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OOJSf STITT JTIONALJST.
AU(JUBTA. <*A.
TUESDAY MORNING, FEB. 8, 1870
WHAT OF THE NIGHT 7
The extreme wing of the Radical party
recognizes the necessity of perpetual aggres
sion in order that its designs may be con
summated. So far, the success of ultra
Radicalism has been almost unimpeded,
and, since the forced and fraudulent passage
of the XVth Amendment, it would seem
that the future had no obstacles worth the
mention, and that the people have no spirit
of revolt which can not be easily suppress
ed. That the leaders of the dominant
faction will continue to scheme against the
South, seven after Reconstruction shall have
been declared complete, there can be no
doubt. Having trampled upon this sec
tion, they will spare no effort to maintain
their degrading power. The first of a series
of new modes of torture is plainly indi
cated by “ Senator” Abbott’s resolution
for the establishment of a “ National Po
lice ” —the gendarmerie of Republican des
potism. ■ State organizations known as
«loyal militia ” are found to be inadequate.
Radicalism can not be upheld by such mum
meries. But as carpet-baggers, scalawags
and .knaves in general must have some
props which promise to stand, in place of
local militia we are to have a “ National
Police.”
Mr. Abbott based his resolution upon
the alleged prevalence of crime in the
South. Even as the false-hearted adven
turer presented his charge, the South was
the most peaceable country on the face "of
the earth, and the North, New York
especially, the most bloody and criminal.
"Why must 41 National Police ” prowl over
Georgia, for example, and let New York
and her shamble go scot free? At this
very moment, the journals of New York,
without distinction as to politics, are
blatant with cries for lynch law, and not a
few of them are lauding, under a different
name, a projected Ku Kluxi6m of the
most bitter character and such as the South
has never known save in the imagination
of the spies and liars especially sent here
for the concoction of slanderous romance.
Well, the carpet-baggers may organize
their “ National Police” and arm them too;
but, though such contrivances have
temporary good fortune, they shall be
whelmed in destruction at last.
While the portents of fresh calamity and
outrage blacken the political horizon, there
are not wanting streaks of light amid the
gloom, to hint of the dawning of a better
and brighter day. Among the more cheer
ing indications, it lias become a matter of
note that many journals, hitherto blind
partisans of Butler and Sumner, are be
ginning to scourge the vindictive measures
propagated by this precious couple and
their colleagues. The tone of these papers
has wonderfully changed. The Washing
ton County Post (Rad.) thus indicates what
is smouldering in the popular heart:
“ Outside of the halls of Congress there
“ is not even a faction of the Republican
“ party that justifies Sumner’s course.—
“ Even so decided a Radical as Greeley de
“ nounces it. Everybody is sick of this
“ eternal reconstruction. The whole coun
“ try wants peace. The business of the
“ country, ground down by the burden of
“ taxation, the masses smarting under an
“ unjust tariff, demand relief and will have
“ it. The people have waited patiently and
“ borne long with the negito, but now they
“ are considering their own rights, and it
« will go ill with the Republican party ir
“ the present session of Congress is squan
“ dcred in fighting over again this dead
“ question. The old cry of ‘ loyalty’ rouses
“no emotion in the popular heart. We
“ have fought the last campaign on this
“ rallying cry. We must have an ndjust
** ment of this tariff, a reduction of tax
“ ation and retrenchment in public ex
“ penses. The kind of reconstruction that
“ is needed now is a reconstruction of the
“ ultra members of the party.”
In addition to this, we learn that many
of the Radicals in Congress are inclined to
pause before making another step in the
precipitation of civil revolution. The negro
has everything his most sanguine admirer
can demand, except social equality, and
Wendell Phillips’ bounty of one-seventh
of the National wealth. When one or both
of these have been made the
policy of Radicalism, as a party, no prophet
need come from the grave to predict the
inevitable result. The Extremists know
that it will be death for them to halt; the
“ Conservatives ” believe that it will be
damnation as well as death tor them to
proceed one step farther. That is the di
lemma. Thank God, they have reached it
at last. Now let them plunge on or hesi
tate, if they dare. Through the negro un
doubtedly all this vile Radical misrule
has been built up, and so long as the
Northern people are mad on the sub
ject it may continue to blight and op
press. But it is not in human nature
that this frenzy shall last much longer
even among the most stupid and fanatical;
and when reason begins to reassert Itself,
let Sambo beware and his manipulators
also. Let the South be patient aud true.
Her woes may be multiplied and 1 her hu
miliations augmented'; bat she shall have
her day of vengeance and compensation.
Let the two factions of Radicalism tear
themselves to pieces, as they certainly wjll
in the end. Let us uot debase ourselves by
an alliance with either. With extreme Rad
icals we cannot be monstrous enough to
affiliate. Os cunning Conservative Repub
licans we should beware. Both desire opr
ruin aud both must be shunned as the lep*
rosy or plague. Os the two, we sincerejy
believe the latter clement to be the more dan
gerous. Leaders of this faction openly pro
claim, under the pretense of saving tie
State, that they labor to keep their party
from death and condemnation. Demo
crats- in Georgia may amuse themselves
with the idea that they are using Bryant
& Cos., but the greater probability is thjit
Bryant & Co- are using them in order to
accomplish the salvation and reorganiza
tion of a Republican party here which will
be very hard to annihilate. We despite
Bullock, but we do not love Bryant, jlf
we got rid of thp party of the one, we wou|d
be saddled with the party of the other, just
as we exchanged Pope for. Mbade. lit
them fight their, battles among themselves.
Let Democrats* stand- aloof from botp.
When the signal shall have been given to
send Radicalism howling from Georgia,
we trust that BPllock will not make bet
ter time in his flight to Albion than Bryant
In the stampede for Skowhegap.
Wonderful. Since- Terry's Ready
Relief machine at Atlanta has passed the
XVth Amendment, Georgia is now spoken
of in Radical quarters as a radiantly jjyto
State. A few weeks ago she. was repre
sented as an infidel territory and a field of
blood. Terry’s discretion works wonders;
White Slaves.— Miss. Jennie Collins
explains why the groaus of 50,000 New
England factory girts go unheard and un
heeded, thus :
‘•ln’consequence of the best men and
women being engaged in the slavery ques
tion, the groans firom the factories were
not heard. Probably they wobld not be
heard to-day were ft not for the Fact that,
before the war, workingwornen in the city
of Boston could get board for $2 25 per
week. Now they are compelled to pay $6,
and oftentimes mote. As the corporations
have boarding houses for their operatives,
poverty has driven large numbers of them
back to those living tombs.”
Sorry for you, girls. But get married, if
you can, and bring forth men who love
negroes less and white people more.
A Good Example.— Speaking of the
bishops at the Ecumenical Council, the
Catholic, Mirror says:
The fathers discuss the questions
“ brought before them to elucidate pro
“ blems by sound and calm argument, and
“ there is not among the seven hundred
“ and odd members of the Council a man
“ foolish enough to get up and make an ex
“ tempore exhibition of his vanity by speak
“ lng for mere buncombe.”
