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Gi.anoh.—The ait nlioo of planters is
directed to the advcr;iv:mcnt of Messrs.
■I. Sibley & Sons 1n another colamn, They
have the pure No. I Peruvian Guano,
Whitlock’s celebrated ‘ Vegetator,” Oak
ley Mills, Flour of Kaw Bone, and Land
Plaster. Ties- excellent fertilizers will be
kept constantly on hand by this firm.
Mary Ann Hie Institute Welearn
that Miss Buie, the “ Confederateßjldiers’
Friend." has moved her Institute to Guy
ton, No. 3, Central Railroad, Georgia.
The location i« decidedly a good one, being
very healthy, and having the advantages
of the Railroad which passes through the
place, Mi s Bate informs us that she stiil
educates soldiers' orphans (rco of charge.
Sequel ok the Covvhijung.— A special
dispatch Irom GYihrijbia to the Charleston
An/:*, says the -quel of the Radical “per
ooal difficulty" occurred ye-iterday after
noon at the Columbia Hotel. Kavauagh,
the victim of the negro cowhi ling scrapo
of Friday afternoon, encountered H ibbard,
the ~i .titled chief oonstaUo of Governor
Scott, and upbraided him with having in-
Htigat -d the b ack A -i taut Adjutarit-
Gcneral to th courui^ion of the assault
ol which your read r> have already had in
aocouii . Some wird« ensued, when
Kavanagh seize! Hubbard and vigorously
I lied that fun tionary with blows and
abuse until Hubbard succeeded in arrest
ing bis assailant, whom ho consigned to
pleasant quarters in the guardhouse.
A Hard Winter Com ing.— Scientific
men, observant woodsmen, o ! d huuicrsanJ
other wc.itln rvvise individuals predict that
the coming Winter will be of unusual rigor.
To the We.i and Northwest the beaver*
and prairie dogs 1 aye commenced their
preparations lor frost much earlier than is
their tv tit; and on the Atlantic coast the
frequent storms are harbingers of the
wrathful e ll to come. The Winter of
1859-60 was remarkably mild, only par
alleled by the Wint rs ol 1822, ’2 and ’34.
>-ince 1859-60 the years havo been quite
warm, dry and clear, corresponding with a
singularly light, pressure of the barometer.
It seems that we are to pay for all those
benefactions, and the Winter of 1869 70
will tell severely upon Urge portions of
this country.
A Cotton Ring Bkinu Fokmud.—We
notice floating tlirougn our Northern ex
changes a rumor of a movement among
the commercial gamhlersof New .York city
in which the people of the South are deep
ly intero-t 1. It is said, that undismayed
by the recent gold panic which convulsod
VVall street and sent so many different
‘'rings" to "almighty smash,” a cotton
ring is being formed in New York, the ob
ject of which is to concert a seliemo by
which a handsome thing cau bo made out
ol tho cotton crop of the Southern States.
The combination will proceed at onoe ac
tively to work in the prosecution of this
plan and endeavor, by tho employment of
the many and powerful rnoaus iu the oon
trol of tho ring, to get up a “bear” move
ment in ooMod, whioh will have tho effect
of forcing the price of the staplo down to
oightoen or twenty cents pcr'pouud. When
this iHsuii, has been aoo<'’nplisbod, large j
purchases will be made by the operators 1
in tho anticipation of realizing thirty i
cents per pound by tho first of next June
Thore may be no troth in this re. ort,
though it, is very circumstantially stated ;
but to bo forewarned is to be forearmed
ami tho initiatory movements of the
proposed cotton ring may beoasily decided
by the parties interested.
Outrage by Federal Soldiers in
Waurenton.—From Warrenton wo Ret
information of a most brutal outrage per
petrated in that vil’ago ou last Monday
night by Federal soldiers, a portion of tho
garrison whioh has been a'ationed in War
ren oounty (or a long time.
It appears that at a late hour on Mon- i
day night a party of United States soldiers !
—fifteen or sixteen in number—visited the i
house where Mr. Fid. Cody resided, forced j
an entrance into it and took Mr. Cody j
away with them by force. Thor intention ;
was ev dently to murder him, but they I
were disappointed in their dcsigus; for ■
while they were oarryiug him to tho woods
the prisoner managed to free himself and
sought safety in flight. As he ran the j
soldiers tired n volley alter him, two of the
shots how whioh took efe t on his person.
Despite this, however, he continued to run
and succeeded in making his escape. The j
wounds are uot very serious. The affair j
has been reported by the Sheriff of the
county to Col. Hull, tho Commandant of i
the garrison, who has promised to ferret <
out the authors of the outrage.
The Latest Fenian Flurry.—The To
ronto T< fegruph of the 20th iust. makes
the following explanation:
There is no sign of a Fenian raid at
Goderich or anywhere else. This we learn
by special private dispatches from differ
ent quarters- The probability therefore
is. that tho Adjutant General gave the
order to turn out as much with the view of
te-tmg the preparedness of the men and
their officers as from any other or more
alarming cause. All is quiet at Goderich,
and wo are about as confident as we can be
of anythin?, that all will remain quiet, so
far as the F’euians are concerned.
“ Fur More Money Into It.''—lt is
said that many years ago the Proprietor of
the American Agni-ulturist asked a friend
of his, an 0 1J experienced Publisher, how
he should promote the welfare of his
journal. After sundry remarks, to the
effect that people would in the long run
patronise that journal whioh really contains
tho most valuable reading matter, and that
tho only way to secure this was to spare no
lil l or expense in obtaining the best men
and the best information that money could
buy, his friend closed by saying he would
sum up hi« advice as to the way to make
the American Agriculturist the best and
most popular paper in the country—under
three head o , vis: "Ist. Piit money into
it —2d. Put more money into it. —3d.
Put some more money into ft.”—That- ad
vice seems to have been followed. No
other mouthly journal or magaaine is got
up at greater expense ol labor and money
than the Agrictdl irist. Every page shows
this- Its I autiful, pleasing, and instruct
ive Engravings cost about SI,OOO in each
number ! Its ample pages are filled with
carefully prepared reading matter, abound*
ing in information useful to all classes,
whether in the City, Village, cr Country.
A large force of the best practical men and
women are constantly employed in gather
ing, and sitting, and condensing informa
tion. iet while prepared at a oost ex
ceeding that ot the $4 and $5 magazines,
the American Agriculturist, owing to the
large patronage it enjoys, is supplied at
$1.50 per annum, or four copies for $5,
and at still less to large Clubs. And those
subscribing now get the paper from date
of subscription to the end of 1870 at the
price of a year. We advise all our readers
to avail themselves of the oportunity, and
subscribe now. They will finu it a good
investment. The Publishers are Orange
• Jutld A Cos., 245 Broadway, N. Y, City.
The Burning of Gin Houser.
We hardly take up one of our Southern
exchanges without noticing an account of
the destruction by fire of gin houses. In
this State, the number destroyed this Fail
has been so great as to attraet very general
; attention. Among the long list that we
: have noticed, we find but few in which the
j loss is attributed to incendiarism. In a
very large majority of cases “matches”
I left in the ootton baskets, through the
carelessness of the freedmen,have been the
cause of the fires.
This is a very important matter and de
mauds the wisest action on the part of our
planting friends. The remedy which ap
parently suggests itself is to prohibit the
carrying of matches in the fields while the
picking is progressing. Tbis cannot well
be enforced. Almost or quite three-fourths
of the negro laborers, m ile and female, are
inveterate smokers. Even ia the days of
slavery it was very difficult to prevent
smoking in the fields, and now we are in
clined to think it would be quite impossible.
So long as the negro smokes, just so long
will he always manage to get lire for his
pipe. No rules or regulations which may
be established will prevent this evil of field
smoking. The practice may be, to a con
sideiable extent, abated if all employers
will put such a stipulation in their con'
tracts. Yet even then there will always i
be considerable danger from this qau »e j
alone. No one working under such a con
tract would feel entirely safe, for the unre- i
liability of the freedmen in regard to the I
obligations of their contracts generally, is :
too well known to all jw much faith to be
placed in a pledge of this sort.
