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)Ll) SERIES, VOL. LXXVI.
(Chronicle & Sentinel.
ADQCBTA. GA :
WEDNESDAY MOL.XUIti XOYKMBER 10.
Hamburg Laoi k Bieii. —We received
yesterday from M -rs. Legltr Brothers,
of Hamburg, a keg of their newly manu
factored latter bit r. It r which we make our
acknowledgment . We take pleasure in
stating that this 1 tg r is, in our opinion,
and in the opinion cf others who are good
judges, equal if not superior to either the
We-tern or Noitheru b : r imparted to this
market. As it is a Lome enterprise, and
as the bier is of a superior quality, we hope
our people will extend Legler Brothers all
their patronage. They have expended their
money freely and they should be extensive
ly patronized by all cLsc* who drink lager
bier.
Large Fire in Bamberg.—We regret
to learn that ti e thriviug little town of
Bamberg, in Barnwell county, Booth Caro
lina, has rccenriy been visited with a Urge
arid very destructive lire. The fire occur
red on last Saturday night ar.d destroyed
six building's Ik fore the progress of the
flames was chicked.
Three ol the buildings destroyed were
i Mur i and three of them dwelling houses.
One of lb< t r,s belonged to J. C. Dow
by, one to If W. Grimes, and the third
nav. goti and carriage ma ufactory,
owned by a Mr. Gietne. Wo did not learn
wh* ire the other owners of the three \
private residences.
On tin property burned there was an in- j
surinee, in Hall’s Insmanee Agency of]
t .is city, of two thousand five hundred
dollars, most, if not all, of whiph, wc be
lieve, was on the two Mores first mentioned.
I he owner of the carriage manufactory
bad no insurtuce on his property. lie
had intended to iripuro on yesterday with
the money he was to ha t received on that
day in payment for a buggy, but, unfortu
nately, the fire came before pay day aod sent
his property to “tarnation smash” ere it
could be covered with a policy.
Home Dairy.—- We have received the
first number of tho Rome Daily, J. F.
Shanklin, Esq., editor. It is a sprightly
paper. We wish it success.
Tiik Georgia Raii.iioad. —Wo are
gratified to learn that this railroad has
been doing a very heavy business dur
ing the pust two months, September
and October, A few days since we noticed
the f act that the receipts of freight at, the
depot of the Company in this city were so
heavy thut the building could not contain
the freight and a great deal of it had to ho
piled under Ihe eaves and covered with
tarpaulins. This morning we present to
the many readers of tho Chronicle &
Sentinel a table, showing the receipts of
tho railroad during the two months just
past, and also tho re ei( ts lor the same
months last year, from which it will bo
seen tP at tho business of this corporation
has increased to an enormous extent. Too
much praise cannot be given the able and
experienced Superintendent of the Com
pany, Mr. 8. K. Johnson, and his sub
ordinates for the manner in which they
have managed the important interests com
mitted to their care:
The gross earui es of'the road for
September, 1868, were $ 78,000
Tho gross earnings ofthe road tor
September, 1869, were 119,000
Increase in September, 1809. qver
same mouth in 1808 $ 41,000
Gross earnings for October, 1868 $ 98,000
“ . “ 1869. 140,000
Increase in October, 1869, over
Oo.uber, 1808 $ 42,000
Gross earning for both months,
l 368 $176,000
Gross earnings lor both months,
1869 259,000
Increase of 1869 over ISGB $ 83,000
Tllk Blue Ridge Concern.—The (bo
nce Courur, published at the ptesent ter
minus of the Blue llidge Road, says : “To ,
get any tangible information as to the i
present condition and iuture prospects of
this great enterprise, appears difficult. I
The contractors, Crisville a Cos., arrived
in (Valhalla on last Friday night. They
are now gone in the direction of Knoxville
with a view of examining the route. No
work of any consequence has yet been
done; a mere handful of dirt moved to
siwo the contract. We hear there is a de
lay on account of machinery, and the real
labor will not be undert ken for some days.
We rather think the securing the other
fivo millions, w.iich is tocomo, has son ti
thing to do in delaying the machinery. We
do not doubt, however, but the road will
be built, and a begiuning iu earnest be
made before Christmas."
The Yeuueu Case.-A dispatch to
Forney’s l\es& says: “Attorney General
Hoar, in conversation with a friend regard
ing the Yerger case, a few days since, com
plained hitteily that the Republican press
of the country does not seem to appreciate
the situation iu its true light, Heexplain
ed that the next question would be upon
the is. uc of the writ of halvas corpus,
which would be followed by a delay oc
casioned by an argument upon the ques
tions involved in the points of the return
made to the writ, aud after that the Gov
ernment might act in a manner calculated
to effect further delay. It is evident,
therefore, from this statement, as well as
other circumstances, that the Administra
tion has agreed to do everything in their
power to defer final action by the Supreme
four' relative to the Reconstruction Acts
until after the admission of Mississippi and
Texas is an accomplished fact.
The Cincinnati Enquirer states that it
is generally believed, if not fully asset ain
ed, that Mr. Pendleton was elected Gov
ernor by a largo mojority, but was cheated
out of it by frauds on the part ot Republi
can election officers, whose business it was
to count and return the ballots. Radical
ism lives by fraud, aud when it is unabh to
psrpetuate fraud, it dies out in Tennessee,
says the Nashville Union if - American.
Talk on Change.—The World (finan
cial article) says the pressure to sell Gov
ernment bonds, for a day or two past, par
ticipates iu character of something akiu to
a positive panic- The writer says:
“The des ire of ibe domestic holders of
the five-twenties to sell is one of the most
i t. arkable features of the day. Secretary
Bout well can claim all the credit tor creat
ing and precipitating this pressure to sell
five-twenty bonds or the part of the sav
ings bar ks and other large investors. Mr.
Boutweit started it by unduly depressing
the price < f currency sixes below their just
level, so that they became exceedingly
tempting as investments, thereby inducing
the holders cf fiv,-twenty gold bonds to
sell them and to buy the currency sixes.
Many h '.uc.> arc now hastening to make
the exchange cd their five-twenties for cur
rency sixes before Mr. Boutwell can dis
cover aud remedy bis mistake by receiving
the eurr, v y sx*at \\ ashitgton. There
are already ev i:l millions-not less than
six millions—oi five-twenty bonds waiting
to be sold upon the market by different in
st "utious, and unless these holders exercise
extreme care in not forcing the market, it
will be almost impossible to prevent a
heavy and unreasonable decline, and per
haps a panic, in 'he whole market. The
prices of gold and government hoods are so
interchangeably liuked together that it re
quires no argument to show the critical
condition of both msrkets-~tbe one react
ing the other.”
A New Orleans Grand Jury is investigat
ing the bilge swindle lately perpetrated by
a Radical ring, under a law granting
money to survivor? es the battle of New
Orleans. Some hundred thousands of
have been paid out, nominally to
Degro “veterans,” and it is not believed
there are a soore of that class living.
The widow MuhlDach is te maray a med -
cal professor of Berlin.
Mississippi.
Mr. Dent will be elected Governor of
Mississippi if his brother-in-law, Mr.
Grant, does not use his bayonets for Al
corn, the Ri lical scalawag candidate. Mr.
Dent and the Democrats, or Conservatives
as they call themselves, have had a hard
time ol it, having to contend against ail
, the influences of the Government. Here
is an illustration of how the is
being manipulated. That institution has
! been retained for educational purposes
alone, and the Vicksburg Time* tells how
it is attending to education: One ol
General Howard’s principal representa
; tives in this State is at this moment re
ceiving, directly and indirectly, between
i three and four thousand dollars per an
num, ncm tally as Superintendent of Edu
cation, while hLs whole time is occupied in
stumping tfw Stale to insure his election
as School Superintendent for Mississippi.
He has devoted the entire Summer ‘o this
one subject, while receiving his salary
every month from the amount appro
priated by the la-,t C«igress for the pur
pose of educating freedmen.”
that Little Kami!) Bos ..tss of the
brants and their Relatives.
Jay Gould, the partner of Fisk, not on
ly confirms the statements made by the lat
ter, so far as they came within his own
knowledge, but also states that in July last
“Mr. Corbin informed him that he had
“received a margin, of ten or twelve thou
"sand dollar* from General Grant with
“which to carry $.300,(XX) of Government
“bonds, which were held for the account of
“Genera! Grant, as Corbin said, by
“Messrs. Stone, Nichols & Stone, Mr.
“Cotbin’s broker. Mr. Corbin said «fte
“wa.s anxious to return the money ad
“vanceil to General Grant ; and to show
“him a profit on the transaction, so far as
“it had gone, and desired Mr. Gould to
“pay Stone, Nichols & Stone one percent,
“more than t’ne market price, and then to
“carry the bonds for the account of Gen.
