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GO]S STITTJT i ON AUST.
AUGUSTA. GhK
THURSDAY MORNING. 00T. 6, 1870
Notice.
From and after this date—June 1,1870
The terms for the Tw-WaMW Constitu
tionalist will be at the rate of $6 per
annum. All papers will be discontinued at
the end of the time paid for.
COTTON.
Prom the Report of the Commissioner of
Agriculture, for August and September,
1870, we extract as follows concerning
COTTON.
Nanseraond County, Va.—There is prom
ise of a fine crop.
Sampson County, N. C.—Never so large
before, but the fruitage is not expected to
be equal to the growth of the plant.
Anson Countv, N. G—A good yield, un
less damaged by rust.
Columbus County, N. C.—A material in
crease of acreage.
Franklin County, N. C.—The forms have
fallen off badly on account of the wet
wcftthcr.
Mecklenburg County, N. C.—A better
crop than last year.
Greene County, N. C.—Scarcely two
thirds, of an average crop.
Edgecombe County, N. C.—Twenty-five
per cent,, less than an average.
Duplin County, N. C.—Largely injured
by rust.
Gastou County, N. C.—-A good crop.
Williamsburg County, S. C.—Rust is pre
vailing to some extent.
Fairfield County, S. O.—Prospect greatly
diminished by the intensely hot and dry
weather.
Richland County, S, C.—A good average
crop.
Marion county, S. C.—Rust more general
than since 1848.
Uniou County, S. C.—August has been
very unfavorable to the crop.
Abbeville County, 8. C.—Prospect of a
good average crop and more.
Decatnr County, Ga.—Suffering from
rust.
Columbia County, Ga.—Rust and the
army worm have materially injured the
crop, s iy three-teuths.
Warren County, Ga.—Crop will fall con
siderably below that of last year.
Macon County, Ga—Rust and dry
weather have done considerable damage on
the gray lands that have been fertilized
with guano. In other localities the condi
tion of the crop is above an average.
Butts County, Ga.—Loug spells of wet
and dry weather have somewhat injured
the crop.
Brooks county, Ga.—Much injured by
rust. A larger acreage than last year.
Glynn County, Ga.—Acreage much re
duced from last year.
Milton County, Ga.—Much above the
average.
Taylor County, Ga —Every crop morebr
less damaged by rust.
Heard County, Ga.—Over an average
crop.
Liberty County, Ga.—A fair crop.
Colquitt County, Ga.—Above an average
crop, on account ot the increased quantity
of guano used this year.
Talbot County, Ga.—Failing on account
of drought and extrerhe heat.
Harris County, Ga.—About an average.
Sumter County, Ga.—A fair crop.
Schley County, Ga.—Failing fast., on ac
count of rust, and drought;
Soriven County, Ga.—The poorest pros
pect in many years.
Oglethorpe County, Ga.—Prospect for an
unusually large crop—better than for many
years.
Terrell County, Gu—Guanoed cotton
dead on account of excessive drought.
Hancock County, Ga.—Drought and rust
have materially lessened the prospect of a
good crop. •
Liberty County, Fla —The best crop ever
made in the county. * .
Bradford County, Fla.—The yield bids
fair to l»e good.
Leon County, Fla.—Crop will be short
and gathered early.
Perry County, Ala.—Much of the cotton
land, prepared with commercial manures,
has failed to produce fair crops.
Greene County, Ala.—Rust and the boll
worm are proving very destructive to the
crop. Rust worse than ever known be
fore in the county.
Macon County, Ala. —The crop has been
seriously injured by drought and rust.—
Guano lias done injury, owing to the ex
tremely hot weather in the month of Au
gust
Butler County, Ala.—Crop injured by
rust.
Clarke County, Ala.—Much injured by
rnst.
Randolph County, Ala.—There Is promise
of a very large crop.
Conecuh County, Ala.—Has come out
beyond the expectations of all farmers.
Prospect of a fine crop. '
Marengo County, Ala.—Too much rain
has produced rot, rust aud extensive shed
ding of squares and young bolls.
Marshall County, Ala.—On account of
rains there will not be more than half a
crop.
Sumter County, Ala.—Only a small
amount of middling cotton will be raised.
Autauga county, Ala.—Dry weather has
seriously injured the crop.
Claiborne County, Miss.—Unless the Fall
prove very fine the crop will be at least 15
or 20 per cent, less than that of last year.
Holmes Couuty, Miss—The boll worm has
made extensive ravages, and the frequent
showers in August, caused more shedding
than usual.
Marion County, Miss.—There is fair
promise of an unusual yield.
Hinds Couuty, Miss.—A very short crop.
Rankin Couuty, Miss.—Opening finely,
and promises a fair average yield.
Monroe County, Miss.—Greatly decreas
ed crop on account of ravages of the boll
worm. , .
Newton County, Miss. —/Nothing disas
trous occurring, the yield will be fully
per cent. in excess of that of last year. In
crease in acreage, fully 10 per cent.
Greuada Couuty, Miss.—The crop may
be equal to last year, but not larger.
Clarke County, Miss.—A large acreage,
but the crop will fall short of last year’s on
account of black rust.
Yalabusha County, Miss.—On bottom
lands seriously injured by too much rain.
On hill land doing better than usual.
St. Helena, La. —Has shed badly on ac
count of the rains. At least two weeks
later than last year.
Rapides Parish, La.—A decrease in yield
of 20 to 25 per cent, on ac ount of rains and
the caterpillar.
Ouachita Parish, La.—Crop . will be
heavier than last year’s by 25 per cent.
Winn Parish, La.—The yield will be at
least 5 per cent, larger than that of last
year, notwithstanding the excessive rains.
Tensas Parish, La.—An abundant yield ;
more than can be gathered with the avail
able labor.
Washington Parish, La.—A very favor
able year for cotton. Crop will exceed that
of last year by one-third.
Coryell County, Texas—Cot' on whs
never planted in thi6 couuty until 1869, and
then only a small acreage; the yield was
fine. This year at least thirty acres to one
were planted.
Henderson County, Texts—Grass worms
made their ‘appearance fifteen days ago,
and have injured the crop asvihuch as the
good weather improved it. In a few in
stances they have destroyed the crop en
tirely. Injury, at least three-tenths. The
crop is in a critical condition.
D;’in- •' ‘.njty, Texas—A promise of the
- r ver raided in the county.
>n inly, Texas—A much larger
. ate! in last year. This valley
pi-.*.lnded 400 bales last season; will prob
ably produce 2,000 this year. A large pro
portion of the cotton product goes to Mexi
co _
Red River County, Texas—The poorest
cotton prospect in the last twenty-eight
years. A late frost and seasonable showers
may give a half crop.
Fannin County, Texas —Has sustained
serious injury from the louse and army
worm. Fully two weeks earlier than last
year’s crop.
Gonzales County, Texas—Planters are
counting upou one bale per acre. The worm
is now at work, but has begun so late as to
£ause but little apprehension.
Williamson County, Texas—lt is thought
that 5,000 bales of 500 pounds each will be
produced. In 1869, 1,300 bales were pro
duced. *
Titus County, Texas—Great damage be
ing done to crop by heavy rains.
Matagorda County, Texas—There will
not be over one-third to half a crop on ac
count of wet weather and worms.
Collin County, Texas—Better than last
year, and, with a favorable picking season,
will be a heavy crop, perhaps 7,000 to 8,000
bales.
Grimes County, Texas—Good yield and
fine staple.
Austin County, Texas—Although the
average was larger, the yield is smaller
than last year, on account of wet weather
and the army worm.
