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THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 14,1870
A FAREWELL TO COWARDLY DEMOC
RACY. ,
The Baltimore Gazette , faithful among
the faithless, is disgusted at the easy ac
quiescence of the people in the bayonet
ratified XVth Amendment. It says:
“The Democratic party of the North
might and should have opposed this meas
ure successfully. It would have been jus
tified in carrying its opposition to the
usurpations and abuses of the Radical fac
tion to the point of revolution. It has
done nothing, however, but remonstrate
feebly, and ‘the Constitution and the Union
as they were ’ are things of the past. Lead
ing Democratic journals are now taking
counsel together as to how they can best
secure the negro vote. What principles
now distinguish them from the Radical press it
is difficult to determine.
“ For ourselves , we must be now content to
bide our time until (he future presents some
practical tangible issue upon which we can
make some struggle against the Radical and
revolutionary movement , which, in our judg
ment, Is carrying republican institutions
headlong to destruction. We have not op
posed negro suffrage through any blind
prejudice, against the black man. We
honestly wish him well, and would ear
nestly aid in the work of his education and
elevation. But it has long been plain to
most thoughtful men that, with the in
crease of population, in this country has
grown an ever increasing danger of the
failure or overthrow of the system of gov
ernment established by our fathers. When
the States were sparsely settled, education,
intelligence and wealth had their legiti
mate influence. Statesmen, or at least
honest and respectable citizens were, as a
general rule, selected* for public office.
Now, candidates mostly find themselves
face to face with larger and differently
constituted constituencies—-constituencies
more liable to be governed by pas
sion and prejudice, cajoled by the char
latan and demagogue, or open to the
corruptions of venal politicians. A
gradual change has been going on and
a lower and lower class of men—but,
of course, with many exceptions—have
been succeeding each other in the adminis
tration of the executive, legislative and
judicial affairs of our State and Federal
Governments. It has been evident for
years that an extension of the elective fran
chise was not the remedy needed to avert
the peril threatening our institutions, but
that, on the contrary, it was time to in
quire whether it should not be sought in
the opposite direction. When, therefore,
the Radical party, for its own partisan pur
poses and in an arbitrary and fraudulent
way, invested with full political rights
thousands upon thousands of ignorant
paupers of another and lower race, we had
hoped that the public spirit, virtue and in
telligence of the nation would have revolt
ed against the monstrous outrage. We
believed, too, and still believe, that, sooner
or later, the antipathies which since tht
world began have ever existed between twe
different races occupying the same terri
tory and asserting political equality musl
manifest themselves, and that the “blacks
who are set up as rulers over the white
man will be inevitably and remorselessly
crushed down. We would have spared the
negro the fate which awaits him when the
protecting arm of his present political
master is removed and he comes into com
petition with the Caucasian on equal terms.
He will then find the hypocritical philan
thropists of the hour his bitterest foes.—
But the Radical scheme has been now con
summated and we must await the issue.
Firm in its often expressed convictions, the
Gazette adheres to the principle that the
race which civilized the world and which
alone redeemed this continent from a-wil
derness, should alone rule over it, and we
still plant ourselves on the demand that this
shall be a while man's Government. And
such in the end we know it must and will be."
There should be enough of the-so-called
“ Copperhead ” element of Democracy left
to form the nucleus of a pure white man’s
party. Let the Shoo-fly Cox Democrats
go. Let Vallandigham come forth and
rally his clans. Let there be a purification
of the temple and the raising of the ori
flamtne. If the “ Copperhead ” element is
not available; if it is too late to stop
Radical frenzy, why let turnstile politi
cians stand aside and give - Sumner, Phil
lips, Morton, Butlbb, and the extremists
full swing. If it had not been for Shoo-fly
Democrats,and Conservative Republicans,
the ultra Radicals would have stretched
hemp long ago. As it is, they have an in
definite respite through tricksters who sell
their souls for personal greed and prefer
the Asiatic creed of “ men,- not principles,"
to the European dogma of “ principles, not
men.”
East and West. —The Baltimore Ga
tette has little hope of a reaction in the
West so long as New England rules that
part of the country, as well as the South,
by emissaries called Senators and Con
gressmen. The Gazette says:
“ We have no faith whatever in anything
the Western people can do until they make
an entire change in their representatives.
When they send to Congress Western
men—men racy of the soil and impreg
nated with Western ideas—a different sys
tem of finance and a better system of reve
nue may possibly be carried into effect.
At present, by dint of persistent self-asser
tion, and by insidious political combina
tions for purely selfish ends, the Bast is
paramount in Congress, and will continue
to carry matters there with a high hand
until its ascendant is successfully disputed,
and the advocates of monopolies are put
down by men who will not abandon their
convictions of what is best /or the welfare
of the whole country, to serve the interests
of party and the greed of cliques and spec
ulators. But that time has not vet come.”
Revels. —The poor octoroon poppet
from the satrapy of Mississippi can’t stand
Washington life. His nerves have given
way already. Before his prostration, he
made a display not down in the bills.
Some correspondent having spoken of him
as a “ public functionary,” it is said that
the fiery, untamed Mississippian immedi
ately sent the editor a note demanding an
apology, and that when the messenger re
turned with au explanation, he found
Revels with four navy repeaters buckled
around him and a couple of Arkansas
toothpicks sticking out of the tops of his
boots, and swearing that he would “ show
the Yankee scoundrel that he couldn’t
blackguard a Southern gentleman with
Impunity.”
Liberia. —According to the report of
the African Colonization Society, Liberia
has proved a stupendous fizzle. Instead of
reforming the savages of the vicinity and
converting them to Christianity, the colo
nists are relapsing into barbarism them
selves.
Akerman.— The Macon Journal is pour
ing hot shot into Akerman. Don’t make
a great man of a small potato, friend
Journal.
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Cast. W ragge.— General Howard is
now nicknamed the “ great moral agri
culturalist.”
•The Athens Watchman reports that the
wheat generally in that section, though not
as forward as usual, looks remarkably well,
the stand being uniformly good, and the
young grain having a promising appear
aaee. * , u _
Our New York Correspondence.
New York, April 9,1870.
The uproar between the contending fac
tions of the Democracy at Albany has
subsided almost as suddenly as it arose,
and apparently with as little reason. The
cards having been stocked, “whist” is
now the game; and aspirants of all grades
are on their best behavior, with a view to
securing one of the big plums which are
to be given out. This is a matter of course,
and will not be excepted to. But there
are some underlyings to the “ adjustment,”
which begin to show themselves, and have
an importance which extends beyond the
limits of the. State. There was an effort
made to lay the foundation sos anew par
ty, with no other basis than a grand scheme
of money-making out of the enormous pub
lic expenditures which are now made. The
plan seems to be to unite the Conservative
Republicans with Tammany Hall and the
'bondholding, bank-directing Democrats;
proclaim an “ era of good feelingnomi
nate Grant for President and Hoffman for
Vice-President in 1872, and leave the Cop
perheads and the Radicals “ out in the
cold.” To this end, .with no political ne
cessity whatever, Tammany Hall made
terms with the Republican minority iu the
Legislature, by which the Seward Republi
cans were accorded a large share in the
political patronage of this city, and it is
given out among politicians who are
but the echoes of the power behind the
throne, that this is no time for party
contests, but a good time for making
money, and that a man is a fool who
permits old fashioned ideas of fealty
to party and principles to stand be
tween him and his opportunities. It may
be so. But if so, what more powerful ar
gument can be made to demonstrate the ne
cessity for the South acting at once and
promptly for Itself? The law reorganiz
ing our Common Council is quite as sub
versive of republican institutions and of
the elective franchise as anything iu the
reconstruction acts. It is so arranged
that it will lie next to impossible for the
people to defeat the will of King Caucus.
