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COIN STITTTTION ALJST.
AUGUSTA. GhA.
THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. 17,1870
MAKE HASTE SLOWLY.
We would address a few words to such
of our readers as are uuduly smitten with
a mania for “ progress," that sort of pro
gress, we mean, which proposes that the
State or City shall plunge headlong into
debt, regardless of the day of payment.
“More haste and less speed,” and “slow
but sure” are homely but very rational
sayings, when applied to State as well as
private affairs. There are many persons,
however, who do not recognize the potency
of these maxims and are willing, nay anx
ious, for the State and city to contract debts
in furtherance of what they deem “pro
gress.” But it is frequently observable
that the men who are most vociferous on
this subject are not always the most prompt
in embarking their own credit and funds
in the enterprises they eulogize.
The State of Georgia owes, probably, the
smallest debt of any of the States. We be
lieve the bonded debt is only some $6,000,-
000, with no floating debts to speak of.
The State Road is worth $5,000,000, or say
$4,500,000. This would leave only $1,500,-
000 of actual debt above the assets, and it
will be a great achievement for the Demo
cratic and Conservative members of the
“ Legislature,” if they cap circumvent the
“ rings” formed to rob and plunder the peo
ple, preventing by their patriotic action a
wholesale issue of bonds. A vast issue of
bonds is a direct conspiracy against the
prosperity of the people, because, while the
bondholder grows rich, the toiling masses
are ground down to pay the tributary in
terest. No people can prosper thus op
pressed, and with material degradation
moral decrepitude is a perpetual companion.
We trust, therefore, that all members of the
Legislature and all citizens who earnestly
desire to see this old and beloved Com
monwealth prosper will exert themselves
to keep the State out of debt. The profits
of two more good cotton crops will bring
sufficient money into Georgia to meet every
necessary requirement for improvement or
“ progress.” Meanwhile, that which is
most needed now is a supply of ijardy and
willing white immigrants, who shall be
come owners and tillers of the soil.
In view of the outrages perpetrated at
Atlanta by the Federal Government and
its minions; and in view of the low state
of public morals thus engendered ; we have
but slender hopes of any patriotic or econo
mical administration of affairs. But, be
fore the plunder shall have actually begun,
we deem it a matter of duty to makes this
plea, trusting that it may not fall on bar
ren ground abroad or at home.
Queer t— The Atlanta New Era sums up
the complexion of the Georgia press as R.
K. Democrat and Brvant-Democrat. To
the Macon Telegraph and Messenger it gives
no designation at all. How is that ?
[ Constitutionalist.
Because the Telegraph and Messenger is
neither. Strange that so simple a solution
of the mystery should not have occurred
to you before asking the question.
[ Telegraph and Messenger.
How now, brother ? Neither fish, fowl
nor devil ? If the Telegraph and Messenger
is neither Ku Klux Democrat or Bryant-
Democratic, then pray solve the mystery
and tell us what manner of thing it is. De
mocratic we had hoped and believed.
[Rome Courier.
"■Et tu, Grady? Can’t you understand
that the Telegraph and Messenger only de
nied that it was K. K. or Bryant-Demo
crat? And dop’t its editorial columns Ufil
you what it is ? Wake np 1 We make bold
to say that, Radical papers and raiders of
Georgia will give yon any number of cer
tificates that it is not."
[ Telegraph and Messenger, 15 th.
Tote,fair, brother Telegraph, tote fair!—
You quoted ns correctly in your first edi
tion, but not in your second. You have
knocked out a comma after K K. and thus
saved your bacon. We gave you three
kinds of nomenclature and you cause ns to
specify but two. Still, we forgive you and
are willing to consider it RKBSR-flK^MdtVvift/.
Gen. Toombs. —We were honored, on
yesterday, by a long visit from General
Robert Toombs. It is with pleasure that
we note his remarkable health of body and
a vigor of intellect which grows with his
veal’s. General Toombs looks ten years
younger than he did at the end of the war,
and still retains. In full robustitude, one of
the most remarkable aud versatile minds
the country has ever produced. May he
live many more years to be a leader and a
champion of the people iu their struggle
against the assaults of alien tyranny and do
mestic treachery.
Free Lunch. —lt is proposed that Gen.
Terry’s machine shall take a recess for
thirty days, the per diem of members con
tinuing as usual. It Is computed that this
will cost the State |1,000,000. Could they
steal any more than that, if they re
mained in session ?
WASHINGTON.
LEGAL tender decision of the supreme
COURT —WHAT IS SAID ABOUT IT—RADI
CALS THREATEN TO FORCE A REVERSAL
OF THE DECISION—PLEDGE ? SAID TO BE
GIVEN BY JUDGES STRONG AND BRAD
LEY.
Washington, February 13,1870.
The recent decision of the Supreme
Court in relation to legal-tender notes fs
being made the pretext here for placing
that tribunal under strict subserviency to
Congress. Undoubtedly the judgment of
the court was justified by precedents iu
analagous cases, independently of the gen
eral principles avowed iu the opinion. If
the court erred at all, it was unquestiona
bly in recognizing the law of Congress as
forming part and parcel of contracts enter
ed into subsequent to its passage. It is ad
mitted on all sides that, practically, the
“decision” will have little, If any, effect.
Yet, under these circumstances, the coun
try is gravely and, by authority, told that
the judgment mutt be reversed. And how ?
It is stated here, in and journal careful of
its words, on the authority of Senators,
that the President has declared that no
man shall be put in the vacant seats upon
the bench of the Supreme Court “ who has
not pledged in advance to unite with the dis
senting Judges in reversing the decision just
rendered! ls it the purpose, in this mat
ter, of the present Executive and the ma
jority in Congress to test to the utmost the
forbearance of the people ? Is it not
enough that Congress threatens the court,
on the one hand, to destroy its functions,
and, on the other, by increasing the num
ber of judges, to subsidize its judgments ?
Is the country to be now informed that the
whole jurisprudence of the country, so far
as it depends upon the judicial decisions of
the Supreme Court, is to be submitted to
unscrupulous partisan “ reconstruction ?”
In the vehement efforts of the Chronicle
to get Judge Strong confirmed, this point
is distinctly made, and his decision or ipse
dixit while on the Supreme Bench in Penn
sylvania quoted in proof of his willingness
to upset the decision just made. Indeed, it
is “ upon authority ” announced that both
be aud Mr. Bradley have “ pledged ’’ them
selves “in advance” to Gen. Grant, not
only upon this, but other specific points of
law , long since thought to be wed settled. It is,
therefore, no longer a question whether the
Supreme Court is hereafter to act as a con-
servative obstacle to the encroachments of
Federal authority. The thing is plain that
it is to be Used as an engine of furtber op
presssion, and as a means of wholesale pec
ulation 1 Such a revelation ought to con
vulse the will it? The idea
that any man fit to be a Judge of the Su
preme Court would pledge himself “in ad
vance,” upon a particular point, sure to
come before him for adjudication (as the
price of his appointment), is sufficiently
alarming. But what is the country to an
ticipate as to its liberties, or the pebple as
to their property or personal • safety, when
the purpose to exact such i* pledges ” is
openly avowed ? We all know what sort
of a J udge Jeffries was. Bat history ex
cuses King James of demanding a previous
“pledge” of Ms judicial brutality as tlie
incentive for his employment. Let the
people ponder upon the following piece of
brazen impudence of the Court Journal:
“ Happily for the county the last decision
is not yet beyond care. There are other cases
which must soon come before the court when
the two vacancies are filed by the President
and Senate— cases involving the same prin
ciple, and we are confident of the reversal of
that most damaging decree if the new Justices
are selected with distinct reference to their
known opinions on these great statutes enacted
to save the Republic. On this point there
should be neither mystery nor reserve.—
The prospect of a speedy reversal of the
last decision of the court will be good news
to the country.” X.
