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00*1 STITTTTI ON AL IST.
AUGUSTA. CtKA.
SATURDAY MORNING, F£8.12,1870
- THE GEORGIA MUDDLE.
We find iu the Richmond Dispatch, of the
9th inst., the fgllowing special telegram :
THE PRESIDENT’S INTERVIEW WITH THE
GEORGIA JUDGEB.
Washington, February 8, 1870.—To
day, just as the Cabinet was going into
session at the White House, one of the
President’s Private Secretaries handed to
General Grant an article in the press dis
patches relating the interview of the Geor
gia Judges with the President, in which it
is made to appear thafr he (the President)
deems all the legislation of the Georgia
Legislature prior to the expulsion of color
ed members as unlawful, and that in his
opinion the present Legislature is the only
legal’ legislative body convened in the State
since 1861, and that .the election of the
Senators made some time ago is illegal, and
therefore another election of United States
Senators'is right and proper, etc.
The President, after reading the article,
said: “Well,'l declare I cannot’see how
such an inference could be drawn from my
remarks to those gentlemen. I cannot,
however, commence correcting newspaper
paragraphs in relation to myself. I have
no doubt the Senate will settle the question
in relation to the Georgia Senators; Ido
not propose to do so; it is their business.”
Several of the Cabinet being present, a
general conversation ensued about Georgia
matters, during which the President ex
pressed his desire to see the reconstruction
business settled, and alluding to the para
graph noticed above, remarked: “I en
dorse the remarks about Terry, but of the
legality of the acts of the Georgia Legisla
ture prior to their unconstitutional actions
1 expressed no opinion.”
Governor Bullock furnished the state
ment that went to the press last night set
ing forth that General Grant expressed the
opinion that the election of Senators in
Georgia and other acts of the Legislature
of that State prior to the expulsion Os negro
members was illegal.*
Now here is a positive issue of veracity
made between President-General Grant
and “Governor” Bollock, of Georgia.
This is not the first instance of the kind.
Some months ago, Mr. Bollock sent just
such a telegram from Washington to Geor
gia, and the President-General was obliged
to make a public denial of its authenticity.
We do not know that Mr. Bollock eve;-
responded to this charge of wilful misrep
resentation and falsehood, nor can we,
with certainty, venture to declare that he
reminded Gen.. Grant that his controver
sy with one Andrew Johnson made him a
doubtful witness on a point of truth-telling.
But there is no doubt whatever that subse
quently the President and the “Governor”
buried the hatchet and right loyally work
ed together, cheek by jowl, for the humilia
tion of this State. Whether this new
breach will he any more fatal or any more
harmless than the old one, we can not say.
But it seems highly probable that Bullock
would scarcely trespass to this extent un
less he had a valid pea«je-making defense
iu reserve, or unless he felt confident that
Congress was determined to back him,
though he made the telegraph bristle with
prevarications concerning Grant and his
multitudinous relatives.
We trust that “ Gov.” Bullock’s infamy
may be laid so bare that even Ben Butler
and Forney shall blush to endorse it; but
we warn our people not to nestle too many
flattering unctions to their souls in this
respect. From the virtuous indignation
manifested by Senators Edmunds, Conk
lins aud Carpenter— as reported in the
special telegrams of our esteemed contem
porary, the Chronicle and Sentinel —an un
sophisticated observer might suppose that
lying had become obsolete among Radical
magnates and that the detection of a false
hood shocked their sensitive souls to the
very core. Somehow, we can not but re
gard their manifestations of wrath as a
trifle farcical, the more so when we reflect
how they have, throughout their careers,
been master-masons in the construction of
that Mast.adonic Sham, that Tremendous
and Incomparable Lie called Reconstruc
tion. ,
There is another view of this question.
Grant impugns Bullock, and yet endorses
Terry. We are no defender Sis vßcHLook.
hut we do say that the President-General
can not lash the one and spare the other.
If Bollock is a deceiver, so is Terry
Indeed, of the two, Terry is infinitely the
worse, because the more potential, and be
cause, without his aid, Bullock would
have ripen of no more consequence than a
man of stovw. In justice, then, Mr. Presi
dent, you can slot decide Which is the better
man of the two, hut which is the<©r«e ;
and when ail is sat.l pf Bullock more can
be said of Terry.
The fact is this Georgia business is get
ting unpleasant for the Radicals. ’ Suppose
the Senate should decide to countenance
Senators Hill and Miller. By so doing,
it is virtually admitted that the legisla
ture which elected them was a lawful As
sembly. If a lawful Assembly, why lias it
beenbroked up ? If honesty survived in the
popular heart at the North, these contra
dictions would politically damn the men
who helped perpetrate the fraud, and who
now affect to be so indignant with the poor
tool who has so zealously obeyed their be
hest—even to the extent of equivocating by
telegraph.
We are still convinced that the two
wings of Radicalism should be allowed to
fight this battle among themselves, aDd the
more hotly it rages the better for Democra
cy in the end. Between Bullock and
Bryant there is not a toss-up. We want
to get rid of them both, and we should ally
ourselves with neither.
And Then 'The Choctaw Senator Re
vels told President-General Grant that
Mississippi would be Radical for the next
five years, echoing the statement of satrap
Ames. Let. us suppose this to be true.
Let us suppose that the negroes shall have
full swing for the time specified. What
then ? Wc beg them to reflect upon the
future and upon the condition of their chil
dren. Five years pass away very rapidly
and many negroes will pass away too!
Within that period their power will be
annihilated. Is if well for them, for the
sake of five years of jubilee, to imperil the
happiness of their children by teaching
them opposition to those who ar<^ bound to
rule iu the end ? i m
- •'ol
Revels Not a.NeOKO —lt appears that
the blacks of Mississippi have been badly
sold. Revels, their Senatorial champion,
is not a negro bift a Choctaw Ifirdhih. He
“appropriated” (loyal for stole) eleven
hundred dollars of Church money. But
this is not considered fatal to his Senatorial
chances, unless indeed he can prove that,
had the ecclesiastical fund been larger, his
abstraction would have been greater. We
begin to fear that Alpeokja Bradley is a
Pottawottamie. ’
Grant and the Senate. —The Herald
correspondent at Washington predicts that
Grant and the Senate will come to blows
eventually. Well, hurry up ttte v cakes!
hurry up the cakes! We bet on Ulysses.
Mfheti he is ready to mpve,' he will not pay
JBxpress charges oh those fat pni-ps.
The New French Ambassador.— The
Baltimore Sun thus sums iip.epigranjmati
cally the virtues of* the new French minis
ter : “ 'M. Prevost-Paradol lias long been
“eminent among the scholars of France,
“and being an avowed and bold advocate
“of popular rights, it is presumed that his
“ appointment wUI be peculiarly acceptable
“to the American people. He is ft native
“of Paris, aud is now in his forty-first
“year. He lias written a number of his
“torical and critical works, two of which
“ have received the highest literary honors
“of France —prizes from the Academy. In
“ the political world he has been known as
“ one of the editorial staff of the Journal des
“ Debats, of the Press, and of the Courtier
“du Dimanche, in all of which ne wrote
“bitterly against personal government, as
“administered by the present Emperor.
“In 1859 he was fined and imprisoned for
“ a month for a treatise upon* * former par
“ties,’ iu France, in which he was supposed
“to throw contempt upon Louis Na
“ POLEON.”