The enemies of the Council may find fault
witlf many things, but would not every
lover of truth be delighted to have this
paragraph written of the American Con
gress—that perfidious and buncombe den
of thieves ? We.mean “ loyalists.”
Our Satraps. —A distinguished Major
General of the United States Army told
the editor of the Columbus Sun that the
satraps commanding in the South were
purposely selected because of their hatred
of our people.
We did not have any Major General to
give us similar information, but we have
ever regarded them as natural tyrants and
willing tools, upon whom “soft soap”
would be worse than wasted.
The Mormons.—A Mr_CuLLUM has in
troduced a bill in Congress to suppress the
Mormons. They are to be treated as outlaws.
Every one practicing polygamy, will be
fined |I,OOO, and imprisoned in tlie peniten
tiary not exceeding five years. The United
States army may be called upon to enforce
this law.
When Cullum gets through with the
Mormons, let him invade Massachusetts
and extripate free love and foeticide.
A Change. —Demonstrating how demor
alized the United States navy has become,
the World says Vattel, Wheaton aud
Kent are thrown to the dogs, and Mrs.
Stowe and Mrs. Henry Wood are prime
favorites.
Queer. — The Atlanta New Era sums up
the complexion of the Georgia Press as K.
K., Democrat, and BRYANT-Democrat.—
To the Macon Telegraph and Messenger it
gives no designation at all. How is this ?
A John Bull Journal. —Nearly all of
the editors of the New York Times are Eng
lishmen.
[From the New York Day Book.
Shall the Democrats Leave Congress in
a Body ?
A. telegram says that the Democratic
members of some of the Congressional Com
mittees have had a caucus to discuss the
policy of resigning their membership on
such committees, on the ground that they
are not only deprived of being of tbe least
service to the country by the' unfairness of
the majority, but that they are subjected
to constant insults. Now, the whole coun
try knows this charge to be entirely true ;
and it has for a long tlrne astonished us
that any Democrat who sufficiently respects
himself should consent to be the foot-stool
of such a set of superhuman scoundrels.—
Their presence on such committees gives
an odor of official importance to the ma
jority reports, which they would not other
wise possess. Better that they should go
forth to the country naked as the secret
schemingsof the Mongrel conspirators in
Congress. And all that can be said of the
wisdom of Democrats refusing to act on
such committees can be uttered with vastly
greater force in favor of the retirement of
every Democratic member from the House
of Congress. In the first place, they are
not of the slightest use there. The infernal
majority are not mitigated nor softened in
the slightest degree by anything the Demo
cratic members can say or do. Indeed, the
Mongrel majority are rather kept together,
and consolidated in their criminal course,
by the opposition which the Democrats try
to make to them. Thieves are always kept
from falling out with eaab other by the
presence of honest men. Tne Mptigrel mem
bers are such a set of rascals that they
would very soon get to pulling each
other’s hair, and unmasking each other’s
villainy, if left entirely to themselves,
without the presence of a political op
ponent. If the Democrats should resign
in a body and go home, the action of
Congress would be stripped of every
show of legality. Let them publish a
calm address to the peoples setting forth
the fact that they are so stripped of all the
rights of minorities ’that they can not be of
the slightest service to the country in such
a body! and that it must be apparent that
it is best to throw the whole responsibility
upou the shoulders of the conspirators.
While this patriotic act on the part of the
Democratic members wonld startle and
arouse all the thoughtful masses of the
people to a realizing sense of the enormity
of the crimes of Congress, it would leave
that pesllent body to the speedy fate of the
“Kilkenny cats.” lustead of watching
the Democrats, they would fall to devour
ing each other with a ferocity which be
longs to such unprincipled scoundrels.
How can a Democrat who has been used to
the society of gentlemen, ami who possess
es an ordinary amount of self-respect, sit in
such a body ? The foul Mongrel papers all
over the country are in the habit of de
scribing the general stampede of the Mon
grel members whenever a Democrat at
tempts to speak—or, if they do not leave
the hall, they only remain to laugh, and
sneer, and spit their venom. No Democrat
can speak in this Congress without being
Insulted by the ferocious majority. How can
a gentleman who respects himself remain
i u such a body ? If the good of his country
demanded the sacrifice, he would, we graut,
be compelled to endure the humiliation ;
but, as we have shown, it does not. On
the other baud, it would be best for the
country to leave the whole responsibility
with the godless party which assumes it.
FliDg the question to the people, aud it will
be the last of such a party for a thousand
years to come. Perhaps it will be answer-
ed that the question was flung to the people
at the last Presidential election. But this
is not true. No question was flung naked
to the people, except the one of the spoils
of office. Democrats fought a wqak and
foolish defensive battle. That was a sight
to make the gods weep and devils rejoice
to see honest men fighting a poor, defensive
battle against thieves and knaves of every
description. The same thing is going on
every day in Congress. With hands and
feet tied, and their mouths gagged, the
Democratic members sit there a helpless
target for the blazing majority—and that,
toQj a majority procured and kept np by
the most impudent and shameless frauds
the world ever saw. If this insulted and
spit-upon minority would go out of such a
body, and then submit the question of their
re-election to the people of their districts,
every one of them would be re-elected, and
the discussion of the canvass would bring,
for the first time, the enormity of Con
gressional despotism squarely before the
face and eyes of the people. We are fully
impressed with the ultimate good which
would be accomplished by the Democratic
members leaving the fraudulent, one-sided,
and illegal pesthole in a body. But it
they will remain™for God’s sake let them
show the pluck and indignation becoming
men of honor. Let them nse words like
sledge hammers to break in pieces the hor
rid images of Mongrel legislation. Let
them fling back scorn for insult, contempt
tor threats, and words of wrath which shall
flay the backs of the sneering scoundrels,
until, taught some good manners from
terror, they shall be compelled to respect
the presence of an honest minority.
[From the Pall Mall Gazette.
Government by Negroes.
A NEW VIEW OF RADICAL TACTICS—MAKING
UP FOR ABSTINENCE FROM BLOODSHED.
* * * Except in the case of the United
States, there has been great uniformity in
the history of the suppression of .rebellion
in modern times. First, there has been
severe and often sanguinary punishment
inflicted on the chiefs of the revolt; then
has succeeded a period during which the
successful empire has enforced strict obe
dience to itself from its subjugated depen
dency ; and finally has come a strong de
sire, growing sometimes out of policy,
sometimes out of a sense of justice, and
sometimes out of mere emotion, to win its
affections, or, at all events, its voluntary
acquiescene in accomplished facts. Eng
land is just at present feeling an almost
passionate wish to be reconciled to Ireland,
and to be beloved by the natives of India;
Austria haadone her best to come to terms
with Hungary, and there are sigus’that the
sufferings of Poland are beginning to cause
discomfort and compunction even in Rus
sia. The United States seem destined to
an experience of a different kind. On the
morrow of the conquest their treatment of
the Southern leaders was marked by a gen
tleness which will always be remembered to
their honor. But iu the next stage of their
relations with the South the necessity for
combining despotic rule with something
like the forms of local self-government forced
them to adopt a policy which has more
than made up for their abstinence from
bloodshed. Nobody whose intelligence has
not been impaired by the lxabit of repeat
ing formulas about universal suffrage can
doubt that the punishmeut inflicted on
the Southern whites is far the severest
which one community has ever inflicted on
another. Englaud governed Ireland through
which the mass of the Celtic
population, however it might hate, never
dreamed of despising; the United States
rule the South through a majority of ne
groes, contempt for whom was almost a
religion with the planter before the attempt
at secession. We are not considering
whether the- punishment was deserved, or
whether the Northern States could possi
bly help inflicting it; we merely say that,
after the capacity of the negro for improve
ment has been rated as highly as possible,
aud after all possible deductions have been
made from the credibility of the stories
published by the Democratic press, the fact
remains that government of white men by
colored ox-slaves is the acutest form of
• moral torture 'which has ever been applied
to a community. How unfortuuate it has
been that the punishment of the South has
taken this shape the United States are not
likely to feel until the time comes (and it
will certainly come) when the people of
the North will be animated with the
strongest wish to be reconciled to even
the most obstinate zealots of secession.
