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CONSTITUTIONALIST
AUGUSTA. O'A.
SATURDAY MORNING. PEP-17.1870
Notice.
From and after this date —June 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.
AMNESTY.
The great majority of the Southern peo
ple care very little about such Radical con
trivances in the way of amnesty, so-called,
as emanate from General Beast Bom
bastes Furioso Butler. Indeed, they
would infinitely prefer to wait for an indefi
nite period rather than receive anything as
a gratuity from such a creature. So, if
Beast Butler is pretending that his bill
is one of pure magnanimity and unselfish
ness ; or if he supposes for an instant that
the South will reverence him for his sloppy
crumbs, a greater mistake was never com
mitted. The hate of such a leprous knave
is better than his love. We know how to
keep watch for him in the one case; but
there is no security, in the other, against a
secret dose of poison, the osculation of
Iscariot, or afliefrom ambuscade. Where
fore, General Butler, unless, as is most
probable, he has an axe of his own to grind,
had better drop his little bill and ply his
vast talents in the direction of the public
crib or private property. His genius is not
in the godlike way of mercy ; it lies rather
iii the kleptomaniac rut of spoils.
Speaking of Butler and his new hobby,
what funny telegrams those were of the
House proceedings on Thursday ? Nothing
could better display the inefficiency of the
Democratic element in Congress than the
position and lauguage of Mr. Beck, who is
one of the most, talented and worthy gen
tlemen of that body. Mr. Beck, properly
scandalized at Butler’s bill, is reported to
have offered the following substitute:
“That all persons, other than those here
after excepted, now disqualified to hold
office by the third section of the 14th article
df amendment to the Constitution are
hereby relieved from such disabilities, and
the same is hereby removed from and after
the passage of this act except from the fol
lowing classes of persons:
“ First, whoever having been educated at
the Military Academy at West Point or
the Naval School at Annapolis, shall have
engaaed in rebellion andinsurrected against
the United States, or given aid and com
fort to the enemies thereof; second, who
ever, having been a member of either House
of Congress of the United States, shall have
engaged in rebellion against the same, or
given akl and comfort to the enemies
thereof; third, whoever shall have held
office of head of one of the Executive De
partments of the Government of the United
States, or Minister Plenipotentfnry, or
Minister Resident, or Judge of any court
under the United States, and shall have en
gaged in rebellion or insurrection against
the same, or given aid and comfort to the
enemies thereof.”
That, as a general proposition, seem 9
jaetter, of course, than Butler’s; but,
coming from a Democrat, it is almost as
bad, if not worse. Nay, it is decidedly
worse, considering that Mr. Farnsworth,
a Republican, offered a substitute for the
whole bill as follows :
“ That all 'political disabilities imprsed by
the 3 d section of the 14 th amendment of the
Constitution are hereby removed."
It is very easy to understand how thor
oughly such a substitute from such a
source must have discomfited our Demo
cratic friend, Mr. Beck. A more complete
checkmate and rebuke never happened to
mortal man. His manner of floundering
out of it only made the matter worse. We
quote:- -
“He said that he would have offered
such a substitute as that offered by Mr.
Farnsworth, but that he feared that the
House might not be prepared to vote for a
geueral removal of disabilities, but might
do so when certain classes were excepted.
He hoped that the House would adopt the
substitute offered by Mr. Farnsworth; but
if not, then he hoped that his own substi
tute would be agreed to. He argued that
niue-tenths of the matter in the bill was
matter over which the Reconstruction
Committee had no jurisdiction, but belong
ed properly to the Judiciary Committee,
and he expressed the fear that if the bill
was passed by a simple majority it would
be contested; that it was valid in refer
ence to all subjects in it that did not re
quire a two-thirds majority, while in refer
ence to removal of political disabilities it
would not be valid. He declared that in
stead of a bill granring general amnesty, it
was a bill of pains and penalties, a bill
making odious discriminations. He had
never seen a bili that was farther from 1 car
rying out the objects which it professed to
carry, and it was a bill adding insult to
injury.”
If the House will not listen to Mr. Farns
worth s complete proposition it will not
listen to Mr. Beck’s bob-tailed and sorrow
ful compromise. But the most wonderful
argument of all is tins:
“ Mr. Beck believed that the Republican
party and the Republican press desired to
have general amnesty extended. He thought
that that party had iost State after S'are
by Congress refusing to pass such a bill.
That it would continue to lose State after
State so long as Congress maintained that
position.”
Will not somebody stop Mr. Beck? He
sees the Radical party perishing piecemeal
by its proscription and would retard that
mucli-wished-for consummation. If Mr.
Beck’s statement he true, and we believe it is,
that Radicalism is dying of its own venom,
for God’s sake Ltall Democrats keep away
with their graphing salts, carbolic soap,and
oil ofjiffe. The man who would help that
leper to one moment more of life than it is
justly entitled to deserves not the blessing
but the execration of mankind. We beseech
Mr. Beck and other loyal war Democrats,
in and out ol Congress, to permit the Radi
cal party to “ lose State after State” by their
peculiar mode of gambling. We of the
South are perfectly willing to stand a few
years more of proscription, while nothing
makes us so wrathful as to see war-De
mocrats, iu the National Councils, playing
dry-nurse to our enemies and supplicating
them to stop losing State after State.—
Prithee, good Mr. Beck, don’t you do it
any more! It is really dreadful!
Mongrel Senators. —The mulattoes
still rule the roost in the spoils department.
The blacks are no where. The more promi
nent candidates for United States Senator
from Louisiana are two bob-tailed white
men, half and half negroes, Messrs. Dunn
and Pinchbeck. We bet on Pinchbeck.
Tnat’s a good Radical name. If that uame
is not tooralooral 1011, what is ?
Funny.— What will ex-Gov. Brown say
of Hon. B. 11. Hill’s attempt to take the
wind out of his sails—and at this late day
too ? Once upon a time, Mr. Hill thought
Gov. Brown had dishonored his license;
what does he think about it now ? Once
upon a time, all men who “accepted the
situation” were deemed worthy of social
outlawry. Wnat docs he think about it
pow ?
. GENERAL LEE.
While i be in pAfreaft are
wrangling over .the estatc of General
it may not be inappropriate to publish this
beautiful and comprehensive tribute which
forms part of the introductory chapter of
a biography of oar immortal commander,
nowin the press of the Applbtons, and
“The name op Lee is beloved and
respected throughout the world.—
Men of ail parties and opinions unite in
this sentiment, not only those who thought
and fought with him, but those most vio
lently opposed to his political views and
career. It is natural that his . own people
should love and honor him as their great
leader and defender in a struggle of iutense
bitterness—that his old enemies should
share this profound regard and admiration,
is due solely to the character of the indi
vidual. His military genius will always be
conceded, and his figure remain a conspicuous
landmark in history; but this does not ac
count for the fact that his very enemies love
the man. His private character is the origin
of this sentiment. The people of the North,
no less than th? people of the South, feel
that Lee was truly great; and the harshest
critic has been able to find nothing to de
tract Irom this view of him. The soldier
was great , but the man was greater . No one
was ever simpler, truer, dr more honest. —
Those who knew him best loved him most. —
Reserved and silent, with a Waring of
almost austere dignity, he impressed many
persons as cold and unsympathetic, and his
true character was long in revealing itself
co the world. To-day all men know what
his friends knew during his life—that under
the grave exterior of tne soldier, oppressed
with care and anxiety* beat a warm and
kindly heart, full of an even extraordinary
gentleness and sweetness; that the man
himself was not cold, or stiff, or harsh, but
patient, forbearing, charitable under many
of his equanimity, and magnanimous with
out effort, from the native impulse of his
heart. Friend and foe, thus Jo-day regard
him witli much the same sentiment, as a
genuinely honest man, incapable of duplici
ty in thought or deed, wholly true and
sincere, inspired alwaya undeF all tempta
tions by that prisc<i Jules which purifies
and ennobles, and resolutely bent in tbp
dark hour, as in the bright, on the full per
formance of his duty. 'Duty is the mb
lioiesl word in our language,' lie wrote to
his son ; and, if we add that other august
maxim, ‘ Human virtue should be equal to
human C'ilamity,' we shall have in a few
words a summary of the principles which
inspired Lee.
