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. >Li> SKKIES, VOL. I,XXVI.
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C siplimkntauy.—Dud Piatt write*:
“1 ho vilest Copperhead I ever encounter
• I r ar, honest man by the side of Ben.
Butler. The roughest rough of the De
mocracy is a gentleman hy the side of
Chandler. And the stupide.it a•,« that ■
how's ‘nigger’ at the cross-roads is a
.statesman by the side of Kelley.”
Bt r.LocK's Catechism. —A paper con
taining the following quegtioDS was recent
ly -cut by B. B. DeGraffeoreid, the Execu
tive Secretary, to Mr. John L. E ls, re
cently elected Magistrate in the First Ward
of this city. The missive roads as follows:
“Sir. —lam directed hy His Excellency
the Governor to request you to furniih
this Department wiih answers totho fob ,
lowing questions:*Firßt, did you, previous
tott.i year eighteen hundred and sixty
one, hoid an office underand take an offi
cial oath to support the Constitution of the
I 'uited States? If so, what office did you
hold?
“Second—Did you hold office under tho |
Confederate States or State government
during the wik ; if so, what?
“Third— Havcyou, since you took the of
ficial oath aliV'-aid to support the Consti
tution of tho United States, given aid or
comfort to the enemies thereof?’ ’
The Truk Dispatch.-In the Chron
icle & Sentinel of last Sunday, there
was published a batch of dispatches, which
were said to have passed between the
Postmaster of this city and Governor K.
B. Bullock iu Washington city, in rela
tion to the action of Congress on Beast
Butler’s Georgia bill. Oo yesterday
morning we received a letter, written by a
Republican of evidently more zeal than
discretion, denying the genuineness of the
celebrated correspondence, which we pub
lish below. It will bo seen from this com
munication, which the author was pleased
to send anonymously, that “Justice,”
who wri'es as one that hath the confi
dence of our toil little Postmaster, denies
the passage of but one dispatch between
tl.e two distinguished gentlemen in ques
tion. We would like to know, however,
if ‘Justice means to institute a parallel
In wee-; Mis Kxpresseleney and Francis the
First, and uses the term “honor" as ap
plying to the former?
1 COMMUNICATED. 1
Augusta, Ga , 11th April, 1869.
Editor* Chronicle <& Sentinel;
SIRH--The collection of dispatches pub
lished m Hunday morning's issue of your
paper, purporting to have passed between
Governor Bullock and Mr. Blodgett, is
unt ue.
Instead of th dispatches publisher! by
you, them was but one brief and pointed
telegram s°tit by Governor B. to Mr.
Blodgett, when it was certain that Con
gress would adjourn without further ac
tion on the Georgia bill, and this was in
the memorable words of tho gallant
Francis on tho battle field of Pavia, so
proper to this occasion--“ALL 18 LOST !
SAVE HONOR! !”
Disabilities Bill. —ln the United
States Senate, on Saturday last, ou motion
of Mr. Sumner, a bill was read twioo and
referred to a Holeet Committee, which re
moves the disabilities of I)r. Francis T.
Stribling, Dr. J. W. Parker, Dr. T. F.
Green and Dr. Porter Boyce,Superintend
ents of lnsano asylum iu Virginia, South
Carolina, Georgia aud Alabama. Tho
bill prescribes an oath for persons whose
disabilitieshavo been removed.
Cuba in the Cabinet.— The Washing
ton special of the 6th, to the Baltimore
Sun, says : “The Cabinet meeting to
day was not ouly long, but highly import
ant, as rumor insists that the question of
Cuban independence was discussed. No
definite line of action in relation to the
Cuban revolutionists was decided upon,
but thou ease is receiving mature consider
ation. and a movement of great political
impor anee, it is contid ntly believed, will
result from tho deliberation of tho Presi
detit and his Cabinet the ques
tion.”
Strawberries in New York.—Tho
New York Nun, of Tuesday, says :
Strawberries have been selling here for
some weeks at sl6 a quart, and some of
our luxurious citizens, blessed with palates
tl\at relish tho tusta of silver, have been
enjoying them, literally regardless of ex
Dense Strawberries at $lO a quart in
Broadway, and within a stone’s throw of
hundreds of poor people who can’t get.
bread enough to eat at ten ceuts a loaf!
City of contrasts truly is this. Strawber
ries are, delicious, but not when the sum
paid for them would keep many a suffer
ing family in comfort for a whole week.
One must have a very dainty palate or a
very quiet conscience to banquet ou food
that suggests such unpleasant opposites.
Circular from the Agricultural j
Society.— ln obedience to the request of
the Secretary of the Goorgia Agricultural
Society we publish the following circular:
[circular 1
Okfice or tiie State Agricult. So'y, 1 j
Atlauta, April 9, 1869. j
1. The Department of Agriculture at j
Washington City, have called ou me for the
names of theafficars and members ot all.
County Agricultural Societies in the Sta e. j
The object of the Department is to form
in Agricultural Directory to aid the De
:<ar:uient in making its communications
*id its distributions of documents and
,ds ~:;d plants, directly to those Individ- j
ta's who, from the fact of their organiza
. ;ou, arc supp i-ed to bo most likely to ap- ;
predate these favor* of’ the Department,
ami comply with its rules aud eomJitious,
and to aid the various State and couuty ,
organizations in their intcrccurse and cor. ’
respoudonce with one another. 1 therefore
request all county societies to report the
names of their officers aud members to me
as sooC as possible.
I>. It is particularly important to have
this information in my office note, to enable
me to send out the premium list for the
Fair 11 November 69, at Macon. \\ ita
this premium list is p «btished tbc proceed
ings, in full, of the Agricultural Convec
a, while assembled io this city on the
i.o.h of February, These proceedings
t..-brace not only the action of the Con
i': mien but the views written put by
themselvo. of the planters who participated
iu the hi. ■ -,ous of the meeting on the i
subji. c:> plows, plowing, freed men s
labor, . iers, Ac. The documeut is
v:i , in 1 i'oerves the attention of all
titough j-.. progressive men. Copies will
be sou. • members o the Executive Com
mittee 'u -ueu numbers as they may
request. Copies will be sent to officers
and me a. r- ot C unty Agricultural So
cieties as soon as ti»eir naan. arc reported
to this c.ffiec. I’. age one cent, per copy.
Copies of the pamph.et will be
placed in the offices of the Ordinary and
Clerk- of each couuty, with the request
that they be kept there for reference by
ali citizens whomay uot receive a copy.
Th Oniiraries and Clerks arc requested,
under no circumstances, to permit the
copies tent them w be taken from the
office.
4. A number of copies of valuable Public
Documents will be sent to couuty societies
reporting their organization. Some new
rare imported seed will also be sent.
5. The press of this State are requested
to publish this notice. Acknowledgments
are due ior their prompt attention to such
requests in the past-
Day. W. Lewis, See y.
Four thousand two hundred and sixty
eight bales of cotton have been shipped
from Forsythe the present season
In Clayton county » house oocup ied by
negroes took fire and two oolcred persons
were burned up with it.
THE CHKMTfcXIJfti OF THE “OKOBoIA.”
The Parade of the Fire Department-
Large Turn out—The Procession—At
the Stand - Th'- Speech of Hon. IF T
Gould—Sp*ch n f the Orator of the Day
Triad of the New Simmer— The Col
lation, etc., etc., etc.
Some time since the members of the
Georgia Independent Fire Company, one
ot the most efficient organization-! in this
city, finding that the day of hand engines
was over and that the steamers had entire
ly supplanted them, held a meeting and de
termined to sell their machine and pur
chase a steam engine. This accordingly
was dot e. They sold their old engine to a
company in Tallahassee, Florida, and had
a fine steamer built for them by Button,
of New York The steamer was brought
to this city not lotig ago, tried and, filling
the biil in every respect, was accepted, and
yesterday was the day chosen for the
■‘christening” and other ceremonies usual
upon occasion,, of this character.
OLD ORGANIZATION OF THE OEORCJIA.
It will, perhpi, out be out of place, to
give some account of the first organization
of this company, which took place some
forty years ago. In the year eighteen
hundred and twenty-nine, tho old residents
of our city will remombofthat a most disas
trous conflagration took place in Augusta,
by which,in the short space of three hours,
the greater part of the city was reduced to
ashes. It was felt at the time that this
great destruction of property was caused
by the miserable apologies for fire engines,
which were then used in this city, and an
association was immediately formed undtr
the name of Georgia Independent Fire L’o ,
for the purpose of procuring what,
in those days, was styled an improved en
gine, with Alfred Gumming as Captain,
and VV. T. Gould as Ist Lieutenant. This
was the first organization of the Georgia.