The nominees of party conventions must
be elected, unless they are so flagrantly
bad as to provoke a general revolt of the
people; and the government of this great
city is handed over to an inter-party
“ring,” powerful to suppress all opposi
tion, without restraint upon their public
expenditures, and without regard to law,
human or divine. Principles, these Repub
lican-Tammany politicians have demon
strated, they do not possess; indeed, they
cannot conceive what true principles of
government really are. But we have this
consolation: Their success hastens the
day when the people will rise and sweep
them end their works from the stage of ac
tion forever.
The rise iu the Liverpool cotton market
has taken this market completely by sur
prise. Even the bulls did not expect it
just yet. It was thought that the large
quantity of cotton now going into and
afloat for that market, would force prices
down very low, and that this decline
would react upon our markets. But it
seems the demand from spinners has been
unexpectedly large, and there has been in
this market, within the past few days, a
decided revival in the trade in cotton
goods with some advance in prices. Eng
land is iu good position for an early recu
peration of commercial prosperity. Shi
has food cheaper than at any time since
1864, and this is an important matter to
her trade. She has cheap money, a sound
currency, and a well established flnancia’
and revenue polity. All these, except the
first, we lack, and our lack is through the
neglect and incompetency of the President,
his Secretary of the Treasury, and Con
gress. The simple steps which are neces
sary to put us on as favorable a footing as
England, upon which to build commerce
and trade, they have not the sagacity or
courage to take; and the future of busi
ness operations must continue, as they
have been for years, extra hazardous, and,
at best, unsatisfactory in their results. We
can no more push business under existing
circumstances than a man can walk rapid
ly while wading through water of uncer
tain depth.
The McFarland trial, has proceeded
to the fourth day, closing last night in
the midst of the testimony. A notable
part of the opening of Spencer, the
counsel for the defense, was his denun
ciation of Mrs. Calhoun as a “ pro
curess,” a thing viler, if possible, than
a prostitute- This, taken in connection
with the facts that Mrs. Calhoun is one of
the Tribune staff of writers, and Spencer a
leading Radical politician, excites some
comment. The only new development
which has been made thus far, is a letter
from Richardson to McFarland’s wife:
“March 9, 4:50, P. M.
“ I received two hours ago, darling,
yours of yesterday.
“At noon I mailed you the Atlantic for
March to No. 72. This I send in care of
Mr. 8., hoping that you may get it to-mor
row.
“ Don’t be disturbed about yonr family,
little girl. Families always respect accom
plished facts (ray hobby, you know). I
once outraged mine a great deal worse
than you ever can yours, and they are the
straitest sect of Puritans—but Time made
it all correct.
So you couldn’t go to Mrs. M.’s till Mon
day, and couldn’t have my room. Be
patient, little girl, and you shall have to
give, not take, orders about my room.
“ Funny about Lillie and the young lady
I am engaged to! It only confirms my
theory that you and Mollie are first-class
Intriguers.
“ Will order your scrap-book on Mon
day.
“ Learn all you can about the material
and contents of the new book within the
next lew weeks; for we may want to an
nounce it In my book. Please remember
that I ought to haw plenty of humor, and
that it must have some horrors. If you re
coil from them you shall not do them.
“ Darling, I smiled at my being ‘ pining
and hurt.’ Why, lam like a man who has
got rid of his Elephant; I weigh 358, and
am lighter hearted than I have been for
years; indeed, I felt as if a weight had been
lifted from me, even before your sweet love
came to sweeten and bless my life.
“All the trouble was that she thought
she could not let me go. Long ago, when
she and I first came together, I said to her,
we will make no vows to love each other
always—of that we cannot tell—l will only
exact that you tell me the perfect truth
whether it keeps us together or separates
us, and she replied, God helping me, I will.
She tried to, but the leopard could not
change its spots, and she did her best and
was very tender and loving, and I have
nothing in the world to complain of. If
you had not come to me, little girl, it would
have made no difference there, tluit scene
was ended long ago.
“ It will rather startle Mrs. S., won’t it,
darling? I think she will like it in the end.
Rose’s letter is very graceful and kind, and
I am very glad you go, for it will do you
much good. It is a great, breezy, restful
place.
“What a goosie it is about my coming
home. Os course , I shall come, whenever
my business compels or will let me. What
judgment shall yon fear, doing no wrong V
Tiic circumstances make it right and un
noticeable, and I will not stay away for
40,000 Mrs. Grundies. I will not neglec?
work to come; but it is quite possible I
may have to come next week. I have not
been waiting for yon, darling, all these long
years to wear haircloth and serve seven
years now; I want you always. A hundred
times a day my arms seem to stretch out
toward you. I never seek my pillow with
out wanting t® fold yon to my heart, for a
good-night kiss and blessing, and the few
mouths before you can openly be mine will
be long enough at best. No grass shall
grow under my feet, but I never let public
opinion bully me a bit, and never mean to;
so, sunbeam, 1 shall eojpe whenever I can
and stop as long as business wiH permit.
I will decide about the Summer just as
soon as I cap, darling; can prdbably sur
mise by Monday or Tuesday.
“ Darling, I should be afraid if you had
fascinated me in a day or a week. The
trees which grow in an hour have no deep
root. OursT believe to be no love of a noon
day hour, but for all time., Only one love
ever grew so slowly into my heart as yours
has, and that was so tender and'blessed
that heaven needed and took it. My dar
ling, you are all I would have you, exactly
what I would have you, in mind, body a»%
estate, and my tired heart finds In yon in
finite rest, and riches, and sweetness. Good
night.
“ Bum tMa—will you not ?”
Would not such a letter have driyen al-
m<»t any man mad? It was with the
writer of this that Colfax made haste to
sympathize.
Sorosis lives and thrives, the best evi
dence of which is that their meetings con
tinue to be kept up, and quite recently an
election of officers for the ensuing year took
place. Os these Mrs. Wilbour, one of the
most active among the strong minded, is
President, Mrs. Calia Burleigh, Mrs A
J. Davis and Mrs. Many Kyle Dallas, being
Vice-Presidents. Mrs. Croly, well known
under the nom de plume of Jennie June, is
Chairman, or perhaps more correctly speak
ing, Chairwoman of the Executive Com
mittee, she being, also, an ardent and perse
vering woman’s rights woman; and from
these more important officials we come to
others of a degree somewhat lower. ' Miss
Kate Hilliard, Corresponding Secretary,
Miss Irene Harland, Recording Secretary,
and Miss J. Pollard, Treasurer. Sorosis,
properly speaking, is not a society of the
strong minded, but of the literary women
of the city. Nevertheless, a large propor
tion of the fair ladies there collected in a
feminine fraternity are vehement in their
advocacy of the cause of petticoat govern
ment, and as their favorite ideas are lugged
in on all occasions, we may justly suppose
that Sorosis is not a little tinged thereby.