“Thecrowning grace of this man, who
was thus not only great but g<*od,-was-tbe
humility and trust in God, which lay at
the foundation of his character. Upon
this point we shall quote the words of a
gentleman of commanding intellect, a bitter
opponent of the South in the war:
Lee is worthy of all praise. Asa man,
he was fearless among men. Asa soldier,
he had no superior and no equal. In the
course of Nature my career on earth may
soon terminate. God grant that, when the
day of my death shall come, I may look up
to Heaven with that confidence and faith
which the life and character of Robert E.
Lee gave him. He died trusting in God as
a good man, with a good life, and a pore
conscience.’ ,
“ He had lived, as he died, with this supreme
trust in an overruling and merciful Provi
dence; and this sentiment pm vading his whole
being, was the origin of that august calmness
with which he greeted the most crushing dis
asters of his military career. His faith and
humble trust sustained him after the war,
when the woes of the South well nigh broke
his great spirit; and he calmly expired, as
a weary child falls asleep, knowing that its
father is near.”
THE “ COLORED REPRESENTATIVE.”
The New York Hei-ald thus announces
an important arrival, under the significant
title of “ halt way rpeasure:' 1
“ The Hon. Joseph H. Rainey, the new
‘ light complected ’ .colored member, of the
House of Representatives from South Caro
lina, was sworn in yesterday. Let the full
blooded Scipio Afrit-anus appear and then
the House will be all right.”
A correspondent of the same paper eaters
more elaborately into the matter jthns : ■
“ On the openingday of the session, about
a week ago, there were numerous inquiries
for the ‘ negro member,’ and to-day, when
he put in an appearance lor the first time,
lie was the centre of attraction on the floor
as well as in the galleries. A light mnlat
lo, with long, dark, straight, glossy hair,
busliy side whiskers and decidedly Cau
casian features, lie looks more like a Cuban
than a negro. In this respect he is quite
unlike the negro Senator from Mississippi,
Revels, who lias the African features as
well as the woolly hair. Rainey came for
ward at the request of the Speaker, after
his credentials had been presented; and
amid silence took the iron-clad oath. He
did not meet with as warm a reception on
the part of the members as Revels did in
the Senate when he took his seat in that
body. As he passed towards his seat in the
rear of the Hall—the southeast corner—the
only member who thought it worth while
to shake hands with him was Horace May
nard, of Tennessee. When he had reached
his place, two or three of the South Caro
lina members came over to congratulate
him. ne evidently lelt a good deal oat of
place, and no little disappointment at the
freezing reception he received from his Re
publican brethren of the white persuasion.
The negro member’s first vote was given in
favor of Gen. Bauks’ St. Domingo resolu
tion. He was born in Georgetown, Dis
trict of Columbia, where his father and
mother were both slaves, and is about, 39
years of age.”
If that’s the way they snub a very bright
octoroon, wliat will they do when black
Elliott puts in an appearance ?
CENTRALISM A CURSE EVERYWHERE.
There never was a greater folly than the
dream of national unity which is fooling
several of the European peoples, and which,
in these United States, is rapidly centraliz
ing the Government and destroying the
freedom of the masses. We fully believe
that German unity will prove a curse to
the people. We know that the centraliza
tion of power at Paris has mined France.
We see what consolidation is doing fbr onr
own Republic, so-called. As to Italy, here
is what Gibbon wrote many years ago :
“ Italy, Italy, while I write your skies
“ are over me, yoor seas flow beneath
“ my feet—listen not to the blind policy
“ which would unite all your crested cities,
“ mourning for their republics, into one
“ empire. False, pernicious delusion! yonr
“ only hope of regeneration ia in
“ Florence, Milan, Venice, Genoa, may be
“ free once more, If each Is free, but dream
“ not of freedom for the whole while you
“ enslave the parts; the heart must be the
“ centre of the system, the btood must cir
culate ii'eeiy everywhere; and In vast
“ communities you behold but a bloated
“ and feeble giant, whose brain Is imbecile,
whose limbs are dead, and who pays in
“ disease and weakness the penalty of
“ transcending the natural proportions of
“ health and vigor.”
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John Surratt.— The N. Y. World was
very ferocious about what, it called “John
Surratt’s attempt at iiawkfug around his
mother’s corpse.” The Baltimore Sim, re
torting, says :- L is / " I•>. ' ~
“ The line of comment in which our con
temporary has indulged is such as might
have been expected from those who Justi
fied and applauded the judicial murder of
the mother and the subsequent persecution
of the son, but not from any other soutce.”
The Wgr Democrats are just as much to.
blame for Mrs. Surratt’s murder as the
Radicals. *We do notaltogettter kjjproVe
ofr John Surratt's experiment; but the
corpse of his mother, no matter how hawk
ed about, (s only a to those whose
consciences ar» dicing, Jf^t*
A GOOD MOVE.
The AKsk>ui| Republican, alluding to a
recent move iif the- United s States Senate,
looking to an investigation of Gen. Grant’s
use of the bayonet power, says:
“ Senator Casserly offered a resolution,
which was adopted, by which the Presi
dent is requested to inform the Senate
ployed to aid civil power in any manner
except in Indian disturbances; by whose
advice or reqncst they were employed;
what orders they received, and what ex
pense was thereby incurred. Senator Cas
serly could not have rendered a greater
service to the country than in making this
request., at time when the Federal force is
again called out to invade Georgia, for no
other purpose but to assist the Radical
parly at the next election, and promote the
l>olilical interests of Gov. Bullock's fac
tion. The President’s answer to this re
quest will certainly furnish more capital to
the Democratic party than it can use in a
single campaign. If the report is a true
statement of the purposes for which the
United States army and navy have been
employed daring the last six months, it
will be made, plain to every one that the
army and navy have become mere tools in
the hands of a party, and machinery.as
dangerous to the rights of the people as
the standing armies are in any part of
Europe."
Arlington.— The Baltimore Gazette
thinks Senator McCreery’s resolution
about Arlington was untimely, bift adds:
“From the defliers of the Constitution,
the violators of the law and the oppressors
of a down-trodden and defenseless people,
we have nothing to hope. But there is a
comfort in the reflection that even Job was
not persecuted forever. The day must
come when such a resolution will not
only be discussed, but adopted, and until
then the rightful owners of the Arlington
estate must comfort themselves with the
assurance that, when this-country returns
to a proper sense of what is manly and
honest, Oustis’ right will again as-ert it
self on heights which inheritance and tra
dition give to'a family whose name is in
dissolubly linked with the history of this
country.” V
Yes, the Lees will get it back eventually,
and there will be ninety bushels Os corn to
the acre at least.
