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THURSDAY MORNING. MAR. 3. 1870
BALM OF GILEAD.
The New York has always been
regarded as a sort of journalistic weather
cock. As such, It is very sensitive to the
popular breezes at the North, and trims its
vane to point, as far as tts prejudices per
mit, in the most favorable direction. Just
now there is considerable excitement, even
in the North, over the admission ofSena
tor ” Revels, who, though an Octoroon-
Choctaw,. is classified, in spite of natural
history, with the genuine defend iriee. The
Herald has this to say 90 the subject:
“ A great fuss has been made over the ad
mission of Revels, the colored map, as
United States Senator from the State of
Mississippi, ltis unquestionably an extra
ordinary revolution in our political and
social life to see a negro seated in that high
assembly of the republic. But there need
be no fear of the negroes coming in num
bers to Congress or into any other import
ant position. Occasionally an exceptional
case may be seen where some negro shows
uncommon talents and where the constitu
ency Is composed mostly of his race. The
white man—the man of the superior race
will always have the ascendancy. The
principle of’polltical equality and the rights
of all men to equal privileges or chances
being established, there WUf be nd desire to
elevate the colored man beyond the point
where nature has placed him. The morbid
pro-negro sentiment that grew out of the
war and the abolition agitation previously,
will die out now. It has nothing to feed
upon. The negro will take the place nature
has assigned him unded this republic, of
which nine-tenths or more are white people,
and we shall see' few of that race In Con
gress or occupying prominent political posi
tions. We recommend the old pro-Bouth
crn and pro-slavery Democrats, therefore,
to dry up their tears. Negroes will never
be our rulers.”
There were two paramount purposes to
be subserved in the admission of Revels,
the Choctaw. First-. A presumptive in
sult to the Southern whites in the dramat
ic occupation of Jefferson Davis’ seat by
a mongrel. Second: A tub for the negro
whale. A huge sacrifice of the sQ-called
dignity of the Senate in order to influence
the negro vote under the XVth Amend
ment.
How the unadulterated blacks can go
Into ecstasies over Revels’ new-fledged
honors, we cannot understand. Be Is but
a bogus negro, after all. He is a bob-tail
ed and mixed-up Representative of a pure
blooded stock—a sham, a humbug, a delu
sion and a snare. Until genuine black
men, like Rivers and Nash, of South Car
olina, or many nameless ones in Georgia,
shall have been admitted to Congress, it
will be folly to talk of negro rnie in the
National Councils, just as it is absurdity
for the thorough-bred freedmen to boast
that one of their race sits where Jeffer
son Davis sat.
The Herald indeed seems pretty well as"
sured that negroes will never come into Con
gress in great numbers and it attempts to
placate the Northern .people by this as
sumption. No doubt the Radicals fully in
tend to work the mulatto vein moderately,
in the hope of convincing the black men
that they are truly represented; and it is
believed by the leaders of the Republican
party that such men as Blodgett & Cos.,
can crack their whips and make the masses
of negro voters crawl to the sound of
the lash. But, presently, the black men
mav get tired of tj)h} fooling and push the
matter to a square issue. Again, there may
come a time when, another party will treat
with the freedmen so as to secure them all
of the Congressional districts, cadetships
and every outside office, in consideration of
the inside control of the Commonwealth by
white men.
For five years, more or less, the Herald
has been arguing the negro question _as a
defunct issue; but, in the most unexpected
way 6, the negro pops up, as Frankenstein’s
monster did, for the perpetual tormem
of his creator. We fear, alas, that the end
of this equal rights business will be such
as the Indian laments.- But the North
will be made very sick of its nostrum long
before the black man’s day .of disaster.
Personal.— Beast Butler has been
nominated for the Presidency. Que admir
ing spooney placed him far ahead of the
Bonapartes and Bismarck, and another
fanatic compared him favorably with Aris
tides.
The Rev. Mr. Whittemore has been lec
turing Sunday School children on the evils
of keeping bad company. He alluded to
himself as a striking illustration of his
text.
The Radicals are .making war bn the
President’s father and are inclined to reject
him as Postmaster at Covington, Ky. The
Democrats favor the old man’s confirma
tion.
Senator Warner, of Alabama, has gone
home on a visit— i. to Ohio, where he re
sides.
Beast Butler is reported as preparing
to stump Whittemore’s district for the re
election of his chum.
Southern people and papers are requested
to forward information concerning the ca
detship sales of their carpet-bag represent
atives. Will the §kowhegan «folks let us
know something about a. party by the
name of Prince ?
Chuckling. —The Washi ngton ßepublican
felicitates itself upon overturning Mary
land, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware
and possibly Kentucky by the coming
negro vote.. Though there will be 12,000
black voters in New York, the Republican
is not sanguine of success. We quote :
“We have but little expectation, how
ever, of overcoming the Democracy of New
York ; for they seem to have the means of
recovering that State, where they have a
city in which a single Irishman can cast
more ballots in a day than six white Re
publicans and four negroes. Wc give that
up.”*
That’s nice reading for Irishmen who
helped save the blessed Union' 1 by toting
muskets.
The Lobby’s Opinion.—A Washington
correspondent of the •Courier-Journal thus
writes of the cadetship matter:
“ A noted lobbyist, who knows more
44 about official corruption than any half
-44 dozen men in Washington, said to-day:
“ ‘ If they continue this investigation, there
“‘won’t be a quorum left in the House P
" Now this man has been In the business of
41 buying Congressmen, and speaks know
“ ingly on the subject. Another man of
44 the 6ame character also said that ‘several
44 of the men who are loudest in denounc
-44 lng Whittemore are the guiltiest of the
44 lot.” - 1 | _ * 5,1
The Latest Discoveries— Messrs. Vi
dal and Newsham, of Louisiana, and Ed
wards, of Georgia, are the latest discov
eries in the cadetship auction.
Dogmatic.—Somebody has written anew
song called 44 Shoo, Pwrp,” and dedicates it,
with the highest respect, to Ulysses I.
Bbtant aRd Blodgett. —The Hew Urals
Washington correspondent thus writes :
“ Bryant has failed to make the slightest
“ impression against the Hop. Foster Blod
« gett. While talking up the peijnry case
“ recently to a Congressman,he wss dutob
“ founded by the timely qu&y: ‘ Did yob
“ not defend Mr % BJojlgett ©9 the stump at
“one time against this charge!’ He was
“ forced to admit that he had done so/and
‘ forthwith subsided."
bu Val being met upon the
highway by Dick Turpin, was told to de
liver his money or his life. He saved both
by ejaculating: “What, brother' Turpin,
dog eat dog?"
Monstrous. —The immaculate Forney
chetik to declare ’that there is “ no
“ documeut of modern date more pro
“ nounced in its intense" hatred of State
“ rights than the last will and testament
“ of George Washington.”
