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THDESDAT MORNING. OPT. 13,1870
Notice.
Prom and after this date —Juue 1,1870
The terms for the Tri-Weekly Constitu
tionalist will be at the rate of $6 per
annum. All papers will be discontinued at
the end of the time paid for.
DEATH OF GEN. ROBERT E. LEE.
The telegraph conveys the mournful in
telligence that General Lee is head. How
few the words, yet how melancholy their
significance ! It seems bnt yesterday we
saw him, if not full of lusty life, at least
with tiie promise of many useful years, to
bless, to guide, to sustain and glorify his
countrymen of the South. And now the
good gray head is low, the noble heart is
hushed, the beaming eye is dim, and the
royal spirit, which kept its whiteness amid
the storm of battle, the cruelties of misfor
tune and the devoted pangs of the foeman’s
treacherous peace, has flown to higher
realms than this. He has crossed the river
which Jackson crossed before; he rests
under the shade of the trees of Paradise ;
he has carried to the Spirit Land the South
ern Cross, and henceforth there is one
saint the more to make us feel that if we
have lost a cause on earth we have gained
another advocate for that cause in heaven.
What need of many words. When
the fateful syllables, “ Lee is dead,”
shall, on the wings of the lightning,
traverse the globe, what worthy man,
woman or child who has heard of his great
deeds in the battle for liberty and his
sublime resignation in defeat—What kindly
human being the world over will not ac
knowledge, with a thrill of genuine emo
tion, that there has passed out of mere
mundane existence one of the grandest
characters that ever lived in the tide of
times ? It is the part of the South to mourn
for her departed chief. It is proper that
strangers should pronounce elaborate eulo
gies. Suffice it for us that the good and
pure everywhere honor our dead Lee and
his Trampled Right with an honor which
no living representative of Victorious Evil,
strangely misnamed Right, shall ever ob
tain. Suffice it for us that now our future
shall grow immortal, since
“ He is gathered to the Rings of Thought
Who waged contention with their time’s de
cay,
And of the past are ail that cannot pass away!”
Washburne. —The Germans of the West,
generally are furious with Minister Wash
burne, because of his hot-headed Parisian
sympathies. And yet the Germans made
Washburne and hundreds of other pot
house politicians the great men of the new
dispensation. The Germans everywhere
are fast finding out that in warring with
the Yankee against the South they were
helping their worst enemies to cut the
throats of their best frieuds.
Tour gee* Co.—Hod. Horace Grekt.ky
still accuses Gov. Holden of complicity
iu the Tourgee lie, in spite of Senator Ab
bott’s “card.” The Richmond Dispatch,
rejoicing over the exposure of this dastard
ly conspiracy, says it is “ an example of
cool villainy by men who are ever plan
ning and manceuvering to rule the South
ern people and plunder the public treas
ure.”
Morton. —The Nation, a Republican
paper, says of Morton’s appointment to the
British Mission: “ A worse selection could
hardly have been made.” The Courier-
Journal adds: “ If a worse could have been
made it would have been made.”
Progress. —The Fifteenth Amendment
has penetrated the entrenched camp of
Masonry. The Grand Lodge of the State
of Illinois has issued instructions to all
subordinate lodges to admit negroes and
mulattoes.
A Sober Confession. —The President-
General thinks Brown will be elected in
Missouri. But he is determined to support
McCldrg, all the same. Funny man, that
Grant.
No Such Luck. —The fiery, untamed
Wendell Phillips calls upon President-
General Grant to make an example of
Prussia.
Denied. —The English Duke of Man
chester publicly contradicts the stories of
German cruelty and brutality.
ll I» I— *
Robbery-by One of Bullock's Model
Justices. —The Savannah News, of yester
day, contains the following item :
A gentleman named Sheppard, who
farms on the Ogeechee road, while traveling
to his home on Saturday, was relieved of
his coat, containing his pocket-book and
some seventy dollars in cash, which he had
thrown off and placed in his wagon. In
formation of the fact was received, and a
friend summoned a policeman, who had,
however, no jurisdiction. Officer Morgan,
on Sunday, by virtue of a warrant, issued,
proceeded to the place and arrested one J.
Moody, who is an ex-officio Justice of the
Peace by virtue of Bullock’s appointment,
and brought him to the city. The Justice
aforesaid disgorged the pocket-book, which
contained twenty dollars and fifty cents out
of the seventy dollars. Farther disclosures
revealed the fact that an amount of jewelry
had been purchased, which the officer re
covered. This is a finale to the Buliockites
on the Ogeechee, and we trust that Brad
ley, in his canvass, may make a note of the
above facts. Moody was brought to the
city, and having delivered the pocket-book
and contents, which he claimed having
come by honestly, was discharged under
bonds for his appearance.
The Roman Question.-- -Zondow, October
B.—Cardinal Cullen has pnblished a letter
on the Roman question, in which he states
that Rome has been given over a prey to
marauders and adventurers; that danger
ous criminals have been liberated from the
jails to subvert the established government;
yet that all this is applauded by the revolu
tionary socialists.
The Archbishop of Westminster has also
made public a letter from Pope Pius IX to
King Victor Emanuel, in which his Holi
ness says: “ I bless God who has suffered
the last days of my life to be filled with
bitterness for His Church through you, and
I place in His hands my cause, which is
not my cause indeed, but wholly Hig own.”
England. —Suppose the
e t ger to wipe out the dis
grace of the present war, should help the
American republic to avenge the Alabama
wrongs; and then suppose the Fenians
should take a hand in the fight (as they
surely would want to); and another
republic should rise up in Spain, and insist
on having Gibraltar; and suppose on the
top of all this, Russia should crowd us to
the wall in Asia, what a pretty pickle En
gland would be in.—j ?aU Mall Gazette.
Mr. Greeley Attacks General Grant and
Military Men Generally.
(.From his speech at St. Louis, October 3d.
Long after the materials have perished
beyond recovery, we perceive that the true
history of our race has not been written.
That which has come down to us from
antiquity embodies the names of a few
great warriors, as many city-building-des
pots, the founders of three or four out of
ten thousand religions, with two or three
remarkably strong-minded and generally
ill-behaved women ; but, of the great bene
factors and real leaders of mankind, it
tells us nothing. Ninus and Sesostris
figure on its pages; but what are they to
us ? and what did they whereby we are in
structed or benefited? while he who first
subdued and tamed a horse, and he who
first stirred and loosened the soil for a
seed-bed by the help of animal strength,
have utterly crumbled into nameless dust.
We know who showed Europe how to
make and use gunpowder; we cannot
guess who taught her to weave fabrics of
wool and flax for defense against the
caprices of weather and the rigors of
Winter; we are familiar with the modern
achievements of Marllorough , and Saxe, and
Prussia's Frederick, while we know little
of Palissy, and Jacquard, aud Brindley,
and Watt; yet that little has sated our
curiosity. The conquests of the Great Na
poleon turned to ashes years before he died,
while those, far vaster, of our own Fulton
arc still being extended aud consolidated ;
yet millions eagerly pour over volumes
narrating the former, where thousands
wearily yawn over pages describing the
latter. Right well do we know that the era of
carnage and devastation has not closed; hut
is it not high time that the sway of peaceful,
fruitful industry should begin ?