Couyell County, Texas—The prospect for
a good crop was never better. Farmers
are planting cotton to the exclusion of
corn.
Kendall County, Texas—About a bale to
the acre is expected, if labor can be pro
cured for picking.
Goliad County, Texas—The worm has
made its appearance, and some crops have
been almost entirely destroyed.
Rusk County, Texas—The crop looks
well, and has sustained little damage from
worms.
Smith County, Texas—ls the Fall sea
son prove as late as last year, the crop will
be above an average.
Fayette County, Texas—On account of
the worm cotton will be shorter than last
year.
Wharton County, Texas—The prospect
was good until about the 20th of August,
when the worm commenced its ravages.
The crop has been injured, and will be little
better than last year.
Dallas County, Texas—The best crop
ever known in the county.
Union County, Ark.—Looks better than
for many years. A larger crop and greater
acreage than in any year since the war.
Clark County, Ark—A better crop than
last year. Acreage much larger.
Jackson County, Ark.—Somewhat in
jured by rains.
Crawfor 1 County, Ark.—Above any pre
ceding year.
Columbia County, Ark.—The most pro
mising prospect for the last twenty years.
Prairie County, Ark.—A late Fall will
give the largest cotton crop ever raised in
the county.
Giles County, Ten u. —Nothing but a very
late and favorable Fall will insure half a
crop. •, * •
Rutherford County, Tenn.—Unless frost
should be later thau usual, there will be
about eight-tenths of a crop.
Fayette County, Tenn. —An average crop,
if the weather continues favorable.
Jottings from the Green Line Excursion.
Cincinnati, October 1,1870.
Dear Constitutionalist : It is with the
utmost difficulty that I can find lime to
write. Everybody is hurryiug to and fro
on excursions of all kinds, for the good
people of the “ Queen City of the West ”
seemed determined that we shall see every
thing.
Leaving Atlanta on the evening of the
27th, we arrived at Nashville at 4 o’clock
next day, having stopped at Murfreesboro
and witnessed *he State Fair, where were
exhibited some of the finest specimens of
horses and cattle that I have ever seen. At
Nashville, a sumptuous dinner was served
to the excursionists at tip; Maxwell House,
which, by the by, is said to be the finest
hotel in the United States, aud which is,
no doubt, the truth. Machinery is used in
nearly all the business of the interior of
the house, aud moves so noiselessly that
you would not be aware of its presence did
you not see it in motion. After dinner,
speeches were delivered bv different persons,
among whom was Andy Johnson, who, I am
sorry to say, was in such a drunken state
that very little of his speech could be
understood. After all that cared for the
honor had had their “ say,” we proceeded
to the depot, took our places in the long
train, aud were whirled over the Nashville
and Louisville Railroad towards the latter
city, where it had been the original inten
tion to stop for a while, but owing to some
/delay, this was changed, aud it was deter
mined to proceed at once to Cincinnati,
much to the regret of many who wished to
see the pride of old Kentucky. The citizens,
though disappointed, determined not to tie
outdone in hospitalitv, and provided enough
of the inner mau comforts to satisfy all *he
wants of the hungry-and thirsty crowd.—
From Louisville, under charge of a com
mittee from Cincinnati, we proceeded over
the Short Line Railroad to the latter place,
through one of the most, beautiful sections
of.counlry in America. Some long tun
nels are on this route and in this way
we would often pass from the brilliant
sunlight into midnight darkness. At Cin
cinnati, a long line of omnibusses awaited
us and conveyed ns over tin; magnifi
cent suspension bridge, and down the well
paved streets to the Burnet House, where
we were received by the Board of Trade,
whose President, Mr. 0. V\ r . Rowland, bade
us welcome, and extended the hospitalities
of Cincinnati in a few pertinent remarks,
which were received with enthusiastic
cheering. He was responded to by Col.
McMaster, of South Carolina, the chair
man of the excursion party, who delivered
a short speech replete with good common
seuse. He told the citizens of the “ Queen
City ” that we would ever cherish tins
visit in our hearts, and remember it as a
green spot in our lives. “ Such inter
changes,” said he, “ will, indeed, make us a
band of brothers, and though you give
your homage to your lamented Lincoln
and your victor general, who now occupies
the Presidential Chair, you will accord us
the privilege of laying our votive, offerings
at the feet of Jefferson Davis and Robert
E. Lee.” After this we were assigned our
quarters ; the Augusta delegation, under the
leadership of their chairman, Mr. G. A.
Whitehead —who has taken most excellent
care of us, and thus proven the wisdom of
our choice, were placed—as I stated in my
telegram to you, at the Burnet House.
After supper, we proceeded in a body to
the Industrial Exposition, which is truly a
grand affair. Lighted from dome to cellar,
i t seemed a scene of enchantment, and the
fair women, passing to and fro, added to
the illusion. Agricultural machines of all
descriptions filled one room, and it would
take a week to give them proper attention.
It is said, altogether, to be the finest affair
of the kind ever witnessed in America; aud
what is more surprising, all of the articles
of infinite variety and number, are manu
factured in this one city.
Yesterday a grand excursion to Eden,
Clifton, and others of the beautiful suburbs,
was perfect'd and carried out. At the
house—or palace, I might say—of Mr.
Mitchell, a merchant prince of this city, we
were received with whole-souled, open
handed hospitality, entertainment for double
the number of men being provided. To
wards the latter portion of the drive we
proceeded to the residence of the Hon.
George H. Pendleton, who heartily wel
comed the party. Capt. Sausy, of Savan
nah, proposed the health of our distin
guished host iuoneof the prettiest speeches
ever listened to, remarking in the course of
it that he would rather be a doorkeeper
under George H. Pendleton than receive the
highest office in the gift of the present Ad
ministration.
Last night a banquet was tendered the
excur- ojists at Pike’s Hall, which was a
• •• M.
Thk T ate Kkk of Nassau.— The Duke
of Nassau, Ad offift William Charles Au
gustus Frederick, Duke of Nassau and
Count Pa atine of the Rhine, was born
July 24, 1817. H- succeeded his father, the
Duke William, August 20, 1839. lie was a
general of cavalry in the 'Prussian service,
and coonel of th u Fif'h Regiment of
Westphalian Lancers He w-« dispossess
ed of his dominions in fav rof the King
of Prussia bv she decree o ; October 3, !866,
but e received 15,000,000 florins as a com
pensation, and he possessed an immense
private fortune in addition, the reveuues of
t.;e famous seltzer water spring being an
appanage of his family. He had beeD
twice married, first to a daughter of the
Grand Duke Michael of Russia, and sec
ondly to a princcssof the house of Aflhalt-
Dessau-Coethen, who survives him. The
Duke loaves three children by his second
marriage, the eldest being the Hereditary
Prince, now Duke of Nassau, William
Alexander, who was born in 1852.
A protracted meeting closed in Floyd
county, at Spring Creek Baptist Church,
last week, at which there were sev-. nty-flve
conversions.
[Washington Correspondence Journal of Commerce.
National Finances.
A NEW PROPOSITION FOB THE PURCHASE OF
BONDS —THE CURRENCY BALANCE —THE
NEW BANKING LAW—THE RECEPTION OF
LEGAL TENDER FOB CUSTOMS DUES.
Washington, September 30.