“Grant until they should reach 125, with
"out having any margin or security. Mr,
“G mid agreed to do this, reserving, of
“course, the right to sell the bonds at any
“time, if necessary, to protect himself, and
“on July 29 he paid Stone, Nichole &
“Stone $364,300 for those bonds, which
“was $3,000 more than they were worth
“on that day, and which represented
“profits that Mr. Gould’s firm anticipated
“would accrue under the governmental
“policy of buying bonds.”
The Suez Cana'.
The cerornon es attending the opening
of this great work will take place on the
16th instant. The canal, although not as
successful as anticipated, will prove of
great benefit to the trade and commerce of
the world. It is said that large vessels,
drawing from fourteen to twenty-two feet,
such as are generally used in tho trade,
with China, India and the East, cannot,
when loaded, pass through, as the water
in the canal will not admit of it. To ob
viate this, however, it is proposed for the
present to employ small steamers and ves
sels of light draught. The main portion
of the work having been completed, the
Empoior Napoleon, appreciating the great
benefits to France, commercially and other
wise, will not hesitate in expending what
ever amount is necessary to make it a suc
cess. •
The Debt of Tennessee..
Tho following is a full statement of the
debt of Tennessee to October 1, 1869, pre
sented to the Legislature now in session :
Bonds loaned to railroads
ante war $13,115,000
Bonds to fund interest thereon
—1866 3,213,000
New bonds to railroads since
war—lß66-69..... 13,297,000
Railroad bouda endorsed by
State 2,196.000
Total Railroad debt $31,821,000
Bank, capital and other debt.. 3,473,000
Total debt October 1, 1863 $35,294,000
Aud July, 1869, interest un
paid 1,100,000
Together $36,384,000
Represented as follows :
Railroads for bonds
and endorsements
as above $31,821.6
Due from railroads
for arrearages of
interest due State 2,306,000
$34,127,000
State Capital Bank of Tennes
see, Ac $ 2,267,000
Taxables of the State 223,862,243
Revenue of 1869-70..51 878,949
Lass for schools 450,000
$ 1,428,949
It will be observed that the indebtedness ;
of Tennessee under Radical Reconstruction
rule has more than doubled in three years, j
to-wit: from October Ist, 1866, to October j
Ist, 1869. The “ante war bonds,” the !
accumulated debt of this State for the
construction of the whole railroad system,
is officially stated at $13,116,000. The
new bonds “to railroads, issuod from Oo
tober Ist, 1860, to October Ist, 1566, by
the official report of the Comptroller
amounts to $13,297,000 or an amount
Which in three years exceeds the accumu
lated debt during the past history of the
State, by $182,000. Where are the rail
roads that should represent this Radical j
expenditure? The property of Tennessee j
groans uuder taxation to meet the in- I
debtedness imposed upon them by Radical- i
ism, by a reconstructed government, sus- !
tained by the armed soldiers of the United
States Government, originated by fraudu- j
lently disfranchising tens of thousands of i
her best citizens. Radical leaders shrieked
for loyalty and equality, and drove thou- j
sands of honest citizens from the State by
violenoe ;.ud persecution. With mock !
sympathy and artful promises they beguil- i
ed thousands of poor, deluded negroes |
from adjacent Slates to strengthen their j
political power in the State which they |
ruled by fraud and plunderered. Radicalism
means plunder, by fraud, by violence, by J
corruption, by any means and bv \
every artifiee, by illegal and unjust
and deceptive judicial decisions, by
venal aud corrupt legislation, by the shams
of a Republican form and the tyranny of
military power. It affects philanthropy
aud shrieks for loyalty, and in toe came of
humanity filches and robs and plunders,
while the shrieks fill the public ear and
distract the eye. In the name of the peo- j
pie it demands “progress,’ the extension
of human rights, the enlargement ot po
litical privileges. But the “progress” de
manded is for the attainment or retention
of power, and by such pretexts it is made to
cover robbery, corrupt the people and de
stroy all faith in Republican governments.
It is the iundamental doctrine ofßadical
ism that“ Governments are made to be plun
dered.” Its special machinery is a
“bureau,” ard its favorite artifice “public
improvements.” The cardinal maxim of
Radical rulers is, “that the Laborer is
worthy ot his hire:” and accordingly legis
lation is put upon the market for the high
est bid, and official duty assumed under
oath, is made a matter of bargain. Radi
calism il umiuates Reconstruction by doub
ling State debts, as in Tennessee, North
Carolina. South Carolina, Georgia, Ala
bama, Louisiana, and Florida. “The Raoi
cal Governor of Louisiana illustrates his
principles by a palace in New Orleans,
and the sudden reputatkv fa million
aire. The Radical Governor of Florida,
it has been demonstrated,is on the way to
golden glory. His price for engineering a
Legislative act, and his official signature,
> it is true, is only fourteen thousand dollars
or about fifteen percent., while his more
lucky loyal brother of Louisiana doubles
this’charge and is never content with less
than a “corner.’’ A profit of a million of
dollars in State bonds is the prioe of “a Blue
I Ridge” internal improvement ami raiiroad
development in South Carolina. An
“Opera house” with Mansard roof and a'j
the “modern conveniences, 'with bar-room
and eating saloon and “offices to let” for
faro backs and keno rinks, and “furnished
rooms to let” for assignations and adulter
ous intercouse, illustrates Georgia Radi
calism, while “the Governor” plays Gov
ernor and public treasurer, and runs the
State Road and a contingent fund office of
discount of eiaims.
Verily ! great are the monuments of
"Prcgresa;” and great the shining fights
] of Radicalism id the Southern sky.
The Supreme lour;.
This old lady is being outraged fearfully
by the Radicals, and the wonder is how
the poor thing survives* so long. She
!' s certainly having a hard time of it, but
■ her sufferings will terminate in a few
months at farthest, as she will give up the
ghost during the next session of the Rump.
The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Gazette contains this notice of
her approaching demise: “The Radical
echemes for overruling the Supreme Court
at the coning session of Congress are as
suming form and substance. The most
blatant and ultra politicians declare that
nothing short of abolishing the Court alto
gether will satisfy them. A more prob- ]
able scheme, however, is that which con- j
templates the passing of an act which shall
subyect all decisions of the United States j
Supreme Court to revision by a Joint Ju- !
dietary Committee of both houses. This i
practically shears the Court of its func
tions, and with such rnen as Butler on the
committee, the nature of its revisions may
easily be foreseen.”
EVENTS IV CIBA.
The journals publish various letters by
the steamship Moro Castle, from Havana,
giving very contradictory accounts of the
progress of the insurrection. While some
writers that there has been no fur
ther fighting, others, who ought to be not
less well informed, assert that all is com
partively quiet tu the interior. The follow
ing looks authentic:
Havana cor. (Oct. 20 ) Journal of Commerce.
The Spanish mail steamship Santander
arrived at Cienfuegos on the 10th with the
Hern an Cottes battalion ofligbt infantry,
1,000 rank and file, and 40 officers, On
the 17tb, arrived in Havana, by the Span
ish mail steamship Paris, 1 commandant,
5 captains, 10 lieutenants, 13 ensigns, 1
chaplain, 2 sergeants and 675 soldiers. On
the 18th the mail steamship Guiopiozooa
brought 1 lieutenant-colonel, 2 captains,
4 lieutenants, 6 ensigns, 1 cadet, 27 ser
geants, and 775 rank and file, making ar
rivals of the second line of reinforcements
Irom Spain to an aggregate of 4,092 of all
grades to October 19.
By the Mail steamship also arrived Don
Baibino Cortes, dow Consul General of
Spain for New York, t,o go forward by the
steamship Moro Castle to day.
By the American steamship Euterpe
arrived on the 18th, the Ordnance Depart
ment have received the arms andammuni
tion intended for the thirty Spanish gun
boats, built or nn the stocks in the United
State.-. The Euterpe brought 30 Parrot
guns, 3,600 tin 11 ami 600 shot lor the same;
93 t'oxes ammunition, 38 boxes arms, 252
boxes munitions and accoutrements—all ot
which proves very acceptable; and if the
gtinboat6 can have ihe same facility of
delivery, through the kindness of President
Grant, the Spanish organs will be delight
ed.
Havana cor..(Oct. 25.) Times.
The situation of affairs in Cuba has un
dergono very little change since the date
of my last. The usual number of military
executions and confiscations have taken
place, aud still the revolution exists with as
much apparent defiance to the Spaniards
as heretofore. The arrival of troops from
Spain, aud their lapid transportation to
tho various points in the Cinco Villes,
Nueviias aud Puerto Principe, has enabled
the different Spanish commanders to once
more assume the offensive. Rather more
than the usual number of insignificant
skirmishes have, however, been the only
result thus far of the increase of the mili
tary power of the Spaniards.
