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OLD SERIES, VOL* LXXVI.
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WEDIESBAT ItMIWi APRIL 88.
Chivalry In New England.
Mr. Charles Sumner, the Great Mogul
of New England sentiment, and the Grand
’jama of progress, has lately delivered a
speech in the United States Senate, which J
Ls brim full of chivalry, ami smells of war 1
war ! ! bloody war with the greatest
power of the modem world —the oldest
and most stable of existing Governments —
the most powerful of nations in trade and
commerce and on the high seas, and the
most subtl! and crafty power of modern
times in diplomacy—the Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland. Were we to credit
the ostensible objoct of Mr. Senator Sum
ner’s speech—the vindication of National
honor—there would be serious grounds of
apprehension coming trials and universal
offering for the people ofthe United States.
Reasonably every sane man would expect as
the precursor oh such an event as a war
with England, the rapid return of United
States bonds from Europe, and the con- ;
sequence, a corresponding augmentation
in the price of gold, and a corresponding
decrease in the price of Government
securities abroad, and the still more j
serious matter, the annihilation of foreign
trade with its result —the cessasion of the i
only source for tho payment of the gold
interest on the National debt of .he coun- j
try—the customs revenue. Fortunately, j
however, nobody believes that the l
special pleading of Mr. Charles
Sum not 1 means any special dan- !
ger to National interests. The ;
Senators’ historical record, is the record j
only of an unscrupulous agitator, whose j
chief aim has been sectional or 'personal 1
aggrandizement. We ean recall no single !
instance where unprofitable sentiment ever
received his support, orcountenanoe. His
earliest reputation was achieved as a peace
man in a peace essay for a foreign peace
Society. He failed even to lend slender
aid to that Jove of New England intellects,
Daniel Webster,in the Aroostook question,
and no where can we find that ho evor af- [
fectcd chivalry which he has so often stig- j
matis and, except iri this particular instance
of his rejection of tho Johnson-Stanlcy !
treat,}’, respecting tho Alabama claims,
which he condemns and wars against as ]
not providing for an apology for ‘‘a wrong
and offence to the sovereignty and dignity
of the United States, for which, to this
day, no atonement or oven an apology has
boon made by her majesty’s government.”
Mr. Sumner’s argument in the Senate
against the Alabama claims treaty is based
substantially, as follows : First .ho treaty
evades tho question of England's right to
recognize the Confederacy,a right which he
claims di 1 not exist, and which herßritanic
majesties government ought to admit could
not be claimed. Second, that the treaty
involves claims other than the Alabama
l claims and prepares the way to offset them
■by counter claims. Third, that England
Ishould bo made to acknowledge the
I justness of the claims, as the basis
lof negotiation—and be confined to
j the selection of a simple claim commis
sion to define tho exact amount of recom
pense due for losses sustained. The great
objection which Mr. Sumner puts forward
rests upon the allegation that the treaty
provides only to settle a few individual claims
and losses,and leaves untouched reparation
for tho outrage upon ‘'the sovereignty and
diguily” of the republic. This ho charac
terises as a “strange surrender of right,”
a “capitulation” to British power. Mr.
Sumner, while admitting that a simple
provision for individual losses are provided
lor, although he objects to offsets, insists
that the “far reaching and destructive
wrong ' of the recognition of the Confed
eracy as a maratime belligerent, and the
opening of the Confederate ports to British
blockade runners, must be atoned for ;
and the individual losses must be settled
without roforonoo to offsets. This demand
which has received tho unprecedented
sanction of tho Senate, recalls most for
cibly a more ancient one of “fifty-four
forty or tight,” and justifies the suspicion,
to say, the least, that he has become
democratised, and is to head anew
New England Democratic party. The
very grave precendents of the Chesa
poako and thu Leopard in 1807, and
the Caroline burnt by the Canadian au
thorities in 1837, are oited as cases in
point to sustain the demand of tho Sena
tor from Massachusetts, and tho light of ;
New England, and Mr. Richard Cob- j
den’s political thunder in Great Bri- j
tain is quoted to sustain the Sena
tor’s position aud very careful’ es
timates of losses, showing that the marine
losses of tho United States amounted to
$110,000,000 wore sustained, an amount
just about what tho British Dominion of
Canada, as an annexation, would be worth;
but, after a careful and deliberate reading
of this classic production of the classic
Senator, we reach the conclusion that its '
only design is to extend tho volume of the j
classic Charles Sumner’s contributions to
the classic eloquence of the Senate in anew
edition of his essays; and that our farmers
should not diminish them a single acre of !
cotton area, as under tho apprehension
that either non intercourse ora war with
England was imminent on account of the j
Alabama claims in Charles Sumner s
hands. This forensic effort may aid the |
bulls ot W all street to force the price of \
gold, but it will never stop a single bale of j
cotton on its way to Liverpool.
Emigration to the South —From an
article on this subject iu the New York
J'iiius ot the 18th inst , we learn that on
the 22 1 of last February, Thomas Naylor,
of Wilmington, D. C , formed an associa
tion for the purpose of raising colonies to
go South to the States of Georgia, Virgin
ia and East Tennessee, to purchase lands
therein and to settle on them. In this
movement lie was aided by Messrl. 11.
Cochrane, of Missouri, Cornelius Com
stock, of New York, B. Paine and J. D.
Williamson, of the Whiltock Exposition
Company, No. 37 Park-place, in whose
lecture room the meetings of this Society
were first held. At one of these meetings
Mr. Naylor ,as appointed President of the
Company, and a code of by-laws were
drawn up to regulate the fees and assign
the qua.:dilutions required of members.
The entrance fee is $5, and each member
is oblige 1 to furnish ample proof of his re
spectabi i'y, and must possess at least
sl-506. uli ie.ugh a good honest man worth
SI,OOO aid not lie rejected. The Com
pany has. rviually increased until it num<
bers 1,116 members. It has #3.600 in its
treasury, t gether with SIO,OOO iu the
City Bud-, d.-p >1,0.1 to it* credit by sever
al persons iuu'u -: -i in welfare. In
choosing locations for their colonies the
Company will be assisted by Hon. D. W.
Lewis, of Georgia, and many other promi
nent Southern gentlemen. Linds are to
be purchased in the most fertile parts of
these States, aud colonies of three hundred
families each will settle on them. The
first emigration is ex pee ted to take place
early in May.
The Latest in Velocipedes —An in
genius individual has laid before 'Professor
Morse, the electrician, a plan for sendiug
velocipedes over wires by electricity. He
proposes that the wheels shall run on
wires, one above auu one below the tires
being grooved. He thinks that they can
be used for carrying the mail, and even
goes so far as to propose to send a man
from New York toNew'Orleans in an hour
and a half.
Three hundred Haytien dollars are
one dollar in gold-
Radical Incendiarism.
There is a miserable scoundrel residing
at Macon, Ga., named Swayzie engaged in
the publication of an incendiary weekly
: called the American Union. This fellow
i lived at Griffin during the war, where he
published a scurrilous sheet, until he was
driven off by some sick and wounded Con
federates, after being treated to or threat
ened with a coat of tar and feathers. Sway
. zie is now in full communion with Bullock
and the extreme wing of the destructionists
who curse Georgia with their presence
and revile the people by their infamous
calumnies. In the last number of Sway
zie’s sheet is published the following incen
diary article:
The Situation.— To say we are not dis
appointed at the action of Congress on the
Georgia question, would not alleviate the
pain we feel at the result. We are disap
pointed, sorely disappointed, and for good
and substantial reasons: Life, the first
and dearest thing to not only every man,
but to every th'ng that lives is in jeopardy.
Hundreds more must spill their blood be
j fore the tardy hand of the Government
can be moved to protect its friends in a
section of its domain which is filled with
its enemies. We have begged, we have
i implored, we have shown evidence moun
tain high, and yet—no action ! Are loyal j
subjects of the United States in Georgia to
be less favored than they are in Cuba? |
An American citizen dare not be harmed
there, while iri Georgia they are murdered
by the hundreds annually, and no hope of 1
redress or safety.
