the re
newed expression of my interest and warm
wishes for success, and shall satisfy myself
with attentively watching and hoping foi
the grand result of the present movement in
America.
1 remain, dear sir, very siiicerely,
Mary J. O’Donovan (Rossa.)
THE BIBLE NOT A REPUBLICAN BOOK.
Miss Cozzens saW men etw* took the
Bible to attempt to prove their rights over
the women. But they fail to notice that
the Bible is not at all Republican ; it de
mands obedience to the Kings ; and these
Republicans will see that they, do uot fol
low the Bible injunctions in carrying on
the Government. If a majority had the
right to ask for a right, the minority had
the same. Another story advanced by the
meu was, that if suffrage was given to the
women they would dance around the ballot
box for three hundred aud sixty-five days
before aud after the election, and the poor
men would have to attend to tlfc baby aud
the kitchen.
Lo! THE POOR NEGRO WOMEN !
The same Western female revolutionist
desired that the colored women of the
South should have the ballot, because, for
sooth, they had suffered so much.
The convention adjourned to meet on
Wednesday.
State Items.
Mr. Jolm Gilliland, for many years a
well known merchant of Savannah, died on
Monday morning. He was a native of Bel
fast, Ireland.
The steamship Herman Livingston, which
arrived at Savaunah Saturday, brought
39 white immigrants, who are to be em
ployed as laborers on the Macon and Bruns
wick Railroad, in place of the -negroes who
have not yet recovered from holiday de
moralization.
Judge Schley, in Savannah, on Monday,
adjourned the Superior Court to Monday
next, remarking that he did not feel dis
posed to try any cause during the present
political status of the State.
The Atlanta Constitution says that Major
Win. J. Svkes has organized a company to
build a railroad from Ely ton. Ala., to Aber
deen. Miss., a distauce of 120 miles. The
road will some day be a feeder to Atlanta.
It is a link in a great Western line, project
ed by Major Sykes, to connect our sea
coast, by way of Atlanta, with the great
West by a direct air-line.
A few days ago, a negro witness was
summoned from Americus to attend Bibb
Superior Court lu Macon. While in at
tendance on the court, he stole all the door
keys of the court house, with a view to use
them in Americas, but was followed, aud
the keys recovered.
A little boy inquired at the Augusta post
office recently if there <w a%&- letter for
Chester Pillsbury, and while tie clerk was
looking for the letter, the little fellow,
thinking to help him in his search, said:
“ He is married now, and I s’p«)se they put
Mister onto his name.”
A young lad recently ran away from
home and went to a t ivern, where he was
found by a friend, with a cigar in his
month. “What made you leave home?”
said the friend. “ Oh, confound it,” said
he, “father and mother were sosaucy that I
couldn’t stand it auy longer—so I quit
’em.”
The Rome Southerner says that Prof. E.
F. King has accepted the Professorship of
Mathematics and Ancient Languages in the
Rome Female College.
The Gainesville Eagle says- the grading
ou the second section of the Air-Line Rail
road has begun. There will be a thousand
hands at work in two weeks. >
Wash McDaniel, convicted of murder at
the last term of Wilkinson Superior Court,
and imprisoned in Mi lledgevi lie jail, escaped
on the night of the 19th, by picking a hole
in the wall.
Plan of the New Orphah Asylum.—
The Macon Journal and Messerq/or has been
shoivn a beautiful design, prepared by Mr.
D. B. Woodruff - , architect, of that city, for
the new Orphan Asylum to be erected in
Augusta under his superintendence, of
which it gives the following description :
The building presents a front of one hun
dred and seventy-eight feet, by a depth of
one hundred feet, and is three stories high,
covered with a Mansard roof. 4 The centre
or main building of the pi au Is longitudi
nally divided by a hall ten fifet in width
aud transversely by a hall twenty-four feet
wide. This contains the stairway,
which is very spacious, aud eapy of ascent,
aud directly opposite the miin entrance!
Connecting this centre buildfcg with the
wings, arc halls eight feet wide," in which
are located the private stairs. iOn the sides
of main entrance are the offices aud public
reception rooms. The upper stories of the
centre part are divided iuto a large nursery
for each of the sexes, dormitories, aud a
chapel which is finished through two
stories, having a gallery on thiee shies, and
a ceiling tweuty-eight feet in tie clear. Ad
joining the chapel are two sifckool rooms,
each nineteen by forty-one sept, and com
municating with tlje chapel* by sliding
doors, making a suit of rooms of grand
dimensions, being tliirty-siaffpy one hun
dred and twenty-eight feet.