Condonation of Perjury.— On Sat
urday we learned, from the best authority,
that the United States Government in
tended, through its District Attorney, to
enter a nolle prosequi on the indictment
for perjury now pending in the United
States Coart, at Savannah, against the
Treasurer of the State Road, Foster Blod
gett. We do not think there can be any
doubt as to the truth of our information
on this point, for it comes from Col. John
Milledge himself, United States District
Attorney, who, on last Sunday, told a
gentleman of this city, one of tho principal
witnesses in the. case against Blodgett,
who was subpoenaed to be in Savannah on
the 4th day of this month, that it would
not be necessary for him to come, as there
was a “disposition on the part of tho gov
ernment to settle the matter,” and asked
this witness to tell the other witnesses
summoned from this city the settle thing.
We were also informed that the former
United States Attorney who had the in
dictment found against Blodgett, Hon.
Henry S. Fitch, had been written to —
though for what reason we cannot imagine
—in relation to “settling” this interesting
little case, and had replied that ho now
had nothing to do with the case and did
not care what action was taken in the
matter.
It has now been nearly two years ;
since Foster Blodgett was indicted for the
infamous offence of perjury iu the United
States Court at Savannah, indicted, too,
it will be remembered, by a jury of North
ern men —of men who could conscientious
ly take that test-oath which they solemnly
declared that Blodgett had co&imitted
perjury in tiking---summonedin accordance
with the wishes of Joe BrowD, Blodgett’s
counsel on the occasion. With the clear
est and most overwhelming testimony of
the truth ot the charge made in this in
dictment of the test-oath jury—testimony
of gentlemen who had served in the Con
federate army with Blodgett, nay, of gen
tlemen who had even been in Blodgett’s
company—the case has dragged its slow
length along in the United States Court
has been postponed on various pretexts from
one term to another—until now the Gov
ernment has a “disposition to settle the
matter” and allow the offender to go un
whipt of justice, merely because he hap
pens to be a strong partisan of the politi
cal party which at present controls the
government.
The Codfish Trade.—From the valua
ble series of letters from Newfoundland,
in course of publication in the Metropolitan i
Record, by the editor, wc cull this item :
“The value of codfish exported yearly
from Newfoundland is estimated at about
ten millions of dollars, aud as the trade i
htii in the hands of a few English and
Scotch merchants, immense fortunes are
realized by these parties in a few years.
This, it must be remembered, is the pro
duct of the French and American fisheries
on the Banks, which are almost equal in
productiveness. By treaty, the former, al
though originally posse-sed of many points
on the coast, are now restricted to the two
little islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon,
j where they cure a considerable portion of
their s'b. •he greater part, however, of
: the 1 irge fleet which is fitted cut from
i the French ports is employed exclusively
| on the Banks, and eut up and salt
i the fish a- they are caught, reserving the
drying process till their return. From its
fleet of fishing vessels the French govern
ment ootains numerous recruits for its
navy, tbe number of hands contributed
j thereto being estimated at from fifteen to
twenty thousand, and of these a large pro
, portion is furnished from those empl-yed
;on the Banks. It would, in fact, be diffi
cult to overestimate the great benefit de
rived in various ways from this lucrative
pursuir, or to estimate the loss which
would be caused to the trade by the total
| failure of the yearly product derived from
l this, the most profitable of all fisheries.
Mormon Schism.—lt is reported that a
serious schism prevails among the Mor
mon elders in Salt Lake City. Elder
Steohouse and the editors and proprietors
j of th Utah Mojazdte have been suspeud-
I cd by Father Brigham.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 10. 1860.
The Census for 1870.
The New York World says “If the
census next year be accurately and fully
taken, so that its figures, whatever they
may prove to be, can be safely acoep ed as
being completely authentic, they will fur
j aish an invaluable basis for the legislation
of the "next ten years; but if the work be
j Murred over, slovenly performed, or in
trusted to dishonest or incompetent per
-1 sons, so as to permit suspicion to arise ot
either its good faith or of its complete ac
curacy, it will turn out to be of little value,
and will serve for little more than an ad
ditionri monument of the imbecility and
treachery of our present rulers.”
i Beyond doubt if the statistics that will
be furnished by the next census be of such
a character as may be relied upon by
statesmen and law-makers, “if the next
census be luliy and accurately taken” so
j that “its figures,whatever they may prove
to be, ca* be accepted as a true and honest
; exposition cf the power and condition ol
| every section of the country, that they
will furnish an invaluable basis for the
legislation of the next ten years. ” But
who, having the experience of “Recon
struction,” can expect such a result.—
Butler and Sumner rule the Radical party,
and the Radical patty shape the Legisla
j tion and control the Government. The
j first demand of the party is eontiouance in
! power. The President has given no evi
i denee that ho either will or can rise su
perior to its influence. Oa the contrary,
his late letter to Judge Dent shows that
General Grant is not only unwilling to
break with the Radical party, but exhibits
a determination to stand by “the great
bottled up” of military renown but now
the all-poweiful Congressional Dictator.
Asa matter of course, the autocrat who
boasts of his control of the Executive, and
overawes by menacing the Judicial De
partment. of the Government, will so
shape “the figures,” through his under
lings as to meet Radical wants and But
ler’s designs. The Administration will be
restricted in its appointments of census
takers to test-o ;th scalawags and mer
cenary carpet-baggers and ignorant ne
groes ; and the Bureau, as in Reconstruc
tion, registration and elections, wili be
forced to make the “figures” to suit the
wants of the case. Two things aie re
quisite for an accurate census in the
South. The first of these is that Congress
shall enlarge the circle from which
Government officials may be selected in
the South ; the second is that Gen
eral Grant shall boldly assume a more in
dependent and a more tolerant spirit to
ward the people of the South, yclept
“Rebels.” Neither of these have we any
right at present to expect. The coming
Presidential election and the large Demo
cratic gains at the North furbid the exer
cise of any such liberality. So far, there
fore, from expecting honest, “authentic”
“figures” as a reliable basis of legislation
for the coining decade, we have every
reason to believe the next census will fur-
Dish the ground work for all manner of po
litical infamies and partisan iniquities.
Political power will be demonstrated to
exist at the Hub, aud “National” hay
crops as of greater financial value to the
Government than the Southern cotton
erops.
A Direct Railroad Line to St. Louis.
We learn that negotiations are in pro
gress for the consolidation of the Nash
ville and Northwestern Railroad, of Ten
nessee, and the Iron Mountain Road, of
Missouri, the base of which is St. Louis.
The Nashville and Northwestern Railroad
having passed, by the action of the Legisla
ture of Tenn ssee, into the hands of a Re
ceiver, is now under lease to the Nashville
and Chattanooga Road. This railroad
intersects the Mobile and Ohio Road at
Union City. Its extension to a point op
posite Belmont, on the Mississippi River,
the present southern terminus of the
Iron Mountain Road, will form a direct
continuous connection between St. Louis
and the Southern Atlantic coast through
Nashville; trai„s being transferred by
large steam flats, as now done at St. Louis
upon other lines, would permit freight and
passengers to go through from St. Louis
to Nashville and all points south without
breaking bulks or making change. Should
these negotiations prove successful, this
line will make Nashville the great dis
tributing point for the products of the Far
West destined for the t Southern Atlartic
States. The corn, wheat, meat, hemp,
wines, iron and lead of Missouri and the
Northwest would, by such a connection,
find a southern outlet by this line in less
time and about the same cost as they now
require to reach Baltimore. The recipro
cal trade which must necessarily iollow
upon the opening of such a trunk line to
St. Louis, cannot fail to attract the atten
tion of the merchants and capitalists of
this section.
The Stonewall Disaster.
The terrible disaster which befell the
steamer Stonewall, plying between St.
Louis and New Orleans, has been briefly
detailed in our telegraphic columns. The
following particulars are from the St.
Louis Republican of October 30th :
STATIC ENT OF JOHN H. LYONS, SECOND EN
GINEER.
I reside at No. 3303 North Tenth street.
I was second engineer of the steamer
Stonewall. I was sitting at the table in
the cabin, at supper, about six o’ch ck,
when the fire broke out. The alarm of
fire was given, and I started forward; as I
did so, I saw Mr. Elbert, the Clerk, un
] locking the safe a? if to take out the va!
uables. I went up in the texas and met
three or four of the cabin crew coming
down with their valises. I went up into
the head engineer’s room and got his
valise and my own, and came down to the
j forward end of the boiler deck. I could
] not get down ts the steps were blocked up
■ with peoplp, and the smoke was nearly ’
suffocating. I started back on the lar
| board side and went up on tho hurricane
roof. The only man on the reef was Capt
Scott. L went back toward the stern and
saw him trying to earry a ladder forward.
