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CON STITTTTT ON AU ST.
AUGUSTA. »A.
WEDNESDAY MOBNINQ. DEO-1 4 - 1870
FOR CONGRESS.
FOB THE LONG TERM,
OBN, D. M. DUBOSE,
Os Wilkes County.
kob the bhokt term,
STEPHEN A.CORKER.
Os Burke County.
MR. HILLS “ADDRESS."’
According to promise, and for reasons
specified in our edition of yesterday, we
publish Hon. B. H. Hill’s latest “ Note ou
the Situation,” which, compared with the
resonant and sublime utterance of the same
gentleman, on former occasions, resembles
the cold drizzle following the thunder
storm, or, rather, the “ scream of Mercury
after the song of Apollo.”
It strikes us that Mr. Hill has chosen
to advise the people of Georgia at a time
'when he had better have been silent. . A
large portion of the Southern Democracy
will repudiate his doctrine, while such as
actively approve of it will be countenanced
in the perpetration of mischievous divis
ions, which would otherwise have fallen
still-born. Mr. Hill also is unfortunate
in another particular. His address follows
so closely upon that of Dr. Samuel Bard
as to share somewhat in the burlesque of
changed positions. We regret this for the
sake of his great fame, the more so as his
enemies will again insist upon his having
proved the truth of their persistent asser
tion that he “is prudent when he ought to
be boll, and bold when he ought to be pru
dent.”
For Mr. Hill personally we have great
esteem and his oratorical as well as literary
gifts have always found in us an ardent,
admirer. But, as we understand it, his
present position is such as his best friends
must deprecate and such too as can only
terminate in injury to the Democratic
organization or else! severe personal dis
appointment to Mr. Hill himself.
We trust that our interpretation of Mr.
Hill’s address is a mistaken one and that
he will so declare It. As the case stands,
there is much of painful doubt, and many
persons are eager to know for certain
whether they are still to regard hini as
a steadfast adherent of the principles he so
eloquently enunciated in his first “ notes on
the situation,” or a “lost leader” who has
abandoned the contest with rash despair
and would persuade others to quit the
field forever.
H. G.—The editor of the New York lri
bune is a phenomenon. Here is his latest
exhibition of “ pluck
“If the dominant Democracy of North
Carolina have a right to be represented in
Congress at all, they should be represented
truly; and Vance, who six or seven years
ago exhorted them to‘fight the Yankees
till hell should be so full of them that their
legs would stick out of the window,’ is a
man after their own heart. We venture to
predict that he will be found by the Repub
licans a more liberal and chivalrous antag
onist than Horatio Seymour or John T.
Hoffman.”
Again:
“ Ten of them (such men as Toombs,
Rhett, Forrest, and John Forsyth) In the
present Congress would have Insured us at
least twenty more Republicans in the next;
four or five of them from this State. Either
we are inconceivably s'upid, for this whole
business of shutting rebels out of Con
gress, when there are constituencies eager
to send them thither, evinces an amazing
lack of common sense.”
Why Indeed?— -The New York Day
Book, out of patience with trimmers, third
party men, bolters et id omne genus, thus
moralizes:
“ What need has the Democratic party
“to make any sacrifice of principle or
<« character with the insignificant number of
« Mongrel discontents? We have already in
“ our hands States enough to make a good
“maiority in the Presidential Electoral
“ College. All these we are now to keep,
“ besides gaining two or three more—that
“ is, if we do not bargain away our strength,
“ and sell ourselves to the devil and the
“ negroes.”
That Message. —The Richmond Dis
patch. alluding to the attempt of Let us
Hive Peace Grant to pander to sectional
prejudices in his Message, thus speaks of
the Executive’s attempt to dignify slander
against the South :
“ The President’s attempt, or the attempt
“ of some one for him—to fire the Northern
“ public against the South must fail. A
“ falsehood does not grow respectable by
“ getting into a high place, but, on the
“ other hand, becomes all the more mon
“ strous when beheld so impudently dts
“ played.”
Don’t Ba Cheated.— -The Washington
correspondent of the Baltimore Gazette thus
writes:
» The only truthful utterauce ever made
“ by the late Thad. Stevens was that there
“ never was a compromise in which some one
“ was not cheated. Depend upon it, the
“Conservatives have their eyes wide open.”
Yes, it is a poor and losing game to bet
the devil your head.
The Two Napoleons.— By cruel treat
ment of the first Napoleon, England en
deared the Bonaparteß to Prance. Count
Bismarck knows better. He surrounds
the third Emperor with all luxuries, while
many of his countrymen are dying and
starving; and that seems to have made the
name of Bonaparte utterly detestable in
France.
Sam Bard, op Georgia.— The Washing
ton correspondent of the New York Demo
crat writes as follows:
It is not the “ Bard of Erin,” but the er
rin’ Bard of Georgia, which his first name
is Samuel, whereof I write. Connected
with the press of the South and Southwest,
he was, during the late war, a rampant
“secesh,” and would have waded knee deep
in Yankee blood and gore, had not some
body held his coat tails. But at the close
of the war, scenting the spirits of carpet
bagism and scalawagism afar off, he joined
the ranks of the “ trooly loil,” and ground
his newspaper organ, the New Era, of At
lanta, Ga., to the tune of Federal bayonets.
He was first to hoist the name of U. S.