Our average reading corrupts more than
It enlightens and humanizes ns. The ap
prentice, whose every leisure hour is ab
sorbed in gloating over the adventurous
robberies of Jack Sheppard, is clearly not
on the highway to eminence In the trade he
learns only to despise; bnt how much bet
ter calculated to render him a skillful me
chanic and useful citizen are the pages of
Napier's Peninsular JVar, Allison's Modern
Europe, or the Napoleonic Romances of the
Rev. John 8. 0. Abbott f
*• Ho men gather grapes of thorns, or figs
of thistles ?” We poison the minds of our
youth with a delusive glamour which makes
iudustry seem dull and trivial, and then
wonder that they shun patient, plodding
work, and woo success through hazardous
speculation and gambling adventure. Wc
virtually teach them that the husband
man’s life is poor and paltry, and then won
der that they despise and shun it. We must
reverse the engine, and teach the essential nob e
ness of even an undistinguished but useful
ca -eer of manly labor—the nobleness that is,
or at least the nobleness that may and yet shall
be.
[From the Griffin Star.
Trouble in the Radical Camp.
The Radical nominations for Congress
on thestb instant have created great, dissat
isfaction in the party. In the First District
O’Neal, of Lowndes, was overslaughed by
Virgil Hillyer, a weak old man, and a car
pet-bagger at that, who cannot carry the
strength of the party, and really has no
claims upon it. O’Neal was entitled to
the nomination by all party rules. His
friends are urging him to run independent.
Should he do so, he will get a big vote.
Aarqn Alpeovid is in the field independent,
and will take off a sharp vote. On the
whole, Mclntyre’s chances are pretty good.
In the Second District, spotted horse
Blonnt threatens to run against Whitely,
who is now a United States Senator, but
aspires to both Houses. In the Fourth,
John Harris has been completely bursted
by Tom Speer, and the two head bosses of
the party are intensely disgusted at Tom’s
nomination. What few while Radicals
there are in this portion of the dis
trict will mostlv vote for Lawton. In
the Fifth District, the calculation was
for Tweedy to get the nomination, bnt
Fannin received it, a man of almost no
brains, and little party usefulness—while
Tweedy, who is hardly second to Blodgett
as a purtizan manager, was left out in the
cold. We confess to a sort of liking for
Tweedy. He dresses so nice, has such a
devil-may-care style, and so much of the
jolly Irishman ; and then he is pretty good
game, which is a scarce article in his par
ty ! He should have been nominated in
stead of the milk-sop that was selected.
We wouldn’t be surprised il Tweedy runs
independent. In the Seventh District, the
Atlanta Rads don’t like Burnett. Some
talk of running Dunning independent, and
others sav that they will vote for General
Wofford,‘if he will come out. Judge Par
rott expected the nomination.
On the whole, the Radical party In
Georgia is in a shy way, and even with the
Akerman bill of fraud, we apprehend they
will find Jordan a hard road to travel.—
The only chance we see for them is to re
fuse to hold elections in about thirty or
forty Democratic counties. Their Con
gressional nominees are the weakest of all
weak things, and if elected, will never bn
heard of in Washington.
. [From the Brooklyn Union.
Pot and Kettle.
WHAT FULTON SAYS ABOUT TILTON AND
WHAT TILTON SAYS ABOUT FULTON.
The Religious Telescope, of Dayton, Ohio,
contains a copy of a letter which it says the
Rev. Justin D.‘Fulton, of Boston, has ad
dresse i to Mr. Theodore Tilton, of New
York, although Mr. Tilton has never re
ceived either the letter in question or any
other from Mr. Fulton. The I'elescope's
copy of Mr. Fulton’s missive is as follows:
Boston, Massachusetts.
Theodore Tilton, fffsq.:
Dear Sir: I have been informed that
you were seen at a restaurant on Broadway
& day or two since, with a bottle of wiue
before you, and of which you several times
partook.
As you are the chief editor of a religious
and temperance paper, I assume the right
to ask you whether this report is true. If
true, I shall take such means as I may
thing expedient to put the truth before the
public through the newspapers.
J. I). Fulton.
Mr. Tilton has tlie honor to say in reply
that, so far as regards himself, he drinks
wine on communion and other proper oc
casions; and that so far as regards the
mountebank who is reported to have ad
dressed him the above letter, this hot Gos
peller, after preaching a Sunday night
sermon in Dr. Armitage’s church in Ntw
York, sauntered down the Bowery in com
pany with a friend, entered a lager beer
saloon, and during an hour’s stay drank
(the two together) Dine or ten glasses of
lager beer, of which the Rev. Mr. Fulton
guzzled the larger part.
Doings of the Desperadoes in North
Carolina. —The Wilmington Journal, of
Tuesday, says:
The excitement iu Robeson still con
tinues. The whole county is, as it were,
under arms, nud yet nothing of great im
portance has been aceo nplished. The des
peradoes still hold their own iu Long
Branch and some of them are occasionally
seen. The sheriff’s posse are out day and
night, and yet the robbers still maintain
themselves in their fastness. The only
result has been the capture and lodgment
in jail at Lumberton of a young man named
McLaughlin, who has been implicated with
the gang. On the other hand, the citizens
of Moss Neck have been compelled to flee
their homes, and many of them have aone
to Lumberton.
Stephen Davis, the young man who was
so badly injured on last Tuesday, iu the
attack made then on the gang, died yester
day morning at Shoe Heel, at 9 o’clock.
The others who were wounded are fast re
covering.
It is evident that the present of
affairs cannot continue much longer.—
Either the gang must be killed or captured
or else the citizens of Robeson county must
hereafter live in increased fear of tlieJoss of
their lives and destruction of their
property.
Here is a Boston boy’s composition on
“ The Horse“ The horse Is the most
useful animal in the World. Bo is the Cow.
I once had thirteen Ducks and two was
drakes and a Skunk killed One. he smeltd
Orful. I knew a Boy which had 7 chick
ens but His father would not let him rais
Thera and so he got mad and so he boared
a Hole in his mother’s Wash tub. I wish
I Had a horse—a horse weighs 1,000
pounds.”
[From the Philadelphia Press.
The “ Leonine City.”
What is the Leonine City? Know, then,
that Rome is divided into fonrteon Rioni,
or districts—a name derived from the au
cient Regioni. They are not regular, either
in outline or boundaries, and their respec
tive limits were assigned, by Pope Sixtus
V, 'about the year 1586. Eleven of these
Rioni are in the modern city, in which the
population is crowded, and the remaining
three are outside these limits. The Em
peror Augustus, it may be remembered,
divided Rome, which he' found built of
brick and left of marble, into fourteen dis
tricts or Regioni, but these, except in num
ber, did not resemble the modern Rioni of
the Eternal City, as it now exists.
The eleventh of the existing Rioni,
separated by high walls from the Traste
vere, which is the largest of all the divi
sions, communicates with it by the fine
gate of Santo Spirito. It is called The
Borgo. Both of these districts, in the north
of Rome, are si’uated on the right bank of
the Tiber. The Borgo contains the Castle
of St. Angelo, the Vatican Palace, the
Hospital of Santo Spirito, and the Church
of St. Peter. In ancient Rome this district
included Mount Vatioan, the Campus
Vaticanus, the Circus of Nero, the Circus,
and the Tomb of the Emperor Hadrian—
the latter near the JStian Bridge, now
known as the Castle of St. Angelo. Later,
it was the locality inhabited by the Anglo.
Saxon pilgrims, in the early ages, of the
Church. Still more recently, prior to the
Reformation, the English embassy to the
Holy See had its residence in this quarter,
In what is now known as the Giraud
Palace.