We should be sorry to lay down that
the United States would have done well to
shed blood like water in the first moments
of triumph if only they could have devised
some less degrading contrivance for the
provisional government of the South. Yet
it is quite certain that bloodshed is easily
forgotten; personal outrages with the
greatest difficulty. The Hungarian nobles
appear to have forgiven the Emperor Fran
cis Joseph for his wholesale executions of
their brethren ; but nobody can fail to see
that the “ irreconcilability” of some of the
most emminent of French politicians is
greatly due to recollections of the personal
dishonor to which they were subjected on
the memorable morning of the coup d'etat.
At the present moment we are well aware
that nothing seems less important to the
great majority of the Northern people than
that the experiment which they are trying
in the South causes excessive discomfort
to a parcel of conquered rebels; but they
will probably hereafter view this experi
ment with other eyes when there comes the
inevitable waking to sympathy and pity,
and when, much about the same time, it
appears that the negroes, who are the in
struments of punishment, have become not
only a Southern, but a Northern power,
weighing heavily in the scale whenever a
national decision has to be taken.
The Destructives in a Ferment.
their contemplated plan of action.
The Atlanta correspondent of the Savan
nah Republican writes :
Angier’s n«w» from Washington was a
terrible blow to the Bullock party. As he
tells it, Grant and both the Shermans,
Senators Edmunds, Trumbull, Carpenter
and others assured him that under their
construction of the reconstruction act all
was accomplished when the negroes were
reseated, and the ineligible Democrats dis
placed—that the substitute doctrine was
not in the bill—that all the acts done, or
elections had, or officers appointed and con
firmed, before the blacks wore unseated,
would be held good, and that upon a com
pliance with the law and the adoption of
the Fifteenth Amendment, Messrs. Hill and
Miller would be admitted to their seats in
the Senate.
When this news got abroad, the swearing
was “ tremendous,” and Grant and Sherman
and the Senators named were charged with
falsehood, double dealing and almost all
other crimes by the extreme Radicals
The gang of carpet-baggers were espe
cially “ flustrated,” and Priuce and Clift
pat out yesterday for Washington to recti
fy things and reinstate the falling fortunes
of Skowhegan.
It is thought that a heavy and desperate
fight will come off between Prince and
Clift, and Morrill and other carpet-baggers
who are in Washington, and the men who
desire to act with some show of principle
and justice towards the down-trodden and
persecuted people of Georgia. I am in
formed, from reliable Republican sources,
that Bullock and the carpet-baggers are in
bad odor at the capital, and there is a
very general disposition to give them the
cold shoulder. My informant says that
Gen. Grant is becoming restive, and has
frequently expressed the wish that Georgia
should be brought back without delay.—
The next ten days will tell the whole story,
and I look with some hope for good re
sults.
In this busy, sensational town one hears
all sorts of news. I give you some of the
plans proposed for action when the Legisla
ture convenes:
Ist. It is proposed to pass a law requir
ing a test oath from all persons holding
office in Georgia, and it will be so drawn
as to exclude all persons but carpet-baggers
and runaways.
2d. It is understood that the Supreme
Court is to be reorganized. Warner is to
be ousted and Dawson and Walker put in
his place.
3d. Changes iu the Superior Court Judges
kre also to be made. It is conceded that
Judge Schley will be displaced by that
sturdy patriot and much beloved citizen of
Savannah, a Mr. Stone, who has been dis
playing his beard about the executive head
quarters fop the pqst week. This is glori
ous!
4th. Heaven and earth, and hell if neces
sary, will be invoked to displace Dr. An
gier, for if he remains Bullock thinks re
construction a miserable sham and failure.
sth. The Opera House must be bought
or the bottom is out. All the eleinents of
power will be invoked to carry this iniqui
tous scherqe, and every “ Bullock Demo
crat ’’—and there are a dozen of this hybrid
breed in the Legislature—will be required
to do their best to carry the opera.
Since the last session, Kimball has raised
his sights, and will now want a half mil
lion to cover all his outlay and make any
thing by the “spec.” The Opera House
and contents will not sell in the market
for more than one hundred thousand dol
lars, lriit the Legislature will be asked for
five times that figure, and this is the way
the people’s money goes.
Macon and Brunswick Railroad. —At
a meeting of the stockholders, held in Ma
con, all the old officers and Directors of the
Macon and Brunswick Railroad were re
elected, as follows:
George H. Hazlekurst, President; Robert
Schmidt, Master of Transportation; Henry
Coit Day, Secretary and Treasurer.
Directors —George 8. Obear, Stephen
Collins,L. N. Whittle-CharlesDay,Macon,
Ga.; C. 8. Dabney, J. P. G- Foster, M. K.
Jessup, J. Milbank, New York.
f Macon leUgi'aph.
[From the Charleston News.
Unto this Last.
J- 'J- Wright, a colored man, who sits In
the General Assembly as Seiiator from
Beaufort county, was elected yesterday
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
ktatc. Wright was born iu Pennsyl
van hi, graduated at the 1 LancasteriaD Uni
versity In New York, studied law for two
years at Moutrose, Pennsylvania, and was
admitted to the bar in Susquehanna coun
ty, being the first colored man admitted to
practice in Pennsylvania.
In 1865 he came South and was made
legal adviser of the South Carolina freed
men. He was a delegate to the Recon
struction Convention, and was afterward
elected to the State Senate.
• }^, I is quiet, well behaved and de
cidedly intelligent, but neither his decency
nor his little knowledge of the law caused
his election to the highest judicial position
m the State. He was elected solely and siih
ply because he is a colored man.
• The Radicals themselves, white and
black, know that Wright can not fill with
credit the position which has been dragged
down to his level. They know that before
the Supreme Court will come questions of
momentous importance to the people of the
State. They know that Wright, whatever
his smartness, will be either a mere puppet
or, far'Worse, an obstinate ignoramus, who
will carry with him to the bench the pitiful
arts of the pettifogger. Knowing these
things, and knowing them well, the Radi
cal majority persisted in electing a man
whose only merit is the color of his skin and
his personal popularity. The welfare ! of
the State, and the safety of the people, sere
as nothing in comparison with the deter
mination to indulge at all hazards the
prejudice and passion of race.