A Requiem —The New York Herald
thus speaks of the Radical party in this
sectiou: “ The Republican party in the
'“"South needs reconstructing quite as badly
“as anv of the rebel States governments
“ did. Too many carpet-baggers, too much
“ politics and too little intelligence have
“ swamped the Radical element in Virginia,
“North Carolina and Alabama, and the
“ same causes promise like results in
“ Arkansas, Texas and Georgia. Unless
“ the unscrupulous politicians who have
“during the last three years manipulated
“Southern aff.tirs are -thrown overboard
“ and party dissensions healed, most of the
“ late rebel States will be lost to the Ad
• “ ministration in the election of 1872."
Os Course. —The New Era attempts to
prove that Hon. B. H. Hill, though co
operating with the Democracy from time
to time, never actually accepted their prin
ciples or doctrines.
We dare say there is a modicum of truth
in all this; but Mr. Hill led everybody to
believe that he was au out and out Dem
ocrat. If he did not hit the bull’s eye, he
showed immense skill in grazing the edge
of the target.
Quite Probable.— A Washington spe
cial to the New Herald says:
“The hatchet is in a fair way to be
buried between Andy Johnson and Brown
low, Maynard and Bald Eagle Stokes ; and
Tennessee Republicans do not hesitate to
predict that by 1872 he will be fully pre
pared to support Gen. Grant’s re-eleetlon
and take a place in the latter’s Cabinet,
should he win another Presidential elec
tion.”
The man who sells his soul to perdition
once, is very apt to barter it again, if he
gets a good chance and the devil will let
him. And so Andy Johnson returns, like
a dog, to his vomit.
Amendments to the Enforcement
Act—A majority of the Senate Committee
on the Judiciary favor Senator Kellogg’s
bill, uow before them, to amend the natu
ralization laws and punish crimes against
the same, and for other purposes, passed in
July last.
Instead of appointing Judges only for
cities of 20,000 inhabitants or over, it is
provided that Judges of Circnit Courts of
the United States for the circuit wherein
the Congressional District may be, shall,
upon the application of two citizens, ap
point for each district or voting precinct in
said district, two citizens, one from each
political party, who are authorized to at
tend at all times and places fixed for the
registration of voters, who, being register
ed, would be .entitled to vote for Represen
tatives in Congress, and at all times and
places for holding elections for Representa
tives in Congress, and for counting the
votes cast, and to challenge any name pro
posed to be registered and any vote offer
ed,’ and to be present and lo witness
throughout the counting of all the votes,
and to remain where the ballot boxes
are kept at all times after the polls
are open until the votes are finally
counted; and said persons, or cither of
them, are to have the right to affix their
signatures or his signature to the register
for purposes of identification, and to attach
thereto or to the certificate of the number
of votes cast any statement tonching the
truth or fairness thereof which they or he
may ask to attach, and any one who shall
prevent any person so registered from do
ing any of the acts authorized as aforesaid,
or who shall hinder or molest any such
person in doing any of the said duties, or
shall aid or abet in preventing, hindering
or molesting any sucli persons in respect
of any such acts, shall be guilty of a mis
demeanor, and on conviction shall be pun
ished by imprisonment not less than one
year. V *
It is proposed to amend the sixth section
of the act to read as follows:
That in each Congressional District it
shall be lawful for the Marsh and of the Uni
ted States for the District wherein said
Congressional District shall be !o appoint
as many special deputies as may be neces
sary to preserve order at any election at
which Representatives in Congress are to
be chosen, and said deputies are hereby
anthorized to preserve order at such elec
tions, and to arrest for any offense or
breach of the peace committed in their
views.
The North Carolina Senatorbhip.—
It is staled in North Carolina papers that
Benatpr Abbott will exert himself to pre
vent the removal of Governor Vance’s disa
bilities, and then assert his claim to the
seat to which Vance has been chosen, on
the ground that he (Senator Abbott) re
ceived the next highest number of votes in
the Senatorial election, and is therefore en
titled to the seat should Governor Vance
continue under the Congressional ban.
The Secretary of War, by a recent order,
has dismissed two cadets for wilful viola
tion of their pledge of honor, not iu any
manner to interfere with, harass, molest or
injure new cadets. Cadet J. W. Smith has,
by direction of the Secretary of War, been
ordered to be confined to the aiea of the
cadet barrack? until February Ist, for sub
mitting an explanation containing disre
spectful reflections on the conduct of the
officer who reported him for an offense.
T*he cotton factors find business men of
Savannah propose to establish a “ black
P b<Jok,” in'which Wifi be recorded the names
of those who are behind ip paying their
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The census shows that North Carolina
iias gained- 70,006 inhabitants daring' the
last ten years, and now has a population of
1,072,000.
Impeachment of a South Carolina Judge.
Ui II y k i-tk- /41 t I
PRACTICAL SUSPENSION OF THE ’WftIT OF
nAHEASCORPUS.
Judge Vernon, of South Carolina, has
fell under the ban of the negro flouse of
Representatives of tbatJState, for daring to
admit the operations of the great civil
right of citizens—the writ of habeas corpus
—ln behalf of the,citizens of Laurens, before
him in the exercise of his judical functions
at Columbia. Here we have another glar
ing illnstratibn'of' the' utter unscrupulous
character of the abandoned types of in
famy who assume to regulate the liberties
and civil rights of the people in conformity
to whatever monstrous infraction of those
principles promises advancement of their
infamous political -purposes.
From the report of the proceedings of the
House of Representatives on this matter
on Wednesday, we print the following,
as taken from the Columbia Phoenix :
Mr. Whipper, from the special committee
appointed to investigate the official conduct
of Judge Vernon, submitted a report, re
commending that lie be immediately sus
pended and impeached for high crimes and
misdemeanors.
Mr. Wilkes had recorded on the journal
the following: Upon the resolution to im
peach Judge Vernon, I vote nay, for the
reason that I do not consider the evidence
sufficient to put him upon his defense. I
think that more than one witness to the
same fact should have been examined. 1
do not doubt the veracity of any witness
who testified before the special committee.
My objection above relates to the quantity
of evidence.
The testimony given before the committee
was read by the clerk.
Mr. B. M. Smith made some remarks
against the adoption of the report, assert
ing that Judge Vernon had done nothing
but .what lie was required to do by law, anil
that he believed the resolution was intend
ed to suspend the writ of habeas corpus,
and that it would have that effect, if hur
ried through. He protested against the
Legislature stepping in between the citi
zens of the State aim their great civil right,
the writ of Jutbcas corpus, lie said that
if Judge Veruou was impeached for issuing
these writs, no other judge would dare to
issue another, while the General Assembly
was sitting. He hoped the House would
not pander to the prejudices anil wishes of
a few, who are pressing them on for politi
cal purposes.
A colored member asked him, as a kiud
of justification for pressing the matter, if
the political rights of the people were not
their most valuable ones?
He replied, to this senseless question, that
not having enjoyed political rights lately,
he was not prepared to answer it..'