I set down my things, took hold of one end
: ot the ladder and helped him to take it
j forward. He put it over the roof and
: started dowu the adder to go down to the
forecastle, and was burned. I do Dot think
: l e ever reached the deck alive. 1 think
j he was burned before he reached the deck.
He never spoke a word, and seemed to be
] perfectly cool. That was the last I saw of
him. 1 started back then to the stern and
got opposite the wheelhouse. I saw FraDk
Murray iD there and make for the wheel-
I ran back to tny valise and swung
down from the hurricane roof to the
boiler deck. Then I got hold again,
I swung down as far as I could and jumped
to the lower deck. I threw my valise in
I the river, grabbed a wheel-barrow, and
; jumped over with it from the stern, where
there were ve;y few people. I saw that
ten men had get into a yawl and cut the
painter. It was not more than ten feet
from me when I jumped in the river. I
caught my valise and struck out for the
shore. I got pretty near the shore when a
man told me he was drowning. I threw
him a valise, and in doing so lost my hat.
He got hold of my valise, which I think
would have supported him, but he was
much exhausted and was drowned. The
ten men in the yawl Ended, but there was
only one of their number who would go
; back. He was an Irishman. He took a
piece es wood about three feet long, and
s'arted back alone, paddling with the board.
He passed close to me and picked up five
men alive. He also picked another up,
who expired as soon as he was got into the
1 yawl. The head cook, Young, aas one of
the five men. He took them on the shore
I at Yancil’s landing, where he built a fire
! for them in a cabin. I got within fifteen
or twenty feet of the shore, near a point of
rooks, when the current struck me and car
ried me fifteen feet further in the river.
Then Submarine Xo. 13, Capt. Washing
ton, came down, and the swell caused by it
nearly drowned me. I thought I would
have to give up. I did not see the name
of the boat, but we all knew it was No. 13
coming right behind us. The river Was
full of people at that time. I was
not excited. I saw her coming down, and
thought some help was owning. I was
1 never so surprised in my life as to see her
pass by. She never stopped a wheel; I
can prove it. The boat was burning when
she passed. They could have saved a good
many lives if they had stopj>ed, and their
waves no doubt drowned a good many
people. I could just see them throw up
their hands and sink; when they got the
water in their mouths they were gone. I
finally got to the shore and crawled out on
my hands and knees on the bank, Dear a
ledge of rocks. I laid there halt an hour;
I crawled on my hands and knees nearly
half a mile; I stood up as muoh as a dozen
times, and fell right, over backward I
think it was nearly a mile from the wreck.
| lower down, where 1 got ashore. When I
got so I could walk. I went up the creek,
jas I saw a light opposite the wreck.'l tried
! to get to it, and found that Icould not get
across the creek. I knew it was not far
from Yancill’s Landing, and I struck out
over the bluffs for it. Before I did so I
hallooed, but I could not balloe very loud,
and no one heard me. I got to Vancill’s
Landing about 2 o’clock on Tbursday
morning. I had walked, I think, about 4
i miles. I went to a va r ant house where
j there were six men —five men who _ had
been picked off crates of cabbage and bales ’
ofbay by the Irishman, their rescuer. I
oould not tell his name, but he was a
whole-souled man if there ever was ;
one ; he was a deck passenger.
About three o’clock, three men came
down in a skiff from Neeley’s Land
ing, of whom Mr. Sheppard was one.
They had not been on the Stonewall, but
came down to see if they could do any ser
vice. They w.ent about a mile below Rob
inson’s Landing and got us some hot cof
fee, crackers, cheese and a bottle of whis
key. That revived us considerably. We
stayed at the house until the break of day
commenced, aud all started back in the
yawl to Neeley’s Landing. We picked up
one man on the way; he was under a ledge
of rocks. lie was aD Irish deck passenger
end very near dead. When ws got to
Neeley’s landing, Mr. Sheppard took us
out and gave us a hot breakfast. He
worked all night nobly. In the morning
inquests were held on two dead men—one
Mr. Brennan and the other an old man
unknown. Wc buried tl>em about half
past ten. The City of Cairo came down,
and I got aboard to go to Cape Girardeau.
The second engineer, Mr. Paley, gave me
a hat, and the chief engineer, Mr. Gray,
gave me a coat. There was an old lady
and gentleman there who had been picked
up by the yawl. They had lost seven
children. There were also there a stock
dealer irom Fort Gibson, and one or two
other men. We got to Cape Girardeau j
about Thursday noon, and went on board j
the Rubicon, which was coming up. At
Neeley’s Landing we picked up a German
giri about 18 years of age, who was rescued
by a person in a skiff, while sue was - hold
iiig on to a line of the stage. Her hand was
scorched ; we also picked up an Irish deck
passenger, who did not know how he got to
shore. We then started for St. Louis.
Captain Defy was lost ; I did not see him,
but I know very well there was no one
else saved. Mr. Bremandied of lock jaw,
lie lashed himself to the bow of the boat,
and was picked off. When we left Neeley’s
Landiug there was nothing but a spar or
two, and a portion of the name of the
boat and ihe wheels, ido not think there
were over forty saved. As near as they
could calculate it there were 300 on board
at the time of the fire. I think Mr El
bert, the Clerk, was burned. Ido not
think any passengers were left at Neeley’s
Landing. As to the cause of the fire, a
deck passenger told me it "was caused by
one of the number smoking upon a bale of
hay ; passengers were on the top of the
hay. The man told me that it was so
small that a blanket would almost cover it,
and he thought if he had bad another lie
could have put it out; but the fire extend
ed. 1 was in the water, as near as 1 can
tell, about three quarters of an hour. Ful
ton was the last man off the boat. I saw
the second bar keepor, George Lester, in
the water. He says, “How are you get
ting along, partner ?” I said, “Oh,
pretty well.” He said, "The water is
awful cold,” an i I passed him then. I
think he had hold of a bale of hay. I could
see the people all qver, on everything ;
some went down hallooiug. I saw one
man on a mule, which circled round and
round with him. I saw au old man shott
ing “Oh, save an old man,” “Fire” and
“Murder.” It was awful. One old man,
a deck passenger, was burned up on the
stern of the boat; he must have been sixty
yearsold; he could have jumped off. There
was no use in trying to put -the fire out.
When Capt Scottt was on the roof he was
trying to vet on the forecastle. The sec
ond clerk, Chick, was sitting with me at
the table when the passengers started to
run out of the cabin; he displayed great
coolness. I did not see him afterward. I
saw the porter trying to get the baggage
out of his room when the flames came up.
There wore three, or four ladies in the
cabin. Dr. Washburn was picked up on
a box of cabbages. Ido not think it was
over five minutes from the commencement
when the boat was enveloped in flames.
I think 76 or 100 persons were burned or
perished on the boat. A great many were
in the gangway, which were blocked up
with people. They could not drive mules
overboard. A great many mules were
burned on the boat. I saw several mules
on shore, one had all the skin burnt off,
one its ears off, another its eyes oat. We
were treated very kindly on the Rubicon.
OIIR TRAVELLING CORRESPONDENT.
On the Wing, Oct. 30, 1869.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel :
A trip through the country at this sea
son of the year, when the roads are dry
and firm, the air cool and bracing, and
the forests everywhere painted with the
golden lyrics of Autumn, is quite pleasant
and refreshing.
From social Circle to Monticello, a dis
tance of twenty-eight miles, is, to my
fancy, for beauty of situation, unsurpass,
ed by any other portion of Georgia.
Chestnut, oak and hickory, walnut and
locust abounds. The lands lie remarkably
well, and though not so strong and pro
ductive as'farther South, are susceptible
ot a high state cf improvement. And
this the. farmers are beginning to do in
earnest. Neighborhood agricultural clubs
are being organized, and all the advan
tages to this department canvassed with a
vim that promises gieat achievements in
the future.
One gentleman informed me that he
made seven hundred busueh of turnips
from one acre of ground, and put sixteen
dollars worth of fertilizers on two acres of
what was otherwise considered barren
soil, and made forty-five bushels of wheat.
The people of Jasper think they have
one of the best counties in the State, and
lam glad they and , for when they have a
highly appreciated treasure, they are apt
to take good care of it. >
One of the great things needful through
this section is a railroad, and the intelli
gent and public spirited are becoming
mom and more auve to this necessity.
Quite an enthusiastic meeting for the con
sideration of this subject, was held in
MontieeHo during a recess of the Court on
Thursday. The most feasible oute under
consideration, and anxiously de-ired by
the people, is from Madison to Griffin.
