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CONSTITUTIONALIST.
AUGUSTA, <3A.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEB. 2, 1870
THIS WAY, MR. PHILLIPS.
The Anti-Slavery Society held its annual
meeting in Boston, a few days ago, and, of
course, the* big Indian of the show was
Wendell Phillips. The Anti-Slavery
Society was organized to effect the destruc
tion of what is called negro bondage ; it
still preserves its formation in order to en
thrall white men, body and soul. Among
other resolutions adopted, the most striking
was one declaring that “ the voter in the
position of the negro race needs land to
make him independent, and also pecuniary
aid.” This is Wendbll Phillips’ pet pro
ject and step in advance. He argues that
without land and money the negro can not
stand and that hia ballot is worthless unless
written on a bank check. Not one word is
urged in favor of the thousands of poor
white men who have neither homesteads
nor money. In his atrabilious negro
philism, Mr. Phillips wastes no words and
will waste no property upon them. The ne
gro is to have it all, deservedly or not.
It is fair to say that Mr. Phillips does
not propose to steal these lands from the
Southern whites. On the contrary, he in
sists that the money to purchase them shall
come out of the National coffer. He calcu
lates that “ every negro family can justly
“ claim forty acres of land, one year’s sup
“ port, a furnished cottage, a mule, farm
“ tools and free schools for life.’" To ac
complish this, he calculates that the pitiful
sum off 1,000,000,000 will be required.
And all this is to be done “in order to se
cure the negro’s free voting.” It is easy to
show that, as Mr. Phillips demands for
his pets one-seventh of the National wealth,
he has underestimated Sambo’s share in the
apportionment. If Commissioner Wells’
figures are correct, rating the wealth of the
country at $25,000,000,000, the negro should
get much more than the first estimate.
The Radical papers are aghast at these tre
mendous requirements; but Mr. Phillips
thinks he has “ drawn it very mild,” and,
if provoked to do so, will frame an argu
ment to prove that the negro really owns
everything and ought, in common decency,
to'have the whole loaf.
If Wendell Phillips is indeed “ the
brains of the Radical party;” and if he
always succeeds in forcing his fellows to
the accomplishment of his purposes—what
a catastrophe is in store for the authors of
Reconstruction! We could almost wish
the scheme to succeed, so that the States
beyoud us shall be assessed for the vast
sum required. Os course, at the first
glimpse, this proposition of Phillips has
the smack of lunacy. But propositions far
madder than this have come to a fearful
realization, and who, in the face of the facts
of the last five years, will rise up and aver
that this amazing tit-bit of progress is
necessarily doomed to failure? But even
should Phillips succeed in getting his de
mands satisfied to the uttermost, the whole
edifice thus built up would come down
with a prodigious crash, a few years later.
A present of thousands of millions to South
ern negroes would virtually cud in be
coming a present of the siipe to Southern
whites. Some of the blacks thrive as land
owners; but the masses of them are in
competent to hold and accumulate capital.
So, go ahead Mr. Phillips. We are ready
for anything, especially when it puts the
screws to the “ loyal” and demonstrates
decidedly that Reconstruction does not pay.
PLAIN TALK AND SOUND SENSE.
The people of Mississippi tried to better
themselves by a coalition with certain of
the Radical elements, and were badly hum
bugged and humiliated in consequence.
The brethren of the quill, many of them at
least, were in the same box, and went
through a sweating process which has
cured them for life of entangling alliances.
Among these “ ink-slingers ’’ may be par
ticularly noted Harry Moss, of the Yazoo
Democrat. On assumlug editorial control
of that paper, Mr. Moss gives his expe
rienc« and announces his deliverance for
all time—thus:
“The name of this paper is Mississippi
Democrat, but for the last, four months its
title has been a spectacular Action, an os
tentatious lie. It has floated from its mast
head the! flag of one party, and enunciated
in its columns the doctrines of another.
Tl\at is to jay, if the late political miscar
riage with the quadruple name could be
called a ‘ party ’ —that is to say, the Na
tional Union Conservative Salaroagundi—
the Mosaic alliance—the quilt piece coali
tion.
We have had a sneaking idea—a sur
twtltious notion, that henceforth the Mis
smkypi Democrat shall advocate the doc
trine which the few large cognominal let
ters at the head of its first page indicate.
We never could induce ourselves to sing
Yankee Doodle under the stars and bars,
and so help us God, we will do the stars
and stripes the justice to say, we would not
whistle Dixie under its gorgeous folds.
We did not believe—we never will believe
in a hybrid party with a brindle platform
and heterogeneous doctrines. It is better to
be a horse or an ass than a mule—a negro
or a white man than a mulatto—a stump
tail dog than a kangaroo. But it is better to
be nothing at all in God Almighty’s world
than to again become one of a party bear
ing a four-cornered marble ring name with
‘ coalesce ’ for a middle man. In this last
precious canvass we coalesced, we amal
gamated, wc combinated ; and as a sweet,
beautiful and eminently appropriate sequel,
we evaporated. Let us call for a fresh deal
and all hands try it one more time for luck
as square out Democrats.”
Bravo, Moss! You are on the right
track. A compact, honest, genuine De
mocracy can do some good. But a Democra
cy that shuffles, dodges, equivocates and
grows mongrel does not deserve to win vic
tories and never will.
The Devil and the Witch.—We clip
the following from Bryant’s paper, the
Georgia Republican:
“ If the Blodgett-Bullock ring succeed it
will damn the Republican party of Georgia
forever. To prevent the success of this
wicked combination the editor of this paper
gave up an office worth four thousand dol
lars per year, and took his seat in the Gen
eral Assembly, a position worth nothing to
him.”