What influence could have been brought
to bear to swerve Congress from its pur
| pose, we are at a loss to know ; but it is
' plain enough to all that the true men of
I Georgia—those who stood by the Govern
ment before, during and since the war. and
\ are now the true defenders of the Con
i gressional plan of reconstruction—have
i been abandoned to their fate ! Their
j fidelity has been repaid with contempt,
and it now becomes them as men to cement
their ranks more closely than over, and—
DEFEND THEMSELVES ! Let them
not like c awards, creep under the lash that
attempted to overthrow too Government
of our forefathers. Let them present an
unbroken front and demand a tooth for a
tooth, an eye for an eyfc ! Let them show
rebels that they have the nerve to defend
themselves against lawlessness. Let the
whole Stase organize into societies—secret
societies ; and when rebels commit their
diabolical horrors upon them, because of
I their opinions, retaliate at a ten fold ratio,
j For every life that it taken , lay every home
1 m ashes within five, miles of the spot where
j such blood it spilled—shoot down every
j rebel who opposes you, and turn the,horror
\ back upon those, who are daily repeating
them upon loyal people. DO IT ! And
I God will be your shield.
This scoundrel is trying to sow the wind,
and he deserves to reap the whirlwind
which will lead to hisown destruction. That
such an infamous wretch is permitted to
live and utter sentiments so insurrectionary,
is the best evidence of tho patient for
bearance and law abiding disposition of
our people. Such incendiary appeals and
wholesale falsehood and villifieation in any
Northern State would exasperate tho
people and cause their author to be either
tarred and feathered, or to dangle at the
end of a rope. We do not counsel violence
to this wretch, but tho law which punishes
insurrectionary appeals and incendiary
; language should be vindicated by its stria-
I gent enforcement. The Municipal au
thorities of Macon should vindicate the
law.
The Decline of Shipping.
The New York Mercantile Journal of
Commerce indulges in some lugubrious re
flections upon the decline of American
shipping, and quotes approvingly the
“ Galaxy ” as indicating the true cause as
originating in the present onerous tariff
upon sundry materials imported from
Europe, which are necessary in shipbuild
ing, as increasing the cost of a ship built in
the United States. We feel some delica
cy in discussing a question of general
“natonal” interest of the kind, not know
ing beyond the demands of the Revenue
assessor and collector, which have been
greatly in the nature of tribute,whether we
are in tho Union or out of it. We
venture, however, to suggest to the editor
of that paper to collate and compare the
“ioyal” official statistics of the United
States currency in the past history of the
Governor nt, the progress of the merchant
uiariue with the increase of Southern sur
plus products. We ourselves have repeat
edly made these comparisons, and are now
in a position to show some striking deduc
tions from such official figures, and even
to quote some very respectable authori
ties among Northern state stuen, going to
show that the development of our mer
chant marine has always been pari passu
with tho increase in our su plus agricultu
ral productions. We refrain from instituting
such acomparision, and pointing out such
interdependence, merely because whatever
our argument mav be it would ba of a
‘rebel” na’ure, and calculated to provoke
inquiry as to causes which originate in
forbidden questions. We venture, how
ever, the assertion that it will be found by
experience that this “great National in
terest” will prosppr or decline just a-3 tho
agricultural interests are advanced or re
pressed by Congressional interference
with th* natural laws which govern and
must govern these branches of industries—
that so long as the policy of the Govern
ment favors stock-jobbing, bond-gamb
ling, and manufacturing monopolists above
the farming class of the country, just so
long and so far will the “decadence of our
merchant marine” continue. It seems
to us plain that if we have no agri
cultural surplus to export, wo have not
a surplus of manufactures to export, and
that, therefore, there would be no call
for ships or shipping ; and that, in pro
portion to the decline in agricultural pro
ducts, will be the decline in the demand
for New England built ships.
We do not care, however, to press such
opinions, lest they might not be deemed
“loyal,” but rest content to display as in
formation much in the spirit of the Mis
sissippi steamboat traveller—as only a
passenger, the causes which seem to receive
public sanction. The Journal says :
“The cause of the decadence of our mer
eantile marine is due primariaily to the
losses incurred by rebel privateers during
the civil war, but latterly still more so to
our own misguided legislation. It is sooth
ing to cur self pride as a nation, to indulge
in the idea of having lost the supremacy
of tho seas through an open breach of in
ternational laws by a rival power, but it is
su'eidal on our part to yield to this senti
ment without making an immediate at
tempt to retrieve our position as a mari
time nation. It must be remembered that
the shipping interest had become unduly
inflated toward the year I860; indeed,
IroiM 1855 the tonnage of vessels on the
stock- began to show a falling off, and
naturally, at the outbreak of the civil war,
there were mauy causes that had a disas
trous effect on our shipping, besides that
enumerated uuder the perils of war. The
immense freightag- in cotton, furnished
hitherto at the Southern ports, was
entirely cut off. and the large number of
vessels employed in our coasting trade
with that section were obliged to seek oc
cupation t a oumjt channels. Both these
had a prejudicial effect uu freights in every
sea, and this evil was intensified later by
the repeal of the reciprocity laws, and the
heavy imposts on foreign wool, of which
we imported about seventy millions of
pounds, chiefly under the American flag.
When we remembtr that this happened
during that intense struggle between
steamers and clippers for the carrying
trade, which led to an updue expansion of
tonnage throughout the mercantile world,
is it not astonishing that our marine was
not almost annihi ated ? As it was, a great
part passed under foreign flags, and on
terms which proved advantageous to oar
citizens, as the exchange received in pay
ment both yielded a large profit in green
backs, and has found a more profitable
employment in developing the resources of
our country, than the shipping trade has
• ever prwwuted since that time.
\Yc could prove ineontestibly, by our
own statistics, that our mercantile marine
was already on a decline at the outbreak
of our civil war, owing chiefly to the lack
j of foresight wo showed in not estimating,
at its full value, the controlling influence
the employment of steam was to exert on
the oceaD. But we refer in this article to
impress on the public mind that this de
cline has continued sinec the close of the
civil war. Thus we find, by official notes,
that the domestic tonnage in 1864 was
3,40»,506, and in 1867 it amounted to
2,514,380, which, allowing for the differ
ence of measurement, tay 10 per cent , in
the official valuation, -hows a falling off of
1,141.504 tons. This represents solely our
inland and c >astidg trade, which are
zealously guardedfrom foreign competition,
while on our registered or foreign tonnage
for the same period there is no such de
cline. in 1861 we find the registered ton
nage :
Sail 2,540,020 tons.
Steam 102,608
Total 2,642,628
1867—Sail 1,178,715
Steam.... 115,520
T0ta1...1,354,235
Less 10 per cent.
for difference
in measur e - *
.nient 135,423-1,258,312
Decrease from 1861 to 1867..1,423,816
Which proves that our domestic tonnage
decreased 33 per cent, in three years of
peace, and that our foreign tonnage only
fell off 51 percent., in double that space of
time, notwithstanding the ravages com
mitted by rebel privateers, and the sales
effected to foreign merchants during the
war.
Georgia and Congress.
Colonel Nelson Tift, Representative from
the Second Congressional District, is en
titled to the grateful thanks of the people
of Georgia for his indefatigable labors at
Washington in opposition to the thieving
and rascally schemas of Bullock and hi3
ragamuffins. Colonel Tift made a speech
at Albany, Georgia, last week in response
to a call from his fellow-citizens. The fol
lowing abstract is from the Albany News:
In response, Col. Tift hastily reviewed
the history of the scheme of Bullock and
his confreres to re establish despotism over
Georgia and plunder the treasury. He
stated that Bullock left the Express agency
in debt, and sought the position he now
holds for the purpose of plunder; that his
object in the herculean effort he had made
to destroy the State Government, was to
secure in his own grasp military control
over her people and treasury, and that, if
he had succeeded, the prediction made by
his party friends at the time of his nomi
nation for Governor, that he “wouid bank
rupt the State in less than a twelve
month,” would, in all probability, have
been verified. He congratulated the peo
ple of Georgia on the defeat of the ne
farious purposes of that bad man and
shameless plunderer, and uttered seme
burning sentences illustrative of his utter
recklessness of truth and utter depravity of
heart.
Col. Tift paid a glowing tribute to our
friends at Washington—both in and out of
Congress—who stood near with him over
Georgia’s people, their interests and their
honor. We had friends there, friends who
stood by us from the beginning to the end
of the fight, and to whom wo were indebt
ed for escape from political thraldom and
personal degredation. Among these, he
mentioned with pride and gratitude, Mr. <
Beck, of Kentucky, whose zeal, energy
and unceasing watch and great ability, had
doDO much towards saving us from the
calamities of Bullock’s scheme.