After a while, we shall be told by Beast
Butler, or the Rev. Mr. Whittemork,
that there is no document of ancient date
more pronounced in its love of: devi 1-wqr-r
ship than the New Testament. ;ii
The Decline in Gold.— lt is supposed
that gold will very soon touch 110- When
this figure shall have been reached, it is
predicted that a panic in financial circles
will take place, much more disastrous than
the Fisk-Gould hurly-burly of Septem
ber last. There is no telling what the specu
lators may concoct, and bo telling what
the Government will do to help or damage
speculation. In our opinion, there will tie
a pronounced rebourkd from present prices
long before Specie payments are resumed.
West Point. —The old rats at West
Point are getting scared lest their supply
of national cheese should run short. Where
fore they are compiling statistics of loyalty
in the hope of squelching carpet-tiag Sena
tor Spencer’s resolution of abolishment..
It Is claimed that the average of loyalty at
West Point has. always been in favor of
that institution bv 52 per cent.
Noah on Ham. —ln that racy series of
papers, “ Down Among the Dead Men,” in
the Old Ghuard, for March, we find the fol
lowing about the veteran journalist, Major
Noah:
“ The Major,” as he was always called
by his friends, though always standing up
stoutly for the honor of his race, was not
very strict in the observance of the Hebrew
religion. Someone, nettled at something
he had said, spoke of.him as a “ pork-eating
Jew.” He laughed "when told of it. “I
don’t admire pork,” he said, “ but I plead
guilty to a weakness for its hind leg, when
all the Christian has been taken out of it
by salt and smoke and hanging. I know
that the first Noah cursed Bam, but he was
recovering from'a bad drunk at the time
Thereis no reasou why the last Noah should
do it without any provocation—especially
if the ham be juicy, and the Noah hungry.”
“ But Moses, Major—”
“ Oh, Moses was perfectly right, under
the circumstances. 1 doht suppose there
was a man in all Palestine who understood
how to cure a ham. Moses tells us we
mustn’t mar the corners of our beards, and
yet ninety-nine hundredths of the Jews
shave their chins as close as I do.”
And so the Major ate the ham, and took
the responsibility.
We once knew a rigid Israelite in Balti
more who, contrary to the Mosaic law, re
fused to abandon oysters. His defense was
very similar to that of Major Noah. He
. would say: “ Sir, the bivalves of the
“Judean seas are neither palatable nor
“ wholesome. Hence the interdict. But
“ had Moses dwelt on the shores of the
“ Chesapeake, he would never have fortiid
“ den this immortal, life-giving, brain-nour
“ ishlng food, never; never !”
And so, our friend, perfectly satisfied, in
his own conscience, indulged to the top of
his bent in fried, 6tewed, raw, broiled, scal
loped steamed, etc., etc.
Our New York Correspondence.
New York, February 25,1870.
I have endeavored to keep the readers of
the Constitutionalist advised of the.
struggle which has been going on within
the Democratic organization of this State,
between Tammany Hall and its opponents;
and in continuing the- subject, let me say
in advance that it appears to excite much
more interest at a distance from this city
than it does among our own people. Per
haps 44 ’tis distance lends enchantment ”
to the contest; or, perhaps, as in the case
of the great pyramid, distance is necessary
to a jnsf estimate of its colossal propor
tions. Lord Palmerston said, with refer
ence to the late war, when our own states
men, both North and South, believed it to
be nothing more than a ninety-day affair,
that ■“ the thirty years’ war was a joke to
it.” The sequel proved his sagacity, or the
more appreciative view which distance en
abled him to take.
I have felt called upon, in the course of
my correspondence for the Constitution
alist, to say some pretty severe things of
the Tammany Hall 44 ringand it has de
served them all. And lam constrained to
say now, that in its fall, it goes down under
its own weakness, vascillation, want / of
statesmanlike conception of principles,
and the absence of that devotion to
public good which the practice of cor
rect principles demand. Its leaders had
abundant opportunity to 44 string” their
opponents on their own hampers. All
that was required’ was courage to let go
what they held for the purpose of secur
ing the future; for the character of the
opposition to Tammany Hall has drawn
towards it much public sympathy. The
opposition to it is led by as three vile men
as can be found anywhere. Senator Mike
Norton, a notorious bnlly of the Eighth
Ward; Harry Gehet, more reckless than
vile, and not without ability; and Sheriff
O’Brien, are more dangerous than any
other three men in the country, unless we
go into the Radical party and take Ben
Butler, Dan Sickles and Parson Browniow;
aud these arc only more dangerous because
they handle more dangerous elements. That
trio, backed by some of the most respect
able elements of the city, Democratic as
well as Republican, appear to have 44 got
the better” of Tammany Hall. The reason
given by the more reputable politicians for
the aid they have given Norton, Genet and
O’Brien, is that embodied in the proverb,
Divide et impera , and that the disruption of
the Tammany Hall Ring is necessary to the
salvation and ultimate success of the Dem
ocratic party of the country. This is
probably true. The process that has been
gone through with is not unlike innocula
tion; the recognition of an evil which we
think we can control to ward off a greater
one. The situation, therefore, is not with
out hope; it even has its cheerful aspects.
The selection for the next Democratic
nominee for the Presidency enters largely
into the contest. The more prominent
politicians in the Anti-Tammany forces
are understood to favor the nomination of
John Quincy Adams, While Tammany Hall
favors with scarcely any reserve the nomi
nation of Governor Hoffman, of this State.
The present aspect of affairs is strongly in
favor of the former.
Ex-Secretary Seward having returned
from Mexico, is voted .the freedom of the
city, and is to be entertained at a public
dinner by the Common Council. He.re
turnsjust at the moment when it is reveal
ed that nis Alaska purchase—hii’ expendi
ture of over $7,000,000, in gold—is. costing
the Federal Government $500,000 yearly,
and that its valuable seal fisheries, which
reimburse the expenses, have fallen into the
hands of a pack of loyal thieves from Massa
chusetts.
We gre having severe weather. Yester
day, within three days dr‘the first of the
Spring months, was the first appearance of
ice iirconsiderable quantity in- onr haftfor.
The passage of? the ferry boats vras sOine
w^&fclrapeded'there. has been
done to {>* . Whiter crops..
The past week has been a breezy one in
commerclal'and financial circles ; the most
notable events having been the break in
gold to 116 and in cotton to 23J£c. The
first seems to have been caused by the ex
traordinary plethora of money in the prin
cipal monetary centres of Europe (a state
of things which always follows a period of
dull trade and unsuccessful speculation),
which caused the Federal bonds to be
sought for as investments and their price
to advance, besides checking the ex
port of gold,in consequence of European
creditors ordering their balances invested
hare. This is seen in the fact that our ex
ports of gold are very small.. The decline
in cotton was mainly due to the necessities
of parties who had • been operating for a
rise. They were called on by commission
houses, whfoji were “ carrying” cotton for
them, for “ more margins and being in
many cases unable to respond to these
calls, or having lost faith under the large
receipts at the ports, were unwilling to do
so, great quantities of cotton were forced
upon the market. Fortunately, shippers
had liberal orders to execute, and the de
cline brought them forward. Without the
demand from them to check the decline,
jt might not have been arrested at over
20c., to which figure some of the “ bears ”
affect to believe prices wilLultlmately fall.