The Lord knows we do not wish the
Blodgett-Bullock ring any success ; but,
if their success should “ damn the Repub
lican party in Georgia,” it will have miti
gations some people do not dream of. Ac
cording to Bryant, he coalesces with the
Democracy in order to save the Republican
party from damnation; and so, the Demo
crats who tried to coalesce with him came
very near saving the life of Radicalism in
this State. That’s a pretty kettle of fish.
Let the two wings of Radicalism fight the
question of damnation between themselves.
Let Democrats keep clear of both of them.
If you choose Bullock you get the devil;
if you choose Bryant you get the witch.
It is a sound deduction that the devil is no
better than the witch and the witch is as
bad as the devil. Avoid them both, Demo
crats, avoid them both !
A Rupture. —Mr. Robert Bonner, the
Ledger man, has quarrelled with hia quon
dam friends, Vice-President Colfax and
Samuel Bowles, the editor of the Spring
field Republican. Bonner broke with Col
fax and Bowles because of their belief in
free love doctrines. Colfax gets off with
a mild rasping in Bonner’s paper, but
Bowles is flayed alive, thus:
“ Let Mr. Bowles take this matter home
to himself. When he was arrested and
dragged off to Eld ridge street jail in this
city, a few months ago, great sympathy
was manifested towards him because he
was violently torn away in the night from
his wife, who was then staying with him
at one of our hotels; yet, according to his
own philosophy, it would be all right for
some younger man, and physically stronger
and handsomer than Mr. Bowles, to in
trigue and get his wife away from him,
and divorce her, and marry her, and do all
that Richardson did.” ,
Perhaps that is precisely what the dog
wants.
Stanton’s Suicide.— The New York Citi
zen says:
« The Democrat had a leader the other
day asserting that the late Secretary Stan
tan committed suicide in a moment of re
morse for his share in the hanging of Mrs.
Surratt. Where is the evidence that he
died other than a natural death? Mr.
Pomeroy has frequently made rather rash
charges against his political opponents, but
this is decidedly the most reckless of any of
his red-hot accusations. Let us have the
evidence—if there is any.”
It was telegraphed over all the land that
the family of Mr. Stanton would not per
mit anybody to look on his remains. That
was strange and suspicious. But, by all
means, produce the evidence or produce the
wind-pipe.
“ Dionitv.” —Forney’s Press has this
sweet morsel:
“ The election of McWhorter becomes of
national interest, and rises from a mere
local struggle to proportions of dignity and
importance.”
So much so indeed that it took the Na
tional President, the National Congress
and one of the National satraps to bring it
about. Its “ dignity and importance” are
about commensurate with “ Senator” Re
vel, of Mississippi becoming the guest of
the keeper of a negro restaurant at Wash
ington. Dignity and dish water make up
the National importance now.
Vallandigham. —Strange to say, the
New r York Sun favors Vallandigham as
the Democratic candidate for President in
1872. Hear this:
“If the Democracy want a candidate
“who has known neither variableness nor
“ shadow of turning, who suffered persecu
tion for the cause during the war, when
“ even Seymour and Pendleton showed
“ the white feather, who has been as silent
“as the grave for more than a year past
“ about reconstruction and negro suffrage,
“ and who is the very Moses to lead the
“ Southern people, white and black, up out
“of the house of bondage, we point them
“ to Clement L. Vallandigham of Ohio.”
Bad Loans. —A Chicago Judge has de
cided that a wife can recover money loaned
to a husband. On subsequently searching
a large number of husbands, however, the
public felt constrained to reverse the de
cision.—Courier-Journal.
How about money loaned to a wife?
Doesn’t that go, too, “ where the woodbine
twineth ?”
Go It, Jones ! —At a Woman’s Rights
Convention, held in New York, the other
day, the Rev. Mr. Jones said “ Christ came
into ike world and died upon the cross to give
woman the bidlot; and he thought the whole
spirit of Christianity favored the present
movement.”
Kentucky Negroes. —Nearly one-lialf
of the negro population in Kentucky has
disappeared during the last nine years. At
the same rate of decrease, there would be
none left in 1883. Congress had better
hurry up the XVth Amendment.
[communicated.J
The Waynesboro Tournament.
At 9, a. m., on Thursday last, the Central
Railroad train started from the Union
Depot with a half cjiv load beyond its usual
quota of living freight. This excess was
the Augusta division of the company in
vited to partake of the hospitality of our
Burke neiffhbors. The gentler sex prepon
derated largely, in quantity and quality.
Need tv’? say that we were in our element ?
Arrived est Waynesboro, we were not
kept long in for the Tournament,
which was opened" by , a Speech from Mr.
Carrol, calculated to Are thb breasts, not
only of the contending Knights, of
others of that assemblage who, like US,
could not say, quorum magna parsfui, and
now
“ First came the trumpet*, at whose clang
So late the forest echoes rang ;
On prancing steeds they forward pressed,
With scarlet mantle, aznre vest.”
The lists were 120 yards long, and at
equal distances from each other were
ranged three posts, from which depended a
small ring. To traverse the course in ten
second’s time, and carry away two-inch
rings on the point of a lance, demanded no
small skill. The following names were en
tered.
Mr. Woodruff, Knight of Chatham.
Mr. Lawson, Guerilla Chief.
Mr. Berrien, Kiug Cotton.
Mr. Wood, Unknown Knight.
Mr. Douse, Knight of the Golden Circle.
Mr. Ridgely, Knight of the Lost Cause.
Mr. Blonnt, Knight of the Red Rose.
Mr. Milledge, Knight of the Black Prince.
Mr. Whitehead, Knight of the White
Rose.
Mr. Rhind, Knight of Jefferson.
There were three tilts at three rings each,
when the Marshals announced that the
Knight of the White Rose had carried
the day with seven rings, the Black
Prince following with six, and the
Guerilla Chief, Knight of the Lost
Cause, King Cotton and Knight of the
Golden Circle tieing with five rings each.