The principal story of the idft wiujr will
form the residence of tbe Superintendent,
having a parlor, sitting rooma library aud
two bed rooms, with bath, cjjfothes, wash
rooms, etc., and a complete liundry in au
extreme wing on the rear. Tlfe right wing
has a spacious dining room forty-five by
sixty feet, having light andkir on three
sides, and the kitchen and panfries adjoin
ing. The upper stories of the* wiDgs are
divided into teachers’ rooms, class rooms,
dormitories, etc., and adjoining all the
dormitories are bath, wash and clothes
rooms. In the extreme wings bn each floor
are the infirmaries, being spacipus and airy
and remote from the centre portion of the
building. The kitchen and laundry will be
fitted up in the most approved manner, and
with everything required in a first-class
hotel; On the rear, and coifpecting the
extreme wings with the centfe building
are jyide verandas, on each stiry, and ad
joining the cjgss rooips and dormitories,
and to which the children can tosort during
short intermissions for an airing, affording
a fine space for walking and for the airing
of bedding-
The building is to be put up with brick
with stone trimmings, and with its artistic
projections and outlines will present a fine
appehraqee. The front of the centre blind
ing has a two story Rortieo oflrich and ele
gant details, while springing from the roof
above is an unique and graceful tower, hav
ing upon each of its sides a handsome rose
window, to be used as a clock face, at an
elevation of 85 feet from the ground-
The whole mass presents an example of
perfect harmony in its proportions, while
the picture exhibits a degree of artistic
skill rarely met with, aud w e congratulate
our citizens upon having a resident archi
tect of such skill and ability as to render
ft Entirely unnecessary to go North for the
pl»ns for our public or private buildings.
Woman’s Work.
' Darning little stockings
For restless little feet;
Washing little faces
To keep them cleau and sweet;
Heariug Bible lessons;
Teaching catechism ;
Fraying lor salvation
From heresy and schism—
Woman’s work.
Bewing on the buttons ;
Overseeing rations;
Bootbiug with a kind word
Others’ lamentations;
Guiding clumsy Bridgets,
And coaxing sullen cooks;
Entertaining company,
And reading recent books—
Woman’s work.
Burying out of sight
He own unhealing smarts ;
Letting in the sunshine
On other clouded hearts;
Binding up the wounded,
And healing up the sick,
Bravely marching onward.
Through dangers dark and thick—
WOman’s work.
Leading little children,
And blessing manhood’s years ;
Showing to the sinlnl
How God’s forgiveness cheers ;
Scattering sweet roses
Aloug another’s path;
Smiling by the way side.
Content with wh it she hath
Woman’s work.
Letting fall her own tears,
Where only God can see ;
Wiping off another’s
With tender sympathy ;
Learning by experience ;
Teaching by example;
Yearning for the gateway,
Golden, pearly, ample—
Woman's work.
Lastly cometh silence,
A day of deep repose—
Her locks smoothly braided.
Upon her breast a rose;
Lashes resting gently
Upon the marble cheek ; '
A look of blessed peace 0
Upon the iorehead meek !
Pale hands softly folded,
The kindly pulses still;
The. lips know no smiling,
The noble heart no thrill;.
Her couch needs no smoothing,
Site craveth for no care ;
Love’s ten derest entreaty
Wakes no responses there.
Fresh grave in the valley—
Tears, bitter sobs, regiet
One more solemn lesson
That life may not forget.
Face forever bidden,
Race forever run
“ Dust to dust,” a voice saiih,
And woman’s work is done.
A Negro Strung Up for Brutal
Treatment of Two Young Ladies. —On
Tuesday last, a negro boy iu the employ of
Mr. Wilson, living near Blue Pond, in
Cherokee county, assaulted and knocked
down with a piece of iron two young la
dies, the daughters of Mr. Wilson. It ap
pears that one of the young ladies told the
boy to bring some wood in the house. The
boy went out as if for the purpose of get
ting the wood. He returned, however,
with the iron in his hand, and, without
saying a word, knocked the young lady
down, inflicting severe wounds upon her
head. Her sister, hearing her screams,
rushed into the room, when the brute
struck her over the head and arms, inflict
ing severe and dangerons wounds. It was
evidently the intention of the negro to kill
the first lady attacked, a3 h| continued his
blows after she was knocked to the floor
senseless. When he had fully vented his
wrath, he left the premises. A large party
of the friends of the young ladies assem
bled, and went iu pursuit immediately,
aud tracked him through the snow to the
mountains, where they found him with a
rope, evidently lor the purpose of stealing
a horse, upon which to make his escape.