Yesterday looked.as if the panic might be
over, but to-day, through mere stagnation,
the markets were very flat, at the lowest
figures of the season. Cotton seems to-day
without that export demand which is noted
above.
Outsiders will scarce credit the fact that
the larger proportion of the employees of
the immensely 'wealthy corporation of
Trinity Parish arewso miserably paid that
the discontent among them has reached
sftbh apointf that a strike among them has
been near taking place. All are ill paid
save a few dignitaries, who living a well
paid life of ease a"nd. clothed in purple and
fine linen, look without sympathy upon
those who, though closely connected with
them, are needy and but scantily provided
for. Foremost .among the fortunate is Dr.
Dix, who in addition to a handsome par
sonage adorned with every luxury, enjoys
a salary of $12,000 per annum; and ranking
next after him, Dr. Francis Vinton, Dr.
Haight and Dr. Weston live comfortably
upon SIO,OOO a year each. In striking con
trast with these are other clergymen on
whom the real labor falls, the clergymen
who preach and pray, who baptize, visit
the poor, agd minister to the sick, and who
iu return receive such pitifttl salaries that
several have been obliged to seek a liveli
hood elsewhere, as in the service of Trinity
they were destitute of the means where
with to procure the common comfortß of
life. A more numerous class than these,
however, are the organists, singers and
teachers of the different-charity schools be
longing to Trinity, and in regard to which
so fair a show is made. Os these schools
there are five, the average attendance of
which is about six hundred scholars, and
to each of which is attached a principal
and assistants who are on duty from six to
eight hours a day, and who in return re
ceive, the principal SI,OOO and the assist
ants from SSOO to S6OO per annum, and this
for the most arduous and fatiguing labor,
and especially in connection with which
the enormons cost of living in New York
must be taken into consideration.
Some time ago, the salaries of the or
ganists were advanced from SI,OOO a year
to $1,500, but this was forced from the ves
try only after the publication of a pamphlet
in which some facts not altogether agreeable
were set forth, in consequence of which a
hasty increase of annual payment was or
dered, and the obnoxious pamphlet sup
pressed. It has been said that very re
cently the salaries of the organists have
been still farther added to.
The gentlemen who control the vast
property of Trinity, and iu whose hands are
its revenues, are twenty-three in number,
and hold their meetings in the vestry of
Trinity Chapel in a richly furnished apart
ment, on the walls of which, on patented
rollers, are maps of the six hundred valu
able houses and lots owned by the corpora
tion. A majority of these have hitherto
refused to advance the salaries of the
teachers, but as we said above the latter
being on the eve of a strike, better things
may be hoped for.
The Italian opera has dwindled away
gradually, and is coming to a premature
end after a season as fluctuating and de
pressing as have been all attempts of a like
kind for some years past, nos is it likely
that in the immediate future things will
be more prosperous. It is la the power of
the stockholders of the Academy of Music
to raise up the prostrate fortunes of the
Lyric drama by surrendering their right to
the three hundred best seats, a right, the
practical .effect of which is to increase th'*.
rent nightly to the amount of $450, but they
seem incapable of a genorous policy sucii
as this, and prefer to cling to that which
seems to yield them some immediate good,
a good which, is more apparent than real
perhaps, as by this heavy burden their
rights of property In the Academy are most
seriously injured. There is another way
also in which this right of the stockholders
is most injurious, and it is this. On ordi
nary occasions two-thirds of them are ab
sent, and of these but few sending persons
to fill their places, the consequence is that
about one hundred of the best seats and the
most conspicuous are vacant and the de
pressing effect of this is obvious, for the
opera being more dependent than any other
amusement on a whim of fashion, and a
majority of the audience being more in
fluenced by the sight of a well dressed
crowd than by any love of art, on these a
row of vacant seats in the front is more
damaging to the manager than the severest
criticism. Der Freischwtz was given on
Tuesday by the Arion Society, at the Acad
emy of Music, and on this occasion the
bold step was taken of inviting the great
est professional singer of America, Mad.
Parepa Rosa, to assutnp the character of
Agatha. The inVitation was not declined,
and on the appointed night Mad. Rosa
made her appearance, having traveled from
Baltimore, where she had sung in opera,
the night before, and having gone almost
immediately from the cars to the Academy,
bnt despite this her voice was fresh and re
sonant as ever, her vocalization as beauti
fully delicate, and her tones as full ad ever.
Her Agatha was in every way most excel
lent. • *
Among our minor theatres no less than
three have become bankrupt this week—a
fact which forcibly illustrates the “ hard
times” prevailing among the middle
classes. * Willoughby.
T. C. DeLeon, Esq.—When our friend
Cooper DeLeon retired from the position
of Managing Editor of the Mobile Register,
the country lost for a time the services of
one of the most brilliant and versatile liter
ateurs of the day. It gratifies us to know
that his pen will soon be called to severer
work, than a trevustie of Hamlet, which is
pronounced by competent critics the very
best burlesque of the day, for we learn that
he will shortly accept one of the many in
vitations again to don editorial harness.—
That our estimate 6f Mr. DeLeon’s talents
is not wholly prompted by a partial feeling
and admonition for the man,, we reproduce
the opinion of the Boston Courier, one of
the ablest and best journals in this country.
That paper says:
“The Mobile Register.— During the
past year or more, we have had occasion to
mention the above named paper in terms of
high commendation. It has compared with
any paper published in the United States
for the really wonderful amount and va
rious interest of its matter. Daring this
period, its fftanaging editor has. been Mr.
T. C. DeLeon, whose retirement from his
announced bjr him in a late
number, Had must be a source of sfneere re
gret to all its readers.”
After copying several complimentary no
tices, the Courier adds: .J •
“To these complimentary notices to Mr.
Deleon, we can heartily respond from our
own personal acquaintance with Mm and
his varied literary accomplishments; and
such a reputation is of great value, in the
interests of journalism, which is an ele
ment of such immense importance i
lic affairs. . A gentleman of such brilliant
diversified talents as those of Mr. DeLeon
woqM be a great acquisition to the best
conducted journal.” —Columbus Sun.
The Lynchburg Republican sayß that the
health of Ray. Bishop Early has so far im
proved that he is enabled to move about
the,house', and the prospect of his efitire re
covery seems, favorable.
A negro woman on Carter’s creek, in
Maury county, Tenm. aged thirty-nine
years, is the mother Os twenty-six children.
Her ybungfest, lately bottii are twins, which
makefdar cbildren barn within the space
of eleven months.
Simmenthat.
BY FREDBBIC W. H. MTBRS. *
F»r off the old snows ever new, ’
-With silver edges cleft the bine.
Aloft, alone, divine; ‘
The snnny meadows silent slept,
Silence the sombre armies kept,
The vanguard of the pine.
In that thin air the birds are still,
No ringdove murmurs on the hiS,
Nor mating cushat calls;
But gay cicalas singing sprang,
And waters from the'iorest sang
The song of waterfalls.