The three latter succeeded in the order
named in winning for their ladies the hon
ors of 2d, 3d and 4th Maids of Honor. The
most dashing riding was done by Guerilla
Chief, Black Prince and Knight of the
Lost Cause, but, as the sequel showed, it
was not so successful as the more cautious
policy of some of their adversaries.
Now came the feature of the occasion,
and glad were we that it was not onr lot
to face that phalanx of flashing eyes, for
though none would dispute the sway of
our newly chosen sovereign and the ladies
of her court, thoueh the slighted beauties
cheerfully bowed to the decision—spre
txr.que injuria forma —yet there were those
left out than whom
“ Ne’er did Grecian chisel trace
A Nymph, a Naiad or a Grace
Os fairer form or lovelier face.”
The victorious “ Knight of the White
Rose” crowned, as Queen of Love and
Beauty, Miss Neland. The ladies of her
court were crowned in the following order:
Ist. Miss Craig, by the “Black Prince;”
2d. Miss Gardiner, by the “ Knight of the
Lost Cause;” 3d. Miss Scales, by “King
Cotton ;” 4th. Miss Walker, by the “Knight
of the Golden Circle.”
The festivities closed with a grand ball
at the hotel, and it was not until the wee
srna’ hours of the night that the neigh of
the steam horse warned ns to take leave of
our hospitable friends.
Another Defaulting Churchman.—A
Chicago dispatch announces that Plaurge
Kingman, late Treasurer of the South Con
gregational Church, has been arrested,
charged with being a defaulter to the
church in the sum of $24,000. The devil
seems to have full swing with the Northern
and Western divine and “ pins” brethren
and sisters.
[From the Atlanta CoMtitutlon.
The Protest of Capt. J. E. Bryant.
In the report of the House proceedings,
allusion is made to the protest of Capt. J.
E. Bryant. As part of the history of the
times, we give it below. In the course of
theargument, Capt. Bryant read the fol
lowing telegram from Senator Edmunds:
Washington, January 28. — Colonel J. E.
Bryant: Judiciary Committee instructed
to inquire into question of further legisla
tion as to the organization of your Legisla
ture. Justice and fair dealing must be the
guide. One caase of our last action was
the admission of persons not having a ma
jority. Geo. F. Edmunds.
The protest is as follows:
Mr. Speaker: The authority nnder which
this House has assembled and organized is
an act of Congress, entitled “An act to
promote the reconstruction of the State of
Georgia,” passed on the day of De
cember, 1869.
The provisions of that act having been
openly and repeatedly violated the organ
ization, is illegal, and all proceedings are
absolutely null and void.
Section first of said act is in these words:
«Be it enacted, etc.. That the Governor
of the State of Georgia be, and he is hereby
authorized and directed, forthwith, by
proclamation, to summon all persons elect
ed to the General Assembly of said State,
as appears by the proclamation of George
G. Meade, the General Commanding the
Military District, including the State of
Georgia, dated June 25th, 1868, to appear
on some day certain, lobe named in said
proclamation, at Atlanta, in said State ;
and thereupon the said General Assembly
of said State shall proceed to perfect its
organization, in conformity with the con
stitution and laws of the United States,
accordin'! to the provisions of the act.”
The persons elected to the General As
sembly of this State, as appears by the said
proclamation of General Meade, were sum
moned to meet in this city on the 10th inst.,
by the proclamation of the Governor of this
State, issued, in accordance with the said
act of Congress. It was the right and
privilege of the House in conformity with
the said act of Congress to proceed to per
fect its own organization ; but, in violation
of the provisions of said act, the Governor
appointed and directed one A. L. Harris, a
man completely under the control ol the
Governor, he being an officer on the West
ern and Atlantic Railroad, to organize the
House.
The said Harris aribitrarily adjourned
the House from day to day, in violation of
law, thus preventing the members thereof
from perfecting their own organization in
conformity with law, and by force, violence
and fraud did wilfully hinder and interrupt
the members elected as aforesaid from
taking part in the organization aforesaid,
according to the law aforesaid. Section 4
of said act is in these words :
“And be it further enacted , That the per
sons elected as aforesaid, and entitled to
compose such Legislature, and who shall
comply with the provisions of this act, by
taking one of the oaths or affirmations
above prescribed shall thereupon proceed
in said Senate and House of Representatives
to which they have been elected respective
ly to reorganize said Senate and House of
Representatives respectively by the election
and qualification of the proper officers of
each House.”
It is clear that only those persons named
in the said proclamation of Gen. Mead, and
who have taken one of the oaths prescribed
by said act, cau participate in the reor
ganization of said House, and that all
persons named in said proclamation who
have duly qualified by taking one of
the oaths prescribed can participate in
said reorganization; but in violation
of said act, R. A. Donaldson, of Gordon
county, E. M. Taliaferro, of Fulton county,
and J. H. Nunn, of Glasscock county, per
sons named in said proclamation of Gen.
Meade, who have duly qualified by taking
the oath prescribed by said act of Congress,
and have filed the same iu the office of Sec
retary of btate, have been willfully hinder
ed and interrupted from participating in
the proceedings of this House, in violation
of the provisions of said act, and W. L.
Goodwin, James R. Thomason, William
Guilford, Jacob P. Hutohiugs, Henry C.
Holcombe, O. Johnson and J. B. Nesbitt,
persons whose names do not appear in the
proclamation of Geu. Meade, have been al
lowed to participate in the reorganization
of this House, in violation of said act of
Congress ; I, therefore, respectfully declare
that this House has been organized in vio
lation of law, and that there is no prece
dent for the acts that have been done, and
the proceedings we have witnessed in the
reorganization ; I, therefore, protest against
the illegal reorganization of this House,
and against any further proceedings being
had until the House is reorganized in ac
cordance with law.
J. E. Bryant,
Os Richmond County.