The report of the Executive Committee
shows in the list of the society 38 women
engaged in literary pursuits, 6 editors, 12
poets, 6 musical artists, 25 authors, 2 physi
cians, 2 painters, 9 workers in art, 9 teach
ers, 10 lecturers, 1 historian, 1 author of
scientific works and 3 well know philan
thropists. Among other improvements
for this year a half hour’s exercise is pre
scribed for each meeting, which will consist
of a discussion of given topics in a conver
sational way by six ladies named by the
Chair; and as an additional way of passing
the time, private theatricals at the Union
League Theatre are commenced. The sub
ject for discussion at their next meeting is
“ Are Women Inclined to be False to One
Another.”
April, which dawns on humanity a pleas
ing harbinger of a coming Summer, is, it
seems to unhappy frogs, a month which
brings sad devastation just now when
the plaintive melodies to that
tribe are beginning with spring’s first
breath to resound throughout the marshes
of New Jersey and Staten Island; these un
suspicious songsters are attacked, killed,
and being skinned are spread in the markets
for sale. The frog catchers are principally
Frenchmen, who, armed with red flannel
strings to which hooks are attached, wade
through the marshes from morning till
night, trailing their lines among the reeds
in quest of their intended victims. Frogs,
it seems, are fond of red, and no sooner do
they perceive the string of that color, than
they make a leap towards it and find to
their dismay a hook in their throats.—
Frogs, too, it seems, love the light, and in
view of this the frog catchers at night, first
being provided with lanterns, enter the
marshes, when the frogs being attracted
jump towards them from all directions,
and in return are knocked in the head and
captured. In this, however, the captors
are obliged to be somewhat cautious, as a
blow on auy other part than the head, ren
ders the frog unfit for market. The French
men, who attend to no other business while
the season lasts, make an average of from
$5 to sl2 a day by catching frogs, which
they dispose of at French, and also Ameri
can restaurants, at prices varying from
fifty cents to $1 50 per dozen, according to
quality. The season lasts during the
months of April, May and June.
Willoughby.
f Correspondence of the Charleston Courier.
From Washington.
Washington, April 7.
I learn to-day that the bar of the Supreme
Court have come to the conclusion that the
opinion pronounced by Chief Justice Chase,
oil the part of the Court, adverse to the
constitutionality of the Legal Tender act
of 1862, so far as relates to debts, contract
ed prior to February, 1862, will be reversed,
through the contrary opinions of the three
former dissentionents to the Chase opinion,
and of the two new Justices.
The bar of the Court has corac reluct
antly to this conclusion. The bar is op
posed, as a body, to any change in the law
in this regard. The entire Conservative
press of the country deprecates the rever
sal of the decision. The organs of the
Radical Congress support it. Why? Be
cause the main object of the reversal is to
establish the superiority of Congress in the
Government, and to destroy all the limita
tions of the Constitution.
We look with concern upon what is
about to take place in the Supreme Court.
We shall be the mortified witnesses of the
subjection of the Judiciary to the legisla
tive power. The main object of the move
ment for the reversal of the Chase decision
is to put the power of Congress over that
of the Judiciary. That will be a fatal
change of the Constitution. The principle
is new and wrong and destructive.
I was surprised at the order of the Court
re-opening the legal tender question. I
find now that Chief Justice Chase and the
three present members of the Court who
coincided with him, voted against Attor
ney General Hoar’s motion for a rehearing
of the question. But the three dissenting
Justices and the new Justices voted for it.
The vote shows, as is thought here, that
the five Justices who voted for the re-open
ing of the question are in favor of the re
versal of the Chase decision.
The entire Conservative press of the
country deprecate the threatened change
of what is now the acceptable law of the
•country. All sound financial men object
to it.. The wisdom and experience of
statesmen and financiers in foreign coun
tries advise against it.
But it i3 determined by the Radical
clique that still governs Congress, that the
Supreme Court shall be subject to its pow
er. The reopening of the decision was
from a Radical' leader’s order. It was
necessary that Chief Justice Chase should
be put dowq. The procedure was prompt
ed by a personal and political spite against
him. You may see this plainly enough in
the argument of Attorney General Hoar,
for his motion for a rehearing. But there
is still another wheel within these other
wheels that influences the movement. Tiie
Attorney General has a personal pique
against the Senator* who preferred Bradley
to himself, and he intends *|g»ush Bradley
to the wall on this difficult question. He
lias forced Bradley to vote for the reopen
ing of the question. He intends to force a
majority of five of ,tl;e Court to reverse the
opinion of the Chief Justice.
It is a melancholy matter for the coun
try, but so it is. The Federal Judiciary is
to be subdiied and brought under the order
of the legislative power. It is the worst
result of the late revolution, All the other
results we might agree to, stand as well as
we could. The three amendments we had
already swallowed. But the principle of
legislative supremacy over the Federal
Judiciary and btates rights, as recognized
by the Constitution, we are not prepared
for. Leo.
The Income Tax. —The bill which, at
the instance of Mr. Sherman, has just pass
ed the Senate, provides for the continuance
during 1870 of the tax of five per cent, on
income derived from the following sources,
to-wi*.: Dividends of banks, trust compa
nies, savings institutions and insurance
companies, dividends and interest on the
bonds of internal improvement companies,
naval or other employment of the United
States. The other sections of the law,
which impose a tax of five per cent, on the
gains, profits and income of every citizen,
have been postponed for consideration
when the general revenue law comes up
before Congress for action. There should,
as the Philadelphia Ledger justly remarks,
be no more tinkering with this odious and
unequal “income tax.” It should be
abolished altogether.
A Clerk’s Salary Not Subject to
Garnishment. —Judge Schley, In Savan
nah on Monday, rendered his decision in
the case of R. T- Smijie vs. Harvey Shep
pard. This was an action of garnishment
which was argued some three weeks since
In the Superior Court—the question in
volved being whether the salary of a
clerk Is the proper subject of garnishment,
or whether it is exempt under the provi
sion of the statutes. Judge Schley de
cided that it it is nqt subject to garnish
ment.
My Lost Rose.
You clasp to-day your perfect rose,
Full-blown, a rare and tender flower,
And justly, for you wisely chose,
With faith in love’s transforming power.
And this the bad 1 threw away!
Because, poor fool, 1 conld not see
That, hidden deep within, there lay
“ The perfect flower that was to be.
What matter that my heart’s desires
Seemed then her gentle sphere above ?
No height to which a man aspires
Can prove too high for woman’s love.
My soul has longed and struggled so
Through all the years, unloved, alone.
O, God! it breaks my heart to know
Her dear love might have been my own.
Well, ’tis not best that I complain,
Not hers the fault that I was blind ;
Yet, not in all this world of pain
Shall I another rose-bud find !