Let them go on 1 The more the better of
this brave work while lasts the negro <&r
nlval.
Death of Lieutenant General Sir
Charles Windham, K. C. 8., &c. —lt will
be remembered by some of onr citizens that
at the close of the past year, this distin
guished officer and his staff passed through
Savannah on his way to Florida, for the
benefit of his health. During his short
stay among us, the simplicity of his frank,
open character made the most favorable
impression on the minds of all who cime in
coutact with him, aud he left us with the
good wishes ot‘ the best of our community.
The change to Florida having failed to
arrest the of the heart—
tbe surgpon of the staff telegraphed to
Canada to Lady Windham, that her early
presence was important. She came down
under the escort of Sir Alexander Macken
. zie, and reached her noble husband at Jack
sonville only in time to see him siuk. He
took leave of Lady Windham and his staff
on Weduesday evening, and at eight o’clock,
in full pessession of his faculties, he died
as he had lived, a brave Christian soldier.
£$A friend in this city repairing instantly
to Jacksonville, found the good people had
anticipated every wanton the occasion. A
dispatch of the most grateful character
was received yesterday by the widow from
Prince Arthur, also one from high sources
in Canada, where, the deceased had been
Commander in Chief of Her Britannic Ma
jesty’s forces.
Saturday morning the Atlantic aud Gulf
Railroad train from the South brought the
remains to this city, attended by Lady
Windham, the staff, Sir Alexander Macken
zie and the Marquis de Talleyrand. They
were met on their arrival at the depot by
some of our leading citizens, who accom
panied the dead Chief to the place of em
barkation per steamship San Jacinto.
Sir Charles did good service in the In
dian mutiny at Cawnpore, and his subse
quent conspicuous gallantry at the storm
ing of Sebastopol obtained for him the
sobriquet of “ Redan Windham.” He died
in his fifty .eighth year." He was a favorite
with the English nation—especially with
the Queen —who had significantly marked
her sense of his distinguished services.
[Savannah Republican.
Pen Pictures of Legislators. —The
Rome Courier has an editorial correspond
ence, in which the portraits of some of Jhe
members of the Agency are drawn. Os jhe
Richmond delegation the following embel
lishment appears, which seems to ha ve the
merit of correctness at least iii respect |o
speaking of Bryant as having “ a good efl:”
With the other,he squints continually.
Bryant is a slender, lithe and handsome
mau—has a prominent forehead, neatly
trimmed whiskers, a good eye. He Is a
very watchful man, indefatigable in his la
bor, and yet is always ready to catch atthe
least chance of putting in his protest. Bold,
fearless and sharp, he has won the undying
hatred of the Radical faction, and deserves
the gratitude of all Democrats.
The most despicable (that’s the word!)
creature in the whole concern, is Tom Tit
Tweedy. The poor little fellow is so start
lingly insignificant, and so supremely inane
that we should laughingly pity his refresh
ing minuteness, were it not for the active
malignity with which thedem’d little thing
seeks for commands from his masters.
The first impression upon seeing the tre
mendous emptiness of expression that char
acterizes his face would be to laugh at
the cheerful little idiot that hops and chirps
about in such frisky inanity. But when
we find that his activity is not due to any
vital spark that may have dropped into his
brain-pan, but rather to Foster Blodgett,
then we thank Providence that the English
language contains the word despise.
South Carolina Bonds.— ln the finan
cial article of the New York World , of the
4th instant, we find the following:
In new South Carolinas there was a large
business transacted outside of the Stock
Exchange, and $300,000 bonds were bought
by some banks and savings banks at 86 to
87. These purchases are based on the in
troduction of a bill into the State Senate,
which promises to become a law, which
will tend to materially enhance the credit
of the State of South Carolina. This bill
creates a commission,designated as the Sink
ing Fund Commission, and authorizes the
same to sell the public lands and other
property of the State, including $2,000,000
$3,000,000 of railroad and other securities
belonging to the treasury, aud to employ
the proceeds of all this property to the pur
chase and retirement of the State debt, on
the principle of Secretary Boutwell’s sink
ing turn! operations for the General Gov
ernment. It is estimated that this measure
would place at the disposal of the commis
sion at least $2,000,000 during the present
year for the extinguishment of the debt of
the State. If this bill becomes a law, the
credit of the State of South Carolina would
probably take equal rank with that of Gfcli
fornia and Massachusetts, the only two
States which have persistently paid their
interest in gold, and whose bouds rank
high both here and in Europe, and sell at
and above par in gold.
Ups and Downs of Stocks— About ten
days ago, a gentleman of this city bought
some South Carolina Railroad stock from
a friend at 38, who urged the purchase,
and said it would be an accommodation for
him if he would take it at that figure. The
buyer went out of the city, and returning
on Saturday, when whom should he meet
on Broad street but his friend who sold
him the stock; and what was his surprise
to-receive a proposal to buy the stock back
at 45; aud the original owner finally caine
intp repossession at 45>|. Later on Satur
day 46 was offered for this security, but
still higher prices are looked for.
Last Monday morning about 400 shares
of Savannah and Charleston Railroad
Stock changed hands at 23 ; on Tuesday
the whole lqt was placed at 25, with ap
proved note at sixty days, interest,
which paper was discounted at one per
ceht. per mouth — i. s. y 50 cents a share off,
leaving the buyer at a clear gain of
$1 $5 per share -say SSOO on a single day’s
investment. Truly, “ the early bird catches
the worm. -
A Broad street broker is reported to
havp made investments, in the early part
of last week, in South Carolina bonds at 80
to 82, expressed them to New York and
placed all at 85 to 86—making a snug lit- '
tie sum. All this goes to show that our
leading securities are maturing to their
real values, and holders had better look
twice at an offer before they : part with
their valuables.—Charleston Coupler, 7th.
It is currently rumored that Col. John
L. Hopkins will be appointed Judge of the
Superior Courts of the Atlanta Circuit,
Tice Judge John D. Pope resigned.
[From the Hearth and Home.
Death Before Death.
BY SABAH M. B. PIATT.
Are wine the empty eyes
That stare toward the little new grave on the
beautiful burial-bill ?
Was mine the last wet hiss that lies
Shut up'io his coffin, kissing him still.
Kissing him still ?
Is mine ihqfiollow room?
Was It not cruel to take all the pretty small
tu'niiure, say ?
The lairy pictures and heaps of bloom,
And music of mock harps—so tar away,
So far away ?
Is mine tbe hidden face
That one night’s sudden dread watching has
thinned and faded so much ?
Mine the lonesome hands through bitter
space,
Yearning for something they never can touch,
Never can tonch ?
Is mine the passionate pain
That will hearken the trembling wind and feel
the wide still snow,
And sob at night with tbe sobbing rain,
And only feel that I cannot know,
1 cannot know ?
Wa6 mine tbat.lovely child ?
Did he drop from iny heart and go where the
Powers of toe Dust cau destroy ?