Grant for President; and, having quarrel
ed with Gov. Bullock, of Georgia, over the
spoils >n that State, he sold his newspaper
to the Bullock ring, and came to Washing
ton, last Winter, for the purpose of fighting
his carpet-bag Excellency. Somehow he
got appointed and confirmed as Governor
of Idaho, while here; but his soul was
eager for the fray, and, resigning this po
sition, he returned to Atlanta and started
the Daily True Georgian, as an anti-Bul
lock Grant organ. This must have been a
losing business from the start, and so, on
the 30th ult., Bard flopped over to the De
mocracy, and hoisted the name of John T.
Hoffman for President in 1872. Asa flop
pist it most be conceded that Bard has
merit • and whether he will stick where he
now is, or start a third party, remains to
seen.
[From the Chronicle and Sentinel.
Address from Hon. B. H. Hill on the
Situation.
TO THE PEOPLE OP GEORGIA.
The relation I have borne to you during
the last fifteen years will justify, if not de
mand, this address.
I began life with the distinct resolution
never to enter public or political station,
but to limit the gratification of ambition
to professional success. This resolution
was based upou the assumption that the
integrity of the Government would not be
disturbed, and was departed from only
when that integrity was brought intoques
tion. Entering politics with none but the
most unselfish ami patriotic desire to aid in
preserving our Constitutional Union, I was
caught In the current which quickened into
revolutionary madness on the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise, and have since been
borne along, every hour vainly but earnestly
endeavoring to arrest its wild rush to our
ruin.
Through all its three stages of secession,
coercion and reconstruction, 1 have been
the zealons and consistent antagonist of
the revolution, and regarding as I did the
first stage as an error, the second as a
crime, and the third as a monstrous usur
pation, I would net, if I could, disguise
from you the fact that the conscious mem
ory that I opposed all, and am, in no
degree, responsible for the consequences of
any, has been to me a well-spring of joy
through all the horrors of the past, and
will be a source of strength in all the strug
gles of the future. Whatever else be lost,
this consciousness of self-sacrifice and de
votion to what I believed was right is a
treasure of exhaustless wealth which ho
power can destroy and no misfortune can
take away.
The revolution, at least in its work of
violence, let us hope, is at end. Leaving
now out of view the material and moral
devastations sustained, it is our duty to
ascertain and fix with all possible distinct
ness, and without passion, the changes
wrought by the revolution in our political
framework; for these changes, though
wrought as results, are now to become
causes, and, in their time, must work re
sults, for good or evil, over all onr coun
try for, perhaps, generations to come.
The tangible, permanent results thus
wrought by the war in the character of our
political institutions are embodied In what
are known as the Thirteenth, Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitu
tion of the United States. It is historical
accuracy to say that the Thirteenth Amend
ment received the assent of the original
constituency of the Southern States ; and
the two other amendments did not receive
that assent. Nevertheless, all these amend
ments have been proclaimed, by the power
having jurisdiction of the question, to have
received constitutional ratification, and to
constitute parts of the national fundamen
tal law.
Taking this, then, as our starting point,
the first question Is, What are the specific
changes wrought by these amendments?
The first changes I notice are, perhaps,
the only ones which the popular mind
seems to be aware of as accomplished at
all. The amendments, in the order named,
establish, with a qualification, the freedom,
civil equality and political equality of the
races—all races and colors.
The only badge of bondage remaining in
America is the qualification alluded to
being the disabilities imposed by the
Fourteenth Amendment upon a portion of
the white race in the Southern States.
But, in truth, these changes in the rela
tive status of the different races are the
most insignificant effects of these amend
ments. Not only has the civil and politi
cal status of the negro race been changed,
hut, what is inexpressibly far more, the
jurisdiction over the civil and political
status of all the races in all the States will
be held to have been transferred by these
amendments from the States severally, to
the General Government. This effects a
great change in the character of the Gen
eral Gove.nment—greatly increasing the
national and as greatly lessening Its fed
eral features. Indeed, language cannot
express ideas more intensely national than
are the ideas covered by the words “ju
risdiction over the civil and political status
of the citizen." These powers being con
ferred, it will be difficult to say what pow
er has not been conferred. While State
governments may remain as convenient
regulators of limited local interests, it will
be held that under these amendments to the
how National Constitution, the General
Government has acquired revisory powers
over the entire State government, and over
all the legislative, executive and judicial
departments of the State governments.
In view of the thorough changes thus
wrought by these amendments in the whole
character of the General and State govern
ments, the next question becomes of ex
ceeding great importance. Hsve these
amendments become in fact fixed parts of
the National Constitution, and will they
be so held ?
After giving this subject uot only a care
ful, but a most anxious consideration, I
have been driven to the conclusion that
these three amendments are in fact, and
will be held in law, fixed parts of the Con
stitution, as binding upon the States and
people as the original provisions of that
instrument.
The legal ratification of the Thirteenth
Amendment Is conceded by all. It must be
also conceded —is conceded—that the rati
fications of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments have been proclaimed. By
whom ? I answer by the political depart
ments of the General Government having
the jurisdiction so to proclaim.
Bnt it is said the ratifications were not
free or real, but forced anil usnrpatory, and,
that therefore, the Supreme Court will de
clare the proclamations of such ratifications
to be null and void. I reply, the Supreme
Court has only judicud power, and the pow
er in question is political and not judicial. —
Again, this judicial power of the Supreme
Court is itself limited to cases arising under
the Constitution—that is, to questions aris
ing in the construction of the Constitution
after it is made, and not to the making it
self. The political power makes the Consti
tution and the judicial power construes it.