From the Baltimore Gazette.
The Re-Reconstruction of Ireland.
How thoroughly reconstructed Ireland is
becoming, we may judge from the facts that
the population decreased from 1841 to 1851
twenty per cent., and from 1851 to 1861
twelve per cent. Between March 31,1851,
and April 8.1861, there are kno\yn to have
been 1,230,986 persons who emigrated from
Ireland, the population of which in 1851
was 6,552,385. This, it would seem, would
give an emigration of more nearly twenty
per cent. From 1841 to 1861 the total num
ber of holdings under five acres was re
duced from 310,486 to 85,469, or 72.5 per
cent. Holdings from five to fifteen acres
decreased from 252,799 to 183,931, or 27.2
per cent. The farms of fifteen to thirty
acres increased 78 per cent., and the hold
ings above thirty acres increased 109 per
cent. The tendency of the British policy
has been, it will be seen, to do away with
small independent holdings, to increase the
number of day laborers for hire, and rather
to consolidate land in the hands of the
frugal and the thrifty.
Having driven away several millions of
its subjects, whom it treated as vagabonds,
and having introduced to some extent a
more hard working population, the next
great step of England was the Irish Oliurch
bill. This was to remove all ecclesiastical
differences and to free the Irish Catholics
from Protestant ascendency. Following
that comes the Land bill, which gives the
Irish tenant certain rights, but which at
the same time gives the landlord a control
of his land which he never had before. A
landlord is now to have possession of his
property under certain circumstances, for
improvement or at the end of a lease, and
‘the tenant is to be paid a fixed sum, vary
ing from one year’s up to seven years’ rent
al, according to the value of the holding
and the amount he is supposed to have ex
pended uopn it.
But with all this additional religious
liberty and civil protection, the Govern
ment thinks it proper to enforce recon
struction by measures as stringent as they
are extreme, in 1866, sixty-five years
after the Union, Feuianism was at its
height. In 1868, two years later, agrarian
crime received anew development. Mr.
Featherstone was shot; Mr. Scully’s ten
ants resisted him, killing several jiolice
men and wounded him. Last year nine
persons were murdered and sixteeii were
fired at. Yet out of these twenty-five
cases, it has been impossible to obtain evi
dence to indict more than two. These
form but a small portion of the number of
actual agrarian violences. Last year there
were 767 agrarian offences committed ib
Ireland. Attacks were made, threatening
letters were sent, dwellings were tired,
packs of hounds were poisoned and forci
ble oaths were administered. All this is
not consoling for the English system of
reconstruction. So, while it makes laws
which apparently benefit the people, but
really give more power to the capitalists,
it proposes to enact another law which,
without actually suspending the habeas
corpus act, virtually accomplishes all that
could be gained by such a step. The fol
lowing is a synopsis of the Force bill which
has been passed:
“ The Government divides Ireland into
three parts; those which may be proclaim
ed by the Lord Licutcnaut, tljose which
may be specially proclaimed, and those
which may demand no more stringent
measures than the provisions of the ordi
nary law. To the first class will apply
several new restraints on personal liberty.
At present, even in proclaimed districts,
any person who has taken out a game li
cense may legally keep fire arms in his pos
session ; but, in future, no gun, no revol
ver, or fire-arms of any description, will be
permitted to remain in the possession of
any person who has not obtained a special
license from the Without a
license, no person will be allowed to sell
gunpowder,or fire-arms. The police will
also obtain new powers to search for un
licensed arms. At present, when they get
a search warrant from the Lord Lieuten
ant, they must execute it during the day
alone. The result is that the search is
usually a mere farce. The Government
proposes, therefore, that, on receiving an
application from the resident magistrate,
the Lord Lieutenant may issue a warrant
which shall be valid for three months, and
shall give to the police the power of search
by Dight as well as by day. Similar pow
ers are asked to search for documentary
evidence as to the authorship of threaten
ing letters. At any hour of the day or
night the constables may enter the house
of a farmer in Tipperary or Mayo, search
his drawers, force him to lay open his pri
vate papers, and take away any document
which they may deem needful. Equally
great powers are accorded to secure the
extraction of evidence. Even when a
prisoner is not actually in the dock, a
magistrate may call upon a witness to
give evidence on oath ; and further, after
the preliminary examination of a prisoner,
the magistrates will have power either to
liberal him on bail or not, as they may
think fit. These are stringent measures ;
but they ‘pale their ineffectual fires’ before
those which apply to the specially proclaim
ed districts. In such doubly-dangerous
places the police will have power to arrest
persons who may be wandering about after
nightfall, and if the prisoners cannot show
that they were engaged on no mischievous
errand, they will tie liable to imprisonment
for six months. Again, in certain cases
public houses may be closed by the warrant
of the Lord Lieutenant. A justice of the
peace may also summon before him any
strangers whom he may suspect of illegal
conduct, and may demand from them re
cognizances to keep the peace, or inay put
them in prison until they provide those
guarantees of good conduct.”
Besides this, the Lord Lieutenant is to
have absolute authority to take forcible
possession of any treasonable newspaper,
after one warning, without any judicial
authority.
.Such are some of the measures, alien alike
to English principles and to English law,
to which England declares itself forced to
resort after seventy years attempt at recon
struction. It is very evident that if Eng
land cannot enjoy Ireland as a home for
the Irish, she will reap much more satisfac
tion from it when it is denizened by hard
working Saxons and canny Scotch. But if
such is the end of all reconstruction, God
help us from it in this country.
The ChAMfagne Trade.— The Chamber
of Commerce of Rheims has just published
Its usual highly interesting statistics of
the trade in sparkling wines for the period
from 1844 to April, 1869. The statement
shows an increase of the transactions in
champagne from 9,000,000 of bottles, in
1844 to 22,000,000 in 1869- However, these
figures include the sales made from one
champagne producer to the other, sales
which have reached during the year past
the figure of 6,000,000 of bottles; It has
also been ascertained that 15,914,090 bottles
of champagne have been sold to consump
tion, viz: 12,810,194 bottles shipped to
foreign countries, and 3,104,496 bottles
used for home consumption.
During the last twenty-five years 187-
693,990 bottles of champagne have been
shipped to foreign markets. The tables
show au ascendant course during that
period o' 1 years which hardly ever had been
Interrupted.
On the other side it is stated that the
home consumption during the last twenty
five years has not undergone any consider
able change. France has consumed every
year about 8,000,000 of bottles— rather less
than more.
The receipts of the two operas given In
Columbus, by tbeßlchlugs-Bernard troupe,
last week, were $950.
State Items.
The building of the Methodist Church
for freedmen, in Columbus, has been com
menced. It is to cost about $3,000.
The Columbus firemen will have no con
test, it is talked, on the 20th —simply a
parade and inspection.
The first strawberries of the season, re
ceived from the Jasper Spring Farm, is re
ported in Savannah.
The Macon and Augusta Railroad is so
crowded with freight as to render neces
sary the running of an extra train.
Olive oil is manufactured at St. Simon’s
Island, off the Georgia coast, near Bruns
wick.
