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Notice.
Prom and after this date—June 1,1870
The terms for the Tbi-Weekly Constitu
tionalist wi!! be at the rate of $6 per
annum. All papers will be discontinued at
the end of the time paid for.
“ OLD ABSTRACTIONS.”
The New York Herald dismisses the
masterly reply of Hon. Alexander H.
.Stephens to the misrepresentations con
tained in the recent speeches of Mr. Attor
ney General Akerman, as follows :
“ Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, has
written a reply to the remarks recently
made by Attorney General Akerman rela
tive to the political situation in the Soytb.
The ex-Confederate Vice-President simply
disentombs the same old Southern abstrac
tions that have been buried for a quarter
of a century. It is strange these Southern
impracticablcs will not learn wisdom from
the past and keep step in the march of the
progress of the age."
It is the fashion of the ignorant and cor
rupt to ridicule the assertion of great prin
ciples. Especially is this the case when a
refutation by argument is not within the
power of the cynic whose chief edacity is
measured by a sneer, and whose reasoning
faculties are deflcieilt in everything but
audacious glibness. These “ old Southern
abstractions ” may have been buried for a
quarter of a century, but they rest upon
ideas of civic freedom which are contem
poraneous with civilization itself; and they
will burst their cerements whenever men
who have blindly forfeited liberty to impe
rial power grow weary of tyrants and their
machinations. In any event, how much
more honorable, creditable and respectable
are those “ old Southern abstractions ”
than the new Northern abstractions
which are so beautifully expounded in
the following paragraph. A correspondent
thus writes of that loyal man, Senator
Sherman, brother of the General, who is
but a trifle better:
“ How came Senator Sherman to be so
rich ? In 1855, when he went to Congress
for the first time, he was not worth more
than $2,000, and has been in public office
ever since on a salary never larger than
$5,000 per annum, and he is now worth
$75,000 in real estate at Mansfield, Ohio,
owns the greater part of a sti eet railroad
in Washington, has $700,000 in bonds and
money, and is Interested in immense tracts
of Western lands. How did it all come ?
Ay, how did it all come? It came in a
loyal way, no doubt. It came when incor
ruptible Southern men ceased to be domi
nant in the government of this country, and
a carnival of rogues and Conspirators as
sumed to be the elect of heaven and earth.
As Uive of liberty and hatred of official
venality still remain in this region the
wonder need no longer exist that the
leaders of the South prefer honesty to such
“practicability” as the Herald preaches
anil such “ progress ” as Sherman exem
plifies by making the “ old flag” and simi
lar idols convenient disguises for enorm
ous plunder. And when the land shall
wake again to a correct estimate of meas
ures aud of men, the outraged people
will find the re-assertion of “old South
ern abstractions ” their most powerful
safeguard against the rapacious despotism
and greed of those “ progressive ” con
spirators who have changed the song
of freedom into 'a funeral dirge. And
in that better time, the memory of Al
exander 11. Stephens will be embalm
ed in houor by all good men, while the
tainted names of John Sherman, and the
multitude of that ilk, shall have no rever
ence, save, perchance, such as political
jobbers always get from the heirs who in
herit ill-gotten spoil, or the money-chang
ers in the temple who have profited by
“loyalty” and fattened upon cunning hy
pocrisy and lying cant.
Wendell Phillips.— The New York
Herald makes a good point on Wendell
Phillips, thus:
“ Wendell Phillips sees very clearly the
mote in Bismarck’s eye That mote is
want of magnanimity. It is the utter
want of a generous sentiment toward a
fallen foe. It is the resolution to pursue
relentlessly a bitter quarrel. For this,
Wendell scourges the German; but sup
pose the German should refer to the beam
iu Wendell’s eye, and ask when he felt or
snowed any magnanimity toward the fall
en foe of the Southern States in our great
civil war.”
Alas! Wendell is like old Mother
Stowe. They have both justified them
selves unto themselves, and so the argu
mentum ad. lwminem would he utterly lost.
No doubt Wendell will find out his mis
take hereafter, and then his howls may re
sound where there is a “ lack of good so
ciety and cool water.”
Total Depravity.—A brother of Henry
Ward Beecher thus spoke at the Brook
lyn church last Sunday:
“ It had been his fortune to travel very
largely amoug heathen nations, but there
was, he said, worse heathenism in New
York than in Canton, or among the Hot
tentots of the Cape of Good Hope. 1 have
seen the Bengalee Indians, the Chinese, the
South Sea Islanders, and the Crackers of
Florida, and theHillersof South Carolina;
and never, never, on the suiface of God’s
earth have I seen such men and women as
I have the last week or two in New York
city. They cannot be found. London may
equal it. I fell does not surpass it.”
Considering the congregation he address
ed, wnat a satire that is on Brother Henry’s
ministrations and what an exquisite con
tribution to the cause of truth 1
Akerman.— Observing that a Radical
paper at Atlanta had nominated that
thorough going Yankee, Hon. Amos Tap
pan Akerman, for the V.lce-Pre9idency, the
Richmond Dispatch says:
“ Certainly it can be taken as no compli
ment to the South to put Attorney General
Akerman on the national ticket. He is
not a man to be honored by the South, and
his selection would be a mockery of the
Southern people. Harmony between the
sections can but be poorly restored by such
devices as this. When men ask for bread, it
does not relieve their wants to give them a
stone — nor is a serpent a good substitute
for a fish.”
Nor for a Colfax either, though he may
be much meaner than a Fish.
The Difference. —Margaret Waters
has been condemned in England to be
hanged for the murder of forty infants. If
we are not mistaken, the late Governor
Herod, of Judea, murdered at least a thou
sand infants, and we don’t remember that
there was ever anything said about hang
ing him. — Courier-Journal.
They “ did not know everything down
in Judee.”
A Daniel Come to Judgment. —Judge
Wingfield, of Virginia, is'a technical re
former. He recently wrote on a bundle of
chancery papers, “ forty pages of bosh and
stuff." The Judge thinks two-thirds of
legal verbiage can be classed as mere rub
bish, and we dare say he is correct in the
verdict.
[From the Missouri Republican.
Wendell Phillips No More a Saint.
The diatribe of Wendell Phillips against
the Germans—a better pendant to Victor
Hugo’s incubations than could be expect
ed from the pen of any American writer—
has aroused against him the entire German
press, and the Radical newspapers that
formerly praised the fanatical Abolitionist
as a model for patriots, statesmen, philan
thropists, only here and there blushingly
criticising his preference of water to wine,
are found foremost in their condemnation
of the former prophet. The Westhehe Post
treats him with the utmost contempt.—
Wendell Phillips is now a “ New England
phrasedogist, who has hurled an anathema
against Germany and Bismarck more ridic
ulous than a Parisian milliner could have
done;” “his letter is untrne and poor in
thought; his work is such artificial insan
ity as originates in the cold heart of a
Yankee; his flashes of lightning do not
even compare favorably with a tempest on
the stage; every word he utters proves his
ignorance; every word is factitious.”