Important Decision.— ln the case of the
United States vs. George Doll & Cos., im
porters of fancy dry goods, Philadelphia,
au important decision was recently made
by Jqdge Cadwallader. Doll was under
arrest by the Uqit.ei} States Assessor of In
ternal Revenue for refusing to deliver up
his books for examination by the Assessor.
Being heard on a writ of habeas corpus.
Judge Cadwallader discharged him without
hesitation, on several grounds:
Ist. That the 116th section of the act of
June, 30th, 1864, under which the income
tax )§ levied, is unconstitutional, as under
taking to ievy a direct or capitation tax.
2d- That sq much of the 14th section of
said act as empowers the Assessor to re
quire the tax-payer to produce his books in
order to convict him of making ft false re
turn under oath, is in conflict with Art. 5,
Amendments of the Constitution, which
declares that no person shall be compelled,
in a criminal case, to bear witness against
himself.
3. That the power conferred on the as
sessor by the act is a judicial power which
can only be exercised by judges.
4. That the proceedings authorized by
the act are an infringement of the right of
trial by jury. That the Federal Legisla
ture cannot create new criminal offences
unknown to the common or statnte laws
at the time of the adoption of the Constitu
tion, and provide for their ascertainment
otherwise than by the ordinary machinery
of trial by jnry.
Cotton—The South Getting Stiff-
Necked. —The Enfaula (Ala.) News, after
referring to the marvellous changes for the
better to be observed in the South after the
close of the war, proceeds in another co
lumn to exhort the cotton planters in the
following language:
“If planters will now take our advice
and hold firmly, they will not have to
wait long before realizing thirty cents for
their cotton. Therefore, we say again,
hold your cotton, planters. The game is
in your own hands, and if yon fail to win
now you deserve to get nothing, and to re
ceive no sympathy from disinterested par
ties who are watching the game between
Northern speculators and spinners and
Southern planters.”
Thus is the South becoming stiff-necked
in view of its present and prospective pros
perity. If she keeps on at this rate, how
long will it be before she refuses to let the
North have cotton at any price? That
question may be answered by asking an
other—how long will it be before the
South will have cotton mills of her own,
and about as much as she can do to sup
ply the home demand? The fact of the
matter is, that the cry of Southern papers
like the Eufaula News, that the cotton re-
ceipts are short this year, is simply a false
alarm, and. their advice to planters to hold
on to their crops is dangerous. This may
be ascertained by glancing at a few figures,
to-wit: The totaP receipts of cotton at all
the ports to the latest dates foot up 1,489,-
804 bales, against 1,177,174 bales at the
same time last year, showing an increase
In the total receipts at the shipping points
of 312,630 bales. Comment upon these fig
ures is manifestly unnecessary. The truth
is, the South is on the right road to perma
nent prosperity, and her career cannot be
impeded by obstructions thrown in her
way by Northern croaking or Southern ob
stinacy.—N. 7. Herald.
Woddhull, Chaflin & Go.” is a firm of
New York (Wall street) speculators, com
posed of Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull and
Mrs. Jennie C. Chaflin. They claim to have
made $700,000 by lucky speculations, and
are still at it, spending their leisure time
interviewing reporters.”
” O K." (From the New York Herald.
f H ; f Safnave.
SKETCH OF HIS CAREER.
Sal nave was born in Hayti, and was a
man in the prime of life. He entered the
avmy at an early age, and was rapidly pro
moted for distinguished services in the
field. We believe that he took part in the
invasion of Sjt. Domingo by Soulouque, and
retreated in gqod order with that distin
guished warrior. Subsequently he aided
Geffrard in overthrowing the empire, whence
Soulouque fled to Jamaica and in re-estab
lishing the republic. For awhile matters
progressed favorably enough, but in an evil
hour Geffrard’s Government slighted Sal
nave, whose bosom yearned for liberty. To
strike down tyranny he attempted the as
sassination of one of Geffrard’s ministers
and failed. He then fled to St. Domingo,
and while there organizing a rebellion, was
sentenced to death by court-martial assem
bled iu Port-au-Prince. In May, 1865, he
re-entered Hayti with a formidable army of
two hundred and fifty men, roused the
people in the name of God and liberty and
established a provisional government. Geff
rard advanced against lain with the forces
of the republic. Several bloody struggles
took place, in which a number of men were
seriously bruised and a few killed. Finally
the insurrection was suppressed, Salnave
retiring again to St. Domingo. Subse
quently, however, he renewed the revo
lutionary movement, and succeeded in
ousting GeflVard, who prudently took
refuge on board a foreign war vessel.
On assuming power, Salnave issued a
proclamation declaring amnesty to all Hay
tiens excepting Geffrard, whom he con
demned to death, but who was neter shot,
for the very good reason that he kept out
of Hayti. Os course it was not long before
a revolution broke out against the new
President, who headed the Cacos, while the
heroic Nissage Saget, Dominique, and other
world renowned Generals, led the piquets.
The war lasted from June, 1867, until a few
days ago. So long as was able to
pay for the printing of his Treasury notes
he heid out bravely ; but when it took
$5,000 in Haytien currency to buy a gold
dollar, he collapsed. Unfortunately for
him, the piquet leaders’ supply of coffee
held out longer than his, and he fell. He
was said to be a very warm friend of the
United States, and was in favor of a closer
alliance between the “ two republics.” Os
his private virtues we know nothing. He
possessed a playful habit of shooting
wealthy citizens and confiscating their pro
perty for the benefit of the nation. Take
him all in all, we shall not see his like
again, except in the persons of the new
rulers of Hayti.
HIS FLIGHT, PURSUIT, CAPTURE TRIAL AND
EXECUTION.