Cel Cinciunatus Peeples, of Griffin,
was first called out, and addressed the
meeting in his usually eloquent aud forci
ble manner. He did not consider it im
portant t argue tue necessity of construct
ing a railroad, the enhanced value of lands
and every species of property they possess
ed: ibis was a matter practically demon
strated. 'He regarded Jasper one of the
best coumies he ever saw. Scarcely five
hunired acres of land in the county but
was well watered. He did not see as much
energy, enterprise and excitement as their
manhood would indicate, the apology for
which, was the want of a railroad.
He was quite confident a petition would be
before the next CoDgress to grant public
lands sufficient to construct a road from
Fort Mnith to the Pacific Ocean. That
point was already in connection with Mem
phis, and the link formed between Griffin
and Madison, would bring Augusta, Port
Royal and Charle*ton in the most direct
connection with the great West. Judge
Reese was then called out and expressed
himself highly in favor of the road, te
garded the more railroad facilities the bet
ter for the people, and thought this wo-ild
be one of the best paying roads in the
State. He believed the road would pay
under any circumstances, and hoped well
digested measures would be adopted for
its construction. Hon. Joshua Hill aDd
Colonel Bartlett followed with spirited and
eloquent appeals in behalf of the road.
Colonel Bartlett was confident that not a
land owner in the county but would freely
give to the road the right of way. He was
for an energetic and vigorous prosecution
of the enterprise, and that without delay.
I thick a supply of such men is CoL Bart
lett would build theroad without any trou
ble. I may bo mistaken, but think he is a
gentleman of rare energy and goaheaditive
ness, just what is required to build railroads.
| Some may think this ail wind-work, but
the wind always precedes tho storm, and
the puff the thunder tread of the iron
horse; and if I am not deceived in the peo
ple of Jasper, this is but the breathing
into anew life, in their commercial histo
ry. It wa- resolved that the President ap
j point a committee to confer with the Geor
gia Railroad and citizens along the em
templated line, to ascertain what amount
wouid be contributed to the enterprise.
So far as I could learn, the people all pre
fer commercial connection with Augusta,
and the liberal and popular supervision of
the Georgia Railroad to any other. Shall
this enterprise succeed? Is there aDy
such word as fail where the energy and
nerve of enlightened manhood is at the
helm? We think not. I
The week at M .nticello passed off pleas
antly. The Keily Hotel was quite crowd
ed. and the guests of the polite proprietor
seemed abundantly satisfied with their ac
commodations. Everything was doDe up
decently and in order, and we bespeak a
new era in this business when the screai.
of the steam whittle is heard over the bill
tops and in the valleys around the pleasant
little town. Traveller.
Letter from Jefferson County.
Louisville, Nov. Ist, 1869-
Editors Chronicle k, Sentinel :
Ihe question of the size of the cotton
crop, so far as the advent of frost is con
cerned, is now definitely settled. We
have had not only frost, but ice several
times, and the cotton fields look like they
usually do at Christmas. Where planters
have had the requisite amount of labor,
the crop may be said to be gathered, as all
that is yet to pick is the few ucmatured
boils on top, which will now Open. I
doubt if a crop was ever before gathered
so early as this. Our community has re
cently sustained a serious loss in the re
moval of Prolesscr Wm. S. Ltwrey to
Due West, S. C , where he has gone to ac~
cept a chair in Erskine College. Prof.
L. had been teaching in the Louisville
Academy so long that he had come to be
looked on as as a permanent fixture.
I enclose you a copy of the action
o! the Trustees of the Academy upon re
ceiving Lis resignation, that the commu
nity into which he has gone may see the
estimation in which he was held by those
who know him best:
“Professor William S. Lowry, having
been for thirty consecutive years the chosen
Superintendent of the Liui ville Academy,
and having, by his superior skill and judg
meat, managed the institution with a de
gree of success that commands the admi
ration of the Trustees and the patrons of
the Academy, and having in au especial
maimer endeared himself to all the parents
and pupils ol this vicinity, the Trustees, in
acting upon his resignation recently
tendered, cannot refrain from an expression
of their sincere regret at parting with one
so universally beloved, both as teaeher and
citizen, and whilst we shall. hereafter be
deprived of his services aud the excellent
influence of his presence, yet his past life
and his association with the Louisville
Academy form au especial chapter in 'he
history of this community, to which we
will ever recur with feelings of pride and
gratification, and point to its example
as worthy of our highest emulation : there
fore
Resolved, That whilst we regret tho ne
cessity which constrains us to accept the
resignation of Professor Lowry, we con
gratulate the College at Due West upon
securing the services of such an able and
efficient officer.
Resolved, That to Professor Lowry, in
his new field of labor and uselulness, we
tender our best wishes for his success and
| happiness.
The Trustees have secured the services,
for the balance of the year, of the Rev D.
G. Philips, a gentleman- in every way
qualified to teach any branch usually
in-or out of our best Colleges.
Why have you dropped the Augusta,
Louisville and Albany Radroad ? Our
people are feeling a liveiy interest in the
enterprise, and are only aiting for Au
gusta to take tho initiative, when they will
step forward and put their shoulders to
the wheel with “might and main. ” Would
it not be well if Augusta would hold a
meeting and invite all the counties
through which the road would run to call
meetings, and see how much Would be
subscribed in stock, and how many would
give the right of way ? We want the
road, and will do all iu our power to build
it. Yours, Jefferson.
Agricultural and Artisan.— We
have received the prospectus of anew
weekly paper, to be published under this
title, at Gordonsville, Va., by Messrs, A.
Herbert & Cos. It will be devoted to the
discussion of agricultural and mechanical
subjects, and the news of the day. Terms
$3 00 per annum; six mouths, $1 75; three
months $1 00 in advance.
Strength of xiie Masonic Order.—
In the published report of the proceedings
of the Grand Lodges of the United States
of the Order of Free and Accepted Masons,
it is stated that tiie membership of the
order in the different States and Territories
and the British possessions reaches 454,-
'355, including 4,791 in Maryland, 1,783 in
the District of Columbia, 8,000 in Virginia,
11,184 in North Carolina, 13,167 in Geor
gia, 29,-SSO in Pennsylvania, and 16,969 in
Tennessee.
The Great Railroad Case.—On k»t
Monday morning the great Railroad ease
was brought up before Judge Cole, in Mas
con. The suit came up on Monday on a
motion made to dissolve an injunction re
cently obtained by certain of the stock
holders of the Southwestern Railroad
Company restraining the Central and
Southwestern Railroads from purchasing
of the city of Savannah a large amount of
the stock of the Albany and Gulf Rail
road owned by that city. There was a
formidable array of-legal talent represent
ing both the parties at issue. For the
parties desiring the injunction there ap
peared Hon. Robert Toombs, Win. Hope
Hull, Messrs. Nes’oet and Jackson and
Col. S. N. Whittle ; for the parties desir
ing its dissolution there were General A.
R. Lawton, Messrs. Lyon and DeGraf
fenreid, lion. Julian llartridge, Judge
Chisolm, Hon. 11. V. Johnson, and W.
W. Montgomery. Tiro State of Georgia,
having teen made a party, also, to the
suit, was represented by Judge O. A.
Lochrane. Thecase was submitted with
out argument, and an early decision is
expected.
Port Royal Railroad— -Work on the
section of tnis Road which lies below Sami
Bar Ferry, on tk« Savannah River, com
menced yesterday. We are informed that
the whole line from Sand Bar Ferry to the
intersection of the Charleston & Savannah
Riad (which is about midway between
Charleston and Savannah) is under con
tract and laborers are now bu-.ily at work
upon it. It is expected to increase the
several orces on the line, just so soon as
they can be spared Irom the cotton fields,
to tise greatest number that the work will
admit advantageously. The energy that is
being displayed justifies publicexpectarion,
that this Road will aot only be completed
within contract time (28th of August
1870), but gives assurance that the first
harvest of Summer of the coming year, '
will witness the completion of the new
railroad line to Augusta, which will not
only furniab our “C.ty of'Fountains” with
another short connecting link with the
established seaports of Savannah and
Charleston, but wiil give her anew, short
outlet to the sea through the magnificent
haven of Port Royal—a harbor so capa
cious as wili admit the entire naval marine
of the Government of the United States
to ride with safe anchorage in the most
severe intertropical storms, and permit the
largest ship modern art has constructed to
reach easily and deliver directly at its
pierhead her enormous cargo.
Early Arrival of New Crop Tobac
co.—From the New Oileans Price Cur
rent, of the 30th nit., we learn that a hogs
head of new crop tobacco, the first this
season, was received in that city on the
26th, from Paducah, Ky., consigned to
the house of Messrs. E. H. Wilson &
Son. It opened well, and is of good cure,
classing Low leaf.
t'r. tn the Savannah llepubliean.