M. Paradol is accused, in Frtnce, of a
tendeucy to dwell iu the Middle Ages, just
as Thackeray regretted not having been
born in the reign of Queen Anne. Na
poleon must have been joking when he
sent a lover of “ chivalry” to Gen. % Grant’s
bummers.
Richness.— The New York limes has a
Washington correspondent who lately took
a survey of the United States Senate. All
or nearly all of the Radical members are
pronounced “pure,” “honest,” “honor
able,” “ faithful.” Would to God, then,
they were impure, dishonest and everything
else supposed to be bad !
[communicated]
Wine Culture in Georgia.
The statistics of crime consequent upon
intemperance call aloud for the substitu
tion of less injurious beverages in lieu of
whiskies and brandies. In the wine pro
ducing countries, habitual drunkenness is
almost unknown, and delirium tremens
never known. It should, therefore, be the
duty of every well wisher of our country to
use all his promote the culture
of grapes and the manufacture of wines for
general use. Independently of the moral
bearing of this work, there is no enterprise
In which the Southern planter may engage
that will prove more remunerative.
The vineyard of the Bluffton Wine Com
pany, near St. Louis, Missouri, was or
ganized in the Spring of 1866, with a capi
tal of $150,000 (in shares of SIOO each); on
the third year a dividend of sls per share
was declared, notwithstanding the heavy
outlay of $20,000 for buildings necessitated
by the climate, but which could be dis
pensed with in our more favored latitude.
As the vines increase in age and produc
tiveness, the dividends will be correspond
ingly larger.
The climate of Middle Georgia is so emi
nently favorable to grape culture that we
may easily make our State the Burgundy
of America. We can not only dispense with
the large and costly “ propagating houses”
required in colder climes, but the early ma
turity of the grape here will secure to us
the monopoly of the grape traffic of New.
York and other large cities of the North
long in advance of their own products.
If a company will be organized with n
capital of $50,000, the culture of grapes and
the making of wines here can not fail to be
profitable. Let our capitalists,and philan
thropists unite in this good work of adding
anew element to our agricultural re
sources, aud effacing the blot of intemper
ance from our civilization.
F.*A. Mauge.
The Legal-Tender Decision.
OPINIONS OF THE NEW YORK PRESS.
[From th * Now York World
While the decision now rendered by the
Supreme Court demonstrates the unconsti-'
tationality and the gross injustice of the
legal-tender act, so far as it applies to pre
existing debts, it does nothing to rectify
the wrong. The class of debts included in
the decision have nearly all been paid. Re
ceipts have been given, or the notes and
bonds surrendered, and (lie injury inflicted
under color of law is past alilegal redress.
The holders of State and railroad bonds,
and all other long securities, will hereafter
receive their interest in coin, and this is
nearly the whole extent to which the de
cision will be of any practical value,
( From tho New York Herald.
It is enough that the majority of the
court are with the Chief J ustice in his opin
ion that gold or its equivalent must be
given in the settlement of all debts and
obligations contracted before the passage
of this legal-tender act of 1862. In the sin
gle item of interest on mortgages in this
city alone, Ibis decision, practically adding
twenty per cent, to their value, will per
■haps require an increased payment in green
backs of seven or eight millions, for we
estimate the principal of the unsettled
mortgages iu this city contracted prior to
the approval of the legal-tender act as cov
ering not less than five hundred millions of
dollars. Throughout the country the hold
ers of mortgages and other contracts, to
which tills decision will apply, are gainers
to the extent pyobably of over a hundred
millions in greenbacks.
f From the New York Times.
It is not necessary to discuss the proba
ble effect of the judgment upon unpaid obli
gations of a date previous to 1862. Os
course it will disturb some calculations and
materially affect many interests. But those
who profess to see in it a pretext for repu
diations, whether on the part of individuals,
corporations or States, assume a position
as mischievous as that of thoae who would
produce financial chaos by decreeing the
unconstitutionality of the legal fender act.
There will be hardship, undoubtedly, and,
in some instances, injustice.. But the judg
ment. of the court rests upon an intelligible
—if not an agreeable or entirely defensible
principle ; tlie promulgation of which con
stitutes another reason for tfie restoration,
with all convenient speed, of specie pay
ments. When .we get back to a hard cash
basis, these conflicts of interest and inter
pretation will cease—and not till then.
[From ilie New York Tiifune
The gravity of the decisions by the Su
preme Court on the legal lender act can
hardly be overrated, whether considered in
reference to interest on State debts, or to a
thousand other forms of indebtedness, in
curred before 1862. The opinion of Mr.
Chief Justice Chasev speaking for the ma
jority of the? court, does not go to.the ques
tion of the fight to make United States
notes a legal tedder in iR) contracts made
after the passage of the b! H i but if# general
tendency is plain. “ Get ydsr houses ip
order,” is the meaning of .the. warning yes
terday sounded to tlie 'whole business com
munity from the Bench (ft the*ffeSuprenie
Court. This decision means a speedy re
sumption of specie payments ! .Stand from
under 1 " . , ..
[From th'e New York Journal of Commerce.
The decision oif the Snfhime Court of the
United States, elsewhere printed in full,
will comriMwyl Hpffvcraal) atterttibn. It de
clares that the greenbacks are not a legal
tender, and could not be made so By act of
Congress, for a debt previously contracted
aud payable in coin. The decision does
not touch the question of subsequent con
tracts, but this is of less importance. The
court has heretofore decided that paper
money is not a legal tender for debts
where coin is expressly promised, and now
adds that it will not suffice for debts con
tracted previous to its issue, even if no spe
cial mention was made of coin. This
s weeps away the succession of falsehoods
that grew out of-the Governments unre
leemecl promises, and at one step carries
the whole country back to the position
taken by the fathers of the. Republic. We
congratulate our readers on this result, as
t settles thfi disputed question for all time
on the principles,of tmthand justice. It
will be seen that Tsvon-thO dissenting opin
ions find 119 warrant for the action of Con
gress in‘forcing this mortfey'bn the people,
except iu the “ way
the final adjudication or the remaining is
sue will dispose of that dangerous heresy,
and leave the country at peace In a posi
tion where its honor can be evermore main
tained.
[Star
It is rather late iu the day uow to declare
that greenbacks are not “legal tenders”
for the payment of debts contracted in 1862.
The decision is, of course, regarded with
much interest, but its importance at this
time is not very great. .Debts contracted
in 1862 arc by this time outlawed, and if
not outlawed, creditors, we believe, would
be precious glad to be paid in greenbacks,
although the Supreme Court has decided
they ace not a “ legal tender.”
TnE effect in wall street.
The money writers have but little to say
on the subject. (The effbet “ou the street,”
at the close of business, was noted in the
Express last night.) The Herald's financial
article says:
“Alter the first flurry and confusion had
passed the. speculators thought over the
situation more calmly, and upon the dis
covery that during the past eight years of
suspension of specie payments most of our
railways had cancelled the greater portion of
their old bonds by the issue of new ones, were
solicitous to buy back the stocks which in
their fright they had hastened to sell. It
is significant, however, that the recupera
tion in prices after the greatest depression
of the day was slowest iu those stocks
which are underlaid by the largest bonded
debt. The reaction in gold was based upon
the idea that, as there can be further issues
of greenbacks, stronger efforts will be made
for an inflation of national bank note cur
rency, if not for a general free banking
law.”
[From t)ie Mirsou i Republican.
A “ Massacre” that was Not a Massacre.
A remarkable illustration of the tendency
of the New England miud to invest unim
portant and insignificant events in New
England- history with great dramatic
features has recently been brought to light.