The President, he said, is not our ene
my, and to his views, warmly and ener
getically expressed, we are much indebted
for six mouths respite from Congressional
inter.erence. Mr. Grant is an honest,
earnest man, and the best friend the South
has in a position to do her any good. He
believed he would go as far as he dared go
and escape being Johnsonized, to restore
peace, tranquility and good government
to the South. Our people owe him a debt
of gratitude, and if they continue to pursue
their peaceful vocations, and to maintain
and uphold the laws as they have done
since the Presidential election, they will
have no cause to complain of his adminis- ‘
tration.
But, said Col. Tift, there is another •
source to which we may trace tho cause of
our deliverance. I believe we are more
indebted to the interposition, in our behalf,
of that all wise and benificent Providence,
who controls the destinies of men and na
tions, than to ah the human agencies that
were exerted to save us. Let us return
thanks to Him, an’d so conduct ouiselves
in future that He will not desert us in the
hour of our need.
The Cotton question.
Tho editor of the Columbus Sun has
been on a tour of inspection, and thus re
lates his experience:
“The opinion has gone abroad that the
breadth of cotton going into the ground
this Spring will far exceed that of last
year. Is this so ? We feel certain it can
not be so. Laborers are necessary to enable
the planters to plant and cultivate. Some
have planted more cotton to tho hand,
whilst many have not. By deaths and the
retiring of women from plantation labor,
the force at work on the plantations in the
cotton States is at least one-sixth less than
last year. Labor in cotton culture has
been reduced from three causes: Emigra
tion to the towns and cities to take the
places of those that die there, the deaths
on the plantations, and the retiring of
women from farm labor.
“Indeed, as far as the writer has been
able to learn from inquiry in a number of
neighborhoods heretofore densely popula
ted with negrn laborers, there is a falling
off of one-third from last year, and seldom
has he been able to find one planter with
the same number of hands employed last
year. Few, if aDy, have left this section
for other parts ol the cotton States; on the
contrary we frequently hear of letters being
received from Mississippi, Louisiana,Texas
and Arkansas,from negroes who have here
tofore been induced to leavers, expressing
a desire to return, and cautioning those
they left behind to stay where they are.
“Our inquiries have extended over a
large portion of Georgia and Alabama.
What is true of this section applies to the
entire cotton growing States. Nothing
but the free use of fertilizers and the best
success in cultivating the land planted,
can bring the yield of cotton the present
year up to that of 1867, or even up to the
yield of 186S, which will be all of 200,000
bales short of the crop of 1569.”
Georgia.
ASSASSINATION OF DR. BENJ. AYER.
New York, April 19. —The Tribune's
Atlanta special says, Dr. Benj. Ayer, one
of the Georgia delegation to Washington,
the oldest member of the Georgia Leg
islature, aad a staunch Republican, was
brutally and inhumanly murdered near
his home, in Jefferson county, by the Ku-
Klux Klan, on Thursday last.
We hive already published the full par
ticulars of the murder of Ayer, which
establish beyond any doubt the fact that
he was murdered and robbed by the negro
man Wilson Flournoy who is now in jail
at Louisville, Georgia. But Bullock and
his ragamuffins will continue to lie and
misrepresent our people, with the hope of
working up fresh outrages in order to in
duce Congress to make his Expressleney
Dictator of Georgia.
Iron for the Macon & Brunswick
Railroad.—Two vessels, the ship India
and the bark Dingo , arrived in port this
week laden with iron for the Macon &
Brunswick Railroad. \\ e expect in a
short time to report the arrival of iron for
the Brunswick & Albany Railroad.
Brunswick Banner, 16 th
Comparative Cotton Statement.—
There were received at Macon from the
first of November, 1867, to the 20th of
April, 186$, 73,180 bales of cotton. From
the Ist of November, 1868, to the 20th of
April, 1569, there were received 56;669
bales—allowing a falling off i» the reeei.its
of the crop of 1868 from that of 1867, of
16,511 bales. The stock oa hand 20th of
April. 1868, was 3,656 bales, stock on hand
t>day, 5,656 bales; increase of stoek this
year over that of last, on die 20th of April,
just 2,000 bales. Macof Tdograph, 20f/i.
A Prediction.— A Western Radical
journal, speaking of President grant’s
nominat ion of Degrees to office, says “the
Republican party Mill yet die of the black
vomit.”
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 28, 1869.
The Murder of Ayer.
HE IS KILLED AND ROBBED BY A NESRO.
We are indebted to an intelligent pnd
responsible citizen of Louisville, Jeffejson
county, for the following particulars ofthe
murder of Dr. Benjamin Ayer, a Radical
member of the Legislature from Jeffersvn,
from which it is clearly established that he
was murdered by his own friends aid
robbed of his money. We consider it for
tunate that the murderers have been de
tected. Had they escaped Bullock and bfe
j satellites would have heralded it through
! out the North as another Ku-Klux outrage;
;on the lives of “loil” men. Should Radi
cal journals copy the particulars of this
murder we make the request that the
| statement of our correspondent be pub
lished entire, as there is no longer any
political scheme to be subserved by mis
representation and villifieation of our peo
ple and State:
Louisville, Ga., April 16, 1869.
Chronicle & Sentinel:
Dr. Benjamin Ayer was found dead on
the outskirts of Louisville this morning.
He arrived at Bartow yesterday, and
reached Louisville about 7 o’clock p. m.
the same evening. He went first to
George Holt’s, colored, just outside of the
corporate limits, on the road from the
! town to Rocky Comfort Creek, and asked
for board and lodging. Upon being refused,
leaving bis overcoat at Holt’s house, fie
went into town to the house of W. S. W.
Sherman, colored, and there sought board,
and was again refused. He stated to
Sherman that he was exceedingly tired,
and that he had an overcoat which he
would spread on the floor and sleep on it,
if Sherman would permit him ; Sherman
notwithstanding,still refused. Ayer, in the
mean time, took out his pocket book, con
taining a considerable roll of money, and
taking therefrom a dollar, sent It down
town by Sherman’s son to buy some
cheese and crackers. After tarrying
awhile at Sherman’s house, he went out
saying he would try and find a lodging
place. A short time after this, he was
seen by Sherman’s daughter in company
with some person (whom she did not rec
ognize, butthought it was a colored per
son) returning from down town. Shortly
after this, George Holt and his wife heard
Ayer and some person talking in the road
in front of Holt’s house. Presently Ayer
stepped in and got his overcoat
and left. As he was leaving, Holt step
ped to the door and asked if he had com
pany, to which Ayer replied he had a
friend with him. Holt asked him who it
was, Ayer declined telling who it was.
About 9 o’clock Austin ——, colored,
passed along the road and saw a man lay
ing on the ground. Did not recognize
•him, but thought it was a man drunk.
Dr. G irvin and Powell after carefully ex
amining the skull, are of opinion that
death was caused from a blow, given with
a heavy stick or club, causing tracture of
the skull. Deceased was robbed of his
money and pistol.
The above is, in substance, the evidence
this day taken before tee inquest, and
upon which, the jury returned the follow
ing verdict: “We, the Jury, after a full
investigation, find that the deceased was
killed by a blow from a club in the hands
of some unknown person, aud then
robbed.”
' The fact that a person was seen by
Sherman's daughter in company with
Ayer, going in the direction of Holt’s
house, and the further fact of his arrival
at Holt’s house, in company with some
person, and stating to Holt that he had
company, and his being killed in the road
coming back from this house, not more
than two hundred yards from it, and this
person, although acting as his friend, yet
not now coming forward to make known
his name and tell something about the
affair, leads to the suspicion that this un
known person committed the act. That it
was a colored person is conceded, from the
fact that it is well known that Ayer had
no white associate iu the town or com
munity.
Later.
Sunday Morning, April 18. J. 569.
The foregoing was written on Friday for
the Saturday’s mail, but was kept back in
order that moreinformation might be elici
ted. Last night important discoveries
were made. Wilson, one of the colored
witnesses at the inquest, was upon suspi
cion, arrested and searched. Oa his per
son was found Dr. Ayer's pocket-book,
containing $285. Robert, a brother of
Wilson, and a girl to whom Wilson was
paying his devotions, were also searched,
and they had some $l2O. which they say
was given them by Wilson. They also
state that they saw in Wilson’s possession
a day after the murder, a pistol, from the
description of, which it is known to have
been Dr. Ayer’s. There can be no doubt
from the evidence but that Wilson com
mitted the murder. Whether he had ac
complices is not now positively known—
the investigation up to this time would,
however, lead one to believe that he had.
Our citizens are very active and zealous
in endeavoring to ferrit out all the perpe
trators. A stranger seeing their ardor
would never imagine that the man whose
death they were avenging, was ever active
and overly vigilant in working against
their interests. The only idea that pre
vails, seems to bo the law has been violated,
a human being assassinated, and the past
life of the unfortunate man is forgotten,
and as active steps are being taken toward
punishing his assassins, as if he were one
of our best citizens.