O, Fate I a few enchanted hours
Beneath the furs, among the flowers,
High on the lawn we lay,
Then turned again, contented well,"
While bright about us flamed and fell
The rapture of the day.
And soltly, with a guileless awe,
Beyond the purple lake she saw
The embattled summits glow; i
She saw the glories melt iu one, ♦
The’round moon rise, while yet the sen
Was rosy on the snow.
Then, like a newly-3lngjug bird,
The child's soul in her bosom t
I know nbt what she sung; I '
Because the soft wind caught her hair,
* Because the golden moon was fair,
Because her heart was young, <
I would her sweet soul ever may
Look thus from those glad eyes and gray,
Unfearlna, undeflled;
I love her ; when her face I see,
Her rimplepresence wakes in me
The imperishable child.
General Items.
Spotted; fever and meningitis have ap
peared in Mobile.
The late frost did not
crop in Florida.
In New York, last week, French Opera
Bouffe, the Italian Opera and *he Tam
many Amusement Theatre were forced to
suspend for want of patronage.
A fire occurred iu Galveston Wednesday
night, which destroyed goods valued at
$1,000,000. Many of the houses were O!
but little value, but contained large stocks.
A Texas paper reports that ex-tlon fed
erate Postmaster General Reagan has writ
ten and published a letter in which he
“ approves of Radicalism in all its parts.”
The next session of the General Confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South is appointed to begin in Memphis on
Sunday, May Ist.
The Montgomery City Council has ap-.
propriated five hundred dollars for the
benefit of the Alabama State Medical Con
vention, which will meet in that city on
the second Monday in March.
Winchester, a hospitable and truly Vir
ginian town, during the war changed hands
eighty-seven times; sometimes as many as
three times in a single day. Even wjth.
this experience no population inthe'Sfcite
continued more devoted to its traditions
and its time-honored customs. -
Spanish mackerel, pompaho, flounders
and sheephead are beginning to be very
plentiful in the Mobile markets, and they
can be bought for six or eight cents per
pound. These fish are the finest in th;
world, and Mobile has, to a certain extent,
a monopoly of them.
A schooner loaded with bogs sailed last
week from Lavaca, Texas, to Mobile. The
Commercial says : “ Large shipments of fa.,
hogs have recently been made from this
city. There are five steam beef rendering
establishments owned here, at which sev
eral thousand head of hogs are fattened. —
This business has sprung up within the.
last twelve months, and is the mott profit
able in the State.”
Many farmers in Hernando, Sumter, Ma
rion, Alachua, and other counties in Flori
da, have abandoned the planting of long or
Sea Island cotton. Short or upland cotton
will be extensively planted this year.—
They argue that by planting short cotton
they will be* able to least half 1:
crop before the
ance, and that this Is much better than
they have done in planting long cotton foi
the past two or three years.
There is a negro in Holly Sprin"?, Mi 66.,
whose only riame is Charles KnJwWilltaiai
Augustus Cox, and he refuse! to be ee;
free. He was owned before the war by W.
H. Cox, Esq., and has been sold twice since
the war, and still ignores Lincoln’s email
cipation proclamation. BS* .;e6§;J3bf think
he is as goocf as a white man, but takes no
notice of common negroes, and won’t lx
set free.
A negro woman, named Aunt Bettie, but
known familiarly as “Granny,” died re
cently near Columbia, Tenn., on the farn
of Ira Hardison. She was bom in Vir
ginia, January 14,1770, and was,therefor:,
one hundred years and twenty-three day:
old when she died. In 1866, another negro
woman, in the same neighborhood, on the
farm of Mr. Humphrey Hardison, named
Aunt Gracy, died, being considerably more
than a hundred years old. There is still
one left, who lives near the farm of Col. W.
J. Sowell, now about 114 years old. j
The True Story of the Dorg. —The
Cincinnati Enquirer tells the story of “ th«
dorg ” as follows:
When R. W. Clark, having been appoint
ed Supervisor of Internal Revenue, came
to Cincinnati, he determiiied to decapitate
two collectors, named, respectively,Julian
and Weitzel. These persons were wily
enough to seek to retain their offfocs by ap
peasing powers higher even than the Su
pervisor. They knew the natural Presk
dential partiality for presents; that he
loved animals, and that nobody had yet
given him a dog. A messenger was dis
patched to Clermont county, the ancestral
seat of the Grants, and there, for the tri
fling sum of $1 80, purchased a dog which,
when the general was a tanner, was inti
mate with him, and used to sport amid the
bark of the tan yard. This beast was 87
years old, “ lunk-headed, bow-legged, snag
gle-toothed and mangy.” Its temperament
was rather satnrnine for a canine; it was
reticent, never made a speech, barked only
when kicked, liked the scent of tobacco,
and never fought save when the numerical
odds vyere in its favor. Jesse was called to
examine it, and liked it well, yet suggested
that it should be sent to his son with ex
press charges prepaid. Money was scarce
in the pockets of the collectors, and ip au
evil hour for them they sent the present,
C. O. D., and, of course, it was refused.—
The collectors fear that they will be dis
missed, and we cannot but regard the En
quirer's expose of them as a base piece of
spiteful malice for some real or fancied
wrong.
Trial of the Belligerent Blondes
nr Chicago.—’The trial of Lydia Thompson
and a portion of her troupe of blondes took
place Friday morning, at the Armory, i n
the presence of an immense audience, em
bracing all classes. When the blondes
made tlieir appearance, they were received
with hearty cheers. Mr. Storey, when he
made his appearance, was greeted with
hisses, mingled with cheers. John Lyle
King and John Van appeared as coangel for
the blondes. Mr. Storey employed no coun
. sel. After the examination of quite a num
ber of witnesses on both sides, in which
were detailed all the facts of the feowhiding,
Justice Summerfleld imposed a fine of one
hundred dollars each on Lydia Thompson,
Pauline Markham and Mr. Henderson, and
ten dollars each on Archy Jordon and E.
W. Eldridgc. The fines were paid.
Friday afternoon, just before the com
mencement of the matinee, the Lydia
Thompson Troupe were again arrested, at
the instigation of Mr. Storey, charging
them with riot. This rendered ij; necessary
to abandon the matinee performance. At
2 o’clock Misses Thompson and'Markham,
and Messrs. Hendprsoq, Gordon and El
drldge, and a number of witnesses were,’call
ed, who testified to the same facts as pre
viously. The court held the prisoners in
five hundred dollars each to appear before
the Recorder’s Coart.
- Air-Line Railroad.—We past last week
along the line of this road, and were ex
ceedingly gratified to note the rapid pro
gress being made in thb wdfk of construc
tion. We learned that the heavy rock-cuts
near Peachtree creek, which hava been for
some time impending the work on the first
sectiop, have been finished, and the laying
of the tract resumed, and vftjl be pushed
forward until this section Is completed.
Officers gnd contractors are wor®ng with
the utmost energy, and everything aueurs
its early completion to this point
{Air-Line Eagle, 25/A ult.
State Items.
One planter of Washington county will
use 600 tops Os guano this season.