Port-au-Prince, January 17.—After Sal
nave’s departure from the palace, on the
19th of December, and subsequently from
Port National, he fled to Petionville with a
strong force. He was soon joined by Vil
lubin, and received large supplies of pro
visions and ammunition from Croix de Bou
quet. The people followed his army for a
long time, they being told by him that they
would all be massacred by the revolution
ists. From Petionville he moved on the
21st, arriving at Verette the 22d, his object
being to reach Baraona. But ou attempt
ing to leave Verette for Baraona, he found
a strong force opposing him, and was
foffced back in great disorder.
HOT PURSUIT.
On the 27th a force under General Zamor
left Port-au-Prince to join the troops in
pursuit of Salnave, and ou the 28th Gen.
Benjamin, Saget’s Secretary of War. went
out to take command in person, and a rig
orous pursuit was ordered. Salnave had
in the meautime again started for Baraona
by another route, having made in vain ef
forts to recruit and inspirit his force; but
such was the rapidity of the movements of
the revolutionary troops that ev*n here
they were close ou his heels, capturing his
stragglers and nearly all his baggage and
ammunition. General Benjamin arrived at
Jacmel ou the 2d of January, and obtained
guides who were familiar with the country.
Cabral, thinking that Salnave might reach
Baraona, weut to Saline to cut him off.—
But as soon as he learned the position of
Salnave, he ordered the line Petittrou to
be covered.
FINAL DEFEAT AND CAPTURE.
On the Bth of January, Salnave and a few
devoted followers, came upon the force of
Cabral, at Cnaba, and attempted tf> cut
their way through that portion of the army
commanded by Gen. Guituau. A desperate
fight ensued,lasting five hours, resulting in
the defeat and capture of Salnave and his
troops, and a loss of one hundred killed
and a large numher wounded of Salnave’s
men, and of Cabral’s only three killed and
tweDt.y-two wounded. Salnave and his
fellow-prisoners were sent to Saline, when
Geu. Cabral informed the Government, on
the 10th of January, of the event, apd gave
them to the Provisional authorities. At
Croix de Bouquet Alfred Delva and several
others were shot.
the trial at port-au-frince.
Sal nave arrived at Port-au-Prince on the
15th, and was immediately put on his trial
by the revolutionary tribunal, composed of
Gen. P. Lorquet, President; M de JJazere,
Vice-President; M. Prezeau, M!Louis Aime
and M. Darius Adam; M. Camille Nau,
Public Prosecutor. The trial commenced
at 3 o clock, in the presence of a large num
ber of the civil authorities and tije National
Guard. The accused was introduced by
the President, saying, Sylvan Salnave, ex-
President of Hayti, aged forty-three years,
born at Cape Haytien, and living at Port
au-Prince.
President— yqn piacje 9 choice of
some one to defend you ?
Salnave—l wish to be assisted by Messrs.
Valciu and Lavaud.
M. Lavaud declined to defend theaccnsed.
The President of the Council then designat
ed M- Jair, of Jacmel, to act with M. Val
cin. Salnave then had bn ihtervieyy with
his councilors, after which the Deputy
Marshal read the charges to the prisoner,
which occupied considerable time, the most
important being that he “annulled the
Coqtjtitijtioq” and naigecj himself« protec
tor of the republic.that he associated
himself with depraved characters, and held
on to the Government by fraud and force ;
therefore, Syivan Salnave is accused of
high treason, devastation,pillage with arms,
committing assassinations, and is now
amenable for these crimes. '
JUDGMENT PRONOUNCED.
Salnave said that he was not capable of
the acts with which he-was accused. His
counjjel made a strong appeal, and made
every effort to destroy the accusation, quot
ing frequently the position of Jefferson Da
vis in 'the late rebellion in she finked
States. After a short address from the
prosecutor, one more appeal was made by
Salnave’s counsel, M. Valcin, and the trial
was closed. The members of the court
then adjourned for deliberation, which
lasted an hour, at the expiration of which
the judgment of the court was pronounced.
In the name of the Republic, the court
finds Sylvan-Salnave, aged forty-three, sol
dier and ex-Presidept of Hayti, guilty of
all the charges preferred against him, and
do sentence him to be shat to death, and
orders that the execution shall take place
at the perristyles of the National Palace.
Signed by the members of the court,
January 15,1870.
Preparations were immediately made for
carrying out the judgment of the court.
THE EXECUTION.
The President then addressed Salnave :
“You have just been condemned to the
pain of death ; I entreat you to be firm and
courageous.” Salnave replied, “ I shall not
fail; I only ask for time to put my affairs
in order.” This request was granted, and
he was engaged for a quarter of an hour in
writing a letter, which he staled aud placed
in the hands of the President. Immediately
after this he was piuioned and taken from
the court, attended by two clergymen, to
the place of execution. He was then tied
to a post planted for the occasion, and a
solemn silence ensued. The firing party
was then drawn up, and General B. Canal
said to Salnave : “ You are going to be ar
raigned as a traitor. Vive la Constitution /”
The words, which were the signal for the
deadly volley, were taken up by the people,
and amid the shouts of “ Vive la Constitu
tionat 6:20 o’clock, Sylvan Salnave ceased
to exist. His body was then put into a
cart, and buried among the felons.
The British General -llr De Lacy Evans,
who fought in India in the Peninsular war,
in the American war of 1812, in the Carlist
war, and the Crimean war, died in Loudon
recently, at the age of eighty-two.
Georgia State Lottery
FOR THK BENEFIT OF THE
Orphun’K Horn, and Freu Bch.CK>l«
Thafotfowlug ware the drawn numbers, in the gup*
pigmentary Scheme, drawn at Augusta, Georgia,
February 1.
MORNING DRAWING— CIass 53. .
30 63 5 66 53 1 41 »1 IS 33 6 ‘
II Drawn Numbers.
EVENING DRAWING— CIass 64.
59 a lO A® 6 37 49 36 4 46 65 78
18 Drawn Numbers.
feb2-l
L_ L~! V-U -
SPECIAL NOTICES.