All persons have heard of the “Boston
Massacre” of 1770; or, if there are some
who have not heard of it, it certainly is not
the fault of the Bostonians; for their
orators, divines, teachers, professors, maga
zines, school books and papers have not
failed to do redundant justice to it for one
hundred years. It occurred five years
before the commencement of the revolution
ary war ; and one of the victims of it was
a colored man named Crispus Attucks—
two features which the adroit Bostonians
have carefully and with persistent pains
magnified and dignified into immense and
significant foreshadowing;:.
The “ massacre” is made to figure in colo
nial history as a prophetic messenger of the
Revolution, and Crispus’Attucks is made
to loom up as the “first martyr of liberty”
and the blood-baptized redeemer of his race.
It will shock the sentiment and the emotion
of a century’s growth to hear the real and
unromantic truth of the whole matter; but
the truth must be told for all that. First,
theft; the. so-called “ massacre” was not a
massacre in any just sense of the word;
second,it was not a type nor forerunner,
nor the beginning of the Revolution ; third,
Crispus Attucks was not a negro, but a half
breed ludiau and a ruffian. Os course this
will lie esteemed sacrilege and blasphemy ;
but it is true, nevertheless, and is thoroughly
confirmed by-undonbted Boston authority
—which, in this case, is the very best
authority to lie had.
The so-called “massacre” took place on
the evening of March 5, 1770, and the near
approach of the first centennial anniversary
of it has stimulated an unusual inquiry into
the history of the event. Great prepara
tions were made for its commemoration,
and Wendell Phillips, admittedly one of the
first of living orators, was chosen to make
the event thrill with modern meaning. It
had been celebrated annually, for thirteen
years, by thirteen orations, immediately
following its occurrence—from 1771 to 1783
inclusive—and among the orators were Dr.
Joseph Warren (who was the orator on two
occasions), John Hancock,Benjamin tlhich
born, and George Richard Minot—ail men
of undoubted eloquence, and yet no one of
them equal in marvellous powersand effects
of speech to the selected orator of 1870. At
the triumphant close .of the Revolution, the
celebration tell into disuse, and the proposed
commemoration for the presentyear was in
tended to be an impressive revival of it. x
The preparations naturally provoked re
search, and research has disclosed what
careful students of Massachusetts colonial j
history must long have known, and what
intelligent men hi Boston appear long to |
have suspected-—that the event called the
“massacre'’ was simply the shooting, in
seif defense, by a hundred of British sol
diers, of five members of a furious mob,
who attacked them in their quarters, and
threatened to beat them to death. The pre
sence of royal troops in Boston was, we can
readily imagine, a cause of discontent to
tHe people—just as the menacing presence
of Federal troops in the Southern States is
a cause of dissatisfaction to the inhabitants
of those States now. But we have no re
cords of disorder or outrage committed by
these troops, and there is every reason to
believe that they behaved with discretion
and propriety. Still, they were the agents
of a distant authority, whose administra
tion was becoming irksome to the colonists,
and were therefore regarded with )p» friend
ly eye. A veteran citizen of Boston, whose
parents lived on the street where the “ mas
sacre” occurred, within a short, distance of
the spot, at (lie time of i:s occurrence,
writes to the Boston Transcript a careful
and evidently accurate account of Hie af
fair, in which, speaking of the presence of
the troops in the town, he says •
“The calm, thinking aqd intelligent men
of that day were constant and steady in
their remonstrances to the proper authori
ties against,such measures, but the lower
orders of the community and tlie yonug,
impulsive and thoughtless seemed to know
no better way of expressing their dissatis
faction and wreaking their vengeance than
by bitter taunts and violent assaults on the
so I die ft themselves. The soldiers were not
to blame. They were under orders, they
were placed here by their superiors—by the
authority of an act of Parliament. The ser
vice was doubtless (Jistastefnl enough to
the soldiers themselves—but R was com
pulsory, aud they had no escape from it;
and yet they were taunted , abused, blackguard
ed. and attacked on every offering occasion by
the populace about the streets."
If, then, the Hew Englanders shall still
insist that the “ massacre ” was the pre
lude to the Revolution, they must accept the
corollary of the proposition, viz . that the
Revolution, instead of being the solemnly
and sternly determined movement of the
thoughtful Puritan colonists., was precipi
tated by the u lower orders of the commu
nity ” —by blackguards wliq seem to have
had a home in Boston in that early day.
The writer from whom we have quoted
adds s
“On that fatal Monday evening, March
5,1770, tlie soldiers were assaulted by the
most, persistent and ferocious mob that ever
disgraced the streets of Boston. The soli
tary sentinel, standing on his post, was
first assaulted ; and when the guard was
called out and arrayed on the sidewalk for
his defense, a general and fierce assault
was made on the body of soldiers, the ipob
pressing on them, even to the points of
their bayonets, and hurling at them sticks,
clubs, cakes of ice and any missiles that
were at hand. The popular and continu
ous ciieg were : ‘ Dour with them,’ ‘ Kill
them,’ ‘ Kill them,' ‘They dare not fire,’
etc. The soldier who fired life first gnu
was knocked down on his post, and the
whole body of soldiers vyere actually driven
to the wall beiore they fired,- and when they
did fire it was in the sheerest self .defense.
“All that I have'here stated was clearly
proyed by ample testimony on the trial of
the soldiers. The printed copy of the trial
is now before me.”
It will excite surprise to us who aye ac
customed to see tlie soldiers of the Anieri
can Republic overthrow and defy the civil
authorities in the Southern States, and
usurp civil functions at pleasure, to learn
that these British troops of George 111
were brought to trial before a Colonial civil
court for their conduce, and yet it is the
fact. The trial began about eight months
after the tragedy, on the 27th of November,
1770, eight persons, whose names are still
preserved, “ soldiers in his Majesty’s
Regiment of Foot,” having been indicted
for the murder of Crispus Attacks, Samuel
Gray, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell
and Patrick Carr. Th? trial was by-jury,
comnoscd of Twelve citizens qj‘ the vicin
age.’ The soldiers Were defended by no less
personages than J6hh Adams and John
Quincy, two of the truest and firmest pa
triots .qf the land—a fact which, of itself,
is sufficient to refute the labored historical
falsehood that the event was a massacre of
unoffending citizens by the troops. “ The
pleas of Messrs. Quincy and Adams,” says
tjje writer in the Transcript, “ in behalf of
the prisoners, were thorough and eataust
ive, and/w% justified them in their Ikfense
against the mob by which they were
The jury were out two hours, IMB on
their return, gave verdict that iftxWthe
prisoners, William Wcmms, James frarte
gan, William McAuley, Hugh WhjTwn.
liam Warren, and John Carroll wefc not
guilty , and that two others,
roy and Hugh Montgomery were noraailty
of murder, hut guilty of 'mau daugiter.--
Kilroy and Montgomery prayed tha benefit.
of clergy, which, the record dHpcftaa
allowed them, and they were each fttrnt in
the hand in open court and diseftitt Jifl.
Such a result of a trial before a MBSschu
setts court, by a Massachusetts jffrjpn the
face of a feeling which must hawsTbeeu
strong against the prisoners, prates the
application of “ massacre” to the evpnt was
a misnomer and an afterthought, ityjp wav
creditable to those who
those who continued it.