Can I See the very way be smiled—
“ Let God keep bis angels ?” Do I want my
boy—
I want my boy ?
Is he gone from his air,
From bis sun, from bis voice, bis motion, his
mother, bis world, and his skies,
From the uushorn light in tiis sweet hair.
From the elusipu of bis butterflies,
His butterflies ?
11 not, why let me go
Where another sorrow is watching a small,
cold bed nlonc,
Aud whisper bow I have loved her so,
Tbat to save her darling I gave my own,
I gave my own ?
Ah ! if I learned her part,
If such dark Fancies can play-in despair like
tragedy queens.
Then my only audience was my heart.
And my tears, that were tears, were behind the
scenes,
Bcbiud the scones.
f From the New York Bun.
Married to a Pagan.
THE WRETCfIEDEST WOMAN IN NEW YORK
LIFE IN CHERKY STREET—THE PERSONI
FICATION OF MISERY.
She is the wife of a Chinese sailor. She
lives at (14 Cherry street. Her husband’s
name is Mow-Weit-See ; but the independ
ent freemen of the Fourth Ward, not being
able to reconcile their organs of speech to
such barbarian lingo, have naturalized the
name to Morrisy, which is a name familiar
to Fourth Ward ears and beloved of Fourth
Ward hearts.
So this Wretchedcst Woman in New York
is known as Mrs. Morrisy. Any one who
wishes to find her can do so by going to 64
Cherry street, entering the hall to the left
leading in from the sidewalk, going to the
rear of the hall, ascending the stairs, tra
versing the dark hall on the second floor,
which "runs towards Cherry street, nntil he
comes to a flight of stairs on the left; then
let him ascend these stairs and knock at
the door which he will come against in
turning to the right, push open the door,
enter the room, and look at the object lying
on the bed at his right, between the stove
and the wall.
The object which he will see lying on
that bed is a woman—Mrs. Morrisy, the
wife of the Chinese sailor, Mow-Weit-See.
Site is a Catholic. He Is a Pagan. They
have three children, who have been educa
ted mainly at the Howard Mission, and
who are consequently neither Pagans nor
Catholics, but are largely leavened with
Protestantism. This commingling of re
ligious elements sometimes brings about
strange scenes in that dismal room. On
one occasion the Catholic wife was found
on her knees in one corner devoutly saying
her prayers and counting her beads, while
the Pagan husband was at the same time
crouched in another corner worshipping
his heathen gods, and the children were
singing the hymn—
“ Jesus loves me, this I know,”
For the Bihie tells me so,”
which they had learned at their Mission
School.
That was many months ago, when the
wife of Mow-Weit-See could get out of bed,
and bend upon her knees and count her
beads. She can do none of these things
now. Inflammatory rheumatism, working
in Iter system for years, has at last laid its
victim helpless. That disease once getting
hold of her, escape from its clutch was im
possible while she lived, as she for years
has been compelled to live in damp cellars
or mildewed garrets, and without sufficient
clothing, or fuel, or food, aud subjected to
the brutal treatment of her Pagan husband.
The public will probably he surprised to
learn that the Chinamen who dwell in this
city are nearly all married to white wives.
They do not make prize husbands. It is a
fundamental doctrine of Chinese ethics that
women have no souls, and are of no partic
ular account even in this world. Hue, the
traveller whose book on China made such
an impression some fifteen years ago, says
that the biggest joke of the season wherever
he went in the Celestial Empire, was his
attempt to maintain that women have souls.
The Chinese could not stand such an absurd
notion. Its announcement always doubled
them up with laughter. Still, we must not
be too hard on the Chinese for this, inas
much as some of the most accomplished
philosophers in Christendom go farther
than they do, and maintain that neither
women nor men have souls.
The Chinese notion that men have souls
and that women have not works badly in
domestic life. 1 It leads the Chinaman to
treat his wife worse than lie treats his dog.
His dog is of more practical value to him
than his wife. He can eat his dog, in a
piuch, even in New York ; but his wife lie
cauuot cat. He cau only beat her, or cut
her throat, or shoot her, as Archo murdered
his wife.
Mow-Wert-See treated his wife after the
Chinese fashion; and the inflammatory
rheumatism, starvation and foul atmos
phere have treated her after their fashion ;
and so there she lies on her ragired bed, in
that back room, on the second floor of 64
Cherry street, one of the roost pitiable ob
jects now to be seen on earth.
Her chest is drawn all awry, aud wrench
ed iuto a misshapen condtion terrible to be
hold. Her shoulders are drawn out of
place. Her arms are like hens’ legs, and
her Augers like chickens’ claws. Her body
is twisted as in a vice. The coronal suture
of her head is torn jpart, so that the brain
is exposed. Iler eyes are swollen to blind
ness and almost gelid. We were at her
bedside yesterday morning (Monday, Jan
uary 31), at a quarter to 11 o’clock. She
was then suffering terribly.
“ I have cried all night,” she said, “ with
my feet.”
“ What was the matter with them ?” we
asked.
“ They were twisted and cramped all
up,” she answered. “It seemed as though
the pain would kill me; and I could not
see; and my head hurts me so, too.”
This woman has no physician to attend
her. She has nothing to eat, drink, or wear,
except what is sent to her from the Howard
Mission, and what her eldest son, a child
eleven years old, can purchase with his
scanty earnings. Her husband does noth
ing. He was lying in bed yesterday morn
ing when we made our call. He says he
can’t get a berth on a ship as a sailor. He
was either asleep or else shammed sleep
during our visit. We asked his wife why
he didn’t shovel in cqal, or do something
else to earn some money.
“ Oh, lie wouldn’t do that,” she said, “ if
he could earn $6 a day. He’s too proud to
do that.” r
A few nights ago his little son—the one
who works to help support his mother—
was lying in bed with him, and, the child
being unwell, groaned with pain; and
the father, pot relishing such disturbance
of his rest, seized the child and hurled
him headlong out upon the floor,
Whereby the poor little fellqw was badly
bruised. That is a specimen of Mow-Weit-
See’s paternal Ufftection.
And now what Is to be done about this ?
Are there not generous Catholic hearts
enough in New York to meet this case ?
We do not counsel wrath, nor any attempt
on the part of Mrs. Morrisy’s countrymen
to give that Mongolian 'heathen, her hus
band, a taste of Catholic Christianity. We
have stated the case, and 64 Cherry street,
second floor, back room, is open to all
comers.
State Items. •
The Americus Republican reports the
death of Mr. James Stewart, of Sumter
county, on the 3d inst., in the 78th yeap of
his age. ~
The Macon Telegraph and Messenger says
the gentlemen who own the Laboratory
property have already had an engineer to
survey a race track, and -will proceed at
once to put it In order. They are also con
tracting for lumber aud theenclosing of the
grounds. They hope to be able to have
races over the course this Spring, and will
be Fully prepared for holding a Fair the
coming Fall.
The hotel at Dalton, Georgia, known as
the Morris House, belonging to the estate
of the late Capt James Morris, was sold at
public sale ou Wednesday last, and brought
SII,OOO. It was built at a cost of $25,000.