Ofalltheold citizens whobelonged to this
company at that time, but four, we believe,
are now alive. One of these, Judge W.
T. Gould, has been a member of the com
pany from 1829 up to the present time,
and for a number of years past has been its
President. The other survivors are Gov
Alfred Gumming, Messrs. John Bones,
Jno. D. Smith and • Archibald Boggs,
Ward Force, of Atlanta, aud Ilubbel G
fits ley, of New York-
THE PARADE OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
As soon as it wa known that the
members of the “Georgia’-’ intended hav
ing a public christening of the new steamer,
the whole Fire Department, and tho Me
chanic (independent) Company, determin
ed to turn out on tho occasion in h mor of
their comrades. Accordingly, ou Tuesday
afternoon, at a little before three o’clock,
tho companies all rendezvoused at the hall
of the Ilook and Ladder Company, on
Jackson street. From thenoothey marched
down Jackson street to Broad, and down
the latter street, to the engine house of tho
“Georgia.” Tho companies were without
their onginos, but were clad in full uniform,
and presented a very handsome appear
ance. The companies were preceded by a
brass band, ami marched in the following
order: “Officers of the Fire Department,
“Pioneer llook and Ladder” Company,
“Washington Fire Company No. 1,”
“Clinch (steamer) No. 2,” “Vigilant
(steamer) No. “Fillmore (steamer) No.
4,” “Augusta No. 5,” “Blannerhassett
No. 6,” “Richmond N0.7,” “Citizen No.
8,” and “Mechanic (independent) Fire
Company.” At the ongine house of tho
"Georgia” was found tho new steainor and
the reel, beautifully dressed with wreaths
and crosses of flowers, and surround
ed by the members waiting in full uni
form. Here the ropes of the “Georgia”
were extended from the engine house far
into Broad street, where they were seized
by tho whole department, and the steamer
drawn in triumph through thp streets.
The procession marched up Broad street
to Gumming, through Gumming to Greene,
down Greene to Ceutre, through Centre to
Broad, aud up the latter street to the
platform, where the christening was to
take place, erected in front of the Masouio
Hall. As the procession neared the plat
form the view presented to the spectators
and tho latter place was inexpressibly
beautiful. More titan four hundred fire
men, formed in a hollow square or parallel
ogram, advanced along the centre of the
street, drawing the steamer, gaily decked
with roses aud evergreens, while the April
sunbeams flashed on their picturesque
dresses of blue and red, and (best of all)
the dearly loved “Confederate gray”—last
relic of a conquered but not forgotten
cause. •
AT THE PLATFORM.
In frODt of Masonic llall a platform
about three feet in height and twenty-five
feet square had been erected to serve as a
rostrum for the speakers and for the ac
commodation of the “veteran” members
of the company, invited guests and officers
of tho department. Among the “veterans”
present who were enrolled at the re-organ
ization of the Company in 1843, we noticed
Messrs. G. W. McLaughlin, W. C. Jes
sup, B. B. Russell, Heury Moore, Ber
nard Bignou, D. B. Plumb and E. H.
Rogers. Among the invited guests were
Messrs. J. Sibley, J. M- Clark, Tfiomas
Barrett and James Garga\ members ot
the City Council, H. B. Plant, President
of the Southern Express Company, andß.
H. Warren, Vico President of the Augusta
National Bank.
I KMINISCENCE OF CAPTAIN MAHARRT.
Placed on thi platform was a handsome
picture of the ate Wm. H. Maharry, Esq.,
one of the Captains of the Augusta
Independent Fire Company, and to j
whose efforts, supported by our j
prominent oitizens, is chiefly due the
revival of the Independent Fire Company
and tho subsequent organizition ol the 2d
Division, or “Mechanic.” In 1843 the
company had been reduced to some six :
active members- The corporation of Au
gusta at that timelooked chiefly to the de
velopment of the city organization, which
had uo great amount of disposable means
at command. A debt pressed upon the
city. No aid could be expected from the
City Council tlwrcfore. It was under
such circumstances that the Captain, W.
H. Maltary, let Lieutenant, W. T. Gould,
2d Lieutenant. Philip McGraw. an! Henry
Moore, Secretary and Treasurer, were
newiy elected. It was resolv.d, through
the pertinacious demand of Capt. Mihary,
who would accept no compromise, to ap
peal to the liberality of the citizens.
On the following dzy oqr esteemed
fellow citizen asked the Treasurer what .
wilt be done? Will the company
be broken up? Upon a fair expose of the i
com pay's condition and a statement of
the resolution wh’ch b and been framed—
he placed io the hands of the Treasurer a
check fir tvro hundred dollars, with the
injunction that “nothing should be said
about it—no fuss made about it. This
was the beginning of an era at which the
company revived and became more pros
perous than ever.
THE SFEECHES.
A large number of gentlemen had gath
ered around the stand aud many lined the
doors and windows of Masonic Hall and the
balconies of the house adjacent, in order
to hear the speeches to be delivered on the
occasion. The cold weather and the high
wtnd prevailing during the ceremonies, to
gether with the clouds of dust which were
wafted down the street, very greatly marrcl
the,pleasure of the aucraoon. The wind
also inconvenienced the r porters no little,
and we observed one unlucky knight of the
quill, in the midst of om of the heaviest
gales, hodling on his tiie with his right hand,
clutching his paper with his left and actu
ally trying to write with a pencil plaoed be-
tween his teeth—it is but fair to add, how- |
ever, that his efforts did not meet with
much jueetts.
Judge W. T. Gould, a* President’*of tho j
"Georgia,’‘called the meeting to order aud ;
made a few reniutks prior to the iatrodue
tion of Mr. Black. He said that it was
not his intention to make them any long
speech. This would be the duty of another
gentleman. He was lorcibiy struck,
by what he saw before him,
with the truth of the aphorism that
this was an ace of arugress, aud he
felt that nowhere lad mire progress been
made than iu the art of put ing oat fires
The old residents of the city would remora !
her that just torty years ago Augusta had
been visited by a conflagration which, in .
three hours, reduced a greater part of the J
city to ashes. On that occasion the only l
apparatus in the place for extinguishing
tires was the “tub cogin a.” This had to.
be carried to the cistern, pumped full ot j
water, then carried to the fire and emptied, i
then back to the pump again. It was after j
this fire of 1829 that a company of gentle- j
men associated themselves together in ;
order that they might procure an engine
which would be more serviceable. The i
results of this movement you now have be
fore you. In place of tha old-fashioned |
tub yoU see the latest and most improved j
style of steamer. He had spoken merely
to call attention to this great change which
had taken place and would not detain them
longer, but would introduce the Orator ol j
the Day, Mr. J. C. C. Black. Mr. Black 1
made ash irt speech appropriate to the I
occasion, and it is considered by many, one
of the happiest efforts of the kind ever
listened to in this city. He commenced by
portraying the dangers to which mm is
exposed by the rebellion of the elements
generally under bis control and particu
larly those experienced from the fearful
ravages of the flames He spoke of the
many defeats this enemy had sustained at
tho hands of the Augusta Fire Depart
ment siuce the first organization of a body
of firemen in this city. The Augusta Fire
Department for promptness, efficiency and
heroism had ranked as high as any in this j
country. He said that the “Georgia” had
done much toward winning this reputation I
for the Department, and the members of |
that company might well be proud of their
record. Tnev were worthy successors of
the men of 1829; worthy successors of
Gumming, Jenkins aud the warrior-Priest,
Bishop Leonidas Polk, who now slept in a
churchyard by tho Savannah. Tho
enemy they had to contend against,
and who was liable to make his attac
at any moment, was a surly and j
cowardly foe, leagued with the fiends of |
night, but notwithstanding this, rich and
poor in this city lie down and sleep in peace,
feeling assured that their lives and proper
ty would be protected by the Augusta Fire
Department. In other cities of the coun
try the monster holds high carnival, but
here he has been made subject to the
will of the Firemen. He gave to the
Georgia their new engine, confident that
they would not prove recreant to their
trust. In conclusion he told them to use
their steamer as becomes their own name and
that of tho State which they bear; to Geor
gians he committed the “Georgia. ’ ’ As the
speaker pronounced the last words he j
broke a bottlo of champagne on the wheel
of tho uew engine and the “christening”
was complete.
CONCLUSION OF THE PARADE.