The political power having proclaimed
these amendments to be parts of the Con
stitution, the judicial power can have no
jurisdiction to review or reverse that pro
clamation, but can only decide what the
amendments, so proclaimed, mean. The
facts necessary to ratification, as recited by
the political power, must be accepted as true
by the Judiciary, and cannot be ever judici
ally questioned; for the judicial is no part
of the amending power. There is a vast
difference, in ttii3 respect, between the mak
ing of the Constitution and the passage of
laws under it after made.
But, I am asked, can usurpations become
law, binding a people and courts ? I reply,
yes, easily, verily, and often. As efforts
the most patriotic failing, became rebel
lious, so usurpation the most glaring, suc
ceeding, becomes law. A majority of hu
man governments have no origin save in
usurpations. Indeed, successful usurpation
is the strougest expression of power, and
law itself, in its last analysis, is only
power.
In plain truth, human experience has
discovered but one remedy for usurpation.
That remedy is 'preventive —not curative ;
military—not civil. It is the sword. To
apply this remedy in this case, the South
was uuable and the North unwilling. Con
ceding, then, that these amendments were
usurpations, they were successful, and
have become law—fundamental law—bind
ing upon States and people, courts and
rulers. It may have been criminal—was
criminal—to aid in committing a usurpa
tion ; it is crime itself to break the law.
And thus are we bound.
But, again, we are told the Northern
people will discover their error, and a re
action will take place which will obliterate
these amendments. But it will take three
fourths of the States to obliterate. Be
sides, I now believe the following proposi
tions may be correctly assumed concerning
the Northern people:
f. Feeling that their protection was in
their power rather than in the law, they
have not been induced to understand and
learn the nature of their Government as
their fathers did. What men do not know
they cannot love. Their Government the
Northern people know. They know its
power, in one sense, and, for that, they love
it. They do not understand its federative
character and do not love it.
2. The Northern people believe that what
they understand to be the States’ Rights
theory was the real source, and, therefore,
the cause of secession, the war, and all its
consequences. Therefore they hate that
theory of our Government.
8. The increase in population, the great
accumulation of wealth, the wonderful
growth of commerce and trade, the close
intermixture of many States and people
through the agencies of railroads and other
improvements, require, in the opinion of
the Northern people, a strong National
Government, and if these amendments in
crease the national powers of the Govern
ment, they are not likely, on that account,
to change them.
4. Add to these views the well known
fact that the great body of the Northern
people regard the freedom and the civil and
political equality of the negro as great na
tional, philanthropic and religious results;
and you must agree with me that the hope
of a change at the North, which would
oh iterate these amendments, must be aban
doned.
If wc conld not hold the Northern peo
ple to the franchise system when we had it
with all the sanctity of common revolution
ary struggles hallow'mgit, how shall we in
duce them to return voluntarily to that
system after, as they believe, they have
paid so much in treasure and hlood to get
rid of it. In a word, the masses of the
Northern people have been taught to re
gard, and do regard slavery, secession and
State Rights, as words of close affinity, if
not of identical meaning, and whether they
are right or wrong in their conviction there
is no probability of its early change.
The conclusion, then, is that we have a
new National Constitution with new and
enlarged powers of government, establish
ing new and different relations between the
General and State governments; and also
anew system of industry, with a uew, if
not anomalous condition of society.
How this new system will operate;
whether under it government will be more
stable; the enjoyment pf life, liberty and
property more secure; whether statesman
ship shall he more elevated, laws more
respected and justly enforced, and natural
prosperity and moral excellence advanced
and increased ; whether “ the magnetism
of conciliated interests and kindly sympa
thies ’’ which so distinguished the old sys
sem can be imparted to the new, are all
problems which experience alone can solve,
and upou which I do not now propose to
speculate.
But there are a few immediate and press
ing duties resulting from the above prem
ises, to which 1 will call your attention.
Ist. It is the duty of every good citizen
to abide and obey the Constitution and
Jaws as lliey exist, precisely as if lie had
co-operated in establishing and enacting
them. Because we disapproved a proposed
law can furnish no excuse for disobeying
an enacted law. Every good and trust
worthy citizen will oppose if he can, and
disapprove auy how, a proposed wrong;
and every such citizen will likewise obey
an existing law and abide an accomplished
fact. If the citizens’ opinion of the law,
rather than the law itself, furnished the
measure of his obligation to obey, it would
be Impossible to have unform rule, settled
law, or stable government.
2d. It was your opinion that the colored
man was not prepared at once and Indis
criminately to understand and appreciate,
and, therefore, to receive the great trust of
suffrage. But right or wrong, wisely or
unwisely, the new fundamental law has
conferred upon him the right to exercise
that trust. It has, therefore, become our
duty, as it is also our Interest, not only to
permit and assent to its exercise, but also
to render ready protection and cheerful as
sistance to the colored man in its free, full
and unrestricted enjoyment. 1 know, fel
low-citizens, that you concur in these
views and do not need this admonition ; bnt
there is no subject on which the Northern
people and the Government itself so greatly
suspect your fidelity ; and, therefore, you
will know how to pardon this repeated
counsel.