Hon. E. C. Ingersoll, of Illinois, called on
Secretary Boutwell to-day, and had an ex
tended interview regarding our national
finances. Mr. Ingersoll said his business
there was to ask the Secretary’s opinion
upon an idea held by himself and many
other politicians and all the merchants in
the West in reference to the sales of gold
and purchase of bonds. He explained the
pressing demauds of the West for more cur
rency. A partial remedy for the scarcity of
currency and the consequent tight money
market in the West could, he thought, be
obtained by extending the system of pur
chasing bonds to the Western cities. Thus,
he suggested that when bonds are to be
purchased, notice be given at Cincinnati,
Chicago, and St. Louis—the same as at
Mew York—and let those cities compete
with New York for their sale. When the
bonds shall be thns purchased by the Gov
ernment, he said the payments should be
made in currency, and not in drafts on New
York, as the actual currency is needed, and
drafts could uot make up the immediate
deficiency. The Secretary asked whether
the bonds could be bought in those cities.
Mr. Ingersoll assured him that they could,
and advised that the amounts to be pur
chased from time to time be increased. It
was not expected that Mr. Boutwell would
adopt this suggestion at once, but. the im
pression left by remarks made then and
subsequently lead to the belief that he will
give it a trial.
The conversation turning to the con
tinued existence of a large currency bal
ance in the Treasury vaults, naturally led
to what was regarde 1 as one of its causes
—the banking act passed at the last ses
sion of Congress. The Secretary agreed
with Mr. Ingersoll, that if a 1 the circula
tion authorized by it be taken up, the re
sult will be absolute contraction to the ex
tent of several millions. But the applica
tions to form banks under it come in slow
ly, and the permits or certificates of organ
ization issued so far only involve the ab
sorption of obout three millions of curren
cy authorized. The currency is not ready
to issue. Mr. Boutwell then explained
that the currency balance, which amounts
to about $30,000,000, is held to meet the
contingent necessity of redeeming the three
per cent, temporary loan certificates, which
arc to be retired under the new law upou
issne ol the new currency to the banks.
Mr. Ingersoll argued against holding
this large balance while the West stood so
much in need of currency, and while
greenbacks were eagerly sought, even in
the New York money market, to meet the
demands of bankers and brokers. Upon
this point Mr. Boutwell was reserved, but
evinced a disposition to let some of it go if
he found the proper use for it, and it is not
improbable that the usual purchase of
bonds will be increased in amount in the
near future.
The policy of allowing interest on de
posits was discussed and deprecated by
both. There did Dot appear to be any dif
ference opinion on that point.
Mr. Ingersoll asked the Secretary’s opin
ions regarding the revenue to be collected
under the new tariff bill, and this led to a
general discussion of the internal revenue
ami tariff laws. Mr. Boutwell calculates
that it will require $117,000,000 in gold to
pay the interest on the national debt dur
ing the next fiscal year, and that the new
tariff bill during the first year of its ope
ration will yield a revenue of $160,000,000
gold. Estimating next year’s receipts at
this, there will be in round numbers $40,-
000,000 gold in excess He exnects the in
terest on the public debt will be reduced
to $100,000,000 in probably two years.
Then came a discussion on specie pay
ments, in which Mr. Ingersoll urged that,
as the greenback had been partially shorn
of its functions as money, the first step to
ward specie payment must be the elevation
of the greenback. It could not be used iu
payment of interest on the national debt,
but Congress could amend the legal-tender
act so as to allow greenbacks to be received
for 25 per centum of the amount paid by
the importer as customs dues. The Sec
retary’s calculation showed that 25 per
cent, of the gold collections at tne cus
tom houses would be In excess or the
amount required to pay the interest on
the debt. It was reasonable to believe
his estimate was low. If a merchant,
paying $4,000 duty ou au invoice, could
use greenbacks to pay a portion, say sl,-
000, the value of the greenback would ad
vance towards the coin standard; and it is
probable ihat instead of advancing iu the
ratio of its relative usefulness in answering
the purposes of coin, it would wipe out
fifty instead of twenty-five per cent, of the
premium on coin. The Secretary was
favorably impressed with the idea. He
recognized the logic of the suggestion. He
did not know of any substantial reason
why gold should now command a premium
of thirteen per pent.. It was being reduced
gradually, and lie thought specie payments
would come as a natural consequence. He
was paving the way for such an event by
all means in his power, but was careful not
to do anything that would be likely to
cause revulsions in the market or trouble
among the people. The natural laws of
trade and demand were gradually working
toward the resumption of specie payments.
He believed twenty-five per cent, of the
duties might be received iD legal tenders
without impairing the ability of the Gov
ernment to meet any demand made upon it
for payments due in gold, and he behoved
that if Congress shouldadmit that principle
by substantial legislation, half the premium
on gold existing at the present time would
be wiped out.
The above are the only important points
touched, and details but follow out the
substance given. I regard the interview as
one of importance, because it seems to fore
shadow some suggestions that will be con
tained in the Secretary’s annual report to
Congress.
The probable operations of the funding
bill were not mentioned.
Counterfeit Bank Notes. — Peterson's
Counterfeit Detector for last Saturday gives
the following among*the latest forgeries :
First National Bank, Philadelphia, Pa.;
tens (second plate,) imitation ; well done;
some defects of the first plate have been
corrected in this.
Third National Bank, Philadelphia, Pa.;
teus; the best engraved and most danger
ous imitation yet issued ; on the right end
border, near the top of the note, opposite
the large figure 10 iu the lathe work die,
are the words “ national currency” in very
small letters; on examination it will be
seen that the last c in currency is omitted
in this counterfeit, making it read curreny.
Sixth National Bank, Philadelphia, twos;
imitation ; the engraving is scratchy.
Consolidation National Bank, Philadel
phia, twenties, raised from fives; altera
tions well done.
Farmers’ National Bank of Reading, Pa.;
fives; imitations are reported in circulation;
look out for all Farmers’ National Banks,
as the town aud State can be easily changed
and printed from the same counterfeit
plate.
Gen. Spinner Pats the Embezzlement
of a Treasury Clerk.—The New York
Herald , of Saturday last, says:
One of the e'erks of the United States
Treasurer at Washington confessed yester
day that he had embezzled $7,000 of public
funds which passed through his hands.
General Spinner, upon hearing of the de
falcation, without a moment’s hesitation
sold some of-bis own bonds and replaced
the amount stolen, he holding himself in
dividually responsible for any deficit in
his department. This is the first case of
fraud in the Treasurer’s office under Gen.
Spinner’s administration.
Abolition ok a Test Oath. —ln Wash
ington, on Saturday, the Supreme Court of
the District of Columbia, in general term,
with four Judges present, decided to abol
ish the rule requiring the odious test oath
of applicants for membership of the bar. —
The Supreme Court of the United States
decided this oath unconstitutional some
time ago, but up to Saturday the Supreme
Court District of Columbia had
steadily iaittsed to accept the ruling, insist
ing thstfc 'fit had a perfect right to dictate
the terms of admission to practice at its
bar.
■ ' T
I From the Overland Monthly tor October.
“CHidy.”
fALKALI STATION.]
Cicely says you’re a poet; mav be; I ain’t
much on rhyme;
I reckon you’d give me a hundred, aud beat me
every time.
POe ffiT thSt ’ 8 l ** e Way 80 *ne chaps puts np an
Bat I take mine “straight without snerir,” and
that s what’s the matter with me.
Poetry!—just look ’round yoa—alkali, rock
and sage;
Bage-brusb, rock aud alkali; ain’t it a pretty
page!
Sun in the eist at mornin’, sun in the west at
night,
And the shadow of this yer station the on’y
thing moves in sight.
Poetry!—Well now Polly! Polly! run to
your mam :
Run right away, my pooty! By-byt Ain’t
she a lamb ?