“How inscrutable are the ways of Provi
dence ? The murdered man, during his
short sojourn here, devoted his whole time
and energies in arousing the predjudices
and arraying the freedmen against the
whites. He was at the time of his death
a member of the Legislature, and had been
absent from the county for severa' months
—he arrived in the village only a few
hours before his death, aud was murdered
by one of those whom he had pretended
to befriend, and who he had but a few
moments before his death had called his
f'rie-ds. Truly, “chickens come home to
roost.” The deadly javelin has rebounded
and struck him who would have hurled it!
J. H. W.
Further Particulars of the Murder of
Ayer.
We published yesterday, the particulars
of the murder of Dr. Benjamin Ayer, of
Louisville, Jefferson county, which estab°
lished that he was murdered and robbed
by a negro man. Below we give a sy
nopsis of the evidence brought out on the
commitment trial. We thank our corre
spondent for his promptness in giving all
the facts in relation to the murder of Ayer,
as the Radicals are thereby rendered pow
erless to work this case up into a Ku-klux
outrage:
Louisville, April 19th, 1809.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
Our usually quiet little town has been
very much excited to-day, occasioned by
the commitment trial of the Degro Wilson
Flournoy, who was arrested on Saturday
night last, charged with killing Dr. Benj.
Ayer. The Court House was filled with
both white and black, all eager to hear
the evidence. On the trial it was proven
that Wilson came into Louisville on
Thursday evening about dark ; that on the
suburbs he took from under a ditch bridge
(about two hundred yards from where Dr.
A. was found dead) a musket barrel, which
was found secreted in the same place yes
terday (Sunday) morning, from the time
he entered town nothing was seen or heard
of him until half past eight o’clock,
when he entered a store and com
menced trading; that he had more money
than was usual for him to have ; that od
his return home, about 101 o'clock P. M.,
he exhibited some money and a pistol ;
that the pistol, a six shooter, and different
from the one he usually carried, ras seen
in bis box* on Friday ; that on Saturday
he-lent a negro woman two bills of money,
which she supposed to be two dollars, but,
on coming to town on Saturday night, she
found were twenty dollar bills ins ead of
one’s, and that he had a large quantity be
side ; that he gave his brother one hun
dred dollars on Saturday, most of which
was recovered that night; that he at
tempted to pass off some through another
negro, and as soon as he found suspicion
was excited left hastily ; that he was ar
rested the same night on the Creek Bridge
about a mile from town, and that when ar
rested, he denied having a cent of mouey
about his person, but on being made to
strip, with a view of searching him, he
very adroitly slipped a pocket book down
the leg of his pants and into his shoe and
then kicked his shoe off some distance ;
that when his shoe was being picked np he
remarked to the witness that it was noth
ing but ids shoe ; that in his shoe was
found a pocket book, containing two hun
dred and eighty-five dollars, which was
identified by two witnesses as being the one
seen in Dr. A’s possession the evening he
came to Louisville. After his arrest he
said he found the pocket-book lying near
the body of Dr. A. on Thursday night as
he went home.
The musket barrel was identified as the
■ one he took from under the ditch
! bridge on Thursday night, and the
1 physician who made the post moi
tem examination testified that it was
an instrument a blow from which
would be likely to produce death, and gave
|it as his opinion that it was the instru
ment which had been used. The same
. evidence was elicited as on the inquest, as
to Dr. A., passing Sherman’s house in
i company with another person, and going
to George Holt’s for his overcoat, and°say
; ing he had company.
The defendant introduced no evidence,
and after a few remarks from Maj. W. A.
; Wilkins, the prosecuting attorney, he was
| committed to jail to stand his trial at the
next term of the Superior Court for raur
| der. On being taken back to jail, just as
he reached the steps of the jail, he broke
I from the officer and run for the swamp—
j the alarm was instantly given by the report
of the officer’s pistol (who fired at him as
he ran, but missed him), wheu every man
in the Courthouse able to run, both white
»nd black gave chase, and after a race of
about halt a mile, he was overtaken and
brought back, placed in jail and heavily
ironed.
The blacks were more incensed against
him than the whites, and would have exe
cuted him very summarily if they had had
the least encouragement, some of them
wanted to shoot him »s soon as he was
caught, but were prevented by the whites.
No doubt rests on any unprejudiced mind,
but that he was the. murderer, that by
some means he ekljigtdiseoYcred or sus
pioned that Dr. Ajlf%acl a considerable
amount of money, and that he killed him
to get it. H.
front the Satannah News.
Bankruptcy—important Decision In Re
gard to the Homestead Act.
The following decision has been recently
made by Judge Krskine, sustaining that of
the Register, Mr. F. S. Hesseltine :
United States District Court —Southern
District of Georgia :
1. The bankrupt is not entitled to the
exemption of a homestead out of land
mortgaged by him at the time of its pur
chase, to secure the payment of the pur
chase money, until the said mortgage is
satisfied.
2. The costs and expenses of the bank
ruptcy proceedings are entitled to priority
of payment out of the fund in Court derived
from the sale of property.
John B. Whitehead.
1, Frank S- Hesseltine, Register of said
Court of Bankruptcy, do hereby certiiy
that in the course of the proceedings in
said cause, the following questions arose
pertinent to said proceedings and were
stated and agreed to by R. K. Hines, Esq,
who appeared for G. B. Lamar, creditor,
and Wright & Warren, who appeared for
the bankrupt.
On the 16th day of November, 1858,
John B. Whitehead, the bankrupt, pur
chased from one vY r . W. Cheever, a tract
of land in the State of Georgia, receiving
a deed to the land and giving his notes j
secured by mortgage on the said land for
the purchase money. On the 28th of
November, 1858, Cheever transfers said
notes and mortgage to G. B. Lamar, wbo
Las proven his claim in this Court.
The tract of land cons'itutes the bank
rupt’s entire estate, and under- paragraph
2013 of the Code of Georgia, and section
14 of the Bankrupt Act, he claims for
himself and two children, sixty acres of
said land, including the dwelling house
thereon asa homestead, or in lieu thereof
five hundred aad twenty dollars in money
to be derived from the sale of said land.
He further claims that the costs of the
proceedings in bankruptcy shall be paid
out of his said estate, which claims are
opposed by the said G. B. Lamar, cred
itor.
As to the first question submitted, “is
the bankrupt entitled to tho exemption of
a homestead out of land mortgaged by him
at the time of the purchase to secure the
payment of the purchase money?” it is
my opinion that he is not.
lam well satisfied, from a careful ex
amination of the law as laid down in the
Code of Georgia, that it does not give to
the head of a family a homestead out of
land thus encumbered. That lion is.a.
valid lion, authorized by statute; and tho
law does not anywhere provide for its dis
placement in favor of the creator of the
lien, for the purpose of providing him with
a homestead.
It is true that, on the delivery to him of
the deed, the title to the land is in the
purchaser, and that “a mortgage in this
State is only a security for a debt and
passes no titles.” (Irwin’s Code, $1944).
Yet the Supreme Court of this State, in
Scott Carhart& Cos. vs. Warren & Spicer,
21 Geo. Rep. 408, decided that a judgment
of older date than a mortgage could not
first be satisfied out ot land where the
mortgage was taken as security • for the
purchase money at the time of its sale.
The conveyance and mortgage were re
garded as the several parts of one agree
ment —the sale as only a conditional one,
the condition being expressed in the mort
gage passed to the vender at the time of
this delivery of the deed.
The Courts, by many decisions that I
need not eite, seem to regard the title to
real estate cot paid for and obtained by
giving back to the grantor at the time of
his deed, a mortgage deed to secure the
faithful payment of the purchase money,
as at the best, but a conditional title, good
add complete when the terms and condi
tions of the sale shall be complied with by
the payment of the purchase money. The
code under the section on “Property Ex
empt from Sale,” paragraph 2013, says:
“The following property of every debtor
who is the head of a family shall be exempt
from levy and sale; ** * nor shall
any valid lien be created thereon, &c.”
From this, and from what is contained
in all this section touching exemption, I
determine that the debtor who seeks to
have a homestead ret apart for himself
and family, must first have a full and com
plete ownership and title to the property ;
it must be entirely his property, unsaddled
with any encumbrance, lien or condition
affecting his title thereto. To use the
phrase I have given above to express such
titles as the bankrupts, it must not be a
conditional title.