It was used, however, for another purpose,
and the infuriated crowd could not be re
strained from hanging him at once. This
brute has always been considered a mean
and dangerous negro, and it is a matter of
rejoicing iu his neighborhood that he has
met his deserts. The young ladies are now
iu a critical condition. The skull of one is
fractured, the head of the other has several
severe wounds. We would not counsel
mob law, but,, In all such eaSes as this.Ve
have nothing to deplore when such summa
ry punishment is administered. We learn
further that Mr. Wilson, the father of the
young ladies, who has been heretofore a
strong Radical, says he has learned the
folly of his way, and endorses fully the
hanging of the negro.
f Gadsden (Ala.) Times.
Facts for Home and Abroad. —lt will
be surprising to some of our readers to read
that the tonnage in the shipping at our
port is second ortbirdMn the United States.
Such, however, is the fact as received from
official sources. The exports from this
■point during the last thirty days wereover
eight millions of dollars.
Considering these facts, and especially at
this time, when some of theflhrgest business
houses in the West aud South will visit us,
does it not behoove every citizen of Savan
nah to do their utmost, in rendering the fa
cilities of trade even more prominent and
lucrative? One way in which this £an be
done is to press Congress to appropriate a
sufficient sum to remove the obstructions
in the river. We feel convinced that, should
the Committee ou Commerce and Appro
priations understand the importance of this
matter thoroughly, they would cheerfully
give that aid which is necessary. We are
happy that the subject is once more brought
before the notice of the public, and we
trust that the action which has already
been taken by the City Council will not
wane, but its proposals be fully carried
out.— Savannah News.
Menegetis. —As.this terrible scourge is
now ravaging the country in and around
Quincy, Florida, we propose to give our
readers a short article on the subject.
We had occasion to v'sit Quiucv ou last
Tuesday, ou which day three deaths oc
curred—one white mau and two negroes.
A number of the citizens have died and gen
eral gloom prevails. Quincy is iudeed a
stricken community. Daily the mournful
notes of the death-beil inform the inhabi
tants that another soul has gone to its final
account. All of the gayety that used to
characterize the place seems to have fled,
and the lovely fair are now called upqn to
atteud the sufferers cf the dreadful monster
menegetis.
We wefe informed that the disease was
very fatal to the negroes of the plantations
near the village.
Two cases have occurred in Bainbridge,
one of which has proved fatal; the other
still lingers between the skill of the physi
cian and the grave.
The menegetis is not considered as con
tagious, but all are liable to it at the pres
ent depressed state of the atmosphere.
\Bainbridge Sun, 2Q th.
The Pillow Assassination Explained.
We learn from the Tuscumbia Alabamian
that two young men named Phillips, and
another whose name it had not been able
to obtain, had confessed to the killing of
the two Pillows. The three, it says, left
the county before they could be arrested.
Their statement as to thp cause of their
action is thus related ; A few weeks before
the occurrence, at a party in the neighbor
hood, one of the young men, Phillips, and
Wm. Pillow had a difficulty, during which
Pillow drew his pistol on Phillips, but was
prevented from using it by persons present.
Shortly after this Phillips went out into
the yard, and 'while out there was fired at
by some person. Phillips then said he lp T
tended so kill tl]e person who shot at him
as soon as be found out who'did it. A few
days before the killing he stated to parties
that he had learned who shot at him. It is
said several parties are qn the look out for
them. The young Pillows were nephews,
and not sons of (jenergi pillqw, as stated.
—-y- . ■ l .
Forty Acres and a Mule.— The negroes
in Atlanta, buoyed up by recent political
developments, are exultant over the idea
that the Iqng talked of forty acres and
mule are about to come in dead earnest.
We have heard of several boasts'of the kind
having been made by them within the last
fevy days, to highly respectable white men.
[Atlanta Intelligencer.