The post office at Sugar Hill, eight miles
from Gainesville, has been re established,
and H. H. Thomas appointed postmaster.
The people of Macon are discussing the
project of erecting a monument to the
memory of Mr. Simri Rose.
Mr. Dolphin Mills, an old and rained
citizen of Washington county, died in Mil
ledgeville, whither he had gone for medical
treatment, a few days since.
Col. W. D. Young, of Gadsden', Ala., died
in that place on Wednesday last from the
effects of a fall received the night before.
while going to his boarding house. Col.
Young was a member of the Cherokee Ma
sonic Aid Association of Rome.
The Monroe Advertiser chronicles the
dgath of Mr. Rolin Jackson, one of the old
est citizens of Pike county, which took
place on the 23d hit. Mr. Jackson was one
of the first settlers of Pike, and at the time
of blsideath was 85 years of age.
The Griffin Star relates of a lad attending
the Male Institute in that place who works
at nights and Saturdays and pays his
hoard and tuition. He'always has his
lessons perfectly. He Hses neither whisky,
tobacco, cards nor profane language. With
this schedule, it is not difficult to predict a
bright future for.that youths He is worth}'
of emulation in other localities.
The Albany News says a corps of en
gineers are preparing for the survey of the
line of the Brunswick and Albany Railroad
to Eufaula. Three lines will be run—the
first to Dawson, another to Cuthbert, and
a third to a point south of Cuthbert—per
haps the junction. There are now three
full corps of engineers on this line, between
Wnresboro and Eufaula.
The Columbus Sun reports the death of
Mrs. Bennett, probably 80 years of age.—
Most of her life was spent in Columbus.
Her husbaud, Micajah Beuuett, was a me
chanic, and built, perhaps, the first frame
house in Columbus. She was the mother
of Mrs. R. R. Goetchins, of Columbus, and
of Capt. Billy Bennett, formerly commissa
ry of the 17th Georgia regiment, who died
in that city last year.
A Library ancl Historical Association
has been organized in Rome, with Col. J.
A. Stewart as President. Vice-Presidents
—Dr. J. G. Yeiser, Joel R. Branham, Esq,
Judge D. M. Hood, Capt. A. B. S. Mosely,
Capt. H. A. Gartrell, M. A. Neviu, Esq.,
Henry Norton, Esq., ft. A. Wright, Esq,
Henry W. Grady, H. D. Cothran, Esq
Wm. P. Noble, Archer Griffeth. Secretary
—Col. Tom Alexander. Treasurer—Major
W. P. Ayer. Corresponding Secretary—
Dr. E. D. Newton. Librarian—Charley
Fort.
! Whitblet Once a Factory Boy in
I Augusta. —The Bainbridge Sun , in un
j earthing the antecedents of R. H. Whitoley,
| recently elected United States Senator by
j the Atlanta Agency, gives the following,
| which we reproduce, not however, with
any particular feelings of pride that the
subject of the sketch began his career as a
factory boy in this city. By count, An
; gusta has already contributed her full
quota of characters of that ilk, without
feelina any emotions of pleasure in new
discoveries in* that direction. The an
nouncement will scarcely be hailed with
lively demonstrations of joy. The Sun
says :
R. H. Whiteley was born in Ireland, of
good parents, and consequently had no ad
vantages save those with which nature had
endowed him. When quite youug, he em
barked for the United States in search of
employment, and wc first notice him as a
factory boy in Augusta, Ga. From thence
he went to work in the factory at Athens
While in Athens, Mr. Ira Sanborn—now
deceased—persauded him to remove to De
catur county by giving him employment in
the Faceville Factory, located some twelve
miles from our city. It appears that he
rapidly gained favor with manufacturers,
for we next find him as superintendent of
the mills ol' the old Bainbridge Manufac
turing Company of ante bcUum timed.—
This companyvvas the last with which he
was attached.
While with the Bainbridge Manufactur
ing Company he completed the study o '
law and was admitted to the bar In this
city. This was some time before the war.
Politically, then, he was a Democrat, and
favored the election of Breckinridge and
Lane. He supported and voted for seces
sion ; and when war was declared he volun
teered in theseeond company which left this
city, and departed for the scenes of action
in the capacity of a private soldier. This
company was attached to the sth Georgia
regiment.
Asa true and gallant soldier, he was un
equaled, and the close of the war found him
a major of sharpshooters in the noble army
of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston.
The Poems of George D. Prentice
Os this projected publication the Louisville
Courier-Journal says:
We announced some time ago that Col.
Clarence Prentice was making a collection
of the poems of his father, the late George
D. Prentice. The plan of the proposed
publication is to include a life of Mr. Pren
tice, composed of contributions from his
most intimate friends, as well as a compila
tion of his poems. Mr. John G. Whittier,
Mr; Rufus Prentice, Dr. T. S. Bell, Mr.
Fortunatus Cosby, Mr. Paul R. Shipman,
and Mr. Henry Watterson are to contrib
ute papers upon different btographical,
literary, political and professional 'points
in the career, of the dead journalist. The
volume will be issued as early as possible,
andean hardly fail to be a valuable addi
tion Jto the history of the times in which
Mr. Prentice lived.
Destructive Fire in Marion, South
Carolina. —A special dispatch to the
Charleston News, from Marion Court House,
under date of the Ist, says :
Our village has been devastated by a ter
rible Are. Last night, at half-past 11
o’clock, the flames broke out in a store oc
cupied by H. Clark, and, in spite of all
efforts to check the speed of the conflagra
tion, in the course of a few hours no less
than thirteen houses, in the business centre
of the village, were consumed. The loss is
variously estimated at from $25,000 to
$40,000.
The Columbia Canal.— The Columbia
(S. C.) correspondent of the Charleston
Nem, under date..of Monday, writes :
The bill to amend the act authorizing the
sale of the Columbia Canal, empowering
the purchasers to widen and deepen the
canal, provided also that work upon it
should be commenced before the first of
March. In order to fulfill this provision of
the bill, Colonel Pearce instructed Senator
W. R. Hoyt to commence operations to
day, which was done with a small gang of
workmen, near the foot of Senate street.
The necessary tools for widening and deep
ening the canal have been sent for, and the
work will be steadily prosecuted until it is
completed.
Florida Being Sold Out.— The Florida
Independent publishes eight columns of
Alachua sheriff sales, while the Fernandina
Island Oily publishes some two columns of
closely printed sheriff and tax collector’s
sales. Another year or two of Radical rule
in Florida will put the best part of the real
estate In Florida to the block. That un
principled cormorant, Littlefield, having,
through his railroad scheme and the' brib
ing of the negro legislators of North Caro
lina and Florida, nearly, if not quite bank
rupted both States, will, we suppose, be on
hand to divide the plunder of our State
Road with Bullock and his banditti, when
the purified Legislature re-assembles. Will
not some of our North Carolina cotem
poraries furnish the country with'a history
of the carpet-bag adventurer, Littlefield,
and kisawindling operations P He is either
most terribly belied, or he is a great rogue.
