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Daughters or Esculapius.-—At the |
medical lecture in the Pennsylvania llos
pital at Philadelphia, last Saturday morn- j
ing, 13th instant, a class of thirty-nine i
ladies were ptcseut, with one hundred and
forty male students.
Map of the State Road. —We return
thanks to Mr. 11. W. Wrenn, General
Ticket Agent, for a map of the Western &
Atlantic Railroad, and its connections. It
is a complete railroad map for the United
States. The map is efficiently gotten up, •
and handsomely printed and colored.
Burke's Weekly for Boys and
Girls. —The November num'ers of this
favorite periodical arc received. Big Foot
Wallace’s '■ dveru arcs grow more interest- i
ing as the story advances, and it promises
to bo the best story yot printed in its j
pages. V/e are sorry to learn that tLe
Southern boys ati'Xgirla are not support j
iDg this publication as they should do. j
Every boy and girl in the South ought to !
take it, as it is altogether the best of the I
juvenile publications of the country. Terms !
$2 a year—-two copies for $3. Address J. I
W. Burke & Cos., Macon, Ga.
dIS THE . TATE liOAD INSOLVENT?—The
Borne Courier says that this question is
travelling around cx ensively, and nobody
answers it. TheG< orgia ltoad paid $250,000
as the earnings of that Road for 2 months,
and tin .-tale Road only paid in $50,000
and did not pay the wood cutters and hands
on the Road. They are clamoring lustily !
for pay, but it seems to be not forthcam j
ing. What is the matter? In addition j
to this from the Atlanta papers we team j
that on the 11 th irist., on a ft. fa. in favor
of E. Harris was levied on the Depot i
Beales and one large office desk, of ttic
Btutu Jtiad, at Ringguld, for S2B 00. Card
pilaying, drinking and fiddling is said to he !
quite common among some of the officers j
and hands.
A Strong Combination. —The Macon
Telegraph, and the Journal <£• Messenger.
have been consolidated, the two appear
ing hereafter under the name of the Tele
graph & Journal, with Mess.. 3 . Clisby,
ltcid & Reese as Publishers and Editors.
This is a strong combination, which will i
prove profitable to the Proprietors and .
the public.' We wish it success.
A Georgia Improvement.— We find
in the Norfolk Day Boole of the 4th insf.,
a communication addressed by Mr. C. 0.
Stillwell, of Romo, Georgia, to the Com
mon Council of Norfolk, in which Mr. B.
offers to the Council the control of an im
provement of his for increasing the speed
of passenger steamers. He claims that his
improvement will increase the speed of !
such steamers to thirty-fiva miles an hour,
and furnishes specifications sot the build
ing of a small steamer as an experimental
vessel, offering to pay half of the expense j
if it proves to be a failure. We infer from
his description that the merits of h.s im
provement lie chiefly in tho construction
and position of the paddle wheels. He
eluims that wheels of his improvement,
being buoyant, will aid in floating the ves
sel while they propel it; that, by present
ing a revolving surface to the water, the
wheels will not lu.-c force by friction. The
improvement will not answer !5r Vessels
imavily loaded with freight, as a deep
draught would submerge the drums too
much, lie also claims that ths hull may
be made stronger when adapted to the use
of his paddle-wheels. He proposes to of
fer the improvement to some other South
ern city if Norfolk docs not accept it—his
terms eing tho payment to him ot 1 p:r
cent, on passenger ri -eipts of tho first ves
sel put upon tho line, and 4 of 1 per cent,
on receipts of all vessels subsequently built.
Noyes & Cos. Find a Sucker, —Like
most ot the other Southern newspapers,
the Chronicle A Sentinel has oftcD iiad
occasion to call attention to the circulars
which a firm of Now York swindlers, call
ing themselvo ■ Noyes & Company, have 1
boeu sending all over the country, pro
posing to sell, for a small consideration,
eounterleit money of various denominations,
manufactured by tho “most ski llul lauds 1
outside of the tuate Prison.” From the
fact that their plan—which was generally
to send their dupe a paokago of currency
photographs—had boon so often exposed
by the press we did not think that there
was a greenhorn in the country green
enough to be caught by so transparent an
artifice. In this, however, it seems that
wc have been mistaken. Wo learn that
not long ago a sharp young maD, who does
not live more than t thousand miles from
this city, received one of tho artistically
concocted circulars of Messrs. Noyes&Co.,
and determined to invest in twenty-seven
dollars worth ol their stuff. The order, ac
cordingly, was dispatched and the goods
directed to be sent by Express C. O. D.