Two companies of United States soldiers
passed through Rome on Monday, en route
to Chattooga county, the scene of the late
Bdrty Ku Rlux sensation.
BY TELEGRAPH.
FROM ATLANTA.
THE SENATE MEET AND ADJOURN.
DICTATOR TERRY ISSUES GENERAL
ORDERS 9 AND 10, DECIDING
WHAT MEMBERS OF THE
HOUSE ARE ELIGIBLE
AND WHAT SEATS
ARE VACATED.
THE HOUSE THEN ELECT McWHOR
TER SPEAKER.
MORMON EXCURSIONISTS IN AT
LANTA.
(Special to the Constitutionalist.
Atlanta, January 26, 1870.
The suspense is over. Terry decides, by
General Orders, Nos. 9 and 10, oj the eligi
bility of members.
The Senate met and adjourned until to
morrow without transacting any business.
The House met and was called to order
by Harris, when General Orders,- Nos. 9
and 10, from Dictator Terry were read.
Order 9 declares Donaldson, of Gordon;
Taliaferro, of Fulton, and Nunn, of Glass
cock, ineligible, and prohibits them from
taking their seats. Wilcher being at his
home sick, did not appear before the mili
tary inquisition, and his case is held in
abeyance. All the other cases before the
commission are eligible.
The order also declares sixteen seats va
cant, namely, those of Burtz, Brinson, Ben
nett, George, Goff, Hudson, Johnson, Kel
logg, Meadows, Perlaud, Surrency, Smith,
H. Williams, Drake, Ellis aud Rouse, who,
failing to come forward aud qualify, are
declared ineligible; and, the order goes ou
to say, they have admitted their ineligi
bility bv filing with Bullock applications
to Congress for the removal of their dis
abilities.
Orders No. 10 coinmauds Harris, Speaker
'pro lem., to allow members elect, not in
cluded iu Orders No. 9 time to qualify if
they desire to do so, when the House
should elect a Speaker, omitting, in calling
the roll, the names of the excluded mem
bers.
The revised roll was then called, and the
House proceeded to the election of Speaker,'
voting, by order of Bullock, viva vote. 133
votes were cast. Necessary to a choice,
67. McWhorter, 76; Bryant, 52 ; Price, 4 ;
John Smith, 1.
McWhorter was elected by the Demo
crats nbt being united in their votes.
Harris appointed Scott and Bryant to
conduct McWhorter to the chair.
Scott made a short speech, not commit
ting himself to any special line of policy.
The Republicans will have, probably, a
majority of 8 iu the House.
Nothing Is known as to the decision of
the military inquisition In regard to the
Senators accused of ineligibility.
A Mormon excursion party arrived here
this afternoon, and wore met by a tremen
dous crowd. They remain here to-night.
NEW YORK DISPATCHES.
(Special to the Constitutionalist.
New York, January 26.
Cotton quiet. Private accounts prove
less buoyant than published reports.
General Lee will not attend the Peabody
funeral. Cause, ill health.
WILI-OUGITBY.
(Associated Press Dispatches.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, January 26—Noon.—Sen
ate business is unimportant.
Iu the House, League Island was up.
Iu the Elections Committee, from secrecy
observed, there is said to be regarding the
committee’s proceedings; no objections to
Porter in the committee, though they may
be made in the House.
The President has certainly approved the
Virginia bill, though it has not yet been
officially announced.
The President signed the Virginia bill
this morning.
Washington, January 26—P. M.—Re
venue, $375,000.
The Virginia bill was signed by the
President and sent to the State Department.
The omission to send it to the House to
day was a blunder.
Col. Penny backer hgs been assigned to the
command of Mississippi vice Gen. Ames,
who has leave of absence.
The Committee on Military Affairs
agreed to report a bill appointing a com
mittee of five to examine all officers below
Brigadier General with the view of dismiss
ing the incompetent.
In the Senate, Rowell, elected from lowa
was sworn in.
A resolution of the Kansas Legislature
were presented, asking the removal of the
Capital to Leavenworth reservation.
A bill was introduced-providing for an
appraiser of merchandizeat Mobile.
The currency bill was resumed and dis
cussed to adjournment.
Iu the House, the Committee on* Mines
was directed to investigate the Avondale
disaster, and report whether Congress has
the power to regulate raining.