He was repeatedly interrupted during his
address by Mr. C ews and other Republi
can members, but they did not succeed in
preventing him from expressing his opin
ion on the question.
Mr. Smith moved that the consideration
of the report of the committee be made the
special order for to-morrow, at 1 o’clock,
and that the proceedings of the committee
and the evidence taken before them be
printed.
Mr. Mobley opposed the postponement
of the resolution ; said that he had heard
that Mr. Smith was closely connected
with the Ku Klux Klan, anil moved to
lay on the table the motion to postpone.
Adopted.
The question was then taktMi on adopt
ing the report of the committee, and the
yeas and nays were called, resulting—yeas,
93; nays 19.
Mr. Byas offered a resolution, that a com
mittee of five be selected to appear at the
bar of the Senate and announce to them
that the House had impeached Judge Ver
non, and would preseut in due time articles
of impeachment. Adopted. Messrs. W.J.
Whipper, F. J. Moses, Jr., W. D. Wilkes,
A. Logan and Jos. Ci ews were appointed
said committee.
The Pheenix also gives the following
paragraph:
As it will be seen, a committee has been
elected to condnct the impeachment of
Judge Vernon. He will, we presume, Me
removed. He received his sentence whilst
exercising his functions on the Bench to
Columbia. To Judge Vernon’s credit belt
remarked, that he dies with the writ of
habeas corpus in his hand. He dies judicially
in the exorcise of a high prerogative of his
office.
A Member of Congress Indicted for
Alleged Bigamy.— The grand jury of the
District of Columbia has indicted the Hon.
C. C. F. Bowen, a Republican member of
Congress from South Carolina, for alleged
bigamy. Mr. Bowen was married in Wash
ington City on the evening of the 21st of
August hist to Mrs. S. Pettigru Knag, while
at that time, as alleged, a petition for di
vorce filed by Mrs. Tabitha Bowen in the
Louisville Chancery Court, for divorce from
Hon. C. C. Bowen, Congressman from
Charleston, S. C., was still pending. In
his haste to marry, Mr. Bowen is charged
with committing bigamy, and for this he
has now been indicted by the grand jury of
the District, a true bill having been found
against him. The Washington Shir says:
Mr. Bowen is a young man of preposses
sing appearance, and very decided abilities.
He was horn in Rhode Island. January 5,
1832; removed to Georgia in 1850; studied
and practiced law ; removed to Charleston
in 1862; in 1867 was elected to the consti
tutional convention of South Carolina, held
under the reconstruction acts of the 39th
and 40tli Congresses; was elected to the
40ih Congress, was re-elected to the-41st
Congress, and is a contestant for a seat in
the next Congress. On behalf of Mr. Bow
en it is alleged that this whole eharge of
bigamy is the work of political malice, and
comes from interested mo ives. It is as
serted that the records of the Louisville
court will show that he was legally di
vorced before his marriage with Mrs. S.
Pettigru King, and that the documents to
prove the fact are on the way to this city.
It is also alleged that he was not legally
married to his first wife.
Mrs. Susan Pettigru King was the daugh
ter of the celebrated lawyer Judge Petti
gru, of Charleston, S. C. She is well
knowu in literary circles as a lady of bril
liant accomplishments, which have achiev
ed for her quite a reputation in the world
of letters. Since the war she has been in
the Treasury Department in this city. Be
fore the war she was a noted leader of fash
ion in South Carolina.
TnE Case of toe Laurens Prisoners
—lts Present Status. —These men, on
ysterdiy, were brought up before Judge
Vernon on a writ of habeas corpus. The
prisoners were represented by Messrs. Gar
lington & Simpson, the State by Solicitor
W. H. Talley. Messrs. Dnnbar and Worth
ton also appeared against the prisoners in
some capacity not known to ns. Pending
the hearing rs the case. Judge Vernon was
served with a notice of a resolution of im
peachment by the Legislature, and the ef
fort was made by Messrs. Dunbar and
Worthington to secure a delay of the case.
Judge Vernon decided to hear the case
through and to give his decision. The re
sult was that the prisoners were discharge
ed on giving bail iu the sum of $5,000 each.
The following are the names of the men
thus discharged : B. S. Jones, R. P. Todd,
Hugh L. Farlev, James Copeland, Stobo D.
Garlington, Turner Richardson, George F.-
Mysely, J. Y. H. Williams, N. S. Harris
and Henry Suber—all citizens of Lanrens.
[Columbia (S. C.j Phoenix, \sih.
Deato of the Author of “Casper
Hauser."— The New Orleans limes of De
cember 6th mentions the death of Sebastian
Seiller, ah oTd resident of that "city, and
who for a time edited a German journal
there. He was a fine classical scholar, and
gained considerable repute asap. author.—
One of hlB works, “ Casper Hauser, or the
Blind Boy ofNuremburg,” occasioned cun
siderftbfe comment at the time
of its publication, and gave great offense
to tjie yejgnipg powers of ope of .the. Ger
man States. For this Mr. Seiller was ex- 1
pelied from Germany, and arrived in Paris
during the troubles of 1848, where misfor--
tnne again met him by receiving a ball in,
the knee whilst passing near one of the
barricades. Daring the last four years Mr.
Seiller practiced law ip New Orleans,
where he leaves many warm hearted
friends.
Who's the Rogue ?
A roguish old fellow ia prowling about
lu field and in garden; you can't keep him
ajjF 1 . OUt# (
No matter how tall
You build up your wall,
lie’ll And a way over in spite of it all.
On the glass of tlm window his picture y ou’ll
see;
A grand exhibitiou f (admission is free;)
He works bard at night,
While the stars glitter bright;
But, when the sun rises, he keeps out of Sight.
He’ll sketch you a snow covered mountain or
tree,. .
A terreht all frozen, a ship but at sea.
lie draws very fast,
But his work does not last;
It fades when the chill of the night-time is
past.
B fore the sun rises, while hardly ’iis light,
tie (eels oi the fruit and take3 a sly bite ;
lie has a tine taste,
Though a great deal he’ll waste ;
Then off he will go iu very great haste.
Now. who do you think this fellow may be,
The bright, sparkling work ot whose Augers
you’ll see?
All Winter he’ll stay;
What more shall 1 say ?
Only this —that his fint name begins with a J.
One of the Jokes of Paris.
The Paris correspondent of a Loudon
paper tells this story of one of the humors
of the siege: ■
Let me give you another story, but it
belongs to so many weeks back that I am
not sure if I can give you exactly the cor
rect names. There \as a certain oid gen
tleman—a Baron—who lived in one of the
West-end snbnrbs. He had a delightful
villa in a garden with high walls. He was
very much of an invalid, and had to be
wheeled about in his chair. He got up
late; he was dressed with all due care by
his servants; he had his breakfast between
11 and 12; then he was wheeled out into
his verandah, or to some sunny grass-plot,
to read the papers; and then again at a
certain hour in the afternoon he was wheeled
back into his house, and he was seen no
more. The people who overlooked his
grounds knew his habits, and he was as
good as a clock to them. He had a won
derful dinner in the evening, for which the
neighboring butcher had to provide with
awful solicitude. When the siege drew
near, the Baron was torn in pieces between
a desire to get away and fear for the safety
of his precious al>ode, in which everything
had been arranged for his taste and com
fort.