One word about t.he centraf
figure in the affair, aud we (lisiri\*wedfsnb
ject. The writer in the Transcript-ftis:
“ In the accounts of some of the rtjiitings
of our colored fellow-citizens, IhweeSeen
some exultation expressed, that <»nyy>frth-ir
race was among the foremost in
this massacre, as it is called. In this, lam
happy to say, for the credit of their race,
they are mistaken. Crispus Attacks, the
co.lored man who was killed iu that affray,
was not a negro. He was a half-breed In
dian—and a decided and determineijntellovv
at that. He went down to King ’street
(now State street) with a cord-wood*Jnb in
his hands, brandishing his club ami pro
claiming that he was going to have k row
with the soldiers. No man among the
slain of that eventful night deserknd the
fatejie met with so well as did this Crispus
Attucks. Mr. Adams in lits plea said: ‘To
his mad behavior, in all probability, the
dreadful carnage of that night is djlifly te
be ascribed.’ ” =1? TV
_ .- —f ’ I
Turned Out of the Menagerie
Ryland Randolph, editor of the Tuscaloosa
Monitor, aud member of the Alabama House
of Representatives from Tuscaloosa County,
was granted a leave of absence fey that
body a few days since, and went home to
get married. Almost as soon as wTeft a
determined effort was made to uq stilt him,
produing great excitement Hiivifev the
animals of the menagerie*. For sotae cause
the movement failed. But not out
witted by their abseut foe, a inoi&deter
mined effort was made, which waa access-.
ful, and Mr. Randolph is no mem
ber of the Legislature o: Alabama.-lD.ttriag
the debate the Speaker read a letter from
Mr. Randolph giving very urgent Reasons
why he could not be present, and aping.a
continuance of his case.
[From the Atlanta Convfljiution,
Important Decision of the Supreme
Court.
Central Railroad, et. al., vs. Stephen Col
lins, et. al. Bill for injunction frotn Bibb.
McCay, J.
The State of Georgia, being a stockhold
er in the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad Com
pany, may, on her own motion, become a
party to a bill filed by other interested
persons against the city of Savannah, the
Central Railroad, the Southwestern Rail
road and the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad,
to enjoin the consummation of a contract
by which a controlling amount of the
stock of the Atlantic and Gulf Road is about
to pass into the control of the Central aud
Southwestern roads.
A citizen of the State, as such, is not a
proper party to a bill to enjoin a railroad
company from illegally making a purchase
of stock iu another railroad company, but
if there are other proper parties to tliebi)!,
this objection is not a good ground of gen
eral demurrer.
If one be a bona fide holder of stock iu a
railroad company, and file a bill to enjoin
the company fro,m making a purchase not.
authorized by the charter, it is not s suffi
cient reply to the bill, that ttie plaintiff is
not in good faith seeking the interests pf
the company, but is acting in the interests
of a rival road'.
Each stockholder lias a right to stand rip
on his contract, as provided by thij char
ter.
The banking powers of the Central' Ra[l
road and Banking Company, and ihe indL
dents thereto, expired on the 14th of Dfr‘ ;
cumber, 1868, and after that date, the gene
ral powers of the said company to buy a«i*
hold real and personal property arid mnWe
contracts, are confined to such property aifd
such contracts as are incident to the build
ing, managing and maintaining the rail
road contemplated and provided for by the
Charter, and the purchase of stock in an
other, and especially in a rival railroad
company, is ontsitje of the objects of the
charter. j
Neither the Central Railroad Company
nor the Southwestern Railroad Company,
is authorized, by its charter, to become a
stockholder in other railroad companies,
and the court of equity will, at. the instance
of stockholders in the roads enjoin a pur
chase of such stock by said companies.
A railroad company charterer! for the
purpose of building and maintaining a rail
load from Savannah to Macon, with gen
eral powers to purchase and hold personal
estate, of any chiracter whatever, is not.
authorized to become a‘stockholder in a
railrqad from Savannah to Bainbrtflge.
Such purchase is wholly beyond the pur
poses of the charter.
ft is a part of the public policy of the
State, as indicated by the charter of several
railroads from tlie seaboard to the interior
to secure a reasonable competition between
said roads lor public patronage, and it Is
contrary to that policy for one of said roads
to attempt to secure a controlling interest
in another, and any contract made with
that view, will be set aside by a court of
equity as illegal, beyond the objects of the
charter, and-contrary to the public policy
of the State,
The act of December, 1861, authorizing
tlie connection of the Central Railroad and
the Atlantic and Gulf Road, having, as is
expressly recited in the preamble, been
passed in furtherance of the latte rebellion
against the United States is nafindrctition
of tlie policy of the States to permit the
Centra! Railroad Company to in
any manner a controlling interest in the
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad.
Wfien the city of Savannah and tlie (Cen
tral Railroad and Southvyestf-ru Railroad
Companies entered ii}to q contract by
which the said oily transferped to said
Railroad Companies 12,883 shares of stock
in the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad; 307
shares in the Montgomery and West Point
Railroad ; 424 shares in the Savannah and
.'yUgusta Railroad ; and one share ip jjhe
Southwestern Railroad, and the Mayor of
the city of Savannah wqs a stockholder in
the Central llailrqad, qqd the said city one
of file original corporators in haul Central
Railroad;
Held , that even if the railroad charters
are not public laws which all are not bound
to notice, that tire city of Savannah is
charged with notice of tiie powers of the
Central and Southwestern Railroad, and
can pot stand upon the footing of an inno
cent actor \yitljqut notice.
Judgement affirmed!
Affairs in Florida. —From all ac
counts some portions of Florida are suffer
ing terribly, from the rule of the carpet*
baggers and negroes. Governor Reed and
his wife indulge soc-ial equality, and their
receptions are only attended by 15th
Amendmeuters and a few white-skinned
candidates for knavery.
Labor Is fearfully demoralized and many
of the best planters afji’e fcfjujsijsfrin" ibeir
interests tp other States. ]
VV> had a call from CoW.ff. 11. piston
yesterday, who has just abandoned plant
ing near’TaUqhassee, and rented lands near
tips city. He thinks Georgia, even as mat
ure ||OW stand, a better place than Florida,
a id brings fiis family to share our fortunes.
We bid him welcome to fi-fir hospitable spil,
but can offer him no cheering wqj'd# Coy the
future. —Albany Hews. '•
How a Negro Legislator was Served.
—The honorable negro representative in
the South .Carolina Legislature from Sum
ter county got Gii train on the W. and
M. Railroad Tuesday night last, and when
the conductor came around to collect the
fare lie exhibited another kind of fear, and
could only tremblingly answer that he had
lost );ifi pocket-book. The conductor closed
Ills mouth by a;- irrcsistable argument—
by kicking him off the UuifJ Into a sWJmp
alongside.
Simon Cameron has inherited $1,000,000
from his lately deceased father-in-law, Mc-
Cornjick, of Harrisburg.
The Story That Pleased Her.
We find verses in the Buffalo Courier.
They ure not musical and not smooth, and they
are very, very wicked; hut we fear they aie
true:
“Now, papa, tell me a. story.
(it t he kind I lose so well,”
Came the voice of -tuy little daughter, *
My darling, bright-eyed Nell.
“Come lo me, then, my pretty.
And tell me what shall it be
Au 1 with a laugh like a merry tinkle,
She bounded up on my knee.
And I told her of “Old Mother Morey,”
“ Dame Trot.” and “ Little. B >y Blue,”
“Red Riding-Hood and her Grandmother,”
And " Jaeky Horner,” too.
I sang her a “ Song of Sixpence,”
And sang her a “ Bag of Rye,”
But, failed to interest her.