Admit this to be a correct criticism,
were the words of the cold Yankee less
factitious, when, in former times, the
Westliche Post affected to be shaken by their
thunder? Was he less untrue and igno
rant when he pronounced tho negro to be
the equal of the white man in every re
spect, than he is now when he describes
the Germans as barbarians? Had that
cold-blooded Yankee, who is now not able
to produce the effect of a stage .thunder
storm, ever any fibres in him which were
congenial to German sentiments and think
ing, aud did the Westliche Post not- preach
to the Germans to bow before his genius
and apostolic love of mankind ?
These “cold-blooded Yankees” accepted
the services of the warm-hearted Germans,
and now when they are needed no more
they receive their pay in insults to their
nationality. It is the essential feature of
cold-blooded people thus to treat their
friends. Friendship, the illimitable rela
tion between congenial characters, is a
mere business relation with fanatics, such
as Wendell Phillips. They made a bargain
with the Germans that'they.should assist
the Yankees in extending their system
throughout every State in the Union.—
They told the German that this system
was a compound of the purest philan
thropy, that the principal point in it was
the abolition of slavery, and the generous
Germans were induced by their own lead
ers to believe the story. When the war
was over and the slaves were set free, the
cold-blooded Yankees collected and pock
eted the cash proceeds of the enterprise,
leaving all the metaphoric result to their
German friends. The Yankees now keep
the strings of the national purse; they
create monopolies for their own tribe and
so protect their own industry that every
one of them gets rich; they give away mil
lions of acres of public lands, after having
promised to reserve it for homesteads for
the poor German immigrants, and after
they had divided the whole material appa
ratus of the Republic among themselves
they had no objection that the Germans
should live on the memory of former illu
sions. Now. these Yankees seem to have
forgotten entirely that the Germans ever
were their allies in the propagation of
“great moral ideas,” and at the very mo
ment when the Germans justly pride them
selves that, in consequence ol' a systematic,
honest and reasonable government, they
have been enabled to establish their nation
al importance and to punish au enemy that
for centuries has prevented them from
achieving their unity, “ cold-hearted Wen
dell Phillips ” vomits all the venom against
them which he had to keep to himself du
ring his forced alliance with the Germans.
During the last <our weeks the eyes of
the Germans have been opened twice in a
most disagreeable manner. First, by the
negroes themselves, and now by the chief
Abolitionist. If after this they see more
clearly the lesson which they have to learn,
it will not have been given in vain.
[From the Atlanta Uonatitution, Sept. 30th.
The Great Abomination.
the passage of the akerman election
BILL
Georgia sacrificed to the folly aud indif
ference of Demdcrats. This is the sad tale
of yesterday’s sickening legislation.
Yesterday morning a Democrat offered a
resolution that allowed a bare majority to
suspend the rules and take up matter out
ol' its order. Heretofore this suspension
has only been possible by a two-thirds
majority. It was what the Radicals want
ed, and they exultingly leaped to its sup
port. The Speaker refused to let it he
withdrawn. This alone was needed to give
them success. The two-thirds rule was the
prop of the minority, and the majority ex
ulted that one of the minority had initiated
the move to strike it down.
Taking advantage of it, an election bill
was taken up out of its order, the Aker
man infamy offered as a substitute, and
rushed through by iniquitous rulings of
the Speaker, and passed by a majority of
only four votes. Nine Democratic mem
bers were absent, more than enough
TO HAVE COUNTERBALANCED TIITB SMALL
MAJORITY.
Thus again has the Bullock faction suc
ceeded through Democratic instrumental
ity.
We have anticipated this very thing, aud
plead with the Democrats to stay at their
posts. The absentees will have a hard
time of it to satisfy their outraged con
st! tuences and the whole people of Georgia.
We say now that those members who
are away will have to give a valid excuse,
or the black stain will cling to them for
ever.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE CONSTITU
TION AND THE ELECTION BILL.
Editors Constitution : In the 2d ar
ticle of the constitution of Georgia, section
2d, the right to challenge the vote of an
elector is secured to the citizen, and when
the chailengu is made, the elector is pro
hibited from voting until he takes the oath
thereinafter prescribed.
The constitution,, in the same article,
section sth, declares :
“No person who, after the adoption of
this constitution, being a resident of this
State, shall engage in a duel in this State,
or elsewhere, or shall send or accept a
challenge, shall vote or hold office in this
State.”
In section 6th, of same article, it is de
clared :
“ The following classes of persons shall
not be permitted to register, vote or hold
office:
“ Ist. Those who shall have beeu convict
ed of treason, embezzlement of public
l'uuds, malfeasance in office, crime punish
able by law with imprisonment in the peni
tentiary, or bribery.
“ 2d. Idiots or insane persons.”
The declaration of the constitution is,
that the class of persons mentioned in the
two sections, 5 and 6, shall not vote; but
the election bill now pending declares they
shall, or, in other words, takes from the
citizens all opportunity of preventing such
illegal votes from 1 icing cast. Which
ought to prevail and be enforced as the law
of the land, this Constitution, framed with
great care and made for the government o
the whole people, or this’ election bill, evi
dently intended to advance the interest of
a party, and that, too, with a provision di
rectly antagonistic to the constitution ?
Wonld it not be well that the Legislature
90 amend the bill as to make it couform to
the constitution ? Enquirer.
DEMOCRATIC ABSENTEES.
The following Democrats were absent
from their places in the House to-day :
Bennett, Fowler, Humber, Lastinger,
McDougald, Reddish, Seale, Tate, Vinson.
Florida to be Redeemed.— A sub
scriber writing from Florida to the Mont
gomery Mail, proclaims the following
gratifying announcement. Our informa
tion from the Democracy of many portions
of this carpet-bag-ridden State, inclines us
to the belief that Florida will soon be re
deemed from Radical vandalism :
“ I am certain Florida will redeem herself
this Fall, and elect a Lieutenant Governor
and Congressman of pure metal, and also
give us a Democratic majority in the
Senate. It would be a lasting blessing to
impeach Reed, try him before a jury of
honest men, and send him where he ought
to be, in the penitentiary for life, ironed by
night and worked hard from sun to sun.’*
The Crown Prince of Russia is to visit
the United States next Spring.
Victor Hugo’s Appeal to the Germans.
The following is the letter addressed by
Victor Hugo to the German people through
the Paris journals, a brief extract from
which has been published in dispatches:
Germans— He who speaks to you is a
friend.
Three years ago, from exile, I welcomed
you to the Exposition of 1867 in your city.
What city ?
Paris!
For Paris belongs not alone to ns. Paris
is as much yours as it is ours. Berlin,
Vienna, Dresden, Munich, Stuttgart, are
your capitals. Paris Is your center. It is
only at Paris that we cau feel the heart of
Europe palpitating. Paris is the city of
cities—the city of mankind. Athens and
Rome were: Paris is.
Paris is nothing more than an immense
hospitality.
You return there to-day.
How ?
As brothers, as you did three years ago ?
No. As enemies. •
Why?
What is this sinister misunderstanding ?
Two nations have made Europe. These
two nations arc France and Germany. Ger
many is for the West what India is for the
East, a kind of dignified grandmother. We
venerate her. But what is passing, and
what is to be said ? To-day this Europe
which Germany has constructed by her ex
pansion and France by her divergence,
Germany wishes to overturn.
Is it possible ?