“ I do not know what is to be dope,” he
said to his most trusted servant, Felix
“the people will sav that I am a coward if
I go away; that I fly from danger; and
they will destroy my house. No, I cannot
go away ” “ People are so unreasonable,”
said Felix; “ they cannot expect M. le
Baron to flght, confined as he is to his
chair, and yet if he leaves P-.ris they will
be very angry—they will be jealous. Surely
we can arrange something." “No, Felix;
no,” said the Baron ; “ I must stay.” And
sure enough, when the siege began, there
was the Baron to be seen as usual reading
his paper after breakfast in his pleasant
garden. “ There’s a true patriot,” said the
neighbors. “He does uot turn his back on
Paris like so many others. He can do no
thing for us, but at least he can snftVr with
ns. He is a hero.” “ But how he eats,”
said another. “ The batcher tells me that
since the siege he eats mor.t than ever, and
is always sending Felix to complain of the
meat. The e invalids—what appetites they
havg.” “Ah !” they all agreed, “ I should
lie sorry if any thing happened to the Baron ;
he is a good fellow ; and as for eating, let
him eat. There is plenty to eat, and it is
his only amusement.”
One day, however, it was observed that
the Baron read his paper longer than usual.
The afternoon was far advanced, and still
he read. No doubt he was waiting for
some one. Perhaps Felix had forgotten
him. The sun set; the dinner hour drew
near; and still in the twilight the Baron
conld be seen reading. “ Ah, what has
happened to the Baron ?" said the neigh
bors. “He will catcb his death of cold.
The dews of evening are very dangerous.”
But they did nothing. No doubt they dis
covered some satisfactory explanation of
what they had seen, lu the morning they
looked out of their windows —and oh, hor
ror!—the Baron was still in his chair im
movable, reading the paper. No doubt he
was dead. He had been seized with a fit,
and that wicked' Felix had neglected him.
They rushed into the garden to sec for
thertiselvefl, and they found—a lay figure.
The Baron had, in fact, left Paris in good
time, and had left at the head of his little
villa iu the suburbs a wooden idol, decked
out in his clothes, to receive all the out
ward observances which were usually paid
to himself. The trick was discovered one
day when the servants forgot themselves;
and the neighbors laughed so much at the
joke that they spared the house.
The “Heathen Chinee” Outdone.—
[Prom a Wes ern paper.]—lf the “ Heathen
Chinee” who imposed upon Truthful James
and William Nye were to extend his travels
westward to the Hawkeye State, we are
confident that the settlers of Guthrie county,
lowa, could instruct him in a “ game he
did not understand.” A real estate agent
at Panoia, (Juthrle county, lowa, explains
on the reverse side of his business card how
it happens that the taxes of non-resident
land owners are so high in that State. We
publish it in full tor the benefit of the
afflicted:
“ High Tuxes and the Cause. —Nearly
three-fourths of the taxes in lowa are for
school purposes. How applied? In a very
thinly-settled township, not more than
forty miles from here, a man concluded he
must have a school for his children. He
applies to the Board of Sub-Directors of
the township to have anew district set off,
which will place him about the centre and
alone in it.
“ He next elects himself suit-director for
his district, and again applies tor an appro
priation to build a school-house for his dis
trict, which is, of course, granted, amount
ing to from SBOO to SI,OOO. This money he
uses to build himself, a two-story house,
furnishing the upper story for a school
room. He then uses the contingent fund
to buy himself a cook-stove to heat the
school-room. _ He places the stove in the
lower room, which he occupies for his
dwelling, and passes the pipe up throngli
the school-room, where he employs his wife
as teacher for probably thirty or forty dol
-1 irs per month, and as there are no children
besides his own in the district, his wife has
an easy time. Thus the school fund fur
nishes him a home, fuel, employment for
his wife, etc , and the land
owners pay for.it. This case is not alone,
but many other localities are afflicted to a
greater or less extent.”
An Enterprising Youth —Mr. A. W.
Dimock, a boyish looking Wall street bro
ker, of but twenty-six years of age, is the
oe ner of three-fourths of the capital stock
(nominally estimated at $4,000,000) of the
Atlantic Mail Steamship Company. He is
also owner of over $1 000,000 woith of real
estate in Elizabeth, N. J. During the last
two years he has built, on his Elizabeth
property, over thirty palatial residences,
which, as soon as completed, he has sold
to rich young fellows like himself, and has
realized large profits on them, besides es
tablishing a delightful colony. He has in
numerable other enterprises on hand,
which lie manages with consummate skill.
Five years ago lie went to New York, a
penniless young clerk, the son of a Baptist
clergyman in Nova Scotia. Three years
ago he failed for $1,000,000, owing to cer
tain stock losses, hut, in the meantime, he
has not only retrieved his fortunes and
prosecuted his enterprises, but honorably
discharged the debts from whose payment
he was legally released. He is very chari
table, and has lately built aud given to
the Baptists of E izabeth a largi and hand
some church. He is a man of ideas and
literature, and his splendid house at Eliza
beth is a resort for poets, authors, wits,
and people of genius. At the same time he
is as gay and boyish in spirit as in appear
ance.
Another CdiioNY FOK Texas—Another
Chattahoochee county colony for Texas,
left here on Monday last under command
of Capt. H. J. Williams. Among the party
were M. Ji Williams, O'Jyer Curls, J. T.
McMarray, Chas. Johnson aud family,
Chas. Lewis, Mrs. Skinner and family.—
Several mote will follow in a few days—all
bound for Sabine county, Texas. Several
young men from this city, whose names we
have not learned, also left with this party.
[Columbus Enquirer .
BY TELEGRAPH.
I Associated Frcu Dispatches.
NOON DISPATCHES.
Toronto, December 16.— The Globe, in a
long editorial, says : “If our neighbors,
petulantly and like children, will have
nothing to do witli us, we must get along
without them. Grant’s own proclamation
forbade trespasses, punishment for which
he complains.”
Washington, December 16. —William
Chenowith, mathematician and astrono
mer, died at Bt. Paul.
In the House, private bills. Senate un
important.
It is stated in Republican circles that
Grant lias intimated to the heads of bu
reaus and departments that a disregard of
of any recommendatiou to office made by
Carl tSchnrz will not be regarded as a fault.
Boutwell knows of no disagreement be
tween himself and the President.
The French Legation here considers the
situation almost hopeless.
Bath, Me., December 16.—Twenty stores
and eleven dwellings were burned.
Pittsuuug, December 16.—Francis Bad
ger. a well known printer, was found dead
in bed.
Havhk, December 15.—The Prussians
have entirely withdrawn from this section.
The Erie, with arms for France, from
America, sailed from England yesterday
for this port.
Three hundred thousand French are
drilling at’Bordeaux.’
Wiliielmshoe, December 12. —The Em
peror is iu | ter fed health. The Emperor
declares he will never return to Paris sup
ported by. military power. The people
four times approved his election. They
alone have the power to restore him.
London, December 16—Montmedv lias
surrendered. The capture of Lafere is con
tradicted. Several engagements occurred
in that neighborhood, wh : ch were generally
favorable to the French.
The Prussiaus have occupied Contres,
Mantrichard and Romoranton, on the
Loire.
The Moniieur says the French have been
reinforced at all points.
Berlin, December 16.—The Provisional
Cotrespondence editorially says, the bom
bardment of Paris is again postponed from
putely military considerations.