[Savannah News. ,
Since the Okolona (Miss.) Immigration
Society have introduced white labor into
their county land has risen ip value to a
very high figure,, In. some places it is
worth from eight to thirty dollars per acre.
Six hundred Danes and Swedes have been
Imported to that one county, and so far
they give great satisfaction.
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WASHINGTON.
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Washington, March : 8-—Noon.—-The 1
Election Committee -wilt vote on Seg&r to
morrow.
The snb committee on the Louisiana elec
tion will rejfort to-morrow. f
The House is considering the Little Rock
Railroad.
The Senate considered railroads. ‘
The disability bill still hangs in the Sen
ate, Sumner haring renewed the motion to
reconsider, which Mr. Wilson withdrew.
The impression is strong that the Senate
will confirm Bradley.
Washington, March 2—P. M. —Revenue
to-day, 1720,000.
The Committee on Printing have com
menced investigating the charges against
Public Printer Clapp.
It is presumed in navy circles that Some
other vessel than the Bombay struck the
Oneida and that both went down.
Butler will press the Georgia bill as soon
as the Indian appropriation bill is over.
Bullock addressed the Senate J ndlciary
Committee this morning.
The President to-day nominated Charles
H. Lewis, of Virginia, Minister Resident to
Portugal.
The Senate confirmed Haynes B. Hudson
as Attorney of the Western District of Ten
nessee; John Eaton, for Tennessee Com
missioner of Edncatlon; Armisted Burwell,
Attorney for the Southern District Os Mis
sissippi ; William Hyatt, Receiver of Public
Money at New Orleans; Henry E. Myers,
Register of Land Office at Natchitoches ;
Charles H. Prince Postmaster at
Ga.; Herman N. Wilson, Consul at Mat&-
moras.
Last Monday, the Senate being in execu
tive session* on motion of Sumner, the
doors were opened for a moment, and dur
ing this unnoticed opened session of about
a minute, he entered a motion to rccon
elder the vote on the passage of the so-<!ail
ed omnibus disability bill, and that motion
is still pending. . The motive assigned for
this action is to reach the. case of ex-Sena
tor Clingman, who is among the number
whose disabilities are to be removed by this
bill.
Whittemore says his friends in South
Carolina have arranged for a series of pub
lic meetings in his district, which will be
addressed by him in vindication of his con
duct iu the disposal of the cadetship. The
object is to arrange for his re-election to
Congress.
The Senate, in executive session, post
poned till the 21st inst. the nomination of
Bradley, as Associate Justice of the Su
preme Court, by a vote of 30 to 26. This
gives time for the passage of anew law.
which will give Louisiana, Texas and Mis
sissippi a Judge resident within the dis
trict. Kellogg took-prominent part in de
feating-tbe confirmation.
The Judiciary Committee’s report states
ia effect that the Georgia Legislature of
1868 was legal; that the government then
ofganized was permanent; that the recent
reorganization of the Legislature was un
warranted by law: Ist. In the control and
direction of its proceedings by Harris
2d. In the exclusion from taking the oaths
and from seats of three members elect
who offered to swear in. 3d. In the seating
of the persons not having a majority of the
votes of the election. The committee feel
justified in omitting to recommend any
further legislation.
In the Senate a resolution was introduced
and laid over for future consideration, re
quiring the President to commuhicate
whether any measure had been taken to
suppress the slave traffic on the coast of
Africa. ~
The funding bill was discussed, Sum
ner, in a long printed speech, dissenting
from the views of the Finance Committee
in regard to the nature of the bond in
which the debt should be funded.
In the House, the Indian appropriation
bill was up, concerning treaties. Batjer
said that since the passage of the XVth
amendment all were unconstitutional and
void.
VIRGINIA.
Richmond, March 2 —John L. Marye, Jr.,
was elected Lieut. Governor, and W. H. Ruft
ner, Superintendent of Public Education.
The Republicans refused to vote in the case
of Lieut. Governor, claiming the election
as unconstitutional.
Thos. W. Roche, convicted of dealing in
counterfeit tobacco stamps, was to-day
sentenced, to the Albany penitentiary for
one year.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Raleigh, March 2.—A bill repealing all
acts of the Legislature authorizing special
tax on bonds or requiring taxes to be levied
to pay the interest on these bonds has pass
ed by a large majority. The House of Rep
resentatives, by a large majority, has re
fused to provide for any interest on either
old or new bonds.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Columbia, March 2.—The South Carolina
Legislature adjourned last night. The bill
to authorize investment of trust funds in
State bonds become a law. A proposition
•was also made to pay the interest on the
State debt iu gold.
NEW YORK
New York, March 2.—Edwards whipped
Collier in forty-five minutes. Collier was
knocked out of time on thq forty-first round.
CALIFORNIA.
San Francisco, March 2.— The passen
gers, crew, baggage and treasure of the
Grolden City, totally lost near Point Bt.
Louis, were saved.
FOREIGN.
London, March 2.—Fifty-six of the officers
and crew Os the Oneida have been picked
up by the Bombay’s boats.
Another account:
Yokohama, January SI, via San Francisco,
March I.—The most terrible accident and
horrible exhibition of inhumanity known
in the East occurred about twenty miles
down this coast ah half-past six o’clock on
the evening of January 24. The United
States steamer Oneida, homeward bound,
collided with the British Peninsular find
Oriental Iron mail steamer Bombay, Cap
tain Arthur Wells Byere. The Bombay
struck the Oneida oh her starboard quarter,
carrying away her poop deck, cutting off
her whole stern and running one Os her
timbers entirely through the bows of the
Bombay at water line. Three times the
Oneida hailed the Bombay with “ship ahoy,”
“stand by” and “you’ve cut us down,”
blew her whistle, fired her guns, all of
which the officers of the Bombay say they
did not hear, although guns were distinctly
heard at this port, twenty miles away.
The Oneida went down stern foremost in
about twenty fathoms of water, with twenty
officers and fifty men. The captain of the
Bombay did not stop to rescue those on
board, nor did he, upon his arrival here, re
port the accident or inform the authorities.
The first known of the disaster was the next
morning, when Dr. Snddards, surgeon, with
fifteen of the crew, arrived here on foot.
Only two cutters were available, and the
officers, almost to a man, refused to take
them while a man remained oh board.
Lord Rosesdale’s bill to amend the Irish
Church laws passed to a second reading.
Gladstone opposes the bill to aid emigra
tion. The bill was defeated by 46 to 158.
Much indignation was felt overthe Sadler
and Heath boat race yesterday, though the
result Whs pre-arranged, for betting pur
poses.
Berlin, March 2.—Bismarck, in a long
speech, opposed the abolition of death pen
alties The Reiclisrath, notwithstanding,
voted for the abolition by , thirty-seven ma
jority.
AMSTERDAM, March B.—The Bank of Hoi
and has reduced interest to four per cent.
Underwriters still accept risks on the
citv of Boston at fifty per cent.
' Paris, March' 2.—Later news from Para
guay states that Lopez, though somewhat
weakened by desertions, Still holds his
grdtifid against the AHieS;
MVNidfl, March 8.-i-Conat BraybCti is
forming a 1 beW Oabihes., . ; ; n 7, •
Rome, March S.-Pef the first time since
1850, the police pefriUit masks at the carni
val. no'mi
Weather unfavorable.