We have seen in some of our exchanges
the suggestion that planters keep their
gin houses and a sufficient amount of cot
ton to cover possible loss constantly in
jured. To make such an insurance valua
bly under the system heretofore practiced
of accumulating large quantities in the gin
bouses, would require a large sum of
money and would besome a serious tax
upon the planter. To insure forty or fifty
bdles of cotton in a gin house on a cotton
plantation we imagine the premium would
be very high—indeed so high as to prevent
a general adoption of such a system.
We think the safest, cheapest and best
plan is fir planners to determine not to per
mit large quantities of cotton to accumu
late in the gin houses. The picking of
each dag should he ginned the next , and
packed that night, and rolled at some safe
distance, from the gin house By adopting
and adhering to such a rule a fire could at
no time do much damage. The greatest
loss would be in tho house and gin, and
theso could be constantly kept insured with
a small amount of cotton sufficient to covor
the loss of a day’s picking. We know seve
ral planters who havo adopted this rule, and
they feel really little apprehensions of loss
from fire. If all will do this, and then
use their utmost exertions to prevent field
smoking we should hear of few gin houses
burnt, and less loss when fires do occur.
Boulweil and the Texas Klcctlon.
Mr. Secretary Boutwell has issued an
order for the removal of every Treasury
official in Texas, who favors the election
of Hamilton. When we remember that the
whole army of Revenue officers are em
ployees of the Treasury Department, we
see what an immense influence will be cx
orted against Hamilton, by this order of
Mr. Boutwell. Notwithstanding this pow
erful influence, we have seen that the
people of Tennessoe and of Virginia were
able to defeat the Boutwell candidate, and
we do not entertain much lear for the re
sult iu Texas.
It would appear that General Grant has
really determined to support Dent in the
Mississippi contest. We think this quite
clear from the fact: that Boutwell has not
attempted to manipulate the Treasury
officials in that State. His interference in
the Texas contest, lias prompted the con
demn ition of Greeley, who, in a late issue
of the Tribune,ays ;
"We need not say that wo deplore the
“.nterference of Secretary Boutwell in the
“Texas election as alike .unwise and un
timely. We had hoped that his Tennes
“see experiment had taught him a lesson.
“We do not say that we object to his
“preference ofGcn. Hamilton’s antagonist;
“we only insist that the Administration
“shall not place itself in such a position as
“to win the iil-will of the successful party,
|‘and so secure its hostility to the XVth
“Amendment.”
It is very evident that whatever ability
Bout will mayiposessfor discover
ies in the ‘ ’hole in the sky, ”2 he has yet
much to learn boih as a statesman and as a
politician. His is a rule or ruin policy and
wo congratulate the country upou the fact
that he is likely to ruin the Radical pros
pects in Texas,
The Vacant Judgeship on the Supreme
Bench.
The latest information from Washington
seems to indica c that our facile and pliable
friend Lochrane will not secure the vacant
seaton the Supremo Bench without a
serious struggle. We know that he is an
adept in tho art ot honey fugling, and that
ail thatcan he accomplished by subserviency
to and fawning upon those in power will
be brought to bear in his favor, and if the
selection were confined to the limits of the
District his chances might be ranked as
“middling fair ” Unfortunately, how
ever, for the modest aspirations of this very
modest and unassuming sen of the Green
Isle, there are other parties who are fer
vently moved to offer their services to the
country in this particular affair. Among
those who have been recently named in
this connection we notice the name of the
woman murderer and brute Stanton.
| Ot course the valuable services rendered
by this bad man during the war will far
outweigh the proffered services of the
“Young Nobleman” in bringing the peo
ple of Georgia to the support of Grant’s
Administration. It Stauton really desires
the position Lochrane had as well “hang
| his harp upon the willows.” Blarney will
| go a long way with Grant we admit, but
when the record of Stanton's vile deeds are
placed in the balanoe with Lochraoe’s
blarney, the latter will be made to kick the
beam.
Notwithstanding Stanton's just claims
wuich we admit, upon Radicalism, we in
dulge the hope that he will oot receive the
appointment. Independent of the (act that
’.e is wholly unfitted for the position from
defects in his professional and moral en
dowments, his appointment to a Southern
district would be considered by the people
OTer whom he would be cal.ed to preside
as an intended and permanent insult.
Besides, there ean be no necessity for
going out of the District to obtain a
competent and thoroughly loyal man.
In this State alone we have
the present incumbent of the dis
trict bench, Judge Irskine, who would be
immeasurably more acceptable to the peo
ple than Santon. Judge Irskine, we be
lieve, has given very general satisfaction to
the people and the Bar during the term
he has presided in this district. He is
able, affaple and courteous to all who have
I business in his Court, and so fa; as we
know his decisions have generally met the
approval of the profession. Judge An
drews, Mr. Akerman and others who we
could name, would be also much more ac
ceptable to the people than the murderer
of Mrs. Surratt or poor Wirz.
.)( i> “rintino.—lf any of oar mer
r* at.i or professional men want first class
printing done, we invite them te call at this
office. We are now prepared to do work
as cheap and as good as any other office in
the city, having secured the services of
oempetent and experienced Workmen.
Biforc'jiie Grand Jury.
We are pleased to note the fact, that
’ Judge Ingraham’s suggestion totbeGrand
! Jury in New York, that they thoroughly
j investigate the cause of the late gold
I panic has been promptly acted upon.
The leading cbaractersin this bold swindle,
Gonld and Fi*k, have been summoned be
| fore the jury and the developments which
: they will make, promise to give a correct
i clue to the whole affair. Corbin,the Presi
-1 dent’s brother inlaw-rthe pious chevalier,
who did not l.ke to have his uame men
| tioned as an acquaintance of Fisk, who he
| thought rather a disreputable character —
will also be swort.
This investigation wi:l enable the coun
try to ascertain whether the influence or
co-operation of Grant’s administration has
been used to further the interests of near
relatives of his family. In this view alon.e
the investigation will be an important one,
and its results looked for with much in
terest by the whole people. We have never
been able to bring ourselves to the belief,
that General Grant himself, has personally
embarked in this bold and reckless swindle-
We have thought the evidence very strong,
however, in Favor of the theory, that the
influence of the Government had been used
with or with mt his knowledge or conniv
ance for the benefit of certain parties near
to him by the ties of blood or marriage.
This investigation will clear up all doubts
on the subject, and if General Grant is not
implicated in the fraud, we should be very
much gratified.
Senator Cooper of Tennessre.
The Nashville Union & American gives
the following biographical sketch of the
Hon. Henry Cooper, Senator elect from
Tennesse. :
“The Hon. Henrj Cooper, Senator elect
from Tennessee for the term commencing
on the fourth of March, 1871, was born in
Columbia, Maury c >unty, in this State, On
the22d of August, 1827. His father, who
is yet living at a venerable age, was a citi
zen of high standing and repute as long
since as the date of the birth of the son
who has ju-t attained the high distinction
of Senator. Hia paternal ancestry were
early inhabitants of this region, the grand
father in that line being a settler in tlays
boro, in this county. Tire maternal stock
were immigrants to this State Irom South
Carolina—the Friersons—a family of ex
tensive connection and high respectability.
Judge Cooper, the Senator, is a younger
brother of the Hon. W. F. Cooqer, of this
city, and the Hon. Edmund Coopar, of
Bedford county. The former was elected
a Judge of the Supreme Court ia 1861,
and the latter was a member of Congress
from 1865 to 1867, and was Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury in the latter part
of Mr. Johnson’s administration.
"Judge Cooper was educated at Jackson
Collegejat Columbia, and studied law at
Shelbyville with his brother Edtn ind, and
commenced the practice of his profession
in connection with him at that place. His
first public service was in the General As
sembly of 1853-4 as the Representative of
tbe Fioatorial district of Bedford and
Rutherford. In 1867, he was the Repre
sentative of Bedford county. At the out
break of the war in 1861, hs declared him
self an adherent of the Union cause, and
maintained that position throughout the
contest. In 1862, he was aopointed Judge
by Gov. Johnson of the Judicial Circuit
in which he resided, and lull that office
until 1867. In the early part of that year,
ho resigned the Judgeship to accept the
Professorship in the LebannonLaw School
made vacant by tbe death of tbe venerable
Nathan Green. Last year he removed to
this city and engaged in the practice o: hi
profession; and in August of this year was
elected to the State Senate from tbis
county.