The Prussian Government declares that
the Great Powers concern themselves about
Luxemburg, in the lace of Luxemburg’s
plain violation of guaranteed neutrality in
the interest of the French. Prussia, there
fore, reserves to itself full freedom for her
future course.
Liverpool, December 16.—The steam
ship Fire Queen, from New Orleans, col
lided with a bark in Queenstown harbor.
The Fire Oueen put back to Qavenstown
and grounded.
EVENING DISPATCHES.
Washington. December 16.—1n the Sen
ate, Drake resigned, to lake effect on .the
19 th.
Sumner presented a petition of citizens
of New England against the annexation
of San Domingo.
The Finance Committee reported ad
versely to various bills abolishing the in
come tax.
In the House, the bill making appropria
tions for revenue cutters passed and goes
to the President.
The Southern Express Company charter
was considered. An amendment that its
franchise shall not extend over twenty
years, and the company not to be exempt
irom local taxation in the States where it
operates, was adopted. The bill then
passed.
The President was requested to commu
nicate auy information relative to outrages
upon loyal citizens in North Carolina.
Drake took the floor to reply to Schurz ;
“Stabbing the Republican parly in cold
blood” and “devilish conspiracy” were
among the milder epithets of Drake’s de
nunciation of Schnrz.
Sohnrzmadea brief reply. Senate went
into executive session and adjourned to
Monday.
Morton offered a resolution in the Senate
requesting the President to communicate
to that body all information in his posses
sion relative to organized bodies of disloyal
and evil disposed persons in the State of
North Carolina, which have in view or
threaten resistance to the execution of the
laws of the United States, or the denial to
United States citizens of the equal protec
tion of the laws and their rights under the
Constitution ; and, also, what murders and
outrages for political purposes have been
committed by such organizations. The
resolution was adopted.
In House the Committee on Claims re
ported adversely to the claim of J. Ross
Browne, lately Minister to China.
The hill for the relief of Henry Ewell, of
Baton Rouge, passed and goes to the Presi
dent.
A bill restoring to the estate of Samuel
Miller, of Virginia, $41,000 for stocks and
bonds sold under illegal confiscation, pass
ed.
The Reconstruction Committee reported
a bill relieving a number of persons named;
passed by 111 to 53.
A bill from the Ways and Means Com
mittee to amend the act in relation to the
collection of duties on sugar passed.
Adjourned to Monday.
The Senate confirmed Pleasanton.
Appointments: Joel C. 0. Wierch, .Tud'.’e
of Eastern Texas; Henry C. Hicks, Attor
ney of Eastern Texas.
Sir Edward Thornton has received five
thousand dollars for the widows aud
orphans of the crew of the Oneida, quietly
contributed by seventy Brittsli subscribers,
headed by the Earl of .Shaftesbury.
Roderick R. Butler, of the First, District
of Tennessee, was indicted by the grand
jury here to-day for forgery, in signing the
names of'pensioners to documents whereby
he obtained the pension money due them.—
A bench warrant was issued, and he will
be arrested to-morrow.
Providence, December 16—Burglars at
tempting to rob the bank in North King
ston burned the hank and the town records
of 160 years.
Albany, December 16.—The river is full
of floating ice. No boats from New York
ha\ r e arrived.
RtcnMOND, December 16 —George Davis,
a prominent Israelite of this city and a
millionaire, died this morning.
The Legislature to-day passed a joint
resolution instructing Senators and request
ing Representatives of Virginia in Congress
to vote for a general amnesty removing all
political disabilities. It was adopted with
but one dissenting vote.
Havana, Deeeini»er 13.—Valmaseda has
assumed the Captain Generalship.
London, December 15.—1 tis thought
that Manteuff. I is marching on Caen and
Cherbourg. Despatches from Havre, how
ever, represent the letreat southward as
precipitate.
A balloon with mails from Paris descend
ed at Honftenr.
The supply of gas in Paiis is exhausted.
It is announced that Austria, wishing to
maintain existing guarantees for European
peace, is yet desirous of sparing the suscepti
bilities of Russia, adheres, without reserva
tion. to the decision of the approaching
conference.
Liverpool, December 15-—The ship
Cordelia is at Queenstown leaky.
New York, December 16.—Brockaway,
the alleged counterfeiter, has been dis
charged under the statute of limitation.
Justice to America’s Rowland Htll.—
It will be seen that the following appeal,
setting forth a plau for securing a suitable
testimonial to the father of cheap postage
in the United States, is signed by some of
the best known men in the country:
CHKAr Postage.
To the People of the United States :
“The undersigned, who know of the ear
liest and persistent efforts of James W.
Hale to give to the people of this conn
try the benefits of cheap postage more
than a quarter of a century ago, tike
this method to appeal to you, and to
suggest a voluntary testimonial to that man
Who has never; yet received any popular
recognition for the great success of which
all are now reaping the benefit. It Is pro
posed that every person who may be so in
clined shall, on Monday, December 19th,
1870, set apart one-three cent-stamp, or the
equivalent therefor, for every letter 1 re
ceived on that day as a voluntary offering
to the Rowland HHI of America, that day
being the 80th anniversary of Mr. Hale’s
connection with- -the - newspaper press.
May we not hope that the numerous friends
of Mr. Hale in every party of the country,
as well as ail postmasters and publishers,
will make special efforts, to the end that a
substantial compliment will result to this
veteran reformer. Although many of the
active business men of to-day may have
never before heard the name of James W.
Hale, the fact s:ill exists that he is the
father of our cheap postage system. What
ever offerings are made may be sent to A. P.
M. Iloome, Efttj., Secretary of the Commit
tee, at New York city, or, if preferred, they
may be addressed direct to Mr. Hale, 69
Wall street, New York. Contributions
need not be limited to the above named
amount.
[Signed] Samuel F. B. Morse,
M. H. Giunnell,
W. H. Ashwall,
David Hoadlby,
A. P. M. Rooms,
And others.
Professor Morse, the inventor of the
magnetic telegraph, who heads (lie signers
of the above, in a note to Hon Win. Orton,
says : “ I have long known Jas. W. Hale
as the energetic and zealous originator ol
the cheap postage system of the United
States. He is, in truth, the Rowland Hill
of the United States. If any man living
deserves a national testimonial for great
public services, I think if is Mr. Hale, who
lias at great self-sacrifice devoted his time
and talents, I might say gratuitously as
well as evidently, for the public benefit."
NIGHT DISPATCHES.
London. December 15.—Bullion in the
Bank of England increased a quarter of
million.
Munich, December 15.—The Chamt>er
of Deputies passed a further military credit
of forty million florins.
Tlie Federal treaty was referred to a
special committee.
Madrid, December 15.—1 tis said the
first act of King Amadis will be to give
half of appendage of the Crown, amount
ing to twenty millions of dollars, to the
Treasury.
Florence, December 15 —ln the Italian
Parliament to-day Senor Lamza made a
powerful speech in support of the bill rela
tive to the Catholic world. He demanded
every guarantee which it twas possible for
Italy to concede.
A bill for the consideration of the Papal
debts was introduced.