The Savannah Republican reports that
on Thursday morning the body of a Mr.
Mercer, agent for the contractors on the
Bainbridge, Cuthbert and Columbus Rail
road, was found on the track in a frightfully
mangled condition, the train having run
over him the night previous. In conse
quence of a pool of blood being discovered
a short distance from the railroad track, it
is supposed that the unfortunate man was
murdered, and his body placed on the track,
to conceal the crime.
The Thomas ton Herald says small-pox
has broken out in that county.
Atlanta Items.—The Constitution, of
Sunday, has the following:
There were seveuty interments in the
cemetery last month—lß whites, 52 blacks.
The Hebrew Benevolent Society have pe
titioned the City Council for the purchase
of the market house at the corner of Mitch
ell and Pryor streets, to be fitted up as a
house of worship.
We learn that Superintendent Blodgett
is in Washington City, and will probably
be absent for a week or so.
Council last night adopted a resolution
offered by Alderman O’Keefe, that the Com
mittee on Public Buildings and Grounds,
have plans and specifications prepared for
the improvement of the Fair Grounds
and receive propositions from private par
ties for conducting the fair of 1870.
Labor in Dougherty, Lee and Baker.
—From the most reliable data we have,
we conclude there are more laborers in
these three counties this year than last;
but they are not distributed as they were,
and many planters have not as many as
they want. Some have more than they
worked last year, and new comers have
also come in for a share, which, of course,
deprives others of their full quota; whilst
a few have been unable to retain any at all.
The negroes love to work in large gangs,
and on the best plantations; and planters
who deal generously, justly and promptly
with them, seem to have no difAcuity in se
curing enough, and but little trouble in
managing them.
Peace, harmony and good will prevails
generally between employer and employees,
aud material Interests are engaging the
faithful efforts of both, races for mutual
prosperity.— AV)any News.
Vicksburg and Brunswick Railroad.
—The section of this road (which is to con
nect Brunswick with Vicksburg via Alba
ny, Ga.* Eufaula, Claytou, Troy, Green
ville, Alabama, and Meridian, Mississippi)
from Clayton to Eufaula, Alabama, is now
advertised for coutract, and we learu from
good authority work is to be commenced
immediately, with the expectation that the
cars will run from Eufaula to Claytou, a
distance of twenty miles, as early as Jan
uary, 1871. The prospects of having a
railroad connection at Claytou has revived
business in that pleasant town, and drawn
i]i new residents to such an extent that
there are not houses and accommodations
sufficient for all. —Columbus Sun.
A Vain Dream. —When the Georgia, bill
was passed some of the leading men of the
State, among them Hon. Benj. 11. Hill and
Judge Stephens, brother of Hon. Alexander
H.. advised the people to abstain from any
action thereunder. Other views prevailed,
the great argument being that by going to
tbe Legislature the Democratic members
might be able to exert a wholesome influ
ence. The result is now seen. A military
commission is now sitting in judgment on
our “wholesome” friends. It is a vain
dream to suppose that Democratic partici
pation in a reconstructed Legislature can
do anything but lend some color of legality
to what would be otherwise too flagrant a
fraud to live. —Charleston News.
Labor Scarce.—The scarcity of .field la
borers is a matter of general complaint..
Some of our best farmers are unsupptied.
This should be taken into account in future
crop estimates, and will doubtless exert an
influence upon the cotton market even dur
ing the preseut season.
Our people will be forced to supplement
the deficiency in the labor supply with their
own brown muscle.
A strong reserve can be brought to bear
from the professions, and the" idlers and
supernumerary clerks of onr towns and
villages. To the rescue, young men, your
couutry needs your services.
[Guthbert Appeal.
Death of an Oi,d Former Citizen of
Georgia. —Mr. John C. Gordon, a native of
Union District, S. C., and for several years
a resident of Franklin aud Burke counties,
Ga., died on the 10th nit., at Coffeeville,
Upshur, county, Texas, aged 87 years.
Home-Made Fertilizer.— The follow
ing formula has been handed us by H. W.
Risley, who was for many years engaged In
the drug- trade throughout the South, and
who is now engaged in promoting immi
gration to this section. Good and cheap
fertilizers, with skilled labor, are what is
needed to develope the wealth of our soil:
Rkley's Fertilizer. —Take 35 barrels dry
muck, or rich earth, 5 barrels wood ashes,
5 barrels ground bone, 5 barrels ground
plaster Paris—mix these first, and add the
following, previously dissolved in a suffi
cient quantity of water, viz.: 250 pounds
common salt, 250 pounds glauber salts, 250
pounds nitrate soda, 250 pounds sulphate
ammonia—mix all well together through a
screen, and keep dry. Used like Peruvian
guano, it will be found nearly as good, and
its effects more lasting.
Os the above ingredients, which will make
about 5 tons, two, the weight and bulk, cau
be had on almost every farm, and the five or
six articles which have to be bought can
be obtained from Morgan & Risley, whole
sale druggists, New York, and will cost
less than the price of one ton of Peruvian
guano.
If wood ashes are not to be had, their
bulk may be made up with mnek, and
about 30 pounds of potash added to and
dissolved with the salts, which, although
increasing the cost, will answer the pur
pose as well, and probably better than the
ashes.
The South Carolina Railroad Com
pany.—The Charleston News is authorized
to state that at the regular meeting of the
Board of Directors of the South Carolina
Railroad Company, held on Wednesday last,
it was determined to begin the payment of
quarterly dividends in July next.
This announcement will be received, we
are sure, with great satisfaction. The road
has beeu rebuilt and is in fine order; the
rolling stock and motive power are
thoroughly efficient; the debt of the com
pany lias been amicably adjusted, and
the business of the road is steadily increas
ing.
It has always been the earnest and lauda
ble desire of the Directors to resume, at the
earliest moment possible, the payment of
dividends, so that the stockholders may
realize some return from their investment,
and, in accordance with this settled princi
ple, the Board have taken the prudent step
now brought to the attention of the public.
BY TELEGRAPH.
[ Associated I’reM Dispatches.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, Februavy 6.— Hoar will be
retained ip the Cabinet.
Washington, February 7—Noon.—The
House is discussing the resolution that the
t ariff should be for revenue, not for protec
tion.,.
Senator Morton presented documents de
claring that Georgia had adopted the Four
teenth and Fifteenth Amendments.
The case of Hepburn versus Griswold,
brought from the Court of Appeals of Ken
tucky, involving the legal tender law, was
decided in the United States Supreme Court
to-day. Chief Justice Chase delivered the
opinion of the court, sustaining the opinion
of the court below, and holding that a con
tract rapde before the legal tender law could
not be discharged in United States notes.
The opinion is very long, and discusses at
great length the powers of Congress. It
holds that Congress had no right to make
Government notes a legal tender for pre
existing private debts. It does not touch
the question of contracts made since the
law was passed. This opinion was con
curred in by Justice Nelson, Justice Clif
ford and Justice Field. Justice Miller de
livered the minority opinion concurred in
by Justice Swayne and Justice Davis,
holding the law to be entirely constitu
tional, treating it principally as an incident
to the war power.