And further, that after he has had set
off to him a homestead out of his property,
he cannot of himself create any valid lien
thereon. The Code does not deny the
head of a family the right to create a lien
on property not exempted in accordance
with the provisions of the Homestead act.
He is free to do what he will with his
own, convey or mortgage it; and I hold
that if he mortgages back land to secure
the payment of the purchase money, it is
a good and valid lien, such as the law will
| uphold and protect for th; vendor against
! the mortgager or any other person,
j By the new Constitution of the State of
J Georgia it is specially provided that the
homestead shall not be exempt from levy
j or execution for the purchase money of
; the same.
| As to the second question : Are the
costs of the proceedings in bankruptcy to
be paid out of the proceeds derived from
the sale of this estate 7
! The costs of the Court in the proceed
ings under which the estate of the bank
rupt has been administered upon and the
expenses attendent upon that administra
tion have priority or preference in the
order for a dividend under section 28th of
| the Bankrupt act.
The costs still remaining unpaid in this
! suit under which this property has been
sold and the proceeds are to be distributed
should be paid out of the fund iu Court.
Respectfully submitted to your Honor
] for your decision thereon.
Frank S. Hesseltine. Register,
j The conclusion at which Mr. Register
| Hesseltine arrived in the matter of John
I B. \\ hitehcad, certified to the Judge or
! this Court, is correct, and his decision is
therefore affirmed, and the Clerk,will so
certify to Mr. Hesseltine.
John Erksine,
April 9, 1569. U. S. Judge.
An Important Legal Decision. —ln
the last issue of the Athens Banner , we
notice the following important legal decis
ion upon the “Homestead” question:
“At Franklin Superior Court, the pres
j ent week, Judge Davis decided that the
Homestead law is unconstitutional. The
case was an action against Mr. Pulliam, on
a judgment obtained in 1867. Mr. P. ap
plied fl-T homestead exemption, which was
granted. The Sheriff proceeded to levy
on his land, in defiance of the homestead
law. when the defendant,interposed with an
affidavit of illegality, which wag returned
to the Court. This brought the constitu
tionality of the law directly before the
court Judge Davis decided that, there
1 being a judgment lien at the time the
' law passed, the property could not Tie pro
tected, and ordered the plea of illegality
dismissed, and the execution to proceed-
Colonel Akerman made an able argument
in support of the motion to dismiss, and
against the homestead, and Colonel Thur
mond and Captain McMillen wereemploy
i ed by Mr. Pulliam, to sustain the law, and
set up the affidavit of illegality.”
John Brougham is going to California
' for three months aud $20,000.
In the District Court of the U. S. South
ern District of Georgia.
In the matter of M. Conner & Cos., in
Bankruptcy, in Atlanta, Ga.. April 5,
1869.—in this case a question of law arose
before me pertinent to the proceedings in
said case, to-wit: Cana bankrupt after
adjudication and publication have his case
dismissed by satisfying the creditors men
tioned in his petition and schedules.—Law
son Black, Register.
Opinion of Register. —There is noth
ing in Bankrupt Law to authorize the
Court to dismiss a case in bankruptcy
on the payment of the debts mentioned
in the schedules, nor for any other cause.
As soon as adjudication and publica
tion is had, all the creditors of the
bankrupt, whether named in the sched
ules or not, are parties to the suit,
and a creditor who is not named
in the schedule is entitled to all the rights
that those have who are named in the
schedule. How can the Court know that
there are not other creditors who are not
mentioned in the schedules? They are en
titled to their distributive share of the as
sets of the bankrupt, and the Court can
not deprive them of their vested right in
the suit. For this reason I presume there
is no provision in the law to dismiss a case
in bankruptcy after it is commenced, which
is respectfully submitted to the honorable
Court, at the request of Moses & Gerard,
attorneys. Lawson Black, Register.
Considered and affirmed, the ,Clerk will
certify this affirmance to Mr. Register
Black. John Erskine, U. S. Judge.
April 7. 1869.
[Atlanta Constitution April 1811.
THE McARDLK CASK.
decision of the united states supreme
COURT.
On Monday last Chief Justice Chase
delivered the opinion of the Supreme
Court in the case of ex parte William H.
McArdle, as follows :
This case eaine here by appeal from the
Circuit Court of the Southern District of
Mississippi. A petition for the writ ol
habeas corpus was preferred in that court
by the appellant, alleging unlawful re
straintby military 'force. The writ was
issued, and a return was made by the
military commander, admitting the re
straint, but denying that it was unlawful.
It appeared that the petitioner was not in
the military service of the United States,
but was held in custody by military au
thority for trial before a military commis
sion on a charge founded on the publica
tion of articles, alleged to be libellous, in a
newspaper of which he was the editor.
Upon the hearing, the petitioner was
remanded to tbe military custody, but
upon his prayer au appeal was allowed
him to this court, and upon his filing the
usual appeal bond for costs he wa3 ad
mitted to bail upon recognizance, with
suieties conditioned for his future appear
ance in the Circuit Court to abide and per
j form the final judgment of this court. A
motion to dismiss this appeal was made
here at the last term, and, after argument,
was denied. A full statement of the case
made will be found in the decision, and it
is, therefore, unnecessary to repeat it here.
Subsequently the case was argued with
great ability and thoroughness upon the
merits, and was taken under advisement
by the court. While it was thus held, and
befoie conference as the decision proper to
bo made, an act was passed by Congress,
returned with objections by the President,
and repassed by the constitutional ma
jority, which, it is insisted, takes from this
court jurisdiction of the appeal. The sec
ond section of this act is as follows :
And be it further enacted, That so much
of the act approved February 5, 1867,
entitled “An act to amend an act to es
tablish tho judicial courts of the United
States, approved September 21, 1789,” as
authorizes an appeal from the judgment of
the Circuit Court to the Supreme Court of
the United States, or the exercise of any
suehjurisdietion by said Supreme Court
on appeals which have been or may here
after be taken, be, and the same is hereby,
repealed.
The attention of the Court was directed
to this state at the last term ; but counsel
having expressed a desire to be heard iu
argumont upon its effect, and the Chief
Justice being detained from his place here
by his duties in the Court oflmpeaeh
ment, the case was continued under ad
visement. At this term we have - heard
argument upon the effect of the repealing
act, and will now dispose of the case.
The first question necessary is that of
jurisdiction, for if tho act of March, 1868,
takes away the jurisdiction defined by tbe
act of February, 1867, it is useless, if not
improper, to enter into any discussion of
other questions. It is quite true, as was
argued by the counsel for the petitioner
that the appellate jurisdiction of this court
is not derived from acts of Congress. It is,
strictly speaking, conferred by the Consti
tution. But it is conferred “with such
exceptions and under such regulations as
Congress shall make.” It is unnecessary
to consider whether, if Congress had made
no exception and no regulations, this court
might not have exercised general appellate
jurisdiction under rules presented by itself;
for among the earliest acts of Congress, at
its first session was the act of September 24,
1789, to establish the judicial courts of the
United States. That act provided for the
organization of this court, aDd presented
regulations for the exercise ofits jurisdic
tion. The source of that jurisdiction, and
the limitations of it by the Constitution
and ty the statute, have been on several
occasions subjects of consideration here.
In tho case of Duroussan vs. The United
States, particularly, the whole matter was
carefully considered, and the Court held
that while "the appellate powers of this
court are not given by the judical act, but
are given by the Constitution,” they are
nevertheless” limited and regulated by
that act, and by such other acts as have
been passed on this subject.” The Court
held further, that the judicial act was an
exercise of the power given by the Consti
tution to Congress “of making exceptions
to tho appellate jurisdiction to the
Supreme Court.” “They have described
affirmatively,” said the Court, “its juris
diction, apd this affirmative description
has been understood to imply a negative on
the exercises of such appellate power, as
it is not comprehended within it.” L’he
principle tha the affirmation of jurisdic
tion implies the negation of all such juris
I diction not affirmed having been thus
i established, it was an almost necessary
: consequence that acts of Congress provid
| ing for the exercises of jurisdiction should
1 come to bo spoken of as acts granting
I jurisdictions, and not as acts making ex
j ceptions to tho constitutional grant of it.
! The exception to the appellate juris
diction in the case before us,
however, is not an inference from the af
firmation of other appellate jurisdictions.
It is made in terms. A provision of law
affirming the appellate jurisdiction of this
court iu cases of habeas corpus is express
ly repealed. It is hardly possible to imagine
a plainer instance of positive exception.