Poetry !—that reminds me o’ sutbin’ right in
that suit;
Jest ehet that door thar, will yer, for Cicely’s
ears is cute.
Te noticed Polly—the baby? A month afore
she was born
Cicely—my old woman—was nioodyTfike and
forlorn ;
Oat of her head aud crazy and talked of flow
ers and tree;.;
Family man yourself, sir ? Wall, you know
what a woman be’6.
Nervous she was, and restless—said that she
“ couldn’t stay.”
Stay—and the nearest woman seventeen miles
away.
But I fixed it up with the Doctor, and he said
he would be on hand,
And I kinder stuck by the shanty, and fenced
in that bit o’ land.
One night—the tenth of October—l woke with
a chill and fright,
For the door it was standing open, an| Cicely
warn’t in sight.
Bat a note was pinned on the blanket, Fhich it
said that she “ couldn’t stay,”
But had gone to visit her neighbor—seventeen
miles away !
When, and how she stampeded, I didn’t wait
lor to see,
For out in the road, next ininit, 1 started as
wild as she ;
Running first this way and that way, like a
bound that is off the scent,
For there warn’t no track in the darkness to
tell me the way she went.
I’ve had some mighty mean raomeuls afore I
kem to this spot—
Lost on the Plains in ’SO, drowned almost., and
shot;
But out on this alkali desert, a hunting a crazy
wife.
Was ra’ly as on satisfactory as anything in my
life.
“ Cicely ! Cicely! Cicely!” I called, and 1 held
my breath.
And “ Cicely !” came from the canyon—and all
was as still as death.
And “Cicely! Cicely! Cicely!” came from the
rocks below,
Aud jest but a whisper of “Cicely!” down
from them peaks of suow.
I ain’t what you call religious—but 1 jest look
ed up to the skv-
And—this yer’s to what I’m coming, and may
be ye. think I lie :
But up away to the east.’ard, yiller and big and
far >
l saw of a suddent rising the singlerist kind of
star.
Big and yafier aud and incing u.seemed to beck
on to me:
Yaller and big and dancing, such as you never
see:
Big and yaller and dancing—l never taw such
a star,
And I thought of them sharps in the Bible,-and
I went for it then and thar.
Over the brush and bowlders, I stumbled and
pushed ahead :
Keeping the star alore me, I went wbarever if
led.
It might hev been for an hour, when suddent
and peart, and nigh,
Out of the yearth afore me thar riz np a baby’s
cry.
Listen ! thar’s the same music ; but her lungs
they are stronger now
Than the day I packed her and her mother—
I’m derned it I jest know how.
But the Doctor kem the next, rninit, and the
joke o’ the whole thing is
That Cis never knew what happened from that
that very night to this !
But Cicely “‘■y" G»''-
might some day :
Jt st sing her a rhyme ’bout a, baby that was
boru in a curious v^iy.
And see what she says ; and, oid Mlow when
you speak of the star don’t tell
As how ’twns the Doctor’s lantern —ter maybe
’twon’t sound 60 well.
The Horrors of War.
AN AWFUL RUT FASCINATING BCENE—THE
BURNING FORESTS AND VILLAS—GRIN
NING SKULLS AI D COFFIN FRAGMENTS.
The Paris correspondent writes to the
Tribune:
I have just witnessed a. sight which
vividly brings home to us the horrors of
war. From the roof of the house in which
I live I have seen the forests of Maisous,
Montmorency, St. Prlx, and ihe woods of
St. Gratian, all In fl lines. Human inge
nuity must have had <i hard struggle with
the rain, in trying to mt, the trees ablaze.
But as science in our time is pretty nearly
sold to the devil, the tears which heaven
wept are of no avail in saving *ii sylvan
beauties of the environs of P»ris Though
the wind blows from the west, «•.>, who
are miles to the east of the blazing forests,
can smell the burned wood. As the smoke
is driven in a direction o posite in us, by
aid of field glasses we can witness the
frightful end of many a pretty chalet or
elegant villa to which the flames are being
communicated. The estimable M.de Ville
messant, who, for his health’s sake, finds
it expedient to remain in the country, an#
M. Emille de Girardin, who was thought
to be at Florence with his friends, but who
is in the field at Limoges with Ollivier
and Plon Pion, must inevitably suffer from
the vast conflagration to the north of Paris.
But who can pity them if their sumptuous
country houses are licked up by the flames
this moment raging round these abodes of
luxury? They were the foremost men in
supporting the bands organized by M.
Pietri to cry a Berlin last July.
The chateau of the Princess Mallnlde also
seems destined to be thrown into the cruci
ble. The roads and copses of I lie St. Prix,
St. Gratian and Montmorency have been
fired by means of petroleum and gas tar,
which it would have been dangerous to
have in a city that in a few days may be
exposed to the terrific fire of a bombard
ment. Dealers in these combustibles re
ceived notice a few days back that they
must surrender to the Committee of Na
tional Defense what they could not take to
a seaport oiu of the reach of Prussia.
The firing of that part of Body visible
from Montmartre, at 11 o’clock last night,
was a still more awful spectacle than those
I have just witnessed from the leads over
head. The trees were perfectly dry, so that
oil and petroleum, which were spilt about
iu the brushwood, had no obstacle to con
tend with. Isolated columns of flame and
clouds of smoke suddenly rose, and, befoie
half an hour, were tost in ooe general blaze,
which stood out like a fiery wall against
the sky. In the light of this vast furnace
hideous objects were last night rendered
on the Martyrs’ Hill—yawning graves, dog
to hold three or four hundred persons, re
minded the lookers on of the impending
destruction of human life. These common
di ches, into which men, women and chil
dren, slain by Prussian balls, are to be
thrown, intrude themselves into the reserv
ed burying places, purchased permanently
by families rich enough to indulge in grief
for dead relations. War is no respecter of
property or persons, of sacred spots or of
holy places. It slays-the young, it puts
down the roof-tree which shelters age and
infancy, destroys the woods in which poets
and painters seek to commune with what
is best in nature and tears off the vaii 6f
earth with which we try to hide pestilent
■orrors of mortality from our sight. From
the mounds of clay surrounding those
hideous trenches which now intersect the
Martyrs’ Hill, skulls grin out, remains of
smashed coffins obtrude themselves, or rags
of black cloth, once the undertaker’s pride,
declare the vanity of all human respecta
bility which has not an upright conscience
for its substratum. It seems to me that I
have lived more in the last 48 hours, and
gained a deeper insight into life and its
objects than in ill the years 1 have lived,
and all the books I have taken to read.—
Thos; shin-bones, thigh-bones, arm-bones,
and vertebrae, that were buried forever, but
which are now mixed np with mounds of
loose earth; those fragments of monuments
which were nnscrupulausly knocked down
to make way for steel canon, fabricated for
“ the Imperial Navy,” and that blaze which
for miles screws up the country in front of
us, are the most striking sermons that I
know of. .
The smoke and flame ascend, a .chiffonier
with an eye to business, or possibly from
force of habit, hooks up the ossuary re
mains of past generations. He is blind,
unfortunate wretch! to the moral or pic
turesque side of the harrowing spectacle.
