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IJniwclt & Sentinel.
- AUGL'iTA, ga.,
w KDXNDAV MDRVIN'i, MARCH 28.
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perience, have been secured in the news and
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several months past, Ci.y Editor of this paper.
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THE ONE THING NEEDFUL.
Never, since the memorable contest between
His Honor, Mayor« May, and the then Chief
Magistrate of our city, Hon. Foster Blodgett,
has there been ho much feeling and interest
manifested in Municipal campaigns, as in the
one just entered upon. Heretofore the issue
Was m*de upon p ir< v pi'ocip'es, or personal
prejudice,- end there was a custom, much in
vogue with both parties, which was disgrace
ful in the extreme. We refer to the housing
of inert, belonging to the more easiiy influenced
class of our citizens, and the marching of
men to the polls, where, under the eyes of
seme of the more zealous, their votes were de
posited .
We say the practice wea disgraceful; because
the results of elections, in this country, are
generally interpreted as the untrammelled ut
terances of the masses, when, in fact, gen
erally speaking, they are but the voice of
thoso men, who may chance to be better
versed in the persuasive art, than their anta
gonist. Os couise, the wire pulling is always
in keeping witli the importance of the offices
sought. Contestants for the higher grades
seldom stoop to the management of the ropes ;
that is left to the less lonspicuous of their
frionds and adherents. ,
This is all wrong, and should be abandoned
To the effects of this evil, may wo trace some of
the primary canse3 of our present lamentable
condition. There has ever heon a too great
hungering after office, and the people have been
tco careless, in the selection of their represent
atives. Too little regard hr.s been paid t o
competency and purity, and too much has been
given to the que tion of availability. The ad
vancement of the interests of a particular
clique, not that of the City or State, has bjon
the study of place seekers and place-holders.
Intellectual qualifications have beeq overlook
ed, and as to moral slamin i, the very consider
ation of-that was regarded as absurdly redic
ulous.
The sovereigns, the ‘-dear people,” have too
long allowed tbemeelvesto be dictated to, in
stead of being the dictators. They know that
vital’interests are often at stake, aud, yet, they
open not their lips, and raise not their hands
to insure their safety. Caucusscs of three
ofltimes make tho nominations, and citizens
submit to their ruliug by not voting.
Now, we hold it to be the duty of every
man, possessing the elective franchise, to exer
cise it ou all occasions, lit order that the more
competent and the deserving may triumph ovor
those who are lees bo. Wo have hoard men
declare this and that candidate to be
•wholly unfit for the position he desired,
but, with them, to say was all.—
The candidates not pleasing them, they
even forget to kill off the evil, which they
cousiieutiously believe will result from the
former’s emotion. This, too, is wrong. But it
stops not, in its unrighteousness : It becomes
quiet acquiescence in guilt, and makes those
indulging in it parltceps crinitnU to the mis
fortunes it begets.
Augusta is growing into’ greater and Still great
er every year. Men are required to
govern ana direct her, whoee chief,glory will be
her advancement, and whose sole wish will be
for her success. A high order of intellect is just
os needful in the Council as in the
Legislative Halls of the State. What is [need
ed are men, who can rise superior to the ideas
ot old fogyism, while at the same time, they
take advantage of and improve every lesson, it
may have presented.
We do not intend by these remarks to con
vey tho idea that the gentlemen, now before
the people are wanting in these qualifications.
Not at all. They are all good men. Numbers
of them we have.the honor to know personally,
and we believe, too, that they will study the
welfare of the city. That there are differences
as to ability between the candidates for
council, cannot be doubted. Let merit and
worth govern in the choice.
The struggle will be chiefly be
tween the candidates for tho Mayoralty. Two
gentlemen are before the people already.
Both have had considerable experience in
municipal affairs, and both are well known to
our citizens. They are not the representatives
of parties. The issue is to be made on better
grounds, and that man should be elected, who
will do the city the most good.
To sum up all : what is most wanting for
the continued prosperity of the city, are men
of high moral Character, distinguished alike
for thoughtfulness quickness of comprehen
sion, and promptness in execution.
AUGUSTA—HE§ COMMERCIAL INTERESTS.
The leading interest* of Augusta have ever
beea of a commercial character, and her com
parative immunity from the ravages of
war which were visited with cure or less
severity on nearly all the cities of the South
iuvokes our profoucdest gratitude to the
Arbiter of events. This immunity, and
the concentration of business here during
the war, have given orgr merchants great
advantage in the work of commercial
reorganization, which if judiciously improved
can scarcely fail to render our city a favorite
emporium, at well for the fabrics of Northern,
or Foreign production, as for the etapfe pro
ducts of the country. It is our purpose to
maintain for this paper an identity more close
and intimate than ever with Jthe commercial
interests city ; to render it an efficient
agency in promoting their welfare, by giving
all deserved prominence to every mercantile
enterprise, and by masing it a reliable
vehicle of commercial
invite the especial co operation of our mer
chants in the collation and revision of onr
local market reports. We desire them to bo
full end reliable, and so explicit in detail as
to apply to both the retail and wholesale trade.
The popular mind will enjoy protracted im
munity from the discussions incident to party
politics, and there Arif! therefore be less to
divert'attention from commercial intelligence.
The commercial prestige which our city has
altaiued may be preserved and greatly
ed by a proper control of the resources within
our reach. Adequate banking facilities are much
needed, to g ve full tcope to enlightened and
successful enterprise, and these we are assured
will in due time be afforded. Every *»ter
prise identified with the progress of our city
shall find in cur columns the mc3t willing and
liberal co-operation, And we shall ever wel
come any infoimation or suggestion which
may conduce to the utility of the paper as
an auxiliary to the commercial and industrial
wants of Hie city.
“H. G.’’ os Labor. —The worst dt men very
often do and eay good things, and out of the
mouth of revilers, truths occasionally escape,
that are rather of an anomalous character. It
will bo remembered that it was announced,
some time ago, that Gen. Joseph E. Johnston
bad employed five hundred of his veteran sol
diers, in rebuilding the Orange and Alexandra
Railroad Remarking this announcement, Mr. H.