This Borgo district, which contains with
in its limits some of the most interesting
objects in Rome, is the veritable Citta Lco
nina, or Leonine City, in which the Pope
resides, in the Vatican, close to the mag
nificent Church of St.. Peter. It must have
astonished Pious IX 'o find that in this,
emphatically his own district, not even a
solitary vote was given against the transfer
of Rome from Pontifical to National rule.
Even some of the ecclesiastics are said to
have voted “Yes.” There are some very
good maps of Rome, ancient and modern,
in “Harper’s Haud-Book for Travelers in
Europe," in which the limits of the Leonine
City are distinctly laid down. In the first
it is called Civitas Leonina (by anticipation,
for it did not receive that name until the
ninth century); in the other it is properly
shown as the Rione Borgo, its present dis
tinctive title.
Why should this corner of Rome, which
lies between the Tiber, tlie city wall, and
the Barberini Villa, have been designated
the Leonine City ? The answer is to be
found in Gibbon's “ Decline and Fall of
the Roman Empire.” Leo 111, the hun
dredth Pope, and the same who, on Christ
mas Day, 800, A. D., had crowned Charle
magne as Emperor of the West, in St. *
Peter’s Church, (not the present structure),
conceived the idea of enclosing Rome with
fortified walls, but was unable to carry
out that project from want of means.—
Thirty-six years after the death of this
Pope, one of his successors, the fourth who
assumed the name of Leo, and was a Ro
man by birth and feeling, resolved to do
what the other had desired. Gibbon says :
“ The courage of the first ages of the Re
public glowed in his breast; and amidst
the ruins of his country he stood erect, like
one of the firm and lofty columns that rear
their heads above the fragments of the Ro
man forum.” Adx’ious to secure Rome
against invasion, by his command the an
cient walls were repaired; fifteen towers, In
the most accessible stations, were built or
renewed ; and, creating anew Rione beyond
the Tiber, including the Vatican, St. Angelo
and St. Peter’s, he surrounded it with strong
walls, to this hour remaining, and com
pleted and consecrated this new town, with
religious ceremonies, on the 27th June, 852.
Gibbon says: “ The love of fame, a
generous but worldly passion, may be de
tee'ed in the name of Leonine City, which
he bestowed on the Vatican ; yet the pride
of the dedication was tempered with Chris
tian penance and humility. The boundary
was trod by the Bishop and the clergy,
barefoot, in sackciotb and ashes , the songs
of triumph were modulated to psalms and
litanies; the walls besprinkled with holy
water; and the ceremony was concluded
with a prayer that, under the guardian
care of the Apostles and the angelic host,
both the old and the new Rome might be
ever preserved pure, prosperous, and im
pregnable.”
In fact, therefore, the Leonine City is
over a thousand years old ; is the particular
place in which, preferentially to the palace
cf the Quirlnlnal, the Popes havp resided,
since the year J 377; contains the greatest
and grandest cathedral in the world, and is
fortified by the castle of St. Angelo. There,
it may be reasonably anticipated, Pope
Pius, if he be wise, will pass the rest of his
days—the only Spiritual Sovereign in
Christendom, and freer from worldly cares
than he ever was before.
A Short Sermon.
There’s nine men a standin’ at tlie dore,
an’ they all sed they’d take shugar in
ther’n. Bieh, friends and brethering, was
the talk in a wurldll cens, wonst common
in this our ainsliunt land, but the dais is
gone by and the sans run dry, an no man
can say to his nabur, hoo art thou man
and will you take enny mure shugar in
your kaughey ? But the wurds of our tex
iias a difrunt and a more pertickelur meen
in than tiiis. Thar they stood at the dore
on a,cold Winter’s mornin, two Baptiss
and two Method ss and five Luthurlans,
and the tother one was a publikin. And
they all with one vois sed they wouldn’t
dirty their feet in a dram shop, but if the
publikin would go and get the drinks
they’d pay for ’em. And they all cried out
and every man sed, “I’ll take mine with
shugar—for it won’t feel good to drink the
stuff without sweetinin’.”
Bo the publikin lio marched in and the
bar-keeper said, “ What want ye ?” and lie
answered and sed, “ A drink.” “ How will
ye have it ?” “ Plain and strate," says he,
“ for it ain’t no use iu wastin’ shugar to
circumsalivate akafortis. But there’s uine
more a stand in’ at the dore, and they all
sed they’d take shugar in thern’n.” Friends
and brethering, it ain’t only tlie likker or
the spirits that is drunk in this round
about and underhanded way, but it’s tlie
likker of ail sorts of human wickedness iu
like manner. Ther’s tlie likker of mallis
tha' nienny of you drinks to the dregs; but
vare sure to sweetiu it with the shugar of
self-justification. Ther’s tlie likker of avriss
that, stun keeps behind the curtain for con
stant use, lint they always has it well rnlxt
with the sweetin nv prudens and ekonimy.
Tiier’s the likker of self-luv that sum men
drinks by the gallon, but they always put
in lots of the shugar of take keer of No. 1.
And lastly thar’s tlie likker uv extor
shun, which the man sweetins aecordin to
circumstances. If he's in the flour liue,
he’ll say the poor’ll be better of eating corn
bread; if he’s in the cloth line, wy it’s a
good thing to lam ’em to make their
cloth at home; if he’s in the leather line,
it’ll larn ’em the necessity of taking bet
ter keer uv shoes. And there’s nine men
at the door, and they all sed they’d take
shugar in iher’n. But, friends and breth
ering, thar’s a time cornin’ aud a place
flxin’ whar thar’ll be no “ standin’at the
door” to call for “ shugar in ther’n.” But
they’ll have to go rite in and take the
drink square up to the front; and the bar
keeper’ll be old Satun and nobody else;
and he’ll give ’em “shugar in them,” you’d
better believe it, and it’ll be of lead,
and red hot lead at that, as shure as your
name’s Conshunce Dodger. And you’ll be
entitled to your rations three times a day,
if not more frequenther, and if you don’t
like it you’ll have to lump it, and so may
the old Nick close down upon all your
silk palavering around the plane old peo
ple of brotherly luv and ginirosity and fel
ler-fcelin’ and fare play! Amen.
Somebody writes of Harriet Beecher
Stowe: “ Amid the orange blossoms, where
the mocking bird carols his sweetest hymn,
where all nature is a picture of beauty and
of love, the old gnome sits, like the giantess
of Doubting OaStle, picking the bones of
the Southern dead, and, her insatiate greed
still unsatisfied, digs her inky talons Into
the grave of Albion’s sweetest poet, and
tattos the long-buried bones ol the King
of Verse.”
Yerger.— The grand jury of Hinds
county, Miss., (composed of an equal num
ber of whites and blacks), have found bills
for manslaugUer against both Colouel E.
Yerger, who killed Col. Crane, and Sizer,
who killed the marshal of Jackson. A
strong effort was made to procure the find
ing of indictments for murder, but failed in
both cases.
[From the Pit'abtirgCommercial.
Remarkable Solar Phenomenon.
wonderful commotion on the solar
SURFACE—OBSERVATIONS BY PROFESSOR
LANGLEY, OF THE UNIVERSITY.
Observatory, Alleghany, Sept. 26.
The appearance of spots on the sun, large
enough to be visible to the naked eye, is a
rare occurrence, but it may now be noticed
by any ope who takes the trouble to ob
serve them. The aspect of the sun, through
a large telescope, is one, just now, of sin
gular interest, and seems to claim special
attention from observers.
Here, where the remarkable changes of
the solar surface have formed the subject
of repeated observations daily maps of the
position of the spots are made. And their
singular variations have been the object of
most interested scrutiny.