A Severe Scoring of Radical Offi
cials. —In one of Don Piatt’s recent letters
from Washington, he thus addresses him
self the iufanious psalm-singing Radjpal
officials:
And, looking over the officials here, if
you want to pick out the most unscrupu
lous, greedy knaves, take those who profess
the most religion. This is so generally
recognized, that a man runs some risk in
being more than respectably pious. Gen.
Howard, who is really a good man, suffers
in this way. A man may attend the Epis
copal Uhurch, that being the mildest form
of civilized religion, and escape suspicion;
but even this has a risk. Those regarded
as the more reliable and honest are the
men who make no profession whatever. —
This cloak of religion has been more espe
cially used to cover the rascality of the In
dian Bureau, and the land jobbers. There
is a ring of loud-mouthed professors of ex
tra piety here, that has stolen more, and
has more to show for its stealings, than
any other ring in Washington. Its mem
bers are prominent in all pious and charita
ble moves. They preside over meetings of
citizens looking to benevolent work, and
make tremendous speeches in behalf of mis
sionary enterprises. The infernal scoun
drels, they roll to church in carriages built
of stealings, and gilded and varnished with
public iniquity, drawn by stolen horses,
and they walk in clothes woven of public
plunder, and hold under their hypocritical
noses velvet-boqud, gilt-edged, hot pressed
prayer books, that represented so much
money filched from the Treasury. And
when they kneel it is to get closer to Satan,
to hear his whispered schemes of further
rascality. They make me cling closer to
the precious belief in a hell hereafter, and
what Burns called “tidings o’ damatioo.”
They are prosperous here, but if I fail to
see them hereafter crawling around to the
cool side of the big coals, and crying aloud
to the Christian statesman for a little of
his ice water, I shall be greatly disappoint
ed, and consider our plan of salvation a
greater failure than Fisk and Gould’s run
on Wall street.
That Thousand Dollar Darkey. —A
number of journals speak of 'itf. Revels,
the colored Senator from Mississippi, as a
, “ thousand dollar darkey.” In doing so
they are guilty ot a gross injustice to the
gentleman in question, and of still grosser
misrepresentation of the history of the
time. If Mr. Revels were only a “ thousand
dollar darkey,” I should not feel constrain
ed to do more than bow politely as I pass
him on the threshhold of the Senate Cham
ber, or treat him with that degree oi re
spectful consideration which is due to a
member of the honorable body whereof he
has been chosen a member. There are
those—so the poet tells us—to whom a
primrose by the river’s brink is a yellow
primrose, and no more; to all such Mr.
Revels is a thousand dollar darkey. But I
confess to a disposition to look on hi#n in a
far more. exaJ-ted light. .1 in him a
"three thousand million dollar aarkey; I
hear in his voice the thunders of Donelson
and Shilbh and Vicksburg and Gettysburg;
and in his footsteps the tread of mightier
armies than Napoleon marshaled for the
conquest, of Europe. The election of Revels
is the net proceeds of all that war and
bloodshed. He represents the assets and
liabilities of the four years’ struggle; he is
“ the glorious fruits of union and victory,”
whereof we have heard so much. If this
be not so, let the reader point oat some
other solution to the problem. Why was
the war fought. If not to elect Revels ?
And now that it is over, what is there to
show for its million graves aud its three
thousand millions of dollars, except the
election of Revels ? If there are other re
sults to the great struggle, uame them.—
But at any rate, let us not be irreverent on
the suject of Revels—let us not belittle him
to a thousand dollar darkey ; but let us
rather see in him the great living repre
sentative of the issue which it took so
many precious lives and so much precious
treasure to bring to a victorious conclu
sion ; and so regarding him, let us approach
him with uncovered heads, and bow before
him as to great Jove himself.
[Mark, Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer.
Dk. Sam Bard. —ln 1861 Sam Bard’s
lucky star directed him to Memphis. He
was seized with an unquenchable ambition
to become editor. He told us that he saw
and felt that the good cause of Southern
.independence was languishing, and .he
wanted control of a paper that he “ might
fire the Southern heart ” with new zeal.—
“At that time Sam Bard was a blatant
secessionist, an inveterate hater of Yankees,
and was known as the'most proscriptive
aud vindictive man towards the Federal
soldiers in onr midst. When he dwelt
upon the purity and righteousness of the
Confederate cause, he grew eloquent and
wept big round diamond-like globules as
large as the rain drops that drip from a
cedar tree; and when he denounced, abused
and vilified the accursed Yankees, a stream
of red hot fire sprouted from his lips, singed
the hair from his head and enveloped his
whole person iu a cloud of sulphurous
smoke. Bard was not satisfied with loaf
ing upon the streets abusing the Northern
people, the Federal army and in defending
the Confederate cause; consequently he
determined to turn editor in order to have
a larger field on which to show his hate for
the North and his love for the South.—
Having determined to join Gen. Forrest’s
command, we offered the Avalanche for
sale. Bard snapped at the proposition
with the brisk alacrity of a shark in pur
suit of a young eel. He is a plausible ras
cal, surcharged with palaver and deceit,
and by a preconcerted system of falsehood
he managed to swindle his, friends out of a
few thousand dollars, which he paid us,
gave his note for the balance, now amount
ing to over five thousand dollars, and
which we hope he will pay out of his steal
ings in Idaho. —Memphis Avalanche.
Old Man Grant Again.—A Washing
ton special to the Cincinnati Commercial of
Friday, says: “Those persons here who
believed that the President would not re
appoint his father, Jesse R. Grant, as Post,
master at Covington, Kentucky, were aston
ished today, when the nomination was
made public. It is said the apppointment
was not recommended by a single Senator
or Representative. The appointment was
received with snrprise by the Senators, and
many of them declare that it is in very bad
taste. The Post Office Committee will re
port it favorably, and Jesse will doubtless
lie confirmed, although there will be oppo
sition, even from the Republicans.
Not Exactly.— Hinton Rowan Helper,
author of the “ Impending Crisis,” Is a
pauper in New York. “The mills of God
grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly
i iaaU.’,’ ? -Huntsville (Mo.) Journal
Hinton has been a. vile political sinner,
that’s so; but as for'the “pauperism,” We
happen to know the contrary. Helper is
too shii-p to be caught by grim poverty.
He has been cutting it fat down South,
where a little money buys a good deal ot
land just now.— -New York Day Book.
The Legislature of North Carolina has
abolished the office of State printer.
Pope Pius IX.
KING VICTOR HUMBLY £BKS PARDON.