G . of the Tribune, expresses his pleasure
thereat, and says, it is the right kind of recon
struction. Horace dqubts not that there are
thousands of whltos in the South, who would
go to work likewise if they had the chance;
and he urges all Southerners who reject free,
black labor, or who cannot get it, to follow
Geu. Johnston’s example. Horace Bays a very
sensible thing too, when he appeals to our peo
ple not to send to Ireland or Germany, or even
to the North for white laborers, till we have ad
vertised widely, and offered fair wages for
them amongst our own people. Rely on it,
says H. G., there is nothing like Home Ikdus
tuy to make a country prosperous, and the
people virtuous.
There is a great deal of truth in the last pro
position. Home industry is foundation
stone, without which supeistructures will
fail, as do those which are built upon the
sand. 1 hore are thousands of our people who
are anxious to obtain work, but it is a great
fault with us, that wo invariably look abroad
for assistance, and particularly is it the case
when that assistance is to be rewarded. We
hope that the day is not far distant our
people will recover themseives from the
effects of those erroneous opinions. Mutual
assistance never fails to produce beneficial re
sults. ,
TLANT CEREALS.
Wo regret to perceive an ite.n going
rounds of the press, to the iffect that through
Georgia, Alabama and Arkansas there will be.
corn planted this spring, and that
the attention of all planters is directed tq cot
ton-growing. In many localities there will not
be corn enough to meet home consumption.—
While it cannot be doubted that a full crop of
cotton, successfully raided and saved, would
for the time pay better than corn, there aro
many reasons which render a neglect of corn
ipecuturrly inadvisable now. Irregular labor—
which many fear—while it may only partially
destroy the production of corn, will be fatal to
cotton. A failure of cotton from any cause,
would leave our planters without means to buy
corn, and more dependant than they have ever
been ; for amid all the horrors of war, and the
trials of last Besson, there was a general abun
dance of eorn. Let then every plantar—how
ever earnestly he may endeavor to make a
large crop of cotton—not neglect raising corn
enough for at least his own wants.
Government Income. —The income of the
Uovernmont from Internal Revenue, thus far
in the current fiscal year, commencing in the
.middle of last year, has been somewhat over
two hundred millions of dollars, which, if kept,
up at the same rate, the aggregate
of the year’s receipts from internal taxation
alone, three hundred and twenty-five millions,
and that would be one hundred and thirteen
millions more than the internal revenue in the
previous fiscal year, and nearly three times as
much as that of tha year which ended with
June 24, 1864. The most reliable estimate of
the customs-revenue through all parts of the
country place the aggregate at |one hundred
and eighty millions in gold for the whole of
the current fisdU year. This would make tbe
total income of the National Treasury from
iniernal revenue, and from duties on imports
for the year ending next June, about fiiie, bun
dred and seventy millions of dollars in curren
cy, which is over two hundred millions more
than the estimated disbursements ot the Gov
ernment.
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
Rev. Dr. Williams, hat been consecrated
Catholic Bishop, of Boston. He is the fifth
"Catholic Bishop of that city.
Four million sermons are preached annual
ly in Great Britian, which accounts for the
goodness of the people there.
Rev, Martin Moore, Jr., for a long time
editor of the Boston Recorder, died recently
at the advance age of seventy-six.
A Roman Catholic Tract society has been
started in New York.
The First Methodist Episcopal Conference
was held in this country in 1773, with 10
preachers, and rather more than 1,000 mem
bers. Now there are 60 conferences, embrac
ing 15,000 preachers and, nearly 1,000,000 of
members, exclusive of the Southern and
Canadian branches. The Church has property
in church edifices and parsonages amounting to
about $27,000,000. Twenty-five colleges and
theological schools, with 5,345 students uuder
158 instructors, holding over $3,0#0,000 of
property, and 77 academies are employed in
training the young of this denomination for
the service of the Church.
Religious meetings are in progress in Con
necticut.
The German Methodist of Texas intend, it
isjsa'd, dissolving their connection with the
Southern Church.
The laigest Sunday school in the world,
according to Rev. Dr. Jacobus of ittsburg,
is at Stockport, near Manchester, England. A
Union society, formed in 1781, has there gath
ered abont five thousand scholars. There are
over'four thousand under the same roof,
divided among 86 rooms, wit»f over three hnn -<
died teachers.JaU but five of whom have been
scholars. Over two thousand of the scholars
are past sixteen years of age, and mor# of
them ar-j boys than girls, and ‘ more of the
teachers are males than females. Besides in
struction in the bible, they teach writing and
elemantary book-keeping, using no book but
the bible. A great pifttion of the scholars are
operatives in the factories, and have no other
means of education. „ .. 4
The annual conference of the Methodist
Protestant Church, Maryland is in session in
Baltimore.
samnai ,T. Wilkin, au eminent -lawyer
of Nsw York, died on the 11th list.
NEWS SUMMARY.
The death of the King of Siam is announced
The Quakers of North Carolina are emi
grating to Indiana.
The 34th regiment United States colored
troops has been discharged the service.
Mr. Winan’s Cigar Ship has been launched
in England.
Iver Lawson. Esq., has been appointed Col
lector of the port of Chicago.
Tho New York State ffat finishers have had
a convocation, and demand higher wages.
The Italian army was reduced on the Ist of
March to an entirely peace footing.
The report of the Superintendent of the
Surveys for 1863 has been finished by
the Government printer.
The n«w po6t office directory will be out in
•a few days.
Senltor Sherman hae gone to to
advocate Hawley’s election.
Gen. Van Wyok, of New York, goes to tbe
same State on a like mission.
Hangman Foote was in Washington on the
The recent damages sustained by theAlobile
& Ohio Radroad, have been repaired.
buildings were destroyed by fire at
Minneapolis, Minn, on the 16th. Loss SIOO,OOO.
There is great agitation in Now York on the
subject of rents.
Gens. B. H. Grierson and K. M. McCook,
have been confirmed as Major Generals, by
the Senate.
The remains ot Gan. Roht. Hatton, .have
been removed to Lebanon, Tenn., for inter
ment.
Cases involving the constitutionality of the
Missouri test oath are now before the Supreme
Court oTthe United StJtes.