The side of the sun now turned toward
us is to-day covered with hundreds of them,
of all sizes, and In nil stages of growth,
while the opposite side, to be presented
to us a few days later, is comparatively
bare.
The area of one of the large spots, which
Is now near the centre of the disk, has been
computed from careful measurements, and
found to exceed 2,300,000,000 square miles.
Such immense numbers couvey no definite
impression, aud perhaps a more vivid idea
of the size may be gained by comparing it
with that of the earth, whose entire area is
less than a tenth part of that just given.
This is the area of the penumbra—an
immense expanse of variegated forms
crossed by channels and eonvergen Ist reams
of luminous matter, all shifting under an
action like that of some whirlwind which
is twisting them from one position to an
other, and changing their forms from hour
tohous. The current appears sometimes
to rush downward, carrying with it great
masses of the luminous matter to lower
depths, and opening, as it does, to black
cavities of a size commensurate with the
scale on which this action is carried on.
Tne largest of these cavities is seen to be
overhung with parts of the brilliant sur
face, which visibly break ary in enor
mous portions and sink in it, out of sight;
indeed, it is quite within the truth to say
that a globe the size ol the world might be
dropped in without touching either side.
It is impossible to convey an adequate
idea of the Impression of infinite and in
exhaustible energy, of which oue is con
scious while beholding this with adequate
optical aid. Masses the size of whole con
tinents are utterly changed in shape and
disappear from one’ day to another, some
times while the observer watches them,
and the whole “ spot ” is to all appearances
being slowly rotated by the cyclones which
workingThcre.
PnbLis one of many centers of similar
aetwFjjtol at all on the same scale, but
bafflragrTne eye by their number and in
cessant change of form, which t he draughts
man labors after in vain, and which the
photograph can but Imperfectly render. At
one of our largest observatories the photo
graph is employed to make a daily chart
of these changes, and au inspection of its
truthful and unbiased record will convey a
more conclusive sense of the most awful
magnitude and energy of the solar forces
than the most vivid description.
One who has been accustomed to watch
them must feel the inadequacy of any at
tempt to describe these “spots,” and still
more so of the futility of trying to convey
his own impression of any extravagance of
description of comparison.
The wonder must be in the consideration
of authentic measurements, which are left
to tell their own story.
The public may not share the interest of
the professional observer in such mattets,
bnt our own planet is too intimately con
nected with these phenomenon not to make
them claim some enterest from nil of ns.
Why these magnetic needles move re
sponsively to these great changes in the sun,
or why auroras will light up the winter
sky, at intervals more frequently repeated
as this solar action is more violent, are
questions which astronomy is trying to
answer. The fact that they do so.is cer
tain ; the cause is still wholly unknown to
science.
A Good One for Smokers.-— An aged
negress, whose piety has secured for her an
extensive reputation, in walking her usual
rounds of visits dropped in upon a neighbor
who was equally well known as a temper
ance man and a hater of tobacco.
After being courteously received the
negress pulled from her pocket a long pipe,
and commenced smoking some very “union”
tobacco, to the infinite disgust of her host.
The man maintained his composure several
minutes; but the fumes and smoke became
too powerful for him, and rising from his
chair said;
“Aunt Chloe, do you think you are a
Christian ?”
“Yes, brudder, I specks I is.”
“ Do yon believe in the Bible, aunt?’’
“ Yes, brudder.”
“ Do you know there is a passage in the
Scriptures which declares that nothing
unclean shall inherit the kingdom of
heaven ?”
“ Yes, I’ve heard of it.”
“ Do you believe it?”
“ Yes.”
“ Well, Chloe, you cannot enter the king
dom of heaven, because there is nothing so
unclean as the breath of a smoker. What
do you say to that ?”
“ Why, I specks to leave my breff behind
me when 1 go to heaven.”
One of Gf.n. Teury’s Juvenile Color
ed Female Citizens as a Spellist. —Miss
Sallie Ann Wiggins, a Northern school
marm, taught a colored school in Danville,
N. 0., where she had a favorite named Judy
amoug her dusky pupils. She gave an ex
hibition, at whieh she wished to show off
Judy’s attainments in spelling. The fol
lowing scene then took place;
Miss Sallie Ann—Judy, darling, spell
scissors; that’s a sweet honey.
Judy—S-i-z-z-u-r-s, scissors.
Miss Sallie Ann—Now, birdie, you know
that you are not trying. Try again.
Judy—S-i-z-z-u-r-s, scissors.
Miss Sallie Ann—Now, Judy, you are
just attempting to provoke me. Try again.
Judy—S-i-z-z-u-r-s, scissors.
Miss Sallie Aun—You obstinate little
nigger. You know better than that.
Judy—Ky, Miss Sallie Ann. how l’se
know better. If s-i-z-z-u-r-s don’t spell
scissors, what do it spell ?”
Is the World Flat?—Some of our
English scientific neighbors are waging
fierce war on the question of whether the
earth is round or flat., and does the sun
move or stand stili ? A modern Hampden,
who is resolved apparently to remain
neither “ mute nor ignoble,” is the leader of
tlie party who are going thus resolutely
back to the first principles, and is support
ed by a number of adherents who arc,
strange as it may seem, possessed of both
education and ability. They have dis
tributed their pamphlets and tracts broad
cast in this country. They also offer a re
ward of £IOO to any one who can “ prove
the rotundity or motion of the earth from
Scripture, reason or fact.”
[iWw York Tribune.
The Whites and Blacks.— The Balti
more Sun, referring to the account recently
published of the drowning of Messrs. Da
vis, Fuqua and Agee, at Columbia, Flu
vanna county, Va., in their attempt to
save the lives of a colored man and his
wife, remarks:
“ The incident illustrates not only the
•self-sacriflciDg courage of a generous and
brave people, but the traditional friendship
of Southern whites to the colored race. It
Is an indication of geuuine Southern senti
ment in that regard much more reliable
than the inventions of the manufacturers
of Southern oul rages.”
Agricultural Congress.— Delegates
from Lithonia Agricultural Society, Litho
nla, DeKalb county, Ga.: J. H. Born, R.
I). Evans, Simeon Smith, J. N. Swift, W.
P. Bond.
Delegates from Edgecombe Agricultural
Society, Tarboro, N. C.: Capt. James R.
Thigpen, of the Reconstructed Farmer, H.
C. Bourne.
Troops Moving in South Carolina.—
Detachments of the Bth United States In
fantry left Charleston on Sunday Ibr Edge
field, Abbeville and Unionville. They are
to remain in these counties until after the
election.
Connubialities.
It fell, of course, upon a day.
And she fell when tbe scow was falling,
If haply I’d not passed that way
She would have,coino lo grief appalling;
But as it was she only missed
Her fooling ou a grating cruel.
And though the earth she might have kissed,
She fell Into my arms—the Jewel 1
The man who hesitates is lost,
I fell across the walk and claimed it;
My life seemed very like a frost,
And yet a lady’s footfall thawed it;
Though she was short and I was tall,
I luckily played Mars to Venus;
I broke, by accident, her fall—
Her falling broke the ice between us.
Here, There and Everywhere.
Mrs. Mary Fitch is the “ beautiful barber
of Charlton, Ohio,” and is amassing wealth.
Many men are worth nothing, amt some
are worth-less.
One Saratoga hotel cleared f150,000 last
Summer.
In Indianapolis, Indians are employed by
the street cleaning contractor.
Piano making is the third manufacturing
interest in volume in this country.