As soon as the steamer had been christ
ened, it was taken by the Company to the
cistern, in front of the Central Hotel,
steam put on, hose attached, and its play
ing capacity fully tested for the space of
half an hour. This finished, the compa
nies marched down Broad street to the va
cant store just below the office of
the Southern Express Company, where
was spread the collation. In this building
several long tables were spread and laden
with an abundance of plain but wholesome
food. Crackers, cheese, ham, pickles, &c.,
were liberally supplied, with plenty of
lager and claret punch to moisten thecla>>
of tho thirsty firemen. The eating of the
dinner closed the exercises of the day, and
at seven o’clook last eveniug our streets
had resumed their usual quiet condition,
and order reigned in Warsaw.
The Contemplated Expansion of Our
Territorial Republic.
The New York Tribune advocates the
purchase of the Dominion of Canada, and
of course the vast expanse stretching far
away above it to the North Pole, which is
marked upon the map of tho world as Brit
ish America. Gen. Banks advocates the
immediate annexation of San Dornin o.
Cuban patriots and rebels, both Creole and
Republican filibusters, not fearing either
thefamousSpaoish garote nor the tripartite
treaty of England, Franee and Spain, by
which the possession of the Queen of the
Antilles is guaranteed to the Spanish
throne, are preparing the “lovely isle" for
its manifest destiny—annexation to the
United States. Mr. Caleb Cushing has
defined the Southernmost limits of the
Great Republic which, of course, will in-'
elude Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras,
Panama, &c.
The history of our territorial acquisitions
may bo briefly summed up as follows :
Sq milts
Territory acquired by rebellion
against England A. D , 1783.. 815,615
Louisiana, acquired from France,
1803 930,928
Florida, acquired from Spain,
1821 59,268
Texas, admitted to the Union,
1845 237.504
Oregon, settled by treaty, 1546... 280,425
California, conquered trom Mex
ico, 1847 049,762
Arizona (New Mexico) acquired
from Mexico by treaty, 1854 .. 27,500
Alaska, acquired from Russia by
treaty, 1866 577,390
Total 3,578,392
A country that has increased from
815,615 to 3,578,392 square miles in eighty
six years, may well look forward to a con
tinental Empire.
Senator Sprague.
■ As the recent remarkable utterances of \
the Rhode island Senator have drawn up- !
on him a large snare of the public atten
tion, our readers will no doubt be interest
ed in the Following description ot him,
written by Don Pratt to tho Ciacinnati
Commercial. Ho says:
This gentleman, who has occupied, with
becoming punctuality, his chair in the
S nate for years, saying little or nothing. 1
has suddenly broken out in an oratorical
way more astonishing than pleasant.
After closing my letter yesterday, I
passed over to the Senate Chamber and
found the Senator in one of his spasms of :
talk He is not distinguished by h’s per
sonal get up, nor attractive from his
graces of oratory. S nail of statue, and
very slender, he throws his iittie round j
skull forward from his shoulders like the
figure head of a vessel, and jerks his words
i out in a crack whip sort of a wav, that is
m-de yet more striking by the jerky ges
ticu’iticc with which heaecompauies them.
He reminds one ol that feeble minded Tite I
Barnacle by a continual contest with his
gold rimmed eye glasses that will not re
main on his nose.
He was attacking the Providence Jour
nal, that had said that the Senator’s close
application to his business bad made Lim
unhappy. The reference was well under
stood, and the paper said in the mildest
way precisely what his brother Senators
thought, and the public openly asserted,
and that is, that the honorable little Sena
tor is not in his right mind. These are
the sort of stories in circulation' about
Washington. It is said that the Senator
is mad.
F earing these, I must say I was some
what astonished while listening to the lit
tle Senator from the little State. He
not talking like a lunatic by any manner of
means His address was not the most
polished or in the best taste, but it was
full of meaning, statistical facts, and what
I consider sound sense. Do you know,
j after reading the results of David A.
Wells’ investiga ion, and being well awari
my-elf of the unhappy condition of the
coun'ry, the shrill, clear, earnest voice o
the Senator, coming up from such a
strange place, sounded to me live the iD
spired Castandra foretelling ruin and dis
aster.
Senator Sprague and his brother ar
said to be worth over thirty millions. He
is the head—the business manager ana
guide in the vast operations that involve
towns and counties, huge factories and
thousands of laborers ; and yet here is cry
ing out ruin, and warning us that our
financial policy means bankruptcy. He
may be insane, but for all that he utters a
deal of good sense. He said yesterdav ;
"I am not troubled about my private af
fairs. They are well enough. I have
what I have through a process that lias
crushed others engaged in the same pur
suit.. as myself.”
JJf course he needs not trouble himself
We have so legislated that money takes
care of itself, and makes money. The
small capitalists ami mechanics and labor
ers alone suffer. The rich grov richer,
and the poor poorer.
The New York Money Pressure.
The marvel of our redundant groenback
currency is the ready and frequent recur
rence of “panics,” “stringencies,” “lock
ups, ’ and “money pressures.” Para
doxical as it may seem, the superabund
ance of paper money issues seem to facili
tate rather than cheek such financial
disorders, and occasions unvarying
usurious high rates of interest throughout
the country, a-t loan outside of the money
centres.
The New York journals are now busy
in discussing the cause of the enrrem
“stringency.” The New York Times
says:
“This state of things, though in some
sense unprecedented, is not without its ex
planations. 1. The supply of monoy both
yesterday and to day appeared to be a
question of price. The banks plead pover
ty as a rule, and the private bankers have
been tied up with an excess of foreign ex
change, which they were unwilling to sell
at last week’s very cheap figures, and
which they c nnotsell freely at the advance
established on Monday ; yet money come
into the street, and partly, it is rumored
from some of the National banks, from in
numerable quarters at the high price made
for its daily use ia front of the Stock Ex
change- 2 The speculators, embracing the
lea ling cliques in the Railways, confident
of the future of their stocks as readily pay
a sixteenth to one eigth of 1 per c nt. a
'lay for money aa they formerly paid I@2
per cent, extra interest per month ou buy
er’s options. 3. A fight, somewhat hotly
contested, is going on, for tho moment, to
get the Public Funds down to I@2 per
cent, for the purpose of placing some of
the great dealers in Stock, after realizing
hands meiy by selling out before the Monty
pressure, while a rival interest embracing
other houses of the same class, and a num
ber of the foreign firms and agents is equal
ly determined that cheap 5 20’s shall not
be sold without their participation in the
operation. 4. General trade is by 20 per
cent more active than last Spring; the
Railway traffic from 10 to 16 per cent larger;
the Railway Dividends, especially on the
Western lines, of a more certain and as
sured nature, and the value of the great
New York lines under the Y’anderbilt ad
ministration more highly appreciated.—
And, under these circumstances, until it is
demonstrated that. Money is to continue
very dear for an indefinite period, and the
scarcity of Currency at the great centres
chronic, speculators will buy Stocks at any
reasonable, and, it may be, aDy unreasona
ble cost, and old holders will refuse to sell
except at a decided advance.”
( Herald , money article.)
The continued stringency in money is a
puzzle and annoyance, on the one hand, to
the cliques and pools who are “long” of
stock and desirous of a market and a
source of great joy and profit, on the other,
to the “Sbyloeks,” who revel in extra
legal intere.-L In these times, when few
people are disinterested enough to view the
market with impartial eyes, it is difficult
togetat the facts which really enter into
.ts composition. Money is had and always
had, provided the borrower pays the rate
demanded. Tho lenders by the present
system of a sidewalk exchange are enabled
to gather the borrowersinto one group,and
thus aggravate their need by its apparent
magnitude* The warning that easy money
was not to be looked tor with the passage
of the Ist of April, has not been heeded.
(IF orld, financial article.)
The stringency in the money market
arises from excessive “bank expansion.”
The banks all over the country are carrying
more loans than their reserve ol lawful
money is capable of sustaining without
embarrassments to themselves and the
mercantile community. This morning the
aggregate legal reserve of the following
six Banks was shown to be $106,25-1 short
of the 25 per cent required by law. Some
of these Banks were within the law, hold
ing a fraction over the 25 per cent. The
following statement gives the amount of
specie and legal tenders held by each, and
their percentage as a legal reserve on the
amount of their de -and liabilities, “de
posits”and '‘circulation: ”
Percentage
Legal of Legal
Specie. Tenders. Reserves.
4th Nati0na1...5338,043 $3,720,686 26.78
Metropolitan.. 484,736 1,027,148 23 78
Park Bank 424.628 3,386:859 23.73
Central 134,896 2,832,281 25 29
Ninth 92,815 1,382,720 25.12
Importers it
Traders 146,702 1,747,269 25
Total $1,621,817 $14,096,933
Two of these banks, the Metropolitan
and Park, are below the 25 per cent, re
quired by law, and the others are a frac
tion better. It is well known that the
banks generally are short of currency, and
there is no doubt that this is owing to an
undue expansion in their loans. The act
of Congress requires that they shall keep
on hand a reserve of 25 per ceot. in lawful
money of the amount of their demand lia
bilities. The banks have reckoned the
specie they hold as a portion of this legal
reserve. This may be a compliance with
the letter of tho law, but it i ; nevertheless
a violation of its spirit.