The General of the Army was asked
whether any officers of the army were re
ceiving pay as army and civil officers.
The League Island Navy Yard Bill was
tabled—94 to 97.
The bill extending the port of New Or
leans passed, and goes to the President.
The House went into committee of the
whole on civilgpproprialiong..
Butler read a long speech, dealing most
ly iu figures, bat attacking Mr. Dawes
very sharply.
Dawes closed his reply as fallows : “ I
am ready, arid I contemplate voluntarily
myself to submit to the judgment of my
constituents whether I have "been faithful-
I do not, however, in view of the duty of
the hour—which is to call attention to the
expenditures—propose to be diverted from
that grave duty by any petty debate here,
with any live man on the miserable and
unimportant question of my own wisdom
or folly. I trouble not myself about my
refeord. If posterity cilst a look afrit,lt
will vindicate it; if it does not, it wjll got
make any difference, 4nd J now move that
the committee ris§.u
ALABAMA,
Montgomery, January 26.— The Legisla
ture for the past week has been engaged on
local bills. To-day the time of the Senate
was entirely consumed in discussing a me
morial to Congress for the removal of dis
abilities. Nq action-
The Senate bill, loaning State bonds to
the amount qf three millions to the Alaba
ma and Chattanooga Road, Is to come np
in the Honse to-morrow.
Meetings for the past two nights, in op
position to the bill, have been held at the
Capitol’, and to-night the friends of the bill
are having speeches, &e.
The cars still come crowded with emi
grants for Louisiana and Texas.
Mobile, January 26— Rev. D.r. Henry
Niles Pierce was consecrated Bishop of
Arkansas yesterday. Bishop pierce was
formerly Pastor of St. John’s Church of
this city. Bishops Young, ofFlorida ,Wil
mer, of Louisiana, Quintard, of Tennessee,
Whitehouse, of Illinois and Green, of Mis
sissippi were present. The ceremony was
very imposing.
qeorqia.
Atlanta, January 26.—The House of
Representatives was organized to-day, and
elected R. L. McWhorter, Republican,
Speaker, over J. E. Bryant, Conservative,
by 24 majority. Three members—Donald
son, Nupn and Talialerro—were declared to
be Ineligible by the military commission.
Adjourned.
The seats of sixteen members were de
clared vacant, on account of refusal or
failure to take the oaths required by the
law* of the United States,
VIRGINIA.
Richmond, January 26.—Governor Walk
er, upon receipt of the information of the
President signing the Virginia Bill, will
issue a proclamation calling the Legislature
together February Bth.
General Canby will give up all control
of State officers when the Legislature meets
and Alls civil offices now filled by military
appointment.
There was considerable excitement along
the streets this afternoon by the attempt
of colored rowdies to ride In the White Ball
street cars instead of the colored cars.
Four were arrested and the Station House
was surrounded by an excited crowd Os
negroes, until a heavy police force was
brought on the spot.
This disturbance Was made in accordance
with the programme announced in speeches
by the negroes at the celebration yesterday.
CALIFORNIA.
San FrancißCo, January 26.—The Brit
ish ship Baringer, from Australia, brings
the following political prisoners, sent from
Ireland to British Penal Colonies in 1865
and 1867. Their terms of transportation
vary from five years to life: John Kenny,
Dennis B. Eastman, Dennis Hennessey,
Maurice Figenboheh, Patrick Leper, Thos.
Eggarty, David Joyce, John Shehau, Pat
rick Wall, Michael Mbbfre, David Cummins,
Eugene Gary, John WrtfHh,* Patrick Davan
and Patrick 1 Detinifo Tfmy M r ere entertain
ed and provided for* by Fenians here.
Captain Smith', vbmtnanded at Gal
veston whea the Harriet Lane was captured,
was killed in Alaska by a drunken Indian.
The Indian was hanged.
NEW YORK.
New York, January 36. — The Eric
strikers in Jersey City attacked the work
men to-day. Bricks and pistols were used.
The police arrested the strikers’ leaders.
The Arizona arrived from Aspinwall on
the 17th with $30,872 iu treasure. No
news. '
MAINE.
Portland, January 26.—The Peabody
funeral fleet has arrived.
FOREIGN.
Madrid, January 26.—The election in
Oneida is progressing, The defeat of Duke
Moutpensier is considered certain.