“In the political nomenclature of former
days, Jrdge Cooper was a Whig As
Circuit Judge, he delivered the opinion on
the constitutionality of the franchise acts
of this State in tbe ease of Ridley vs. Sher
brook in 1866 —a decision which was sub
sequently overruled by the Supreme Court,
and involving questions yet pending for
final adjudication in the Supreme Court of
the United States.”
Boston Tired of the Tariff.
The special committee appointed by the
last Congress to inquire into tbe causes of
the great decline in our shipping interests,
receutly held a session in Boston, aud called
before it a number of leading ship-builders
and owners, who gave their testimony as
to the cause of the present serious depres
sion of our ship-building and naval in
terests.
It is carious to note that every one of
these Boston ship-builders attribute their
loss of business to the tariff, navigation
and other unjust legislative acts of the j
Radical Congress. For the first time, Bos
ton protests in strong terms against the
present iniquitous tariff law, and demands
that a serious reduction in the rates be
made at once. The cost of ship-building j
now, as compared with the period before |
the war and the accession of the Radical |
party to power in the Govcrhment, issbowo
to be more than fifty per cent greater,
owing to the enormous duties imposed on
the materials used in the construction and
rigging of ships.
Before the war the average price per ;
ton was about fifty dollars, now it is over i
eighty. The cost of building a first-chss j
iron ship ready for sea in Great Britain, is |
fourteen pounds per ton. Here the cost is j
upward of twenty-two pounds per ton. Mr- ]
Nathauiel McCay, brother of the famous S
Clyde ship-builder, states that the j
cost of constructing a first first-class iron
steamship in this country is over double :
what it is in Great Britain, and thinks - '
this excess of cost is mainly attributable to
the enormous duties imposed on ship ma
terials by our present tariff laws.
The tonnage of the United States before
the war had reached 5,500,000 tons, and
had grown considerably over the entire ton
j nage of Great Britain. Now, our tonnage"
; has gone down to 4,200,000 tons, while the
S English tonnage has gone up to 7,300,000
I tons, or neeirly double our whole tonnage.
Our coasting trade has suffered from the
i same cause, and more especially, as these
I Boston Republicans say, because of the
| enormous tariff on wool, salt and other ar-
I tides of extensive home consumption, and
, they recommend the total abolition ot ail
customs on these hading articles of general
j consumption.
We take theve statements of the so'id
men of the “ Hub ” in favor of a reduc
tion in tariff rates, as altogether favorable
ito i great change in the tariff laws. The
W est and South have always opposed such
i ruinous rates, and every increase of our
customs dues has been effected by the com
-1 biued strength of the East operating with
■ the iron masters and wool growers of
Pennsylvania and the West. Now the
East must have cheap iron, and cheap
woolens. These can be had only by a re
duction of the duties on these articles.
Let us hope that when the revision of the
present rates begins,that redutrions will be
made in the interests of all parts of the
country.
Sickles’ Blunder In Spain.
The New York Times has a long letter
from Washington vindicating the course
of Sickles and throwing the blame of his
recent fiasco, in relation to Cuban affairs,
on the Administration, and particularly
upon Mr. Fish, Secretary of State.
The statement is to the effect that Gen-
Prim, throagha Mr. Paul Forbes, of New
York, and a particular friend of Count
Reus, communicated to our Government
his desire that an offer for mediation should
be made by the United States upon the
i basis of Cuban independence, and the pay
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 3, 1869.
| ment by Cuba to the Spanish Government
1 of a sum of money to bo agreed upon by
the parties, which latter sum was to be
guaranteed by the Government of the
! United States. This plan of settlement
was agreed to by our Government ann
i after General Sickles left for Madrid was
sect to him to be formally submitted to the
Spanish Government-
Prim subsequently became satisfied that
the Spanish people would not consent to
i such a settlement, and withdrew hia offer
of support, aDdso advised Forbes,who had
gone to Madrid and was then the rekl ne
gotiator for our Government.
Sickles, however, with his usual nlander
ing propensities, insisted upon carrying
out hisinstructions and delivered his now fa
mous “note” in which he even went beyond
the original basis of the Fish-Fuibes ne
gotiations. This greatly excited the Span
ish mind, and the pressure on Prim among
his own people was so great,that a request
was made to our Government for the with
drawal of Sickles’ imprudent note.
Under this now phase of Caban affairs,
General Grant directed Sickles to withdraw
his proposition for the mediation of the
United States, and this having been done,
the Spanish mind has become more quiet,
and the hope is again entertamed that ne
gotiations may at no distant day be again
reopened for a final settlement of jthe Cu
ban question. The recent action of our
Government in running down the several
warlike expeditions lately fitted out in this
country for operations in Cuba, has been
mainly dictated by a desire to show Spain
that, while the United States are anxious
for Cuban independence, this Government
is not disposed to permit a violation of the
neutrality laws, and our treaty obligations
to Spain. Tbis conduct of the United States
must necessarily placate the ire of Spain,
and we hope, in the end, lead to a final
settlement of the Cuban question upon the
basis of Cuban independence.
Love and Marriage In Utah.
A correspondent of the New York World
writing from Salt Lake City gives the fol
lowing statement in regard to the marriage
relation in Brigham Young’s dominions :
The marriages as now existing in the
Church of the Latter-Day Saints are a vile
mockery. For instance, an elder in the
church, or one of the ap sties, desires to
marry, and one of his neighbors has a
daughter. He informs tbe neighbor that
God has directed him to take her for a
wife, and, although she may at the
same time be engaged to a man of her own
choice, she is compelled to submit. This is
not often the case, but there are six in
stances now in my mind where elders in
the Mormon church have married young
girls under these circumstances, the mar
riage ceremony beiDg performed by the
elders themselves. In other cases the cere
mony is performed by an elder or bishop
in whatever parish the party may live.
Ot'-cn marriages are performed by means
of a spiritual letter from Brigham Young,
said by him to be specially endowed with
power from God. This, very naturally,
seems impossible, bat when one has ocular
evidence of the truth of it, he is compelled
to believe. • A young man, a personal
friend of mine—a Mormon—was to be mar
ried last Spring, but when the day came
Brigham was away in the lower part ol
tho Territory attending to matters pertain
ing to his mills. Not wishing to wait until
his roturn, myfriend wrote to one ofßrig
ham’s counsellors, requesting permission i
to marry and also to be married. Brigham |
replied, through the medium ofhisSecre- j
lary, that it was not necessary for him j
(Brigham) to bo present, but that, as tho I
prophet of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
Saints, he pronounced them man and wife.
My friend- -poor ignorant fellow that he j
was—so firmly believed in his religion,that
he imagined what Brigham said was the
word ol God, and went to house-keeping.
So implicitly do the people of Utah Ter
ritory believe in their religion and the doc
trine of marriage and polygamy,as preach
ed by Brigham Young and his self-ap
pointed apostles, elders, and bishops, that
in many cases men take wives merely as
matter of form, and a young girl over
seventeen'years of age who is unmarried is
not considered a good member ot the
church, and is looked upon with horror by
her companions. When a man marries one
member of a family where there are
younger sisters, he enters into an agree- ’
ment to marry each as they become ol age,
and, with the full consent of the parents
and all relatives concerned, ofttimes
takes her into his own house and instructs
her in the duties of married life. This is
of daily occurrence. In nearly all the
■ poorer, families of Mormons, if they
have only a roof over their head, and
the wife has many sisters, the husband al
most invariably endeavors to make accomo
dations for them. By dint of perseverance
and frugality, he managei to accommodate
a sufficiency to be married and support the
next sister arriving at maturity. Thus it
continues, from one to the other, until all
are married, when they separate to differ
ent bouses, and with jealousy and envy
watch each other’s advancement.
The only love which exists in the Church
of “Moroni’ ’ in married life is the love of
a mother to her offspring, or the love of
the first wife to her husband.