Would Germany overturn Europe iu de
stroying Paris ?
Reflect.
Wherefore this invasion? Wherefore
this savage effort against a brotherly peo
ple?
What have we done to you ?
Does this war proceed from us ? It was
the Empire which desired it; the Empire
which made it. The Empire is dead. It
is well.
We have nothing in common with that
corpse.
It is of the past; we are of the future.
It was base; we are sympathy.
It was treason; we are loyalty.
It was Capua and Gomorrah ; we are
France.
We are the French Republic, and have
for our device Liberty, Equality, Fraterni
ty ; we write on our flag United States of
Europe. We are the same people as your
selves. We had Vercingetorix as you had
Arminius. The same fraternal ray, the
saipe sublime bond of union joins the Ger
man heart and the French soul.
This is so true that we shall say here:
If, unfortunately, by your fatal error,
you proceed to extreme violence; if you
come to attack us in this august city con
fided in some manner by Europe to France;
if yon assault Paris, we shall defend it to
the last extremity; we shall fight with all
our strength against you ; but we declare
we shall continue to be your brothers; and
your wounded—do you know where we
shall place them ? in the palace of the na
tion. We shall assign the Tuileries in ad
vance as a hospital of yonr brave imprison
ed soldiers, and it is there our women shall
go to care for and succor them. Your
wounded shall be our guests; we will treat
them loyally, and Paris will receive them
into her Lonvre. .
It is with this fraternity in our heart that
we shall accept your war.
But, Germans, what means this war ? It
is ended since the Empire is at an end.
You have killed your enemy, who was also
ours ; what more do you desire ?
You come to take Paris by force! But
we have already offered it to you with love.
Do not make a people dose their doors who
have always held out their hands to you.
Be not deluded about Paris. Paris loves
you, but Paris will fight you- Paris will
fight you with all the formidable majesty
of her glory and her mourning.
Paris, menaced by this, brutal assault,
may become terrible. »
Jnles Favre has told you eloquently, and
we all repeat it, expect a desperate resist
ance.
You may take the fortress, you will find
the rampart. You may take the rampart.,
yon will find the barricade. You may take
the barricade, and then—who knows the
resources of patriotism in distress?—you
will find in the sewers miues of powder
ready to blow whole'streets in the air. This
will be the terrible sentence yon must ex
pect. To take Paris stone by stone, to
slaughter Europe on the spot, to kill
France in detail; in each street, in each
house, that great light must be extinguished
soul by soul.
Germaus, hold back. Paris is formida
ble. Think a while before her walls. All
transformations are possible for her. Her
indolence gives you the measure of her
energy. She seems to sleep. She will
awaken. Her thought will leap from its
scabbard like a sword; and this city, which
yesterday was Sybaris, to-morrow may be
Saragossa.
Do we say this to intimidate you ? No,
certainly not. Germans, you are not to be
intimidated. You had Galgacus against
Rome, and Knerner against Napoleon. We
are the people of the Marseillaise, but you
are the people of the Martial Sonnets and
the Song of the Sword. You are a nation
of thinkers who have come to need a le
gion of heroes. Your soldiers are worthy
of ours; our soldiers have unsurpassable
bravery; you have intrepid coolness.
Hear, nevertheless. You had able and
skillful generals; we had incompetent
ones; you made the war clever rather
than brilliant; your generals have prefer
red the useful to the grand ; it was their
right; you took us by surprise ; you came
ten to one; our soldiers stoically allowed
themselves to he mass icred by you who
had wisely placed all the chances on your
side; consequently from that day in this
dreadful war Prussia has the victory, but
France has the glory.
At present you believe you have a last
blow to strike. You rush upon Paris and
take advantage of our noble army, de
ceived and betrayed, nearly all stretched
dead on the battle field, to throw vour
700,000 soldiers, with all your machinery
of war—your mitrailleuses, your steel can
nons, your Krupp bullets, your Drevse
guns, your innumerable cavalry—on 300,000
citizens standing on their ramparts, on
fathers defending their firesides, on a city
full of trembling families; where there are
wives, sisters and mothers, and where, at
this hour, I, who speak to you, have my
two grandchildren, one of whom is at the
breast.
It is ou this city, innocent of this war;
on this city which has done nothing but
share with you her brilliancy; on Paris
isolated, superb, and desperate, that you
precipitate yourselves—an immense wave
of conflict and slaughter. Such would be
your role , valiant men, great soldiers, illus
trious army of noble Germany! Oh ! re
flect !
The nineteenth century would see this
frightful event—an orderly nation become
savage, abolishing the city of nations;
Germans extinguishing Paris; the German
raising the axe over the Gaul. You, the
the descendants of Teutouic knights, make
war unfairly; you exterminate the group
of men and of ideas which the world
needs; you demolish the organic city; you
recommence Attilla and Alaric; you tol
low Omar, in burning the Library of man
kind ; you raze the Hotel de Ville as the
Hnn9 razed the Capitol; you bombard
Notre Dame as the Turks bombarded the
Pantheon ; you present to the world this
spectacle; the Germans acain become van
dals, and you will be barbarism decapitat
ing civilization.
No, no, no I
Do you know that this victory wonld be
to yon ? it would be your dishonor.
Ah! surely no one can think of fright
ening you Germans, glorious army, cou
rageous people! but they may rein9truct
you. It is not certainly approbrium which
you seek ; well, it is approbrium which you
will find ; and I, a European, that is a friend
of Paris; I, a Parisian, that is'a friend of
peoples, inform you of the perils you are
in, my brothers of Germany, because I ad
mire you, I honor you, and because I know
well that if something makes you retire,
it is not shame, it is not fear.
Ah! noble soldiers, what a return to
your homes! You will be conquerors with
bowed heads; and what will your wives
say to you ?
The death of Paris—what mourning!
The assassination of Paris—what a
crime!
The world would mourn; you would in
cur the crime.
Do not accept this formidable responsi
bility. Stop!
And then, a last word. Paris driven to
the last; Paris sustained by all uprisen
France, can conquer, and should conquer,
and you will have attempted at a dead loss
this violence which already rouses the
world. In any case, efface the words, de
truction, abolition, death! No! Paris will
not be destroyed. If it is destroyed materi
ally it will augment morally. Iu ruining
Paris you sanctify it. The scattering of
the stones will be dispersion ollftdeas. —
Fling Paris to the four winds and you will
only make each grain of that dust the seed
of the future. That sepulcher will cry:
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity! Paris is a
city, but Paris is a sonl. Burn our edifices,
they are only our bones ; their smoke will
take shape, and will become enormons and
living, and will mount up to heaven ; and
there*wili be seen on the horizou of peoples,
above us, above you, above all aud every
thing, attesting our glory; attesting your
shame, that great specter of darkness and
of light, Paris.
Now, I have done. Germans, if you per
sist, be it so; you arc warned ; go, attack
the walls of Paris. Under your bombs -and
your mitrailleuses she will defend herself.
As for me, an old man, I will be there
without arms. It is proper for me to be
With people who are dying; I complain that
you are with kings who are killing.
Victor Hugo.
Paris, September 9,1870.
[Special to the New York World.
. Trochu on the Prussian Terms.