Joseph Scovill ot Maine, U. S. Consul on
Prince Edward’s Island, is dead.
An attack on Windsor Ca., is hourly expec
ted.
Tea thousand troops are on their way t J the
Canadas from England,
The next Ohio State fair will be bold at
Dayton, September 25th.
Gen, Ambrose Burnsides has been nomi
nated for Governor of Rhode Jsland.
Hereafter the monthly statement of the pub
lic debt is to be prepared by Geu. Spinner.
It is reported that a number oi Fenians left
Nashville for the border, cn the 18th.
The Charleston & Savannah Railroad is no.w
complete to Anderson station, thirty-three
miles from Charleston, to which point a tri*
weekly train is running.
William A. Chase, of Christian county, 111.,
bas a clock, which was made in 1384, and is
said to be an excellent timepiece.
While in new Orleans, Mrs. Jefferson Davis,
spent a few minutes inside the Bar of the House
of Representatives.
Judge Battle has finished Ms Digest of the
Decisions of the Supreme Court of North Caro
lina, upon which he ha? been engaged for a
number of years, \
Tho plate item which counterfeit SIOO com
pound interest notes were struck, has been
seizsd by the Treasury detectives.
M. Nicholas Miloutine, the leader of the
Russian Democratic'party, has recently been
called by the Czar to, a prominent position in
the direction of public affairs.
The Texas Legislature has passed a stay law
in judgment of debts for four years, on condi
tion that the interest and one-fourth of the
principal be paid each year.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Directors have
concluded a contract with a French company
to extend the road.
Mr. McCormick, of Arkansas, has been ap
pointed Governor of Idaho, in place; of Caleb
Lyon.
A boiler attached to a flouring mill in Erie
Penn., exploded on the I6th, killiDg a number
of men.
Out of eigh t hundredjand,fifty applications
for <*»detshipa, the President approved ten for
the country at large.
The flag adopted by the Fenians is very sim
ilar to that of the U. S., the only difference
being the substitution of the harp for the stars.
Idaho seems to be an unhealthy country for
honest men, no less than four official defalcau
tions having recently occurred.
A gang of counterfeiters has been broken up
at Vlymouth, Indiana, and five arrested and
held for trial.
The Cincinnati authorities have abandoned
the system of building the streets, and will
hereafter use the Nicholson pavement.
G. V. Ackner & Co’s warehouse, near Ad
ger’s South wharf, was destroyed by fire on the
night of the 19th.
Fred. Gruber, a gallant and loyal member
of the 7th Louisana, was stabbed and killed in
his own restaurant in New Orleans by a rowdy
a few days ago.
The testimony of Gen. Robert E. Lee, Speak
er Barbour, and other noted Virginians await
the return of Senator Howard before being
given to the public.
There is a report in circulation that the Fe
nians have purchased the four large steamers
of thojAmerican line on Lake Ontario. This
report is not credited, however.
Comptroller Clarke’s letter is creating quite
a sensation in Washington. It is asserted that
Secretary McCulloch can prove that his state
ments are accurate, Mr. Clarke’s averments to
the contrary, notwithstanding.
A revolutionary outbreak in Valla Clara,
Cuba, by twenty-three young men, is an"
nounced. Twelve of them were captured.
A bully named Mclntosh was shot and kill
ed in Kingsport, Tennessee, by Martin Roler,
a few days since.
In New York, on Tuesday, the 20th, a
verdict of $5,000 was rendered against John
Hammer for breach of promise and seduction.
The offense was fully proven. The defense
attempted to defame the character of tho girl,
but failed.
Some of the New York Whiskey distiller j
are in anew trouble, nine of having
been arrested on the charge of bribing a Uni
ted Stati3 officer, so as to influence his conduct
in reference to the quantities of liquors dis
tilled by them.
Ex-Mayor Walter Leftox, of Washington
city, is in Alexandria. He has been ordered
by the Secretary of .War to leave Washington,
and confine himself to the bounds of the State
of Virginia. - ‘
Bev. Henry A. Wise, of * the Episcopal
’Church, has been called to the Rectorship of
the newly formed Parish of Rockingham, Vir
ginia, and will assume the duties of his posi
tion about the Ist of April.
Mayor Hoffman, of New Y'ork. rcce from a
bed Os sickness to receive the column of Fe
nians on the 17th, and remained at his post in
front of the City Hall for only half an hour,
when excessive fatigue compelled him to re
tire.
The citizens of Russell county, Ala., held a
meeting on the 17tb, at which a resolution de
nouncing the report of General Swayne of the
negro Bureau, relative to cruel treatment to
the negroes by the people of the county, was
pronounced a gross slander.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, March 19
Senats. - Mr.. Nelson, from the Military
Committee, reported a bill to establish a homo
Jor tofaly disabled soldiers and sailors of the
United States, with a recommendation that a
certain amendment of the j.House con
curred in.
The amendments are to strike out the pro
visions with regard to seamen and make them
applicable to sadors only. The House amend
ments were concurred in, and the bill now
goes to the President for his signature. *
Mr. Conness. of California, introduced the
following ri solution, which was adopted :
Resolved, That the Secretary of the Navy
furnish a thorough report of the naval obser
vatory, the summit levels and distances by
journeys of tbe various proposed lines for in
ter-oceanic canals and ra lroads between tbe
waters ot the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and
also their relative merits as practicable lines
for the construction of a ship canal ; and e
daily as relates to the Honduras. Tehuante
pec, Nicaragua, Panama, and Arralt lines ;
and also whether in the opinion tl ? Sup ;r
--intendent tbe Isthmus of Darien Is en ca'
isfactorily explored ; and if so, tq, !■ nish in
detail chaits and plans of the lines of proposed
canals, and lali information connected there
with, and ijupon what authority they are
based.
Mr. Wilson introduced a bill to provide for
the equaliz tion of the bounties to soldiers in
the late war of the rebellion. It enacts that
every soldier who served in the aimies opefh-.
ting in the late war of the rebellion, and who
have been honorably discharged therefrom, as
hereinafter specified, shall receive a bounty of
eight and one-third dollars per month for
each and every month of service rendered.
It was refeired to the Military Committee.