Havana, March 2.—The insurgent Gen
eral Napoleon Avengo, who originated the
rebellion ip the Central Department, has
jvdlfiWarily huVrendered to the authorities
at Las Minas, with seventy men. He pro
mises to come to Havana to confer wit*
the Captain. General as to the best means
of ending the insurrection without further
bloodshed.
The -rebels have burned some more
houses at Incaro.
A special to the Herald; from Havana,
February 26, via Key West, March 1, says:
“ A letter from Santiago de Cuba, dated
February 18* gives the following account
of the trial and execution-, of a number of
the Cuban Junta of that cRy:
“Eighteen well known citizens, charged
iwitli belonging to the Cuban Junta, were
arrested and taken to an obscure place, at
San Juan, fifteen miles from this efty.
'where they were tried by courfrmartfal
and convicted of treason and sentenced to
death. They were not allowed assistance
of counsel or the privilege of summoning
[witnesses to their defense. They were all
executed soon after their trial. Among
them were two Americans, namely, John
Frances Partronda and Chas. Dannery, a
native of the United States.”
MARINE NEWS. .
Fortress Monroe, March 2.—Passed
out: Brig Eudoras, for Brunswick, Ga.; schr
Gertee Lews, West Indies; - brig Harriet,
from Mayagueyz spoke on the 27th ; brig S.
'and W. Welch from Trinidad for Phila
delphia,with foremasthead carried away ;
parsed out: bark E. B. Hoves, for Liver
pool.
Wilmington, March 2—Arrived: Steam
ship Gary, from Baltimore.
Sailed: Steamship Pioneer, for Philadel
phia.
MARKETS.
London, March 2 —Noon.—Consols, 92%.
Bonds, 91%. Tallow, 465.
London, March 2—Evening.—Consols.
93%093%. 162 Bonds, 90%.
Liverpool, March 2—-Noon.—Cotton
dull ; uplands, 11%®11%; Orleans, 11%;
sales, 10,000 balep. Breadstuff's quiet.
Liverpool, March 2—Evening.—Cotton
closed irregular; uplands, 11%@11%; Or
leans, 11%; sales, 10,000 bales ; export and
speculation, 2,000 bales.
Paris, March 2.—Bourse opened firm.
Rentes, 74f. 27c.
New York, March 2—Noon.—Stocks
steady and firmer. Money easy at 5(36
Exchange—long, 8%; short, 9%. Gold,
116%. r 62’s, coupon, 14 ; Tenncssees, ex
coupon, 66; new, 45%; Virginias, ex cou
pon, 67; new, 67; Louisiana Sixes, old, 72:
Levee Sixes, 71%; Eights, 81; Alabama
Eights, 94; Fives, 63; Georgia Sixes, 82%;
Sevens, 92; North Carolinas, old, 46; new,
24% ; South Carolinas, old, 87; new, 80.
New York, March 2—P. M.— Money
easy at 5(36; discount steady at 7(38. Ex
change heavy ; very little demand at 8%.
Cotton Bills, 7%08%. Gold quiet and
steady at 115%. Ws, 13% ; Southerns
dull.
New York, March 2—Noon.—Flour
rather more steady. Wheat quiet and un
changed. Corn steady. Pork firm ; mess,
$26. Lard quiet at 14%®14%. Cotton
easier at 23%. Turpentine lower at -44%.
Roslu drooping at $2 0502 10 for strained.
Freights dull.
New York, March 2— P. M.—Cotton
lower; sales, 5,800 bales; uplands, 23.
Flour more steady; good to choice South
ern, $6 1509 75. Wheat closed lc. lower.
New Corn firm; old dull. Pork, S2BO
36 25. Lard firmer; kettle, 15@16%.
Whisky unchanged. Naval Stores heavy.
Baltimore, March 2.—Cotton dull at
22%. Flour quiet and unchanged ; How
ard street superfine, $4 7505.; do. ex
tra, $5 2506; do. family, $6 2507. Wheat
firm; Pennsylvania, $1 2401 26. Cqrn
firm; white, 93095; yellow, 93. Pork
quiet at $27 50. Bacon quiet; rib sides,
15%@15% ; clear sides, 16. Lard quiet at
16%. Whisky dull at slOl 01. Virginia
G’s, old, 53 bid, 54 asked; do. 1860, 6'1%
bid, 65 asked; do. 1867, 58 asked; North
Carolina, new, 22 bid.
Cincinnati, March 2.—Whisky drooping
at 94094%. Pork firm at $27. Lard dull
at 14015.
Louisville, March 2.—Pork, $27 50.
Lard, tlerCe, 16; keg, 17. Whisky, raw,
85096.
Wilmington, March 2. —Spirits of Tur
pentine quiet at 42. Rosin quiet and steady
at $1 55 for strained. Crude Turpentine
steady at $1 6502 80. Tar steady at $2.
Cotton dull and heavy at 20%®21%.
New Orleans, March 2.— Cotton quiet
ancl weak; middling 22%®22%; net re
ceipts, 2,323 bales; coastwise, 151 bales;
total, 2,474 bales; exports coastwise, 741
bales; sales, 6,000 bales; stock, 257,010
Savannah, March 2. —Cotton—factors
meeting demands; good business done;
middlings, 21% ; receipts, 1,184 bales; ex
ports coastwise, 1,489 bales; sales, 1,700
bales;-stock, 61,764 bales.
Charleston, Marcli 2. —Cotton dull and
but little doing; middling, 23; receipts,
509 bales; exports—to Great Britain, 2,101
bales; coastwise, 324 bales; sales, 100
bales; stock, 2,052 bales.
• Augusta Daily Market.
Office Daily Constitutionalist, j
Wednesday, March 2—l*. Vs. \
FINANCIAL
GOLD —Buying at 115 and selling at 118.
SlLVEß—Buying at 115 and selling at 117.
BONDS—City Bonds, 81@83.
STOCKS—Georgia Railroad. 105.
COTTON —The market opened with a lair de
mand at 21c. for middling, bat in response to
decline In gold in New York, and accounts
coming Irregular, closed quiet at 20%. Bales,
725 bales. Receipts, 244 bales.
BACON—Fair demand. We quote C. Sides,
19019%; G. R. Sides, 18%@19; B. B. Sides,
18% ; Shoulders, 15%; Hams, 21@28; Dry
Balt Shoulders, 18@18%; Dry Salt C. R. Sides,
17017%.
CORN—In good demand, and is selling at
$1 30@1 35 from depot.
WHEAT—We quote choice white, fl 55;
amber, fl 50 ;red, fl 45.
FLOUR—City Mills, now, f6 50@9 00; at
retail, fl $ barrel higher. Country, f6®9,
according to quality.
CORN MEAL—f 1 40 at wholesale; f 1 50 at
retail.
OATB—Bs@fl 25.
PEAS—Scarce at fl 60.