On New Year’s Day the Pope received
Gen. Kanzler and the officers of the Ponti
fical army. The Unita Cattolica now pub
lishes the text of the reply of his Holiness
to the congratulations offered to him bn
that occasion. This speech had already
been given in some of the Italian papers,
but was not regarded as anthentic. Its ap
pearance in the Unita Cattolica is consider
ed to remove all doubt on the subject: “ I
accept with pleasure,” he said, “ the con
gratulations of my small army, and it is
with pleasure that I recognize your zeal in
serving this noble cause, for which such
noble and valorous young men have hasten
ed from all parts qf the world. It is some
times said that out Lord and St. Peter were
not; kings, that they had no army, and our
right to have soldiers is denied. With re
:garil to Jesus Christ, when he was in the
Garden of Olives, the Garibaldians of that
period came in a crowd asking for Jesus of
Nazareth. And he replied, “lam He,”
anifall fell to the ground. He thus wished
to show that he had the Divine power; but
he told the apostles “who came to his aid
to stop, because if his Father in Heaven
wished it he would send to him his legion of
angels. But it was necessary that His
words should be fulfilled. It is undoubted
that Jesus Christ declared before the Jews
that he was a King; that they themselves
took care to write this in three languages on
the cross. With regard to St. Peter, the
successor of Jesus Christ, lie was a fisher
man, and had no army; but he had the
power of working miracles and of striking
down Ananias and Sapphiras with a word.
And as I have only the title of King with
out the power of working miracles, I need
an army, a small army, to defend this
throne, small in itself, but immense by the
influence and truth that emanate from it.
Be proud, therefore, of having to defend it,
and of bearing the flag that the revolution
would take from yon. I will tell you
something. A certain personage has im
plored a great pardon, excusing his fault
by sayiug he had obeyed the violence of
his government, which wished to place him
at the head of the bauds which have as
sailed and despoiled us. We had long
known this, but we were pleased to receive
the irrefragable proof of it from this per
sonage himself. Be proud, therefore, I re
peat it, to serve the Pontifical cause, and
may God preserve' yonr courage, not for
war—for we hope there will be none —but
for the struggle against the snare to which
you will not tail to be exposed anew. May
God preserve you this courage as well as
your constancy and fidelity in your noble
mission, a mission in which 1 see those
valorous Romans taking pari. I implore
the divine blessing upon you, upon your
families, and upon all who co-operate in
any way, in the defense of the Pontifical
throne.”
The personage referred to by the Pope is
assumed to be Victor Emmanuel; and a
Florence correspondent declares that there
seems to be a fixed determination to repre
sent that during his illness that Sovereign
entered into some engagements respecting
the temporal power.
. A New Projectile.
AN INVENTION BY WHICH A CANNON BALL
MAY RE THROWN TEN MILES—EXPERI
MENTS AT FORTRESS MONROE.
Fortress Monroe, February 9.
Mr. J. W. Hill, of Jefferson, Williams
County, lowa, has invented a double shotted
projectile, by which he claims a shot can
be thrown a distance of eight or ten miles.
Messrs. Hill and Roberts arrived here on
Monday with permission from Washington
to make experiments. The shot is conical,
with a bore inside aud a time fuse at the
side. In fact, it is a small cannon itself.
An eight-inch shot fired to-day weighed 200
pounds before being loaded. The inner
cavity, or bore was %% inches, and extend
ed some 8 inches. Into this cavity was
placed a half pound of powder; some tow
was then inserted, aud then a twelve and a
half pound shot. The nozzle is stopped up
by a brass plug in two pieces ; the double
shot, is then placed in a cannon and dis
charged. The fuzes are from five to ten
seconds; at the end of that time the fuze
ignites the powder and discharges the
twelve-pound shot. The inventor claims
that the velocity of the small shot is greater
as a point to be determined. The experi
ments were commenced on Monday, but in
consequence of the plug in the end of the
shot not being screwed in, the plug and the
ball both fell out after traveling about one
mile. For to-day’s experiments, however,
the pings were made to screw into the shot,
and the result was satisfactory. TJie fuze
to the eight-inch shot was a ten-second
fnze, and at the end of that time the twelve
aud a half pound shot was discharged, and
the 8-inch shot kept on its way until its
force was expended. The explosion does
not burst the shot, but drives out the plug,
as there is no vacancy tiet weeu the shot
and the nozzle. This projectile lias now
beeu tested for the first time, and is pro
nounced a success. The experiments were
made by Colonel T- G. Baylor, command
ing the arsenal at this post, and a full re
port will be forwarded to the Chief of Ord
nance.
The principle on which the improvement
is made is regarded as a good one. Our
15-inch gun throws a solid shot at least
five miles. Load one of these guns with a
double shotted projectile, with a fuse ar
ranged to discharge the small shot when
the cannou ball has reached its highest
elevation—a fifteen-inch shot would take a
twenty or twenty four pound shot without
danger of bursting, and it is claimed that it
would go farther from this elevation than
it would from the ground. The large shot
would, of course, be fired at the object,
while the small one would be sent on to do
what execution it could, aud in firing at a
line of troops would be very effective. The
small shot is made with a sabot for the rifle
in the large shot, and is large enough to
fill up the space between the powder and
the plug, which is screwd in, but only just
enough to keep it from being shaken out.
Messrs. Hall & Roberts are entirely satis
fied with the success of the experiments,
and believe they can fire a shot almost any
distance.
Theophilus Ladislas Zschereskofski,
a pupil of Liebig, has succeded in making
a discovery which promises to revolution
ize the trade in precious stories. He has
succeeded in making silicions and alumi
nous ethers; and it is said that by simply
mixing a certain quantity of these ethers
with other chemical elements he produces
almost instantaneously the most magnifi
cent results. Combined with the oxide of
Iron in a perfectly pure condition, the alu
minous ether makes a ruby; with sulphate
of copper, a sapphire ; with any of the salts
of nickel, an emerald. With the salts of
chromium the silicious ether gives all the
beautiful varieties of the topaz. These
ethers evaporate with a very subtle and
pungent odor, which some people find high
ly agreeable. The salts chrystalize with
perfect regularity on the evaporation of the
ether. Although the corundums obtained
by this process have not the extreme hard
ness of the natural substance, yet their
brilliancy when the operation is carefully
conducted is admirable. Silex and alumi
num, the bases of the flints and clays, are
elements to be found all over the globe, and
the process of manipulating them into
gems, though one of extreme delicacy, re
quires no costly apparatus and no expen
sive materials.
The Proposed Negro Jubilee.—Down
ing, the oysterman, proposes a universal
negro jubilee with the proclamation of the
Fifteenth Amendment, which we pronounce
a very happy conceit. By all means let
the jubilee be proclaimed, and let Down
ing put up a coliseum at Washington, and
gather into it say fifteen thousand colored
musicians anl minstrels, and let him have
outside a hundred pieces of heavy artillery,
and a grand display of fireworks and bal
loons to magnify the chorus, and our word
for it he will totally eclipse Giimore’s Bos
ton Panjandrem, while making at the same
time a splendid fortune from his oysters.
What says the old war song of the Missis
sippi river darkies, speaking of the rebel
master and his slaves, looking “ away up
de river where de Lincum gunboats lay ?”
It says:
De mass* run, ha! ha!
De darkies stay, ho! ho!
It must be now de kingdom am a cornin’,
And de year of jubilo.
The Chinese in Texas are thinning ont
the dogs. A fat cur at Calvert Is now
worth |lO for his meat.