We arc not at liberty to inquire into the
! motives of the Legislature. We can only
: examine its power under the Constitution,
and the power to make exceptions to the
j appellate jurisdiction of this court is given
■by express words. What, then, is the
| effect of the repealing act upon the case
j before us. We cannot doabt this. With
, outjurisdietion the court cannot proceed at
j all in any cause. Jurisdictioa is power to
declare the law, and when it ceases to ex
j Ist, the only function remainiug to the
: court is that of announcing the fact and
! dismissing the cause. And this is not less
, clear upon authority than upon principle,
i Several eases were cited by the oounsel for
the petioner in support of the position that
jurisdiction of this case is not affected by
the repealing act, but none of them in our
judgment, afford any support to it. They
are all cases of exercise of judicial power
1 by the Legislature, or of legislative inter
- ference with the courts in the exercise
of continuing jurisdiction. On the other
; hand, the general rule supported
by the best elementary writers is that
“when an act ox tho Legislature is repealed
it must be considered, except as to the
: transactions, passed and closed as if it
j never existed,” and the effect of repealing
acts upon suits under acts repealed has
been determined by the adjudication of this
I court. The subject was fully considered in
f Morris vs. Crocker, and more recently in
Insurance Company vs. Ritchie, in both of
| which’cases it was held that no judgment
j could be rendered in a suit after the repeal
: of the act under which it was brought and
i presented. It is quite clear, therefore,
that this court cannot proceed to pronounce
judgment in this ease, lor it has no longer
: jurisdiction of the appeal; and judicial duty
j is not less fitly performed by declining un -
authorized jurisdiction than in exercising
firmly that which the Constitution and the
i laws confer. Counsel seems to have sup
posed, if effect be given to ihe repealing
act question, that the whole appellate
power of the court in cases of habeas cor
pus is denied. But this an error. The
act of 1868 does not except from that
i jurisdiction any other cases and appeals
troßi circuit courts under the act of 1867.
It does not affect that jurisdiction which
was previously exorcised. The appeal of
the petitioner in thiscasc must be dismissed
‘ for want of jurisdiction.
THE ENGLISH COTTON TRADE.
Smith, Edwards «v Co.’s Monthly Cotton
Circular.
Adelaide Buildings, Chapel St., 1
Liverpool, April 1, 1869. J
During the month of March our market
was quiet till near the close, when a de
cided improvement occurred, which raised
prices on the spot jd. to Jd. per lb. above
the opening prices, but Surats to arrive
have been advanced fd. to id. per lb.
YYe still estimate the consumption of
the Kingdom at 46,600 bales ner week,
the same as in our last issue. The aver
age deliveries during the seven weeks of
i dullness, from 4th of February to 25th
March, were 45,000 per week from Liver
pool and London, and as there can he no
doubt that the stock held by spinners is
decidedly less now than it was at the be
ginning of that period, it seems that the
average consumption during that time
cannot have been much uuder 50,000 bales
\ per week. We, therefore, think that our
j estimate of 40,000 bales per week as the
, existing rate of consumption for the whole
Kingdom is, perhaps, fully low, and we
rather incline to think that 48,000 or 50,-
000 bales will be the rate before long.
It will be noticed that the deliveries to
the trade from London this year are much.
above the average, being 3,600 bales per
week up to this date, and the stoek thsre
is now reduced to 77,000 bales against
70,000 bales last year.
The average deliveries to the trade from
the two ports up to this date now stand at
52,700 bales, against 65,300 bales last year,
showing a deficit in their takings of about
150,000 bales. It is believed that our
spinners now are entirely bare of stock,
and probably sold .100,000 bales below what
they did at this time last year.
The money market during tho past
month has remained easy and without
change, the rates for the best bills in the
London market being occasionally a fraction
below the bank rate of three per cent.
There seems little chance of any change at
present.
The prospects of our market—it must be
allowed by all —have undergone a change
during the past month, and that change
has been in the direction of higher prices.
The current of feeling which prevailed in
Manchester a month ago, and to some ex
tent also here, in favor of lower prices, has
passed away, and the prevalent opinion
now among intelligent men is in favor of a
higher scale ofprices being maintained for
a long time to come.
The chief agent in effecting this change
has been the extremely disappointing out
turn of the American crop; the receipts
throughont March have only averaged
37,000 bales per week, against 64,000 bales
last year, and the total deficiency in re
oeipts at the ports, as compared with last
year, has run up to the figure of
something over 100,000 bales. Against
this, it is alleged that some increase has
gone overland to American spinners, but
the data on this head are not very reliable.
It must be admitted that these figures give
a far smaller crop than was once expected;
indeed, it is difficult to avoid the inference
that the total will fall below last year. At
all events, it seems pretty certain that the
reoeipts at the ports will do so —perhaps to
a very considerable . xtent. No doubt it is
still alleged by some parties iu America
that receipts are held back in the
interior partly from bad roads and
partly from a speculative spirit among
planters, but we do not think that this ex
planation can be relied upon; the, decline
in receipts has been so unifo:ui at all
points that it indicates apparently the ap
proaching exhaustion of the crop. Nor does
it seems at all likely that planters will hold
on to an article that is paying them a pro
fit of 100 per cent. As to the badness of
the roads, we believe that an unusual
amount of rain has fallen in the South, but
the same cause has made all the rivers
navigable, and thereby drained the most
distant sections, and we should think this
has compensated for any difficulty in haul
ing to interior depots. Altogether, we find
it impossible to believe that this year will
be so different from all past ones as to bring
to light a large amount of cottou during
April and May, when February and March
have shown a constant unbroken dwindling
of receipts, and that with full rivers and
most tempting prices to the planter. We
confess we see no valid ground for be
lieving that the receipts at the ports for
the remainder of the season will exceed
the same period last year, when they reach
ed about 250,000 bales.
When we look at the figures of foreign
exports the case seems more alarming.
There is now a deficiency of 300,0C0 bales
in the export to Great Britain, as compar
ed with last year, and also 30.0J0 bales to
the continent. We do not see how these
figures can be materially reduced. There
is only an < xcess of about 100,000 bales in
the American ports over last year; but
American spinners, we believe, will require
more than during the remainder of last
season and, therefore, we do not see how
the deficit in export to Europe can be less
than 250,000 bales of this crop, and it may
be considerably more, and, further, it is
obvious that nearly all of it will fall upon
this country. A more alarming fact than
this it is difficult to conceive, for we were
stinted in our supply of American cottou
last year, so much that our stock in ware
house here was run down to one week’s
consumption before the new crop arrived,
and it is easy to perceive that a severe
economy must be practiced this year to cut
down the deliveries further by 200,000 or
250,000 bales.
When we return to other sources of
supply the prospects do not brighten.
The accounts from India that we most re
ly on reiterate what we stated in our last
issue, that the exports for this year will
fall largely below the past one. From
Egypt, Brazil and minor sources, we are
receiving about the same supply, so that it
seems more than likoly that tuc deficient
in our total import of cotton this year will
considerably exceed 250,000 bales. Mean
while spinners hold no stock here or on
the Continent. Stocks of goods, also, are
very low, so that there is no “buffer” to
break the effect of a famine supply of the
raw material.
Under these circumstances we mighj
calculate on much excitement and a heavy
rise of prices were the old speculative
spirit afloat io this country, but times are
much changed. The manufacturing inter
est is impoverished, the speculative spirit
is weak, and everyone dreads and depre
cates high prices, and lends as little help
as possible to force them up. The ship
pers of goods from Manchester got no en
couvagcmeDt from distant markets; India
remains stagnant, and returns considerably
less than current Manchester costs; most
of the foreign markets are in the same way,
and thpre is little probu’ lity of any urgent
demand for goods such as would rapidly
raise prices in Manchester Wo believe a
j very cautious spirit will prevail among
shippers of goods so long as these high
] prices last, and this will go far to check
i speculation in the raw material. Still it
! cannot be denied that some moderate ac
! tivity of trade is now due in Manchester,
i and if it be even sufficient to keep tbe
trade buying from our market 50,000 bales
per week, it will act upon prices.
A large export demand has fairly set in,
and as there is now great scarcity of cotton
on the Continent, and very little afloat
from America for that quarter, it seems
likely that a brisk demand may continue
for some time. These influences appear to
be in favor of our market, and, taken in con
nection with the miserably poor prospects
| of future supply, would seem to justify
; our present range of prices, and possibly
j some further advance sooner or later.