M: Jules Favre left Ferrieres for Meanx
on Thursday morning and returned to
Paris on Thursday night. Immediately
upon his return a meeting of the Commit
tee for the Defense of the Nation was held.
After a brief statement of the negotiations
he had carried on with Count von Bis
marck, M. Jules Favre submitted to the
committee the terms on which alone Count
von Bismarck would cons’ent to treat with
France for peace. These were:
1. That Strasbourg, Toul, Phalsbourg
and Verdun should be immediately surren
dered.
2. That France should supply the Ger
man army with free transportation for pro
visions and munitions of war, as well as
for recruits to fill up the broken German
regiments in France.
On these conditions Count von Bis
marck had expressed his willingness to
proclaim an armistice during the election
and meeting of the Constituent Assembly.
When M. Jnles Favre had finished reading
these propositions, Gen. Trochu rose in his
place, quiet, grave and sle.n, and in a few
concise sentences called for the rejection,
instant and unconditional, of propositions
which, he said, “I should describe as in
sulting did I not believe them to be inten
tionally illusory.” Gen. Trochn then went
on to speak of the conditions of the con
test. He said : “ 1 should condemn a hope
less contest both as a citizen and as a sol
dier. No man lias a right to recommend
suicide to a nation any more than to a
man. But France is in no such emergency.
The capital is able to resist, and with the
fall of the capital the departments will
rise. The winter is fast approaching, and
the armies of the invader, already harass
ed and suffering, will then be exposed to
the greatest want and misery. From all
parts of the country the republic is warm
ly endorsed and accepted. New armies are
forming on the Loire and at Lyons. All
these brave Frenchmen mustering in arms
for the defense of the nat’on wonld disown
our action were we to humiliate France by
such a surrender of her rights, her honor
and her dearest interests, as Prussia now
demands of us. The great cities of France
wonld not abide by our capitulation. The
trials of a cruel war, made a war of neces
sity by our implacable invaders, will re
store the manhood and elevate the spirit of
the French people. I propose that the
committee unanimously reject the condi
tions offered by Count von Bismarck.” -
These remarks were vehemently applaud
ed, and the terms o! Prussia were unani
mously rejected.
Great Railroad Sale.— We learn from
the Memphis Avalanche that the delinquent
railroads in Tennessee, which have failed
to pay the interest on the bonds of the State
loaned them, will be sold at public auction
on the 3d day of November, 1870. The
place of sale we suppose will be Nashville,
and the following roads are to be sold :
Nashville and Northwestern Railroad,
Cincinnati, Cumberland Gap and Charles
ton, Central, Southern, Edgefield ajjd Ken
tucky, Memphis, Clarksville and Louisville,
Knoxville and Kentucky, McMinnville,
and Manchester, RagertadUeana -•=-
vine, Winchester and Alabama, Knoxville
and Charleston, Evansville, Henderdon and
Nashville, East Tennessee and Western
North Carolina, and Mineral Home. Toe
sale has been ordered by S'ate Commis
sioners under an act of the last session of
the Legislature, the legal advice of Archie
bald Wright, R. F. McKinney, and Francis
B. Fagg having first been obtained. The
Commissioners are authorized to receive In
payment the bonds of the State, and the
teimsof sale are cash. This will retire
about ten million dollars of indebtedness,
possibly fifteen. The railroads will pass
into the hands of men or corporations that
will make them of service to tile public.—
The unfinished roads will be completed,
and the railroad system of Tennessee be
enlarged.
This will afford the hungry horde of
“ developers” now hanging around Atlanta,
for the purpose of getting their fingers into
the State Road, an opportunity to invest a
few of the millions of capital with which
they profess to lie backed, for the develop
ment of the railroad interests of the South,
as they are pleased to call their schemes of
plunder.
Stephens vs. Akerman. —Amos T.
Akerman, the present Attorney General of
the United States, one of the innumerable
small potatoes that have come to the top
of the present boiling political cauldron,
having taken occasion to declare that the
doctrines promulgated by Hon. A. H. Ste
phens, in his work, “ The War Between
the States,” were “ pernicious, and .ought
to be suppressed,” Mr. Stephens writes a
communication to the Augusta Constitu
tionalist, in which he completely pulverizes
Amos and scatters his Akermanian argu
ments to the winds. The letter of Mr. Ste
phens is a very able one, and is wiitten
with unusual vigor and ability. There
hasn’t been as much punishment inflicted
on any one since Lord Macaulay gave Mr.
Rob rt Montgomery and his poems that
awful dressing which may be found in his
“ Essays.” Mr. Stephens has very effectual
ly “ suppressed " the “ pernicious ” Amos,
and clipped his wings so that he can’t
roost quite so high next time.
[Mobile Register.
The Augusta Fair— The question of
the progress and development of the South,
and more especially of the cotton States,
since the war, is one full of interest, if not
to all classes of the community, at least to
a large commercial element in our city.—
On the 26th of October the Grand Annual
Fair of the cotton States will begin at
Augusta, Georgia. The efforts of|the pro
jectors of this enterprise have been directed
to Tendering this fair in every way worthy
of th • industry and progress of the section
of which it is intended to illustrate the ad
vancement. It will, therefore, be an event
of no little importance in a commercial
point of view, and will necessarily attract
to Augusta from abroad thousands of
visitors. Avery reasonable arrangement
has been made whereby those who desire
to attend the fair from this city may del so
without a very great expense.
[W. Y. World, 27 th.
A Satanic Race in Mexico. —A gentle
man was in our town yesterday, who had
just returned from Old Mexico, and had with
him a boy about 14 years of age that is
almost as great a curiosity as the armless
man. He is well formed in every respect
except his feet, which consist of only two
long toes, the great and small toe. The
foot is cleft from the ankle, and forms the
separate toes, each toe about six inches
long. The joints of the toes appear stiff
from walking on them. The toes and foot,
of which there is nothing but a heel, re
semble the thumb and forefinger of the
hand, both toes of the same length, and he
can grip a piece of coin or paper with the
ends of them somewhat as a crawfish
would. He is very pleasant and Intelli
gent. The gentleman with him said his
whole family—father, mother, brothers and 1
-sisters—were ajl formed the same Way, and
they claim to belong to a tribe in Central 4
Mexico, whose feet were all formed the
same as theirs. —Nevada City (Mo.) limes.
[From the Overland Monthly.
Plain Language from ruthful James.
(TABLE MOUNTAIN, 1870.)
Which I wish to remark—
i nd niy Jaogu ge ie plain—
’That for ways that are dark
And for tricks that are vain,
The heathen Chinee is peculiar.
Which the same I would rise to explain.
Ah Sin was his name;
Andi shall not deny i. ; ,
In regard to. the same
What that name might imply,
But his smile it was pensive and child-like,'
As I ireqhent remarked to Bill Nye.
It was August the third ;
And quite soli was the skies ,
Which it might be inferred
That Ah Sin was likewise;
Tet he played it that day u: on William
And me in a way I despise.
Which we hail a small game.
And A:; Sin took a hand ; . -
It was Euchre. The same
He did not understsu.d;
But he smiled ns he Sat by the table.