Williamsburg, N. Y., has had a pumpkin
pie banquet for the beuellt of a churcW*
The divinity school at Yale College hss
now more students than at auy time for
the past twenty-five years.
St. Louis is to have anew union passen
ger depot, which is to cover three blocks
anti include a tine hotel.
An arrangement Is about lo go into effect
by which there will be but one change of
cars between New York and New Orleans.
The effect of the prohibitory law in Mas
sachusetts lias been to double the manufac
ture of malt liquors in Boston.
Davenport is the largest city in the Mis
sissippi Valley above Quincy—it leads St.
Paul in population by one hundred.
Illinois claims to have grown more rap
idly in population during the past ten years
than any other State in the Union.
They toll a bell in Winchester, Indiana,
every half an hour as a signal for the in
habitants their quinine.
People who think themselves weather
wise are already predicting an unusually
cold Winter.
Over two hundred cows, valued at sll,.
000, have died in Knoxville, Tenn., and Its
vicinity, this season, from cattle d.sease.
A New York man has $50,000 which he
wants to gamble ou the result of a yacht
race, offering to beat any boat that ever
crossed tiie Atlantic.
The people of Egypt are beginning to
rebel agaiDSt taking the veil, and demand
the privilege of enjoying air aud sunshine
like other people.
Among the premiums offered at a county
fair in Kentucky is one of $lO for the
neatest patch put on an old garment by an
unmarried woman.
The by-law of the Grand Lodge of Ma
sons of Illinois, which prohlb.ted colored
persons from admission into the Masonic
lodges In that place, has been repealed.
“ The Fireplace ” i< the name of a drink
ing saloou in Chicago. Any one can get
warm by it for ten cents, or red hot for a
quarter.
The art of painting on marble, which, if
ever known, lias been lost for centuries, has
at length, after years of experiment, been
brought to a high degree of perfection, by a
New York artist. In brilliancy of color
his specimens are equal to oil paintings,
while the pigmeuts when once fixed, are
permanent, and cannot be injured by the
action of the atmosphere, water or acids.
A San Francisco mining company which
owns a valuable claim of 1,500 acres in
Nevada county, California, lias just com
pleted, at an expense of nearly $>1,000,000, a
ditch forty-seven miles long, through a
rough mountain region, in order to obtain
an unfailing supply of water for the extrac
tion of gold by r,he hydraulic process.
Fashion Gossip.
Brown and salmon color are favorite
combinations for bonnets this season.
Heavier fabrics and brighter colors are
now the order of the day for the ladies.
Long pointed waists have come in fashion
again, also, the long postillion jacket.
Large butterflies and bugs are now worn
in the hair, made of silver or gold, ala Nils
son.
The new style of silks are called “ rain
bow gros grains,” and make most beauti
ful evening dresses.
Jet ornaments are used on bonnets this
Fall, and make them so heavy that it feels
like lifting a small sized flat-iron to take
one up.
Parasols for Fall wear are made small
and square, and are trimmed with lace
crcped fringe or wreaths of artificial flowers
the color of the dress.
Very pretty watches are now made of
glass both sides, so that the works can be
seen, with a small rim of silver, and fastened
to the belt by a small silver chain.
Black cassimere sacks, embroidered in
colored floss, with large, loose sleeves, are
very fashionable for ihe street this Fall,
and are sold by the most important New
York dry goods houses.
Some pretty designs have appeared in
ear-rings, one of which is three gold hoops,
one within another, and at the bottom of
each a small diamond. Another style is
a lattice work with leaves, and a life like
spider on the centre of it.
Anew style of goods has just appeared,
which is called reversible foulard, and is
gray on one side and bl lie on the other,
always of two pretty contrasting colors,
and is au economical dress to buy, as it
trims itself to the best advantage.
The Prince ok Local Reporters.—
A contemporary contains the following re
markable local account of a “distressing
accident” : “Last eveniug, about G o’clock,
as Mr. William Schuyler, an old and re
spectable citizen-of South Park, was leav
ing his residence to go down town, as has
been his usual custom for many years, with
the exception only of a short interval in the
Spring of 1860, during which he was con
fined to his bed by injuries received in
attempting to stop a runaway horse by
thoughtlessly placing himself directly in its
wake and throwing up his hands and
shouting, which, if he had done so even
a single moment sooner, must inevitably
have frightened the animal still more, in
stead of checking its speed, although dis
astrous enough to himself as it was, and
rendered more melancholy and distressing
by reason of the presence of his wife’s
mother, who was there and saw the oc
currence, notwithstanding it is at least
like’.y, though not necessarily so, that she
should be reconnoitering in another direc
tion when incidents occur, not being viva
cious and on the lookout, as a general
thing, bnt even the reverse, as her own
mother is said to have stated, who is no
more, but died in the full hope of a glorious
resurrection upwards of three years ago,
aged 86, being a Christian woman and
without guile, as it were, or property, in
consequence of the fire of 1849, which de
stroyed every solitary thing she had in the
world. Bat such is life. Let us all take
warning by this solemn occurrence, and
let us endeavor to so conduct ourselves
that when we come to die we can do it.
Let iu place our hands upon our hearts, and
say with earnestness and sincerity that
from this day forth we will beware of the
intoxicating bdwl.
Death op Dr. J. A. Wragg. —Dr. John
Ashby Wragg, a well known physician and
prominent citizen of this city, died at his
residence yesterday afternoon, after an ill
ness of two weeks. The deceased was six
ty-five years of age, and \vas a native of
Charleston, and connected With the old
est families of South Carolina. He stud
ied medicine In the Charleston Medical
College, and after graduating went to
Paris, where he remained for several years
completing his studies. Returning to his
native land he abandoned the practice of
medicine and became a planter, having a
fine estate near Datien, Ga. Abandoning
this calling, he came to this city about
thirty years ago and resumed his profes
sion, since which time he has been known
as one of our best physicians. The remains
will be taken to Charleston for interment
in the family vault.— Savannah News, lOfA.
About one-third of the Thomaston and
Barnesvllle Road has been put in running
order.
BY TELEGRAPH.
tSvecial to the Oonitituttonalist.
FROM ATLANTA.
PASSAGE OF BILLSCREATING NEW
COUNTIES.
THE HOUSE DECIDES TO LEASETHE
STATE ROAD.
MEMBERS FURNISHED WITH STOCK
TO VOTE FOR ITS SALE.
THE RADICALS JUBILANT OVER
THE PROSPECT OF DE
FEATING AN ELEC
TION.
Atlanta, October 13.
SENATE.
Bills cheating the following new couuties
were passed: Douglass, from Campbell aud
Carroll; McDuffie, from Warren and Co
lumb’ft—a motion to name it Adkins being
lost; Rockdale, from Newton ; Hcaly and
Independence, from Cowtea, Merriwether
aud Fayette; Relief, from Pike and Monroe
—Relief being substituted for Crrlttenden
by 9 majority.
HOUSE.
A resoltion to appoint a joint committee
to a day for adjournment was adopted.
The bill to appropriate $500,000 to equip
the Slate Hoad was, on motion of Bryant,
indefinitely postponed by yeas 85 to nays 45.
Bryant exposed the Biodgett-Harris ad
ministration.
Tweedy remarked that it was fortunate
that members of the Legislature were not
accountable outside for what they say in
side of the House.
For the bill to lease the State Road,
Bryant offered a substitute to sell it.
Scott offered a substitute to lease the
Road, with an amendment striking out the
provision for the State to pay for improve
ments when the road is returned. Adopt
ed by 107 yeas to 2 nays.