It involves a greater expenditure than any
measure before the Senate.
The bill to provide for the annual inspection
of Indian affairs was amended, and passed.
It establishes five Inspectors’ Districts, one to
embrace the States of Florida, California and
Nevada and the Territory of Arizona ; one to
embrace tie State of Oregon and the Territo
ries of Washington and Idaho : one to embrace
the Territories of Colorado, Utah-and Mexico ;
one to embrace the State of Kansrs, Indian
Territory, Nebraska, and Southern Dakota ;
and one to embrace the State of Minnc jori and
that part of the Territory of Dakota north of
Nebraska and the Territory of Montana ; pro
vided that the Secretary of the Interior, under
direction of the President, may. from time to
time, change the boundary of said districts.
There are to be five Boards of Indian officers
erch to consist of three members, who receive
$4,000 each. 1
Mr. Sumner called up a resolution, protesting
agaioßt the action of one of the Swiss Cantons
in pardoning a criminal eo corditiou he would
emigrate to the United States It was adopted.
House. — Mr. Hooper intioduced a bill to
amend the act to provide ways and means to
support the government, so as to empower the
Secretary of the Treasury to sell any descrip
tion of bonds authorized by said act, at 6uch
rates not less lliafi par, as he "lay think advi
sable for lawful money of the United States, rr
to receive in payment any treasury notes, com
pound interest notes, certificates of indebted
ness or of deposit, with the interest accrued
thereon, which have been or may be issued
under any act of Congress. It shall be the
duty oi the Secretary of the Treasury to retire
and cancel an amount of treasury notes, cer
tificates or other obligations bearing interest
equal in arpouat to the bc-nds disposed of, and
the public debt shall not hereafter be increased
by authority of-this or #any previous acts of
Congress, and from and after the first day of.
July next, the interest (A certificates of de
posit for temporary loans shall not exceed the
annual rate of five (5) per centum.
It was referred to the committee on ways
and meaus.
Mr. Davison o." Pa., introduced a resolution
that the United States cannot guarantee the
bonds of the Mexican or any other Govern
ment, without imparing its own credit an#
imposing new burdens on its people.
The previous question was called and the
House refused to accord it. The resolution
lies over for the present.
Mr. Kelly introduced resolutions, which
were read twice and referred to the Commit
tee on Ways and Means, the first authorizing
the Secrets, yof the Treasury to issue com
pound interest notes at maturity, and issue an
equal amount of legal-tenders,
2d. Prohibiting him from adding more to
the currency or diminishing it by any means
to less than $90,000,000.
3d. Prohibiting him from selling gol<J at
less than 30 cents until tbe Ist of July, and
after that at not - lest than 1 per cent per
month lees.
Mr. Gaifield’s motion to reconsider the
loan bill was taken up. The vote to lay it on
the table stood—nays 70 ; yeas 78.
Mr. Brownell entreated the' Committee on
Ways and Means to consent to a recommittal.
Mr. Boutwelt f6ilowed in the same strain,
saying that such a vast power would be a
standing menace to tho bus ness interests of
the country.
Mr. Garfield defended the bill, insisting that
tLe power of the Secretary wfiuld not be used
against producers and manufacturers, but
against gold gamblers. Gold was already
falling as rapidly as he desired to'see it. He
had no notion of contracting the currency
suddenly.
Mr. Garfield declined to recommit the bill,
and it was brought to a vote on motion to re
commit. Yeas 84, nays 61.
Mr. Conkiing, in moving to reconsider, said
the impression was general that our finance
were in a bad way. Gold and silver were the
only permanent standards of va’ue. We must
get out ot the paper.
Mr. Randall, of Pennsylvania, introduced a
resolution declaring that in the opinion of the
House of Representatives the representatives
from the late rebellious States, who can take
the required oath, are, under existing laws,
entitled to their seats, and should be .admitted
as members of the House.
The Speaker stated that under the order of
the Home the resoiuticn should be referred to
the Committee on Eeconstiuction.
Mr. Randall, not desiring reference, with
drew the r. oluticn.
Mr. Julian introduced a bill to equalize the
bounties of soldiers and sailors who served in
the United States army taring the late rebel
lion, which was read twice and, referred to the
Committee on Military Affairs.
Washington, March 20.
Mr. Ward, of N. Y., made a sta ement . to
the House, which he eiid he had received
many letters from friends and relatives of de
ceased soldiers buriac i u the cemetery at Ar
lir {,on Heights, as to the title the Govern •
merit had to properly inter the bones of the
soldiers, with might feveitto the heirs of arch
traitors.
He had addressed a communication to the
Secretary of War on the subject, and had re
ceived an answer, which he deemed of suffl
cient public importance to be read.
The letter ct the Secre' ry wa3 read, stating
that a sale of lands for unpaid taxes on the
lift of January, 18J4, the Arlington estate, in
cluding the grounds referred, > had been bid
den for the United States for $26,000, and af
terwards turned over to the military authori
ties. The certificates of sale was in the hands
of the United States Tax Commissioner, at Al
exandria, but would soon be placed on file in
the Treasury Department.
Mr. Grinnell, of lowa, pr ented a joint
resoiuticn of the Legislature of low*, in i
ference to a Bureau of National Education,
which was referred to a select committee.
The House proceeded, to the consideration,
of the diplomatic appropriation bill reported
yesterday from the Committee of the Whole.
The vote on tbe amendment authoriz'ng the
appointment of a Solicitor to the State De
partment, at a of $3,000 was taken, and
resulted as follows : yeas nays 39. The
other amendments were also agreed to, and
the bill passed.
The House proceeded to the consideration
of the act to facilitate commercial, postal, and
military communication among the several
States which have been in rebellion. Recom
mitted to the Judiciary Committee for such
amendment as would prevent land granted te
railroads, such r t th® Illinois Central, from
recovering pay from the Government. The
bill was passed. yeas 68, nays 46.
It is reported that Cuba is to be divided into
three distinct districts, each to have a Civil
Governor. The Captain General' has been
authorized to make postal arrangements with
the Government of this country.