And she began to cry.
“ Oh, why do you weep, tnv Nellie’
My daughter, so good and mild ?”
And she sobbed, “ Such stories ns these may do
For others, but. not lor this child!”
So I lien 1 told her the story
Ot the little boy who, in little hits
Chopped tip his mother, and frightened
His young sister into tits.
And how oh the broad Atlantic,
When the angry tempest, roared.
Ho slaughtered the crew and e.intain,
And pitched them overboard !
And how lie became a pirate
Upon the Spanish main—
And she clasped her little innocent hands,
- And ask'’d-me to tell it again!
[ respond we Balt more? Gazette.
Troppmann—His Execution.
It is six! o’clock; the condemned still
sleeps. The chaplain and M. Claude look
at their watches t the former begs a little
more delay. H-ilf-past six we march up
steps and down others, cross yards, and
finally before lhe cell. Tronpraiun is up
and dressed, proceeding to write. In a
glance he understands his position. M.
Clunde informs him his petition for pardon
is rejected by the Emperor, and he must
die. lie says not a word; tin; .strait jacket
is removed; then the prison uniform; his
own clothes are brought While putting
on his trowsers, lie replies that he has had
’ accomplices.
He is conducted to undergo; lvis last toil
ette. Seated on a bench, the hair is cut
from the back of his head, and the collar of
his shirt taken off. His legs are strapped
together, then his hands behind his back,
and another joins this from the shoulder,
and throws his chest out. When he rises, his
eyes are glassy; the veins of his neck
swollen ; beads of perspiration on his lore
head. It is three minutes to seven ; the
procession forms; the culprit walks be
tween the priest and Monsieur 11. At the
foot of the scaffold lie kisses the crucifix
and the priest; again declares lie had ac
complices. The chaplain kneels and re
cites the prayers for the dead ; the rolling
noise of the crowd comes on, Wave after
jj'ave. Troppmaun is seized by the two
assistants, strapped to the plank. With a
terrible effort he bounds to one side; the
executioner turns him doWn ; is bitten in
the thumb; he pushes the head into the
“eye;” the semi-circle of iron grasps the
neck; an assistant runs, seizes the head ;
cries “ cut;” the pulleys roll; theglaiw‘de
scends with a dry, dull, deadening chick,
t.o be heard every day in a butcher’s shop,
and till is over.' The head is put in the
salad basket; a handful of bran thrown on
liu: bleeding neck ; the body is dropped into
the hand per; both lowered into the van,
which sets off, escorted' by two of the
mountedguard, at a gallop.
“ Rattle, hits bones over tip; stones ;
He is "niy a murderer nobody owes.”
As the cortege flies along, women bless
themselves and men raise their hats. Ar
rived at “No Man’s Ground,” adjoining
the cemetery of lrvy, the crowd is great.
The gates open—close. The van draws up
beside the grave. The body is taken out.;
thrown into the grave; a man descends ;
places it on the hack: puls the head between
the legs. The prison chaplain sprinkles n
shovel of earth on the • remains, prays' and
retires in tears.
■Bo jjtyanv gtemauds., W' re for the
body of this murderer rnaT tbvrMintsber ot’
Police resolved to bury it beside other be
headed criminals'. The CollegeoJ-Surgeons
had a right to' it, hut differed as to which
branch of the faculty should [wissety? it.
Besides, as in the case of Mumble the priest
asserted it would be sacrilege to dissect
the body after receiving the sacrament.
Troppm mn was informed that he t.nn-'t die
at 6% o’clock, and he ceased to live at 7
o’clock. The surgeons are verv'angry at
not receiving the body, as the executed had
a few physiological curiosities—his thumbs,
for example, which touched the first joint
on -the index finger.
A Divorce Case Extraordinary. —One
of the most extraordinary divorce cases
ever brought before it New York court is
now being tried by Judge H irnard in the
Supreme Court, Special Term. JTiie. .plain
tiff is Commodore John T. Olassoiri'a vet
eran officer of the United StiUdY,iLj-YV,
aged sixty-four years. The. defendant, his
wife, is an old lady of iiriy-ftvtv'«ndT!ie
mother of two g'ixtfrfi
panion in theaalteged.; adultery--isa
elderly pefsenr, John W. HrtWeW, win? te ttfeo,
the parent oiX^rpty‘nT'bl)dl’dn:'.. VA
The wit nesses, agal uahlM VBr ©I ivss.Qh, YV'h o
were evAmiued* yeStOsl:t,v. •were--the.wife
and daugHtcf qf-Mri u
criminality was eorinnJtifiCij hi .-Provideffce,
Rhode■■lsland.- All thp-icircu instances of
thi's' c/ase are ran irk :yb ivy *t,fre , venerable
years of. the' violator;) pf the hppfj.at bond,
the iwmso ai character of- the -e vidence in’o
dncctl j; for the. 'ilrphecTition, ' and the 4wrge
wealth’.of one and‘the high social standing
of the other of the families interested. .
[Ae?o York World, Feb. 1.
Wanted, Another’Sponsible Place.—
We think ladies must be greatly vexed
often about the incapacity of servants, and
have their tempers—which are so univer
sally known as angelic—frequently badly
ruffled. One was tolling ns of an interview
she held the other day with a darkey who
was seeking a situation atf a high figure.—
The questions and answers ran about
thusly:
“(lan you cook nicely?"
“ No, ma’am ; Sallie used ter do dat.”
“ I suppose you can wash and iron, then V”
“ Lor’, no! missus ; Cioe used to do dat.’’
“ Yon were the chambermaid, I sup
pose ?”
“ No, missus ; I knows nuffin ’bout, dat.”
“ Well, then, what can you do, or what
did you do?”
“ Well, since you axes, I held de ’sponsi
ble place of keeping flies oil- old missus I”
Who wouldn’t have hired her?
[Columbus Sun.
The. Stowe-Byron (scandal.—-The lat
est—and we hope the last—development in
the Stowe-Byron scandal appears in the
London Quarterly Review. It consists of a
number of letters from l.ord and Lady By
ron and from Lady Augusta Leigh, which
are ably, and so fay qs the case admitted,
modestly edited, with annotations and
comments. It kills the whole story, in
cluding Charles Mackay’s smut about the
smutty Madora Leigh, while the latter is
shown to be a bad chnricter picked up by
Lady Byron to assail—after many years of
sisterly intercouse—the name andTame of
Byron’s sister Augusta by a most infamous
charge against her own mother. We have
done with this bad job. We are sure that
Mrs. Store wishes she had never begun it.
[Netp York Express.
Captured.— Mr. (Libert Rhett, formerly
mi aide-de-camp on Gen. Stonewall Jack
son’s staff, is to lie married on the 26th in
stant to Mrs. Bailey, of New York city
The wedding will take place on Rhett’s
plantation in Virginia.
North Carolina prodqcprg of peanuts
complain that their valuable crop.sufiers
great depreciation In Northern estimation
through the practice of Northern dealers of
mixing the African peanuts with theirs.
It is partly for this reason that they loudly
demand §, protective tariff, which shall
keep out the foreign niif and add greatly
to their profits. '
Sumner never offers a scat to any lady
unless she is colored, Don Piatt says. He
might offer his whole body to a white
woman, and she wouldn’t accept it If she'
knew him. One lady married him once,
but she wouldn’t again under any consid
eration.
State Items.
The Albany News announces a revival in
the Baptist church in that city.
Iron for the entire line of the Brunswick
and Albany Railroad has been purchased.