He does not see the sublimity of the judg
ment which is overtaking the delicately
nurtured and the slothful, and the muck
rakes who stopped their ears for forty
years and upwards to the cries of the
poor and needy. Lamartine and Victor
Hugo warned modern society about the
abyss, over which it danced and feasted
with cruel indifference, heedless of the
cries of agouy which were uttered from
the depths below. The chiffonier belongs
to modern society, which, like him, will
need a great deal more whipping before
its conscience wi.l recover from a state of
torpor, or its eyes be opened to see what is
pasring around. Do not think that my
palette is purposely charged with garish
tints to catch the eye of the ignorant.—
I tell in sober earnest, and from no desire
to “ pile up the agony,” of how women
sickened last night when they looked at
the burning forest, and screamed with ter
ror when they saw at their feet the wide
open maw of death, raving for human
flesh, and set round in lieu of teeth, with
the broken-upskeletons of buried bourgeois.
The reflections which I heard last night
amid the tombs on the Martyrs’ Hill,
where, l should say, about 1,500 citizens
had gathered to witness the burning of the
for st to the last, were widely different from
“ Herbert’s Meditations, or Young’s Night
Thoughts.” It’s the way of the French
men, to meet the cruel irony of destiny
with gibes. And, as there can be no more
cruel irony thaD that which spurs on men
to seek glory in making war on their broth
ers, jests were freely uttered by blouses aud
paletots. The female element sighed out
that it was sad to have all this loss on ao*-
couut of two men. But the males were
too defiant to indulge in sighs. The mock
ing devil was aroused, and they allowed
him the fullest swing in the face of that
blazing forest, and that yawning grave iuto
which many of those who fainted, scream
ed, wept, gibed, or made speeches on its
brink last night may bo thrown before the
week is over. It was by order of the Hy
gienic Conncil, the Vice-President.of which
is M. Jules Ferry, that thegigantic. trenches
on the Martyrs’ Hill are opened, so that
putrefied corpses during the siege may not
poison the air of Paris. Some of the men
who stood round those charnel houses were
loud in their professions of mock admira
tion of the foresight, the sage prevoyance,
the zeal for the preservation of public
health, of which such wholesale recepta
cles of mortality were an evidence, lint
would it not be better, urged a shabbily
dressed citizen, if M. Jules Ferry could
persuade his colleagues that there is no
jjlory in war, and that a favorable peace,
however fools might think it dishonorable,
would answer hygienic purposes better
than those skeleton-garnished trenches.
Luck Better than Strategy.
THE PRUSSIANS HARD FIGHTERS AND GOOD
MARCHERS, BUT M’MAHON THE ONLY
GENERAL.
\o the Editor of the World:
Dear Sir: In this memorable Franco-
Prussian campaign there is one remarkable
fact that cannot fail to attract the atten
tion of every observant man. It is, up to
this time, the total absence of military
genius on one side or on the other. You
have recently demonstrated to us, Mr.
Editor, in nil excellent article, that the
famous Von Molke himself had given proof
only of excessive address ami skill in con
ducting his immense army, and that those
splendid victories which will fill posterity
with astonishment were not, in fine, due to
anything but good discipline, excellent or
ganization. and, above all, accident. Yes,
accident. 'lt is sad to admit that, after all,
military science reduces itself in the nine
teenth century to accident! Where are
Turenne, Conde, Washington, Dumouriez,
Napoleoq, Wellington, <fec. ? Where all
i Vip sci/' ctrnfr'V****
andidarijß* "strokes of genius ? The only
remarkable movement, that I can perceive
in this war is that of Marshal McMahon,
when, instead of falling back on P ris, lie
wheeled from Chalons to the northeast. It
was au excellent, idea, but ill executed, ac
ccording to my idea. You know what was
his position. Beaten by the Prussians at
Haguenan. he had retired by forced marches
upon Chalons. Th re, after hastily reor
ganizing his army with the remains of his
troops, some reinforcements from Bazaine
and recruits, he advances to the northeast,
leaving the Crown Prince to advance at his
leisure upon Paris and to possess himself
of Chalons. It is evident that if McMahon
had retired on Paris, that city to-day
would have been in the hands of the Prus
sians. At that epoch in reality Paris hail
neither arms nor soldiers, provisions nor
ammunition. McMahon would have risked
on one battle the fate of the whole country.
The troops which assailed aud beat him at
Sedan would in like manner have beaten
him near Paris, and would have entered
the capital in triumph. By this movement,
on the contrary, McMahon drew the Crown
Prince to the northeast, ran the chance
of getting there before him, of find
ing himself face to face with the
army of the Prussian centre, almost
equal in number to his own, of defeating
it, and, finally, of making a junction with
Bazaine, and of attacking the Prussian
rear guard with immense advantage, in
any case, he gave Paris time to fortify her
self, and the Government time to organize
the armies of the north, of Tours, and of
Lyons. His defeat near Paris would have
been decisive. His defeat at Sedan de
cided nothing. A manoeuvre which has
such consequences even after a defeat is, in
my view, a very remarkable manoeuvre.—
What would it have been if we had been
victorious at Sedan ? The Prussian army
would have been destroyed. Unhappily, as
I have already said, the execution was not
as grand as the! idea. McMahon should
not have allowed the Prussians to carry
Chalons without resistance. It was, in
deed, only on entering Chalons, just evac
uated by the French forces, that the Prince
Royal learned with astonishment, and too
quickly, that McMahon had swung round
to the northeast. He lost no time, but
pursued him promptly, and overtook him
at Sedan. Things would probably have
been different if the French Marshal had
left twenty or thirty thousand men in the
fortified camp of Chalons. The Crown
Prince, arrested by this obstacle, would
have been completely deceived, and would
have supposed McMahon at that point
when in reality there was nothing but a
small army of conscripts. Now you know
the entrenched camp of Chalons, and how
easy it would have been to defend it against
very superior forces. Disengaged from the
Crown Prince, McMahon would have been
able to execute his own movements in his
own time. That, in my opinion, is where
the execution failed. Notwithstanding its
faults, I think lean maintain that of all
the generals, Prussian or French, it is still
McMahon, fighting under enormous disad
vantages, who has given proof the greatest
military intelligence. It is to him that
France awes it that she is sufficiently
strong and sufficiently organized to render
doubtful, even fter the shattering defeat
at SedaD, the definite result of this un
fortunate campaign. Brave man ! He
sacrificed himself for his country. Honor
to the conquered of Sedan ! He has well
deserved of the Republic 1 Should France
come out victorious she can, she mnst style
McMahon the savior of the country.
Loots Pabon.
New York, October 1.
Sick of Cotton. —The Americus Repub
lican says “ many of our planters are sick
of cotton—the low price is a powerful
emetic. They say that hereafter two-thirds
of their lands will raise the cereals. They
will change with Spring and cotton will
grow on four-fifths of the land cultivated
in this section.”
Poor fellows, they get sick just one year
too late. We have hundreds in this sec
tion down with the same disease. We fear
many will die financially.
[Cohmbus Sun.
A planter from Redbone, Talbot county,
says he has a cornfield of fifteen acres only,
from which he can gather 2,000 cars from
12)£ to 15 inches long.
BY TELEGRAPH.
Kiuooial to the Constitutionalist.
FROM ATLANTA.
PASSAGE OF A MULTITUDE OF
BILLS BY THE SENATE.
NO QUORUM IN THE HOUSE.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS IN
COBB AND GWINNETT.
PROMINENT CANDIDATES FOR
SCHOOL COMMISSIONER.
Atlanta, October 5.
SENATE.