[From Memphbis Commercial Bulletin]
CONTaSI BBTAV EE\ EXPRESS COMPANIES
A contest has lately taken place in Virginia
between the Southern and the National Ex
press ucmprnies, which, so far as the latter
were concerndfl, was errried on with as much
bitterness and acrimony as bad taste. It grew
out of the fact that the Southern Company, by
coming to tho assistance of the Virginia and
other Southern Railroad compani s, with
heavy loans to enable them to p’ at their_ roads
m running order, had s cured a right of way,
not exclusive in its character, but dependent
npon ail other Express Companies desiring the
same privileges affording tho relief.
Tho Railroads of Virginia, as nearly all
those of the Souta, were utterly crippled dur
ing tbe war. The rails and cars were worn
out, and tho treasuries were empty. In debt,
in this condition, there was seemingly no way
of helping them short of bankruptcy. They
could not-‘go on” tbe New York market for
a loan, and receive it, without accepting terms
that would be for years equivalent to selling
out, and eo they gladly accepted the gauerous
offer of the Southern Express Company, who
furnished the needed aid at a rate of discount
in no ca e exceeding seven per cent,, and the
proviso that they should have the right of way
and no other company, unless the same loan,
at the same per centage, was given.
This was not only just but generous. Just to
themselves and the companies with whom the
Southern made the bargain, and generous to a
degree that beggars anv bargain, under similar
circumstances, that we , have heard of being
consummated between corporations. Gener
ous, inasmuch as it not only brought present
relief and independence of the money-harpies
of New York, but would enable the railroads
to avail themselves of like offers of help
from other and equally liberal Express Com
panies.
The National Express Company, established
for the ostensible purpose of giving the dis
charged soldiers of both armies (Southern and
Union) employment, but which so far as wa
can learn has failed to do so, and which has
all but prov and an utter failure from their ig
norance of the workings of .express business,
—th';Company applied to the Virginia and
other Railroads for right of way, and were
answered tbit ft would be cheerfully given on
the terms which has secured it to the old and
reliable Southern Express Company. This at
once created a Btorm of indignant protest and
originated a cry of “monopoly.” The preju
dice of the csomhern people is sought to be
aroused, and in every way possible induce
ments, personal and augumentative.jj were
brought to bear upon the Legislature of Vir
ginia, to make mdividious and exclusive laws
in favor of the new and against the old cor
poration, whose fidelity ' and responsibility
were tested to the utmost by the Southern
’people during the war.
The justness and lairnfi.3 of tho people of
Virginia, were never better illustrated than
throughout this “Express” war. They refused
through their Legislature to be a party to the
unjust discrimination by which the National
Express Company would build itself up, and
with e_,,.essioDS of gratitude for what it had
done, told the managers of the National to do
what the Southern Express Company bad
done, and by fair, honest competition, endeav
or to aehWve what by unfair dealing and an
attempt to excite popular clamor, they had
failed to souire.
And so ’twfwar ended by the utter defeat
and discomfiture of the aggressive party, and
the triumph of a company whose purposes and
capabilities are well known to the public, and
whose plans are the perfection of years of pa
tient, honest, persevering industry, commen
cing with Alvin Adams, with carpetsack in
hand, until now it has reached the gigantic
proportions of a corporation reaching every
where through the Southern country, an® con
necting all parts of our common country by
the Adams Express Company, noted a3 the first
among all existing organizations of the kind,
and entirely responsible and reliable.
The Nationul Express Company sought to
put itself at once in a condition of usefulness
and luevativeness equal to the Southern, by
means of imn: se capital ard the prestige of
immense capi'c ’. and the prestige of great and
beloved names. It attempted the always diffi
cult lass of accomplishing, with money, at
once, what can only be attained by slow
growth and hard labor ; and wi'h a confidence,
the plainest manifestation of ignorance of the
Express business, attempted to plant itself
alongside what had grown into a system per
feet, and only sin pie to those who have been
educated in it. They tailed, signally and ut
terly.
Instead of commencing with one road, and
at tho same time build up a business and edu
cate their employees in the mysteries of Ex
pre*pjng, they have, by attempting competi
tion wiih a company whose honesty and in
tegrity, and safely and dispatch are its prin
cipal capital, dissipated their paid in capital,
and are now existing upon their earnings,
without that surplus which recently enabled
the Southern Express to pay $200,000 to the
First National Bank of this city, for the loss of
a similar amount on board the steamer W. R.
Carter. .
There is room for additional Express com
panies. “Competition is the life of trade”
and is the J>est gjmrantee the public. can have
against and of faithfulness in cor
porations ; but it may be accepted as an axiom
that the public will patronise and gave a pre
ference to those companies Arhose usefulness
ha3 been tested, and whose capacity for the
performance of contracts is beyond dispute.
Let the managers of the National reflect
upon the causes which have injured, and final
ly killed Expreseess, originated ,by well-edu
cated express men, and they will learn what,
to avoid to maintain the life of their company
and give it vitality, and win public confidence.
Let them, begin at beginning, and be
content with small thiDgs, working on small
salaries, and with as few employees as possible,
and so, with a proper amount of capital, they
may enter the lists against existing Express
Companies, and pcssibly achieve all they now
desire.
Intiresting. —The tollowing is the amount
of available funds held by the Treasurer of the
"United States, March 17,1866 :
United States legal tender notes
(small) 9,260,000
National bank notes (small 1,201,830
Compound interest notes 12,000
Fractional currency (50 ! s) 504,000
Fractional currency (25’s) 268,000
Fractional currency (10’s) 109,000
Fractional currency (s’s). 49,000
Fractional currency (3’s 6,450
Fractional currency (mutilated).. 74,047
Fractional currency (mixed) 78,102
Fractional currency notentirely
predared for use.... 18,500
Gold 18,950
Silver 318,670
Neckels.. 000
Reserve fund, temporary loan..'. 16,140,500
Mr Hughes, o 4 Cincinnati,has sold the patent
of his telegraph to France for 200.000f, and to
Ita'y for 120,000f, anS is on the point of con
cluding another very profitable arrangement
with Russia. tho telegraph office of Li
moges, trials having been made with his appa
ratus to the full eatisfact’ nos the Imperial
officials, the sale was at once concluded. He
will reap a still richer harvest from his inven
tion t Prof. Morse, who received but 400,-
OOOf it m the European Governments for his
pioneership of the present telegraph system,
Iq addition to the emoluments which Mr
Hughes gained in Russia, the Czar has made
him a Knight of the Order of St Arne, as un
precedented distinction to be conferred on a
foreigner.