] DISGRACEFUL CONDITION OF AFFAIRS
IN FLORIDA
A BRIBED AND DISHONORABLE
GOVERNOR.
His Guilt Fully K&tabllsr and.
j FEDERAL GENERAL LITTLEFIELD A PART
NER IN THE VILLAINY-
Down in Florida they have a •Governor
for whom even decent Radicals appear to
have a most superlative contempt. Some
i of the carpet baggers who helped to foist
j this miserable iutpos er aud landshark up
on toe people are the loudest in their exe
crations of the “mm and brother” who
spends his time chirfly iu New York con
cictmg schemes of plunder, and comes
bMu to Florida to pocket the stealings.
s publish to day aa exposure of this
man. It will shock the senses of all re
spectable Radicals, while it inflicts a stig
ma upon Radical administration from
which we have no wouder some ol'the bet
ter sort of carpet baggers desire to cut
loose. Governor, though his title be, it
is a little consoling to feel, that it is so on
ly by the grace of Radical reconstruction,
and not by the sanction of honest and fair
voting, even amoug the Radicals them
selves. The honest people of Florida havo
no share or lot in the scoundrel, and are in
nowise responsible for his crime. Bomo of
the Florida carpet-baggers seems to have a
sense of honor and decency, and would be
rid of the pestiferous incubus upon their
own party if they couiif succeed against
the terrible power of i atronage which
they, themselves, have put into'the hands
of their own Executive. We deeply s .ca
pathize with our F.orida neighbors and
trust that they will find some way of driv
mg the fellow from their State, or, what
is better, getting him in the State’s pris
on, where he properly belongs.
Thischarge upon “Ills Excellency” ol
Florida, is not of Democratic origin. We
cannot be abused for “rebel calumny”
against him. We have often denounc and
the imtnorality and corruption of the car
pet-bag governmems generally, lfom our
Conservative standpoint ; but now the
Radicals have given us ammunition out of
their own cartridge boxes, and eomo to the
rescue of their own reputation when they
cap no longer tolerate the infamy of their
ow.n chosen leaders.
The following affidavit is substantiated
by others, that we have neither room for nor
patience to publish. Twelve thousand five
hundred dollars in cash, for which receipts
can be produced, is a very cheap price lor
the conscience of a Chief Magistrate of an
American State:
IN THE CASE OF THE COUNTY COMMISSION
ERS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY VS. GEORGE
W. SWEPSON, HARRISON REED, GOVERN
OR. AND OTHERS IN CHANCERY:
State of Florida, I
Duval County, j S ' S<
On this Bth day of October A. D. 1869,
before me, Charles L. Mather, Clerk ot
the Circuit Court in and for said county,
appeared Sherman Conan', a citizen of
the State ot Florida, who, being duly
sworn, says ; That on or about the isth
day of June, A. D. 1869, during the ses
sion of the Legislature, at its special term
in June, depment road a letter written by
George W. Swepson, and addressed to
Garrison Kee , Governor of Florida ; that
deponent knows the handwriting of said
Swepson, and his signature was of the
said Swepson ; that said letter stated that
it would be ofeiivered to said Reed, Gov
ernor, by Milton S. Littlefield, or by Mr.
Littlefield,aud further stated that Swepson
had paid, he said Reed, Governor, five
thousand dollars in New York city, some
time before, for which he, the said Spep
son, had taken a mortgage on the said
'Reed’s property in Tallahassee ; that said
Littlefield would return'o him the mort
gage and would pay said Reed seven thou
sand dollars on his a pproyal of the Bill @r
Act which'the said Littlefield would have
introduced into and passed by the Legisla
ture ; that according 10 this deponent’s
best remembrance and belief, the contents
of said letter were as follows: “You re
member, Governor, on‘agreement in New
York, I was to give you fourteen thousand
dollars for calling the Legislature together
and using your influence to secure the pas
sage of the bill. Five thousand I paid
you in New York, for which I hold mort
gage on your property in Tallahassee. Two
thousand Mr. Littlefield will hand you
when he reaches Tallahassee. When you
havo signed the bill he will give you seven
thousand dollars and return to you your
mortgage.”
That there is a mortgage on record iu
Leon county of the property in Tallahassee,
mortgaged by the said Reed, to said Bwep
son, and that shortly.before the recent de
parture of said Reed to the North, accord
iug to the best 'knowledge aud belief of
deponent, the said Reed inquired of ihe
Clerk of' the Circuit Court of said county
if the said Swepson had not sent a release
of said mortgage for record, stating that it
had been paid, and that he, the said
Swej son, had promised to send the Clerk
a release of the fame for record ; that a
true and correct copy of said letter from
_ said Swepson to said Reed was at the time
" hereinbefore mentioned made, aqd the
same was sworn to before a duly appointed
and lawfully authorized Notary, and that
the same is now in existence.
Sherman Conant.
Sworn to and subscribed to before me
this Bth day of October, A. D. 1869.
Chas.L Mather, Clerk.
Filed October Bth, 1869
Chas. L. Mather, Clcik.
State of Florida, )
County of Duval, j sS-
I, Charles L. Mather, Clerk of the Cir
cuit Court in and for said county, do here
by certify that, the foregoing is a true copy
of tho original now on file in my office.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set
•. , my hand and seal of said Court
L ' 1 this 28th day of Oat ,A D. 1869.
Ciias. L Mather, Clerk.
By F. B. Knapp, D. C.
The foregoing exemplification from the
records of the District Court of Duval
county oan be seen at our office by such as
may be disposed to question its authenti
city.
THE DEATH OF LUIiD DERBY.
Lord Derby has ' passed away almost
simultaneously with tho principle which he
had endeavored to perpetuate in the gov
ernment of his country He lived long
enough to see tue system which he had
spent nearly a half century in dclending
finally rejected by the people. The man
who has given up his days to the .-trife and
heat of political conflict can endure no
disappointment so keen aa that which is
brought to him by toe knowledge'that his
work is discredited, and that the causes
against which be thirsted to prevail have
obtained the supremacy. This was Lord
Derny'-. lit. The world | assed him by,
aid called him stubborn, uuteachall >, and
foolish. It was too late to deceive him with
these brilliant visions of a “conservative
reaotioD,” which Mr. Disraeli sometimes
conjured up to soothe the anxious fears of
his followers. Lord Derby was not the mao
to misunderstand the lessons of the last
elections in England. There could notpossi
bly be a plainer issue than that which was
-übmitted to the people. They ere asked
whether they would have a Government
based upon Liberal or Conservative ideas,
and they pronounced by an overwhelming
majority in favor of the former. Lord
Derby became a political anomaly. That he
felt the blow bitterly no one can doubt.
His bodily sufferings during the last few
weeks may have been the least part of the
sorrows which lay in wait for him as the
shadows closed in, and which went side by
side with him to the grave.
There are those who condemned Lord
Derby as a “rigid lory,” but impartial ob
servers will not so pronuuuce upon his
character. He helped to pats the first Re
form Bill in 1832, and it was with his
sanction that the last measures of the kind,
con erriug all but universal suffrage upoo
the people, was carried by his party
When he took office in 1866 he defined
his aim to bo “to pursue the path of safe
and steady progress, strengthening rather
than subverting the institutions of the
country, and maintaining a just balance
between the various parts ot the consti
tutional system —a monarchy limited, an
aristocracy tempered, a House of Com
tnons not altogether (Democratic.” This
was Lord Derby’s ideal, and it was not
his fault if be tailed to render it attractive
to a generation which had not been reared
in his school of thought. The forces of that
effacing power which, for want of a better
word, we call “progress,” were beyond his
control. He has leit nothing which can be
called a Conservative Party, in the old
sense of that distinction. His former
followers are scattered under several ban
ners, and it may be questioned whether
they will ever rally under any one. Lord
Carnarvon, Lord Salisbury and Mr. Dis
raeli each claim the allegiance of those
who are not yet afraid to avow themselves
Conservatives, and it is possible that a
very limited section mav be willing to
recognize Sir Stafford *Xorthcote or Lord
Cairoe as their chiefs. But Mr. Disraeli is
still, what he ever was, indispensable to
the country. It is inconceivable that
they should attempt to carry on their war
fare without the man whose genius has
NEW SERIES, VOL. XXYIII. NO. 4 »
' twice led them to victory and power, and
wr o although the best hated man in Eng
land, towers head ynd shoulders above all
his rivals. Lord Derby expressly desig
nated Mr. Disraeli a< his successor, and
the “man ot letters,” who made himself
’’rime Minisier against all the odds of for
tune, will knew how to prevent a reversal
ofthe decree.