I heard a Mormon lady of great intelli
gence, a leader of one of the ladies’ co-op
erative societies in Salt Lake City, whose |
husband had four wives besides herself |
(she being the first), say, upon being ask- j
ed why she never went out with her hus
band to the theatre or other places of j
amusement, that when she was first mar
ried she loved her husband, but as she
now saw so little of him, and as he appa- |
rently thought so little o : her children, she j
enjoyed more comfort with the latter than 1
with him. And yet these self-same wo
men will defend their husband’s honor and
standing in society with all the ardor and !
vigor of a Gentile wife. Truly, polygamy j
and married life in Utah Territory are a
mystery.
Solomon’s Bitters, —Although but re- j
cently introduced into our city, these Bit
ters have won an enviable reputation for j
efficacy and virtue, as a tonic and invogor- I
a tor Many of our citizens have given it
a (rial, and have pronounced in its favor. |
In this c ncection the following description ,
of a visit to the Laboratory of the pro- j
prietors, will be read with interest-
A Visit to the Laboratory of
Messrs. A. A. Solomon & Co.—How
Solomon’s Bitters are Made.—Prob
ably no undertaking has met with so great
success as the one which we are now about
to notice : an enterprise which proves in
itself that there are energetic, far-seeing 1
men in our city, who properly realize the ,
changes which have been Drought about in
a few years, and that Savannah is no long
er a country town, dependent for its j
prosperity on the good will and little capi- !
tal of a limited circle of old fogies. Every j
street demonstrates that we are a live peo
ple, as ready to be benefited by the many
wants of a progressive age, as our coun
trymen further north. The people of this
great nation have looked with wonder up
on the colossal fortunes aecummuiated in a
few years by the manufacturers ot various
articles, manyot whose Dames have become
household words, and whose advertise
ments can be read on every hillside, fence
and railroad station from Maine to Oregon.
But these names, though known to us,
convey no idea of the features of those
who bear them, but the manufacturers of
the article which we are about to speak
of, are Known to us for years, and
whose prosperity all are glad to see.
Messrs. A. A. Solomons & Cos. have in
a few months become as well known through
their “Bitters” as Presidential candidate o
became by means cf their party organs, and
though “everybody uses Solimon’s Bit
ters," few there are who think for a mo
ment hoW many processes that clear fluid .
must pass through, and how often that now
well known blue bottle must be handled be 4 1
fore it reaches those who are to be benefit
ted by its use. As one of a privileged class, '
i we visited the laboratory a few days since, !
and, under the guidance of Mr. M. J. Sol- 1
: omons (the Alderman), saw the Bitters
manufactured. Mr. S. conducted us to |
the third floor of the manufactory, where
> the bitters first “commenced its career.” I
In this department are fifty vats ; in these
the ingredients are placed and allowed to
maSeerate for fifteen days, after which the
- liquid is gradually drawn off and passed
’ through tour successive filterers, entering
the first as thick liquid, and emerging from
the last the article as it appears in
its merchantable state. From the
! last filterer it passes into a vat
that sets immediately over the bottling
machine, in the room below- In order to
prevent overflow in the event of the ma- *
chine below ceasing operations, this vat is
provided with a floating, self-adjust.ng
spigot, which, although the pressure on it
j is equal to one hundred and fifty gallons,
■ shots off the supply of Bitters whenever
lit is threatened with an (overflow. From ’
■ this room we pass so the second floor.
This is a busy place—filled with men, boys,
and blue bottles. As w*c enter, ttfo men
are engaged in transferring bottles from a
large hogshead into the washing trough,
for every one must be perfectly clean.
The trough holds forty dozen bottles.
After they are was ted, they are placed in
the dripping rack, aod when dry are pass
ed in the bottling machine, which stands
|at the further end of the room. Thu ma
chine fills fifty dozen bottles per hoar.
The bottle passes to the corker, and event
! u.Uy finds its way along a table which ex
j tends to the other end of the room, suc
cessively passing through the hands of men,
who one after another, and in order, puts
on the “stopper labtl,” “front and back
labels” and “outside wrapper,” and is de
posited on a shelf, whence it is taken to be
packed in boxes for shipment. The boxes
thu filled are lowered below to the business
floor where they are branded. 0 i the
street floor the “business” of the Bitters
receive attention.
Here we may as well mention that j
Messrs. Solomons have an advertising de
partment, under the charge of Mr. W. E.
White, who attends to everything in that j
j line, And in the same connection we I
would also mention pro bono publico, that j
1 the firm spent nearly SIO,OOO in advertis
ing the Bitters before they commenced its
manufacture. !n the basement is a car- \
penter shop where the packing boxes are
made, and it takes a great many of them
to hold the three thous nd dozen bottles
of the Bitters that are sold-.-very month,
As we said before, this.enterprise de
serves the success that it has rat t with,
and it is not surprising that oth#- Bitters
h ave ceased to be called for in th/s sectio;*,
for aside from the energetic and unceasing
endeavor- 01. the manufacturers to put it
and keep it before th; people, it has al
ready achieved a reputation second to that
of no other Bitters that have ever been
offered to the public. Not unpleasant
to the taste, they make au agreeable bev
erage, while their medical qualities render
Solomon’s Bitters the most effective tonic
that has yet been introduced.
OUR TRAVELLING CORRESPONDENT.
On tiie Wing, Oct. 2S, 1869.
Editors Chronicle <£ Sentinel:
Ou the arrival of the down night passen
ger trains at Stone Mountain, crowds of
women and boys, black and white, rush
aboard with hot coffee, biscuit and
chicken, boiled eggs, chestnuts, ground
peas, &c. On this occasion a fellow abaut
half corned, sat over in one corner of the
coach (perhaps to disguise his condition),
but not too far gone to be heedless of the
ravings of an empty stomach. He pur
chased three eggs for ten cent3, and in the
dark, cracked and doffed the shell and
commenced biting with au avidity cbarac
teristic of a hungry man. But the article
proving unwieldy to his masticators, lead
him to expose it to the light, which re
vealed the fact that instead of an egg, he
was engaged in eating a young chicken.
The passengers aboard enjoyed a hearty
laugh, and doubtless the victim of the im
position will be more cautious in the
future.
In company with the bench aud a re
spectable portion of the bar, we arrived at
Lexington on the 18th iast. Judge An
drews proceeded immediately with the
organization of his Court, ready for busi
ness on the coming day.
On the second day the Courthouse was
crowded, and a vigorous prosecution of
business entered upon. There were a great?
many cases for litigation ponding, some of
considerable magnitude, affording a dis
play for the orators of the bar, whioh
made the occasion quite interesting to
speculators. Perhaps the bar at Ogle
thorpe Court, is represented by the ablest
legal talent in Georgia. There are Messrs.
Toombs, Stephens, Hill, Reese, Mathews,
Lewis, Johnson, Reid, Thurmond and
Ackerman, who practice at this bar, and
add a great deal to the general interest,
among the’people, in intending the Court.
For eloquent and powerful appeal to the
Court and jury, i know of no lawyer on
the circuit that can excell Col. Mathews.
He is an orator ot no ordinary gifts, doubt
less more admired in the forum than at
the bar, yet on great issues involving life
or death, I have rarely heard his superior.
On Wednesday I heard a portion of a
case of suit for slander, the evidence in
which,though quite amusing, demon-trates
the utter incompetency of negro testimony.
A negro man swore that lie stole corn
from one man and conveyed it to another;
that he received no notice to be at Court,
but his conscience troubled him, and he
simply came before the Court to unbosom
himself and let it be known what he had
done. I thought he was about as honest
a negro as I had met up witn. It seems
that the plaintiff sued the defendant for
slander, in that defendant accused him
with being a corn-stealer. The amount of
damages to character was estimated by the
plaintiff and his attorneys at five thousand
dollars, but the jury only allowed one hun
dred, which I suppose they adjudged the
value of the character involved. I think
a man sadly mistaken when he attempts to
vindicate and establish his character in a
Court House. The truth is, ho never
knows the half of his meanness until law
yers begin to sift him before a jury. The
best sphere in which to mould and vindi
cate character, is in that of an honest aud
industrious attention to business
There are but few counties in Geor
gia where the citizens manifest
more . interest in the proceedings
of the Court than ia Oglethorpe county.