Marquis Percies is running in Madrid as
successor of Serano. The vote, last night,
stood: Peroles, 19,000; Gucsales (Republi
can), 15,000, and the Carlist candidate,
5,000. The elections continue three days
longer.
Elections for vacancies, as far as heard,
show 44 Orleanists, 5 Progressionists, 6
Republicans and 1 Carlist.
London, January 26.—A great meeting
is to be held to promote immigration to the
provinces. The Lord Mayor will preside.
A writer in the Times is astounded at
the annexation of Dominica, which is only
adding other negro communities to those
so difficult to manage now.
Havana, January 26.—Capt. Boit, com
manding the loyal guerillas, captured the
insurgent Generals Murciaus, Lena and
Feguiards, with the family of Feguiards,
near the Bay of Gueda. Boit, with his
prisoners, arrived in the Santiago.
The insurgent leader luus Santoa has
surrendered.
Frederica Gras, chief of staff, General
Covada and his brother Romon were exe
cuted at Cienfuegos.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Charleston, January 26.—The French
sioop-of-war Limier, six days from Port an
Prince, arrived to-day, and reports that
Sal nave was sentenced to death and shot
on the 10th.
MARINE NEWS.
Savannah, January 26. —A rriv e and :
Steamers Wyoming, Philadelphia; San
Salvador and Huntsville, New York; Amer
ica, Baltimore ; bark H. Olaf, London;
.ship John Harvey, Boston ; schooners E.
S. Gildersleeve, New York; Watauga,
Philadelphia.
Charleston, January 26. — Arrived :
Schooners George Washington, Baraeoa;
Benj. Reed, Savannah.
MARKETS.
London, January 26—Noon—Consols,
92%. Bonds, 86%. Tallow dull.
Liverpool, January 26 — Noon — Cotton
buoyant; uplands, 11%; Orleans, 11%@
12% ; sales, 12,000 bales.
Later. —Cotton firm; sales, 15,000 bales.
Pork quiet. Lard buoyant at 74.
Liverpool, January 26—Evening.—Cot
ton buoyant; uplands, 11%; Orleans, 12;
sales, 16,000 bales ; export and speculation,
4,000 bales. Common Rosiu, ss. 3d.
Paris, January 26.—Bourse opened firm.
Rentes, 73f. 82c.
Havre, January 26.—d011,0n opened ac
tive and Arm at 138%, both on spot and
afloat.
New York, January 26—Noon.—Stocks
steady and firm. Money easy at B@7. Ex
change-long, 9% ; short, 9%. Gold, 121 %.
’62’s, coupon, 15%; Tennessee, ex coupon,
54%; new, 46% ; Virginias, ex coupon, 55;
new, 61; Louisiana, old, 68; new, 64 ; Le
vee 6’s, 63; B’s, 74 ; Alabama B’s, 94; s’s,
03; Georgia 6’s, 80; 7’s, 92; North Caro
lina 7’s, old, 40%; new, 24% ; South Caro
lina 7’g, old, 81; new, 77.
New York, January 20—P. M.—Money
very easy at 4@G. Sterling, 9%. Gold
strong at 121%. Governments strong;
’62’s, 15%; Southern Securities generally
steady.
New York, January 26—Noon.—Flour
dull and declining. Wheat dull, le. lower.
Corn quiet and unchanged. Pork heavy;
Mess, $27 50. Lard quiet at 16%<g17.
Cotton firm and quiet at 25%. Turpentine
steady at 46%. Rosin Arm at $2 07%@
2 10 for strained. Freights dull.
New York, January 30—IV M.—Cotton
quiet and Him; sales, 2,800 bales at 36%.
Flour favors buyers;, superfine, $4 79 a
4 85; com itoon t(Ffair eittra Southern, $5 50
@6. Wheat heaVy and l@2c. lower; Win
ter red and %iyiier Western. $1 3Q<®l 32.
Corn steady; new mixed, 85S88. Pork
heavy; new, $27 50. Lard heavy ; kettle, ,
17%@17%. Whisky heavy at 99%@51. — |
Rice quiet. Sugar dull. Coffee firm. Mo-|
lasses dull. Turpentine, 4f1%@47. Rosin,
$3 07 y a m.
Cincinnati, January 26.—Corn steady
at 75@76. Whisky, 95. Mess Pork, $27.