Tobacco Brokers.— Commissioner De
lano decided on Thursday that persons who
never ship leaf tobacco, but who buy and
ship as they receive orders from other per
sons abroad, and not themselves having
any ownership of property invested, and re
ceiving only the usual commission on such
purchase and sales, are not liable to the
special tax imposed upon dealers in leaf
tobacco;but that they will be liable to
taxes as produce brokers. Persons, how
ever, who acquire ownership in the prop
erty, and who ship and sell, through agents,
On their own account, are liable, as dealers
in leaf tobacco, to a tax of $25.
Ravages of Meningitis in Coffee
Countv.— The Savannah Republican pub
lishes the following letter received in that
city on Tuesday night:
Thomasvtlle, Ga., Feb. 28.
Dear Sir: I have just returned from
Coffee county, where the disease known as
meningitis is raging most fearfully. One
hundred and fifteen persons have already
died, and the number of those now suffering
is fearful. Out of a family of nine persons
eight have died. Can you not send us some
assistance from the number of physicians
in your city? There were two physicians
in the county, and they have both left. We
neeiLhelp an 4 mast have it. The people
look upon it as an epidemic, and many fam
ilies are leaving.
The Chinese Coming.— The Savannah
Republican publishes the following note
from a reliable city correspondent:
Savannah, Match 1,1870.
Editor Savannah Republican:
Sir : t learn frqm a friend In Hong Kong,
under date of the 11th of January, that two
Southern gentlemen, Messrs. Gift and Wil-.
liams, were then there making arrange*
ments to send one. thousaud Chinese to
Savannah and, New Orleans.
ily correspondent adds that these, gentle
men found no difficulty, in engaging the
Chinese. He does not, however, specify the
1 terms of their contracts.
A New Industrial Journal The
1 ethnologist Is the title of anew Industrial
Journal, devoted to Engineering, Manufee
itorin’g, and Building, that comes to us
freighted with valuabTe" articles; The dis-
feature of this Jonral is the fact •
that all the articles and Illustrations are
original—no‘ clippings' or old engravings
being died. The publishers hirthef pledge
themselves that no advertising articles
(thatls. nO descrlptlve puffe or worthless
inventions) phall be Inserted in its column*
undef any circumstances whatever; and, If
they flilfll this pledge, they will certainly
dd a grand thing Tot the industrial jour
nalism of the country, for every JntelTtgbnt
mechanic knows that' indlscrlmtftkte pdf
flng Is the bane of our mechanical and' so
(called scientific periodicals.
The number before ns consists of forty
four large pages, and it is printed on very
superior paper, and in the best style of the
typographic art. Altogether, it is the
finest looking journal of practical science
now before the public. The articles, too,
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An Old Negro Fleeced.— An old negro
from Warren county, yesterday afternoon,
fell into the clutches of the notorions negro
sharper Jake Christian, whose moral con
stitution rebels against breathing the air of
freedom for more than a month at a time,
and was swindled out of sls with the most
finished daring and thieving grace .known
to the profession in which Jake has earned
his laurels. The old unsophisticated darkey
was entrapped by Jake's address to invite
him to a social drink. The drink was
taken—Jake punishing a tumbler fall of
the benzine, which sharpened his ideas for
the object in view. The old negro wanted
to bay bacon. Jake said he could supply
him, and desired to.know the state of his
money market. The unsuspecting victim
said ho had sls. Jake would sell him
fifteen sides for that money. The money
was exposed. Jake improved the oppor
tunity, laid violent hands on the stamps,
and rapidly retired, leaviug the old negro
to chew his cud of reflection. Information
lodged at the police office soon had the ef
fect of leading to the arrest of Jake, who
will have a hearing this morning.
Encouragement of Cotton and Wool
en Manufactures.— A bill to aid and en
courage cotton and woolen manufactures
m the State of South Carolina
both Houses of the Legislature. This bill
owes its passage, in a great measure, to the
exertions of the friends of the Langley
Manufacturing Company, now organizing
iu this city, who spent a few days last
week in Columbia, where they were warm
ly received by Gov. Scott and other offi
cials, and by whom the object of their visit
was warmly approved. The main feature
iu the bill is the refunding to Individuals,
firms and companies all State, county and
municipal taxes for four years after their
mills shall.he in full operation.
At the next session of the Legislature
encouragement will, no donbt, be extended
to manufacturers of many other materials
besides cotton and wool, as there seems to
be a strong disposition to induce foreign
capitalists and skilled labor to locate in
that Btate. •
Flower and GRass Seed Planting.—
With a purpose to beautify the City Hall
Park, his Honor Mayor Allen Is having
the ground spaded up, preparatory to the
planting of a full crop of grass seed and
such flowers as will enhance the orna
ment of the-grounds. This Idea is well
conceived, and, in the balmy months of
Spring, will crop odt a magnificent carpet
of green, handsomely decorated with the
variegated hues of myriads of little
“ blooms ” (blossoms we mean), which .will
afford a pleasing attraction to onr citizens.
Prince Confirmed.— Our Washington
dispatches, last night, announce that the
Senate has confirmed C.« H. Prince as the
Postmaster at Augusta. 80, Skowhegan
is still to have her Radical pap-suckers
quartered upon the public teat in this lo
cality. “ Thank you, good, sirs, we owe
you ” two, now, and would be pleased to
honor a sight draft for their return at once
to assist in repairing the damage from the
recent deluge on their native heath.
Graduates of the Savannah Medical
College. —On Tuesday, at the thirteenth
annual commencement of the Savannah
Medical College, diplomas were bestowed
upon B. 8. Purse and G. J. Kollock, Sa
vannah ; C. S. Morse, Quitman, Ga.; J. A.
Ferguson, Ocala, Fla.; John Patterson,
Madison, F. Pendleton, Valdosta*
Ga., and A. J. Pollock, Cuthbert, Ga.
Salting Cabbage Plants.— A New Jer
sey fanner, a few days after setting out his
plants, immediately after a rain, or when
they are damp, sprinkles a,pinch of salt on
the centre leaves of each plant. When they
begin to grow, the salting is repeated, and
when heading it is repeated for the last
time. It is claimed that salting makes the
cabbage more crisp, and to keep better.
Medical College of South Carolina.
—At the commencement of this institu
tion, on Tuesday; the degree of .Ddfctbf of
Medicine was conferred on E. Smerdon
Burnham, William A. A. Deas, Michael 8.
Klinck, Charles B. O’Bryan, Charles H.
Schroder, Albert R. Spencer, George P.
Trotter, William D. Warner, of South Ca
rolina;* John M. Miller, of Georgia, and
Charles L. Mitchell, of Florida.
Train Hand Killed.—As the freight
train from Augusta passed Pine House,
sixty-three miles above here (says the Co
lumbia Guardian), on Saturday night, one
of the train hands, In attending to the Cou
plings, was struck in some way so as to
produce instant death.
( Repairing the South Carolina Rail
road Bridge. —A force was at work yes
terday strengthening the supports of the
draw in the South Carolina Railroad bridge
across the Savannah. . r• ■