COTTON STATES MECHANICAL AND ASSI
CULTUKAL FAIR ASSOCIATION.
Secretary’* OlHce. )
Avoubta, Ga., February 1,1870. $
AT A MEETING of the Kxocutive Committee of
this Association, held THIS DAY, an installment of
ten (10) per cent, on the Capital Stock was ordered to
be called in.
Stockholders will please call at the office of the
Treasurer, Messrs. J. J. Cohen & Sort, and pay their,
assessment.
By order of the Board. E. H. GRAY,
ieb2-wfsu Secretary.
■JF" AUGUSTA QUARTETTE CLUB.-Mo
natliche Versammlung heute Mittwoch den 2ten
Feby. abends 8# Uhr. Alle Mitglieder, active und
passive, werden ersnebt rich zu betbeiligen.
Im Anftrage des Praesidenten.
feha 1 HOPFFGARTEN, Sec’y.
IRRITABLE INVALIDS.
Indigestion not only effects the physical health, hut
the dispositions and tempers of its victims. The
dyspeptic becomes, too, in a measure, demoralized by
his sufferings. He is sub cct to fits of irritation, sul-
Icnntss or despair, as the case may he. A preter
natural sensitiveness, whteh'he cannot control, leads
h m to misconstrue the words and acts of those
around him, and his intercourse ev n with those
nearest and dearest to him Is not unfrequently marked
by exhibitions of testine s foreign to his rea! nature.
These are the mental phenomena of the disease, for
which the invalid cannot be justly held responsible,
but they occasion much household discomfort. It is
to the interest of the home circle, it is essential to
family harmony, as well as to the rescue of the prin
cipal sufferer from a stale not liar removed from in
cipient insanity, that these symptoms of mental dis
turbance be promptly removed. This oan only be
done by removing their physical cause, a derangement
of the functions of the stomach, ard its allied viscera,
the liver and the bowels. Upon these three import
ant organs Hostetter’s Htomach Bitters act simulta
neously, producing a thorough and saintary change
in their condition. The vegetable ingredients of
which the preparation is composed are of n renova
ting, regulating and aHtralivt character, and the stim
ulant which lends activity to their remedial virtues is
the purest and best that can be extracted from the
most wholesome of all cereals, viz: sound rye. No
dyspeptic can take this genial restorative for a single
week without experiencing a notable improvement in
his general health. Notool) will his bodily suffer
ings abate from day to day, hut his mind will recover
rapidly from its restlessness and irritability, and this
happy change will manifest Itself in his demeanor to
a'l around him. icbl-tfeld6
MILEAGE TICKETS.
*
Charlotte, Columbia dfc Augusta j
Railroad Company, !
Genehal Frkiqht and Ticket Ofpiob, j
Colombia, 8. U., January 28,1870. J
MERCHANTS AND OTHERS DESIRING
MILEAGE TICKETS, good for Five Hundred or
One Thousand Miles, can procure them by leaving
their address with any Station Agent on line of road,
or upon application to the undersigned, at following
prices:
For One Thousand Miles S3O 00
For Five Hundred Miles J 8 00
E. R. DORSEY,
jau3o-6 General Ticket Ageut.
MERCHANTS, PLANTERS, GARDENERS
AND HOUSEKEEPERS
Wishing to get the BEBT and Most Reliable Va
rieties, should buy
ONION SETS,
REAL BUNCOMBE CABBAGE,
THE CHOICEST EARLY IRISH POTATOES,
—AND
im
pujSxitner.
Our Seed are Warranted FRESH am] GENUINE.
No Humbug! Send for Catalogues.
PLUMB <fc LEITNER,
dec22-eod*c2 , n 212 Broad street, Augusta.
WIRE HAILING, FOR
jJ XJ X. JT iff* Knc cs ng Cemetery Lots,
JL II f! ttagof, <kc.; Wire Gu-rdn
rnNßt v ' &£s* '• r • tore Fro >ts, Factories,
Asylums, dec ; 'Wire Webbing, Rice Cloth, and Wire
Work. Also, Manufacturers of
FOURDKINIER CLOTHS.
Every information by addressing
M. WALKBR & SON,
No. 11 North Sixth Street, Philadelphia.
jan29-ly
»■ GETTING MARRIED —Essays f r Voting
Men, on the delights of Home, and the propriety or
Impropriety of getting Married, with sanitary help for
those who feel unfitted for matrimonial happiness.
Sent free, in sealed envelopes. Address,
BOWARD ASSOCIATION,
jau29-3m Fox t\, • htladelphia, Pa.
Mayor's Office, 1
AtJGtJeTA, Ga., January 2f.th, 1870. \
From and alter this date, all purchases for account
of the city will only be made upon orders issued from
this office. J. V. H. ALLEN,
Mayor.
JUST OUT.
CHERRY PECTORAL TROCHES, superior to
all others for Colds, Coughs, Sore Throat, Rrcmchltis
and Hoarseness.
None so pleasant. None cure so quick.
Manufactured hy RU3HTON A CO., Aslor House,
New York.
No more of those horrible tested, nauseating Brown
Cube!) things.
For sale by W. H. TUTT <fc LAND at Proprietors’
Prices. ' jan6-d»c3iu
D4NCIN<| QLASSES, AUGUSTA HOTEL.
PROFS. NICHOLS & MILAM, in order toseenre
certain days for the Lc-sons, have removed from Ma
sonic Mall to the above Hall. Classes for Ladies,
Misses and Masters on FRIDAY and SATURDAY
AFTERNOONS, at 3)f, p. m. Classes for Gents
THURSDAY and FRIDAY EVENINGS, at 8, p.
m. t jan2s-lf
COTTON SEED.
J?HE Genuine “HUNT COTTON” SEED
took the Preminm for both quantity and quali
ty, per acre, at the State Fair at Macon.
Their parity is attested by Mr. W. B. Hunt
himself.