The Savannah Republican states that
August, TritsChler -was drowned in St.
John’s river, Fla., on the 2d.
The Savannah Admrrtiser announces the
death of Joseph Fernandez, aged ninety
one.
The eugineer corps of the Air Liue Road
are surveying the route from Greenville, S.
0., to Charlotte, N. C.
The Atlanta Constitution says it is rumor
ed that Superintendent Blodgett is to be
the Senator for the long term, and John
Rice, Esq., Senator for the short term.
Four negro wofcen at Quitman, Ga.,
took a colored sister out to a swamp and
chastised her with many stripes for turning
Radical—in other words, for stealing.
The Air Line Raffle my* that parties are
in town making preliminary preparations
for commencing work on that end of the
Second section of the Air Line Railroad.
In the Superior Court of Muscogee, a
case brought against a stockholder of the
Columbus Bauk was decided in favor of
the bill-holders.
The one-story wooden residence of Dr.
Turuipseetl, in Atlanta, was burned on
Wednesday night. Most of the furniture
saved. Insurance, SI,OOO.
It. turns out that the negro woman who
was mysteriously murdered near Decatur,
Ga, last Fall, was killed by her husband,
Lewis. He has been looked up and cap
tured in Coweta county.
The Caftersville and Van Wert Railroad
is progressing. Work is being done six or
eight mites from Carters vide. When, com
pleted, it will open up, perhaps, the largest
State mines in the worltf, which will sup
ply roofing at a Comparative low cost.
Lewis, a colored man, arrested for the
murder of his wife, in Coweta county, last
Fall, was discharged on Tuesday, after a
preliminary hearing. He Was defended by
his former master, Hon. M. A. Candler.
The Sparta Times says a grand sacred con
cant. will be given there on the 11th. Bish
op Fierce preached on Sunday, and started
the ball, to complete t he church for colored
people. One hundred dollars were sub
scribed.
Meeting of tiie Executive Committee.
—A meeting of the Executive Committee
of the Slate Agricultural Society was held
in Atlanta on Wednesday. From the pro
ceedings, published in the Constitution, we
extract:
The subject of the indebtedness of the
late fair was discussed and ventilated.—
Macon owes a debt of gratitude to Mayor
Obi-ttr for his vindication of her conduct.—
Macon, true to her past history, fulfilled all
she promised to do.
Tin; Treasurer, William Hazleliurst, made
a verbal statement, showing the gross re
ceipts of the Macon Fair to be $14,448; of
this amount $12,431) 75 had been paid out,
leaving a balance on hand of $2,208 25.
There were unsettled claims against the
society, .amounting to $1,475 02, which
might lie-reduced to S9OO or SI,OOO. The
premiums had all been paid for, and there
were $2,000 on hand not awarded. Be
sides this, there were some $2,000 worth of
furniture belonging to the society. Accord
ing to tliitj showing, there will be an over
plus of near $5,000.
After referring the claims against the
society to the Auditing Committee, the
cont inue.; had a conference with the May
or and a committee from the City Council.
It is understood that our City Council
agrees to give the $3,000 in premiums, and
complete the buildings at the Fair Grounds
to suit the views of the committee.
"Yesterday evening the Executive Com
mittee nmi the Mayor and members of
Council went out to look at the Fair
Gianitid, near Bell wood. The arrangements
will be perfected to-day to the s itisfaction
of both patties.
B Y TTCU’CC* R APH.
fAesocdatr.l I’roan Diittmichen.
WASHINGTON/
Washington, February 11—Noon.—'This
morning'; Sun, lias the following special:
Pht- President to-day pronounced all re
ports, whi'-.h have represented him as ex
pressing any opinion on the merits of the
Georgia situation, for or against either of
tin contending delegations now here, as
simply untrue. Tie reiterated what he has
before declared that it was a question,
especially the -lonatonal part of it, that
belonged entirely with Congress, and lie did
not propose to interfere viith it; and lie con
fessed Itis surprise that gentlemen should
seek an interview with-him on the matter
and I lion go away and misrepresent him.”
I lie Banking .and Currency Committee
are • examining Grant’s Cabinet regarding
the. gold panic.
in the House. Pensions. Committees
uti important.
In the Senate, Sherman introduced a res
otiii the United States recognize
the existence of war between Cuba and
Sp.iiri. and will observe strict neutrality,
olrerman said the people would not stand
the Government’s indifference much long
er. I’here was a deep feeling in the West
on the subject. The resolution was re
tenvd to the Foreign Relations Committee.
Abolition of franking was resumed.
Washington, February 11—P. M.—Hill
and Miller, Georgia Senators, are here and
ready to present their claims at the proper
time. Should the present Legislature elect
others, Hill and Miller will contest before
Senators.
Treasury balance, 1103,000,000, including
$00,000,000 gold certificates ; currency,
$12,000,000.
Hie Treasury has advice of the. seizure of
•T. Kinschaffs & Co.’s establishment at Chi
cago.
Revenue to-day, $475,000.
The President appointed Thos. F. Wil
,son, of Pennsyl vania,Consul, at Matamoras.
The bill for the sgle of lapels bn the Sea
Ishlnasjn Beaufort county, South Carolina,
was reported.
Sherman offered a resolution reciting
hyrnpatny of-the, United States with the
people of Cider run!dill American colonies
T their efforts to secure independence from
European potyers- It declares that the
L nited States recognize the existence of a
-of War bet Weep the kingdom of Spain
and the colony of Cuba, waged on the part
of Luba to establish its independence, and
tlic United States will observe strict neu
tral ity between the belligerent parties, as is
tlieir duty under the law of nations. After
a brief discussion, the resolution was re
ferred to the Committee on Foreign Rela
tions.
The bill to abolish the franking privi
lege and the Mississippi bill were consid
ered but not disposed of, a motion to post
pone the latter for one (lay being defeated
by one vote.
Adjourned till Monday.
In the House, Howard was interrogated
about 'the cost of the Frecdmen’s Bureau
since its organization.
The death of Hopkins was announced.
Adjourned.
The balance of the term of imprison
ment of Charles L. Patcher and John A.
Richardson, sentenced to four years’ im
prisonment by a military commission, in
Texas, has been remitted by the President.
They were sentenced October lust.
Tlie documents for franking which Gen.
Wm. J. 1 Smith was censured by the Ten
nessee Legislature were from the Commis
sioner of Public Education.
% NEW YORK.
New Yore, February lj.—Underwriters
consulted over the legal-tender decision.—r
The impression prevails that companies
must demand gold for principal and inter
est on contracts ipade prior to thp act. The
committee appointed a time for consulta
tion with other money institutions.
The steamer Ville de Paris arrived at
Halifax last night short of coal.
TENNESSEE.
Memphis, February IL—The steamer
Maggie Ifayem from New Orleans for Pitts
burg, exploded near Helena. Captain Mar
tin, the second engineer and eight deckers
were killed- The steamer Commercial
passing, rescued the balance of the crew
and passengers.
,
Richmond, February id.— ln the Legis
lature, George Rye, of Shenandoah, was
elected State Tfeasufer, receiving I|9 out
of 157 votes cast. Rye is a native of She
nandoah; atid in that county cast his vote
for Haloi Fremont aud Lincoln for Presi
dent. He was Secretary of the State Con
stitutional Convention. The Conservative
. member who nominated him explained that
it was done as an Indication that Virginians
intended to forget past party differences.