Bacon dull; shoulders 12%@12% ; sides,
15%@1G. Lard quiet; kettle, 16,%.
Louisville, January 26,—Corn un
changed. Mess Porfc, S2B. Bacon—shoul
ders, 13% ; clear' sides, 16%. Lard. 17ji.
Whisky, 95®9G, " 4
Wilmington, January 26.—Spirits Tur
pentine %(fiflo.better—42®43. Rosin quiet;
NQ- L s߮3 50. Crude Turpentine steady
at $1 65:82 85. Tar buoyant at $2 40.
Cotton steady at 23%,
Mobile, January 20.—Cotton in good
and general demand with light *stock offer
ing aud closing firm ; sales, 1,500 bales ;
middling, 24% ; receipts, 1,717 ; exports,
445,
New Orleans, January 20.—Cotton ac
tive and firmer at 24%@25; sales, 7,550
bales; receipts, 2,530; exports, to Havre,
2,995; to Bremen, 3,715; to Boston, 1,067.
Flour lirm, $5 35, 5 75@6 12%. Corn, $1 05
@1 07%. Oats, 70. Bran, $1 35® 1 40. Hay
easier; prime, s3l. Mess Pork, $.30. Ba
con scarce; shoulders, 14%, rib, 17%; no
clear in market. Lard—tterces, 16%@17;
keg,
lasses— prime, Whisky, 95c. @sl 05.
Coffee quiet;
@17%. Gold, 121%. Sterling, 32 ; Bight,
% discount.
Charleston, January 26.—Cotton in
good demand and firmer; sales, 500 bales;
middling, 24%@24%; receipts, 1,271 bales;
exports—Continent, bales.
Savannah, January 26.—Cotton—re
ceipts, i,024 bales; exports, 51 bales; sales,
500 bales; middling, 25; market firm.
Augusta Daily Market.
Office Daily Constitutionalist, )
Wednesday, January 26 —P. M. j
FINANCIAL
GOLD—Buying at 120 and spiling at 122. J
BILVER— BuyiDg at 116 and selling at 120.
BONDS— City Bonds, 83@8 r ).
STOCKS—Georgia Railroad, 104; Augusta
Factory, 152.
COTTON— The market opened with an ac
tive demand at 24% for middling; closing
steady at same figure. Sales, 748 bales. Receipts
904 bales.
BACON—Fair demand. We quote C. Bides,
18@19; C. R. Sides, 18018%; B. B. Bides, 15
@15%; Shoulders, 18; Hams, 21023; Dry
Sp.lt Shoulders, 13@13% ; Dry Balt C. R. Bides,
17@17%.
CORN—New is beginning to come iu freely,
and is selling at $1 3501 40 from depot.
WHEAT—We quote choice white, $1 55;
amber, $1 50 ; red, $1 45.
FLOUR— fcity Mills, new, *0 5009 00; at
retail, |1 barrel higher. Country, SOO9,
according to quality.
CORN MEAL—SI 45 at wholesale; $1 00 at
retail.
OATS—Bs@fl 25.
BEAS—Scarce at *1 69.
CITY ITEMS.
A Monster Opera House and Hotel -
in Columbia. —The Columbia (3. C.) corre
spondent of the Charleston Courier says :
“ The plan for this purpose has been well
matured, and the place has been selected.
The locality embraces 362 feet, fronting on
one street, and 145 fronting on another.—
Nearly every Northern man in Columbia,
including several members of the Legisla
ture, have agreed to subscribe $5,000 each.
Even Tim Hurley has put down his name
for that amount, while such men ns J. J.
Paterson, the railroadist. Governor Scott,
Leslie, Chamberlain, Parker, Pierce, Den
nis, Denny and others, are pledged to see.
the thing through. Mr. John T. Ford, the
famous theatrical manager, will give $lO,-
000 and fittings, and lease the opera house
for five years, at $5,000 a year. As It Is
proposed, In connection with the hotel and
opera house, to build a number of stories
ala Niblo’s, in New York, a number of the
merchants of Columbia have expressed a
desire to come into the arrangement as
subscribers. There Is every probability,
therefore, that within a year a monster
building will be erected on Main street in
Columbia, which will pay citizens and
stockholders a handsome per centage for
their enterprise, besides constituting a
source of attraction to the people of the
State. The cost, according to present
estimates, will be about SIOO,OOO. Tim
Hurley, in his curious way, says he thinks
it no more than fair that since the town
was captured by Sherman and his bum
mers, it should be recaptured by carpet
baggers. It certainly bids fair to be so,
for they own to-day, according to official
exhibits, $102,000 of real estate within the
city limits, and nearly $300,000 worth of
bank stock and other capital.’’