With tbe smile that was child like and bland
Yet the cards they were stocked
In a way that I grieve,
And my feelings were shocked
At the state of Nye’s sleeve :
Which was stuffed full of aces and bowers,
And the same with intent to deceive.
But the hands that were played
By that heathen Chinee,
And the points that he made.
Were quite frightful to see—
Till at last he put and wn a right bower,
Which the same Nyc had dealt unto me.
Then I looked up at Nye,
And he gazed upon me ;
And he rose with a sigh,
And said, “ Can this be ?
We arc ruined by Chinese cheap labor
And he went for that heathen Chinee.
In the scene that ensned
I did not lake a hand,
But the floor it was strewed
Like the leaves on the strand.
With the cards that Ah Sin had been hiding,
In the game “he did not understand.”
In his sleeves, which were long,
He had twenty-four p cks—
Which was coming it strong,
Yet I state but the facts;
And we found ou his nails, which were taper,
What is frequent, in tapers that’s wax,
Which is why I remark,
And my language is plain,
That for ways that are dark,
And for tricks that are vain,
The heathen Chinee is peculiar—
Which the same I am free to maintain.
A Coveted Position—The Man who
Bathes at Long Branch. —There is only
one man that I have envied during the
Summer —the man who bathes the girls at
Long Branch, the merman of the hotel. He
takes his place about ten yards from the
shore, and as the vestals and dames come
into the water he does totally immerse
them. He is brawny and ugly, and yet he
is the most popular man with the punc
tilious half of our species that I have ever
seen. Avery -scrawny and nnteinpting
maiden lady, who probably never had a
genu ne pair of man’s arms around her in
her life, was the bane of this bather’s ex
istence. She went ou every day of the
season to take her bath, and under the pre
text of learning to swim, she made the de
voted child of Adam duck her tor two
hours. The squeals, the sighs, the inter
jections, and the noise this female used
were agony to this bather. Said he -. “ She
ketches me as if I was a hoss or a hitching
post, and lives back all of what might have
been in them two hours. And the more
she enjoys herself the colder she gets. I
be on the beach five years ; but if the don’t
trot out some livelier females, I shall re
sign. I ain’t no undertaker of drowned
folk.”
Quite otherwise is the demeanor of this
guilty merman when more tempting graces
come to swim. He placed t hem lengthwise
across his two arms, face upward to the
sky, and gently floats them in the surface,
looking down, meanwhile, at the streaming
tresses, the closed eyes, the exhaling nos
trils, and the little shod feet, with the min
gled piety, resignation and tenderness of a
Mormon Bishop baptising a convert. Oc
casionally be agitates the water in a guilty
way, as if he wished to be presumed to be
earning his salt easier than any person of
Millions of his species
would pay for his position. I saw him
once shock the feelings of a bashful young
gentleman’s lady love. The bashful young
man had probably never done as much as
to give the lady his arm. The other took
him from her at once, and, swinging her
under the water, hoisted her in his arms,
dipped hpr again and again, and to facili
tate diving, held her nose with ong hand
her toe with the other, and thus submerg'd
her absolutely. The young man felt tor his
weapons to immolate this uncivil v»< t, but
the ungrateful young woman Just then,
getting breath, cried:
“Gustavus. it’s positively’ splendid !”
f From, a T/mg Branch Letter.
The Seats op O’Conner’s Circus Break
Down—One Thousand People Fall—
Arms, Legs, and Ribs Broken. —While
O’Conner’s circus was in the midst of its
performance at Marysville, on Tuesday
uiglit of this week, the seats, owing to the
condition of the ground, aud probably care
lessness in putting up, careened over to one
side aud fell, precipitating to the ground
in one common heap over a thousand per
sons, occasioning the wildest scene of con
fusion possible to conceive and wounding,
bruising, and mangling quite a number.—
Mr. Figley, who was there, informs us that
he learned definitely of the serious injuries
of fonr persons—two men, one lady, and
a little girl. Mrs. Nelson, formerly land
lady of ths Twelve-Mile House, the only
one of the persons whose name he ascer
tained, had one of her legs broken ; one of
the men also had a leg broken, and the
other man and little girl had each an arm
fractured. It was thought, though noth
ing definite could be learned owing to the
confusion, that several persons had ribs
broken. Wounds and bruises innumerable
of a less serious nature were received by
those who fell. Mr. Figley himself came
very nearly getting his leg broken, his foot
being for a time fastened by one of the
seats, it slipped off in ti me to save his limb,
and he received no injury. All the property
of the circus was attached for damages by
those injured, and hence there was no per
formance here on Wednesday.
[Savannah (Missouri) New Era.
The Chinese as Missionaries. —Rev. S.
L. Baldwin, in response to some inquiries
as to “ what kind of Methodist minister
John Chinaman will make,” says that he
makes an efficient, useful, persevering and
successful Methodist minister. Last No
vember Bi-hop Kingsley ordained seven
native preachers at Foochow, viz: Hil Po
Mi, a man of eloquence, terrible in his
denunciations of idolatory; Ha Yong Mi,
an amiable and able preacher; Ling Ching
Ting, a Boanerges of the Cartwright
stamp; Sla Sek Ong, a devoted and
spiritually minded man ; Hii Sing Mi, the
youug man who was partly educated in
your city by John Stephenson, the car
manufacturer; Li Yu Mi, who learned
the characters of his language while work
ing at his anvil; and Yek Ing Kwang, one
of the first fruits of the Rev. O. Gibson’s
boarding-school at Foochow. These men,
says Mr. Baldwin, are members of our
conferences—one of them being connected
with the Newark Conference. They are
not considered as intruders, but are glad
ly welcomed to our ministerial ranks, and
hold precisely the same relation to the
Church as, that held by American minis
ters. One of these native preachers has
baptized and received into the Church
112 converts within a perion of six months.
AnAstok House Joke.— A shoit time
ago Mr. A. M. Powell, of New York city,
wrote to C. A. Stetson’s Sons, proprietors
of the Astor House, in thatcli y, asking if
accommodations could be found in that
well-known hotel for “ Hon. G. T. Ruby
colored, State Senator from Galveston’
Texas,” and wife. The Stetson’s Sons reply
that at this season of the year their house
is filled with boarders, but they express a
willingness to aid the “new element of our
political machinery in receiving the neces
sary polish to secure it at least a social
equality with the struggling Caucasian”
and therefore suggests the entertainment of
ths honorable Senator at Mr. Powell’s pri
vate residence, pledging the payment of the
cost thereof, when the charges are properly
made out and audited by a committee.
BY TELEGRAPH.
I Special to the Constitutionalist.
. FROM ATLANTA.
THE SENATE RECONSIDER ANDRE
PASS THE DISTRICT COURT BILL.
THE SENATE CONCUR IN HOUSE
AMENDMENT TO THE AKERMAN
ELECTION BILL.
THE HOUSE REFUSE TO RECON
SIDER THE ELECTION BILL.
THE STATE ROAD HANDS CROWD
THE GALLERIES TO OVER
AWE THE HOUSE.
CHIEF JUSTICE BROWN DECLARES
THE ELECTION BILL UN
CONSTITUTIONAL.
Atlanta, September 30.
SENATE.