Dr. Charles R. Bricken, a well known
physician, theatrical lessee and dramatic
author of some note, was killed to day by
the discharge of a pistol in his own hands.
He was the author of.“ Cabin and
a. play that was Long time performed
in Southern theatres as au offset to Uncle
Tom’s Cabin.
Alexander Gardiner, colored, aged thirty
five,, was hung at New Kent Court House
this morning, for the murder and rape of
Mrs. Stewart, and the murder of John
Baker, his‘colored farm manager. The
prisoner, the night before his execution,
confessed that with John Kennedy, who
afterward made his escape, he agreed to
murder Baker. They found Baker in the
field and Kennedy shot him. They then
went, to Mrs. Stewart’s house, and Gardiner
heard her crying, and a few minutes after,
Kennedy came out, saying lie had ravished
and murdered her. They fired the house
and burnt her body, and threw Baker’s
body in the river. On Wie scaffold, this
morning,' Gardiner only said : “ I am not
guilty. I don’t know whether lam going
to heaven or hell.” A crowd of colored
women around the gallows assailed him
with cries of “ You are going to hell, that’s
where you are going.” The drop fell and
Gardiner died instantly.
FOREIGN.
Paths, February li. — The city is entirely
tranquil. FI aureus isiStill at large.
London, February 11.— Bullion increased
£145,000.
Madrid, February 11.—It is reported
that tiie Carlists are preparing another in
surrection. The authorities are watchful.
MARINE NEWS.
Savannah, February 11.—Cleared: Bark
Neptune, Cork, Ireland ; schooners Vul
ture, Havana, and T. T. Tasker, Jackson
ville, Florida.
Charleston, February, 11.—Arrived :
Steamer Sea Gull, Baltimore.
Sailed : Schooner Black Duck, Portland,
Maine; schooner L. A. Watson, Cuba;
schooner J. E. Daily, Georgetown, South
Carolina.
Wilmington, February 11.—Cleared :
Steamer W. P. Clyde, New York.
MARKETS.
London, February 11—Noon.—Consols,
92%. Bonds firm.
Liverpool, February 11—Noon.—Cot
ton—uplands, It Vo ; Orleans, 11% ; sales,
10,000 bales ; sales of the week, 05,000 bales;
exports,- 6,000 bales; speculation, 9,000
bales; stock. 352,000 Kales, of which 157,-
000 bales are American; receipts, 65,000
bales, of which 30,000 bales are American.
Liverpool, February 10—Evening.—
Cotton—uplands, 11,'/; Orleaus, 11% ;
sales, 10,000 bales; speculation and export,
2,000 bales. Pork, 965. Lard, G9s. Ba
con, fills, fid.
Paris, February 11— Bourse opened
quiet.
New York, February 11—Noon.—Stocks
film. Money easy at sall. Exchange—
long, 8/h ; short, 9%. Gold, 1203120%.
Bonds, 14%; Teuuessees, ex coupon, 57 ;
new, 50% ; V irginias, ex coupon, 62 ; new,
65 ; Lotti.sianas, new, 09 ; Levee G's, 73 ;
B’s, 84% ; Alabama B’s, 94 ; 5’5,62 ; Georgia
6’s, 81 ; 7’s, 92 ; North Caroli has, old, 44V.< ;
new, 25% ; South Carolina*, old, 8841; new
82.
New York, February li—P. M Money
easy at 4*5. Sterling, 8%:«9. Gold closed
at 120@120%. Governments firm. South
ern Sccnr.ties partially advanced.
New York, February 11—Noon.—-Flour
a shade firmer oil low grades. Wheat quiet
and very firm. Corn firm. Pork firmer;
mess, $27@27 50. Lard Him at 15%@16.
Cotton dull at 25%. Turpentine firm at
49i Rosin steady at $2 23(®S 2.5 for strain
ed. Weights quiet.
New York, February 11 —P. M.—Co.ttpfi
favor* buyers; sales, t 1,500 bales. Fldtffii-
Siipertfne State, $16534 '5; common* to
fair extra Southern, $5 50<@6 Wheat and
Corn shade firmer. Pork firmer and in de
mand ; new, $27-327 25. Lard heavy; ket
tle, l(i',.'al7. Whisky shade lower at 98®
98%. Groceries dull and firm. Naval
Stores firm. Freights quiet.
Baltimore, February 11.—Cotton firm
at 24%; good grades scarce. Flour very
dull. Wheat dull at $1 4031 45. Corn
active; receipts 5ma11—95(397. Pork,
$27 50328. Bacon—shoulders, 12%@13.
Lard, 16%. Whisky scarce at 98399. •
Virginias, old, 51%; ’6o’s, 59; ’67’s 55;
coupons, new, 65 bid.
Cincinnati, February 11.—Corn irregu
lar: large portion of receipts unsound;
strictly sound, 72@74. Whisky, i)3. Pork,
$27. Bacon fltm; clear sides scarce;
shoulders, 12j*@12j-£; clear sides, 16)fo
Lard, 16.
St. Louis, February 11.—Corn heavy;
bulk, 65. Whisky, 94. Pork higher ; mess,
$27 75. Bacon very Ann ; shoulders, ;
clear sides, Lard quiet; choice,
15 W.
Wilmington, February 11.—Spirits Tur
pentine/qulet at 43!<j©44. Strained Rosin
steady at $1 GO. Tar unchanged. Cotton
dull at 23'g’24-
Mobile, February 11,— Receipts of the
week, 7,395 ; exports—to Great Britain.
11,621; other foreign ports, 1,191 ; coast
wise, 2,875; stock, 65.232; sales of the week.
7,000; sales to-day, 600 bales; market dull
and easier; middling, 24; receipts, 884; ex
ports, 8,028 bales.
New Orleans, February 11.—Cotton—
receipts to-day, 13,533 ; exports to-day—to
Liverpool, 4.294; Barcelona, 1,560; receipts
for week—net, 51,301; gross, 53,553; ex
ports for week —to Liverpool, 25,775; Havre,
3,357; Barcelona, 2,469 ; Vera Cruz, 1,781;
coastwise, 8,094; stock, 224,727 bales.
Savannah, February 11. — Cotton—re
ceipts 1,245 bales; market quiet; middling,
24 ; sales, 700 bales.
Charleston, February 11. — Cotton in
fair demand but rather firmer; sales, 300
bales; middling, 24§24!£; receipts, 385
bales to Continent, 730 bales; ex
ports coastwise, 91 bales. »
Augusta Daily Market.
Office Daily Constitutionalist, )
Friday, February 11—P. M. \
FINANCIAL—
GOLD—Buying at 120 and selling at 122
SILVER - Buying at lld and selling at 120.
BONDS—City Bonds, 83@85.
STOCKS Georgia Railroad, 105, and in de
mand ; Augusta Factory, 155; National Bank
oi Augusta, 115, last sale.
COTTON—The market opened with a good
demand at 28)* for middliug, and eontiniu and
so throughout the day, closing quiet at same
quotation. Sales, 379 bales. Receipts, 366
bales. Stock on hand to date, 22,401 Dales.
BACON—Fair demand. Wo quote C. Sides
19019)*; O. R. Sides, IS>*ol9; B. B. Shies, 18)*
Shoulders, 15)*; Hams, 21023; Dry Salt
Shoulders, 18013)*; Dry Salt C. K. Sides, 17
@l7)*.
CORN-In gooil demand and Is selling at
ft 8001 35 from depot.
WHEAT—We quote choice white, $1 55;
amber, *1 50; rod, *l 45.