They all seem to feel an interest in what is
going on, and desire a just and equitable
administration of law, and the supremacy
of the Courts. Oglethorpe is right side
up in everything that appertains to her
honor and prosperity. Peace and order
prevail', and though she has suffered in
common the calamities ot the drought, it
is believed enough altogether will be realiz
ed to save from suffering.
Traveller.
bTATK JiiilVS.
There is a negro mormon living near
Columbus with two wives and two sets of
children.
The Commissioner of Agriculture says
that the average of cotton in Georgia
has decreased twelve per cent
An illusionist, Prof. Teal, is engaged in
swindling the people of Northern Georgia
out of their greenbacks.
Judge N V G- Foster, of Madison, (form
erly a member of Congress and juagß of
the Superior Court, is dead.
Mr. Dudley Campbell, of Morgan !
County, was run over by the cars at Cov- j
ington on Tuesday night while endeavoring
to get on board and had his leg mashed off I
The gin house of George. Kelley w*«
burned in Dawson on bst Sunday night. |
The gin and four bales of cotton were j
consumed.
An old negro man, sixty years of age, was
f. und dead in Girard Thursday night. He
died for want of food.
The gin house of Mr. John 11. Shields, j
in Sumter county, was destroyed by fire on :
last Thursday morning. Six bales of cot- j
ton were consumed.
Anew banking house, with an extensive :
foreign correspondence, is to be established
in Savannah shortly. The firm will be ;
composed of Germans.
The jail in Montezuma was emptied on
last Wednesday by four negro men who
were confined in it, prizing the iron bars
from the windows and escaping.
A contested election case is announced
from Gordon county. The office in dis
pute is that of high Sheriff. Both of the
contestants, arrange to say, are Democrat*.
The newly elected Mayor of Savannah
Las inaugurated a crusade ‘gainst (1) the
street walkers, and (2) the “vagabond
boys” who haunt the theatre and streets
at night.
A ecowhiding affair at Thunderbolt
and a street fight between two promi
nent citizens are reported in the Savannah
papers. They are cruel enough to sup
press names.
The Examiner says that the “Cham
pion” Base Bail Club of Covington will
attend the Macon Fair and contend for the
prize.
The Enquirer learns that Bishop Kava
naugh, of the M. E. Church South, is ex
pected in Columbus during the last two
weeks in November.
Griffin is exercised over its 'approaching
municipal election. As is apt to be the case,
the patriots who want the perquisite* are
very busy with nominations.
The “ Gray Jackets” of Madison visited
the “ Champions” of Covington to play a
game of base ball od Friday, and were
wilted to the tune of 127 to 22.
A detachment of troops, consisting of
one officer and twenty men, left Atlanta on
Wednesday night for Madison, Jaokson
county, Florida, via Fort Gaines and Neil’s
Landing.
Judge Gary Grice, of Fayette county,
died on last Tuesday. He is said to have
been the oldest man in the county and was
remarkable for physical vigor as well as
great talent.
Radical Rejoicings over the Decision of
tbe Supreme Court in the Tergtr
Case.
The decision of the Supreme Court in
the Yerger case denying the constitu
; tionality of the Reconstruction Laws—at
least in so far.as they attempt to destroy
the jurisdiction of the civil courts of the
United States, has had a remarkable effect
upon some of the leading Northern Radi
cals.
During the pending of the case and a
few days af’er the commencement of the
present session of the Court, Forney, in
order to frighten tbe members of the
Court and drive them into a decision sus
taining the construction placed by the
Radicals upon the Reconstruction Laws,de
clared that in the event the Court sustain
ed the application for the writ of habeas
\ corpus, that President Grant would im
mediately call an extra session of Congress
to take such measures as would defeat the
j enforcement of the decision of the Court.
This, Forney said, had been agreed up on in
a meeting of the Cabinet. This threat was
J immediately taken up by the horde of
Radical penny-a-liners whose chief occupa
tion seems to be to open lull and loud on
the trail indicated by the Dead Duck.
Now, however, since it has transpired
that the Court, unawed by the threats of
Radioal officials and the angry lashings of a
partisan pyess, has pronounced its decision
sustaining civil jurisdictionof the United
States Courts, Forney sneaks off and de
clares that, although he still believes
Y erger to be guilty of murder, yet as a great
principle was iuvolved he is glad that the
supremacy of the civil law has been main
tained. In the Press of the 23d instant lie
says: “No one pretends to deny the fact
of Yerger’s guilt, but both Democrats and
Republicans admit that he ought to be tried
bg competent constitutional authority, and
consequently the expected decision of the
Supreme Court will be received with satis
faction by all parties concerned.”
Yes, Republicans admit novo that the
power assumed by the military satraps
sent by the Federal Government to tyran
iza over the people of the Southern States
was unconstitutional. They claimed that
it was right, proper, necessary and consti
tutional until the highest tribunal in the
land authoritatively decided otherwise.
While Meade aud Sickles, and Canby, and
Sheridan, and Swayne, wero illegally ar
resting, trying and condemning by drum
head Courts our citizens of the Southern
States, Forney and his Radical friends
declared the action proper and right.
No attempt was made by Republicans,
who are now so anxious for constitutional
authority to be ssserted and vindicated in
the South, to wrest from Torquemada
Meade the Columbus prisoners, and young
Cody while their long illegal trial was pro
gressing in Atlanta. No effort was made
to stop Sickles’ abominable cruelties in
South Carolina or his banishment of inno
cent citizens to the inhospitable sands of
the Dry Tortugas.
Now, these sticklers for constitutional
authority are much pleased to hear the un
constitutionality of these infamous meas
ures of their own party and that they
have been declared illegal and void.
This was the judgment pronounced
upon them more than a year ago by the
National Convention of the Democratic
party. For that judgment the party was
most mercilessly hooted from one extrem
ity of the Union to the other, and finally over
thrown at the polls by tbe active workings
and machinations of the men who declare
themselves well pleased that the Supreme
Court has decided that Yerger shall be
tried by competent constitutional authority.
A Bold Attempt to Swindle the People
of Virginia.
There is an evident intention among the
Radicals to deleat, at all hazards, the re
oent reconstruction of Virginia. The de
feat there of the Wells faction, in despite
of the influence ol the Grant .administra
tion, has given serious umbrage to the
Radical leaders.
The New York Times , formerly consid
ered a moderate Republican sheet, gives
currency to the rumor that the right of
one of'the Senators elect to take his scat will
be contested on pu-ely legal grounds. It
states that
“It is said to have been discovered that
(he newly elected Senator from Virginia,
Mr. Johnston, as well as Mr. Gibson, one
of the representatives from that State, is
still laboring under the disabilities im
posed by the fourteenth amendment. The
amendment /as ratified after the passage
of the act by Congress relieving the disa
bilities of Messrs. Johnston and Gibson,
and it is asserted that the act of Congress,
approved April 1, 1869, removing the dis
abilities imposed by the fourteenth amend
ment, fails toembrace in its terms the cases
of Messrs. Johnston and Gibson.”
If the choice of the people of Virginia is
to be disregarded and their Senator elect
set aside because his disabilities were re
moved before the adoption of the Four
teenth Amendment, why has Congress per
mitted scalawags to take seats in that body
whose disabilities were removed also before
the amendment was adopted? How is it
that Farrow and Edwards, and Gibson,
and Blodgett arc allowed to hold office in
Georgia, whose disabilities were removed
we believe at the same session that Senator
Johnson was made clean ?
What becomes, also, of the truly loil Alcorn ,
the Radical candidate for Governor in Mis
sissippi, who was a blatant secessionist and
a poor Confederate soldier, but whose dis
abilities were removed before the passage
of this terrible amendment ? It is not
stran . e that Radicals get themselves into
so much trouble t rowing out of the now
declared unconstitutional Reconstruction
Acts. We should not be surprised if, in
their despair, they are at last compelled,
for the safety of their own party, to repeal
the whole of that most nefarious legisla
tion.
Not Woolly Depraved.
Washington after all is not so wholly
depraved as we have been led to consid
er it.