3d. I respectfully suggest that the time
has arrived when duty does not require,
nor interest seek, a continuance of ihe
divisions on the principles and events
which have led to our present condition. —
Their heroism in the field and wisdom in
the Cabinet during the war ; their fortitude
under suffering, and patience under wrong,
since the war ; and, above all, the grandeur
of that manhood which they almost univer
sally exhibited in withholding
their assent, uuder the" severest threats,
from a scheme which proposed to manacle
intelligence and virtue, and turn loose
Ignorance and vice to inaugurate govern
ment and administer law, have made a i’e
cord of sincerity, devotion and sense of
honor for the Southern people which time
must ever brighten and discussion cannot
strengthen. Let us, therefore, cease all
quarreling over the past and all threaten
ings for the future, and manfully unite our
energies to bring back prosperity to our
country and good will amoug our people.
Touching the pending election I will add
hut one suggestion. It is of secondary im
portance whom else you choose for your
General Assembly; hut it is of first im
portance that you choose honest men. We
are suffering lor wise and honest legisla
tion. We can never get such legislation
unless you elect members whom feed loby
ists cannot buy. A black man who can
not be bought is better than a white man
who can, and a Republican who cannot be
bought Is better than a Democrat who can.
The worst possible condition for any people
is a body of ignorant and venal legislators
under the control of a band of professional
lobbyists feed by unscrupulous speculators.
No government can be stable, and no_ coun
try can he prosperous If these things meet
not condemnation by, and correction from,
the people. Bknj. H. Hell.
December 8,1870.
iF’TJN'ERAX. NOTICKS.
_ THE FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES OF
Mr. and Mrs. William Hill and family are respect
fully invited to attend the funeral of tlie former from
their residence, near Hamburg, S. C., THIS (Wednes
day) MORNINO, at 10 o’clock.
THE RELATIVES, FRIENDS AND Ac
quaintances of Mr. Samoel Fkost, and of his sons,
William W. and James E. Frost, are invited to attend
the funeral of the former, from St. John’s Methodist
Church, THIS (Wednesday) AFTERNOON, at 8
o’clock. *
Georgia state Lottery.
FOR THE BENEFIT OK THE
Orphan’s Hornet and. B’ree School,
The following were the drawn numbers, in the Sup
plementary Heheme, drawn at Augusta, Georgia,
December 13.
MORNING DRAWING— CIass 593.
50 59 31 73 54 13 66 44 53 47 78 37
12 Drawn Numbers.
EVENING DRAWING— CIass 594.
3* 40 39 7 1 36 53 7 3 49 70 1 14 33
12 Drawn Numbers.
decH-1
SPECIAL NOTICES.
US’ AUGUSTA MUTUAL LOAN ASSOCIA
TION.—The 126th Regular Meeting of this Associa
tion will be held at the Office of the Treasurer, Mcln
tosh streel, THIS (Wednehday) NIGHT, at 7
o’clock. J. A. BRENNER,
decll-1 Secretary.
ggr THE FIFTY FIFTH MONTHLY MEET
ING of the Soldiers’ Loan and Building Association
will he held at the C.ty Ha l, THIS EVENING, at
7X o’clock. _
? JOHN D. BCJTT,
dccHl Secretary.
«r HARMONY LODGE, No. 67, F.'. and A.-.
M.\ Hamburg, S. O.—The members of Harmony
Lodge, No 67, are requested to meet at the Lodge
Room, THIS (.Wednesday) MORNING, at 9 o’clock,
to attend the funeral of our deceased brother, Past
S.-. W.\ Wm. Hill.
Members of Social Lodge, No. 1, Webb Lodge, No.
166, and transient brethren arc fraternally invited to
attend.
By order of Obo. Damm, W. M.
J. E. HARLING,
decl4l Secretary.
KF“ THE BEST REM ED V FOR WANT OF
appetite, weakness and female diseas.-s is the OLD
CAROLINA BITTERS. decl3 tutbfec
W I HEREWITH ANNOUNCE MYSELF
as a candidate for the office of TAX COLLECTOR
of Richmond County, at the approaching election.
novl3-tdec23 JOHN A. BOHLKR.
W I HEREWITH ANNOUNCE MYSELF
as a candidate for the office of TAX RECEIVER of
Richmond County, at the approaching election.
novl3-tdec23 MATHEW SHERON.
■y I HEREWITH ANNOUNCE MYSELF
as a Candidate for the office of County Surveyor of
Richmond County, at the approaching elecUon.
novl6-td IC. W. BROWN.
MR. EDITOR: PLEASE ANNOUNCE
the name of Capt. RICHARD J. WILSON for
Receiver of Tax Returns, at the approaching election,
novlfrtd DEMOCRATIC PARTY,
BY TELEGRAPH.
/ Associated Frew Dlapalche*.
NOON DISPATCHES.
London, December 10.—The German a
vauce on Havre turned aside to Diepp,
which is probably occupied to day.
The Duke of Mecklenburg reports i
severe battle with the Army of the Loi ;
at Beaugency, where the French were r -
inforced. Fifteen hundred prisoners ai I
six guns were captured. The remainder f
the French army was on the road to Bou -
gunes. It will be captured or beaten.
Another account says, after the tight di
the 7th, the Bavarians threatened Bea -
gency and the Forest of M irchnoix. T e
French were reinforced, but the Prussia s
took Bravant, Bcamont, Mosas and Bea -
geuev, and on the 9th Bouvale.t, Villerc: a
and Bernay were captured.
The rumored repudiation of the nentr: l
ity of Luxemburg is regarded as extremity
unfavorable. Bismarck would hardly at
this time thus defy Belgium and the Nel|i
erlands. The rumor of an armistice was
utterly unfounded.