There is one statesman to whom the
death of Lord Derby is a great misfor
tune, in his public as well as his i rivate
life. We refer to Lord Stanley, who in
Succeeding to his father’s title and
hi.nors mu-t necessarily be transferred
from the House of Commons to the House
of Lords—from tho Chamber where the
work of the nation is done to that in which
it is merely gossiped over. Lord Stanley
has won a place in the House of Commons
which is now irrecoverably lost. His fa
ther s friends may mark him out as the
future Conservative leader, but his mind
is essentially Liberal in its cast, and he is
oo sagacious a man to dig for himself that
pit which doctrinarjes call “a third
party. He will be heard with respect,
but honors of rank which tools covet will
be intolerable to him- He oould not if
he would stand in his father's place. More
over, his fidelity to Mr. Diet atli has never
been shakep. It is scarcely necessary to
try to anticipate the verdict of posterity on
Lord Stanley’s father. His death with
draws from English political life a figure
"Inch once occupied a large space, but
from a variety of circumstances
had shrunk into such small dimensions
that it wdl scarcely be missed. Such is
the inevitable fate of political men when
the tide of public opinion casts them on
the ghorc, and they are left to wa ch the
great ocean of life receding ever further
and further from them.—i Veto York
1 tmes.
STATE NEWS.
At the last term ot Fayette Superior
Court forty-seven jurors were excused
from serving on account of young babies
at home.
Colonel Clarke, of Virginia, has been
appointed Engineer of the Bainbridge &
Columbus Railroad. Twenty miles of the
road wiil be let out and finished bv the Ist
of march.
Work is rapidly progressing on the
street railroad in SavaDnah. It is expected
that the road will be completed and the
cars running on it in two or three weeks
An old man by the name of Watson had
his brains knocked out near Youogesboro
on last Friday. He was killed by a negro
in his employ for the proceeds of two bags
ol cotton, which Watson had that day
sold. The assassin has been arrested.
It is said that for three months past the
Superintendent ofthe Western & Atlantic
(State) Road has failed to pay the wood
cutters, tiemen and track-hands employed
on the road.
U. M. Gammon and R. J. Gwallney,
two sportsmen of Rome, killed eighty five
partridges near that place, one day last
week, every one on the wing, and all a
single bird to tue shot.
Cotton receipts in Savannah for the
week, 17,975 bales upland, 450 Sea Island.
Receipts at all ports (or present year are
256,885 bales against 261,429 last year
an excess of 95,456 bales Shipments
from Savannah to foreign ports, 15 859
bales to none last year. Entire exports
from U S. ports to foreign ports are 111,-
943 against 56.793 last year. Stock on
hand 145,775 bales, against 133,433 last
year.
On to-day the injunction case of Stephen
Collins et al. vs. Southwestern Railroad
comes up lor argument in Macon.
The barn and cotton house of George
Barber, ol Butts county, were burned re
cently by incendiaries. The entire crop was
destroyed.
Two ships cleared for Liverpool direct
from Savannah on last Thursday. The two
together carried a cargo of nearly eight
thousand bales of upland cottoo, valued at
$906,000.
The jail at Quitman was broken a few
uights since, and an interesting young
gentleman confined in it on a charge of
bigamy, succeeded in making his escape.
The citizens of Calhoun county express
a willingness to subscribe one hundred
thousand dollars to the Camilla & Cuth
bert Railroad, on condition that it run by
tho county-town.
A man in Muscogee aounty hired an ex-
Coofederate soldier to guard his gin
house. The pay is S3O per month, and
his duty is to watch all night, in order to
prevent a fire.
Gen Toombs. —Wo learn that our dis
tinguished fellow-oitiaen, General Robert
loombs, has arrived in Macon, to argue
an important law case before the court to
day. We are glad to hear that the Gener
al has entirely recovered his recent severe
illness, and is looking as hale and hearty
as ever. Al! gopd citizens will rejoice to
learn that this eminent Georgian is re
stored to good health.— Macon Journal
ana Messenger, Ist.
Easton & C».N New York Cotton lie
port Tor the Week finding October
2D, 1869.
l(eceiirtii by Telegraph Friday Evening.
ExDoris to Exp r 8 to
Receipt*, S’ock, Ui.B It'D, Content.
New O leans, 23,67« 65 437 9,968 14,031
Mobile, 7 42© 2 .803 4,251 450
Galveston, 4.9*5 14 900 b 43
Florida, 233
Savannah, 1 ,4.50 3! 637 *7 581 ***’"
Charleston, 10,920 13.510 2 2*'.o
New York. 6.699 14 981 9 959 1.775
Boston, Tail & Balt. 8 995 7 500 150
Total this week, 76 318 168,768 35 01* 16,256
.Previously reported, 348.171 72,791 42,3 2
Tot. kince Sept. 1, ’69, 421.459 168,763 107 804 58,558
Same time last year, 319 97/5
QUOTATIONS.
Bpi’d&Fior. M *bl!e. N. Oceans. Texas.
Ordinary. @24!< @24 &24¥ @25
Good Ordinary @5 4 @2>}£ @2#
Middling, @2sj|£ @26 @26* @2*K
Middling, @26 @26 @26* @26%
Sales of the week, 13,252 bales—includ
ing 5,139 to spinners, 1,913 to speculators
and 6,200 to exporters.
Gross receipts at this port for the week,
18,025 bales. Sine* Ist September 127,661
bales.
Stocks in the interior towns Oct. 2k—
-1869. 1868
Aueu.'a, G. & Hamburg s*ll 4 903
C 1 lubus, O* 4 294 6.361
Mien, , a 8.o;o 6.786
Selma, All 2925 3 022
Mon gomery. All 7 148 7 222
Memphis, Term 6 4g.-, i,.5i6
Nashville, Tenn 40-5 163
Total 84 398 37,926
Statistical Position’. 1869. 1868
Stock in Liverpool 428,000 445 390
Afloat from India 134,000 178,000
Afloat from America... 49,000 29,000
Stock in London 59 060 82 570
Afloat from London... 140,000 108 000
Stock in Havre 71 620 5(T429
Afloat for Havre 42,370 63,165
Stock in Bremen 4,241 10 444
Afloat for Bremen 1,966
Stock in U. S. p0rt5...168,768 151,53 j,
Stock in the interior ,
towns 34,598 37,920
T0ta1..... 1,131,657 1,161,420
Deficiency in visible
supply 29,763
Stock of Cotton held by Manchester
spinners at the mills, now 70,000 bales
same time 1868, 145 000 bales. Middling
Orleans, now 12Jd, then 11 Id.
New York. Saturday, Ohpt. 30, 1869.
Toe Market. —In our last report the
market closed weak at 26Jc. lor Middling
Uplands. Liverpool was dull at 12d for
Uplands and 12fd for Orleans. Saturday,
there was no special change in the tone of
the market. Sales 1,288 at 26ic. Liver
pool closed dull and unchanged. Sales
12.000 bales. Monday, there was a firmer
feeling, and the market closed at 26jc for
Middling and 26c ‘or Low Middling. Sales
2,495. Liverpool was steady apd un
changed; sales 12 000. Tuesday, the of
fering stock was light aud the market
steady; tales 2,493 at 26}c. Liverpool
was steady and unchanged; sal? , 12 000-
Wednesday, the very small stock offering
checked business. Prices were steady;
sales 2,911. Liverpool was active, but
closed easier: sales 12,000. Middling Up
lands Utd(nri2d, Orleans 12Jd@12id,
Thursday, the market continued steady,
with light offerings; sales 2,257 Liverpool
was active and firmer, sales 14,000 at 12d
for Uplands and 121d tor Orleans. Yes
terday, the market was dull and easier;
sales 1,808 at 26c. Liverpool was 3teady,
at 12d tbr Uplands and 12)d for Orleans
sale* 12,000.
During the week prices her# close Jc
lower on MiddEngs, and in Liverpool the
quotation has not varied from 12d to 12jd
tor Uplands aDd Orleans. The stock in
New York continues very small, and most
of the cotton arriving has already been
sold. There is a strong effort being made
to depress prices by bear sales, and by re
ports of largely increased supplies for the
coming year, and we find that we are al
most alone in the opinion that present
prices are not dangerous. We believe
that this crop is being over-estimated, and
that there will not be a large increase in
the Bombay supply. We think also that,
owing so the great decrease in the produc
tion of goons in England for the past ten
months (equal to the product of 300,000
bales) that the stocks cannot be large, and
that a period of increased spinning and ot
better prices approaching. We, therefore,
do not hesitate to say to our friends, buy
now, and follow the market down if it
should decline.