The Dead.. Confederacy.
Pale, stark aud cold she'lies in utter silence
No more to rise up from that deathly swoon
To weeping States that whisper in great an.
guish,
“ Dead, dead, so soon.”
Ah ! mourn for her with tender love and pity.
Ye men that strove to lengthen out her years!
A little child grown old and gray with sorrow,
Demands yonr tears:
A little child with blood upon her ringlets,
A faded banner wrapping her tired arms.
Bruised feet that faltered in the sweet revealing
Os Freedom’s charms.
Hushed into mute and reverent emotion,
The people pass beneath the heavy skies,
Kuowing, to day nor yet npon to-morrow,
Will she arise:
Arise, to spread her banner in rejoicing,
To beckon honor from the waiting years! \
Who hints of faults, with overy stain upon her
Washed out in tears?
The faulty idol of a faulty people,
Who loved her better that her faults were theirs l
Who see her deaf, blind, dead to all perfection.
The Future bears.
As dead as those who sought to be her armor,
Who held their hearts as shields ’twist her and
death,
And died to cherish into fuller being,
The infant breath.
Strong hearts, that in the rush and roar of bat.
tie,
Poured out (heir noble blood like holy wine,
Wasting its wealth and richness on a broken
Aud blasted shrine:
A blasted shrine, yet eveu in its blighting
Crowned with the homage of a million hearts,
Whose burning tears poured out the last liba
tion
That Love imparls.
A faded hope, yet fairer in its fading
Than Victory’s temples reared above the dead,
And sweeter, blasted, faded, broken, than rich
incense
For Conquests shed.
Pale, pale she lies ; the Autumn corneih gently
And clasps its erirusdn lingers rcuud her feet,
And throws a golden spell upon the forest,
Aa is most meet.
It is most meet that one who died in childhood,
Who smiled npon us from the purpie West,
Should take amid the crimson and the golden
Her final rest.
All cold she lies ; the Spirit of the Winter
Hushes the careless river at her side;
’Tls well, we think, that thus should sleep in ,
silence
A People’s pride.
She lieth still; we dare not sing her requiem
The Western star has faded out of sight,
Like her who was the idol of onr worship,
Leaving us night.
Violet Lea.
Princeton, Ark., 1865.
Wonders of Somnambulism.
A Londou physician, in the intervals of
active professional life, has employed him
self with writing a series of essays upon
matters that relate to the brain, nerve and
mind, The opening paper treats of those
qualities in children which are derived asa
“ natural heirage” from their progenitor*,
which is followed by an inquiry into “De
generations of Man.” The essays are seven
in all, and have been published in a neat
and compact form by Fields, Osgood &
Cos., of Boston. The author prefaces his
book with an appropriate epigraph from
Dr. Holmes, and another from Leeky, and
the style of his dissertations indicate great
literary taste and ability. From the chap
ter on somnambulism we take the follow
ing curious examples:
“Two very instructive cases are quoted
by Dr. Pritchard, from Muratori. The first
relates to a young Italian noble, Rignor
Augustin, who was accustomed to wait
and perform a variety of acts in his sleep.
The attacks were usually announced by a
peculiar manner of sleeping on his back,
with wide open, staring, unmoved eyes.—
Vigneul Marville, an eye-witness, gives th(i
following announcement of one occasion !
‘About midnight Signor Augustin drew
aside the bed clothes with violence; arose
and pnt on his clothes. 1 went up to him
and held the light under his eyes ; he took!
no notice of it, although his eyes were open
and staring. After performing a variety of
movements about the house, and seeking'
for many things, appearing occasionally^'
hear noises that were .made, and bd~b§.
frightened by them, he went into tlie stable,
led out his horse, mounted it aDd galloped
to the house door, at which he knocked
several times. Having taken back his
horse, he heard a noise which the servants
made in the kitchen, and went to the door,
holding his ear to the key-hole, and ap
peared to be listening attentively. He
afterwards went to the billiard room and
enacted the motions o( a player. He then
went to the harpsichord and played a few
irregular airs. After having moved about
for two hours, he went to his room, and
threw himself upon his bed, clothed as hri
was, and the next morning we found him
in the same state; for, as often as his at
tack came on, he slept afterwards from
eight to ten hours. The servants declared
that they could only put an end to hisi
paroxysms either by tickling the soles of
ids feet or blowing a trumpet in his ears.’ i
“ The case of Negretti is related by the
same author, and is valuable as having
been separately watched by two physi
cians, Righellini aad Pigatti. He was a
servant, and had walked in his sleep from
his eleveuth year. He would often repeat 1
iu his sleep the accustomed duties bf the,
day, and would carry trays and glasses i
about, and spread the table for dinner with
great accuracy, though his eyes were al
ways firmly closed. Indeed, it was appa
rent that he could not see, as he frequently
struck against doors and objects placed in
unaccustomed positions. He sometimes
carried a candle; but a bottle substituted
for it seemed to do as well. His sense of*
taste appeared to be imperfect, as he would
eat cabbage for salad, drink water for wine,
and take coffee for snuff, without appearing
in any case to detect the substitution.
“In other cases the senses are more
awake and the intelligence more active.—
Castelli, whose case is related by Frances
co Soave, was found one night asleep in the
act of translating from Italian into French,
and looking out the words from a diction
ary. When his candle was extinguished,
he arose and went to seek another light.
When any one conversed with him on any
subject on which his mind was bent at the
time, he gave rational answers; but he
seemed to hear nothing that was said to
him, or near him, on any other subjects.—
His eyes also seemed to be sensible to those
objects about which he was immediately
engaged, and were quite fixed; so much so
that in reading he turned the whole head
from side to side instead of his eyes.
The Duello in Columbia—A Blood
less Encounter. —We are informed that
parties in Columbia had made arrange
ments on Saturday morning to settle their
little difficulties by a resort to the duello.
Both parties were on the ground, when a
disagreement arose between one of the prin
cipals and his second, in which the latter
was called a liar. This-opprobrious epithet
proved anew casus belli, and the second
producing two revolvers demanded satis
faction then and there. Such a summary
mode of settling the dispute was not to the
taste of the principal, and he peremptorily
declined, and the second immediately re
fused to take any further part in the pro
ceedings, which caused an indefinite post
ponement of the whole affair, and a loss to
Columbia of a first class sensation.
[Charleston News.
The New Orleans Picayune tells the story
of a gentleman who arrived a short time
since from an Eastern city in pursuit of his
truant son. His search availed not, and at
last, almost in despair, the distressed father
was preparing to return home, when one
evening at the theatre he felt some one’s
hand thrust suddenly into his pocket.
Quick as thought he grasped the intrusive
member, and, wheeling around, he met face
to face his son. Detected in his crime the
boy suffered himself to be led away from
the crowd, and the next day, under the in
fluence of an affection which vicious asso
ciations had not succeeded in entirely
crushing, consented to return to his home.
Mr. Jabez Gates, of Germantown, Pa. is
reported to have in his possession the anvil
taion which were forged the moulds In
which the first type made in this country
were cast. .
Steamboats at Montgomery are biddimr
for cotton to Mobile at fifty cents Der bale!
Distance five hundred miles.
•
T State Items.
Grau’s German Opera Troupe are billed
for Savanuah on the 21st.