*Che Athens Watchman reports that the
superior water-power formerly known as
“Tallahassee Mills,” but more recently as
“ Parr’s Factory,” together with the build
ings attached, was sold at sheriff’s sale on
Tuesday last, Messrs. Stanley. Moss & Cos.
becoming the purchasers at $10,100.,
The Sun says there are more brick being
made around Columbus than at any time
since the place was settled. There is to be
a great deal of building there during the
Summer, and a great many bricks are sent
down the M. & G. R. R. line.
The carpenters and joiners of Atlanta
have organized on the co-operative plan,
and will tak§ contracts for building. Each
member is allowed stated wages, while the
profits go into the general treasury of the
association as a security against any con
tingency. The first day gave them a $2,000
contract.
Mr. H. S. Bell, a printer by profession,
died in Savannah on Saturday. He was a
native of Pennsylvania, but came to Sa
vannah about thirty-five years ago, where
he married and-settled. He had filled sev
eral positions in connection with the news
paper offices, and had also served as an
official in the Custom House of Savannah.
He was removed. The deceased was about
65 years of age, and has been rather feeble
for some time.
Large Auction Sale of Horses and
Mules. —Col. R. B. Clayton, auctioneer,
sold under the hammer yesterday forty
seven mules and horses, and eight wagons
and sets of harness, belonging to that now
defunct institution known as Reynolds’
Menagerie and Gymnasium. The sale was
well attended, notwithstanding the drench
ing rain that fell all the forenoon, and the
bidding was quite spirted. The live stock
was generally in bad condition, but bidders
saw that it was only necessary t«#put a lit
tle corn and fodder inside of it to produce
a wonderful change for the better, and
hence it sold at satisfactory prices to the
owner, Mr. Win. B. Reynolds. The forty -
seven head brought $4,950 50—an average
of $lO5 33 per head. The eight wagons
sold for s4l3 —an average ssl 63% each.
The sale was peremptory, as the owner
had determined to quit the “ show” business
and sell out at any price.
The caged animals, elephant and camels
belonging to the establishment, passed
through the city yesterday morning on
their way to the Central Railroad depot to
be shipped North. Sic transit gloriamnndi.
, [Macon Telegraph , 10:/i.
Fatal Accident. —The down freight
train Monday evening, on the Western and
Atlantic Railroad, ran over a inau lying on
the track a short distance above Ringgold,
and iustantly killed him. The engiueer
supposed the object to be a hog until too
close to prevent the fatal occurrence. The
fumes of liquor and fragments of a bottle
indicated that the man wall thoroughly
drunk. His head was severed from his
bodj r , and he had not been identified up to
last night. —Atlanta Era.
Messrs. Harris, Colton and Morris, from
Maryland and Massachusetts, have re
cently purchased the splendid water power
known as High Shoals, in Anderson
county, belonging to the estate of Andrew
McFall, deceased, and situated south of
this place. It is their intention to erect at
once a large establishment lor the manu
facture of cotton and woolen goods ot'
every description.
Gold Circular.
Banking House of Hoyt & Gardner, )
New York, April 9, 1870., $
Gold is strong and risiug. The reasons
for an advance have suddenly combined to
produce the result. They areas follows:
The lona continued and apparent ex
haustion of the “ bear” market. Gold has
been declining since last September, and it
is time the tide should turn.
The period of the year favors a higher
premium for Gold.
Exports are falling off; imports con
tiuues, and the Summer’s travel to Europe
wiil require a considerable amount of Gold
Exchange is strong and has advanced on
a scarcity of bills. Bonds are lower in
Loudon. The Funding bill may be con
sidered dead. The reversing of the Legal
Tender Act decision, by the Supreme Court,
will damage the credit of the country.
Napoleon’s illness and the consequences
that might follow upon his death, serve to
sharpen all other arguments.
BY TELEGRAPH.
1 Associated Press Dispatches.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, April 13—Noon.—The Ar
gentine Minister, this morning, received
the following cable telegram:
“The Paraguayan war is ended. Lopez
has been killed. John Fair,
“ Argentine Consul, London.”
Senter’s evidence, on the whole, is re
garded slightly adverse to Congressional
interference with Tennessee.
A Cincinnati delegation want a quarter
of a million for the Louisville canal.
The Democrats carry Newark, N. J., the
netrroes voting.
The negroes are celebrating the Fifteenth
Amendment. One of the banners is in
scribed, “In God we trnst, in Grant we
believe.”
In the House, Shober, of North Carolina,
was seated.
The coinage question is up.
The Senate is considering the joint In
dian Committee.
The committees did nothing.
Washington, April 13—P. M.—Long
was confirmed Attorney General for Louis
iana.
The select committee of the House on the
postal telegraph this morning instructed
the chairman to report the bill heretofore
introduced, purchasing and placing tele
graph lines under Government control, and
connecting it with the Post Office Depart
ment.
Supervisor Pulton having concluded
special California duties resumes his old
position over Maryland and District of
Columbia.
No Southern nominations to-day.
The Howard Corruption Committee will
commence investigation as soon as the
Senate passes and President approves the
bill which passed the House appropriating
money therefor.
The Governor and Legislature of Ohio
are coming to Washington on a visit.
The Senatorial caucus to-day on the Sec
retaryship of the Senate adjourned to Fri
day. *
The conference committee on usury in
the District agreed upon a bill similar in
all essential respects to that of Illinois.
The Republicans who voted with the
Democrats in favor of ousting Sheldon
and referring the election back to the peo
ple were Bingham, Poland, Cook, Willard
and Wilkinson.
So frequent of late have been the irregu
larities and failures of the great mails be
tween New York and New Orleans, both
by tbe Western route via Louisville, Ky.,
and the Southwestern route, via Knox
ville, that the Post Office Department has
commenced inquiries as to the practica
bility of procuring better service by divert
ing the mails from the Western route at
Jackson, Tenn., or the Southwestern route
at Corinth, Miss., and carrying them over
the Mobile and Ohio Railroad as far as
Meridian, Miss., and thence via Jackson,
Miss.; or by diverting them from the
Southwestern route at Cleveland, Tenn.,
and carrying them tbeDce via Atlanta,
Kingston and Rome, Ga., Selma, Asa., and
Meridian and Jackson, Miss.; or 'by dis
pensing with the Southwestern route south
of Washington, D. C., and running thence
via Richmond, Va., Weldon or Wilming
ton, N. C., Kingsville, S. C., Augusta, At
lanta, Kingston and Rome, Ga., and Me
ridian and Jackson, Miss. If it shall be
found that the great through mails can be
conveyed with greater ! regularity by either
of these routes, the change will be Imme
diately ordered by the Department.
In the Senate a resolution for a joint
special committee on Indian affairs was
adopted.
The Judiciary Committee made an affir
mative report upon the validity of the elec
tion of Abijah Gilbert as a Senator from
Florida.
The Georgia bill was discussed as to ex
pediency aqd legality of continuing the
present Legislature for two years longer, as
proposed by Williams. Ferry, and Norton,
of Minnesota, fevofed the Bingham amend* 1
ment, to require an election next November,
and Abbott and Williams the reverse. The
former urging the suppression by military
forceof extensive organizations in the South
to resist the laws and keep alive rebel senti
ment.