We have received from Ott. Trumpler, i
Esq., of Zurich, his valuablo eircu ar,
showing import and consumption o!' cot
ton in all Europe, excluding Spain, Swe
den and Russia, for the year ending 30th
September, 1869. We extract the follow
ing interesting figures from the circular :
AVERAGE WEEKLY DELIVERIES.
t Am. K. I. Brazil. Egypt O her. Total
chocss in at
Europe. 1*
j Oct., 1*69.... Ut SO3 115 31 41 614
! Imp rt ot ear
! endiug 30th
SrpL, 1a69...1,86’ 1856 655 231 3S> 4,472
K 96 3.159 750 KS 13a 5085
; Strck In Europe
Setii Sep. ’69 74 396 €6 22 25 583
Ccn-ump‘i in
of
Os whict in
flreat Blt’o 87? 913 483 175 129 2 587
Os wbict on
Ocntinent.. 545 850 191 6 1 369 mo
Average per week in Great Britain, 49,
850 on the Continent, 36,846. Total
Europe, 86,596. Stock, beginning ot year,
614,000, at end 583,000. Consumption
more than imr*C i, 31,000. Consumption
ot Great Britain, decreased this year, 235,-
000 bales; Consumption on Continent
increased, 134,000 bales; decrease of
English consumption,-7 percent.; increase
of Continent, 7J per cent. Estimated sup
ply for ensuing year, 10 per oern. more
from all countries except America.
American crop put down at three millions,
Weekly Receipts —We make up the
receipts as follows : Our report closes on
bridayat New Orleans, Galveston and
Mobile, and on Thursday uight at Savan
nah and Charleston. From the „ross re
ceipts at New Orleans, we deduct the
amount received there from Galvt-Bton and
Mobile. The Florida receipts are oouuted
as they arrive at the Northern ports. The
net receipts at New York, and at Boston,
Philadelphia and Baltimore, are made up
by counting all cotton arriving from North
Carolina, Virginia, and by rail from th*
West- In Boston we exclude all cotton*'
arriving by rail and boat from New York,
where it has already been counted. By
this method we claim tuat we count each
week all cotton arriving at the ports, and
by rail from the W est. The accuracy of
our last week’s receipts has been question
ed because they were smaller ihau the
figures of other authorities. We should
be pleased if our friends instead of assum
ing that our figures were wrong because
they did not agree with other aurhorities,
would examine them carefully and point
out to us any errors.
Irom India.—The accounts received
hitherto have been favorable and an in
crease in the exports of 300 000 hales was
confidently counted on. I'eb graphic ac
counts have lately been received in Liver
pool of continu- and rains and damage to the
crop, aud estimates of exports had been
reduced. In Velkart Bio’s report of Sep
ternber 7th, we find an estimate of the
amount in Bombay and the districts adja
cent. Stocks were reported to be 168,000
bales, and the < xpor's for 1869 wero ex
pected to be equal t those ot 1868.
Taßl,e showing cost in sterling of Mid
dling Cotton, free on board, with freight,
by sail, insurance and ship ing charges :
Galveston, 11.141.; New Orleans, 10.72 J *
M bile, 10 70d ; Savannah, 10.324. ;
Charleston 10.61d.; New York, 10 64L
To find the cost, sold in Liverpool, Ifd.
must be added.
Receipts and Exports —The receipts
tht _week have been 76,418 bales, against
66.471 bales the corresponding week last
year, and the foreign exports 51,269 bales,
again t 30,101 bales in 1868. li e totals,
so lar Ibis year, can be s“en in the la les
I given above. The f0110w,., table will
show the totals at each port :
L n , • 1868. 1869
New Orleans 142 893 141163
Mobile 40.610 49 154
Galvestou 23 541 23 757
£wr>da 1,115 1,095
Savannah 56,758 104,894
Charleston 28,833 55 831
New rork 18,757 30 218
Boston, &c 7,471 18,377
Total to date 319,978 424,489
DISTRIBUTION OF RECEIPTS
„ , , 1868. 1869
Stock 28th August 10 911 43,594
Received since 424,489 319,978
Total 435 400 363 572
Exported ....166,362 91 783
S( ock H>B 768 154 530
Bales to spinners 100 270 1)7,259
From the Broker s Circular ot October
14th, we take the following figures:
AVERAGE WEEKLY DELIVERIES
Tm,!e Ex rt. Import.
1869 45 610 10,308 2,349 911
1868 51,740 . 12,094 , 2,649,086
AT SEA.
Am. E. I “ Stock. M.Orl. F Snr.
1869-20 000 366,000 425,430 124d. •94d.
1868-17,000 4&),000 407,000 lid. B|d.
The Cotton at sea is 111 000 bales less
than last, year, and the stock is 18,430 bales
more The import so far this year is
299,175 bales less than last. The average
weekly deliveries are 7,916 bales less than
iast. The consumption of Ameiica’i Cot
ton has averaged 11,866 bales for the past
six weeks. Os the sales that week, 20 per
cent, were American and 51' 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, 100 bales at 25f •, 500
at 25fc, 500 at 2'4c, 400 at 26e,' 200 a 25J.
November, 300 biles at 25ic, 300 at 25c, 600
at 25jc, 75 at 25de. December, 750 bales at
25iC, 100 at 25c,• 100 at 25fc January,
100 bales at 25fb, 100 at 25.1 c, 200 at 25|c,
50 at 25Jc. February, 500 bales at 26e,
100 at February and March, 200
bales at 26c. March, 200 bales at 26c.
Also, on private terms, 100 October and
100 December. Tot and, 5,575 bales.
South Carolina Items.
Personal -Ex-Governor M L. Bon
. ham, of South Carolina, is at the Globe
Hotel.
A meeting of the citizens of Edgefield
and Lexington counties was held at Bates
ville on the 30th ult, fur the purpose of
discussing the propriety of forming anew
county of the adjoining portions cf said
counties. Resolutions were adopted favor
.ing the formation of anew county, and a
committee of ten citizens from Edgefield
and Lexington were appointed to petition
the Legislature
We learn from the Charleston News
that a meeting was held at Dove Depot
on the 30th for the purpose of organizing
the Black Creels cotton factory. Over
two hundred shares were represented.
Col. J. A Law was elected President with
the following Directors : Captain J A
W illiams, Colonel J R Ring, Georgia;
Captain L R Ragsdale, Captain E iVI
Griffin, B A Early, C H DeL irme, Jerome
P Chase, Dr. H J Lee, M B Gandy, C II
Race, L W Side, E E Evans; Secretary
and Treasurer, J L Dove.
We learn from tln>Edgefield Advertiser
that the gin-house, of John P.atnslord,
Esq., at his Burt place, containing sixty
bales of cotton, was consumed with its
contents Monday night. On the same
evening the gm-house of Mr Charles
Mathis, a mile below the Pine H >usc, was
destroyed with sixteen bales of cotton.
Wednesday night. 27th ult , the gin house
of Mrs. Gregory, near Richardsunville wis.
burned with five bales of cotton.
The eleotion in Abbeville District, on the
26th ultimo, to fill two vacancies in the
House of Representatives, resured in rbe
-uccess of T.P. Sullivan and L. P. Griffin,
the Radical candidates. The Radical ma
jority, however, is small—2B6. had fair
play been allowed, the Democrats would
have triumphed overwhelmingly. As it
was, the State Constabulary, gathered to
gether from ali quarters, and headed by
Hubbard, took the matter in hand, anu
acted, virtually, as managers.
During tho election a slight disturbance
occurred at Calhoun s Mills. A number of
citizens were arrested by the Constabulary
and taken to Abbeville C.H. The managers
at Calhoun s Mills unhesitatingly charge
the blame upon the intermeddling of the
Constabulary.— Edgefield Advertiser.
Deliberate Suicide of a P/eautifll
Young Lady.— Chicago, October 29 —A
special to tne Tributie from Quincy says
Miss Pet McKay, a highly esteemed and
beautiful young lady of that city, aged
18, walked qvjs on the railroad bridge
acroos tus Mississippi, pinned her cloak to
a bride on the bridge ana leaped into the
river. Her body was not found at the
latest advioes. Before jumping into the
river she wrote a note, pinned to her cloak,
in which she said: lt The finder of this
cloak and hat, I hope, wiil be kind enough
to take this to my u other at the Tremout
House, and tell her that my body lies in
the Mississippi; I did not drown myself for
shame nor for love. lam yet pure as the
beautiful snow. Thank the Lord, I have
no sin of that kind to answer lor. No
friends have I. Everybody hates me. My
friends are enemies. Indeed, this is a cold
aDd dreary- world to live in, so good-bye,
mother, sister and brothers, for I am going
to the land where sin and sorrow come no
more.
[Signed,] “P. A. McKay.”
The mother of Miss McKay is a widow,
who moved from Dayton, Ohio, about a
year since.
1 [General Butler is reported to have re
cently declared himself in favor of putting
the State of Louisiana under military con
trol again as the only remedy for its pres
ent lawless condition.