A nice young man, an attache of one of
the foreign legations there,acting upon ap
proved Radical ideas of the laws of good
society, had the temerity the other night to
escort a mulatress to the Theatre and seat
the fair damsel in that portion of the
•house allotted to ladies and gentlemen-
The bright color of his fair enchantress en
abled him to retain his position untfl the
close of the play, when the facts being
made known the gay chevalier was so ef
fectually tabooed by decent society that he
has been compelled to flee from the scene
of his gallantry and his disgrace.
LOYAL LAW OFFICERS !
ASTONISHING LEGAL GTJTNASTICS !!
HOW LOYAL MAGISTRATES DO BUSINESS ! !!
One of the Operators Gomes to Grief!
A most remarkable case was brought up
in one of the Magistrate’s Courts of this
city Tuesday morning, and as it reveals
very clearly the manner in which justice is
dispensed by one of Bullock’s pets and
legal functionaries in Augusta, a brief his
tory of the proceedings may not prove un
interesting to the readers of the Chron
icle k, Sentinel. We presume that there
are but few of our citizens who have not
heard, in some way, of the notorious Ellis
Lyons, Notary Public and ex-officio Justice
of the Peace, he who has gotten up so
many astonishing affidavits about outrages
on loyal people by rebels, which, when in
vestigated turned out to be entirely with
out foundation in fact. The wonderful
legal capers which little “four feet five”
has cut since he received his commission
from our worthy Chief Magistrate have
for a long time amused, when they did not
exasperate, the people of Augusta. On
Monday last, however, he is said to have
gone into a little operation which may yet
cost him dearly it the case be prosecuted.
From the facts, as given to us, it appears
that on last Monday evening at the instance
of Alexander Alexander, a shop-keeper,
on Centre street, he issued an attachment
against one Jerry Bland, a colored man,
who resided in Burke county, for a debt of
two dollars and a half, which the latter’s
wife owed the former. Bland, who lives
in Waynesboro, had been in the city on
that day for the purpose of buying a small
stock of goods, and had purchased seven
ty-two dollars worth ot dr£ goods and
groceries. These goods he hid takon to
the Union Depot intending to carry them
away on the cars that night. His wife,who
had been living in this city for come time
back, was, also, going to accompany him
home. Before the train started, however,
his journey was suddenly stopped by the
arrival at the depot of one “Bully”
Rhodes, Lyons’ Constable, who at once
proceeded to attach the goods for the $2 50
due Alexander. Bland, unable to pay the
amount, requested the Constable to take
bins to the store of a Broad street mer
chant, who, he would assist him
out of the difficulty. To this proposition
the Constable acceded and carried the man
off, leaving his goods at the depot iu the
custody of some third party, name un
known. The Constable and Bland then
proceeded to the merchant above mention
ed, who promptly paid the amount of the
debt, and also the costs of the attachment,
which, the Constable said, were five dollars.
The negro then went back to the depot,
where the Constable had left his goods
and found that they had mysteriously dis
appeared during his absence, and were
non est inventus. A diligent search was
made for them, but without success, and
yesterday morning Bland swore out a pos
sessory warrant before Justice Ells to make
Ithodes produce the missing property.
On this warrant ithodes was arrested and
brought up for an examination. He was
found to be unable to produce the goods,
or give any account of them further than
that he had left them at the depot, in the
custody of the young man before mention
ed, who said that curing the absence of
Rhodes and Bland a big, black negro, who
represent and himself to be Ralph Knight,
had come to the depot and taken them
from his pos«ession. At the solicitation
of Rhodes, who seemed to be very much
confused about the matter, further time—
until three o’clock—was given him in order
that he might take legal advice on the
subject.
From Rhodes’ own statement it would
appear that both Lyons and himself have
been engaged in a transaction which should
cost them their positions, if not subject
them to a heavier penalty. It appears
that, in direct violation of the laws of
Georgia on the subject, Lyons has issued
and his constable, Bully Rhodes, served a
writ of attachment upon c person whom
they did not have reason to believe was
fleeing out of the State, a.id who lived in
an adjoining county. In addition to this,
according to the testimony of two or three
Magistrates, he was made to pay five dol
lars costs in a case, when the costs allowed
by law did not amount to more than two
dollars, thus leaving a clear margin of
three dollars over and above what is allow
ed by the State Code.
At three o’clock the Court opened, but
the ease was delayed on account of the ab
sence of thocouns. 1 for the defence. In
the meanlime a second warrant was issued
by Bland against Rhodes, charging him
with extortion in taking five dollars for his
costs in the case, as related above. After
a long delay a note was received from
Major Carr, the attorney of the de
fendant, stating that he could not be
present that evening, and the Justice post
poned the case until this morning at ten
o’clock. In the afternoon Ellis Lyous
produced the original writ of attachment,
with Rhodes’ return endorsed upon the
back of it, stating that be had attached
the goods of Bland and released them upon
his paying the debt and the costs, ihe
writ contains an oath of A. Alexander,
declaring that Bland was a “non resident
of Richmond county,” and was indebted
to him $2 30, and a command from Lyons
directing that his property be attached.
Bullock’s Notary and his constable have
evidently been playing a bold game, but
from the direction matters have taken, it
looks as if the affair will be pretty well
ventilated this morning.
The above was written and put in type,
for our edition of Wednesday morning ;
but, owing to a press of other mat
ter, was crowded out until this morn
ing. In this issue of the Chronicle
& Seni.nel, we give a full account
of the extraordinary legal capers of
two of Bulloek’s loyal law officers.
On Wednesday at twelve o’clock m.,
the ease was called ia Justice E l’s Court
for trial. Counsel had been retained on
both sides —Messrs. McLaws, Ganahl and
Carr for the defence, and W. Milo Olin
for the prosecution.
Tho first case called was that of the
State against J. H. Rhodes, charging him
with extortion in the costs collected from
Bland upon the attachment. Upon this
charge, the accused waived aD examination
and gave bond in the sum of two hundred
dollars for his appearance at the next term
of the city court.
*An investigation was then entered into
upon the possessory warrant and, after a
long and full examination and after argu
ment had been heard upen .both sides of
the question, Justices El's txnii Verdery,
who composed the court, decided that the
warrant should be dismissed at the costs
of the prosecutor. By this decision the
complainant, a poor negro from Burke
county, finds himself a considerable loser
both in time and money.
From the evidence elicited in the case,
it appears that he has been harshly dealt
with by Ellis Lyons and his constable, and
has been the victim of most extraordinary
legal proceedings, to call them by no harsh
er epithet. On last Monday evening he
was served with an illegal attachment and
his goods, nearly everything he had in the
world, taken from his possession. After
paying the debt for which he had been
stopped on his way home, he is made to
pay almost treble the costs allowed by law
in a legal proceeding. When this matter
has been arranged, he finds that through
the negligence of the Constable his proper
ty, amounting in value to seventy-two
dollars, has been stolen. In order to re
cover his little all he institutes a suit
against tho offender, through a possessory
warrant, and has it dismissed and himself
, saddled with the coats.
The charge of extortion, however, will
still be prosecuted against Rhodes, and,
besides this, the counsel of Bland informs
us that a suit for damages will be brought
against the same party and his bondsmen,
two negroes. It also appears that Ellis
Lyons will not be allowed to escape scot
free, but that little “four feet five” will be
presented to the next Grand Jury that is
empannelled in this county for issuing an
illegal attachment.
A Pious Abolitionist on Negro Suffrage.
Parker Pillsbury, a life long abolition
fanatic, has made recently a "rip to the
South, to see for himself the “greatly
bettered condition” of the man aad broth
er and ascertain if the statements made
by the hypocrite Howard, and headquar
ters in the saddle Pope, that “ the negroes
of the South were intellectually superior
to the whites,” be really true.
The results of his investigations in this
delightful branch of philosophy and physi
oiogy, is given with charming naivete in a
letter to the Revolution, the woman’s pa
NEW SERIES, VOL. XXTIII. NO. 44
per in New York. To the editress, he
says:
“Push woman suffrage at the North
against ail obstacles andopposition, sparing
nothiag, sacred or profane, that lies in
your (*ay. But meantime we may rest
the suffrage question here, for a period, at
least until some much more elementary
culture and elevation is secured. He
surely must have a low estimate of the
solemn responsibilities of a government in
volving the liberty, the person, the property
and life qf every individual in that govern
ment, who would force the ballot on thou
sands and thousands to be teen all over the
South. And forced it was on many men ,
wherever the slaves have voted, as much as
were ever their tasks in the cotton held.