Meeting of the Board of Trade.—
In accordance with a notice published in
the city papers of Wednesday, the regular
quarterly meeting of the Augusta Board
of Trade was held on that morning at.the
new office of the Board, near the corner of
Mclntosh and Ellis streets, in this city.
Understanding that the Board numbered
among its members nearly one hundred
merchants of the best business stand
ing in this city; that it was iu a most
flourishing condition, aod expected to ac
complish much good for the city; that on
yesterday it would meet for the first time
in the new office which has been recently
secured aod neatly-fitted up, at an early
hour of the morning we made application
to the President of the Board for permis
sion to be present at the meeting, in order
that we might furnish oar readers' with a
full report of the proceedings, convinced
that they would prove of great interest.
The required permission was most gra
ciously granted. As the proceedings were
not very long, and entirely harmonious,
wo are enabled to give them verbatim :
The Board of Trade met at half past
twelve o’clock. Present: Wm. E Jack
son. Vice President, W. J. Pollard, Secre
tary and Treasurer, and Tbos. Branch.
The meeting was called to order by the
Vice President.
Mr. Branch moved that the Board ad
journ sine uie. Ca'rried unanimously, and
the meeting adjuqrned.
Vfier the above was written we iearn
that sometime after the adjournment nine
members arrived, ar.d the meeting was re
organized.
Mr. Branch, from the Committee ap
pointed at a previous meeting, reported
that ha had made ?n arrangement with the
Young Men's Library Association, by
which the Board of Trad: secured from
the former the room it was io for tme hun
dred dollars per annum.
A resolution was introduced and carried
that a dozen new chairs should be pur
chased for the use of the members of the
Board.
A resolution was passed inviting Hon.
Geo. A. Trenholm, of Charleston, to de
liver an address to the Board of Trade, at
an earlv Say, in this city.
The Board then adjourned.
The Wheat crop in Upson county is very
promising. Fruit has not been injured to
any great extent by t&e recent cold snap.
AUGUSTS, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 2% »869
Indian Cotton Supply.
Our English files furnish us with the
subjoined extracts from Indian Cotton Cir
culars, which, we have no doubt, will be
read with interest by 311 holders of cotton
whether farmer or merchant. It will be
remembered that a rupee is a silver coin,
estimate* ia consular returns at Calcutta,
at fifty on ts United States coin, and a
candy is equal in weight to 560 lbs. aver
dupois. Messrs. Finlay, Clark & Cos., in
their cirtukr, dated Bombay, February
20th, make the following important re
marks :
From the Government reports just pub
fished, and the news gentrally that ha»
been reaching us from native dealers, ir
would seem to be certain that we
cannot this year send forward near
ly as much cotton as we aid in 1868.
she general opinion now is that the crop
will be 20 per cent, less than last year,and,
taking into account the absence of old cot-'
ton, of which last Spring at least 200,900
bales went forward, we think it is safe to
assume that exports to Great Britain iu
1869 will not exceed 800,000 bales, as the
Continent at present promises to take off
fully as much as last season, no less than
fourteen ships with considerable freight en
gagements being on the berth for
Havre. From this district we have the
following :—ln Oomrawutty prices con
tinued very stiff, ruling sr. to lOr. above
Bombay ratoa. of cotton offer
ing there is small, but alter itm rrooiee
holiday-) larger arriv 'ls are looked lor
From Khandeisb there are complaints of
the high range of prices that has all along
been maintained for a very inferior style of
cotton- Last year’s good crop induced
many native firms to open es-ablishments
there, but this season the yield is said to be
50 percent, short,an i the quality is inferior.
Agents in Broach find that Kupuas are
very scarce,and they are painting toasmall
er outturn th >n they anticipated some time
ago. The ginning factories are not very
busy, whilst many of the large Churka
establish cents are quite idle. The best
machine-ginned cotton that has yet come
to the Green is from Surat, though we be
lieve that we shall still receive a better
quality from Broach and the neighbor
hood. Estimates of the Dharwar yield
point to a crop about 25 per cent, in excess
of last year, but it is learned that the
staple of the later cotton will not be equal
to what was fully ripe before the blight.
The Cornpta crop will suffer severely both
in quantity and quality ; tho official esti
mate allows as much as 50 per cent, of
loss The chief demand still runs upon
new Ooomrawutty, which continues of ex
celled quality, though not coming up to
the first pickings. Barsee and Xuggur are
now not easily found good, being stained,
and many docras badly adulterated. The
fines; of the Hingunghant crop has
gone forward, and for what remains a com
paratively high figure is asked. Machine
ginned Broach is the best cotton
in the market, but requires care
ful selection, there being much inferior
Neriad and Boroda cotton offering. A few
bales of new sawgiuned Dharwar have
been placed at 285 r. per candy.
Messrs. Feel, Cassels & Cos., of Bom
bay, under date of February 20th, says:
In the Dharwar c,Electorate the weather
till lately was excessively warm, and con-rn
quencly unfavorable for co ton plants, es
pecially for the indigenous (Comptah),
which are less advanced than the exotie
(Dharwar sawginnned.) The first picking
has been completed ia the most forward
districts, and is now proceeding in others
Small lots of Yingoria (Comtah) and of
Dharwar sawginned have arrived here, and
25 candies of the latter found a buyer on
the 17th at 285 r. The color is good, and
the sample, though rather weak and ir
regular, is better than teat of the early ar
rivals of last crop. In old cot'on the pur
chase reported consist of 600 candies of
Dharwar sawginned at 265 r. to 272 r., and
1,675 of Dhoilerah at 245 r. The recent ar
rivals'of these growths are of good quality
The Cotton Commissioner, ia a report
dated the 15th instant, estimates the de
ficieneyof 1 he cotton crop of this presidency
tor the year 1868-9 at "25 per cent, as
contrasted with the crop of last season,
the out-turn of which amounted to
about 1,250,000 bales for export,”
and attributes the same to want of
rain in sundry zillahs, of which the
chief are Khandeish, Kulladghee, Sattara,
and Kolaporc, as also to insufficient or ir
regular and unseasonable rain, combined
with a decrease in the area under cotton
euitivation, in Guzerat, tho latter cause
being in some measure due to the former.
In Broach and Ahmedabad this decrease
is set down respectively at 31,967 and 46 -
345 acres. As to “the crop in the Dharwar
districts,” he states that it “hassuffered
severely from the unseasonable prevalence
of a dry and scorching easterly wind,” the
“sudden and injurious effect” of which
“upon the strongest cotton plants is more
than can be accounted for by mere want of
moisture 1 r t e dryness of the wind,” and
that “it would appear as if it carried with
it some other blighting influence” In a
postscript he gives news from the districts
up to the 18th instant as follows: “A fa
vorable change in the weather was reviv
ing the plants; the estimate ol loss in the
American variety is given at 20 per cant.”
on what “the plants promised a month
ago, but the quality of the staple is also
very materially affected, as tue ‘blight’
caught the plants just at the time that the
fibre was maturing in the bolls. * * *
The native plant has suffered more severe
ly. the loss being ..estimated at 50 per
cent., but owing to the increase in cultiva
tion the whole crop of those districts will,
notwithstanding, be considerably in excess
of that obtained from them last year.”
FROM WASHINGTON.
The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Gazette, under date of the 11th
instant, says:
It is now understood here that the States i
of Virginia, Mississippi and Texas will be j
fully represented in Congress at its next
session. Late authentic advices from j
Texas state that the Constitution to be I
submitted to that people will be adopted i
by twenty-five or thirty thousand majority, j
In fact the only organized opposition to its j
adoption will be with a small faction of
extreme Radicals who failed to have things
all their own way in the late Convention I
The opinion expressed by Gov. Hamilton
and others is that there can be no doubt j
of the complete restoration of Texas by the j
reassembling of Congress in December
next. _ '
As to the States of Virginia and Missis- |
sippi, there is good authority for saying
that President Grant gave assurances 1
yesterday to gentlemen from those States !
that he would, in executing the late lie- j
construction act of Congress,, order the !