The Victoria and Empire Boat Clubs of
Savannah are looking to consolidation.
The Columbus Enquirer says the robin
crop is large over there. Boys sell them
for fifty cents a dozen.
H. T. Oweu and Columbus Hughes, for
mer citizens of Atlanta, are now in Los
Angelos, California, doiug well.
Enoch Steadman is about to erect a bone
mill, for the manufacture of raw bone su
perphosphate in Newton county.
Rev. W. D. Atkinson has become Princi
pal of the Male and Female High School at
Social Circle.
Capt. Harry Jackson and Gen. L. J.
Gartrell have dissolved their connection in
the practice of law.
, The McCulloch and Brtgnoli Italian
Opera Troupe are billed for Atltfnta on the
7th, Bth and 9th of March.
The Rome Courier has been presented
with.two mammoth turnips by Mr. A. G.
Morten, of Chattooga—one weighing eleven
.pounds, and the other threatouts.
Mrs. M. S. Oilivier, an unsexed specimen
of the Cincinnati “Sorosis,” will lecture
at Atlanta, on Monday, night, on “ Female
Suffrage.”
The Rome wood market has been glutted,
by the recent fair weather catching the
haulers in the attempt to make a “ corner,
and the price has descended to if 1 25 per
( load.
The Right Rev. Bishop Verot, of Savan
nah, at his own request, has been transfer
red to the See of St.. Augustine, Fla., and
Right Rev. Bishop Perisco will take his
" place in Savannah.
B H. Mathews, who, in the beginning of
the war, was quartermaster sergeant of the
Second Georgia Regimeut, died on Tuesday
near Buena Vista, Marion county.
The debt of Atlanta is $2,819,193. Con
sidering that Atlanta has only a population
;of about 30,000 men, women and children,
this gives a debt of $425 to every one of
her population.
Mrs. Ellen Anderson, wife of R. A. Ander
son, recently agent of the Macon and West
ern Railroad, died in Atlanta on Monday,
}from consumption. Mrs. A. was a daughter
of Judge Ezzard, Mayor of Atlanta, and
■had been married about two years only.
: The house of Mr. James Toman, In Wal
ton comity, was burned on the night of the
2d insl., the family barely escaping with
their lives. All the furniture and wearing
jftpparel were lost. Fire originated from a
cook stove.
Tiie Monroe Southern Witness says the
prospect of wheat at this time of the year
was never more favorable in Walton. Our
.farmers, it is true, have planted large areas,
they have spent more care in the pre
paration and fertilizing. Without a disas
ter, the harvest will certainly be abundant.
|Deep breaking, liberal manuring and shal
low planting is the fanner’s motto.
The Atlanta journals announce the death
of the Cosmopolitan Monthly, formerly Scott's
Magazine. All subscriptions received for
1870 will be refunded, and arrangements
made to fill unexpired contracts. Those
j indebted to the magazine must settle imme
diately, or the accounts will be collected by
law.
Dead Body Found.—On Sunday morn
ing, about 10 o’clock, the dead body of a
r white girl by the name of Malvarino Un
yierwood, was found in the outskirts of the
woods, near Key’s distillery. A blue mark
across her left temple gave evidence that
'She had been foully dealt with. Several
parties have been under arrest, but no im
portant developments have as yet been
made. —Atlanta Express.
BY TELEGRAPH.
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
[Spc-eial Dispatch to th« Consti'-utsonaUs*.
Atlanta, February IG, 1870.
& The Senate met at 11 o’clock.
A resolution providing for the pay of
[ clerks, messengers, &c., was passed. The
fctesolntion does not define the number of
(persons to be paid, nor name the amount
m money to be paid, but authorizes the
Governor to issue warrants upon the cer
"tifleate of the Secretary oi the Senate and
Clerk of the House. The resolution was
transmitted to the House.
A message was received from Gov. Bul
lock, arguing that, Blodgett and Company
were the legal Seuators, and suggesting a
relief resolution, and also one to request
General Terry to enforce the law during
.the recess of the Legislature, and then to
take a recess until Congress could be heard
from. Pending the discussion of the relief
resolution, adjourned.
The House met at 11 o’clock.
iV Bullock’s message was received.
J 7 The Senate come into the hall at 12
o’clock, when the vote for Senators was
consolidated, and they retired. Pending
( the discussion of a relief resolution, ad
journed.
’ The negroes oppose relief, though it is a
Radical measure. Sigma.
[Associated Press Dispatches.
WASHINGTON.
< Washington, February 16— Noon.—
Orders have been issued to stop all enlist
ments for the navy, the force being full.
The Naval Committee have agreed to
give paymasters positive rank.
The House is considering territorial mat
ters.
Senate proceedings unimportant.
Washington, February 16—P. M.—Rev
enue, $242,000.
The small-pox is raging among the Mon
tana Indians.
The Ways and Means Committee, 5 to 4,
Toted to make the Revenue Bureau a de
partment, with a seat in the Cabinet. v
The Judiciary Committee of the House,
tfter two years’ consideration, voted against
impeaching Judge Busteed.
In the Senate, resolutions of the Alabama
Legislature, in favor of postal telegraph,
were presented.
The bill providing artificial limbs forsol
diers provoked long discussion. Sawyer
offered an amendment excluding from the
benefit the soldiers of 1812 or Mexican war,
vho aided the rebellion. Without debate,
The case of Mississippi was resumed.—
Au amendment was introduced repealing
tie fundamental conditions of the Virginia
HU!. The debate was quite stormy.
without action,
in the House, a petition remanding Mas
sachusetts to a territorial condition for dis
loyalty was referred to the Reconstruction
Committee.
Banks introduced a resolution authoriz
ing and instructing the President to main
tain absolute neutrality lietween Spain and
Cabans. Referred to the Committee on
Foreign Relations.
Van Wyck was finally seated by 110 to
61.
House adjourned.
VIRGINIA. \
Norfolk, February 18.—The schooner
Bunnell, from Baltimore, for Charleston,
with coal and guano la here leaking, rudder
and fast steering gear carried away.
Richmond, February 16. In the Legisla
tive, the House resolution asking the Gov
ernment to accord belligerent, rights to
Cuba was referred. A bill was reported
declaring vacant the place on the Bench of
the Court of Appeals now hold by Major
Burnham, United Btates Army. The Senate
adopted a resolntion that It Is not necessary
to elect a United States Senator for the
term ending March, 1870.
louTsiana.
New Oni.EA.NB, February 16.—1n the
Senate, the $8,000,000 levee bond bill pass
ed, and goes to the Governor. In the
House, the mixed scliool educational bill
passed. The election bill was resumed.
ILLINOIS. '
Chicago, February 16.—Dispatches from
Senator Grimes Indicate that he will not
survive the journey from Europe.
GEORGIA.
Atlanta, February 16.—The Hbuse and
Senate met this morning, at 11 o’clock. At
12 o’clock the Senate proceeded to the hall
of the House of Representatives and organ
ized a joint convention for the purpose of
comparing their Senatorial vote. Upon
adding up the vote of the joint convention
the President of the Senate announced that
Hon. Foster Blodgett having receiyed 115
votes, being a majority, he was declared
elected United States Senator for the term
of six years from March 4th, 1871. The
Hon. H. P. Farrow having received 109
votes, being a majority, was declared elect
ed United States Senator for the term end
ing March 4th, 1873, and Hon. Richard H.