FLOUR-City Mills, new, #6 5009 00; at
retail, $1 U barrel higher. Country, 1609,
according to quality.
CORN MEAL—SI 4fi at wholesale; $1 50 at
retail.
OATS—B.SOII 35,
PEAS—Scarce at $1 60.
Recorder’s Court.— Pat Brown (col
ored) was arraigned yesterday morning for
violation of the 18th section. Plead guilty,
and fined $5 and cost, or ten days on the
chain gang.
John Scott (colored) for same offense.
Plead guilty, and lined $3 and cost.
A case against Newman Lawson, for
violation of the 18th section, was continued
until this morning, at 9 o’oloqk.
A warrant was ordered to issqe agaiqpt
George Pendletqn, charged with- violation
of the 18th section, and not appearing.
Meeting of the City Council. —This
body convened! n extra session last night.
Present: His Honor Mayor Allen, Alder-
On motion, the reaiing of the minutes of
the fornjer meeting was dispensed with.
At the request of the Mayor, the Clerk
read a letter from Dr. W. H. Tutt, Presi
dent of the Board of Managers of the Cot
ton States Mechanical and Agricultural
*"5 80cia "l 0| it announcing that a com
mitteC from the Association proposed to
submit matters of interest for the consider
ation of Council. v'us.mci
His Houor the Mayor announced that
Council had been convened in deference to
the communication submitted.
Alderman Butt desired the reading by
title of the ordinances presented at last
meeting, more particularly with reference
to ordinance beajing upon the closing of
barbershops on the Sabbath.
re»d spur pending ordinances.
, the Clepk then read three several peti
tions protesting against the proposed re
peal of the ordinance closing the barber
shops on Sunday.
During the reading of the petitions,
Alderman Pournelle appeared and took his
seat.
An application was read from J. S. Miller
, for pHvße«a o f transfer of liquor license
to 1. W. Bidgood. Granted, under the
rules.
Alderman Butt presented an ordinance
amending the 37th section, putting in force
the 3d section, allowing barber shops to be
kept open until 10 o’clock, a. in., Sundays.
Read the first time, and went over, under
the rules.
Alderman Black announced that the
committee appointed on the codification ofi
the city ordinances had determined to em
ploy Mr. James E. Harper, at a salary of
$250.
Alderman Butt submitted the petition of
the Cotton States Mechanical and Agricul
tural Association, ask in" a donation of the
lot of land lying on Sottth Common,be
tween and bounded by East and Sontli
Calhoun and Houston streets,
fora park ; also, for the extension of Water
pipes tp the grounds free of tax; and for a
yearly donation of $5,000.
In response to the request of Mayor and
Council, I)r. W. H. Tutt, General A. R.
Wright, Col. Stovall ami Mr= T. H. Nelson
addressed the Council in behalf of the peti
tion. Their remarks were characterized
by great earnestness and full appreciation
of the advantages to accrue to the city
generally from the full success of the pro
posed Fair. The speakers did not contem
plate a mere temporary exhibition, but pro
posed to invest it with permanent life, and
invoked the aid of Council, so far as able,
to promote their objects. They would not
confine it to local bounds, but proposed to
invite the great West, the New Englaudand
Middle States, with their productions and
inventive genius;, to join in the contest for
premiums. Defended the association as not
based upon monetary and speculative pur
poses, and commended its objects as calcu
lated to advertise abroad the great water
♦uwiir and other resources of Augusta,
now wasting for want of notoriety." The
speeches impressed upon the Council the
impetus which their early and favorable
action would have in developing the gene
ral good of the city.
'l’lie address of the committee concluded,
Alderman Butt inquired as to the status
of the South Common property, and was
informed by the Mayor and Alderman
Meyer that it was owned conjointly by the
city and the Trustees of Richmond County
Academy.
A prolonged disetisslou ensued as to the
disposition of the petition, participated in
by members of Council.
Alderman Black moved the reference of
the petit ion to the South Commons and Fi
nance Committees.
Upon this mot ion considerable discussion
was had. Alderman Meyer, supported by
Aldermen Butt and Stovall, favoring an
amendment providing for the appointment
of a committee of citizens from each Ward,
to meet the committee of Council in con
ference.
Aldcrniap Rogers, as Chairman of the
South Commons Committee, and also a
member of the Association petitioning,
would prefer that it should not he referred
to his committee.
Numerous suggestions for the disposi
tion of the petition were made, several
memCeTSof Council announcing themselves
not. prepared to vote upon its request.
The vote being taken upon a call tpr. tha M
question by Alderman Black, the motion
to refer to the South Commons and Finance
Committee was carried.
Alderman Meyer offered a resolution that
his Honor the Mayor appoint a committee
of three citizens from each ward, to confer
with t.lie committees of Council upon the
petition.
Upon a vote, the resolution was declared
lost,.
The Clerk read the appointment of u
committee by his Honor the Mayor upon
the petition of colored citizens to hold
office, nominating Aldermen Black, Meyer,
Pournelle and Stovall.
Alderman Meyer declined to serve, and
the name of Alderman Rogers was substi
tuted.
Communications from the Augusta Fire
Department, were read, inviting his Honor
the Mayor and Council to receive and wel
come expected guests on the 22d instant,
and to join the parade in a body
tin motion, ihe imitations were received,
the Mayor to make the necessary arrange
ments to accept.
A petition was read from G. H Ker
unghan, for permission to cover his pro
jected new brick stable, on Ellis street,
with cypress shingles.
It having been announced that the re
quest, could not, be granted without the re
peal of an ordinance, Alderman Kheron
withdrew the petition.
On motion, Council adjourned.
The Oldest Spot onthe Globe —Prof.
W. C. Nerr, State Geologist of North Caro
lina, makes the following statement: 11 The
facts above stated are sufficient to indicate
that those rocks belong to the most ancient
of the azoic series. The intensity of the
metamorphisra, the characteristic rocks
and their contained minerals, together with
the total absence of anything like organisms
in even the least altered and latest of the
series, (in Cherokee county, for example),
render this conclusion inevitable. And not
only do they belong to the lowest geologi
cal horizon, but the entire absence of all
representatives of the later formations
makes it further necessary to conclude that
we have here an extensive tract of the
oldest land on, the globe ; aud as North
America is the eldest boyn of the Conti
nents, so the Black Mountain is the oldest
of the first to emerge from Ihe face of the
unbroken sphere of waters when the com
mand went forth, ‘Lot the dry land ap
pear.’”
Tnu American Stock Journal for
February is at Hand.—This journal is of
great value to farmers from its facilities
'for diffusing information as to improved
and choice breeds of domestic animals; and
is filled with the most important informa
tion. Its editors are all practical as well
as scientific, and have a happy facility of
imparting that knowledge so necessary to
the farmer and stock-breeder. For the
amount of reading lqatter the Journal con
tains, iye consider It the cheapest paper
published, as each number Is worth more
than the cost of the. volume, for the recipes
it contains for the cure of various diseases
of domestic animals. Our farmer friends
wishing to see a copy before subscribing,
will receive a specimen copy free by ad
dressing the publishers, N. P. Boyer & Cos.,
Parkersburg, Chester Cos., Pa.
Post Offkxc Discontinued. —The post
office at White Ponds, S. C., has been dis
continued. Matter heretofore sent to that
office should now be sent to Windsor.
“ 4stqnished.”— The President is aston-
ished tlfat Bollock poukl tell such a lie
about him. 6, wonderful Bullock that caq
go astoqish a Grant l