In the House, there was no action on the
coinage, weights and measures bill.
The Hunt and Sheldon case was resumed.
The vote that Sheldon was and Hunt not
entitled to the seat was 121 to 46.
A Pennsylvania election case was dis
cussed at some length, when the tariff was
resumed. Several paragraphs were passed
over without material amendment.
Butler made another failure on his San
Domingo resolution.
It is confidently asserted that General
Schofield will succeed Thomas in command
of the Pacific Division.
NEW YORK.
Albany, Ayril 13. —The Democrats elect
nine and the Republicans seven Super
visors. Thacher’s majority, 1.500. The
vote was the largest ever cast, being about
13,000. The Democrats have a majority in
the Board of Aldermen of seven.
Buffalo, April 13. —Leading Fenian
officials here laugh over the Canadian
scare. They say no movement will be at
tempted until success is assured. No pres
ent raid is contemplated by the Fenians
here.
CALIFORNIA.
San Francisco, April 13. —The steamship
America has arrived from Hong Kong with
I,2oo passengers, whereof, 1,100 ure Chinese,
and a full freight; also Surgeon Yates, with
iorty men, survivors from the Oneida.
CANADA.
Montreal, April 13.— 1 tis believed the
contemplated Fenian raid will be prevented
by prompt preparations for defense.
FOREIGN.
London, April 13. —The annual budget
shows expenditures for last year, £67,600,-
000 ; receipts, £73,000,000 ; estimates for
current year, £67,000,000.
The underwriters are settling for the City
of Boston as a total loss.
Parliament has adjourned to the 25th,
T ie crops throughout Great Britain are
flourishing and matters fine.
A dispatch from Pcsth asserts that the
Hungarian Bishops who vote for infalli
bility will be excluded from the Upper
Chamber of the Diet.
The Vanguard had antflher trial trip off
Plymouth. She made fourteen and three
quarter knots in an hour.
Lord Teuterden is dead.
The following was received via Lisbon
from Rio Janeiro: “ President Lopez, of
Paraguay, is dead. He was surrounded,
and refusing to surrender was killed by a
Brazilian lancer. The mother, sister and
children of Lopez, together with Madame
Lynch, have been captured. The com
mander of the Brazilian troops who put
this finishing stroke to the Paraguayan
war was created by the Emperor Viscount
Paletos.”
Madrid, April 13.— The Court of Rome
forbids the clergy swearing in support of
the new constitution.
The trial of the Duke of Montpensier,
for the murder of Prince Henri of Bourbon,
in a duel In March last, was concluded be
fore the Council of War last evening The
Dake’s prompt confession of the deed, and
his expression of regret therefor, were ac
cepted as extenuating circumstances. The
Duke was sentenced to one month’s exile
from the city of Madrid and to pay $16,000
indemnity to the family of Prince Henri.
The authorities are greatly elated with
the news from Cuba. The latest official
bulletin from Deßodas announces the in
surrection morally, though not actually,
ended.
Paris, April 13.—Ollivier asks adjourn
ment until the plebiscitum is submitted to
the nation, which occurs between the first
and ninth of May.
The iron work at Fortonur has been
stopped by five hundred men from Cham
boust. No violence.
The rumors current yesterday of Lopez’s
death are confirmed by dispatches from
Lisbon.
A dispatch from Bayonne states that
several more Carlist leaders have crossed
the border into Spain.
The authorities have again been notified
that the threatened strikes are to begin
to-day in various manufactories in this city.
It is reported that the Emperor’s procla
mation relative to plebiscutum will be pub
lished Friday.
In the Corps to-day Ollivier moved to
adjourn until the vote on the plebiscitum
was taken. He said the Government de
sired that the deputies should have the
opportunity of going before the people and
instruct them on the reasons for the meas
ure.
Jules Favre vehemently opposed adjourn
ment. It was inconsistent with the duty
members owed their constituency. It was
their duty to remain here during the pres
ent emergency. He felt they had every
thing to fear from the Government.
The motion to adjourn was adopted by
195 to 63.
Ollivier stated that the examination re
garding the conspiracy against the life of
the Emperor would soon be completed. He
also promised that justice would be done
in the case of Prince Murat, charged with
striking a magistrate.
La Tsiberte insists that Count Daru lias
positively resigned.
The impression continues that Viscount
de la Guerouniere will enter the Cabinet.
Brussels, April 13.—De Biriot, the vio
linist, is dead.
Vienna, April 13.—Count Patocki has
succeeded in forming anew council as fol
lows : President, Council Minister and
Minister of Agriculture, Count Patocki;
Minister of the Interior and War, Count
Edetaafle; Minister of Justice and Public
Instruction, M.Tschabuschnigg; Minister of
Finance, M. Distler; Minister of Commerce,
M. Depretis.
Havana, April 13.—De Rodas telegraphs
from Principe that a column of marines
killed fifty-three insurgents, including
Manuel Aguerro and Francisco Laseas.
Vol untary surrenders continue. The rebels
everywhere are in confusion.
Valmesda is at Las Tunas extending his
lines toward Puerto Principe.
MARINE NEWS.
New York, April 13.—Arrived: Cuba,
Herman, San Salvador, Manhattan, and
Weybosset.
' MARKETS.
London, April 13—Noon.— —Consols,
94%. Bonds, ex coupon, 88%. Tallow,
455. Common Rosin quiet.
London, April 13—Evening.—Consols,
94%. Bonds, 88%. Tallow, 445. 9d.@455.
Sugar heavy both on spot and afloat; spot,
345. 6d.@355.; afloat, 88s. od.
Liverpool, April 13—Noon.—Cotton
quiet and unchanged; sales, 10,000 bales.
Tallow, 445.
later —Lard easier but not lower. Pork
buoyant at 955. Bacon, 565. Tallow, 445.
,3445. 3d. Fine Rosin, 125.@135.
Liverpool, April 13—Evening.—Holi
dav in cotton and general markets. Cotton
closed dull; uplands, 11%; Orleans, 11%@
11 1/. sales, 10,000; speculation and ex
port,2,ooo bales. Lard, 68s. 9d. Bacon,
575. ’
Paris, April 18.—Bourse opened dull.
Rentes, 78t. 65c. .
Paris, April 13—P. M.—Bourse closed
quiet. Rentes, 73f. 62c.
Havre, April 13.—Cotton opened heavy;
spot, 136; afloat, 182%.
Havana, April 13.— Exchange on Paris
par. Exchange on London, 13(913% pre
inium. Currency Exchange on the United
States—long sight, 9%©10% discount.
Hold Exchange on the United States, long,
premium; do., short sight, 8%@4%
premium.
New York, April 13—Noon.—Stocks
firm and easy at 6. Exchange—long, 8%;
< hort, 9%. Gold, 112%. Bonds, 11% ;
tennessees, ex-coupon, 59%; new, 53%;
/irginias; ex-conpon, 70%; new, 69 ; Lou
’sianas, old, 77; new, 72%; Levee 6’s,
r 6% 5 Levee B’s, 92; Alabama B’s, 97% ;
Alabama 6’s, 82; Georgia 6’s, 85; Georgia
7’6, 93 ; North Carolinas, old, 46% ; new,
‘52%; South Carolinas, old, 87 ; new, 80.