ONE THQUB4ND BUSHELS, for sale by
J. j. PEARCE, BUTLER & CO.,
Cotton Factors, Augusta, Ga.
dec29-tf
BARGAINS,
■■•■ j
BILK, VELVET
AND
Beaver Vests,
Will be sold very low, at
A. T. Gray’s.
;an2o-eodlm
; Marbleized Slate Mantels,
RICH AND ELEGANT DESIGNS.
More durable and at half the price Os Marble.
Carefully packed and shipped to any part of
the country. Bend ‘for circular.
T. B. STEWART <fe CO.,
j«D80-Sm 605 Sixth Ave., New York,
.- • •
New -A-dvertisemeni s—
nfn ipnßV’G ADCD A UfITTSI?
yfAXt/lP fMm I lij vl JjAal 111/U UJJ*
A SHAKESPEARIAN REVIVAL
SECOND APPEARANCE OP
tete Distinguished young English
TRAGEDIAN,
ME. NEIL WARNER,
Who will appear this
Wednesday Evening, February 2d, 1870,
In Mrs. Lovell’s delicious play, in five acts'
(from the German), entitled
Ingomar,
THK BARBARIAN.
What love is, if thou wouldsl be tanght,
Thy heart must teach alone—
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
And whence come 6 love? like morning’s light,
It comes without thy call;
And how dies love ?—a spirit bright,
Love never dies at all t
INGOMAR Mm NEIL WARNER,
Supported by the entire Company.
On THURSDAY EVENING, MR. WARNER
will appear as
Othello,
THK MOOR OK VENICE,
In Shakspeare’s great Tragedy of that name.
ON FRIDAY,
Mr. Warner’s Benefit.
SATURDAY, LAST NIGHT
OF
3h.akspeari.an Tragedies.
In announcing MR. WARNER, the Manager
unhesitatingly endorses him as one of the few
Grand Actors of the age. He has been secured
at a heavy cost, to secure the presentation ot
Shakspearlan and other plays in the very best
style.
NO PLAY WILL BE REPEATED !
PRICKS OF ADMISSION.
Dress Circle aud Orchestra Chairs.. .#1 00
Reserved Seats 1 50
Gallery 50
Colored Gallery, "60c. Entiauee on Ellis
street.
Seats can be secured at Geo. A. Oates’ Book
and Music Btore. feb2-l
WANTED,
_A_N EXPERIENCED SALESMAN, who
can influence trade, in a Wholesale House.
Address P. O. BOX 431,
feb2-2 # Charleston, 8. C.
POPLAR LUMBER.
The undersigned is prepared to furnish
POPLARJLUMBER, iu auy quantity, at $3 per
hundred, delivered at Leesville Depot, Char
lotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad. For
further information, address
AARON TAYLOR,
Gilbert Hollow,
01.2 6 C., C. <fe A. R. R., 8. C.
IVIrS. M. A. BINDERS, 1101, N. W. Corner
Eluveuth and Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia, Pa.
Old established and only Reliable Paper Pat
tern, Dress and Cioak Making Emporium.
Spring Opening of Paper Patterns March Ist,
1870. Mrs. Binder’s recent visit to Paris en
ables her to receive Fashions, Trimmings and
Fancy Goods superior to anything in this coun
try. Sets ot Patterns for Merchants and Dress
Makers now ready. DKEBSES and CLOAKS
made in 24 hours’ notice. TRIMMINGS,
Laces, Gloves, Ribbons, Jewelry, Fans and
Embroideries. GOFFERING MACHINES
lor sale. Goods sent by Express to all parts
of tbe Union. feb23m
I HAVE just received another lot of "COAL
CREEK COAL.” Orders to be tilled must be
accompanied by Casb.
* Yard at Georgia Railroad, corner Jackson
and Fenwick streets.
WM. P. DEARING,
feb2-3 Agent.
JUST RECEIVED,
Champagne cider,
febS-t DERRY & LAW.
DANCING ACADEMY^
Profs. Hett and Cooper
Would solicit the attention of the public
to their Dancing Academy. Peeling as
sured that all who witness the progress
made by their pupils, will give them
their patronage. jan3o-tf
NOTICE.
JCST"OTICE is hereby given to the public
and patrons of the following Fire Insurance
Companies, viz:
Tbe QUEEN, of Liverpool, England,
The LONDON and LANCASHIRE, of Liv
erpool, England,
The NORTH AMERICAN, of Hartford,
Conn.,
The NORWICH, of Hartford, Conn.,
That I have received the appointment as Agent
for the same. I trust, by strict attention to
business and honorable dealing, to retain the
patronage of old customers and merit that of
new. CHAS. W. HARRIS,
Agent.
Having voluntarily resigned the Agency
of all my Fire Companies, save the Georgia
Home, of Columbus, Ga., 1 take pleasure in
saying to the public that the above named In
surance Companies aje in every way worthy of
their patronage, and that I wish them and
their new Agent all possible success in busi
ness. A. G. HALL,
jau3o 6 Agent.
TO RENT,
<3 BED ROOMS, opposite the Central Hotel,
on Broad street. Apply to
Dr. HOLLAND.
jan3o-tf Dentist.
PRICES REDUCED.
DuRING the month of Febrnary,
J- Murphy & Cos.
No. at* Br ad St.. Under Masonic Hall,
Will close out their Fall Btock of Ladies’,
Gent’s, Misses’ and Children’s
Hoots and Shoes,
Sewed and pegged worfc, at greatly reduced
prices, to make room for Bpring Goods.
jan3o-9
GENERAL
FIR! AID LIFE IISHBAICE A6EICY.
919 Broad Street.
Country RIBKB taken. 660,000 carried
on fisst class Risks. Losses promptly adjusted
and paid. Those in the London and Lan
cashire wlthont reference to the Home Office.