What it Cost to Marry a Colored
Damsel.— The case of John Willoughby, a
white man, who married a negro woman,
Delilah Turner, ita Macon last Summer,
and was arrested at the time and held to
bail on the charge of adultery and fornica
tion, was tried in the Superior Court of
Bibb county on Wednesday. lie was con
victed anil sentenced to six months im
prisonment aud a fine of five hundred dol
lars. It appears from the evideuce, that in
June or July last, Willoughby deserted his
white wife and was married by Rev. T. G.
Stewart, pastor of the Colored Methodist
Church in Macon, to the aforesaid black
Delilah. Delilah, who was before the
court upon the same charge, was discharged
and told to confine herself in the marriage
relation in future to her own color.
Excellent Cars.— We noticed, yester
day morning, in the Georgia Railroad yard,
it couple of excellent frieght cars, from the
Richmond and Danville Railroad, shipped
via the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad, en route to Atlanta. These cars
are of 18,000 pounds capacity, and are
mounted upon trucks to which have been
applied “Tisdale’s Patent Adjustable Axles,”
susceptible of change to suit the various
gauges of the roads from Richmond to their
destination and beyond—indeed, to any
gauge of road over which they may be run
ning. They are marked for the Piedmont
Air Line, which connects with Richmond,
Charlotte, Columbia, Augusta. Atlanta.
Savannah, Macon, Columbia, Montgomery
and Mobile. The application of this axle
will go far to promote the advantage of
shipment in bulk over roads of different
gunge,and commends itself lorailroad men.
Crowded— At the freight depot, of the
(’hariotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad,
in the east end of the old Georgia Railroad
freight depot, we found yesterday Mr. W.
T. Williams, the very courteous and effi
cient agent at. this end,up to his eyes in the
piles of local and through freights seeking
an outlet on that, line. The warehouse
room of the company 1s entirely too circum
scribed lor their increased and increasing
business, and we trust that they will soon
recognize the necessity of erecting a depot
adequate to receive and dispatch freights.
Jn the meantime Mr. Williams is accom
plishing the very greatest public accommo
dation possible under the circumstances
which surround him.
The Georgia State Agricultural So
ciety Not a Bankrupt.— Hon. David IV.
Lewis, Secretary of the Georgia State Agri
cultural Society, publishes a card in the
Macon Telegraph, in which he says : “Per
sons having demands for premiums will
leave applications for the same with Mr.
Wing. Those having moneyed demands
will file them with Mr. Win. Hazlehurst,
Treasurer of the Society. 1 will, on my re
turn to t>,iscity, early in February, exam
ine and settle all that are regular.” This
rather sets a: ide the statement made in the
Constitution that the Society was not able
to pay out, und 1 that the premiums had
been attached by its creditors.
The “ Plantation.”— We have received
the first number of this paper, which is an
agricultural weekly of sixteen pages, issued
from the Franklin Steam Printing House,
Atlanta, and edited by Colonels T. C. How
ard and A. R. Alston, aided by a brilliant
corps of contributors. This new candidate
for popular favor, both in point of appear
ance and the merit of its articles, Indicates
that It. will win a cheerful welcome and
achieve perfect success. It commences its
first issue with five thousand subscribers,
with ample capital, a guarantee of an im
mediate success.
Emigrants.— The tide of emigration still
swells. About seventy-five negroes, from
Virginia, passed up the Georgia Railroad
last night, en route to Alabama' Us laborers
on Gen. Forrest’s Alabama Railroad. They
arrived here on Tuesday night, but could
not secure transportation uulil last night.
“ Aiken."—We are indebted to the pub
lisher, Mr. J. C. Derby, for a copy of a
pamphlet detailing the advantages of Aiken
as a health-giving and money-producing
region. Aiken is a nice place and we wish,
it well; but we think and believe that Au
gusta is ten times preferable for the cure of
pulmonic coinplaiuts and a thousand times
better situated for the gaining of tho
“ demnition cash.”