Berlin, December 15.—Bismarck’s or
gan insists upon a convocation of consuls
and generals, and that there should lie a
selection therefrom of delegates to a na
tional conclave to consider the reeonstruc
tlou of the French Government, with a
view to peace proposals. It is said this
suggestion emanated from Napoleon, and
that he lias stated that while the present
irresponsible mob are le&deis ot power,
even the reduction of Paris would fall to
secure peace. Ollier rumors insist that the
plebiscite, now proceeding in Paris, is with
the view of an early peace.
Brussels, December 15—There is the
most, perfect accord between Prussia and
Belgium. The latter has been officially
thanked for the good faith shown by her iu
her steady and practical adherence to neu
trality.
Bordeaux, December 15.—'The sub-Pre
fect of Havre, in a report received here,
denies having sent a dispatch announcing
a French victory at Paris. He maintains,
however, that there is general and precipi
tate retreat of the Prussians in the north
of France.
The balloon which landed at Honfleur
has not yi t been received at Bordeaux, but
a dispatch from the teronaut says he has
good news from Paris.
Gen. Pilladines has retired from service.
Paris letters of the 9th announce the situ
ation good. Thu-repulse of the Army of
the L >ire and the recapture of Orleans
have not discouraged the Parisians. There
is a general demand for more sorties, and
universal approval of the answer sent by
Gen. Trochu to Gen. Moltke, and the peo
ple all say they will resist to the last, the
measures taken by the Government since
the commencement of the siege are accept
ed willingly by the population, having
insured itself against waste of provis
ions, of which there are enough fresh
on hand to last until February. The Gov
ernment will lignin have fresh meat ra
tioned to the inhabitants. Other provis
ions are sufficient to last six months.
New York, December 16 —The Worldis
special from London of the 15th says proofs
of the Prussian felieme for a restora
tion of ihe French Empire come from
every quarter. Bismarck says this is the
only way we can conquer, and that the Re
public of France will 6ght forever. The
fall of Paris can produce no effect; that
Prussia’s course is to make terms with the
Empire and go home and let the French
fight it out among themselves.
MARKETS.
[by telegraph.]
London, December 15 —Noon.—Consols,
91%. Bonds, 88%. Sugarquiet and steady.
Tallow, 435. (id.
London, December 15—Evening.—Con
sols, 91%. Bonds, 88%. Tallow active at
445. 9d.@455.
Liverpool, December 15—Noon—Cot
ton opened dull; uplands, 8%; Orleans, 8%
@B% ; sales, 10,000 bales. Breadstuff's
quiet. Corn—new, 30s. 9d. Beef, 1225. fid.
Pork, 105s.
Liverpool, December 15—Evening.—
Cotton—uplands, 8%; Orleans, 8%@8% ;
sales, 12,000 bales; speculation and export,
2,000.
Liverpool, December 16—Evening.—
Cotton to arrive: uplands, 7%@?%; Or
leans, 8@8%; on spot unchanged.
New York, December 16—Noon.—Stocks
very excited. Money, 7 and upwards.—
Sterling—long, 9% ; shoit, 10. Gold, 110%.
Bonds, 7%.
New York, December 16—P. M.—Money,
irregular and high all day, but closed at 7
currency. Sterling, 9%@9%. Gold, 110%
@llO%. Governments weak all day ; South
ernsdull and steady; Tennessee*,|6l%; new,
60%; North Carolina*, 44 ; new, 21%.
New York, December 16—P. M.—Mone
tary troubles were renewed to-day. Money
in active demand and at high rates, but at
the close prominent brokers supplied the
demand at 7 for currency. Currency is
flowing West in large sums; smaller sums
go South. Speculator slocks declined
heavily, and domestic Exchange is gener
ally against New York. ’62’s, 7%; ’64’s,
7%; ’6s's, 7% ; new, 9%; ’o7’s, 9%; ’6B’s,
10%; 10 40’*, 6%. Virginias, 65; new, 62 ;
Louisiana*. 70% ; new, 64; Levees, 71; B’s,
85; Alabama*, 101; s‘s, 70; Georgias, 80;
7’s, 9!% ; South Carolina*. 87 ; new, 66.
New York, December 16—Noon.—Flour
and Wheat quiet and unchanged. Corn
dull. Pork inactive ; old, s2l. Lard dull.
Cotton quiet and steady ; uplands, 15 ; Or
leans, 15%@16; sales, 1,500 bales. Naval
Stores and Freights qniet.
New York, December 16—P. M.—Cotton
steady; sales, 4 800 bales at 15. Flour—
Southern in moderate request; common to
good extra, $6 10@6 15; good choice, $6 55
@8 25. Whisky firmer at 94@94%. Wheat
quiet and slightly favors buyers ; Winter
red and amber Western, $1 43<@1 46. Corn
firmer; old, 74@76. Pork nominal; old,
s2l; new, sl9 50. Beef quiet. Lard dull.
Turpentine, 46%. Rosin firm; strained,
$2 05. Tallow dull at 8%@8%. Freights
quiet.
New Orleans, December 16.—Flour
unchanged. Corn dull; white, 66 Oats,
52@53. Bran, $1 10. Hay—prime, S2B.
Pork dull at $22. Bacon—shonlders, 14%,
15@15%; hams, 19@24. Lard dull and
lower; tierce, 12%; keg, 14. Sugar—prime,
9%@ 10%. Molasses, 56357. Whisky
scarce at 97%@51 05. Coffee—prime, 17%
@17%. Sterfing, 20%@20%. Sight, %@%
discount. Gold, 110%.
Cincinnati, December 16.—Flour un
changed. Corn dull and lower at 51. Mess
Pork," $lB 50. Lard, 11(312. Bacon—
shoulders, 10%; sides, 13@18%. Tobacco
firm and scarce. Whisky drooping at 87.
Baltimore, December 16.—Flour firm
and active. Wheat unchanged. Corn
firm and scarce; white, 73@74 ; yellow, 72
@74. Provislonsfl.it. Pork, S2O. Bacon
clear rib, 13%; shoulders, 11% ; hams, 18.
Lard, 15@13%. Whisky, 93.
Louisville, December 16.—Bagging
quiet; hemp and flax, 26%@27. ' Flour
quiet. Corn dull. Provisions quiet. Meta,
Pork, sl9 60. Bacon—shoulders, 11% ;
clear sides, 14%. Lard, 12. Whisky, 87@
88. 1
Charleston, December 16.—Cotton
steady and in good demand; middling,
14%; sales, 800 bales; net receipts, 1,808;
gross, 1,819; exports coastwise, 1,362;
stock, 30,004; net receipts week, 13,571.;
gross, 13,582 ; exports—to Great Britain,
8,801; to Continent, 1,009; coastwise, 4,391;
sales week, 7,800.
Baltimore, December 16.—Cotton—
net receipts week, 1,720; gross, 4,370; ex-
ports—to Great Britain, 615 ; to ContliKnt,
1,580; coastwise, 1,284; sales week, 3305
stock, 10,212. ’ ’
Mobile, December 16 — Colton 'qnlet •
middling. 14; sales, 1,200 hales ; net re
ceipts, 4,988; exports—coastwise, 581; to
Continent, 1,250; stock, 603 - receiDts of
19 . 783 o exports-to Great Britain,
Continent, 1 1,250; coastwise
3,913 ; sales of week, 1,470.