New York, April 13—P. M.—Money
easy at 6. Sterling heavy at 8%. Gold,
112%. Governments steady aud firm;
Southerns generally steady.
New York, April 13—P. M —6’s, 'Bl,
’.oupon, 14%; ’62’s, 11%; ’64s, 10%; ’6s’s,
10%; new, 9%; ’67’s, 9%; ’6B’s, 9%;
LO-40’s, 6%; Tennessees, 59% ; new, 54%;
Virginias, 69% ; new, 69; Louisianas,
75%; new, 72% ; Levee 6’s, 76; B’s, 91;
Alabama B’s, 97; s’s, 70; Louisiana 6’s, 85;
7’e, 94%; North Carolinas, 66%; new,
22%; South Carolinas, 87; new, 81.
New York, April 13—Noon—Flour dull
md drooping. Wheat dull and nominally
ower. Corn quiet and unchanged. Mess
Pork unchanged at $27 75. Lard dull at
15%@15% for steam in barrels. Cotton
lull and nominal; middling uplands, 28%;
Orleans, 23%; sales, 6,000 bales. Spirits
Turpentine Arm at 47047%. Rosin quiet
at $2 14 for strained. Freights dull.
New York, April 13— P. M—Cotton
dull; sales, 1,500 bales; uplands, 23%. —
Flour dull and heavy; superfine State,
$4 4004 50; common to fair extra South
ern, $5 500 5 90. Wheat heavy and lc.
lower; Winter red and amber Western,
$1 2001 22. Corn unchanged. Beef steady;
plain mess, 10015. Mess Pork, $27 25.
Lard heavy; kettle, 16016%. Whisky
firmer at $1 02. Groceries steady. Naval
Stores quiet.
New York, April 13—P. M—Tallow
steady at 9%09%. Wool qniet; domestic
fleece, 41@53; pulled, 41042; California,
lo%@Bl. Hides quiet. Freights—cotton,
steam, %.
Baltimore, April 13.—Flour—most
grades held higher. Wheat active; choice
Maryland, $1 40@150. Corn steady; white,
$1 0601 06; yellow, $1 0501 07. Oats firm.
Rye dull and nominal. Pork firm—
Bacon—shoulders, 12%. Whisky scarce
at $1 01%01 02.
St. Louis, April 13—Whisky steady at
sl. Pork stiff at S2B 50. Corn is more ac
tive; advanced 102 c ; 89093 for mixed
and yellow ; 92095 for white.
Cincinnati, April 13—Whisky dull at
97. Mess Pork held at $29. Lard held in
kettle at 15%; steam, little offering.
Louisville, April 13—Lard held at 16%.
Whisky heavy at 97@98.
New Orleans, April 13—Bacon firmer
at 12%©12%, 1G%©16% and 17% ; sugar
cured hams, 18%©19%. ~ Lard Arm ; tierce,
16% ; keg, 17%. Sugar—prime, 11%©11%.
Molasses—city refinery, reboiled, 50075.
Others unchanged. Sterling, 22%. New
York Sight, % premium. Gold, 112%.
Galveston, April 13.—Cotton quiet;
good ordinary, 18%; receipts, 1,203; stock,
27,395 bales. '
New Orleans, April 13—Cotton quiet
and weak ; middling, 22022%; sales, 8,500 ;
uet receipts, 2,987: coastwise, 1,252 ; total,
4,239; exports to Great Britain, 4,600;
stock, 176,776 bales.
Savannah, April 13—Cotton in mod
erate demand, but prices have declined;
middling, 21%; sales, 600; receipts, 916;
exports coastwise, 685; stock, 40,418 bales.
Charleston, April 13.—Cotton qniet
and unchanged ; middling, 21%©21% ;
sales, 150; receipts, 442; exports coast
wise, 439; stock, 16,644 bales.
Boston, April 13—Cotton dull and
tending down ; middling, 23%; sales, 200;
net receipts, 19 ; coastwise, 134; total, 153 ;
stock, 1,200 bales.
Baltimore, April 13. — Cotton steady
and in fair demand; middling, 23; sales,
180 bales ; net receipts, 50; coastwise, 355 ;
total, 405; exports coastwise, 63; stock,
5,036 hales.
Norfolk, April 13.—Cotton easier; low
middling, 20%©20%; sales, 50; receipts,
646; stock, 5,8(12 bales.
Augusta Daiiy Market.
OFFICE DArLY CONBTM'WTIONALIST, /
Wednesday, April 13— V. M.
FINANCIAL
GOLD—Buying at 111 ami selling at 113.
SlLVEß—Buying at 108 and selling at 110.
BONDS—City Bonds, 81®S3.
STOCKS—Georgia Railroad, 103@104.
COTTON—The market opened with a good
demaud at, 21% for middling, but in response
to decline in New York and Liverpool, closed
quiet at 20% Safes, 552 hales. Receipts, 269
bales.
BACON—Fair d.emand. Wc quote C. Sides,
18©18%; C. R. Sides, 17%©18 ; B. B. Sides,
17% ; Shoulders, 14%@15 ; Hams, 21©33 ; Drt
Salt, Shoulders, J3@13% ; Dry Salt O. R. Sides,
17.
CORN-—ln good demand, and is selling at
#1 30®1 35 from depot.
WHEAT—We quote choice white, $1 60@
1 65; amber, SI 55© 1 60 ; red, $1 50©l 55.
FLOUR—City Mills, now, $6 50@9 00; at
retail, $1 $ barrel higher. Country, #609.
according to quality.
CORN MEAL—#I 40 at wholesale; fl 50 at
retail.
OATS—B5@#l.
PEAS—Bcarce and selliug at #1 8102 00.
CITY ITEMS,
Destructive, Fire—Burning of the
Hamburg Brewery Cellar.— About 12
o’clock on Tuesday night, oue of the lady
inmates of the residence of the Messrs.
Legler Brothers, proprietors of the Ham
burg Brewery, was aroused by the alarm
of fire, and discovered the flames issuing
from the cellar building. Two of the
Messrs. Legler were aroused and hastily
repaired to the burning building, where
quite a number of persons had already
collected from the vicinity. A small gar
den hose was attached to a large cask of
water in the large store building in im
mediate front of the cellar, and the water
applied through the door of the burning
building. The alarm soon spread to this
side of the river, and was taken up by
“ Big Steve” and the market bell, the sum
mons of which aroused the citizens and
firemen, three companies of whom—the
Georgia, Augusta, No. 5, and Fillmore,No.
4—with their reels, the “ Georgians ” also
turning out their steamer, promptly an
swered the call for help which came from
beyond the corporate limits, and put in an
appearance to battle against the threatened
destruction of the entire brewery property.