Whltely having received 110 votes, was de
clared elected United States Senator for the
term ending March 4th, 1871.
Gov. Bullock sent in a message to the
Legislature this morning, making an elab
orate argument, to establish the fact that
the act of Congress of December 22d, and
previous reconstruction acts, do not render
invalid any of the ordinary laws passed by
the several Legislatures. All contracts en
tered into by State or by corporations, un
der State authority, are legal and binding.
The Governor closes as follows: “ The
impression which is sought to be created,
that local laws are invalidated, State bonds
repudiated, and corporations organized
upon the basis of the late legislation are
without legal foundation, is entirely
groundless. Such impressions were only
created for the purpose of misleading the
public mind, defeating the full effect aud
true intent and purpose of the reconstruc
tion acts. The argument upon this point
seems to be superfluous, in fact of the ma
terial fact that our bonds are saleable at a
higher rate than those of any other South
ern State, and the bonds of our railroads,
which have been endorsed under authority
of the Legislation 6f 1868, are selling at
their full value.”
The Legislature then adjourned to 10
o’clock to-morrow.
Foster Blodgett, this evening, addressed
a letter to the Governor, requesting him to
withhold the certificate of his election as
Senator. Mr. Blodgett explains his pre
vious political course, referring to that of
having been indicted by political opponents
for the purpose of breaking down and
destroying his influence, and closes ns fol
lows: “Although those who procured the
indictment alluded to now confess that it
was only done for political effect, and rests
unsupported by any proof, yet it is there,
and never, until it is withdrawn or I have
been triumphantly acquitted, can I, or will
I, accept of the position to which the hon
orable suffrages of my political friends have
elevated me.”
ALABAMA.
Mobile, February 16.—The contest for
the Mayoralty is still progressing. Price
holds his seat and lias no present thought
of yielding the office without a struggle.
The municipal buildings are guarded by a
half dozen or more policemen in Price’s in
terest. and some forty or more are on duty
at the guard house.
Mayor Price opened court this morning
half an hour earlier than usual. Mayor
Harrington came into the court room at 9
o’clock, the usual hour, but finding the
bench occupied, retired. Meanwhile, Har
rington took possession of the office of City
Clerk and signed licenses, permits, &c.
A case will be brought up at the Mayor’s
Court to-morrow, and it is presumed that
Price’s .right to jurisdiction will be dis
puted when the matter comes before him
for investigation. It is reported that Har
r'mglon will call on the military to aid him.
FOREIGN.
Paris, February 16.—The Prince Im
perial skated to-day on the Lake of Bois
du Boulogne.
Eugenie is quite ill.
The Emperor was with the skating party.
All the journals consider the speech of
the King of Prussia as menacing.
Olivier concluded a discussion with:
“ Government would persist in its libera!
couse, but would resist dangerous agita
tion in the streets or in the press.
Continental banks are generally reducing
the rates of interest.
Madrid, February 16.-—Prim assured the
Cortes that the visit of Montpensier was
unpolitical.
MARINE NEWS.
Savannah, February 16.—Arrived :
Steamers Huntsville, from New Y®rk;
Wyoming, from Philadelphia; United
States steamer Endeavor, from Fernandina,
for coal; schrs. Nellie Doe, from Philadel
phia, leaking; Maggie Marsden, from Bal
timore ; brig Star, from Falmouth.
Cleared : Schrs. Lizzie Carr, for Matan
zas; M. W. Hupper, for New York; C. E.
Elmer and A. 11. Edwards, for Wilmington,
N. C.
Charleston, February 16.—Arrived :
Schrs. J. B. Williams and J. T. Weaver,
from New York; R. Peterson, from Wil
mington, Del.
Sailed : Steamers Jas. Adgcr, for New
York ; Sea Gull, for Baltimore; schrs. P.
M. Wheaton, for Jacksonville; A. Bar
ton. from Baltimore.
Wilmington, February 16.—Arrived :
Steamer Rebecca Clyde, from New York.
Cleared: Steamer Volunteer, for New
York.
MARKETS.
London, February 16—-Noon.—Consols,
92%. Bonds, 87%. Turpentine, 30s. 6d.
Liverpool, February 16—Noon.—Cot
ton quiet; uplands, 11%@11%; Orleans,
11%411% ; sales, 10,000 bales.
Later —Lard flat. Mess Pork flat. Bacon,
Paris, February 16—Bourse opened firm.
Rentes, 73f. 30c.
Havre, February 16.—Cotton opened
quiet.
New York, February 16—Noon.—Stocks
strong. Money easy at 5@6. Exchange
long, 9; short, 9%. Gold, 119%. ’62’s,
. coupon, 15; Tennessees, ex coupon, 55%;
new, 49%; Virginias, ex coupon, 62; new,
65%; Lousianas, old, 72; new, 73: Levee
6’s, 70; B’s, 84; Alabama B’s, 94; s’s, 63% ;
Georgia 6’s, 81; 7’s, 92; North Carolinas,
old, 46%; new, 26%; South Carolinas,old,
87; new, 81%.
New York, February 16—P. M—Money
easy at 5@6. Sterling, 8%@9. Gold dull,
119%@119%. Governments steady. South
ern Securities heavy. Tennessees lower ;
balance dull.
New York, February 16—Noon.—Flour
less active and scarcely so firm. Wheat
dull and l@2c. lower. Corn dull and 1@
2c. lower. Pork dull; mess, $26026 25.
Lard dull at 15015%. Cotton heavy at
25. Turpentine dull at 47. Rosin steady
at $2 25 for strained. Freights quiet.
New York, February 16—P. M.—Cotton
heavy and lower; sales, 1,600 bales at 24%.
Flonr moderately active and unchanged.
Wheat and Corn inactive at noon’s decline.
Pork and Lard steady. Whisky lower at
96%. Groceries and Naval Stores quiet.
Freights firm.
Baltimore, February 16—Cotton, 24%
024%. Flour firmer, active and unchanged.
Wheat steady. Corn firm. Provisions un
changed in every respect. Whisky scarce
at 99c.051. Virginias, old, 50%; ’66’s 59 ;
’6rs, 54% bid.
St. Louis, February 16.—Corn unchang
ed. Whisky, 94. Pork, $27@27 50. Bacon
jobbing; sides and shoulders, 12%. Lard
dull at 15%016.
Cincinnati, February 16.—Com steady
at 72. Whisky—good demand at 94. Mess
Pork dull at $27. Bacon—shoulders, 12%;
sides, light supply, 15%®16% ; held %
higher. Lard dull.
Louisville, February 16.—Corn aulet.
Provisions unchanged. Mess Pork, $27 50.
Bacon—shoulders, 12%. Whisky, 93.
Wilmington, February I#,--Spirit* of
Turpentine Wo. lo\wr—43% Ihwlu firm
at $1 60® 1 75. Um<k> Turpentine un
changed. Tar steady »* tvuoo .toll
at 28.