Scott’s amendment was adopted by yeas
90 to nay3 31.
It is stated that parties trying to pur
chase the State Road have issued stock to
members of the General Assembly.
President Yancey aud Secretary Lewis
of the State Agricultural Society, and th dr
assistants, are busy. More entries have
been made than at the same period for any
previous fair.
The Governor has signed the Price Sa
vannah Street Railroad bill. Among the
Savannah incorporators are Screven, Ar
nold, Lamar, Constantine, Fitch, Russell,
Dillon and Wvlly.
The death of Gen. Lee has cast a gloom
over the whole city.
The Governor issued a proclamation this
morning, requiring ordinaries to send their
appointments of election managers to him.
The Radicals are jubilaut over the pros
pect of defeating au election in December.
Bullock, Blodgett and Tweedy areoictive,
caucus freely and frequently.
r Associated Press Dispatches.
NOON DISPATCHES.
Washington. October 12.—1 t is stated
the Prussian Government addressed an
earnest remonstrance to the United States
against the shipment of arms to Franco.
Bourbaki’s arrival at Tours is hourly
expected.
More fighting near Orleans.
In Ohio the Republicans claim the State
by fifteen thousand. They gain a Con
gressman in the First and possibly in the
Ninth. Schenck’s election Is doubtful.
In Indiana the Republicans gain in the
river towns and lose in the central portions.
The. State is very close. Nothing from
doubtful Congressional Districts.
Pennsylvania gives a majority for the
Republicans.
Philadelphia city, 4,931. The Republicans
lose their regular nominee in the third dis
trict. The Democrats elect their candi
date in the Sixth—a gain. The Republi
cans elect Shoemaker in the Twelfth—the
coal district—a gain. The Democrats will
probably elect Myers in the Sixteenlh dis
trict, miking a gain of one in the delega
tion.
In lowa the vole is light, but no change
in the results. Administration cirotes here
are gratified.
Nothing from Nebraska.
The Postmaster General to-day issued
an order for the Cuban mails from Southern
cities to be sent to Cedar Keys, Florida,
via New Orleans and th- nee (alien to
Havana by the Roberts line of steamers.
Philadelphia, October 12.—Forney’s
Press claims Oliver in the Sixth and Shoe
maker in the Twelfth —both doubtful;
Reading, in the Fifth, elected a Republi
can. The majority in the Nineteenth is
2,000 ; the Sixteenth and Twenty-first are
still doubtful. The Republicans will have
a majority of live in the State Senate, and
a gain of two in the House, the same as
last year.
Berlin, October 12.—The steamship.
Herman, from New York ou the 20th, ar
rived. She saw no French cruisers.
Tours, October 12.—The Government
has no news of favorable results.
The Minister of War officially publishes
the following from Orleans,late last night:
“ The scene of battle to-day is so near the
city that shells fell on the outskirts The
Prussian troops from Tours have formed a
junction. The Fifteenth Army Corps is
near Artenay. Severe fighting was renew
ed before St. Quinten.”
Garibaldi, on account of delicate health,
will require rest before action.
Richmond, October 12.—The Dispatch
has just received the following telegram
from Staunton : “ A messenger arrived here
last night from Lexington, bringing the
information that, Gen. Lee is much worse,
and his physicians report his disease as
having assumed a more serious form, and
his friends are alarmed at his condition.”
Lexington, October 12—7, A. M.— via
Milhoro. —Symptoms of an unfavorable
character have manifested themselves in
the disease of General Lee within the past
two days. His condition is not very en
couraging ; indeed, it begins to excite the
grave apprehensions of his friends and
physicians. The members of his family at
a distance have been summoned so his bed.
Lexington, October 12—10, A. M.— via
Milboro. —General Robert E. Lee, the
Christian gentleman and hero of a hundred
battle fields, breathed his last at thirty
minutes past, nine o’clock this morning, of
congestion of the brain, aged sixty-three
years eight months and twenty three days.
Washington, October 12.—The above
dispatches have just been received here.
EVENING DISPATCHES.
London, October 12.—Gen. Burnside has
conveved to Jules Favre Bismarck’s assur
ance of Germany’s willingness to permit
elections to be held.
The limes, in its financial article to-day,
refers discouragingly to the Tehuantepec
canal route, but approves that of Nicara
gua, and thinks, in view of the Pacific
Railroad and similar great American pro
jects, the latter work will be a success.
Communication with Aden and India,
via Red Sea cables, was again established
this afternoon.
Tours, October 12—Messengers who
were sent to Orleans yesterday, where the
battle was going on, have returned. They
make the following report: “ The French
were In much smaller force than the Prus
sians and were literally crushed by their
superior artillery and driven back into the
suburbs of the town. Some barricades have
been erected there and our forces took ad
vantage of the shelter there afforded. The
Papal Zouaves and Mobiles behaved mo9t
courageously, but the regular troops fled
on the first tire. None of the regular troops
made much resistance; many threw away
their arms in their flight. The Prussians
opened fire on the town after the French
defeat, and owing to barricades many fires
occurred. The railroad depot was destroyed
and many other large establishments.
At last accounts, the people of Lyons
were flying in all directions. At a late
hour last night the Prussians had pushed
south to Beaugency and Mcung, beyond
Orleans. It is feared tho Papal Zouaves
will be surrounded and captured. Other
French troops in that neighborhood are in
good position and heavy reinforcements
lere sent forward to them duv ng the
night It is reported that several heavy
guns have also gone forward from Bourges.
B The French troops at Beaugency and
Meung are excellent. They are composed
fhleflv of National Guards and Mobiles,
Sd 5e determined to resist to the last. I
In view of the urgency of the case, Gari
baldi left Tours this morning for the field.
There is a great movement here ofFranc
tireurs. Troops of all kinds are pushing
to the front with all dispatch.
The Government lias repealed its deter
mination to retaliate for Prussian atroci
ties. If the municipal authorities at> Ablis
are executed, an equal number of Prussian
prisoners will be shot.
The Ministry have the following: “A
courier who brought intelligence was al
lowed to pass through the Prussian lines.
There was a battle on Friday, the 7th, be
tween Fort Mont Valerien and St. Cloud,
on the west Side of Paris. The French,
under Ducrot, made a sortie In force. The
Prussians were completely defeated and
driven to Versailles, entirely surrendering
positions lately occupied by them, and from
which they might have shelled the western
part of Paris.”
Advices from various parts of Fiance
confirm Prussian outrages upon helpless
people aud towns. Successes of Franc*
trieurs are followed by burning villages,
and the authorities of towns are seized.—
In view of the frightful state of affairs, the
Tours Government has presented the sub
ject to Prussian military authorities and
Ambassadors of the neutral Powers.
Chatteau Don, October 12.—The enemy
have been beuten back at Dreux.
Morcuil, October 11—Midnight.—The
cnemys’ scouts retreated before the approach
of Franc-tlreurs and Mobiles.
The Tours Government Is satisfied with
the good faith of Borbouki.
Five franc pieces with emblems of the
Republic are circulating.
Washington, October 12 Col. Bristow,
of Kentucky, has been appointed Solicitor
General.
Richmond, October 12—Messrs. Bar
bour and Walker, parties to the recent
challenge, were arrested to-day by the
Chief of Police, under apprehensions of
another collision, and were bailed to an
swer to-morrow morning.
The Dispatch has just received the fol
lowing special telegram: Lexington, Octo
ber 12.—General Lee died this morning at
half-past nine o’clock. He began to grow
worse on Monday, and continued to sink
until lie breathed his last this morning
The places of business are closed. The
bells are tolling, and the whole community
thrown Into the deepest grief.