COMPANIES REPRESENTED.
xßtna Life—Assets 613,000,000
Queen Fire—Assets 10,000,000
London and Lancashire—Assets.... 5,000,000
North American—Assets.... 478,523
Norwich—Assets ' 366,474
Gross capital represented 628,844,997
CHAS. W. HARRIS,
Jan3o-ly Agent.
Use Russel Coe’s Su
perphosphate. It is the
Best.
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
mt , s W W
OF THE
NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA, GA,
At Close of Business on the 2£d of January, 1870.
Loans and Disconnts $088,061 07
Overdrafts 851 88
United States Bonds to
Becure Circulation.... 500,000 00
Other Bonds 5,000 00
Due from Redeeming and
Reserve Agents 2,400 00
Due from other National
Banks 50,771 86
Due from other Banks
and Bankers 59,631 22
Banking H0u5e......... 40,000 00
Current Expenses 788 03
Cash Items (including
Revenue Stamps) 20,827 48
Bills of other National
Banks 75,121 00
Fractional Currency (in
cluding Nickles) 3,649 32.
Legal Tender Notes 188,177 00
Three Per Cent. Certifi
cates 50,000 00
1,684,778 80
STATE OF GEORGIA, COUNTY OF RICHMOND
1, George M. Thew, Cashier of the National Bank of Augusta, Ga., do solemnly
swear that the above statement is true, to the best of my knowledge and belief.
G. M. THEW, Cashier.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this Ist
day of February, 1870.
ADRIAN C. IVES,
Notary Public. "
Correct—Attest:
B. H. WARREN, )
, a W. E. JACKSON, { Directors.
« fe t>2-2 JAS. T. GARDINER J
ii nil in,
DISSOLVED BONES,
Land Plaster,
inn inn 11
o
Purity of all articles sold by us guaranteed.
Kef er to the prominent Planters of Georgia.
JOHN MERRY MAN «fc CO.,
deei4-2md*c fdaltimore.
MILL POND
AND
CHANNEL OYSTERS
kJJjUPPLIED in quantities to suit purchasers.
Orders from all parts of tbe interior solicited.
Address Thos. McCrady, Agent, P. O. Box 339,
Charleston, 8. C.
References.—James Adger <& Co s, Hon. J. B.
Campbell, Dr. St. J. Ravenel, David Jennings,
McCrady & Son, W. G. Dingle, John S. Ryan.
oct29-Sm
Carpets and Shades.
For a Large and Choice selection of new
Carpets and Shades, at low prices, go to
James ©. Bailie & Brother’s.
CARPETS MADE AND LAID PROMPTLY.
dec3o-3m
HARDWARE!
HARDWARE I HARDWARE
John & Thos. A. Bones,
(AT THE OLD STAND)
185 Broad Street,
(ESTABLISHED IN 1818)
Take pleasure in announcing to their cus
tomers, and the public generally, that they are
now in receipt of a very large stock of
Hardware,
embracing almost every article known to the
trade. Their importation of
Swedes Iron
AND
Knglish Blow Steel
This season is unusually large. Their stock of
Table and Pocket Cntlery
Is very large, and from the best Manufacture-s
—sueb as Joseph Rodgers A Sons, George
Wostenholm, Fred Ward, Luke Firth. Their I
supply of
CARPENTERS, WHEELWRIGHTS AND
BLACKBMITHB’ TOOLS
Is very extensive.
Builders’ Hardware,
In great variety.
Plantation Supplies,
Such as AXEB, HOEB, CHAINS, PLOWB, of
the best brands and in great variety.
AH of the above are of the Best Quality, and
offered for sale at the
Lowest Market Bate*.
dec24-3m
Use Russel Coe’s Su
perphosphate. It is the
Best.
Capital Stock Paid in... $500,000 00
Surplus $90,000 00
Discounts 6,938 48
Profit and Loss 35,857 00
National Bank Circula
tion outstanding 450,000 00
Individual Deposits 557,846 eg
Due to National Banks.. 41,884 60
Due to other Banks 2,682 11
Dividends unpaid 570 00
t
1,684,778 86
WANTED,
A PLANTATION of from 200 to 500 acres,
convenient to this city or railroads. Must be
well adapted for Cotton aud Grain, with im
provements and necessary Woodland.
Apply by letter, giving full description, to
decll-tf P. O. BOX NO. 183.
I J. L. MIMS,
DEALER IN
HORSES AND MULES.
JL Permanently at j. b, pournbllk’s
Grey Eagle Btables, Ellis street. Augusta, Ga.
N. B.—Will also SELL and BUY HORSES
and MULES on commission. nov2s-8m
FLOOR OIL CLOTHS,
OP SUPERIOR QUALITY.
• *“vlte the attention of the citi
zens of Augusta and vlcinltjr to a large
stock of tho above Goods, Just opened.
In Quality and Style, they are unsur
passed by any House In the United States.
James G. Bailie A Brother.
I jau9-lm
MARY ANN BUIS INSTITUTE,
FOR YOUNG LADIES,
At WhiteaviUe, (No. 8, Ventral Railroad,) Qa. t
Commences January, isto.
First Term ends in JUNE, 1870.
For particnlars, apply to
Miss MARY ANN BUIE,
jan2o-tf Whitesville, No. BC. R. R., Ga.
Pea Lacy School For Boys,
Waverly, near Baltimore, Hd.
The second half session ortM»
School will begin sth FEBRUARY. Boys are
charged from the time of admission. Tbe
School has never been in more snccessftil opera
tion.
No Boys who have been in any College wilt
be received.
For Circnlare, apply to
R. M. JOHNSTON.
Waverly, Mb., January 26,1870.
lan26-dtfebls
FOR RENT.
The DWELLING over the “Mechanics’
Bank.”
ALSO,
The BANKING ROOM. Apply to
Jau26.tr H. H. STEINER,