The District Court bill was reconsidered
and Wooten’s amendment lost. The dis
tricts exempted yesterday was re-exempted
and the bill passed.
The House amendment to the Akerman
no election bill was concurred In.
Bills incorporating the Planters’ Loan
and Savings Bank, of Augusta; the Griffin
Bank, and People’s Bank, of Macon, were
passed.
HOUSE.
Scotts’ motion to reconsider rescinding
the two-thirds rule was lost—yeas 60, nays
68.
A motion to reconsider the Akerman
bill was lost, yeas 60, nays 67.
Johnson, Bullock’s Secretary, was busy
all the morning collecting the State Road
hands ; the galleries were crowded with
them, and it is reported they were armed,
to overawe the House.
Chief Justice Brown appealed to the
Republicans not to be bound by party
shackles, to strike out unconstitutional
features. The ultra Radicals denounce
him. He declares the bill unconstitutional.
The bill providing for the levying of a
tax on the property of the Central Road at
Macon was lost.
A bill changing the lines of the counties
of Lowndes and Berrien passed.
Bills of relief were made the special order
for Thursday.
Bills were passed to repeal part of sec
tion 4245, Irwin’s Code, relative to setenc
ing accessories ufter the fact to the chain
gang ; to make slander a criminal offense;
to permit bar-keepers to sell certain beve
rages on the Sabbath day.
It is understood among Republicans in
and out of the Legislature that O’Neal, of
Lowndes, will be an independent candidate
for Congress in the first district.
A communication in the Constitution
charges Senator Harris with having filed,
iu *hc | mat two weeks, a pica of puio r«u a f
to a suit pending for a note given for neces
saries for his family. Substantially Sena
tor Candler’s charge.
[Bpecial to the Comstitutionaliat.
ARRIVAL OF THE AUGUSTA DELEGA
TION AT CINCINNATI.
Cincinnati, September 30.
The Augusta delegation to the Green
Lin 6 excursion arrived all safe yesterday
afternoon. The people of Cincinnati are
doing everything in their power to make
the visit pleasant. We are quartered at Bur
nett House. Gen. Breckinridge addresses
ns to-day. The industrial exibition, which
is taking place, makes a magnificent affair.
1 Ansnoiate.l Pri gs Dispatches.
NOON DISPATCHES.
New York, September 30.—The weather
is bad for FarragutV funeral. The schools
are closed and business in good part sus
pended.
San Francisco, September 30.—A volca
no near San Rafail Valley, dormant for two
.years, is now violently erupting smoke,
ashes and cinders. Telegrams from San
Diego say it Is plainly visible from there.
The whole southern horizon last night was
dark with smoke.
Boston, September 30.—The Gurriere
got off undamaged and proceeds to New
York.
Cincinnati, September 30.—Ten thous
and visitors were at tke fair yesterday.—
The exposition is the finest ever in tlic
West. The Green Line excursionists from
the South (300) safely arrived.
New York, September 30.—The German
steamer Frankfort got safely to sea. No
French cruisers visible.
Berlin, September 30.—The popular ap
petite for conquest Is increasing, but dis
patches from army headquarters are pa
cific.
Florence, September 30.—Rome is
threatened with exclusion from the plebis
cite. The Pope dismissed the Italian guard
of honor. The National Guard will escort
the King to Rome.
London, September 29.—The blockade of
the Elbe is removed.
A telegram just received from Tours says
there is considerable insubordination in the
French army. The officers appear unable
to control undisciplined soldiers. Severe
examples continue.
The Prussians have desisted from their
westward march, and seem to be concen
trating around Paris.
The reported movement on Lyons is
untrue.
The French say the Prussian losses since
the commencement of the war, and es
pecially since the investment of Paris, is so
enormous that the Germans take care to
concfeal the facts.
A telegram from Luxemburg says Me
zieres is very strong, but it is not thought
it can hold out.
French prisoners are working on the ca
nal in Hanover.
Later advices from Paris say the con
struction of barricades is rapidly progress
ing under the supervision of Rochefort and
Gustave Florens. The Mobiles are armed
with anew and dreadfully destructive en
gine, an invention just made and kept se
cret.
No abatement of Russian wav prepara
tions.
Lyons, September 30.—Political excite
ment has entirely subsided. A few addi
tional arrests of Clusaret’s adherents have
been made.
Rouen, September 29.—Another Paris
balloon has landed. A messenger has gone
forward with a multitude of letters for
Tours.
Tours, September 30.—The firemen are
being enrolled. ' Breach loaders are re
placing Inferior arms. Later advices from
Paris say a series of successful engage
ments has increase the order of the defend
ers. A new breach-loading cannon is
placed on the ramparts.
Richmond, September 30.—Superinten
dent Kates, of . the Western Union Lines,
telegraphs this morning that a number of
buildings at Lynchburg have been swept
away, and both gas and water works nub
merged. Houses from the country above
have been floating by all the morning and
during last night. The new iron bridges
of the Southside Road were carried away
this morning.
The highest freshet ever known there is
prevailing at Lynchburg. The passenger
bridge across James river, a quarter of a
mile long, was washed away last nigh ■
The depots of the Orauge BIMI an^
Railroadand the Virginia and Tennessee
Railroad are submerged. ° a tover
the tow-path •njwjjg wa9he d up the
of the ci y- eleven o’clock last
r Jphburg was suddenly thrown
night Lynchburg wa * number
into total
of employees aa lgland below the
a Se freshet will reach Richmond
°[ty- f to-day, and the river here
about 2 ocl a Merchants are
Eu!y*in e thJ lower portion of the city re
moving goods in time. Telegraph lines
are down in all directions.
_ Jackson, September 29.—Thos, P. Con
ner, a member of the Mississippi Legisla
ture, was to-day shot and killed, by a man
named Collins, at Wenona, Miss. The dif
ficulty grew out of the recent assassina
tion of a man named Arnold Brantley.
Collins was not arrested.
EVENING DISPATCHES.
Washington, September 30 —The Presi
dent returns on Monday.
It is raining all day. Thermometer 80.
New York, September 30.—Three Rus
sians, very skillful counterfeiters, were cap
tured while printing fifty cent scrip.—
Many thousand dollars of bogus scrip were
captured.
The Supreme Court meets3lst ol October,
in continuation of last term, which ends on
the Ist Monday In December. The call
docket will be resumed at case 204, an ap
peal from the Supreme Court of Illinois,
which refused admission to the Bar to a
married woman, comes up this term.
London, September 30.—The Prussians
have evacuated Ramboellet, seventeen miles
southwest of Versailles. * Confidence is re
turning iu Paris.
It is vaguely asserted some positions
occupied by the Prussians have been re
covered.
The Times in its money article says a
further reduction of the Bank rate is ex
pected.
There was a Cabinet session to-day in
rcgai’d to foreign affairs. The journals say
the result will dissatisfy the belligerents
and satisfy nobody.
The Prussians are continually coming
nearer and throwing up works. At Bag
neux and on Mendon their terrace works
will face the works of Vanoise and Issy, on
the south of Paris.
Prussians have occupied Jourdan, eigh
teen miles southwest of Versailles. It is
reported, also, that they reached Nevernal
and Grigueville, in the Department of Seine
et. Oise.