London, December It.—The Duke of
Mecklenburg telegraphs the Duchess a de
vout announcement of victory on the 9th.
Thu wife of Johu Slidell is dead.
Berlin, December 10.—The bombard
ment of Paris is not dictated by any spe
cial influences, but is dictated by purely
military reasons. The new levees of Land
wehr are destined for the reserve division,
which will reinforce the army in the field.
Lille, December 10.—General Dhen -and
Court, who arrived from Paris by balloon,
say, on the 30th of November and 2d of
December, the Prussians lost 15,000 prison
ers and six guns. He says Paris suffers no
privations.
Ham and St. Puentiu are occupied by
the French.
St. Petersburg, December 13.—-The
Bank of Russia has advanced the rate of
interest from 8 to 9 per cent.
Versailles, December Id.—The French,
assuming the offensive before Paris, in
large force, were repulsed at nightfall, after
a day’s artillery fight.
Gen. Manteuffel was in Dieppe on Fri
day.
The French at Ham captured a detach
ment of Prussians, with artillery.
Washington, December 13.—1n the
House, the morning hour was unimportant.
Postal laws were resumed.
The Ways and Means Committee heard
delegates from the Virginia National To
bacco Convention. The impression exists
that no material change will be made in
the tobacco tax.
-In the Senate, McCreary, supporting his
Arlington resolution, delivered a touching
eulogy upon General Lee. He was listened
to with solemn quiet by the Senate and an
occasional audible sign of emotion in the
galleries.
Boston, December 13.—The city of Low
ell elected the citizens’ candidate over the
Republican Mayor. The city of New
buryport elected a Republican Mayor.
EVENING DISPATCHES.
Washington, December 13—Admiral
Boggs relieves Glisson in the command of
the European fleet; Glisson to be retired.
The President nominate 1 Alfred Pleas
auton, of New York, Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue.
The Senate again discussed Porter’s
nomination, with no result.
C. C. Bowen, member of Congress from
South Carolina, was indicted In the Dis
trict Court to-day for bigamy.
In the House, the franking privilege was
abolished, but papers are allowed free ex
changes, and the circulation of weekly and
semi-weekly papers within counties where
they are published, by a vote of 103 to 65.
The bill then passed.
The Ways and Means Committee were
directed to inquire into taxing maiflafac
tured tobacco uniformly at 16 cents.
Butler presented a petition of two thous
and New Englanders, asking noii-Wer
courso with Canada, for alleged fishery
outrages. .
Two Virginians were relieved of their
disabilities.
Adjourned.
The House caucusses to-night ou am
nesty.
In the Senate, a hill was introduced re
viving the land grants to the Selma, Rome
and Dalton Railroad.
McCreery asked leave to Introduce the
resolution, of which he gave notice yester
day, proposing an investigation, with a
view to the restitution - of the Arlington
estate to the widow of Gen. Robert E. Lee;
the removal of the graveyards ou the
premises, and a general restitution for any
incumbrance placed there in the interest
of the Government.
Edmunds hoped that leave would not be
granted, as the proposition to dig up the
bones of our dead soldiers, in order that
certain property might be given back to its
rebel owners, was, to his mind, perfectly
monstrous. Whileentertaining the highest
respect for Ills friend, McCreery, he hoped
the Senate would never entertain the pro
position.
McCreery then occupied twenty minutes
upon the subject. He referred to the cir
cumstances attending the recent death of
two of the foremost generals on either side
in the late war—Lee and Thomas. He
spoke of the friendly Intimacy existiug be
tween these generals up to the commence
ment of the rebellion, when Thomas follow
ed the starry emblem of the Union, and
Lee resolved to stand or fall by the State
that had given him birth ; of the general
sorrow and respect which manifested Itself
in either section succeeding the mournful
intelligence of their decease. He proceeded
to eulogize the inflexible virtue, military
genius and valor of General Lee, remarking
that, the American people would never re
linquish the property which they held in
the name and fame of the great Vir
ginian. He then referred to the prin
cipal historic features of General Lee’s
campaigns to show that with the
means at his command, possibly no other
man could have accomplished results so
vast. While possessing great ability, he
was devoid of ostentation, and, from the
testimony of his most intimate aeqaaint
ances, he was singularly exempt from the
faults and folli&s of other men. His life
was that of a hero, a Christian and a gen
tleman. There might be those in the Sen
ate who might derive comfort from casting
aspersions upon Gen. Lee’s character, bnt
nil sections of the country would eventual
ly accord to his merits their just deserts.
The loved partner of his bosom still lived,
and in her behalf justice was now implored.
She belonged to a race fond of bestowing
charity, but poverty could not force her to
accept it. Would the Senate now remove
the barrier that excluded her from Arling
ton?
During hi 9 remarks McCreerv reviewed
in detail the salient feature of Gen. Lee’s
civil and military services, particularly his
recent efforts in connection with Jefferson
College, his revolutionary ancestry and
sincere devotion to duty—referring to the
sword as the least capable of all tribunals
to decide a cause upon its merits. The
speaker went oh to argne that judgments
of the sword had not always commanded
that universal respect which would have
been expected from a court of so large a
jurisdiction, and that history had enrolled
the names of HampdeD and Sydney upon
the list of martyrs in the sacred cause of
right.
The Senate finally refused leave to intro
duce the resolution.
New YonK, December 13 —J. B. McAl
pin’s tobacco factory was burned. Loss—
on stock, $100,000; on building, $30,000.