Wilmington, December 16 Cotton
vy<*k; middling, 13%; sales, 43 bales; net
receipts, 355; exports coastwise, 600-
stock, 1,058; net receipts o* tlie week 2 219 •
wS rt so4 C ° aßtW l“’ 1,875 1 9a ' eS ° f ’ the ’
™?K AT fT« R 5T’ December 16 -Cotton steady
with fair demand; good ordinary, 12'/
net receipts 2,411 bales; exports to Great
Britain, 7,283; sales, 1,100; stock, 39 270-
net iccelpts of the week, 10,894; expoHs
to Great Britain 9,279; coastwise, 58;
sales of the week, 7,144.
Norfolk, December 16.—Cotton dull
low middling, 13%®13%; salts, 200 biles;’
net receipts ,093 ; exports coastwise, 756;
10700 9 ’~ 45; , net receipts of the week,
Kik tsir 0 " 1 ” 1 *- 13 - 838 - “ ,e “ <*
City Point, December 16 Cotton-net
receipts of the week, 1,020 bales
,v,t^*”’ir DeCe , J «—Cotton dull ;
middling, 15; sales, 300 hales; net receipts,
86 bales; gross receipts, 680; stock, 5,500;
net receipts of the week, 330; gross re
week. 4,903; sales of the
W6CIC, 1, /(111.
New Orleans, December 16—Cotton
steady and in fair demand ; middling, 14%
sales, 7.900 bales; uet receipts,
11.4,6; gross receipts, 11,777; exports-to
Great Britain, 3,151; to Continent., 1,820;
to Hamburg, 10; stock, 167,110; net re
ceiptsof the week, 59,879; cross receipts,
oti,ti79; .exports—to Great Britain, 16,780;
to Liverpool, 2,814; to Qaeenstowu and
Continent, 5,039; to Bremen, 1,205; to
Barcelona and coastwise, 3,103.
Savannah, December 16.—Colton in fair
demand ; middling, 14%; net receipts, 4 813
bales; exports coastwise, 1.956; stock,
77,193; net receipts of the week, 28947-
exports—to Great Britain, 18,412 ;to Con
tinent, 2,231; coastwise, 8,269 ; sales of the
week, 10,000.
Augusta Daily Market.
Orricß Dsu.v < ’onhtiiijtion \ t.iwr, )
Fkipay, December lfl-P. M (
financial,—
GOLD -Buying at 109 and selling at ill.
SlLVEß—Buying at 105 and gelling at 108.
BONUS—City Bonds, 79082
STOCKS—Georgia Railroad Stock, ex divi
dend, 98(399. August* Factory, 158@160.
Savings Bank, 105. GrnniUiville Stork, 83085.
COTTON—The market tor this staple has
been very irregular to day, except for fine Cot
ton, the lower grades being entirely neglected.
The market opened with a moderate demand
on a basis of for Livtrpool and
ISJ4 for New York middling, ruling quiet dar
ing ibe (lav. Buies, 1,168 Labs. Receipts,
1,514 bales.
BACON—Good demand, with light stock.
We quote C. Side*, 10016%; C. R. Bides,
15%@1C; B. B. Bides, 15; Bbonlders, 13;
Hams, 22%@27; Dry Balt Bbonlders, 90954 ;
Dry Balt C. R. Bides, 12012%; D. 8. Clear
Bides, 13.
CORN—In moderate demand and prime white
ia selling at 61 0501 10 by the car load from
depot; retail, 61 15.
WHEAT—We qnote choice white, 61 45®
1 55; amber, 61 35; red, 11 83.
FLODR-Oity Mills, 6007 50; at retail,
61 ft barrel higher. Country, 65 5007 50,
according to quality.
CORN MEAL—6I 20 at wholesale; 61 30 at
retail.
OATS—6O.
PEAS-61 25.
Blodgett Looks to Congress. —The
wily ami unscrupulous Blodgett lias pro
mulgated a general order as Chairman of
the State Central Committee of the Repub
lican party, in which, after a very special
invocation In behalf of tlie negro voters
being protected in tlie exerei.se of their
franchise—not a word for the white voters
—ho betrays the purpose of his infamous
party to again besiege Congress In behalf
of the negro. To this end, he advertises
for an unlimited amount of material for
the “Slander Mill.” Here is a couple of
paragraphs from the document:
I believe that a lnige majority of the peo
ple of this Stale will perforin all the duties
of good, law-abiding citizens, and, to the
end that the innocent may not he nude to
suffer for the guilty, I hereby call upon the
good citizens of etch voting place to report
to me by letter, or otherwise, in full, all the
particulars of any intimidation, whereby
voters are deterred from going Li the polls;
any violence, or other improper conduct,
whereby voters are prevented from voting,
or made to vote against I heir will; and any
other fact which would lend to make the
election anything but a fair, free and
untrammelled expressions of the popular
choice.
This information is necessary to enable
Congress to set aside the elect on where
fraud, intimidation, or violence lias occur
red, and to take such other steps as may bo
necessary to secure justice, by the enforce
ment of the laws of the United Stetes.
Tns Next Congress to Meet in March.
—The correspondent of the New York
Tribune says it is considered certain that
llie XLIId Congress will meet and organ
ize on the font th of March next. A care
ful canvass has been made by persons in
terested in the organization, and none of
the re-elected members favor adjournment
without electing officers. The Speaker’s
signature is required to pay warrants, and
members are thus enabled to get their
money from month to month during the
recess.
Brutal Robbery and Attempt to
Murder. —Some unkuown robbers on the
night of the 13th instant visited the plan
tation of Mr. B. Bourquin, (the father of
Mr. George Bourquin, of this city.) upon
the Ogeechee canal, seven miles from Sa
vannah, and broke open the doors and win
dows. They also tired several shots into
the house. This aroused the old gentle
man, who at once tired at the thieves.—
They then commenced throwing bricks and
chunks of wood through the window sash
and through the doors in such numbers
that Mr. Bourquin was compelled to run
out of the honse, when he was knocked
down and terribly beat by them. They
then curried him back into the house, where
they not only compelled him to deliver up
all his money, but took from him all the
clothing they wanted, and a fine double
barreled gun. Being qnite an aged man
(76 years) and entirely alone in the house
at the time, this brutal treatment has ever
since confined him to his bed, where he
dow lies perfectly helpless from the brnisei
he ins received. It is to be hoped that the
perpetrators of this outrage may be dis
covered and suffer the punishment they so
richly deserve.— Savannah News, 16f7i.
An Open Fight.—We are for presenting
an open front, and affiliating with no man,
or set of meo, who unite with the Dem
ocratic party for improper advantages.—
We say, in conclusion, let us have a pure,
Jeffersonian Democracy, composed of hon
est men—pure patriots and fearless states
men—whose characters are unimpeachable,
and who will not fear investigation. Let
the Democratic party be composed of such
material and Its triumph will be certain;
but If made up with negroes and renegades,
and men who call themselves Democrats
for office, gain and self-aggrandizment, and
fail to respond when interrogated by those
who have the right, defeat will be inscribed
upon oor banners.— Atlanta InteUtgenoer.
Remarkable Case ok Absent-Minded
ness.—A member of our Legislature was
noticed yesterday at his hotel to read his
napkin and wipe his month with his nsws
paper. We have this from his colleague.
Stealing a March on the Prussians
—The silk makers of Lyons, in sending off
their silks by ship loads, via Marseilles, tQ
England and the United States.