Brussels, September 30.—The Independ
ence Beige says the telegrams dated Brus
sels, and made public through the Lombard
street News Room at London, were bogus
and never wired at Brussels.
St. Petersburg, September 30.—The
official journal denies that Russia has pur
chased anew irou-clad from the United
States and made a concentration of forces
on the Turkish frontier. Russia’s policy is
peace and justice.
Cherbourg, September 30.—The greater
part of the French fleet has returned.
Squadrons were left in the North Sea and
English Channel to protect the French
coast.
Tours, September 30.—A great number
of the Emperor’s private documents have
been made public. Many noted persons of
the old regime are implicated in scandals.
M. Devinne, President of the Cour de Cas
sation, has been dismissed for complicity
with the Emperor and Moyerrite Belanger
affair. The Jecker correspondence regard
ing Mexico has been unearthed, implicating
Due de Morny and others high in the Em
peror’s confidence; also, a letter from the
Emperor, and one from Persigny to Na
poleon, proving the existence of a black
tribunal; a letter from the Queen of Hol
land, after the battle of Sadowa, warning
the Emperor against events now happen
ing. Another lot, still more scandalous, is
promised.
Later dispatches from Paris say Jules
fliiMtm Tuts stuppeo pßnattum iu those dra
matic writers who needed no assistance,
and other retrenchments will he made by
the Ministry. It contemplated saving the
amount of fifty millions.
Vienna, September 30.—A naturalzation
treaty with the United States has been
signed by Austria.
Amsterdam, September 30.—The Bank
of Holland has reduced the rate to 4%.
Madrid, September 30.—Topete” and
others opposed to a call of the Cortes are
very unpopular in Madrid.
Richmond, September 30.—The flood
reached here at 12:30, in a wave five feet
high, and in twenty minutes the rivqr rose
six ieet. There was groat excitement in
the lower part of the city in removing
goods from places accessible to water. The
Orange Hotel and Orange and Alexandria
Railroad bridges at Lynehburg were swept
away this morning.
The water has risen here ten feet since
noon. This is the water from the Rivana ;
t hat from Lynchburg will strike here about
midnight. The water at Lynchburg is
twenty-five feet higher than ever before
known.
A telegram from Gordousvillc says the
Rivana river Is flooding all the surrounding
country. Houses, barrels of flour and cat
tle have been washing down stream all the
morning.
At. Gordonsville to-day, the accounts
that come in from the flood are more and
more disastrous. The Orange and Alex
andria Railroad bridge over the Rocktlsh
river is reported sweot away. The bridges
over the Rivana and Moore’s creek, on the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, have also
gone. Burley’s and Wells’ two mills are
both going down the Rivana, with four
hundred barrels of flour floating around
them. A dwelling house, completely fur
nished, went by this afternoon. The Ri
vana is filled with debris of furniture,
barns, agricultural implements, crops. <!fco.
All the crops on the low grounds are a
total loss. Telegraph lines to Lynchburg
and the West are badly damaged.
Vice-President Wvckham, of the Chesa
peake and Ohio Railroad, is between Green
wood and Waynesboro with two trains,
unable to recede or advance. Superinten
dent Vandergrift, of the Orange and Alex
andria Railroad, went to the break at
Moore’s creek with a train this afternoon.
Atlanta, September 30.—The Akerman
election bill, postponing the election to the
20th of December, passed the House yes
terday by a vote of 61 to 57. An effort to
reconsider to-day failed by 67 to 60. The
galleries were crowded with operatives of
the State Road, who, it is said, were armed.
Chief Justice Brown, of the Supreme
Court, declares the bill unconstitutional,
and denounces it.
It is thought that, notwithstanding the
provisions of the bill favor illegal voting,
the Democrats will carry the State.
New Orleans, September 30.—There
were twelve deaths from yellow fever yes
terday.
NIGHT DISPATCHES.
Cologne, September 30. Ihe Gazette to
day publishes the views of several corres
pondents on the question of peace. The
writers, while admitting the prevailing
tongue in Alsace is German, deny the edi
tor’s statement that the same Is true of Lo
raine. One who passed a great part of his
life in that province says the German ele
ment is hardly perceptible, and the lan
guage only spoken in the belt adjoining the
frontier.
Liverpool, September 30. —The mem
bers of the Liverpool Cotton Brokers' As
sociation held a meeting yesterday, and
unanimously resolved that henceforth any
member failiug to pay twenty shillings to
the pound shall be expelled.
London, September 30.—1n the Captain
disaster investigation, a letter was read
showing that Captain Coles, being dis
satisfied because his views were mollified
in building the Monarch, received a carte
blanche, in regard to the Captain.
An explosion of fire damp occurred in
tlie colliery near Tenby, killing one man
and iniuring several others.
The successive defeats of the yacht Cam
bria in American waters is a source of
no little mortification to vachtmen here.
It is said the French repulsed the Prns-
toa statement which appears
VUniverse, Marshal Lcßoueff, late Na
ooleon’s chief of staff, sought death In
the battles around Metz, and displayed the
most reckless valor. He admits France
was unprepared for the war, and confesses
he did not dare to tell the Emperor before
war commenced wliat the state of the army
was.
Colonel Leslie goes as British Military
Commissioner to the Prussian front.
The news rooms in London bulletin tel
egrams daily from the scene of war, but
their news has proved so untrnstworthy
that little attention is now paid to it.
From this and similar irresponsible sources
arise much of the false information tele
graphed abroad.
Rome, September 30.—. The victorious
Italians here now begin to show strong
sympathy for the French Republicans.
Berlin, September 80.—A dispatch from
Ferrieres Thursday says the King recon
noitered the French lines from St. Denis
to Romainesville.
Kehl is crowded with refugees from
Strasbourg awaiting permission to return
to the city.
Tours, September 30.—The report is re
iterated that General Beauregard, late of
the Confederate army, is in the French ser
vice. It is stated he first accepted a col
onel’s commission, but that since he has
b?en appointed a general, and is at present
organizing troops"in the south of France.
It is reported that the foreign ambas
sadors met to-day in consequence of the
receipt of important news from Thiers.
The Government is considering the ques
tion of ordering an election for a Constitu
ent Assembly in October. It is under
stood a majority of Ministers are in favor
of the plati.
Arrangements have been made, which, if
successfully carried out, will give us news
from Paris every day.
Lyons is now quiet, factious agitation
having partially subsided. The Govern
ment here have taken effectual means to
prevent a renewal of the disturbances in
that city.
The army of the Loire, now organizing,
will be commanded by General Mettlevon.
Gen. Ballaw, who escaped from Stras
bourg in disguise, has arrived at Lyons.
Additional engagements have taken place
around Paris since the last reports, in
which the French are reported to have
been successful.
A numbdlof Italian and Spanish volun
teers are expected to arrive at Lyons.
The weather continues warm and clear.
The water in the river is so low that the
Prussians easily wade across.
MARINE NEWS.
New York, September 30.—Arrived out:
Alepo.
MARKETS.
London, September 30—Noon. —Consols,
91%. Bonds, 90%.
London, September 30—Evening.—Con-
sols, 91%. Bonds, 90%.