The President has nominated Joseph P.
Bradley, of New Jersey, and William
.Strong, of Pennsylvania, Associate Justices
of the Supreme Court..
Bullock, leading one, and Bryant another
Georgia delegation have arrived. Both
claim to be Republicans.
Peter T. Washburn, Governor of Vermont,
is dead.
Washington, February 7—P. M.—Reve
nue to day, $847,000.
Twenty-R(*ven cases of yellow fever Oc
curred on the Seminole, 'l’he fever is abat
ing and the cases milder. The Seminole
leaves Key West for Portsmouth, N. 11.
The Senate Judiciary Committee will
hear the conservative delegation on
Wednesday, regarding Georgia. Trum
bull has notified the Bullock delegation to
be prepared.
The Elections Committee have indefinite
ly postponed the case of Segar, who claims
tbe seat from Virginia at large.
In the House, Ridgeway introduced bills
to repeal the act prescribing oath of office ;
also for tbe removal of political disabilities
from the people of Virginia.
Walker introduced a bill to discontinue
the Freedman’s Bureau.
The resolution offered Monday last, de
claring that the constitutional authority
to levy taxes does not include any power
to impose duties other than for the collec
tion of revenue, and that a tariff levied for
any other purpose thau that of revenue,
especially iflevied to foster and encourage
one section of the country or one class of
citizens at the expense of another section
or class, is unauthorized by the Constitu
tion, unjust to the great body of the people,
and injurious to almost all industries, and
directing the Ways and Means Committee
to prepare a bill accordingly, was laid on
the table by a vote of 89 to 77.
The Indian appropriation bill was re
ported aud made the special order for Tues
day. It appropriates $3,000,000 against
$6,000,000 last year. The amount estima
ted for was $5,000,000.
The death of the late Hoag was announc
ed in both Houses.
Dispatches to Fish, from Havana, say
that one American citizen was killed and
two wounded there yesterday. No particu
lars.
In the Senate petitions were presented
favoring an additional amendment granting
female suffrage.
A bill was reported to encourage tele
graphic communication between the East
ern and Western continents. It gives the
American and Asiatic Telegraphic Com
pany exclusive, right for fourteen years to
the telegraphic cable from a point in Wash
ington Territory, Government vessels to
assist the enterprise.
A bill to protect Congressmen from im
portunity arid preserve the independence of
the several departments, also the census
bill, were discussed without final action.
Adjourned.
A delegation of Georgians,! composed of
Conley, President, of the .State Senate,
Speaker pro tern. Tweedy, Judges Gibson,
Parrot and Harrall, of the Superior Courts,
Representative Clift, Mr. John Rice, and
others, eallqfl on Grant this morning. The
interview was of au hour’s duration. They
discussed the political situation fully. The
President stated that although his first im
pressions were that the action of the Leg
islature previous to the expulsion of the
colored members was legal and binding, and
the election of Senators was to hold good,
he was satisfied, after more mature reflec
tion, that the present legislative organiza
tion was the first, and that all aetion should
be commenced de novo. He inquired who the
Republicans would elect Senators, to which
the delegation responded that no nomina
tions were yet made, but would probably
be made on Monday, and the election be
Ticltl on Tuesday. No doubt .they would
be loyal Republicans. The President said
both he and Sherman had entire confidence
in Terry, and he would fully advise them
of the situation, in a few days, as he would
be here on public business. The delegation
also expressed confidence in Terry’s judg
ment and ability.
GEORGIA.
Atlanta, February 6.—The dispatch last
night, quoting from a Democratic journal
of this city relative to Brj-ant, Caldwell
and others, was intended as a special and
sent to the Associated Press by mistake.
Savannah, February 7. —The steamship
Oriental, from Boston, to-day, towed in
port the British brig Helen, from New
York for Wilmington, N. C. The Helen
was dismasted ott the North Carolina coast
in the late gale.
Macon, February 7. —Great indignation
is manifested by the people over the state
ment of the Intelligencer , a pretended Demo
cratic paper, that thoy endorse the designs
of the Bullock faction. The Intelligencer is
in the pay of Bullock. The people ask Con
gress to give them the benefit of a fair con
struction of the act to promote reconstruc
tion and save them from ruin. The people
ask Congress to carry out their own act in
good faith.
ALABAMA.
Montgomery. February 7.—The Senate
Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad bill
passed the House with the amendment that
$2,000,000 of State bonds should be loaned
in place of $3,000,000, as was proposed in
the original Senate bill. The Senate will
undoubtedly concur in the House amend
ment.
OHIO
Cincinnati, February 7.— Dobbins’ dis
tillery, at Dayton, has been seized. Dob
bins refused to pay taxes, in order to test
the legality of the forty-eight hoar fermen
tation r ule.
FOREIGN.
London, February 6.—The bark Jessie
Campbell, from New York, foundered at
sea. All saved.
City of Mexico, February 6.—A con
spiracy in favor of Santa Ana was discov
ered here. The ringleaders were arrested.
Havana, February 7. —General Gay
Enoche, lias returned to Puerto Principe;
and reports capturing two pieces of artil
lery and many prisoner*.
In sugar there is little business, and
prices are barely maintained.
Madrid, February 7.—lt is reported that
the treaty between Spain and the Spanish
republics will be signed immediately.
Valentia, February 7.— The Irish tele
graph Eastward is cat off.
Paris, February 7.—Gen. Heine has de
parted for Panama to conduct the Darien
ship canal explorations.
The Marseillaise, Henry Rochefort’s jour
nal, appears this morning, with a charac
teristic article,’ over the signature of Roche
fort himself, relative to the recent notice,
ordering him to constitute himself a prison
er in obedience to . the sentence of the
court. Hedeclares boldly he will not sur-:
render himself, and if the Ministers.waut
him, they must come and take him; and
furthermore, they must come prepared to
use force.
The new postal arrangements with the
United States applies only to prepaid mat
ter.
LOUISIANA-
Nbw °RLEANB, February 0.-In the
Legislature yesterday a bill passed makiug
for toxes 14,1 P ° IiCC warrante receivable
issT.e m aut horizlng the
issue or three millions of bonds to levees
Works. C ° ntraCt by the Board of PuWlc
John. M. Nelson was drowned lass even
the hiua r V | lng thron ß h open draw of
nanlfo^him 10 the CanaL A c Wld accom
panying nun was rßsciipd
Another sugar fraud case, involving eight
hundred_and flfty-flve boxes, wll dec §ed
ol fc kgiSSS.
ported under false invoices as to wTlght
ILLINOIS.
K brU u ry 7 — : Extensive smdg
silt Late’’ “ ddressed •» SrlgUam Yoo»k,
marine NEWS.
sh?n A o,Z A t«i F « ruary Arrived: Steam
shlp Oriental Boston ; schooners G. W.
Stetson, Norfolk; Andrew H Ed ward a
Frelfw^n 8, ’ T ? larlon Draper/ Portland ;
Baltimore. 10 "’ Baltimore : Ch as. E. Elmer,
Cleared : Ship Colonist, Liverpool.