New York has fully ratified the Fifteenth
I Constitutional Amendment. The States
j which have ratified it are as follows:
Maine, Illinois,
Massachusetts, Wisconsin,
New York, Minnesota,
Pennsylvania, lowa,
West \ irginia, Missouri,
; North Carolina, Nebraska,
: South Carolina, Nevada,
Alabama, Arkansas,
Tennessee, Louisiana,
■ Florida, Kansas—2l.
' Michigan,
From Carroll County.—A Carrolton
| correspondent of the Newnan Herald says
I that four or five horses in the stable of
! Mr. John Bonner were found with their
, throats cut from ear to ear. Two months
ago his barn and gin-house were fired by
an old negro, who was convicted of the
crime and sentenced to four years in the
penitentiary. The destruction of the horses
is attributed to the the sons of the old col
ored incendiary.
The Cold Weather in Cherokee Ga.
—Since our last issue, says the Dalton
North Georgia Citizen, of the 15th inst.,
the weather has been disagreeably cold for
• the season —heavy frosts nearly every
morning— overcoats and big fires exceed
! ingly comfortable. What little fruit was
I left by the last cold “snap” has been killed
by the icy touch of Jack Frost. This is
bad news for fruit lovers; but “what can’t
j be cured must be endured.
The proposed bridge over the East river
at New York is estimated to cost $7,000,
j 000, and to require six years for its con
traction. It will be a mile in length.
NEW SERIES, YOL. XXYHI. NO. 17
OUR NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.
SPICIAI. COUWOSDINCI OF THE CHRONICLE dt SINT IS EL.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel :
New York, April 17, 1569.
Will there be war? Some of the politi
cians say yes. Most of the business meD
say no, and the latter, it is likely, have the
right. Wall street is qufet over the froth
and bubbling of Grant and his parasites,
taking hi* view of it, that war means a
new issue of bonds and a destruction of
what little American shipping there is left;
or, in one word —ruin. Hence, it is not
likely that the smoky little idiot in the
White House is to have his way. There
is much loose talk about his being for war,
but the fact is that he cannot declare war.
That is the province of Congress, and Con
gress will hardly dare, if only for the sake
of the security ofits own plunder, to ven
ture on such a step. Circumstances yet j
to arise may change this probability; but, |
as matters are as present, it may be set j
down that there will be no war —the more j
the pity,always provided that these rampant
braggarts who are so eager for it had to
fight it out. It might be found one thing
to insult a beaten, helpless man, and an
other to face an indignant enemy standing
full on his feet with his good sword in
hand. As to Cuba, the probabilities are
that Prim, who is about to repair thither
from Spain, will speedily put an end to the
trouble there. It the truth could be known
these heroic revolutionists, whereof we
hear so much, would, in all likelihood, j
dwindle down to some meagre handfuls of
carpet-bag Yankee adventurers, runaway
Cuban slaves, hair-brained native en- !■
thusiasts, and escaped jail-birds.
As to Canada, tbe other region threaten
ed by these robbers, so little attention is
paid to the howl and yell of the curs at
Washington, that when the Governor Gen
eral opened the session of the Dominion
Parliament on the 15th inst., he never
even so much as alluded to the existence of
the United States. Here it was, this
blessed “nation,” ready to eat up all
Canada before breakfast, and the Royal i
vice gerent took as little notice of it as a
game chicken takes of a quacking duck.
You will perceive that this in itsuif, is a
cause ot war, only there is that horrid ques
tion of repudiation that will pop up and 1
interpose a freezing negative on trooly loil
rage.
With a den of thieves in their Congress, j
ap ass as their President, a debauched old j
wheedling trickster in the good Judge |
Taney’s Chair, snubbed by England,
afraid to touch Cuba, afraid to touch j
Canada, in constant dread of repudiation
and that silent, steadfast, growing South,
with the old strength coming back to her
as did Sampson’s vigor when his looks
began to grow—what a speetaele, what a
miserable, degraded cenotaph of scorn
these people are ! They talk about fight
ing England, and of England being weak
because she has an Ireland. There is a
bigger Ireland here. They pfate of effete
Spain, and of lifting up Cuba to a “higher
plane.” Whatever the Spaniard’s fhult
he is at least a gentleman,and thac is some
thing most horribly rare in this “higher
plane.”
Quite a controversy is raging here on the.
m -ritH of the now reconstruction bill, file
World says that the whole thing is a cheat
and fraud and warns the people of Missis
sippi, Texas and Virginia by implication,
not to touch it. The seventh section of
the bill reads:
“That the proceedings in any of the
said States shall not be deemed final or
operative as a complete restoration thereof,
until their action respectively shall be ap
proved by Congress
On this the World thus proceeds:
“Now, as nothing is to be final, or ope
rate as a complete restoration until
approved by Congress, it is be to the
Congressional approval, and not the popu
lar act in any or all of these three States,
that is to do the work. Will Congress ap
prove the defeat of the so called constitu
tions in whole or in part, or the election of
a Conservative Governor, or of a Legisla
ture that will not ratify the negro-equality
amendment, or of Democratic Representa
tives, United States'Senators, or State of
ficers? We trow not. He who thinks so
is wilfully blind to the tempef and stupid
ly ignorant of tbe record of that body.
Alabama and Arkansas defeated their
bogus constitutions, and yet those instru
ments were unblushingly declared carried.
Georgia elected two persons of respectabili
ty to be United States Senators, and their
admission was, and is, shamelessly and
fraudulently denied. Louisiana elected a
full Democratic delegation to the Forty
first Congress, and not one of the number
has been, or wiii be, admitted. South
Carolina presented a mixed delegation, and
the misrepresentatives were taken and the
representatives left. Mississippi, Texas
and Virginia have, within these few weeks
past, seen every single one of their State
officers ejected by an act of Congress which
bases the right to hold State office on
a pledged adherence to Radical in
terests. These are things that
are of record and not to be denied. The
Times dare not for its reputation deny
them, or any of them! and yet it would
persuade the eitizms of these three out
lying States that their will, as expressed
at the ballot-box, is to be the law. Why,
this very seventh section we have quoted
gives a point blank contradiction to such a
view, It is expressly stated that not the
ballot-box, but the Congressional approv
al, is to decide all that here is to be decided.
Letthe vote go as it will, nothing is to
stand until Congress be willing to have it
stand. What the citizens of these States
may do under those oircumstrnces, is for
them to say; but this abominable system of
fraud shall not go before them without at
least one voice of protestation, exposure
and warning.
The Times and Tribune are very much
distressed at this leading article in the
World, and are trying by delusive promises
and specious pretences—for logic is a thing
they never even aspire to—to make it ap
pear that everything will be lovely in these
three States, and the whole land now with
milk and honey if they will only go into the
election.
You will perceive the World only hints
at and does not advise non-action, but it
should have advised it toto corpore. The
flutter that the bare idea excites in the
enemy is evidence enough that it hurts.
The Times unwittingly exposes the aim of
its party in saying the copperheads and
rebels want these States to stay out in the
cold “rather than by any action to make
themselves parties to Reconstruction."
That is precisely it, to be participes crimi
nis, or not to be? As to Doing out in the
cold, better out in the cold than to be
roasted, like the reconstructed States, in
hell-fire!
The long lingering Spring seems coming
at last, though now, when Georgia is, no
doubt, a bed of flowers, there is hardly a
bud to be seen here It is a fearful place,
the big town, with its death-like Winters,
its late, damp bprings, is furnace Sum
mer. And yet through it all the gay life
surges on, shows itself in gay young dan
dies and pasty-faced misses, in dashing
equipages and noble dwellings, in glare and
crash, and glitter, all things that make dis
play, and almost nothing that satifies the
heart. Tyrone Powers.
,Sickles and Grant.
(Correspondence of the New York Hcrai'l.)
\ Washington, April 14 —lt is statea
| that General Sickles had an interview with
! the President to day of rather a spicy
i character. 11 appears that when Sickles
declined the mission to Mexico, the Presi
; dent promised him the mission to Spain.
! and even went so far as to put his name
j down for the place. Sickles went away
under the impression that he was booked
i for Spain, and gave himself no further
! trouble anout it. The next be heard was
that Sanford had been nominated for the
place. Sick le3 went to the President to
! day for an explanation. The President
told him that tyhen he promised him Spain
he fully intended to g : ve it. Sumner,
Anthony and a few oilier Senators had
come to him and insisted that Sanford,who
had been removed from Brussels, should
be transferred to Spain, and they were so
importunate that he could not avoid grant
ing their request. Sickles (so the story
goes), wound up by giving the President a
! piece of his mind. There is great opposi
tion to Sanford in and ou: of the Senate,
and there are some doubts n w of his con
firmation. He has beeu eight years out of
the country , and during all that time has
held the comfortable place of Minister a’
Brussels. Gen, Sickles’ friends say that
something is due him not only for his
services during the war, but in the late
Presidential campaign. If anything was
ever due Sanford, they argue that ho has
! been fully paid, and that he should give
way to the superior claims of Sickles.