They knew no more and cared no more for
what they did in voting than if they were
as infantile in years as they are in citizen
ship and in political experience.
“The white people here prate continual
ly 1 of negro ignorance and inferiority. But
they should remember that they them*
selves have had tho teaching and the train
ing of them through 10 of their genera
tions, and this, of which they now com
plain, is the melancholy result. Intem
perance here is frightfully prevalent, and
the oolored people share almost universally
in the evil. The whiskey here is diabolical,
and yet they appear to love it more than
anything else, women as well as men-
They drink it red hoc from the barrel, clean
and pure, and 1 have seen mothers pour it
thus down the throats of their six months
old babes. And what is worso, there are
very few white men who employ them to
any extent, that do not keep a barrel on
tap, and furnish it to them whenever a
better bargain or more work can be had
thereby.
The marriago tie is not even a beau knot
among them. There is no tie about it as a
general fact. On the plantations very
f-W children, very few, are born. Infan
ticide is common, it is said, but marriage
is rare, unless forced upon the parties, and
that is not frequent. In the towns it is
somewhat better than in the oountry, but
everywhere apparently, among those poor
beings, the legal restraints of marriago are
but little regarded. As to any idea of
comfortable housekeeping in the rural dis
tricts, and they comprise almost the whole
South, it is all a mystery yet to be reveal
ed, even to its first principles. There are
generally no stated times for meals. No
family meal seems ever to be provided,
’•’he men cook their own hominy or nee
when they get ready, and so do the
wo nen. It is eaten clear to this day, as
in slavery times, or with a little most un
savory and untempting bacon, but oftener
clear than any other. Among hundreds of
tjicse poor beings, I have not seen one
single knife or fork; or any spoons but tin
ones, that were Dover worn thin by scour
ing. Thousands of slave quarters have no
floors, none of them a glass window,
and very few, where I have*been, a
decent ohair, still less table or bed.
I saw infants and very young children
naked from morning to night; and boys,
of at least a dozen years, with only a
single garment, and that but a scanty
apology. Many women, young and old,
had little on above the waist, and nothing
below the knees, and were doing day’s
works that not a white man in New Eng
land or New York oould perform. At a
railroad depot, last week, I was detained
an hour for the train. Several colored
women were also waiting, some with a
child or two, whose heads they were dili
gently exploring, and, as I saw, not with
out the most loathsome success. One old
woman laid her head in the lan of a young
er one; and then a regular Ku-klux klau
search was instituted through it, with re
sults, too, of which I need not now speak.
The ballot may be the one thing needful
there', but it seems to me soap, sand, fine
tooth combs, pots, kettles, chairs, tables,
knives, forks, spoons, decent food, cooking
and clothing, glass windows, and even look
ing glasses, should at least go side by side
if they may not precede f he rights of suf
frage and of sovereignty."
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Cotton Spinning.
The condition of the cotton manufactures
in this country and in Europe is the sub
ject of earnest discussion on both sides of
the Atlantic. England, France and the
New England States of the American
Union are alike discussing the best means
of preventing a loss of their trade, and of
securing themselves against disastrous
competi ion.
In England an enormous moneyed capital,
backed by the whole power of the Govern
ment, is ready to be used in recovering
the old markets or in forming new ones
And not a day too soon ! The continent
of Europe is far less dependent than
formerly on the cotton goods of Manches
ter, and the American demand, iu conse
quence of the increase in domestic manu
factures, is steadily decreasing. Commer
cial treaties do not stop tho gap. Take
the treaty with France as an example,
which treaty, while it secured the English
a market for their coal, annihilated their
silk manufactures. What is now proposed
is nothing less than the removal of the en
tire cotton manufacture to India, to estab
lish the factories there, and by the aid of
low prices f>r labor as well as the raw ma
terial, to und«r-sell both European and
American manufacturers.
In France, a similar scheme is under
consideration. There the proposition is to
transfer the cotton factories from the
northern departments to the southern por
tion of the Empire. During the last six
months the Austrian port of Trieste has
imported from Bombay twice as many
bales as France received. This gave rise
to the suggestion to move the factories
nearer to the supply of raw material, and
nearer to the seaboard. In both instances
the principle is the same—to bring the cot
ton mill nearer to the cotton port and cot
ton field.
A similar idea is beginning to attract at
tention in mechanical New England. The
obvious truth that cotton can be procured
ana manufactured at a lower price iu tbe
South, where it is produced thau in the
Northern factories, to which it is conveyed
at great expense, is opening the eyes of the
spinners. This ha 9 taken firm hold of the
Southern mind, and New England must
either move its mills down South, as Eng
land proposes to move the mills of Lan
caster to India, or must submit to be
driven out of the market by the produce
of the Southern factories. Nearly one
hundred million dollars is invested in cot
ton manufacturing establishments, in the
New England and Central States. This
is the extent of the interest which is felt
in the manufacturing progress of the
South.
Notwithstanding the failure of Senator
Sprague to lead the revolution in cotton
spinning, of which he spoke so glibly, there
is still a prospect that Northern Capital
and Northern machinery will gradually
find their way to to the South- It can,
moreover, be shown, wc think, that the
English spinners can use their surplus ma
chinery here more profitably than in dis
tant Hindostan. Upon the tame conti
nent they woula find the raw material, the
means of manufacturing, and a sufficient
market—a market more hard to be satis
fice as the broad plains of the West are
made rich by the labors of the immigrant
and the passage of the locomotive.
The South. in truth, holds *he balance
of power. . It has not been found practi
cable to replace the American staple,
thoagh sticks of English gold have been
scattered broadcast among the cotton plant
ers of India. Oid King Cotton holds hi3
own, and both England and New England
are forced to acknowledge his sway. In
the meanwhile, our people have an excel
lent opportunity of making them
selves rich and independent. Money
is flowing steadily into the cotton
States. The surplus capital h already
large. fc It cannot be invested in ne
groes, and of land there is more than
enough. Where, then, can it be applied
to more advantage than the manufacture
of ootton ? In no case has a well-managed
cotton mill been unprofitable, and we can
lay our finger upon a dozen which are
earning large dividends. The Southern
mill can make money when it sells yarns at
the t price _ which they cost to manufacture
in New England. The risk is small and
the gain is great; not only in hard money,
but in the opening of new channels of in
dustry, in giving enlarged opportunities of
employment to the people, and in keeping
in the country the money which now slips
into the pocket of the Northerner and for
eigner.
The subject is well worthy of practical
attention, and we hope that our people,
not thinking too long, will be convinced of
the wisdom of beginning at once the great
wofk of making South Carolina an import
ant manufacturing State. Charleston
News,
Easton & C».» New fork loiton SU).
port for the Week Ending October
22, 1869.
Received. >y Telegraph Friday Evening .
Esuorta to Expir's to
Ueceipte, Stock, Gi.Btlt’n, Oonti’nt.
Newo.lKins, 25,750 6SSH 7.7» 9,053
Molnle, 7.4.16 19.M0 »?u
(lilvteion, 4,693 12 OOtt
MorldH,
SuT-intmli, 15,1*6 SSA'i "sii%
Charleston, 9,070 8,730
JtewYMj, 8.337 USB 11,0 0 2 9(0
Boston, Ptn * b»h. s«eo e.ooo iso i,«jo
Total this week, 77 SOS 155,190 22 960 13.993
Previously reported, 270 188 ...... 49,831 29,309
Tot. sinoe Sept. 1, '69, $18,171 1M.790 72.7*1 42.802
Same time last year, 263 507 189,798 41,262 20,480
QUOTATIONS.
Up'.'U A Flor. Motile. N. Oi eaas. Teaas.
® S4 * @SS @'25J4
o*4 Ordinary 9 it, @ii* @26 @26k
Lor, Middling, @2# @2** @2's
Middling, @364,' @26* @261,
Sales of the week, 10,93-1 bales—includ
ing 5,817 to spinners, 1,578 to speculators
and 9,539 to exporters.
Gross receipts at this port for the week,
22,193 bales. Since Ist September, 109,630
bales.