Columbus, 0., October 12.—Judge Lewis
D. Campbell is probably elected in the third
district, beating Sclicnck.
Cincinnati, October 12.—Later accounts
make Stevenson’s majority 1,517. The
highest majority in Hamilton county is
2,5„0. Reports from the Sixth District,
where General Denver is contesting against
two Republicans, are conflicting.
Indianapolis, October 12—The result is
doubtful. Both parties claim the State.
It may require an official count. The re
turns to this evening iudicate the election
of the following Democrats: Kerr, Hol
man and Voorhees. The Fourth and Ninth
districts are doubtful. The Legislature is
in doubt.
Atlanta, October 12.—The Executive
Committee of the State Agricultural So
ciety adopted a resolution to-day, In the
event of the visit of the President and
Cabinet to Atlanta during the Fair, the Ex
ecutive Committee would call upon and ex
tend 1 1 them every official courtesy, and Is
sue complimentary tickets to the State
Fair.
New Orleans, October 12.—Deaths
from yellow fever yesterday, 14.
NIGHT DISPATCHES.
New York, October 12.— Wall street. Is
slightly disturbed by the story that a
prominent Broad street “bear” ou stocks
and a German banking firm will demon
strate In the Gold Room to-morrow to lock
up cash gold. It is stated that the Broad
street “ bear ” is short of six mi lions gold,
borrowed to make, up time deliveries. The
German banking firm is reported long of
gold. The object of the Broad street
“bear” Is supposed to be to advance gold
for thepurposeof selling more, as well as for
the purpose of adversely affecting the “bull”
speculation on the Stock Exchange by in
creased activity in money, which the lock
up of cash gold would naturally make.—
The object of the German banking firm Is
to unload their long gold on the market,
It is stated that Canada bayles which hold
the “ bulls’ ” floating gold here refuse to
enter into ihe. scheme, but will probably
accept higher rates for the use of their
gold in the regular Loan Market.
The following is an official statement of
the condition of the Western Union Tele
graph Company’s service throughout the
country: On the Ist of July, 1870, this
company possessed 54,109 miles of poles
and 112,191 miles of wire, against 52,099
miles of poles and 104,504 miles of wire at
the same time last year, being an increase
of 1,910 miles of poles and 7,607 miles of
wire. During the past year there has been
an increase of 521 offices and 883 sets of
telegraphic apparatus. The gross receipts
for the year ending July Ist, 1869, were
$7,316,918 30; ditto, 1870, $7,138,737 96;
decrease, $178,180 34, or 2)3 per cent.—
The gross expenditures for tbe year
ending July Ist, 1870, were $4,910,772 42;
ditto, 1869, $4,588,116 85; increase, $342,655
57, or 7*2 per cent. The number of messages
transmitted during the year was 22 per
cent, more than for the preceding year.—
From October Ist, 1869, when the rates
were reduced,to March Ist, 1870,five months,
the net earnings were $847,879 73; from
March Ist, 1870, to August Ist, 1870, five
months, the, net earnings were $946,863 65,
being an increase of $98,983 92 or 116-10
per cent. If the same rate of increase
should continue for the next year the net
earnings woulil amount to $2,486,400 54
which, added to the amounts saved
by the abolishment of the national tax
would make the net, earnings for the year
ending July Ist, 187 J, $2,686,409 54. We
may, however, expect much better results
than these, for the business for the five
months from October Ist to March Ist,
Is generally better than the five months
from March Ist to August Ist; thus from
October Ist, 1868, to March Ist, 1869, the net
earnings were $1,207,564 93, and from
March Ist, 1869. to August Ist, 1869, sl,-
032,124, showing that the Autumn and
Winter months for 1808 and 1869 were
$175,440 93 better limn the Spring and
Summer months of 1869; while for the
present year the Spring and Summer
months are $98,983 92 better than the
preceding Autumn and Winter months.
The average rates of tolls upon the entire
volume of business done for the year end
ing Jill v Ist, 1870, was 20 per cent, less
than for the year ending July Ist, 1869.
The average expense of transmission per
message for the year ending July Ist,
1870, was 11 2-10 per cent, less than
for the yeir ending July Ist, 1869. The
net profits for the year ending July Ist,
1869, were $2,801,457 48; ditto for 1870,
$2,227,965 54, being a decrease of $573,-
491 94, or 20 per cent, from October Ist,
1869, when the reduced tariff went iuto
operation, to April 13th, 1870. The gross
receipts were $233,273 98 less, and the ex-
pendltnres were $186,019 18 more, than for
the same months of the preceding year,
making a difference in the net earnings
of $419,293 11. Thus, 74 per cent, of the
decrease in the net earnings for the
year occurred in the first seven months
after the reduction in the tolls of this de
crease iu the net earnings. $200,322 •’if* oc
curred during the months of January and
February alone, being 35 per cent, of the
decrease for the year after the redaction of
the rates in October of last year; the gross
receipts did not come up to those of any
corresponding month in the precedingyear
until May, when they exceeded the same
month of the preceding year by $7,755. In
Ti.lv 1870 the receipts exceeded the same
J& to «: '■>
1870 the receipts exceeding the same month
of the preceding year by $4,112 38. As the
cost of performing an increased amount of
traffic increases in a certain proportion
with the service, the net earnings did not
come up to the amount earned in any cor
responding month of the preceding year un
til July, when they were in excess of the
same month for 1869 by $21,281 92. In Au
gust, 1870, the net earnings were $218,-
614 14. being $14,087 56.
Florence, October 12.—Lieut. Gen. La
Mormora entered Rome yesterday and was
received with hearty demonstrations of
welcome by the people.
London, October 12.—The French fleet
has been sighted ofl’ Heligoland, The
authorities at Altona and other ports have
been warned to remove the outer buoys
and lights of their harbors to prevent sur
prise.
The United States steamer Plymouth has
arrived at Kiel, though that port is osten
sibly closed by the blockade. Other Ameri
can men of war are expected there.
MARKETS.
[BY TELEGBAPIL]
Liverpool, October 12— Noon.— Cotton
quiet; uplands, 8%@8%; Orleans, B#®
8%. Red Western Wheat, Bs. 7d.@Bs. W.
Com, 28s. 6d.@295.
New York, October 12—Noon.— Stocks
very strong. Money, s<®6. Gold, ll»%-
Sterling—long, 8% ; short, 9%. Bonds,
New York, October 12—P. M —Money
more active; demand extended a later hour
than usual, at 6®7; over $5,000,000 wera
borrowed this afternoon for use to-morrow.
Sterling dull at 8%. Gold, 113%@113%.
Governments quiet. Southerns (101 l but
steady.
New York, October 12—P. M—Banks
hold twelve and a half millions in Gold
against twenty-one and a half millions last
year. These figures show how easy a
squeeze In cash Gold could be made by a
few Individuals. The position of the Gold
market to-morrow will demonstrate wheth
er the scheme will be carried out. Mean
time, much interest is felt iu the matter,
from the magnitude of the interests in
volved. Gold opened stronger, became ox
cited during the afternoon, and active upon
lock-up stories. ’C2's, 12%; ’64’e, 11%;
’6s’s, 11%; new, 10%;’07’a, 10%; ’6B's,
10%; 10 40’s, 0%. Tenuossees, 62%; new,
60%; Virginias, 62% ; new, 65; Louislanas,
70; new, 64 ; Levees, 75; B’s, 87; Alaba
mas, 101; s’s, 70; Georgias, 80; 7’s, 90 ;
North Caroliuas, 48%; new, 26%; South
Carolines, 82; new, 67%.