Morilr, February W-Cottou-ilmited
demand; «j« ! 700
bales; middling. , ivwipta. 1,202 bales;
O*MUN*> »<Vbrm*i\v 10—Flour
firm at $5 50. *5 95 aud $6 80. Corn ac
;l vc autl waree at $1 lwl 18%. Oats
'iisler at 7!«78. Ilrou—none here. Hay
Inner; prime. s3oolßl. Pork quiet at
129 85. Bacon easier at 18%, 17% and
18%; HUgnr-onred hams, 19%<020. Lard,
16%@18. Sugar firm; prime, 11%®11%.
Molasses firm; prime, 77(078. Whisky un
hanged. Coffee firmer; asking for fair, 16
J 16% ; prime, 17%@17%. Cotton dull
md easier at 24%@24%; sales, 3,000 bale*;.
bfrles; exporta—to Liverpool.
1,539 bales; to Mallorca, 625 bales. Gold
119%. Sterling, 29%. Sight, par@% dis
count.
Savannah, February 16.—Cotton—re
ceipts, 1,825; sales, 100 bales; market
dull; middling, 23%.
Charleston, February 16.—Cotton dull
and easier; sales, 250 bales; middling, 24
@24%; receipts, 984 bales; exports coast
wise, 367 bales.
Augusta Daily Market.
Office Daily Constitutionalist, )
Wednesday, February 16—P. M. j
FINANCIAL
GOLD—Buying at 120 and selliug at 122.
81LVER—Buying at 116 and selling at 120.
BONDS—City Bonds, 83@85.
STOCKS—Georgia Railroad, 105, and in de
mand ; Augusta Factory, 155; National Bank
of Augusta, 115, last sale.
COTTON.—The market opened with a lair
demand at 28% cents for middling, but closed
easier at 23%@23%, on account of unfavorable
news from New Fork. Sales, 898 bales. Re
ceipts, 534 bales.
BACON—Fair demand. We quote C. Sides,
19@19%; C. R. Sides, 18%@19; B. B. Sides, 18%;
Shoulders, 15%; Hams, 21@23; Dry Salt
Shoulders, 13@13% ; Dry Salt C. R. Sides, 17
@17%.
CORN—In good demand aud is selling at
$1 30@1 85 from depot.
WHEAT—We quote choice white, $1 55;
amber, ft 50; red, $L 45.
FLOUR—City Mills, new, £6 50@9 00; at
retail, $1 $ barrel higher. Country, |6@9,
according to quality.
CORN MEAL—SI 40 at wholesale; $1 50 at
retail.
OATS—Bs@fl 25.
PEAS—Scarce at tl 60.
Cincinnati Semi-Weekly Market.
REPORTED BY MORRIS & REID,
Produce and Provision Broken, Room No. 9,
Pike Opera Building, Cincinnati, Ohio .
Cincinnati, February 12,1870.
Hogs.—Receipts light and market steady
at $8 25@9 25, gross, for live, light to heavy
averages. The packing to date, at leading
points, foots up as follows: Chicago,
599,900; Milwaukie, 161,500; Cincinnati,
385,000; St. Louis, 233,048; Louisville,
180,000. Total, 1,558,448, being 77,000 in
excess of last year.
Provisions.—Since our*last our market
has become firmer. With a good order and
consumptive demand, prices have advanced
on some articles. We quote:
Bulk Meats.—Holders firm and demand
not large; shoulders, 11; rib sides, 13%;
clear rib sides, 14%, and clear sides, 15, all
packed—meats fully cured.
Bacon—Very little out of smoke for
ready delivery, and market firm with a
good demand at 12% for shoulders ; 15 for
rib sides ; 15% for clear rib sides, and 16%
@16% for clear sides, all packed ; sugar
cured hams, 18@19, canvassed and packed.
Mess Pork held firm at $27 25@27 50
for. inside city brands. Demand good.
Lard neglected and dull at 16 for city
kettled leaf; keg lard, 17; steamed, 14%.
Whisky—High Wines in demand at 93,
but holders asking 94, with some sales at
94.
Corn —White, 70 in bulk * a sale of pure
yellow was made at 74; to include bags,
add 10 cents per bushel.
Oats—lnactive and prices steady; no
53 iu bulk.
Flour—Market dull; for family, $5 25
@G; extra, $4 75@5; superflue, $4 50@
4 65. Morris & Reid.
Mrs. Oates’ Burlesque Opera Troupe.
—We received a call from Mr. W. R. Hay
den, business manager of the Oates Bur
lesque Opera Troupe, who Is in the cilv to
arrange for the appearance of this company
in Augustiip next week, their first enter
tainment to be given at Girardey’s Opera
House on Monday night. The press of the
different cities which the troupe have visit
ed speak in the highest terms of the many
attractions offered by them. Asa fair
sample, we make the following extract
from the Savannah Republican:
One of the most inspiring sights we have
witnessed of late was the excellent house
that greeted the second representation-of
the famous burlesque, “ The Field of the
Cloth of Gold.’’ The appreciative audi
ence inspired ns to a better comprehension
of the play, and was indeed soul-satisfying
to any weary critic, worn out with wretch
ed dramas played to empty benches, and
meekly depending upon public favor to in
sure a profitable season. Mrs. Oates’ troupe,
happily, is independent; independent, be
cause upon the merits of those who com
pose it rests its success. The intrinsic
value of the troupe as a body may be called
the key to the general enthusiasm nightly
greeting each performance, and Mrs. Oates,
sparkling comedienne that she is, the key
stone of the entire structure. Stage waits,
forgotten parts, and slovenness seem to be
unknown in this little circle, and each suc
cessive scene comes and passes on with all
the smoothness and freedom of action gen
erally accredited to dramatic perfection.
Mrs. Oates—how can we speak too highly
of her?—to use some feminine phrases, is
charming, bewitching, and perfect, with
the voice of a syren, the vivaciousness of a
soubrette, and with all the gracious modes
ty of action and beauty of form that femi
ninity possesses, It is not strange that she
draws her hearers within a strong network
of admiration, and by her sterling worth
holds them captive.
The Plodding German. —One of the
“Green Line” excursionists, who is evi
dently a keen observer, writes to a Cin
cinnati paper as follows: “In the environs
of Charleston and Augusta may be seen
the vegetable gardens of the thrifty, plod
ding German. In those cities, along the
various railways of the South, away up
St. John’s river, and, lu aword, whereever
commerce exists to any considerable de
gree, the inviting sign of an overflowing
mug with lager beer painted in glowing
yellow letters may be seen, a sign of hope
forever nigh. If a neatly trimmed garden
plat, whitewashed fence and new cottage
attracts your eye near any Southern city
on the great lines of travel, you may rest
assured that it belongs to a German. He
utilizes everything about him, brings order
out of chaos, and suggests the possible
convenience and comfort of living in a
country where nature indulges rankness,
and the very air is heavy with indolence
and sloth.”
New Kind of Paper. —A new kind of
paper, specially adapted for various kinds
of clothing, has been Invented in England.
Both animal and vegetable materials are
employed In its production, the latter being
New Zealand flax, jute, hemp and cotton*,
and the former wool, silk, skins, &c. These
matters are reduced to a pnlp and bleached,
and then felted in appropriate machinery.
The mixture of these materials gives a pa
per of extraordinary pliancy, flexibility and
strength, which may be sewn together as
easily as woven fabrics, and makes as strong
n seam. Among the articles made of the
paper are quilts and table cloths, stamped
with patterns of great beauty, curtains,
shirts and various other articles of dress.