Constitutions of the States named to be j
submitted to a vote of the people in such a
manner thst the obnoxious clauses could
be voted on separately, and voted down by
a'majority, without affecting the validity
of the rest of the instruments, thus secur
ing the reconstruction of those States, and,
at the same time, defeating the objectiona
ble clauses in their Constitutions. This
was the proposition of Judge Baldwin and
the rest of the Richmond committee, and
also ot the Hon. Albert G- Brown, of Mis
sissippi, when here as the representative
of the Conservative elements of his State.
President Grant assured those gentlemen
of his sympathy with their views, and
promised them that everything in his pow
er should be done to secure the necessary
legislation to carry them out; and it is but
just to say that to the influence he brought
to bear in the premises is due the passage
of the iaw leaving the question of a “di
vision of the vote” to the discretion and
judgment of the Executive Department of
the Government. The people of Virginia
and Mississippi will now havesecured them
a fair vote upon their Constitutions, and
there sterns ,o Le no good reason to doubt
they will be adopted by large majorities,
the disenfranchising and other infamous
clauses being voted down. Hence tbe im
pression now prevails here that by Decem
ber next these States will be here with a
full representation in Congress,
The great Federal pie will be regularly !
opened tnis week, ana the struggle as to
who will be able to puli out the plums, !
will, no doubt, be desperate. Senator
Cockling is a ready mowing over his sue
cess in defeating the nominations sent to
the cenate last week for appointments in
New York. These nominations had been
manipulated by Senator Fenton, and
Conkling determined lo interfere. He,
therefore, went to work, aod -uceessfuily.
too, to prevent any confirmations. Now
the nominations have all to be made anew,
and Conkling is open in the declaration
that Fenton can have only his share of the
plums, and not a single one over. Here,
then, we have a prospect for a “war o the
roses,” and at present writing there is no
celling how far hostilities may extend.
As the Senate has been convened in ex
traordinary session for executive business
alone, it is understood th it tho Executive
i Department for the next few weeks
I will be exc.usively employed in removals
and appo ntmeats. The official guillotine
I will be put in active operation to morrow,
: and heads are expected to fall thick and
! last, without respect to age, sex or ooa-
I dition. xhe outside pressure for place has
never been greater, nor has there ever
been before such a det- ruination express
ed to make a clean sweep of political op
ponents.
There is cause for rejoicing that the edi
torial batteries heretofore exclusively di
rected against the imaginary Ku klux
klans of the South is to be hereafter level
ed also at the “barbarities” in Cuba. The
Radical organ of this (Sunday) morning
is redolent with “brutal •„ utrages” iu that
unfortunate island. In reading some parts
of this Radical sheet, one can scarcely avoid
being deluded into the belie that he has a
veritable secession journal, printed about
the “year 0f’62,” before his eyes. With
a slight change here aud there, the “bar
barities” in land and “outrages ou the
high seas' might well apply to another
state of things and at quite another epoch
of time ! See the heading in black letter,
of the Chronicle's tirade :
“Brutal Execution of Patriots —Sedi-
tious Cries from the Spectators—A Volley
Fired by the Troops aud Several Persons
Kdled and Wounded—A Spanish Omragt
on the High Seas—An American Vessel
Stopped by a ifan-of War and Fasten
f/ers Seized —The War and the Troops-
Further Arrests of Cubans, &c-, &c. ”
But in the coiumnsof such a "loyal’ ’ sheet
it is a little surprising to see such extraor
dinary new born “sympathy” with seces
sionists and “insurrectionists,” as is
evinced in the whole of its current leading
articles. It further says this morniog, no
ticing the “Brutal outrages iu Cuba:”
“The Spanish volunteers, who now ap-
P »-«- Piu uenancu eu esanerai Dulce,
are committing all sorts of savage oruelties.
on men and helpless women and children
whose protectors are suspected of sympathy
with the insurrection."
The Railroad Committee.— Messrs.
J. T. Gardiner, J. V. H. Allen, John U
Meyer and W. H Goodrich, the commit
tee appointed by the City Council for the
purpose of going to Charleston, conferring
with a committee from the South Carolina
Railroad Company and endeavoring to ef
fect a compromise between the latter and
the Columbia & Augusta Railroad Com
pany, by the terms of which the hostilities
now existing between the two corporations
would cease and the hatchet be buried for
ever, returned yesterdav morning from
their mission. At the late of their de
parture no terms had been agreed upon.
The proposals made by the Augusta com
mittee were still in the hands of the other
parties and no answer to them had been
received. The committee of the South
Carolina Railroad had stated, however,
that on Wednesday (yesterday) it would
submit the propositions made by the City
Council of Augusta to a full meeting of the
Board of Directors of the Company to be
held on that day and telegraph the result
to this city. We sincere ly trust that some
arrangement may be made by which this
great railroad controversy may, at last,
be definitely settled, but candor compels
us to write that we have not much faith in
aa early settlement ofthe difficulty.
Brave Words of a Brave Old Man.
—ln reply to a note from the citizens of
Lynchburg, V irginia, tendering him a pub
lic dinner, General Early writes:
“I am constrained to decline the pro
posed entertainment. In doing so. 1 desire
o express to you my most heartfelt thanks
for tho cordial greeting you have given me,
individually and collectively, and to assure
you that neither in wandering abroad, nor
on my return, have I seen any cause to
abate in attachment to the land of my birth,
or to wayer in devotion to the principles
which actuated us in our late struggle for
all that was dear.
“It is the hour of defeat and adversity
that really tries the hearts and souls of
men, and those who shall have passed
through all its temptations without an
abandonment of honor or principle will be
entitled in tho end to be regarded as the
true heroes of our cause.
“Very truly aud resp’y yours,
“J. A. Early - .”
The Strike of the Preston Cotton
Operatives —The Lm ion Star, ofthe
23J ultimo, has the fullowiag about the
strike ofthe cotton hands :
With the continuance of the lamentable
strike of the cotton operatives at Preston
he excitement in the district increases On
Sunday a meeting of sixty seven delegates
from surrounding districts was held for the
purpose of considering the advisability of
continuing the strike. The deliberations
lasted six hours, during which it was elicit -
ed that the operatives generally sympa
thized with the. Preston hands in their
resistance to the proposed reduction of 10
per cent. Resolutions were passed promis
ing s ipport to them duriug the struggle,
and it was agreed that no delegates
should be employed while it lasted It is
said that from seven to ten shillings per
head has been apportioned from local
union funds for those on strike in the spin
ning and weaving departments. The Man
Chester Examiner says it is distinctly
stated that the bulk of the masters are,
and have been for some time, losing money.
In about three weeks, unless some conces
side be made by the operatives, nearly
16.000 of them will be thrown out of work.
The aggregate number of operatives in
Preston is about 30,000.
Georgia items.
The City Council of Atlanta has ex
empted the properly of the Atlanta Cotton
Factory from taxation for ten years.
The number of students in the Franklin
University for the present session foots up
344, divided as follows : Seniors 44, ju
niors 53,50 'homores 43,freshmen 22, elect
ive course 22, civil engineering 7, law 7,
University High Softool 146.
We saw, yesterday, says the Columbus
Enquirer, of the 9th, a head of green
wheat, some three inches long, grown by
Mr. T. J. Riley, of Taylor county. It is
known as the “Raines” variety, and Mr.
Riiey has about an acre of it in full head.
No sign of injury by the late frosts was
visible on it-.
The Columbus Sun says ibat work has
been commenced on a 'tew cotton mill—
Eagle & Phoe tix Manufactory. It is ex
pected that this structure, which is to be
as large as the present one, will be finished
by the first of next October. The factory
building and office will cost; it is esti
mated, $65,000 When it if completed,
the company will have accommodations
for 20,000 spindles.
The editor of the Sandersvfle Georgian
has seen a stalk cf Whett coma three feet
ia height, the head measuring about fo*r
inches. Mr. Giles says that this is a speci
men of a field of 16 acres, some perhaps
not quite so good, but considerable of it
the same. This is very early for this lati
tude.
Tits Crops IN Carroll. —Every-
where through this section the farmers
are preparing for a very large crop
of corn and cotton. The growing crop of
wheat, which is unusually large,looks well,
but that which was sown early,or in a for
ward state, we regret to learn, a good deal
of uneasiness is manifested among the
farmers in consequence of the heavy frost
which fell on the night of the 6th ins f ~the
peaches being entirely destroyed beyond
all hope. Cor. Atlanta Constitution,
12th.
Destructive Fire.—On Friday last the
premises of Col. John B. Wright, of
Johnson county, were almost totally de
stroyed by fire. Ail his buildings (except
the dwelling house} including cribs, gin
house, Laras, fete , were laid in ashes. He
lost, also, one hundred bales of cotton,
about 3,000 bushel- of corn, and fodder in
proportion, some 15,000 or 20,000 pounds
bacon and 30 tons of guano; 30 or 40 head
of bogs were also burned under tbs gin
hou<e. Entire lose estimated at about
S4O 000, The fire originated in the lint
cotton while ginning, and was. of course,
purely accidental.— Sandersville Georgian.