Fully insured. The falling walls killed one
man and hurt another.
Steamers make daily trips between Punla
Rosa and Key West, between which points
the Gnlf cable is quiet.
A World special from London, of the
10th, says Bismarck declares he will not
treat with the Tours Government, because
it connived at the bad faith of its officers
who broke their parole. The Pari9 Gov
ernment has just refused a summons to sur
render. They will fight to the last man.
Wood writes from headquarters, Meung,
9th, that the Duke of Mecklenburg had
three days’ fighting with the 16th and 17th
French Corps. The fight commenced on
the 7th, near Meung. The French fought
with wonderful obstinacy. The German
loss was great; that of the French was
greater. The French are now retreating
toward Vierzon, pursued by Prince Wil
liam of Mecklenburg. More fighting is ex
pected to-morrow.
Maclean reports, on the 6th the centre of
Frederick Charles' army was at Orleans,
the left wing at Beaugency, the right
by wing near Guieu. A cavalry division,
followed Infantry had proceeded south from
Orleans to Vierzou.
Manteuffel is operating to occupy Desppc,
Havre and Rouen.
Bordeaux, December 11.—The Govern
ment is instituted here. Vigorous measures
have been decided am. Large reinforce
ments are going forward from all points
from the South perfectly armed and equip
ped.
NIGHT DISPATCHES.
Washington, December 13.—Gov. Bard
writes the President an eight-page pamph
let. Bard cannot follow the President into
the support of extremists. Bard says: “I
could not have known that Georgia was to
be kept in a state of perpetual bondage, the
prey of Irresponsible demagogues, the asso
ciate in misery with South Carolina and
Louisiana, whose Governors, Scott and
Warmouth, form, with Bullock, a triumvi
rate of unmitigated political scoundrelism
without precedent since the latter days of
the Roman Empire, and have cursed the
States over whieh they rule with plagues
worse than the frogs and lice of Egypt.
This is truth, and truth is eternal.”
The following responses were made to
McCreery in the Senate:
Edmunds said that, instead of being
wedded to institutions of Virginia, Gen.
Lee was the ward of the nation. That na
tion had fed, clothed and educated him;
that! he lived at the capital, but when the
capital called upon lilm to defeat! the flag
under which he had been i orn, protected
and honored, he deliberately turned bis
back unon it, and planted his camion in
sight of the capital he had sworn to protect
and defend. But he (Edmunds) would not
dignify such a proposition by discussing it.
Gen. Lee was now dead. The only regret
he thought that auy right-minded man
who believed in the war would have, was,
that Gen. Lee had not died either in his
youth or his patriotic manhood, or even
that he had not died earlier than he did by
the hand of the law, whieh would have
atoned in some measure for his crime.
Trumbull, while disclaiming sympathy
with the apparent object of the resolution,
whieh was to surrender and mutilate the
last res ing place of thousands of Union
dead, held that it would lie, if not unpre
cedented, at least unparliamentary to deny
to a member a simple request, for leave to
Introduce any legislation not in itself in
sulting to the Senate.
Carpenter inquired whether Trumbull
could state a proposition more flagrantly
insulting to the Senate than that to remove
♦he slaughtered dead of the Union army
from Arlington for the purpose of returning
the farm to its rebel possessors.
Trumbull replied that while the resolu
tion was without doubt repugnant to the
sense of the nation, it was not in a personal
sense insulting to the Senate. He was
averse to the adoption of any precedent,
the effect of which would be to prevent the
free exercise of a right guaranteed to a
member of the Senate.
Edmunds and Sumner cited two in
stances, the former the case of the pro
posed annexation of Texas, the latter the
bill for the repeal of the Fugitive Slave
act, when requests for leave to bring in
bills were refused. Five additional In
stances were enumerated by the Vice-Presi
dent.
Morton protested against consideration
of the resolution. He had heard what he
never expected to hear, a eulogy upon the
character of Gen. Lee in the Senate of the
United States, tpid that too within sight of
graves of victims of his rebellion. Hamp
den and Sydney died not for human slavery
but for liberty. This man, Gen. Lee, was of
all others the great sinner. He had sinned
against light and knowledge. His revolu
tionary ancestry, his oath of fealty as an
officer of the United States, liis finished
education and high abilities, all forbade
him thus to sin, and the enormity of his
crime could not be concealed by decorating
his grave with flowers of rhetoric. In a
word, it was dow proposed that the Senate
should gravely - consider a proposition to
degrade the memories of the patriotic dead
of Arlington by removing their bones to
less hallowed ground, in tender consider
ation of the rights of the widow of the
arch rebel of the most wicked rebellion in
history.
Scott said, coupling together the names
of Thomas and Lee recalled t,he utterance
of Stephen A. Doaglass, made at the time
those two generals resolved to tread in op
posite paths, that at that time there were
but two classes In the nation—patriots and
traitors. The patience with which the
Senate of the Unit ’d States had to-day
listened to a eulogy upon the chief con
spirator in the attempt to tear down the
Government was bnt another illustration
of that unparalleled maguanimity and
mercy which had characterized the treat
ment by the Government of those engaged
in rebellion. Had the subject of that eulogy
succeeded in Lis efforts, where would
the American Senate now be sitting? By
his triumph slavery would have cast its
dark shadow all over this land of freedom
from the Bt. Lawrence to the Gulf. To-day
the doctrine of secession lies buried be
neath the bones of thousands who fell that
their blood might seal the covenant of the
nation. Yet to-day we behold the specta
cle of a resnrrectionist coming here to drag
the dead doctrine out from beneath the
bones of the nation's martyrs.