Stocks in the interior toirns Oct. 16—
1869. 1868.
A.u&u>ta, Ga. & Hamburg 4 104 4. ■’26
Columbus, Ga 83 721 4*B-14
Maeoo. G» 6.783 6,786
Alrt 2 96tf 3 87(|
AU 6.76* y.s*
t? an SWI
ToU J 23.014
Statistical Position : 1869. 1868.
Stock in Liverpool 434,000 408,090
Afloat from India 169,000 ’ 275,000
Afloat from America... 33,000 22,000
Stock in London 56,440 82,767
Afloat from London.... 140,000 139,000
Stock in Havre 85,670 43,314
Afloat for Havre 41,952 67,356
Stock in Bremen 5,396 11,829
Afloat for Bremen 4,785
Stock in U. S. p0rt5...155,790 139,798
Stock in the interior
towns 28,015 31,850
Total 1,149,263 1,216,789
Deficiency in visible
supply.... 66,526
Stock of Cotton held by Manchester
spinners at the mills, now 60,000 bales,
same time 1868, 130,000 bales. Middling
Orleans, now 12}d., then lid.
New York, Saturday, Oet. 23, 1869.
The Market.—ln our last report the
market closed steady at for Middling
Uplands. Liverpool closed firm jit 12id
lor Uplands and 12£d ioi OrKaus Sat
urday, the market wasstcadj,with » fair in
quiry andlituited supply. Sales 2 738 ba'es
at 264 c. Liverpool was tinner xi 12jo(a)
12id for Uplands and 121 i(®i2jd tor Or
leans. Sales 12,000. Monday, ch mar- *
ket was stronger hut not quotably higher.
Sales 2 945 at 284 c. Liverpool Was firm
and more active. Sales 15,000. Quotations
unchanged. Tuesday, prices were strong
er, with a fair export and spinning de
mand. Sales 3,689 at 26ijo. Liverpool
closed steady at previous rates. Sales 12,-
000. Wednesday, the market was easier
owing to an advance in steam freights.
Sales 3,058 at 26i(cjl26fc. Liverpool .un
changed. Sales 12,000. Thursday, the
market was unsettled and irregular on the
last Liverpool news. Sales 2,163 at 20fc.
Liverpool was quiet at 12d for Uplands
and 12fd for Orleans. Sales 8,000. Yes
terday, the market was unsettled. Sales
amounted to 2,341 at 20£c for Middling
and 25fc for Low Middling. Liverpool
was dull at 12d for Uplands and 12fd for
Orleans. Sales 10,000.
During the week our market has been
irregular, opening at 26£0, advancing to
26fc and closing at 26|c. Liverpool is id
lower m Uplands and id on Orleans. The
arrivals in Liverpool were heavy and
amounted to 71,000 bales, mostly Surats.
As the stock of these kinds is now about
75 per cent of the whole stock, the de
mand is running principally on them,
especially, as now there is a difference of
3d per lb between them and American.
Tho stock of long staple sorts is loss than
at corresponding date last year, and we ex
pect the trade and exporters will take such
a percentage of East India as to cause the
stock to diminish more rapidly than in
1868. Last year the stock ran down from
345,000, the maximum, on 29th October,
to 47,000, on Ist of April. The cotton at
sea is reduced 44,000 this week, and the
weekly sales amounted to 92,W0, against
71,000 reported daily.
The weather at the South has been un
usually fine for the past six weeks, and the
picking is progressing favorably. Plant
ers are sending forward their crops rapidly,
and the large receipts cause a general be
lief in a orop 0f2,750,000. The receipts at
Savannah and Charleston are 63,594 bales
more than last year, and nearly double the
amount received up to this time in 1867.
Notwithstanding this, wo do not expect
more than 15 to 20 per cent, increase in
Georgia, and no increase in South Caroli
na. We do not believe we shall see an in
crease of 500,000 bales at the ports, which
would be necessary to make the crops up
to the general estimate.
Table showing cost in sterling, of Mid
dling Cotton, free on board, with freights
by sail, insurance and shipping charges:
Galveston, 10.64d.; New Orleans, 10.60d.;
Mobile, 10.42d; Savannah and Charleston,
10.33d.; New York, 10,35d.
Receipts and Exports.—The receipts
this week have been 77,383 bales, against
57,603 bales the corresponding week last
year, and the foreign exports 35,953 bales,
against 14,597 bales in 1868. The totals,
so far this year, can be seen in the tables
given above. The following table will show
the totals at each port:
1868. 1869.
New Orleans 114 838 117,487
Mobile 32,840 41,734
Galveston ;.. 18,571 18,832
Florida 737 862
Savannah 44,958 86,444
Charleston 22,803 44,911
New York..." 13,756 23,519
Boston, &c 5,004 14,382
Total to date 253,507 348,171
distribution of receipts.
1868. 1869.
Stock 28th August 43,594 10,911
Received since... 348,171 253,507
Total 359,082 297,101
Exported 115,093 61 682
Stock 155 790 139 798
Bales to spinners 88,199 95,621
From the Broker's Circular of October
6th, we take the following figures:
AVERAGE WEEKLY DELIVERIES.
T.a«ie. Ex • ft. Import.
1869 45,750 10,172 2,32/. 828
1868 51,610 11,954 2,594,346
AT SEA.
Am. E.JI. Stotk. M. Or!. F. Surat*,
1869-12,000 328,000 459,250 12}d. 9*d.
1868-11,000 489,000 427,100 10jd. Bfd.
The Cotton at Sea is 160,000 bales less
than last year, and the stock is 32,150 bales
more. The import so far this year is 266,-
518 bales less than last. The average
weekly deliveries are 7,642 bales less than
last. The consumption of American Cotton
has averaged 11,955 bales for the past six
weeks. Os the sales that week, 23 per
cent, were American and 52 per cent.
Surats. Stock of American 10 per cent.,
and of Surats 73 per cent, of the whole.
The Sales for Future Delivery
have been as follows: October 200 bales
at 26ic., 950 at 26c., 100 at 25ic , 300 at
251 c. November, 650 bales at t 2sfc„ 700
at 25fc., 50 at 25fc. December, 650jbales
at2sic., 1,100 at2sio., 100 at 25fe., and
200 Middlings at 26i. January, 200 bales
at 26c., 200 at 25fc., 100 at 25Jc. February,
100 bales at 26;. Free outboard at Charles
ton, 100 November, at 24Jc., and 20024£c.
At New Orleans, 400 on private terms for
December, 300 ship named at 25c., 100 by
November 10th private terms, 100 Savan
nah private terms. At Mobile, 200
November at 25c., and 200 October private
terras. Also 250 November here on
private terms. Total, 7,450 bale;.
From Liverpool, yesterday, we have
the following report: Sales of the week
2,000 bales, of which 17,000 bales were
t) exporters and 21,000 to speculators,
leaving 54.000 to the trade, The total
took i3 431,000 bales, of which 36,000 are
American. This shows an increase of 9,000
in the total stock,and a decrease of 6,000 in
the stock of American. The market opened
quiet. Sales estimated at 10,000 bales.
Middling Uplands* 12d., Orleans 12id.,
closing dull at same quotations and sales.
Yarns and fabriesat Manchester, dull.
Peruvian Guano.—We have noticed
in several of our exchanges, extracts from
an article published in the Covington Ex
aminer, some few weeks back, stating (if
we mistake not) that there was no pure
Peruvian Guano in the State. This is an
error, and it is with pleasure that we are
authorized to correct it. Our friend Joe
Mathewson, Esq., ooe of the most reliable
and substantial merchants of Augusta, and
a large and respectable dealer in guanos,
informs us that he has in store a quantity
of the Chiocba Island Peruvian Guano,
purchased of the Government Agent Mr.
Ferguson, before the exhaustion of hi3
supply. With the sagacity and foresight
with which he is possessed, apprehending
that the stock would be short, and de
termined that the planters of Georeia
should not be the losers thereby, this
gentleman purchased and stored fnr the
coming season a good quantity of this
favorite guano. Mr. Mathewson guaran
tees that it is the pure article ann all who
knew him need no othei proofs of his asser-
to all others he can show the amplest
testimonies. — Madison Farm Journal ,