Monroe County Treasury Notes.—
The people of Cuiloden, Monroe county,
have held a m ,-eting and passed the fol
lowing resolutions .
Resolved, That we will no 'longer receive
the Monroe County Treasury Notes for
produce or services rendered, or in pay
ment of any debt whatever.
Resolved, That we respectfully request
the citizens of each district in the county
to meet and give public expression to their
sentiments relative to the subject h rein
embraced. — Monroe Advertiser, 13 th.
The Athens Watchman states that the
late frosts and freeze not only destroyed
all, or nearly all, the peaches here, hut also
Irish potatoes, beans and other tender
vegetables.
Crimson Clover.— The Macon Tele
graphssys: “Mr. Jacob Schallsends us a
bunch of crimson (Italian) clovertrom his
place in this county. At this early season
■n the Spring it is between two and three
feet high and is surmounted with a beauti
fill oonical blossom of a rich crimson color.
This olover is from foreign seed imported
oy Mr. Schall last Fail”
OIK TKAYEUIXG COBRESPOXDEJiCE.
On the Wing, April 10,1869.
Ed it 01s Chronicle & Sentinel: —
A man in costly suit, with trinkets of
gold dicgliDg about him, everything in
keeping with his haughty, proud and
aristocratic airs, should be very careful
when he struts to win the gaze of others,
for fear of an abrupt descent from his
dignity. With the yeoman such wateh
care is unnecessary, for a blunder would
only draw an innocent smile, commingled
with more or loss of sympathy, but iu the
other instance a roar of laughter, steeped
with contempt. The gentleman who
walked the train as if every limb and
muscle was put together by magic art, all
touched with the very extract of creations
—mechanism,evidently intending,as he did
become,an object of curious wonder,should
have maintained his dignity. But
this he did not Jo, for while grace
fully pacing along the aisle, with
hands locked behind him, he stumped
his toe and head foremost he went
against the door as if he would *" urst every
pannel out of it. One fellow hollowed at
nim not to but the door down, and all
shook with laughter. It seemed that the
ladies would split their sides and the fellow
seeing the sport made over this sudden
and violent collaDseofUis dignity soon dis
ann axed. Whatever eliange the accident
■nay have had over him he certainly veri
fied the proverb, “a haughty spirit before
a fall.”
The Warren County Superior Court con
vened on the sth instant, Judge Andrews
presiding Very few people were in at
tendance besides jurors and those on busi
ness with the Court. The bar was repre
sented by the presence of Messrs
Coombs, Reeee and Dußose, of
Wilkes, Lewis, of Greene, Stephens
Dußose, and Little, of Hancock,, and
resident Attorneys. Tho Solicitor failed
to appear ,owing, 1 suppose, to an under
standing belore he left Washington, that
there would be no court in Warren. 1
think though there was very little crimi
nal business, and one week would hardly
suffice tor dispatching the civil docket.
The people of Warren have invested
largely in phosphates ; are hard at work
on their farms, hoping >o reap an abun
dant harvest from the present year. I
have heard of a lew farmers in my travels
who want to mortgage their crops for
fertilizers to put on cottou. lam afraid
they will bo anxious next year to mortgage
these same farms for meat and bread.
Judging from the low price of corn at
Warrenton and the little demand for it,
the farmers must have raised a supply the
past year and some to spare, and it is to
be hoped will do so again. Old citizens
complained seriously of instances of law
lessness in the county, and thought it j
should be suppressed. I think this ean be j
done very easily. Let the Courts of the j
country enforce the laws and give to evil- j
doers the penalty their crimes deserve, and j
then this responsibility will not devolve |
upon Col. Lynch. But so long a- rape, 1
arson, murder aud all the crimes in the
black catalogue are allowed to go un- ;
punished, so long will the necessity exist j
for the evil complained of. I cannot weary |
the reader with an enumeration ofthe hor !
rible murders committed within the scope
of my acquaintance, and in not a single
instauce of which has the law been enforced.
One negro waylays another and mur
ders him in cold blood: he is arrested, con
fined in jail; great efforts are made to in
duce false swearing in his behalf, but all
fail, and the night before tho Court meets
the Jail is opened arid the murderer and a
squad of thieves are all gone. No reward
is offered, nothingsaidabout it. Whether
quiet on the subject is concerted or not, it'
prevails. A man decoys bis neighbor out
at the dead hour of night, knocks his
brains out, cuts his throat from ear to ear,
rifles his pockets, confesses his guilt, is
sentenced to thePenitertiary for life; but in
ten days is released ftom prison wails by a
Governor’s pardon, for public work, and
in another ten days makes his escape; a
whole community is thrown into commo
tion again, innocent lives are in jeopardy,
but nothing is said about it, no proelama
tions issued, and no reward offered.
These are instances of a common evil,
the original cause of the K. K system of
punishment, and the purging of the one
wi l ! correct the other.
The idea that the law i:s a terror to evil
doers is all false; it is not sustained ia the
experience of those who live where the
latter system of punishment prevails
We are all opposed to outlawry, and are
jealous of its results to civil government
but let the latter be trictly maintained
and the provocation ofthe former will no
longer exist. I have sufficient confidence
in the virtue and intelligence of our poo
pie, to believe that whenever the civil
government affords them ample protection
to person, lite and property, they wili
respect and obey it. And I know enough
of them to believe that they will only have
a contempt and utter disregard fir a sham
and perverted system of judicial adminis
tratiou.
There seemed to be a good deal of trade
going on at Warrenton Merchants and
their cierks were quite busy waiting oo
customers. Ali seemed active in one de
partment of business or another- But few
if any loafers about the streets, hangers on
to corners, wall rubbers, boasters wbotalk
big of what they can do; I don’t think
they have any of these about Warrentoa.
Traveller.
P. S. —Permit me to acknowledge my
thanks to Mr. 8. G. Watson, of Athens,
for » present of a very fine set of stencii
brands, plates. &c., out in the highest style
of the art. He does as good if not the
best of any work I have seen in his line,
and merits patronage. T.
Jeff Davis,
What a Radical Correspondent says of
the Southei-n ex-President.
(from the London Cor. of the Cincinnati Gazette)
I had an admit to the “Speaker’s Gal
lery,” which holds about fifty, who get
their names put down ihrec days previous.
While I am standing in the group,
eagerly watching the Police Sergeant, who
will presently caii the names of the prßi j
leged few, I hear:
“Isn’t this Mr. Davis?
I turned round, and right behind me
stands Jefferson Davis. But zounds ! what
a change in mortal man ! I would scarcely
have known him if my attention had not
been called to him. And can it be possible, i
I mused, that this shriveled-faced, thin
voiced, shrunken limbed, elouchy little old
man is the eloquent acd commanding Sena
tor from Mississippi, ihe prompt, resolute j
and coveytly . Seereiar- of War; that was
really President when Franklin Pierce was !
ostc sibly. I tell you the truth. A feel
ing of pity stole all over me. I was touched,
and there is no knowing what my impulses
of tender magnanimity to our fallen foe
would, have driven me to do and say if it
had not met in the impulse of the man who
put the question I have quoted that obse
quious sycophancy toward the slaveholder’s
rebellion, which for these tern years past
has been the pre eminent characteristic of
anti-slavery England. Mr Davis quietly
replied: “That is my name, sir.”
‘ I W hat, Jefferson Mavis r ( ’ ’
“Yes, sir._ May I ask your name, sir ?”
“Harris, but I am nobody; I am simply
an Englishman who deeply sympathizes
with you. I have often wanted to see you;
I have your picture hanging up in my
house and prize it very highly.”
This was said in an agitated, fervent
way, while bands were shaken, and then
Mr. Harris, wno is a gray-haired, well-to
do-looking g otlemaa, put his mouth close
to Mr. i>av»s' ear aod whispered, what I
did dot bear, but what i could not but
imagine was: “England was with you:
and il you could have held out another year,
we would have joined France in recogniz
ing your Government. Mr. Davis sailed
feebly, and I thought sadly. His name
wag called ana in he went. If bowed
immediately, and saw him met by one of
the House attaches, the gentleman in
black sword breeches and shad belly coat,
with a silk sunflower on his back, who
absolutely beDt double (I am not exag
gerating) at the approach of Mr. D , and
went dancing ana flushed, and smiling
I be ore him, whimpering to <-verybody.