Willey characterized the resolution as
most insultiug and shocking to the sense
of the Senate and the country, and as ab
horrent to humanity. Though personally
tenacious of the rights of individual mem
bers, he could not vote to receive it.
Sawyer said the Arlington estate, like
thousands of acres of property iu the
South, had been forfeited—sold at public
sale for non-payment of taxes, and bought
by the United States. In the absence of
any memorial from Mrs. Lee, he regarded
the conte'tnpla.ted inquiry as utterly worth
less, as the facts he had stated were well
kuown, and needed no verification.
Salisbury disapproved of that partof the
resolution looking to removal of the graves
from Arlington, bnt he could not see that
the merits of the cause in which Gen. Lee
was engaged were at all in controversy.—
He regarded the question as one simply of
the ability of a Senator to exercise his right
to introduce business.
Nye said the unseemly haste in certain
quarters to restore traitors to favor could
result in no good. The verdict of to-day
and of posterity is, and will be, that Gen.
Lee was a traitor.
Flanagan, in some general remarks,
spoke of Gen. Lee as the great traitor of
the age, whose influence had carried into
rebellion the flower of Southern youth.—
Davis, the other great traitor, still lived,
and, in the light of recent events, it was
not unreasonable to expect an early move
to make him President.
Sumner desired that parliamentary law
should be administered upon the present
occasion with the utmost rigor, with a
view to the most summary disposition of
the resolution. He had nothing to say of
General Lee, except that his name stood
upon the catalogue of those who had im
bued their hands in their country’s blood.
He was content to hand him over to the
avenging pen ot history. He regarded the
resolution as indicative of the sentiments of
the political associates of the Senator from
Kentucky, as prefiguring the policy they
would establish should they obtain power,
a policy which was to take the old rebel
lion by the hand and to Install It in the
high places of power. Could he make his
voice heard from Massachusetts to Louis
iana, it would be to warn his fellow-coun
trymeD, especially of the South, against that
combination which now showed its hand
in the proposition of the Senator from
Kentucky. He stated that he was
present when Secretary Stanton gave
the order for the interment of the dead
bodies of Union soldiers at Arlington, and
that Stanton stated at the time that his
purpose in selecting the place was to for
ever prohibit the reinterment of the Lee
family there; that if they did come they
might encounter the ghosts of their vic
tims. He quoted the epitaph above the
grave of Shakspeare, which he now pro
posed to write above the graves of every
one of our patriot dead:
“ Good friend, for Jesus’ sake forbear
To dig the dust enclosed here.
Blessed be the man that spares these stones,
And curst be he that moves by bones.”
Mr. McCreery stated that the resolution
was in no sense an embodiment of Demo
cratic sentiment, but had been submitted
upon his individual responsibility without
oonsultatiou with his colleagues. He then
asked to withdraw the resolution which
was refused, though finally permission to
introduce it was also refused.
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To conclude with the popular mythical, mu
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will be presented the last New York sensation,
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On consignment
-20 bbls. Prime Northern APPLES
20 bbls. Chili Red POTATOES
20 bbls. Florida ORANGES
4,000 COCOA NUTS
For sale low by
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F. L. NEUFVILLE,
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WANTED,
LiADIES AND GENTLEMEN to know
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Bleeding or Itching PILES that De BING’S
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TORENT.
The PLANTATION known has the “ Har
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acres ot -cultivable Lind, and lying in the
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A. LOT of Fine TURKEYS will be Raffled
off THIS EVENING, at 8 o’clock, at my
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BAGGING.
100 BALES Extra Heavy Gunny
BAGGING
100 bales Extra Heavy Borneo BAGGING
300 rolls Bengal BAGGING
300 half rolls Bengal BAGGING
300 rolls Ludlow BAGGING
200 rolls Phoenix BAGGING
500 half rolls Phoenix BAGGING
On consignment and for sale iu lots to suit
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HAY.
100 BALES Prime Eastern HAY
50 bales Prime Kentucky HAY
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WHISKY.
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Exemption of Personalty.
GtkOKGIA, RICHMOND COUNTY,
Ordinary’s Office, for said Coitnty, )
Auodbta, December 18, 1870. S
Richard C. Rowlett having applied to me lor Ex
emption of Personalty, I will pass upon tin* same at
my office, in Augusta, on Saturday, the 24 li day of
December, 1870, at 10 o’clock, a. m.
Given under my hand and official eignature, this 13th
day of December, 1870.
SAMUEL LEVY,
decl4-2 Ordinary.
WANTED,
One PAIR Fairbanks’ LEVER SCALES,
and one Office SAFE. Address
de,<l3-3 H. & P., Box 124.
O’HARA’S POCKET GIANT
CORN BHELLER.
It is the very NE PLUS ULTRA of slm-
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ounces, and can be carried in the pantaloons
pocket, and will shell six bushels of corn per
hour; does not scatter; will deliver every
grain into a half bushel measure; will shell
the largest Indiau Corn and the smallest Pop
Corn, the wettest or the dkiest ear. Send
for circulars. H. H. SCOTT, Agent,
declß-ti 319 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.