Avery good imitation of leather i9 made of
It, of which furniture coverings and even
shoes may be made. The last may be ren
dered water-proof by the introduction of
oils and India rubber.
Godey’s Lady’s Book.— The March num
ber of this veteran fashion and literary
magazine has been placed upon our table
by Mr. Geo. A. Oates. Its fashion plates
and other features of interest for the ladies
and the domestic circle maintain the ac
knowledged worth of this excellent publi
cation.
Pruning Apple Trees.—An exchange
says It has long been a practice among
farmers to commence pruning apple trees
in February, mainly, we suppose, be
cause there is leisure time. There are
some reasons why this should uot be done.
There will not be sufficient action In the
tree to harden the surface, where a limb is
taken off, before the sap ascends in the
Spring. When this action does take place,
the sap flows out and spreads over the sur
rounding bark, and by some chemical
action which takes place In it, is changed
to a poisoning fluid, which gveatly injures
the tree. -It is very unsafe to prune before
the middle of J uue. Soon after the leaves
fall in Autumu, and in Midsummer, are the
safe times to do this work.
Soldierly Amusements.—The Warren
ton Clipper says that two citizens of that
place were attacked in the street on the
night of the 11th, by a party of soldiers,
knocked down, and one of them severely
beat about the head with a pistol. Be
lieving him dead, they returned to camp.
Wc have not learned of any arrests being
made. Well, it’s all right.
“The) ‘bar-strungled-hanner,’ oh, long
may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the
brave.”
“As we are neither, It necdu’t tear itself
waving around here.”
Meeting op the City Council.—This
body convened in extra session last night.
Present: llis Honor Mayor Allen; Aider
men Meyer, Rogers, Butt, Bisell, Pournelle,
Sheron and Walsh.
His Honor Mayor Alien stated that the
meeting had been called to receive the re
port of the committee appointed upon the
petition of the committee of the Fair Asso
ciation of the Cotton States.
On motion, the reading of the minutes of
last meeting was dispensed with.
At the instance df Alderman Butt, the
ordinance (heretofore published) regulating
the mode of requiring an emendation of
suspected fraudulent quarterly tax returns
passed to its third reading.
Upon the question of the adoption of the
ordinance, a prolonged debate ensued,
Aldermen Butt, Meyer, Rogers and Pour
nelle favoring the ordinance, and Aldermen
Black and Sheron opposing its adoption.
The vote being taken upon the adoption
of the ordinance, the Mayor declared It
adopted. ,
Alderman Butt, from the committee ap
pointed upon the petition or the Mechanics*
and Agricultural Fair Association, sub
mitted the following report:
Augusta, Ga., February 16,1870.
To the Hon. the City Council of Augusta :
The Committee to whom was referred the
petition of the Mechanics’ and Agricultural
Fair Association of the Cotton States, l>eg
to report that after mature deliberation
and consultation, they have agreed to re
commend the adoption of the prayer of said
petitioners thus far: That the city lease to
said B’air Association, for the term of
twenty-one years, the plot of ground describ
ed in said petition upon the terms uttmed
therein and under such other restrictions
aud agreements as may be mutually agreed
upon between tire constructing parties.
Secondly. They also recommend a sub
scription of five thousand ($5,000) dollars,
whenever the Association shall have been
properly incorporated; and for and in con
sideration thereof the city shall be entitled
to three members on the’Board of Manage
ment, to be selected by the City Council
from among the citizens of the city, who
shall lie individually stockholders in said
Fair Association, and who shall hold their
positions under the following stipulations:
One of said three managers shall retire
from the Board every year, and the re
maining two shall fill the vacancy so occa
sioned at the time the general election of
managers takes place by the Association,
or as soon thereafter as practicable.
That the carrying info effect of these
agreements shall be entrusted to the Mayor
and the City Attorney.
John D. Butt,
■Chairman nuance Committee.
E. H. Rogers,
Chairman South Commons Committee.
Alderman Butt stated that it had been
agreed that no instalment would be called
for on the subscription until about the mid
dle of April, when the act of incorporation
would probably be passed. In making the
report, desired to state, had consulted with
other members of the committee, and with
citizens, and it had been generally approved.
Had heard no diversity of opinion, except
as to the matter of the lease, some thinking
ten years, and others fifteen years suffi
ciently long. Many of the citizens desired
to give the $5,000 out and eut, as a dona
tion, thinking probably that the city might
be mulcted in for a larger amount; but if
the Association was pronerly incorporated,
it; was best the city should have something.
Referred to the land petitioned for, as lying
idle, and the advantages to accrue to the
health and property interest in that section.
Alderman Bisell favored the report, and
moved its adoption as read.
Alderman Black inquired if the grant of
ground would interfere with extension of
the Cemetery.
Alderman Meyer stated it would Inter
fere with the southern extension of the
Colored Cemetery, a few hundred feet.
Alderman Butt thought it would be
twenty-five years before that Cemetery was
filled.
Alderman Black desired to know If it
was not understood that the grounds and
improvements should revert to the city
when ceasing to be used for the purpose in
dicated.
Under request, the Clerk re-read the re
port of the committee and the petition.
On motion of Alderman Shcron, the re
port of the committee was received.
Alderman Bisell moved* the adoption of
the recommendations of the report.
Alderman Walsh offered the following
resolution :
Resolved, That the Mayor and City At
torney be authorized to carry ont the pro
visions of the report of the South Com
mons and Finance Committees, in regard
to the Mechanics’ and Agricultural Fair
Association of the Cotton States.
On motion of Alderman Butt, Alderman
Black was requested to act with the Mayor
and City Attorney under the resolntion.
Upon a vote, the resolution of Alderman
Walsh was adopted.
Dr. W. H. Tutt, President of the Board
of Managers of the Fair Association, hear
tily thanked the Council for their liberal
action in granting the petition of the Asso
ciation, believing that it would result in
largely promoting the interests of the city.
On motion, Council adjourned.
Communication Between Charleston
and Savannah.— We are glad to learn that
the direction of the Savannah and Charles
ton Railroad Company, at a meeting Satur
day evening, adopted measures to Insure an
almost immediate opening of daily inter
course by their road between Savannah and
our city.
The immediate cause of the delay to com
plete their road has been the overflow of
the swamps of the Savannah river obstruct
ing the contractors on the trestlework,
of which thirty-five hundred feet only is
unfinished.
The bridge over the river is complete. It
there is no new overflow of the swamps,
the work may be finished and the road
opened in less than ten days. But the
direction, to prevent all further delay,
which has already been so unfortunate to
them and disappointing to the public, have
ordered the immediate preparation of a
platform and landing place on the South
Carolina side of the rlter, at the bridge
seventeen miles by river from Savannan.
If, unfortunately, the water shall again rise,
they will then immediately put a good
steamboat on the river, to run between Sa
vannah and the bridge, to connect with the
trains between that point and Charleston,
about ninety miles. The passage time on
this way, will be abont six and one-half
hours, and be safe and comfortable.
[Charleston News.
Indicted.— Mr. John T. Ford was form
ally Indicted at Charleston on yesterday,
for refusing to mix white and colored peo
ple In the dress circle of the theatre. We
guess he can stand the pressure about as
long as his persecutors and prosecutors,