"This is Mr. Jefferson Davis,” and gal
lanted him to a sort of pew there is for
specially favored strangers on the floor of
! the House, deep in a recess, aod where
■ Mr Davis sat down with Archbishop Man
: ning and Dean Stanley. What the Arch
| bishop said, and what the Dean said, and
l what the President said, I know not, for I
I must hurry to my seat, far over their
; heads or lose it.
Sorghum Suoar. —The evidence accu
mulates that sugar, of some good quality,
can be made of th Sorghum plant. A few
days since we saw a quantity at the store
of J. R. Towers & Son. They bought it
for-syrup from Mrs. Lumpkin, of this
county, but found a considerable portion of
k to be sugar.
The Black Impee, or African Cane, is
aaid to be best for making sugar, while the
old fashioned Chinese, or Black Top, and
the Siberian, o Red Top, are best for
syrup. — Rome Courier.
NEW SERIES, VOL. XXVIII. NO. 16
F. S. Supreme Court.
j TEXT OF BILL AS PASSED BY CONGRESS.
Be it enacted, dec , That the Supreme
i Court of the United States shall hereafter
consist of the Chief Justice of the United
States and eight associate justices,
any six of whom shall constitute a quo
rum ; and for the purposes of this act
there shall be appointed an additional
associate justice of said Court.
Sec. 2. That for each of the nine exist
ing judicial circuits, there shall lie appoint
ed a circuit judge, who shall reside in his
circuit, and shall uossess the same power
aud jurisdiction therein as tho justice of
the Supreme Court allotted to the circuit.
The circuit courts in each circuit shall be
held by thejustiee of the Supreme Court
allotted to tho oireuit, or by the circuit
judge of the circuit, or by the district
judgeof the district sitting alone, or by the
justice of the Supreme Court and circuit
judge sitting together, iu which case tue
justice of Supremo ourt shall preside, or
iu the absence of either of them, by the
other (who snail preside), and the district
judges; and such courts may be held at
the same time in the districts of the same
circuit, and cases may be heard and tried
by each of the judges holding any such
court, sitting apart, by direction of the
presiding justice or judge, who shall desig
ua e the business to be done by each. The
circuit judges shall each reoeive an annual
salary °f 6 vo thoueaud uuiiui«.
Seo. 3. That nothing in this act shall
affect the powers ofthe justices of the Sa
preme Court asjudges of the Circuits, ex
eept in the appointment ofthe clerks ol
the Circuit Courts, who, in eaob circuit,
shall be appointed by the circuit judges of
that circuit, and the clerks of the Dis'rici
Courts shall be appointed by the judges
thereof respectively ; provided that the j
present clerks of said court shall con inue j
iu office till other appoint neats be made .
in their place, or they be otherwise re- I
moved.
' See. 4. That it shall be-the duty of the
Chief Justice, and of each justice of the I
Supreme Court to attend at least one torw
ofthe Circuit Court in each district of his
circuit during every period of two years.
Sec. 5. That any judge of any court ot
the Uuited States, who having held his
commission as such a' least ten years, shal,
after having attained the age of seventy
years, resign his office, shall thereafter,
during the residue of his natural life, re
ceive the same salary which was by law
payable to him at the time of his resigna
tion.
From the Baltimore IBun, April 7.
The Return of Arnold and Spangler,
the Dry Tortugas Prisoners.
Samuel B Arnold and EJuian Spangler,
the prisoners eoently released from the
Dry Tortugas, under the pardon of Presi
dent Johnson, the ibrrner having been
senteneed for life, and the latter for six
years, l>y the Military Commission ihit
tried the assassination conspirators,reached
this city yesterday. They came passen
gers on tne steamship Cuba, from Key
West. Arnold appears in rather delicati
health, but Spangler is well, and both ap
pear in good spirits. They are set free
now, after three years and eight months in
“durance vile.” After their trial and sen
tence, they reached the Dry Tortugas with
Dr. Modd, their late fell .w-prisoner and
O’Laughlin, who died during imprison
ment, on the 24th of July, 1865. and were
released on the 22d of March, 1 869 Both
Arnold and Spangler reply readily to
queries concerning their imprisonment,
and the treatment they received from the
different commanders of the post. Daring
the season of the fearful rage of the yellow
fever iu 1867 at the fort, they state that
after nearly all the troops had been at
tacked and either recovered or died, Dr.
Mudd, who had so faithfully and advan
tageously labored among the sick, was tak
en down with the disease, and there being
no medicinal man left fit for duty, vas nursed
solejy by themselves, his only remainingcom
panion, O’Laughlin, having previously died.
During its prevalence there were thirty
seven deaths in that limited community,
two of whom were prisoners and the bal
ance officers and soldiers They speak
highly of the late Major Stone, who com
manded at that time. His wife having
died of the epidemic, of which ho had re
covered, he carried his little child over to
Key West, with the intention of sending
it to his relatives in the Worth, and 'shortly
after reaohing there he was'taken with a
relapse and died. Theirtreatmeut depend
ed much on the disposition ot the com
minder of the post, but after the season of
vollow-fever they fared/ much better than
previously. They received a telegram or
the 9t.h of Maroh, inform ng them of their
pardon, and Spangler says it appeared to
him that from that time until the 21st,
when Arnold’s father reaohed there with
tne pardons, he gained in flesh every hour
Arnold was cm pi >yed as olerk at head
quarters, and Spangler as a carpenter, and
both at times were compelled to work very
hard. After their release they left the
Tortugas in a Government sailing vessel,
and went over to Key West, where they
remained several ■■ays, awaiting the arrival
of the Cuba , and were treated iu the kind
est manner by the oitizens.
On the terrible ordoal of their trial,
under the circumstances by which, they
were surrounded, it is not to be supposed
riiey would delight to dwell. Spangler
says that, from the tortures he endured,
he was mostly uucooscious of the proceed
ingsin the case, and often knew nothing of
what was going on around him. When the
padded hood was piacr.d upon his head in
prison, oovering over his eyes and tighten
ed about his neck and chest, with mp.naefcs
already on both hands and feet, he was
toid it was by order of Secretary Stanton,
the subordinate thqs excusing himself for
his action. After arriving at the fort, and
up to the time of his release, Spangler
avers that the sense of his entire inQooonoe
only made his chains more galling, while at
the same time itofteu fcert him from utter
despair. Both Arnold and Spangler speak
of the kindness and attention they received
on board the Cuba from Captain Duke
.hart, his officers and passengers, who gen
erally were disposed to make them com
fortable.
FRANCE 4-M» AMERICA,
AN EXTRACT FROM TH* MEMOIRS OP
PRINCE DE TALLEYRAND—FRANCE AND
GERMANY.
A Paris letter in the Gazette de Lau
sanne says:
“You are aware that Prince do Talley
rand left some memoirs, which were not to
be published till thirty years after his
death, and which are now in the hands of
an eminent barrister, M. Andral. I have
been able to'cast a glance at them, and I
am much surprised at their contents. 1
was especially struck by a page relative to
the Congress of Vienna. It is a real
prophecy, and I cannot resist the tempta
tion of giving you the substance of it. At
that period M de Talleyrand said that the
balance of power in Europe founded at that
assembly was menaced by great dangers -
one from beyond the sea, and the other
which might arise in the heart of Ger
many :
“ ‘On the side of America,’ said the
Prince, ‘Europe must always have her oyes
open, and not furnish any pretext for re
crimination or reprisals. America is in
creasing every day. She will become a
colossal power, and a moment mast arrive
when placed ia more easy communication
with Europe by means of new di.-eoveries
she will wish to. say her word in our affairs,
and have a Land in them. Political pru
deuce, therefore, imposes on the Govern
ments of the old Continent the care of
scrupulously watching that uo pretext shall
be off- red for such an intervention. The
day when America «hsjl plant her foot in
Europe, peace and security will bo banished
for a long time.’ ”
The Prince afterward speaks of Ger
many. Here the prediction has no longer
the form of a conjecture, but is in some
sort an anticipated recital:
“‘No illusion must be formed; the equi
librium we hwe founded i-i the Congress of
Vienna is not eternal. It will succumb
some day or other, but it promises us some
years of peace What condemns it fora
term, more or less distant, is the aspira
tions which are becoming universal in the
centre of Germany- The necessities of
defence and of a common peril have pre
pared men’s minds for German unity;
this idea will continue to be developed, and
some day one of the great powers which
form part of the Conference will desire to
realize this union for its own profit. Aus
tria is not to be feared since she is com
posed of pieces and morsels, and having
no unity at,home she cannot think of ex
porting it. Therefore, Prussia it is that
must be watohed. She will attempt the
adventure, and, if she succeeds, then all
the conditions of equili' rium will be
changed, aod new bases and anew organi
zation will have to besdueht to Euro >e.’ ”
The Prioce continues to examine the cir
cumstances more or less difficult under
which this reconstruction will be effected,
and he points out France as the nation
most interested in combating the movement
for unification, or in seeking a compensa
tion.
