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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 3, 1869)
>L ) SERIES, VOL. LX XVI. (- livotitclc & fcntiud. AbciUHTA, CiA t ! HA V MORNING. NOVERHER l. TKIOIS Ol • U INSCRIPTION. fit. Oil ■ '-••C'M *1 IB . . 1(0 y-r 1000 TKI V. 'EXLV. „ i r.MP.r... MOO hi rr, .-: - ...«*>» ■; -. ti<i.ii • ... i»■« * KL '' ... 100 , '. > „ ;; i M * . . .1 (SI 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." Very Important—Try it and Save Money.—ls you want good and cheap printing circulars, dodgers, posters, pamphlets, bill heads, letter heads, cards, etc. —call at the Job Office of the Chroni cle & Sentinel, which,has been furnish ed with new type, press and material, and Btock of every description. Satisfaction ia the quality of the work, material and price guaranteed. Book-binding neatly executed, and blank books of every description manufactured at the Chronicle & Sentinel Bindery. 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 ,