Liverpool, September 30—Noon.—Cot-
ton dull; uplands, 8%; Orleans, 9; sales,
8,000 bales; sales week, 58,000; export,
13,000; speculation, 2,000; stock, 521,000;
American, 151,000; receipts week, 81,000;
American, 17,000. Red Western Wheat,
Bs. 3d.(385. 4d.; red Western, 9s. 6d.<39a. 7d.
Flour, 225. 9d. Corn, 28s. 9d.
Liverpool, September 30—Evening-
Cotton flat; uplands, 8%; Orleans, 8% ;
sales, 10,000 bales; export and speculation,
2,500. Tallow, 445. Manchester Yarns
and Fabrics dull; stock afloat, 334,000
bales; American, 28,000.
New York, September 30—P. M.—
Gold changes hands on the streets at 113%
<3114.
New York, September 30—Noon. —
Flour ami Wheat quiet and unchanged.
Corn unchanged and dull. Pork steady.
Lard dull ; steam, 15%@15%. Cotton
quiet; uplands, 16%. Turpentine quiet at
39%. Rosin firm at 95. Freights dull.
New York, September 30—P. M.—Cot
ton easier; sales, 800 bales; uplands, 16%.
Flour—State and Western quiet and un
changed ; Southern dull; common to fair
extra, $5 30(36. Wheat quiet and un
changed. Corn steady. Beef dull; plain,
$12(315 50; extra, $15318 50. Pork nominal
at $24 50@24 62%. Lard dull; kettle,
15%@16%. Whisky, 88. Groceries steady.
Naval Stoves quiet. Freights declining ;
cotton, steam, %<35-16 ; wheat, steam, 5%
(36.
New Orleans, September 30.—Flour
nothing doing; prices nominally unchanged.
Corn dull; mixed, 72% ; white, 75. Oats,
52@53. Bran, 90(395. Hay dull and lower;
prime, $24(325. Pork quiet but firmer;
mess, S2O Bacon, 14%, 16%, 17%, 18 and
18% ; hams, 22(325. Lard —tierce, 10%<3
16% ; keg, 19320. Sugar—prime, 13.
Molasses—reboiled, 45(350. Whisky—Cin
cinnati, 95(351. Coffee—prime, 17%(317%.
Sterling, 24%. New York Sight, % pre
mium. Gold, 113%.
St. Louis, September 30.—Flour steady ;
superfine, $434 25. Corn dull ; mixed, 57.
Whisky dull and nominal. Hemp and
Bagging unchanged. Mess Pork lower at
$25. Bacon, shoulders, 11% ; clear sides,
17%.
Cincinnati, September 30.—Flour heavy.
Corn dull and lower at 68 ; new, 52. Mess
Pork qniet and weak at $24 25. Bacon
quiet and unchanged. Whisky, 85(386
time; 85. cash. ■
New Orleans, September 30 —Cotton'
active at full prices; middling, 15@15%.
spies, 2,800 bales; net receipts, 2,223 • coast’
wise, 249; total, 2,472; stock, 29 189 • net
receipts week, 11,3§1 ; coastwise, 1639-
total, 13,460; expoits week—to Great
Britain, 2,184; coas. W ise, 4,082 • sales
week, 11,200.
Galveston, September 3o.— Cotton dull
and nominal; good ordiw 13 sa]
60 bales ; net receipts, 305;stock, 18 231 •
net receipts week, 1,498; exports coas** 1
wise, 366; sales week, 830.
Savannah, September 30.— Cotton in
good demand at 14%(314% ; tales, 100
bales; net receipts, 3,448 ; expoits coast
wise, 1,772 ; stock, 20,801 ; net reodpts of
the week, 18 847 ; exports coastwise, 7,289 ;
sales of the week, 8,000.
Charleston, September 30. — Cotton
steady; middling, t4%®14%; sales, 200
bales; net receipts, 1 348; coastwise, 25 ;
total, 1.373; exports coastwise, 4,135;
stock, 6,042; net receipts of the week, 8,655;
coastwise, 25; total, 8,680; exports coast
wise, 8,457; sales of the week, 4,000.
Baltimore, September 30.—Cotton dull
and teuding down ; middling, 16% ; sales,
115 bales; net receipts, 583; coastwise,
193; total, 776; exports coastwise, 248;
stock, 2.405 ; net receipts of the week, 655;
coastwise, 1,813; total, 2,468; exports
coastwise, 740; sales of the week, 1,270.
Boston, September 30. —Cotton dull;
middling, 16%<316%; sales, 150 bales; net
receipts,' 79 ;'coastwise-, 201; total, 280;
stock, 4,000 ; net receipts of the week, 495 ;
coastwise, 4,710 ; total, 5,205 ; sales of the
week, 10,000.
Norfolk, September 30.— Cotton dull
and nominal; low m’ddling, 14%®14% ;
net receipts, 1.072 bales; exports coast
wise, 262; stock, 2,638; net receipts of the
week, 5,179; exports coastwise, 2,928 ;
sales of the week, 70.
Augusta Daily Market.
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Fbioat, September 3ft—P. M. t
FINANCIAL
GOLD— Baying fit 113 and selling at 114.
SlLVEß—Buying at 105 and selling at 108.
BONDS—City Bouds, 80082.
STOCKS— Georgia Railroad, 97@98. Au
gusta Factory, 1580160. Savings Bank, 100.
COTTON—At the opening of the market
there was an active demand for Liverpool mid
dling at 14e.; New York middling, 14%, but
the accounts both from New York and Liver
pool showing a downward turn, our market,
in response, closed quiet at 13%014 for Liver
pool middling; 14014% for New York mid
dling. Sales, 1,030 bales. Receipts, 1,259
bales. Sales for the week are 5,462 bales. Re
ceipts same time, 6,048 ba’es. Stock on hand,
2,710 bales.
BACON—Good demand, with light stock.
We quote C. Sides, 19@19%; C. R. Sides,
18%@19; B. B. Sides, 18018% ; Shoulders, 160
16%; Hams, 22%@27; Dry Salt Shoulders,
14%@15 ; Dry Salt£. R. Sides, 17%018 ; D. 8.
Clear Sides, 18.
CORN—In moderate demand and prime white
is selling at $1 15 by car load from depot;
retail, $1 20..
WHEAT—We quote choice white, fl 30;
amber, fl 25; red, f 1 15.
FLOUR—City Mills, f6 000 7 50; at retail,
fl « barrel higher. Counti y, f609, accord
ing to quality.
CORN MEA L— f 120 at wholesale; f145 at
retail.
OATS—SSO6O.
PEAB-f2@2 25.
A Case of Miscegenation.—A good
looking white woman, about thirty years
of age, yesterday morning came down to
the Danville depot, followed by a negro
woman, crying as if her heart would break.
When asked what was the matter, she re
plied : “ That woman is about to take my
husband from me. If she was a nigger ’oman
I could stand it, but to have my husband
stolen by a white ’oman is too bad.” She
pointed out on the train her truant hus
band, who was as black as negroes are gen
erally made. The woman was said to be a
“ Yankee school-marm.”
[Richmond JDitpateh, 28 th «ft.