Death of two Old Citizens. —lt is
with sorrowful regret that we announce
j to the readers of this column the deaths of
: George H. Traylor and John T. Boykin—
the former of whom died at his home on
; Friday last of dropsy ; the latter, on the
Tuesday following, stricken down by para
[ lysis while going over hie farm, and found
dead where he fell. — LaGrange Reporter.
OUK TRAVELLING CORRESPONDENCE.
On the Winu, April 17,18C9.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
The Hancock Superior Court convened
in Sparta on the 12th instant. Judge
Andrews presiding.
In the charge of his Honor to the Grand
Jury he showed a determination on his
part to vindicate the laws, and to make
the courts efficient in suppressing the
crimes that curse the country. His ap
peal to their honor, intelligent and pa
triotism, love of government and good
order should not be without its effect. If
Judge Andrews is sustained by the juries
in his Circuit anew leaf will be turned
I over in the disposition ot criminals, and
| an end to the plea for mobocracy.
I have observed quite a change in this
respect already, and think, if the new jury
j system i9 strictly adherred to, the
law will be made a “terror to evil doers,”
and crime will abate.
There was an immense gathering of the
people on Tuesday, the day appointed for
the trial of a murder case, in which there
had been some two or three failures at
previous courts. The Judge ordered every
man in the county summoned, who had .not
been on previous trials, still it was found
thatajury could not be made up according
to law, and the case will be moved perhaps
to Wilkes. The case of the Staters. Evans,
charged with an assault upon a white
woman with an intent to murder, was
argued by Messrs Stephens for the proseou
tion. and Little for the defence. This case
. excited great feeling and interest, and the
able, eloquent and powerful speeches of
these gentleman were listened to
by a crowded Courthouse, and
their efferts were highly complimented.
Judge Stephens is well known to the pub
lic as an able jurist, but this young man,
Little, is fast upon his heels; has won an
enviable reputation, and is destined to a
high position and career of success before
the bar of the country. The amount of
business in his hands is an evidence of
merited confidence and trust, and his skill
in its disposition will tell upon his future
piactice. The Jury were out two days on
the case above mentioned, and could not
agree, so it lies over for trial at the next
term of the Court.
Hancock county,l have no doubt, is com
j posed of some of the most successful and
thrifty farmers in the State of Georgia.
! There are many Dicksons whose names
have never gone before the public, who are
not fat behind if not equal to him, in their
i achievments, though I believe they all
yield the palm to our friend David, which
he deserves. There is more of scientific,
systematic, and thorough development of
the farming interest every way than is com
mon in this country. Men of intelligence
and moral worth instead of devoting them
selves to manufacture, commerce and tho
various pursuits of the business world,
have adopted the more honorable than all
others, the cultivation of the soil. Jud e
Harris, Colonel Turner, and many others,
are among this number.
By the way, the man that wanted to go
where manual labor was honorable might
move to Hancock. My friend, Dr. P.,
informs me that there was not a single
loafer iu the town cf Sparta, and through
out the county the people were faithfully
at work. This accounts for tho peqpe and
good order that prevails. Even the ladies
have thrown off their jewels, diamond
trinkets and costly attire and gone to work.
The cook-kitchen and the table, the bed
room and the parlor, all exhibit their su
perior taste and refinement. What a noble
example ! What a tribute to the memory
of their chivalrous dead, and how worthy
the objects for which the great sacrifice was
made. With such a consecration of virtue,
intelligence and energy wiiat may we prom
ise the future ? While tho course of God
is upon the slothful and sluggish His bless
ing will rest upon tho honest laborers to
mate their land bloom and blossom as the
rose,
I am under many obligations to my
friends in Sparta for their hospitality and
kindness, and shall be glad when the time
comes to visit them again. Had l have
accepted all thq invitations to dine, to tea,
etc , I should have spent but little time
with our excellent friends, Messrs. Cothren
& Watkins, of the Edwards House, which,
bv the way, is one of tho best hotels in
Middle Georgia.
An arduous week’s work is ended,
twenty-three miles to go, and the train,
owing to extra quantities of freight to
discharge, is twelve or fifteen minutes bft
hindjjtime. With a erowd of passengers'
aboard, wo are soon under way. The
clouds are flying through the heavens, the
trees, hiils and valleys, dancing to ihe
music of the train, and in vain the sky
larks beat the air, in their race with the
iron horse, but he that yields times
problem to none other than the lightnings
of heaven was triumphant in the struggle,
and made twenty-three miles in thirty
five minutes. When passengers all arriv
ed at Milledgeville in ample time, they
doubtless felt like shouting three cheers
for the Macon & Augusta Road.
Traveller.
Georgia Items.
Macon and Brunswick Road.—
Twenty additional miles of this road have
just been completed, and the trains are
now running over it daily.
Clearance of tiie “Petersburg”—
Cotton for Liverpool and Cronstadt
Direct.—Messrs. W. M. Tunno & Cos.,
j esterday cleared the steamship Peters
harg (Br.), 1,768 tons, Captain H. L.
Hanson, for the above ports direct, with a
cargo consisting as follows : To Liverpool
2,357 bales of upland '.cotton, weighing
1,092,438 pounds valued at $354,073 54,
and 281 bags of sea island cotton, weighing
82,446 pounds, valued at $56,474 12. To
Cronstadt, 974 bales upland cotton, weigh
ing 436,297 pounds valued at $122,505.
Total number of bales and bags 3,612. To
tal weight 1,612,181 pounds. Total value
of the staple $634,052 66.
Export of Vegetables to Northern
Markets. —We noticed yesterday on
Murray’s wharf a number of crates of
green peas, all of fine size and in excellent
condition. The Leo took them to New
York yesterday afternoon. Thus has com
menced the export of vegetables to North
ern markets. Last season considerable
business was done in these articles —the
Florida steamers bringing large quantities
of peas, tomatoes, and cucumbers—the
two latter being in the heaviest quantities.
The Leo on the voyage last year took up
ward of 3,000 orates and packages of veg
etables. Whether this season will compare
with the last yield remains to be seen.—
Savannah Republican, 21.
Seeking Investment.—We are pleased
to notice that Messrs. Mclntyre & Son, of
Pennsylvania, are at the National, and
will stop in the Gate City for a few days.
They are travelling through the South
seeking for profitable investment. We
trust that they will soon locate here.—
Atlanta Constitution, 19th.
Washington, April 19.—Bullock’s pol
icy forever dead. Let the press and the
people discourage all violence.
Samuel Bard,
J. H. Caldwell,
Thomas G. Simms.
[Atlanta Erie, 20th.
Subscription or No Subscription.—
We learn that on Saturday next, the 24th
instant, the question of a subscription of
$25,000by this city, for stock in the Sa-
I v innah, Griffin and North Alabama Rail
r .ad, will be submitted to the people for
I sanction or disapproval. We hope the
people will look well to the future interest
of the city in this election, as very much
depends upon it. — Middle Georgian, 20 th.
Health and pleasure seekers are begin
ning to resort to the Indian Springs. We
noticed several arrivals in Forsyth Put
week- all booked for the village of Mc-
Intosh. Those posted in such matters
predict that the season now abont opening
will be unusually gay.— Monroe Advertiser,
20th.
Sambo in the Ascendant.—The negro
appointments continue, but, singular
enough, they are all confined to offices in
the South. When a Northern negro is
appointed, he is sent out of the country.
The New Y ork Sun’s special thus tells
how a Georgia negro was put through the
mill, coming out a full fledged Assessor of
the Revenue:
“A colored man who reached here last
night from Georgia, called this morning on
| Senator Sumner, who accompanied him to
; the Internal Revenue Department, and by
I noon, he had been made an Assessor of
I Internal Revenue.”— Savannah Rep.
This is the colored “gemman” who is
to preside over the Departments in the
Third District, which embraces Augusta
as headquarters.
Joe Brown’s Prophecy.—The Colum
bus Sun says: “If something is not done
to check the corruption now rampant, the
time allowed by Joseph Brown for Bullock
to bankrupt the State will be proven to
have been far too great,”