New York, October 12—Noon.—Flour
quiet and steady. Wheat and Corn a shade
firmer. Pork and Lard steady. Cotton
dull aud lower; upland, 15%; Orleans,
16%; sales, 1,000. Turpentine buoyant at
43%®44. Rosin quiet; strained, $2. —
Freights firm.
New York, October 12—P. M.—Cotton
dull and drooping; siles, 2,500 bales; up
land, 15%. Flour—Stale and Western a
shade firmer for shipping grades; Southern
quiet and unchanged. Wheat I@2 better
Winter red and amber Western, $1 83®
1 35. Corn I@2 better—Bs®Bo. Beef quiet
at $JO®l5 ; extra, sls®lß. Pork, sl6 60®
16 75. Whisky unsettled at 89® 89%. Tur
pentine buoyant. Rosin firm. Tallow
quiet. Freights firmer.
New Orleans, October 12.—Com dull
and lower; mixed, 71072 ; white, 78. Ba
con firm at 15%, 18% and 20; hams, 26%.
Lard —tierce, 16%"® 17%; keg, 18%@10%.
Molasses —19 barrels of choice new-receiv
ed and sold at sl. Others unchanged.
Sterling, 22%. New York Sight, % dis
count. Gold, 112%. •
Baltimore, October 12. —Flour firm
and active. Wheat steady; receipts good.
Corn—Southern white, 00®$1. Pork firm
at $27. Bacon—shoulders, 14%®15. Whis
ky firm at 91.
Galve ton, O.ctober 12.—Cotton firm;
good ordinary, 12%; net receipts, 269,
stock, 6,033.
Baltimore, October 12— Cotton more
easy, owing to heavy receipts; demand
good; tniddliug, 15; sales, 200 bales; net
receipts, 114; coastwise, 904; total, 1,018
exports coastwise, 225; stock, 8,955.
Cincinnati, October 12.—Flour quiet
and unchanged.. Corn dull and drooping ;
new, 45 ; old, 50. Mess Pork in fair de
mand at S2O. Lard advancing aud in fair
demand at 16. Bacon advanced and in
fair demand at 14; shoulders, 17%; clear
sides, 19. Whisky dull and unchanged.
St. Louis, October 12.—Flour unchanged.
Corn dull at 59<®65. Whisky and hemp
bagging unchanged. Pork firm ; job
bing, $25 50. Bacon firm ; shoulders, 14%;
clear sides, 19@20. Lard firm at 16.
Wilmington, October 12.— Spirits Tur
pentine buoyant at 40%. Strained Rosin
firmer at $1 40. Crude Turpentine firm at
$1 40®2 25 and tends upwards. Tar dull.
Louisville, October 12.—Bagging firm
and unchanged. Flour firm ; family, $5 25.
Corn unchanged. Provisions advancing.
Pork, $26. Bacon—shoulders, 14%;cloar
sides, 19; hams, 25. Lard—tierce, 16%.
Whisky steady at 86®87.
New Orleans, October 12.—Cotton—de
mand fair at lower rates ; middling, 14% @
14%; sales, 4,100 bales; net receipts, 1,827 ;
coastwise, 314 ; total, 2,141 ; stock, 43,498.
Charleston, October 12.—Cotton easier,
but, iu good demand ; middling, 14%; sales.
600 bales; uet receipts, 1,784; exports to
Great Britain, 1,685; stock, 17,143.
Boston, October 12.—Cotton very dull
and depressed, and accurate quotations
cannot he given; middling, 16%; sales,
200 bales; net receipts, 5; stock, 4,500.
Mobile, October 12.—Cotton dull an.l
tending down ; nothing doing ; middling,
14%; sales, 1,200 bales; net, receipts, 584;
exports coastwise, 343; stock, 23,639.
Savannah, October 12.—Cottou active;
middling, 14%; sales, 1,000 bales; net re
ceipfs, 4,860; exports coastwise, 7,609;
stock, 37,502.
Norfolk, October 12.—Cotton dull but
not lower; low middling, 14%; sales, 100
bales ; net receipts, 567; exports coastwise,
44 ; stock, 2,561.
Wilmington, October 12.— Cotton quiet;
middling, 14% ; net receipts, 192 bales; ex
ports coastwise, 408; stock, 1,503.
MARINE NEWS.
Wilmington, October 12. —Arrived .-
Steamer Rebecca Clyde, from Baltimore.
New York, October 12.— Arrived :
Champion, Clyde, Ottawa, Montgomery,
Mongolia, Mcnnetonka and Russia.
Angaata Daily Market.
Office I)atly Constitutionalist, >
Wednesday, October 12— i*. M. j
FINANCIAL
GOLD—buying at 112 and selliug at 114.
SlLVEß—Buying at 105 and selling at 108.
BONDS-City Bonds, 75(3)80.
STOCKS—Georgia Railroad, 07<®08. Au
gusta Factory, 155@158. Savings Bank, 100.
COTTON—At tho open'ng of tho market
there was a moderate demand at 1.8% for Liver
pool and H for New York middling, but pr the
day advanced and tho accounts both from New
York and Liverpool coming In unfavorable,
the market became weak and closed dull with
a downward tendency; we quote Livei pool mid
dling, 13%; New York middling, 18%. Boles,
1,093 bales. Receipts, 1,173 bales.
BACON—Good demand, with light stock.
We quote C. Sides, 19®19%; C. R. Sides,
18%@19; B. B. Sides, 18@18%; Shoulders, 10®
10%; Hams, 22%<@27; Dry Salt Shoulders,
14%®15; Dry Salt C. R. Sides, 17%@15; D. 8.
Clear Sides, 18.
CORN—In moderate demand and prime white
is selling at fl 15 by car load from depot;
retail, $1 20.
WHEAT—We quote choice white, $1 30;
amber, fl 25; red, fl 15.
FLOUR-City Mills, $6 00@7 50; at retail,
fl $ barrel higher. Country, fß©9, accord
ing to quality.
CORN MEAL—«I 20 at wholesale ; fl 45 at
retail.
OATS—SS@BO.
I*EAS-$203 25.
State Items.
An interesting revival is progressing in
the Presbyterian Church at Decatur.
The contract for building anew Method
ist Church in Forsyth has been given out.
The murderer of the negro Henry Banks,
in Jasper county, has been arrested.
An interesting meeting Is progressing at
the Methodist Church in Rome. About
twenty conversions are announced.
P. W. Alexander, the noted array corres
pondent, was married, on the 27th ult., to
Miss Theresa Shorter, of Columbus.
Fully one-half of the cottou crop In
Hancock is reported as gathered. The crop
is regarded as an average one.
Sixty Western editors, accompanied by
their wives, will visit Atlanta during the
Fair next week.
Mr. Rev. A. Martin, formerly connected
with the newspaper press at Griffin, was
admitted last week* at Zebulon, to practice
law and equity in the courts of this State.
Mr. R. R. Saulter, of Jackson county,
gathered two stalks of cotton from his plan
tation, which bore 527 bolls and were up
wards of seven feet.
Last Tuesday, lands belonging to the
Pinkston estate, situated near Sparta, were
sold at public outcry at an average of be
tween $3 and $8 per acre.
N. T. Crozier and Col. R. P. Crittenden
have been nominated as the Democratic
candidates for representatives in Randolph
county,