A man named William Ohle died at Syra
cuse, March 11th, aged ofle hundred and six
years and eight days.
Pennsylvania has 12.548 public schools.
After seven yeais’ appeal only twelve thou
sand pounds out of the fifty thousand required
to decorate St Paul’s Church, London, have
beet subicribed Such a matter would not
have been so long in contemplation in this
country.
Since the first Bible Society began it3 work
in 1804, the various societies in different lands
have issued upward of eighty-one millions of
Bibles and To this, if add the
number printed by private publishers, it. will
make an aggregate little short of one hundred
millions.
Maximilian keeps 4,000 men at work en the
railroad from the city of Mexico to Vera Cruz,
• TELEGRAPHIC.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington March 22.
Although there is no certain data ou the
subject, a report generally pievailed among
the m tubers of Congress to-day that the
President will vet* the civil rights bill.
* CONDITION OF THE TREASURY.
Washington, March 18.
The Secretary oi the Treasury has transmit
ted a communication to the House, showing an
available balance in tho Treasury of over
$123,400,000.
THE NEW ORLEANS MAYORSHIP.
Washington, March 19.
It is not at all probable that the President
will interfere with the election of Mayor Mon
roe, of New Orleans.
FEDERAL OFFICERS PROTECTED.
Washington, March 20.
House passed a bill to protect from legal
prosecution, Union officers, for acts committed
during the war -by order of their superior offi
cers.
* REPUBLICAN NO! INEE IN RHODE
ISLAND. *
Providence, R; I. March 20.
Genl. Burnside has been nominated for Gov.
by tbe Union Convention.
Savannah, March 21.
The steamer Missouri, now past due from
New York—has not yet arrived. The living
ston is just in.
LATER FROM EUROPE.
New Yobk, March 22.
* The steamer Australasien has arrived: The
Saturday’s market is not received.
Tho relations between Prussia and Austria
continues bad. Austria selected the media
*oiu of England, which was refused.
LATEST,
The cotton market wet buoyant, and a tri
fle higher. Sales twenty-thousand -bales,
middling uplands at nineteen to nineteen and
a quarter pence.
. Consol eighty-'ix and throe quarters *3
eight-seven"
E .ve twenties seventy and three eigths.
NEW YORK MARKET.
- • New York, March 23.
Cotton firm. Sal; 3 1,900 bales at forty
one cents.
GREAT FIRE IN CINCINNATI.
Cincinnati, March 23.
Pike’s Opera House, Cincinnati Enquirer
office and conienls, together with several
other prominent business establishments, were
destroyed by fire this morniDg. The loss is es
timated at $2,000,000.
FROM SOUTH AMERICA.
New York March, 23.
Aspinwall dates to the 15th inst„ have been
received.
Two Spanish frigates were repulsed in an
attack on the Chilian fortifications.
Bolivia has allied herself with Chili and Peru
in a treaty of offense and defense.
Peru is preparing to take a full sh#re in the
war.
The Columbian Congress has rejected the
proposition to declare war again Spain.
[Special to Chronicle & Sentinel.]
. New York, March 24, 1866.
Gold dull to-day at 27.
Secretary McCulloch will not reply to the
lato letter of Comptroller Clarke.
A son of, Brigham Young is in Washington,
urging the adufission of Utah as a State..
The Missouri Legislautre adjourned sir? ’ die.
on the 19th.
!the Postmaster ot Forestville, Conn., is said
to have been removed for verbal abuse of the
veto message and the President’s 22d of Feb
ruary speech. - •
Wm. McCreary, a pardoned convict of Penn
sylvania, has been re-arrested at Erie for pass
ing counterfeit money.
Money Made is Money Saved!
JUST RECEIVED,j
Metalic Top Chimneys,
Which don’t break from heat, and Glass
Cones for Burners, which save one third the
oil and admit a better light. The very host
Kerosene Oil *
By the quart, pint, or gallon, on hand at
Reduced Brices.
ALSO,
New style Hall Lights,
BEAUTIFUL CHANDELIERS.
, And a great variety of Lamps, *
ALL VERY LOW,
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over arv other Machine in the market will he seen at a giaace.
Ist It runs easi y and rapidly, and is so constructed as to
endure all kind of usage. .
2d No breaking «f threads in going oyer seams.
Bd. No in.peifeet action ot the feed at uneven places in the
4th" The Weed-etitch catches, of itself, andwiilsew from
the finest lace to the heaviest leather, and from 200 cott.n to
coa-se linen thread.
Weed Machine will do beantifnl q tilting on the
hare wadding, witheut using inner lining, thus leaving it soft
aa if donetty' he hand.
*ih The variety of fancy work that can be done on tne
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with soJitUe trouble, makes tt equal, if not superior, to six
Machines combined, tor instance, it b nTs hems, tucks and
sews on the band at the same lime, and in feet the
WEED NO. 2 MACHINE,
as before stated, is < quivaient to any six ordinary Machines:
Below we give a few prices :
No. 2 Oil B ack, walnnt. Ornamented with hemrner, #40.00
No 2 Oil Black Wa nu> half ca-e ornamented •• 66.00
No. 2 extra Oil poi'uhed Black Walnut half case, large
table beaut fu'ly ornamented, 76.00
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mb 17 l"" 1 ®
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COMMERCIAL.
OUR COMMKRCIAL REPORT.
Augusta, March 23*, 1565.
in* COTTON MARK T. r
COTTON—There was some little demand, and a few sa’es
made at figures rang ng at. for middling Sic.; good irid ‘
diingSic.; strict middling S3.
TH* MONXT HARKXT.
GOLD—DuII. Broker* buying at 28; selling at *9,
SlLVEß—Buying at S3, se'Ung at 27—demand cannot be
supplied.
Old Georgia sixes SO.
City of Augusta Bonds S3.
Georgia Railroad ttock 82.
Savannah Bonds BS. .