The “ Georgia ” steamer was met at the
bridge with a single harnessed horse sent
by the Messrs. Legier, where the “ boys ”
managed to improvise a hasty but effectual
plan of hitching a single horse to a poled
vehicle, and with driver mounted, went
with John Gilpin velocity over the road
until they reached the scene of the confla
gration. No. 5 followed close after with
their reel. The “Georgia” steamer was
located at the pond in the beer garden, and
uniting their hose with No. 5, the battle
opened, the two united companies paying
out about a thousand feet of hose in order
to reach the burning building. Fillmore,
No. 4, was on hand, likewise ready to
bring their hose into play, but failed to get
into an advantageous position.
Underjthe vigorous and laborious services
of the Augusta firemen, the fire was com
pletely subdued within a half hour, though
pot without great loss.
The greatest damage was on the inside
of the building, where the fire originated
and was mainly confined in its disastrous
effects. The peculiar constriction of the
building, with little or no dpfft of air,
caused the inferior timbers a&d the casks
and tubs to char to the crippiness of coal.
The interior, yesterday morning, presented
a charred mass of ruins of eight mammotti
casks and two large stands or tubs and the
entire apparatus filled at the time of the
fire, with about 220 barrels of beer but re
cently manufactured and placed In the
cellar tor preservation. As the fire pro
gressed and The seams of the stands
and casks parted, the Teutonic beverage is
said to have formed a perfect rivulet from
the cellar. - The loss on the wasted beer
and burned apparatus is believed to have
been $4,500. The damage to the bnilding
of the cellar is difficult to estimate, but
will probably reach SI,OOO at the lowest.
The greatest loss, perhaps, is the delay
which the proprietors will sustain in the
resumption of their business, and the fact
that the interruption of their trade has oc
curred jnst at this particular juncture,
when the beverage of their manufacture is
most in demand, and when their business
was dally increasing in volume. They had
but recently added SSOO or S6OO worth of
improvements in their cellar, and had
already ordered 100 tons of ice from New
York, with which to supply their cellar,
the arrival of which is daily expected. The
Messrs. Legler have the sympathies of a
large number of our citizens in the misfor
tune which has overtaken their business
prospects.
Nothing beyond conjecture as to tii
origin of the fire has yet been developed.
Many are disposed to pronounce it incen
diary, although the Messrs. L. are unable
to trace suspicion to any source. They
had retired from labor in the cellar at 9
o’clock at night, leaving everything in or
der, and the door of the bnilding open, as
customary, to admit the cool air.
The insurance on the cellar, building
and stock amounted to $5,000 —$2,500 each
in the Union and Firemen’s Fund Compa
nies of San Francisco, Messrs. Branch,
Sons & Cos., Augusta agents, risk taken by
Mr. A. G. Hall, former agent. The in
surance was divided as follows: $1,200 on
building, SBOO on apparatus, and $3,000 on
stock of beer.
Reckless Running of a Railkoad
Train .w-Tuesday afternoon the accommo
dation train of the Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta Railroad, as it was leaving the
city, passed along Washington street, from
the corner of Greene across Broad street at
a rate of speed really alarming to the ap
prehensions of a number of citizens and
some police officers who witnessed it, and
in violation of the ordinance regulating the
running of these trains at not a greater
rate Os speed than five miles an hour
through the streets. The result of this un
authorized increase of speed beyond the
rate fixed by the city authorities was that,
yesterday morning, Mr. W. T. Williams,
agent of the offending corporation, and
Major J. 0. Moore, President of the Au
gusta and Summerville Railroad, were each
served with notice to appear before Re
corder Crump, this morning, to answer for
violation of the ordinance.
The authorities of the Charlotte, Colum
bai and Augusta Railroad will hardly ad
mit, we presume, their liability to the city
government, but will find a screen in the
protection of the Augusta and Summerville
Railroad, whose privileged guests they are.
Whatever may be the ultimate result of
this case of complaint, we observed yester
day that there was a very decided improve
ment in the manner in which the trains
have heretofore run through the city. One
freight train, in particular, we observed
passing out of the city about 11 o’clock at
a snail’s gallop, comparatively. It is pos
sible that tliis may have had some refer
ence, however, to the very difficult process
of striking an “ average” rate of speed as
compared with the particular excess com
plained of on Tuei&ay afternoon. This
point is happily illustrated by an anecdote
related of a certain clerk of court, who had
issued about seventy-five executions for
various amounts against an equal number
of defendants. Plaintiffs’ counsel complain
ed of error in the amounts figured up on
each execution, as either too great or too
small. The clerk retired from the imputa
tion of error In that essential by simply
querrying as to how they would “ average.”
None of the railroad authorities need ask a
similar question—the Recorder’s Court is
not in the habit of adjusting difficulties by
the scale of “ average.”
The Blue Ku Klux Kill a Negro
Preacher.— The Warrenton Clipper, of
yesterday, furnishes the following:
Gen. Terry’s Ku Klux were out on a
generai raid last Sunday. A detachment,
having in charge a Government wagon,
and returning from Barnett, assaulted
Peter King, a colored preacher, upon the
public road, and fired upon him, one shot
taking effect in his head and another in his
stomach, from the effects of which we learn
he died on Monday last.
Leaving Peter lying in the road, the blue
Ku Klux that did the firing, accompanied
by the son of the military sheriff of this
county, started for Warrenton. They had
proceeded about four miles on their way,
when they discovered two colored boys
upon the road. The bloody Ku Klux com
menced firing upon them, but without ef
fect, the negroes taking refuge behind the
fence. Two young gentlemeu who had
been attracted to the road by the firing,
were also fired upon by the same party.
Again proceeding on their way they en
countered Mr. Jj. M. Fowler, of this place,
whose life, in all probability, was saved by
young Norris preventing his companion
from using his pistol.
The same party, returning to town, drew
his pistol on a colored man, Henry Butts,
but the valorous “ colored troops ” cap
tured the weapon, and thus saved his sacri
fice. The Clipper adds:
We learn that the murderer has been
arrested and placed in jail, but are unable
to say whether he will be tried by the civil
or military authorities.
It is also due to a portion of the detach
ment to state, that they took no part in this
lawless procedure.
“ Let *ls have peace.”
Sleeping Cars on the South Carolina
Railroad.— The night trains to Columbia
and this city, on the South Carolina Rail
road, have been provided with neat and
comfortable sleeping cars, furnished with
chairs or seats constructed on the plan of
“ Holmes’ Therapeutic Chairs,” by which
means one can recline back in an easy posi
tion and take a very pleasant nap, and
thus pass away the tedious hoars of night
which are usually devoid of Interest In
railroad traveling. These now cars aro
spoken of in high terms of commendation
as being preferable to those with berths
now in use on other railroads.
Blackvillk the County Seat.— Judge
Melton in the case of Barnwell vs.
ville, denied the rule for a mandamus, by
which decision Blackville will remain the
county seat of Barnwell. The two papers,
we suppose, will have to move back again.
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Look Out for Counterfeit Currency.
—she Nashville Union gives notice that
there is a large number of counterfeit hills
of the denomination of 2’s floating on the
St. Nicholas National Bank of New York.
They are close imitations and well calcu
lated to deceive, Look out for them,