Bills passed: the tax bill; to abolish ap
peals from the Ctty Court of Augustato
exempt practical printers from jury duty;
to amend the act extending the limits of
Macon; to Incorporate the Pulaski Manu
facturing Company; to restrict measurers
of lumber at Darien in their charges; to
cliaige the county site of Telfair connt.y;
to change Glasscock county from the
Northern to the Middle Circuit; to require
the Reporter of the Supreme Court to pub
lish the decisions in pamphlet form; to
change the county lines between Stewart
and Quitman, Stewart aud Webster, Ter
rell and Webster, Ware and Pierce, and
Randolph and Calhoun; to incorporate
Cain, Thomas county ; to incorporate the
Steam Plow Transportation Company of
Savannah; to repeal the act to authorize
magistrates to act as road commissioners
in Pulaski county; to permit Judges of
Superior Courts to adjourn courts without
being present; and to legalize the marriage
of Powell Blassingame with his daughter
in-law.
HOUSE.
There was no quorum. Only fifty-six
members were present.
It is supposed that George Hillver will
be nominated as Senator from the 35th Dis
trict.
Gwinnett county nominated W. E. Sim
mons aud G. E. Jones; Floyd county, M.
R. Ballanger and H. A. Gartrell; Cobb
county, W. D. Anderson and W. P. Ander
son. Cobb county adopted a resolution
that, while differing with the colored men
politieallWi, yet they recognize them as citi
zens, entitled to equal rights and protec
tion under ' the constitution and laws ;
therefore, the D-moeru’s resent the arrest
of a colored citizen, and Ihehangiug him
up by Ihe thumb.-, : : Mated by certain
Radical revenue officers of the United
States, as an unmitigated outrage.
Prominent candidates for State School
Commissioner are reported to be Higbee,
Rice, M. Y. Calvin and Rev. N. M. Craw
ford, with the chances in favor of the latter.
.1 Piths Dispatches.
NOON DISPATCHES.
Washington, October s.—The Temper
ance Convention at Fond lilac, Wisconsin,
nominated a candidate for Congress.
By a railroad accident between Rouen
and Amiens, fifteen French soldiers were
killed, and fifteen mortally and one hun
dred seriously hurt.
Continuous firing was heard yesterday
on tue heights of Empernay and around
Cambouillct.
Thiers says hi.s representations to Rus
sia were confined to placing the Tours gov
ernment in a most favorable light., showing
the danger of Prussian aggrandizement.
He made no propositions whatever.
John W Garrett was elected pe manent
President of the Southern Commercial
Convention.
Seven vessels arrived ar, New York with
in a week with yellow fever, two of which
had clean lulls of health The Health Of
i cer urges great care to prevent the further
introduction of the disease by vessels
avoiding quarantine.
In the Connecticut municipal elections the
Republicans have 9 and the Democrats 3
towns, with eight equally div ded. The
Democrats carry New- Haven and. Wal
lingford.
Berlin, October s.—Affairs at Stras
bourg resumed their ordinary course so
promptly that il is difficult to realize late
events.
Saarbrucken, October I—There are
cortiao <W»m .1-y, i without
important results. The French are always
driven back with loss.
Bazaine adheres to the Emperor. The
garrison is constantly sending up balloons.
A large cavalry brigade has gone to
Tours.
Par s is surrounded by trenches,’ rifle
pits, barricades and other temporary de
fenses. Villas and cottages in the suburbs
are loopholed for rifles.
Bf.lg.aud, October 4—There was a Sharp
fight at Chambon ; no resu.t given.
London, October s.—There was a se
rious engagemeut in the forest of Fontain
bleau, near Chaiily, yesterday.
The Telegraph has numerous dispatches
relative to the reported death of Gen.
Moltke. The editor, in comments, ex
presses the opinion that, the lead coffin
which passed Chalons and Toul contained
Moltke's body.
The foreign legion has left Tours. Its
destination is unknown.
Madrid, October s.—Gen. Cardona suc
ceeds DeKhodas iu Cuba. "
New York, October s.—'The Telegram's
special} London and Berlin dispatches state
that a large number of citizens petitioned
the King not to expose his life at the siege.
The King replies : “ I will not return until
the war is over.”
Couriers between the English and Rus
sian Governments pass daily,
Memphis, October s.—Republican mass
meetings to elect delegates to the Congres
sional Convention were disorderly ; pistols
and knives were freely exhibited. Charles
Morrison (white) was fatally cut with a
razor.
EVENING DISPATCHES.
Washington, October s.— Morton leaves
for London on the Ist of November.
Norwich, October s.—The Democrats
gain 300 in this city, by which they elect
only the first selectman.
The Democrats gain Colchester, Led
yard, Stouiugton and Lyme. Democratic
gains in Norwich are not very largo. Many
of their gains are due to the storm.
Cincinnati, October s.— The convention
assembled. A large amount of business
was Introduced and referred to the proper
committees.
A committee on the Transcontinental
Railroad was created. A resolution in
favor of intervention of the United States
to secure a speedy peace between the Re
public of France and the Kingdom Prussia
was tabled, but finally referred to a special
committee of five.
London, October s. —Smith Leeds, a
banker, well known for his munificent
charities, was killed yesterday by a fall
from his horse.
It is believed England and Russia are ac
tively engaged in negotiating an armistice.
Reports are current that both Meckelen
burgs will be incorporated with Prussia.
The Grand Dukes will be compensated by
the cession to them of Alsace and Lor
raine.
A large meeting of German Catholic
aristocracy is about occurring at Fulda, to
consider infallibility..
The French army now in Algeria, num
bering 37,000, demands a recall, to resist
the Prussians.
M. Lamon, editor of the Paris Pays , has
been arrested. The charges have not trans
pired.
Berlin, October s.—The official mani
festo, dated Whilhelmshohe, and signed by
Napoleon, Is unknown here, and is doubt
less apocryphal.
Copenhagen, October s—The Budget
for 1871 was laid before the Chambers yes
terday; It is very satisfactory.
Tours, October s.—lt is anuounced to
day that a governmental delegation will
be sent from here to be established in Lille,
in case of any greater interruption of the
lines of communication.
No serious engagement has occurred
near Paris other than those already de
scribed.
The Government receives intelligence
from Paris with tolerable regularity.
The daily journals here notice the mani
festo of Napoleon, lately published in Lon
don. •
The authorities have not yet been ap
prised of the fact that the manifesto is
most probably a forgery.
A reporter of the Gazette de France says,
unfortunately for the Bonapartists, they
publish their documenta.separately. Rou
her, addressing the Emperor 0n the morn- f
mg of the declaration of war goid • “ Aid
mated by a calm hope in the’ true force of
the Empire, you know how to wait - bat in
the past four years yon have perfected the
armament of the soldiers and raiapu
the highest pitch the OU r
millitary forces. Thanks io V onr nn.ro
Sire, Franco is ready.” After that, the Ga
zette adds that it is idle to pretend that Na
poleon is not responsible for this war ”
Dispatches farther tending to estahunh
the death of General Moltke are pubii«h~i
to-day. lsnea
It is reported that Frenc-tirenrs recent
ly blew up and destroyed the railway f or a
long distance near Baverne, and that PW.
sian communications are badly interrupted
in consequence.
Lutz, one of the members of the Commit,
tee of National Defense and a delegate of
the Government, has been arrested by the
Mobile Gnard at Besancon. The nature of
the charges preferred against him are un
known.
A dispatch from Belfast says the franc
tireurs defeated a detachment of the new
Prussian army which recently crossed the
Rhine near Clemar.
Fontainebleau, October 4.—A detach
ment of Prussians, several hundred strong,
attacked the franc-tireurs near here to-day.
They were handsomely repulsed. The
Prussians retreated towards Chaiily.
It is reported to-day that fighting occur
red near Orleans.