PROVISIONS—Beef, net, 12c. per pound; butter, 50c;
chickens, $1 25 per pair ; com. *1 80 per bushel; eggs, 35 per
dozen : fodder, *2 s#per cwt; rnuiton, *3as per head ; peas,
II 35 per bushel ; tallow, 20c per lb , Wax, 25c per ,b.
COTTO.\ QUOTATIONS. *
Talladega, March 20,
Market dul 1 . - Ordinary to strict midd ing SoaS4c.
Charlotte, March 20.
Cotton 27 to 2Sc.
Charleston, March 20.
Market depressed. Middling to strict midd ing, 36 to 3731.
LaGrakgb, March 22.
Little offering. Prices from 23 to 25. »
c Montgomery, March 22.
Inactive. The quotations rang|jf.oin 2S to SOc.
MOBILE MARKET.
nOU WEEKLY TRICE OURBENT.
Saturday, March 17.
Cotion—The receipts during the past week l.ave been
<536 bales as follows: From tic- Alabama rive-1409 bales;
from Bigber, 1023; from Warrior 1C41: and by Ksiiror is, 2112
—agalnßi bales lor the corresponding week bet Tear, the
extents have been 4707, viz: To Liverpool 25:8 to Q«eosto#n.
Ac.. 1155, to Havre ,to Havana ,to ta ceiona ,to
«ew York .to Boston .tl l'hilandelphia ,to
Prevalence ,to Ba'llmore , and to New Orleans 34
bales—against la~t yea-. The stock on hand and on ship
board not clea-ed is 7*031 bales -againjt at the same date
lite-t year. ®
At the date of cur last weekly review we leit the market
closing dull at 403. for Middling, and sales lor the week J
ba a?TUBDAY— A. better and more emand existed with
rates er ier than thii orevn ua day. Scales to the extent of
1700 ba'cj were market closing quiet at Bac. tor mid -
The market opened dull, but under favorable
Liverpool advices per s earner Olty of Bosion a better d-manrt
ip rung up, which resulted in sales cf 140 ba:cs. raptors
claiming and obtaining better prices. The umket cl )sed firm
at S’c39c for Middling. , .
Tuesday—We reported a good demand and fair slock on
sale but transactions of the day were confined tofoOba’ee,
made on a basis ot R9a—c tor Middling. .
Wednesday—Very little wss done during the day.
withstanding prices ruled rather : n favor ot buyers, only ioO
bas * were sold at 88ffS9c. for Middling
Ihubsday—Werepoited a cull uay, with spies of but 2-0
bale* at SOc. for Midoling. ' , .
Fbiday—There has been a fair and more general demand
to-day, but Factor**’ table ■ poorly supplied With cot:on tales
to toe extent of lii/0 baits were made,the market closaig firm
at quotations: ' fl i D o.i a
Ord nary 81a ;^-
Uoc 1 Ordinary
Low Middling.'. ™ a —£•
Slrict M.dd' ng 40 „ J r^‘
Good Middling —a4ic.
Sales for the week 670D Dal u
MSnetary and Financial— There has been, forthepr.it
week, a large amount of money waiting a movement in the
sales of cotton, which ha* dragged heavily at low price j. m
change he*? been very l tff at fall rates until within a day » r
two sellers have given wav to a slight decline. Ihe goal
market has beei auiet; «t«B on s.le not large, and deir.at and
moderate. Sterling hrs at 137a139. Gold hSB varied bui
U The following are the closing quotations : _
Gold buying rnd selling, 129H51. bilver buying and selling
1p3a125l p 3a125 Sterling Kxchangft. Bills L toing and Clear Bills ißt
aIS. Francs 410. New York, Cotton Bjlts, five to ten days
Sight d’scouot Bank rates for Sight, par Excaange
Dea era ana Bankers’rates, paraK dAConnt. New Orleans
Sight % prem, ■ «
[SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OP OIIEONICLE A SENTINEL7]
IkEW ORLEANS MARKET.
New Orleans, March 19.18t>6.
During the pact week holder- have b en more inclined to
sell; but prices have been exceeding y irregular. We quote
mid ling—very scare -at 40a42 rents; low middling and low
er grades are reli tiyely cheaper, being more Lb jeilai.t.
Receipts Jor the post two weeks have been rather reavy
This was caused by a rise in Ked JHyer. Tbe receipts from
Missirlppi are light.
g heights —l ast week 7-16d— 'a some rnstmees a comm s
fion lower. Freights to-day ttiflSr at , ,
Chop.— Acobrd'ng to Wrirht’s circular ot the 13th, the total
receipts amounted to 1.650,000 hales.
Where are we to git350,0C3 b les more to make the 2,100,000
bale-, we cannot see uulesi fro n Georgia. Every on- here Is
much surprised at the amount of cotton going irom the Em
pire State.
FROM LIVERPOOL.
THE ALIXANDBIA CeTTON SUPPLY,
BOBOUGn BUILDINGS NORTH, )
7 Ruhfobd stbkkt, >
I iyebpool, 2d Marck lbOti. )
Mrllor & Cos., •
Liverpool,
Choeemi, Mellor & Cos,
Alexandria.
We subjoin statement of the nnyementin Cotton tDl7ih
U W*e baveftbia morning, a telegrm cf last night, as follow a:
Fair, epen ginned. ... C ) 8t and freight
Fashaa..••.•••••»»••••»»♦»••»»••••• .26t0 26d a
Receipts tor the vreei 26,000 cantara
Exports for the week 5 V 500 Buies
Exchang?, thre* moths’ date 953£
Freight abundant at %and.
Stock estimated. J 5.0,000 cpntare
More cotton offeiing at tne advance. Quality of the receipts
poor. * ours, moat obediently,
Mellob&Co.
Kepresentcd in Manchester by Mc-sta. Morns, Arrow,
bir th & Cos.
Alexandhia, 17th February. 1P66.
Canturs.
Receipt’s from Ist October. 1855, to date to 7,804
“ * i the fame time lr year 1,424,410
Bales.
Shipments to Liverpool from Ist October.*... 102,863
** *• ir.stjear .....141.645
“ other places. .28.410
*» • iast *par 33,i85
Receipts In the last 17 days WJS? cantata.