SPECIAL NOTICE'
I AM just iu receipt of 3 cases (180 pairs)
of Ladies’ High Lace
PEBBLE GOAT BOOTH,
made to my own order and notion by one of
the standard houses of Philadelphia. Owing
to the great fall in the pi ice of cotton, I have
determined to sell these goods at $2 50 per
pair, which is a redaction of about 15 per cent
Call and see them. One glance will con
vince that I PRINT FACTS, not fables.
PETER KEENAN,
230 Broad Street, under Central Hotel.
decl3-6
FOR LIVERPOOL.
THE New A 1 American Ship
“ MEKOM ” wants only 800
bales Cotton to complete cargo,
and will sail with dispatch.
Also, the New A 1 Bark, “ LALIA W.,”
Captaiu Lent, 1,500 bales capacity, wnuts 600
bales Cotton to complete cargo, and will have
dispatch.
For height engagements and further partic
ulars, apply to
J. H. GRAYBILL.
Savannah, Ga.,
or to his Agent, F. L. NEUFVILLE,
deel3-2 Mclntosh Street, Augnsta, Ga.
Marine and Hirer Insurance.
T AM now taking RISKS at REDUCED
RATES for the
Great Western Insurance Company,
OF NEW YORK, on COTTON per steamers
to Savannah, and per Railroad and Steamers
via Charleston, Savannah and Norfolk, to New
York and other Northern Ports; also, on Cot
ton to Liverpool, England, both direct and via
New York. Losses on Liverpool shipments
payable in Gold at the Counting Honae of
Messrs. Brown, Shiplet A Cos., Liverpool.
WILLIAM E. EVANS,
deel3-3 No. 17 Mclntosh street.
LOTS FOR SALE.
/j. BUILDING LOTS FOR SALE, running
from Calhoun to Fenwick streets, below Cen
tre, 90 feet on each street. Price -11,400 for
all, 1350 each.
decU-lm THOB. SWEENEY.
SPECIAL BARGAINS.
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New Goods for Christmas.
o
I have just opened Worsted Hoods for Ladies, Misses and Children;
Worsted Saques, Black Alpacas, Merinos, New Prints, New Shawls,
Balmorals, Cloaks, Corsets, and other Goods, at very low prices.
Also, anew assortment of Plaid and Striped Homespuns, Kerseys, Jeans,
Osnaburgs, Shirtings, Sheeting, at Factory prices.
Having recently perfected arrangements for the almost daily purchase of
New and Seasonable Goods on such terms as will always enable me to sell at
prices which will defy competition, I respectfully solicit the patronage of
consumers and dealers. All Goods freely shown. Only one price asked. Any
orders given will be promptly and carefully attended to.
FT. L. -A. BaALK,
flccia If 172 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA.
PACIFIC GUANO COMPANY’S
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FOR COMPOSTING WITH COTTON SEFD,
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OoTTON SEED, t>B Is well kuown to nil who have given attention to the subject, abounds
in Ammonia. It affords an abundant a dcbuap source of that essential element ot fertility. It
is deficient in nil the other elements necessary to a good fertilizer ; hence, when applied to crops
without the proper addition of Soluble Phosphoric Acid and other fertilizing substances, It is not
a complete fertilizer.
In order to utilize Cotton Seed as a source of Ammonia for the above purposes, the
PACIFIC GUANO COMPANY has brought into market an article under the above trade
mark expressly for composting with Cotton Bced.
The Compound Acid Phosphate of Lime contains Soluble Phosphoric Acid, and the other
elements required, except Ammonia; heuce, when composted with Cotlou Seed, as directed
below, the Ammonia is supplied, and a perfect fertilizer Is obtriued, at the lowest cost to the
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The Compound Acid Phosphate , for composting, is manufactured at the Company’s
Works, near Charleston, 8 C., under the personal direction and superintendence of Dr. St.
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DIRECTIONS FOR COMPOSTING.
To prepare the Compost -Take a given weight of Cotton Seed, which can be readily done
by ascertaining the weight of a basket well filled, aud using it as a measure for the given weight.
Thus : Measure out, for example, 400 lbs.; after wetting it writ, empty upon It an equal weight
of Acid Phosphate, say two sacks of 200 lbs. each ; alter mixing well wilh hoes or shovels,
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The Compost heap may be placed in a pen made with rails, to support tbc sides of the
mass, simply covering the top with boards lapping each other, to conduct off the rain. Noth
ing further is required, until the proper lime for applicitioa arrives.
In this manner the Compost may be easily made, and ils i fleets cannot fail to give the
highest satisfaction, while itn economy must eomraeud it to general axe.
The most suitable time to make the Compost is when the Seed comes from the gin. The
longer the heap is allowed to lay undisturbed the bet er, as it can lose none of its value, and
the decomposition will be more thoroughly affected.
If not convenient to be made at time of giuning, it will be sufficiently decomposed in from
three to six weeks.
By decomposition of the Seed in contact with the Ac and Phospha'e, there can he bo loss of
Ammonia, as is the ca c with the ordinary rotting of Co.ton Seed. Tne whole of its Ammonia
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By reason of the bulk o( Cotton Seed, it Is available for fwailiziug purposes only on the
plantations ; and to be made capable of its highest uiility must be u»ed as here proposed.
The Compos , when made, is applied as other fertilizers.
Compost prepart and with Compound Aeld Phosphate of Lime and Colton Seed, as above,
was used to some extent last season, with satisfactory results.
CASH PRICE, $45; TIME, f52 50, without interest, piyable November Ist, 1871, Factor’s
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