Madrid, October s.—The vomito has
spread to the city of Alcante. Citizens are
leaving town.
Olozagas’ resignation as Minister to
France ks been formally accepted.
Heavy rains have fallen iu Valencia re
cently, and the streams arc swolleu to au
unusual size. Much damage was done.
Chartres, October s.—The Prussians
gained some advantage near Epernon yes
terday. which opens the place to them.
They bombarded Epernon* for some time.
The Mobiles and franc tireurs fought brave
ly, but were unable to stand the enemy’s
artillery.
New York, October s.—No further case
of yellow fever has occurred in the city,
though some additional ones are reported
on Governor’s island.
St. Louis, October 5. —It is reported
that a coal mine at Oaseyville, 111., caved
in to-day, burying thirty-five men.
Lexington, via Stanton, October 5.
General Robert E. Lee continues to im
prove, and is quite cheerful and communi
cative.
NIGHT DISPATCHES.
'Fours, October s. —As the elections for
the Constituent Assembly approach old
parties seem to oe reviving. The different
organs apparently think more of politics
than the danger of the country.
Cremieux, on arriving, as ad interim Min
ister of War, issued a note urging haste in
the organization and equipment of the
Garde Mobile and Garde Nationale.
It is reported that the Constituent As
sembly will meet at Tours after election.
Ulrich has written a letter of thanks for
his enthusiastic reception by the people of
Tours.
Thiers’ son is expected here.
It is asserted that Lyons demands the
right of coinage and the establishment of a
mint iu that city.
Bordeaux, September 30, via Tours,
October s.—Ex-Queen Isabella, of Spain,
passed through here, en route to Switzer
land, where she will reside.
London, October s.— The Manchester
Examiner lias an serial message from Paris
stating that at a meeting of the Council of
Ministers on the 29th of September, Favre
and Arago protested against the continu
ance of the war without consultation with
the people Keratry, Trochn and Roche
fort dissented.
The defense of Hitschc has been thus far
successful.
The Prussians have planted the cannon
captured at Strasbourg around Metz.
Latest reports from Epernon state that
the National Guard and Mobiles are doing
good service at bush fighting.
It is thought King Victor Emanuel will
guarantee the Pontifical debt.
Returns from outer districts of the Pon
tifical States increase the majority for
Victor Emanuel.
'iTie rumor continues to circulate that,
Thiers has arrived at, Florence to consult
with the Italian Government.
it is staten time itnssia ims m prepara
tion a plan to accelerate the embodiment of
retired soldiers and of those <>n leave.
A Cossack force has been sent westward
from Don.
Active preparations are being made for
operations in Western Caucasus.
The Governor of Odessa denies that,
there is any concentration of troops neat
the Turkish frontier.
Advices from Yokohonia to September
sth state that the Japanese authorities
have made arrangements to prevent col
lisions in Japanese waters between French
:i ml Prussian corvettes cruising In the vi
rinity. ft, is also stated that they decided
to attack Corro.
Later advices from Hong Kong report
further assassinations of foreigners by the
Chinese. It was reported that Chinese
troops were being collected between Tien-
Tsien and Pekin, nominally tor the protec
tion of foreigners. Strong doubts are'ex
pressed as to that being the intention of
the movement.
The story that the American General
Thmiside had been engaged in an attempt
to mediate between the French and Prus
sians is discussed in the press, and general
ly discredited.
Berlin, October s.—Provincial corres
pondence says troops from Strasbourg and
reserves from Freeburg have been detailed
to occupy Upper Alsace, including the
cities of Mulhouse, Calmar and the sur
rounding country, and to capture Belfast,
Fchlestadt and New Beyisaeh. This effect
ed, they will advance to the interior of
France.
Vienna, October 5. —The prorogation of
the Diet of Bohemia is decided upon.
Fontainebleau, October 4, via Tours,
October s.—The Franc-tireurs were driv
en back to Chaiily by a strong force of
Prussians, horse and foot, who were threat
ening this place. Sixty of the enemy were
disabled.
There are no signs of the creation of
further French armies.
Herr Delbruck will soon pay a visit to
the King’s headquarters, taking with him
a plan for the reconstruction of Germany.
Thiers’ complete failure at St. Petersburg
is certain, Russia having reassured the
Powers of her peaceful intentions.
The seat of government of Alsace has
been restored to Strasbourg.
The King’s headquarters are at Ver-
sailles.
Genoa, October s. — The Doners newspa
pers of this city asserts that Garibaldi has
certainly left the island of Caprera.
New Orleans, October s.—The bark
Charles Auguste; 184 days from Hong
Kong, has arrived, bringing 220 emigrants.
Sixteen died during the passage.
Deaths from yellow fever yesterday, 9.
* MARINE NEWS.
New York, Octobers.—Arrived: Steam
ers Huntsville, City of Limerick, Sau Ja
cinto, Volunteer, Leo, Sherman and Co
lumbia.
Arrived out: Nebraska and Pennsylva
nia.
. MARKETS.
London, October s—Noon
92%. Bonds, 91. Tallow easier. Common
Rosin, ss. 9d.@6s.
London, October s—Evening—Consols,
92%@92%. Bonds, 91%. Tallow, 435.
Turpentine, 275.
Liverpool, October s—Noon.—Cotton
quiet and steady; upland, 8%; Orleans,
8%; sales. 10,000 bales. Flour, 225. 3d.
Corn, 28s. Od.
Later— Sales of cotton now estimated at
12,000 bales. Pork, 108s.
Liverpool, October s—Evening.—Cot
ton closed firm ; uplands, 8%8% ; Orleans,
8%@9 ; sales, 10,000 bales; speculation and
export, 2,000.
Frankfort, October s.—United States
Bonds advanced; quoted at 94%<<j94%.
New York, October s—Noon.—There
were thirty-two bids for Government gold,
aggregating $3,500,000; the awards will be
about $1,000,000, at 113@118 1-10. Stocks
strong. Gold, 113. Money, 4@5. Ster
ling-long, 9; short, 9%. ’62’s, 12%.
New York, October 5 — P. M.—Money
easy at 4®6. Sterling dull at 9%@9%.
Gold, 118%. Governments closed dull;
’22’s, 12%. Southerns—bidding price gene
rally higher.
New Yobk, October 5—P. M.—Gold
steady all day. Governments opened firm
and closed dull ; '62’s, 12%; ’64’s, 11%;
’«s’s, 11%; new, 10%; W«, 10%; ’<»’■,
10% ; 10-40’s, 6%. Tennessees, 62%: new,
60%; Virginias, 63%: new, 64 ; Loiiffifi.
anas, 70%; new, 66; Levees, 76; Bs, 86;
Alabamas, 99%; s’s, 70; Georgias, 82; 7’s,
90; North Carolines, 50; new, 27%; South
Carolmas,Bo; new, 67%.
New York, October s—Noon. — Flour
dull and steady. Wheat dull. Corn firm.
Pork quiet; mess, $25 50. Lard Arm-
Cotton quiet; upland, 16%; Orleans, 16%;
sales, 800’ bales. Turpentine very firm at
39%040. Rosin firmer; strained, $2.
Freights firm.
New York, October 5—P. M. —Cotton
in good demand and firm; sales, 480 bales;
upland, 16%. Flour—State and Western
a shade firmer; superfine, $4 90(95 10;
Southern steady; common to fair extra,
$5 45(96 15. Wheat dull and slightly In
buyer’s favor; Winter red and amber West
ern, $1 32(91 35; white Southern, $1 60. —
Corn scarce and firm at 87%088%. Beef
dull and heavy; plain, $11015; extra, sls
®lB. Pork lower at $25 50. Lard steady ;
kettle. 15% 016%. Whisky, 88%@90.