•• :me time lrstyetr.*. 162CJ) **
Shipments to Liverpool in last 17 days *3,271 ba I C‘S,
•* last year 18,677 “
» other places in last 17 daf5........ 8,490 “
•• “ lr st year 7, W 0 “
Stock estimtted about 13-',oCocintßis.
bteamers loading for Liverp )ol—Egyptian, bahera, Kcd' r,
Memphis, Leda, Hect r. Atait'c
Steamers awaiting carg >—Lido, Juno, Milo, Calypso, Kile,
Kofne, lsir Ladoga, Tat o.
L B. A is C£t ,r npt dat twahundr '•pounds.—[Pd.
liIVBKPOOo MARKET.
raOMTHS 011-C’VI.AE OP LOCKHART A DIM PETRI.
LiVinooL, Mt.-h 2;i, 180.
Cotton— At the date of out last report oui market was con
siderably depressed; a large q mntliy of c ;tton was being
pressed for sale, which, with a limited demand, was steaiiny
forcing down prices .rom day to dsy. Th u s'ate of matters
conttnuad until the arrival of the A..-tea. trnm New York on
26th ult., bringing advi<">B of a slight falling < ff in the receipts
of Cotton at the American •oils, and predictions of a still
further filling offTn th£ following week, '1 he (ffect of ilua
news was immec»B‘eiy lelt, spinner, who hsd r n vei y bare
of stock c me Into the market wltn considi rablt orders, aud a
large businc’T reshltcT «t st<“idily advancing pticci ; the mar
ket has been still fuither assisted by tne falling 11 in the Im
port during the week, on account of easterly winds, and the
development o' a considerable speculative h eung bolh for
, > itton on the spot, and to arrive. Xe-terdav and to day the
1 r mount of business has not been eo large as in Tne c-arly part
of the week, tut pricer, especially of Amen-i c iton, remain
firm at the advance considerable attention now being
directed to the large quantity of cotton at sea. . eh at present
stands at the unprecedented amount ot 672, uu tales; it is
therefore dally becoming more evident that ti t im nediste lu
tuie of the a arket depends upon the receipts ai the A merman
pore. We quote 'he advance on the week tor American
to >«d per ID., With the gre t bulk cf the demand still rut
nlng on this dcicrtpti.n. Bea Islands have been In good de
mand at previous rates. Kgyo''ars have advanced to Id
pe' lb, and other lopg staples Ad to >0 per lb. East Ind ia
continues In modera e dsmana rud has only advanced about
tfd per lb. There has been a large bueir.ee done to arrive,
especially in American, and prices have advanced* 'Ad to 'Ad
per lb. The latest quotations are—for Middling UrTe ins, ship
named l»Vfd per lb ; and for Middling Mobiles. February
shipment, lid per lb. Ths to' .1 rvl for the week are 76,011
bales, lnclnoing J6,*JO bales Americar, of which 62 060 bales
are to the trade, #,760 on speculation, and M.IBO for ezpoK.
fmpo-ts for ihe week, 45,862 bales. Including 80,003 bale.
American. Degrease of slock, 17,830 bales.
MANCHESTER .MARKET.
The market during the past week, given fresh evidences
o r tue general sound' tssof trade In the manufacturing* ilia,
tri ts Fricea of yarn* and Goods have acvAnced, and both
»nd manufacturers are well under contract. The
only difficulty ixpeiienced at tbe present time is a scarcity of
operatives.
NEW YOBM MARKET. *
7BOM THI (JI&CULA.B OF ▲. C, BCHAFFZIi A CO.
Niw Yobx, March 17, 1866,
In commerce and trade, the ust throe days have been bat
a reflex »l the preceding three. Th-'duline.s. irregularity aid
nuc-rtainty wh'cb have obtained in commercial circles sicca
the 'late marked a- c ine in the market value of go.d, still
constitute the ch es characteristic- aLd scarcely any r.eraia
nent imDroYement l. looetd for untiUb ngress shall have
matured the various bills—the internal lai bill, the t .riff bill,
and the financial bill—whkh are yet to be considered, and
adioumed ; for business circles have become so very sensitive
that the very fact ot Congress being in ression is enough to
unsettle vaiuet. Business has been very light— buyers; r.d
telle.a being far apart in their views—lo.eigu ,ar. and domestic
merchandise being alike affected by'he late violent fluctua
tions is m-Id. Tne plethora of money and the low rat-s or
in'er t has not had the Utual eff. ct of stimulating an increaeq
In trainees, except in tancy stocks, Ac,
Money is p enty on call at 5aS per cent—business mainly at
6pa cent. ,Bti cks are fair y active and generally firm. G v
emmen'recunties are Aimer und.ran active demand.
Corros —There wasa t-ir demand, mostly tjrtxport. on
Weanesday and Tnurstiay, at unchanged prices; but yester
day, under the adverte cond'tion of the foreign bxctm.ge
and Gold market, the liacsactions were of the roost limited
character, and quotations letame entirely nominal. The
sales for three days tre 7,701 biles,
* azv tobk chitamcATios.
* N. Orleans
Upland. Klor.da. Mobl'e. and Texas.
Ordinary per 1b...., 85 8# IS f7
Good uroinary 87 87 83 £!»
Low Middling 8» 8» 404 t
Middling 41 41 42 43
Good Middling 43 44 45 46
Middling Ffir
Fair..- ■ - -
The receipt: have l een irom—
bales.
Texas ....A..... ..1,826
New Orleans. E 77
M t bile. 16/
Florida . 0,6i8
Georgia ',421
South Carolina J
North Carolina
Virginia f*
Fer Kailrtad ‘2.__7
T ...t 12,466
Total import since Ist mat
Total imparts Gace Ist September vv. I *'- J
Cotton.!^'*“, l * * .V-"bales..t&M y»
ixport from Sept i to March 13,1866, knot but there U
GVASO-Feruvianls very sc.. »
percent of Phosphoric
Acid. Fish Guano #3U per ton.
Blank Books, of all kinds, ruled
in»any manner desired* and bound
*m the beet style at the Chkoni
ou4 Butin kl office,