Charleston, February 7.—Arrived-
Schooners Oueida, New York; Emily Cur
a ngton ’ Del -! Leila, New York-
A. H. Whitman, Norfolk, Va.; J. B. Vad-
New n YoTk UadelPh ' ft: Hteame . r T «®neßsee,
MARKETS.
London, February 7 — Noon Consols
£%■ Bond*. 87M. Sugar/ aflmit,
& 46,M la0 " Roßln ’ 5a ™-®*s.9d.
, Liverpool, February 5 -Evening.—Cot
ton closed with a downward tendency; up
lands 11%; Orleans, 11%911%. 1
Liverpool, February 7-Nqon—Cotton
opened quiet and steady ; uplands, 11% •
OriftanH ; sales, 10,000 balesJLl
r lour, 19s. 6d.
Havre February 5.-Cotton closed flat.
R«eT73 P r e S ,ry 7 - Boo ’* ° ( ” ncd d “ 11 -
Y ° kk - February 7-Noon.-Stocks
strong. Money easy at 596. Exchange
long, 9; short 9 %;- Gold, 120%. ’62’s,
coupon, 15%; Teunessees, ex coupon 55% •
new, 49%; Virginias, couJoT 62^
! a ! iaS ’ ° 1d,68: Levcc
70, Bs, 81%; Alabama B’s, 94; s’s 62*
Georg.a 6’s, 80 ; 7’s, 92% ; North Carolinas’.
old, 43; new, 25% ; South Carolinas, old
8b ; new, 85%. ’
New York, February 7—P. M.—Moncv
easy at 496. Sterling, 9. Gold heavy at
120 Governments quiet. Southerns gen
erally low, which, advanced—old, 62 • new
G 9. ° 1 *
New York, February 7-Noon—Flour
dull, se. lower. Wheat dull, lc. lower.
Corn steady. Pork quiet; mess, $26 25.
Lard quiet at 15%. Cotton quiet at 25%
Turpentine firm at 48048%. R oß ln quiJt
at $2 15 for strained. Freights dull
New York, February 7—P. M.—Cotton
drooping; sales. 600 bales. Flour 5910
lower; superfine State, $4 5094 70- com
mon to fair extra Southern, $5 3595 90
Wheat heavy and lower; Winter red and
amber Western, $1 2591 27. Corn un
changed. . Pork, $25926 25. Lard heaw
JjCttle, 16%917%. Whisky heavy at 989
9b%. Groceries and Naval Stores quiet
Freights firmer.
Baltimore, February 7.-Cotton dull at
A\. Flour fairly active, prices weak but
not quotably lower. Wheat steady and
unchanged. Corn dull ; white, 95951.
Oats 52905. Rye dull at 95@$1. Pork,
f ~ 5 -. B acon 9aiet; shoulders, 13. Lard
dull at 16%917%. Whisky firm at 98999:
rginias, old, 51%; North Carolinas, new,
27 bid. ’
Louisville, February 7.— Corn, sacked,
95. Mess Pork, $27 50. Bacon-shoul
ders, 12,% ; clear sides, 16. Lard—kegs, 18.
Whisky, 93994.
CnfomNATi, February 7.—Corn dull at
L.'v. Wlt; h large receipts. Whisky, 93
Mess Pork, $27. Bacon—‘shoulders i2% -
clear sides, 16@16%. Lard, 15@1G. ’
Sr. Louis, February 7—Corn declining:
prime to fancy white, 80984.
Wilmington, February 7.—Spirits Tur
pentine—uo sales reported. Rosin—small
sales at $1 55 for strained, $2 for No 1
Tar steady at $2. Cotton quiet at 23% for
middling. Com, $1 09. 78
Mobile, February 7.—Cotton in fair de
mand; closed quiet; sales, 1,200 bales - mid.
dliug, 24; receipts, 1,286 bales.
New Orleans, February 7 Cotton
demand fair ; prices firm at24W924% ■ re
ceipts since Saturday, 16,336 hales • no’ ex
ports. Flour, $5 309 5 40, 585 and 6.
Corn $1 10. Oats firm at 75. Bran $1 30
Hay, S2B. Pork, $29 25929 50. Bacon
ia Lard—tierce,
16%916%; keg, 18. Sugar active and
firmer; prime, 12912%. Molasses firmer
at 73975 Whisky dull at $1 0291 02%
Coflee active ; fair, 15%(§15% ; prime. 17%
917%. Gold, 121. Sterling, 31% • sight
par, % discount.
Charleston, February 7 Cotton is
easier and quiet; sales, 400 hales; middling
24; receipts, 1,309 bales.
Savannah, February 7.—Cotton—re
ceipts, 2,716; sales, 400 bales; middling
24; market quiet.
Augusta Daily Market.
Office Dailt Constitutionalist >
Monday, February 7-P. M. (
FINANCIAL
GOLD—Buyim; at 180 anil selling at 182.
SlLVEß—Buying at 116 and selling at 180.
BONDS—City Bonds, 88@85.
STOCKS—Georgia Rnilroad, 105, und Id de
m.iud; Augusta Faeiojy, 152; National Bank
of Augusta, 115.
COTTON—The market opened with a fair
demand at for middling, and closed
quiet at same quotations. Bales, 370 bales.
Receipts, 644 bales.
BACON—Fair demand. We quote C. Sides,
C. R. Sides, B. B. Sides, 18)tf
Shoulders, 15)tf; Hams, 21@23; Dry Salt
Shoulders, 18@18}£; Dry Balt C.. R. Sides, 17
@l73*.
CORN—In good demand and is selling at
■?1 30@l 35 from depot.
WHEAT—We quote choice white, fl 55;
amber, fl 50; red, $1 45.
• FLOUR—City Mills, new, $6 50@9 00; at
retail, fl barrel higher. Country, 1609,
according to quality.
CORN MEAL— f 145 at wholesale; fl6O at
retail. ; •
OATS—Bs@fl 25.
PEAS— Scarce at $1 60.
The News from Washington.— Our
Washington dispatches last night famish
the result of an interview between Presi
dent Grant and & delegation of destructives,
wherein Grant indicates his fnll accord
with Bullock as respects the election of
new Senators and the period from which
the terms of the members of the present
Legislature shall date—the preseut session.
With true Radical agility, he somersaults
to this opinion from hi# previous declara
tions to the contrary. What & model, for'
the Chief Magistrate of a nation to sur
render himself to the purposes of a corrupt
cabal, united to oppress the people of an
entire State.
Trade with Utah. —lt is somewhat
singular, but none the less true, that the
hydra-wived Emperor of Utah should find
it necessary to deal direct
with Augusta. Brigham Young, who
seems to be contemplating the change of
his silver grey locks to those of raven hne,
has ordered from our fbllow-citlzcn, Dr.
Wm. H. Tutt, & half dozen bottles of his
famous hair dye, enclosing a $5 bill of the
First National Bank of Utah, Salt Lake.
The order and the cash came safely to
hand, and Dr. Tutt ha 9 shipped the
ordered.