Groceries and Naval Stores Arm. Tallow
heavy at 8%09%. Freights a shade flrm
®K@7% ° sai^q am ’ Wl ; wheat * Bteana ’
Cincinnati, October s.—Flour quiet and
unchanged. Corn dull and drooping; old,
at’*o ew ’ 49 ® 50 - Mess Pork quiet and weak
at closing nominal. Lard quiet and
unchanged. Bacon dull, unchanged and in
little demand. Whisky firm and in fair de
mand at 85@86.
New Orleans, October s—Flour ac
ftrmer: superfine, $4 50; double,
$5 25 ; treble, $5 8706 25. Corn quiet;
mixed, 70073; white, 75; yellow, 78.
Oats, 49952. Bran, 90095." Hay dull;
I clloice - $34. Mess Pork,
f36 25026 50. Bacon, 14%, 17%, 17% and
18%; sugar cured hams, 24026. Lard
quiet; tierce, 16%@17%; keg, 19%020.
Sugar and Molasses—no stock; nothing
Whisky, 9Oosl. Coffee—prime,
17%@17%. Sterling, 22%023. New York
Sight, par. (Sold. 112%.
Boston, October s. — Cotton quiet; mid
dling, 10% ; sales, 300 bales; net receipts,
51; coastwise, 1,339; total, 1,390; stock,
5,000. ’
Baltimore, October s.—Flour active
and firmer. Wheat firm and more doing.
Pork firmer at $26 50. Bacon active and
advancing; shoulders, 14%014%. Whisky
firm and quiet at 91.
Galveston, October s.—Cotton in mod
erate demand; offerings light; middling,
12%; sales, 340 bales; net receipts, 70 ;
stock, 6,380.
Mobile, October s.—Cotton quietjand
steady; middling, 14%; sales, 1,000 bales ;
receipts, 567; stock on hand, 18,573.
Savannah, October s.— Cotton in mode
rate demand; middling, 14%; sales, 800
bales; net receipts, 4,074; exports coast
wise, 2,868; stock, 26,857.
Charleston, October s.—Cotton steady
and in fair demand; middling, 14% ; sales,
600 bales; net receipts, I,973;“exports
coastwise, 1.704; stock, 9,922.
Mobile, October s.—Cotton quiet; mid
dling, 14%; sales, 800 bales; net receipts,
1,453; exports coastwise, 269 ; stock, 18,006.
Galveston, October 4.—Cotton dull and
nominal; good ordinary, 12%; sales, 30
bales ; net receipts, 80; stock, 0,310.
New Orleans, October s.—Cotton active
at full prices; middling, 15%0t5%; sales
600 bales; net receipts, 1,764; coastwise,
269; t0ta1,2,033; exports—to Great Britain,
1,692; coastwise, 1,672; stock, 31,568.
Norfolk, October s.—Cotton dull and
nominally lower; middling, 16; sales, 100
bales; net receipts, 835 ; exports coastwise,
670; stock, 2,514.
Baltimore, October s.—Cotton dull
and nominally lower; sales, 250 bales; net
receipts, 50; coastwise, 265; total, 315;
exports coastwise, 150; stock, 2,970.
Augusta Daiiy Market.
office Daily Constitutionalist, j
. Wednesday, October 5 -1\ M. f
FINANCIAL—
GOLD—Buying at 112 aud selling nt 114.
SILVER Buying at 105 and selling at 108.
BONDS—City Ronds, 80082.
STOCKS— Georgia Railroad, 97098. Au
gusta Factory, 1580160. .Havings Bank, 109.
COTTON This staple was in good request
ui-nay. aud full lirices were paid, U<t> affarket
opening linn, with a good demand, at yestef
day’s closing prices—l3% for Liverpool, and
1-1 for New York middling; during the day, in
response to favorable New York and Liverpool
accounts, the market became active, and dosed
firmer at 14 for Liverpool and 14% for New
York middling Sales, 1,148 hales. Receipts,
1,334 hales.
BACON—Good demand, with light stock.
We quote <’ Hides, 19019%; C. R. Sides,
18%019; B. B Hid. .. 18018% ; Shoulders, 160
16%; Hams, 22%027; Dry Salt Shoulders,
14%015 ; Drv Salt 0. R Sides, 17%®]8; 1). 8.
Clear Sides, 18.
CORN In moderate demand and prime white
is selling at $1 15 iiy ear load from depot;
retail, $1 20.
WHEAT We quote choice while, 80;
amber, *1 25; re.l. 41 15.
FLOUR City Mills, 46 0007 50; at retail,
41 W lain el higher Comifiv, 4009, accord
ing to qnalin
CORN MKAL *1 20 at wholesale; 41 45 at
retail,
OATS 55@f10
PEAS -$202 25
State Items.
Capt,. Dollar was seriously, if not fatally
shot at Joneshorough, on Saturday night,
last by Henry and Joe Huie.
A colored man in Washington county,
Nathan Rogers, a few days ago, near Da
visboro, picked 444 pounds of cotton be
tween the rising and the setting of the sun.
During the late religious revival in Madi
son, about 35 persons have been added to
the church ; of this number 20 united with
the Methodist and 15 with the Baptist
church.
Col. W. J. Patterson, of Americus, re
ceived a second stroke of apoplexy on Sun
day last, while attending service In the
Presbyterian church. He is in a critical
condition.
The corner stone of anew (St. John’s
colored) M. E. Church was laid in Colum
bus on Monday. The whites have aided
largely in its construction. Completed, It
will cost $3,000.
Mrs. Lindsey, wife of Mr. B. F. W. Lind
sey, of LaGrange, died on Wednesday
morning last. She was between 70 and 80
years of age, and was a devout member of
the Methodist communion.
A little son of Mr. James B. Sharp, of
Forsyth, about eight years old, while gath
ering chestnuts last Tuesday, fell from a
tree and Injured himself severely. He fell
a distance of at least twenty feet.
The consecration of the new chapel at
tached to the Convent of the Sisters of
Mercy at Savannah occurred at 10 o’clock
Thursday morning, with all the ceremonies
prescribed by the ritual of the Catholic
Church.
Mrs. Dr. W. J. Oliver, of Decatur coun
ty, has cultivated three acres of land
around her husband’s premises with the
little negroes about the place, from which
she has gathered three bales of cotton, and
will realize oiler two more.
A fatal accident occurred*at Mrs. Clem
ents’, in Merri wether county, on Saturday
the 24th ult. A little boy, about nine years
old, son of Rev. C. R. Jewett, Presiding
Elder of the Macon District, accidentally
shot himself, and died in about seven hours.
Mr. Henry Bluu, who returned from
Europe a few days since, has presented to
the Georgia Historical Society in Savaunah
a copy of a Chinese Bible. The work is
printed on thin cream colored paper similar
to that which composes the inside wrap
ping of fire crackers.
The Monroe Advertiser says it seems to
be settled among the negroes that they
will Ignore the claims of the white Radi
cals. The prominent politicians among
the blacks in this county are bold in giving
their views on this subject, and say they
intend to go through on a “ straight.”
Col. W. H. Betts was taken to Albany
from Atlanta on Monday, to stand trial for
murder alleged to have been committed
three years ago. About one-half of the
police force of the city escorted him to the
train. A number of his personal friends
have tendered him a complimentary benefit
at the Varieties Theatre,
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