Wm. P. Hunter d.ed in Savannah in the
70th year of hie age.
Jfews Items.
L. B. Curtis k Cos., New York import
ers, have suspended.
The only State out of debt is lowa. She
has $1,000,000 surplus.
Miss-Fidelia Bates is a regularly coni'
missioned Notary Public in St Liuis.
Fisk’s engagement of M'llo Nilson is tor
six months from October 15, 1870.
A bill abolishing the canal contract sys*
tem has passed the New York Assembly.
The ice blockade in the Hudson river, at
t'ludson, has broken, and navigation is open.
Mile Stephanowska, a Vienna ballet girl,
daughter of a chare >al woman, is engaged
to marry the liussiau Prince Wittgenstein.
A correspondent declares that the late
speeches of Senators Fowler and Sprague
indicate that they are .going over to the
Democracy,
The Mew Orleans & Opelousas Railroad
has been ordered to pay its past due cou
pons, some $660,000; ’ and iu default, the
road is to be sold.
Hon. Horatio Seymour is still at Keo
kuk, lowa, laid up by the injuries he re
cently received by the railroad disaster
near Peoria, Illinois.
A Salt Lake dispatch says that Wells &
taigo’s ooacUes commenced their ooouec
iious with the Uuion Pacific railroad at
Ogden on Tnursday.
The Pittsburg Fctst say the gain of
Democratic strength, as extiibited in the
Spring election in Allegheny county, is as
wholesome as it is decided.
W orsle> dedicated his translation of the
Laid to “Gen, 11E Lee, the most staiuless
of living commanders, and except in for
tune, the greatest.”
The revenue of the Atlantic cab es is
now $3,500 in coin per day. Every reuuc
tiou of the tariff so far has largely increased
the receipts and profits.
Ofiarlotte Thompson, the actress, will go
to San Francisco to play as soon as she gets
in the cotton crop on her plauiauou, near
Monigomery, Alabama.
The Galena Gazette says that the Hon.
E. B. Washburue will leave there for
Washington on the 15th instant, and go
thence for France on the Ist of May.
The' Board of Directors of the Pacific
railroad, in St. Louis Friday, elected
James H Lucas, President; Dan. K.Gar
rison, N ice President; J. Porter, Secre
tary and Treasurer, and J. M.Cooper,
Auditor.
Ihe Liverpool Chamber of Commerce
have petitioned the House of Oommous,
Mr. Gladstone and the Postmaster Gen
eral to suport the p.eseut contract with
the steamship lines for carrying the mails
to America.
The New Jersey Legislature has passed
a bill imposing a tax of two per cent, on
the net income ot bankers, brokers, ex
press companies, and all other corporations,
save Camden and Amboy, which pays a
contract tax.
A little girl at Keokuk was discovered
doing the Mile. Tumour business in a barn,
before an admiring audience ot school
fellows; they had fitted up a trapeze with
an old clothes-line and a broom-stick; the
elevation was some twenty feet, but the
party was brokeu up before anything else
was broken.
It is stated tha 1 while the Committee on
Elections was holding a meeiing the other
day, an altercation took place between two
oi its members, Messrs Stevenson, of Ohio,
and Barr, of Illinois. The latter struck the
former, and in return was struck himself,
but tho contestants were separated before
any serious damage was done.
There are in Massachusetts about 700
hundred colored Free Masons, who have
seven flourishing lodges in existence. They
have never been acknowledged or recog
nized by the white Free Masons of Massa
chusetts, and have for a long time been
trying to secure what they term iheir rights.
The Masonic publications are discussing tho
subject, and so is the Grand Lodge (white)
of Massachusetts.
When Bishop Asbury “run” the Metho
dist Church, there was one circuit in Vir
ginia where the ladies were so fascinating
that all ti e young preachers sent there
were soon taken captive. The Bishop
thought to stop this by sending thither
two decrepit old men, but to his great stir
prise, both wore married the same year.
He exclaimed in disgust: “I am airaid the
women and the devil will get all my
preachers!”
Miss Wil kins was a beautiful blonde, aud
she wanted to go to Scarborough—so she
told her mother to look for something .very
particular tor her dear papa.
‘‘And what is it, pray,” asked her
mother “that you so much wish to find for
your dear papa?”,
“.1 son-in law,” was the gentle reply of
the blushing maiden,
The Secretary of the Treasury has made
several important changes iu the form of
reporting tne oondiiion of the public debt.
His present statement, to April f, there
fore, in place of afftiding material fir an
exact comparison wiih the last report of
Ins predecessor, may be considered the
starting point for future eomuarison. The
most notable reforms—for such they may
be considered—are first, a more complete
detail or classification of the debt, as ori
the bucks of the Treasury at the close of
the month, without waiting, as heretofore,
five or six days for distaut returns, Second,
Lie separation of the public debt, proper,
from the currency bonds of the United
States,lent to the several Pacific Railroads,
and upon which they are responsible, for
the accrued and accruing interest; and
thirdly, a complet; audit to the clone of
each mouth of the aeorued interest upon
the public debt proper.
CobA.—There is a dead set upon Cuba.
Every day or two, sensational and spatehes
from Havana bring us news of some
“American citizen” arrested and thrown
into prison; and the dreadful circumstance
is inflated for tho purpose of exciting a
war feeling against the Spanish authorities.
St. Louis. —There are foriy-threc miles
-of street railroad ia St. Louis, fifteen parks,
containing four hundred and twelve acres
of land, nearley tea miles of Nicolson
pavement and thirty miles of macadamized
streets, and over one hundred miles of
ewers. The area of the city is nearly fif
teen and a half square miies.
Gold Fish. —One of the Virginia
papers says that gold fish, three or four of
which were intrduced into the Potomac
from the fountain in the Capitol grounds
in Washington a few years since, are
rapidly populating the whole river, and
that many are sent to Alexandria, Va , as
offal fish in the vessel loads of shad and
herring. There are said to be more gillers
employed on the Potomac this season than
were ever before known.
The Mississippi river is up to Reed’s
Landing, except a gorge just above La
Crosse.
Prosecutions, both criminal and civil,are
to be instituted by the passengers of the
horror ship James Foster. The consignees
wilt b 8 sued for damages, and those of the
officers who are still alive, will be sued for
homicide or cruelty. It is certainly time
there was some penalty for the outrages
often perpetrated upon emigrants in pas
senger ships.
Mr. W. Gilbert, of London, hc.3 pub
lished a life of “Luoretia Bor.gia,” in
whchbe endeavors to prove that the
lady was a pious, virtuous, and moral
: woman, much maligned I# cotemporary
1 and subsequent slander.
When Grant was inaugurated he said to
j his brothers-in-law and all his other
kinsfolk and personal friends, “auk and ye
! t-hail receive.” Every-son of a gun of them
| took him at his word, and he has kept his
word to the letter.
A floating hotel is to be opened on the
Hudson river. A steamboat is to be towed
to PolKpell’e Island, in Newburgh B y,
near Cornwall, wHere she will be per
manently anchored. She will be thoroughly
overhauled and repaired, refurnished and
repainted, and so altered as to convert her
iuio a first class Summer boarding house.
The Evening Post says Collector Grin
ned is an hoaorabie merchant, but may fail
to :ee the knaveries which more jealous
eyes would detect, and a severer and less
indulgent temper would repress and punish
in an examplary manner. In ibis way, if at
all, his administration of the Customhouse
will be defective.
Gas. —The Supreme C art of the State of
Ohio has lately decided that the Gas
light Comp my of Cincinnati hasuotan ex
clusive right to use the streets for gas pipes,
and that the City Council has a right,
within reason, to regulate the price of gas.
This the first really practical step taken in
this cou try to remedy an evil common to
every city in the Union.
CROPS in Texas.— The Houston Tele
graph has news trom all parts of Texas, to
the effect that planters are actively engag
ed. Corn is generally planted, and a groat
deal of it is already up. A larger breadth
of land will be put in cotton than any year
since the war. The freedmen generally
having gone to work, aod there is less com
plaint of their idleness than usual.
The friends of Hon. Pierre Soule have
written to Dr. Chipley, Superintendent of
the Eastern Lunatic Asylum, at Lexing
ton, to engage apartments for Mr. Soule in
the asylum.