Noyes & Company, ever prompt in tilling
orders, tout tho package as requested, by
Express, and it reached its destination a
few day since. Sharp young man called for
; t, paid the twenty-seven dollars aud ono
dollar freight aud took it away. Carrying
i> to some secure i lace the package was
opened and found to contain a very su
perior article of Northern saw-dust.
Mora! When you purchase “stuff”
from Noyes A Company and hav- it sent
C. 0. I'., he sure to examine it before you
pay tho money-
Memoirs of the War. For some
time pa-t it has been known in literary
circles that the late Commander in-Chiet
ofthe Confederate armies, General Robert
E. Lee, was engaged in preparing for pub
lication anew edition of the work by Col.
Henry Lee, called “Memoirs of tho War
in the Southern Department ot the United
StAt''s.” Not long since the hook in ques
tion was issued from the and on
yesterday we examined a copy. So pop
ular and interesting were those “Memoirs”
that they had already run through two
editions before the present wne was com
me need and there can be certainly but
little doubt that tbe name of the distin
guished soldier and demoted patriot who
has undertaken the work of revision, will
cause them to t" received, now. with even
more favor than Is tare. The editor, as a
near relative of the author, has eujoyed
peouliar advantages in the prosecution of
his design, and has had access to ma
terials, out * whoa to construct his
biography, that have never before been
disturbed. the biographical sketch
with which General R. E. Lee has pre
fixed the “Memoirs,” of Colonel Henry
Lee are published a number of letters
from that illustrious man to his son,
Charles Carter Lee, which have never be
fore been given to the public, and which
will be found of great interest to the reader.
The work is handsomely gotten up in
half calf and muslin binding, contains fine
steel engravings of Colonel Henry Lee,
Gen. Nathaniel Greene, Gen. Robert E.
Lee, Marion crossing the l’edee and the
surrender or Lord Cornwallis, and maps ol
the different battles and sieges which took
place in the “Southern department’ ’ during
the war of the first revolution.
Capuio R. B. Potts, tbe agent for the
sale of the work, is now in this city solicit
ing subscription. We recommend himself
and the “Memoirs” to the favorable netiee
of our citizens.
A Radical Horoscope.
“Occasional,” the great Radical Light
of Pennsylvania, writes from the seat of
government on the 7ib inst., to the Phil
adelphia Press, that “the future, indeed,
may proytSke new divisions, but the
foundations of the Government will never
be disturbed by the revival of the buried
, issues of Slavery and State Rights.”
This we take to be the direction of the
maestro to the orchestra. The founda
tions of the government have been made
secure,and can never be disturbed by the re
< rival of past issues. The mission of the
1 Radical party has been accomplished, as
;to these issues. “Slavery and State
Rights” have been buried. Cease, there
fore, the old strain, for the grand audience
is wearied of its notes. Rest. The future
may provoke “new divirions.” I give
the word of ciution; but be silent a3 to the
past and wait for the keynote jC future.
Tho old manager, from h.s heights at
Washington, managing “my two papers,
: both daily,” foresees a coming change and
announces it, but that is all. fie utters
no word of prophesy ; gives no clue for
I discovering projected movements; no
thread for guidance in that great labyrinth,
the future. But let us be content; the
issues of Slavery and State Rights have
! been buried by the Radicals.
On the other hand the great Mogul of
the New York Tribune turns the political
kaleideseope and Doldiy presents the new
| combination which 1. oms up in the fu
-1 turc. The leading editorial in the Tribune,
of the Bth inst., evinces a profound soliei-
I tudeas to the coining events which cast their
! shadows befoTc.and exhibits a profound dis
-1 trust of the new divisions which the future
may provoke, with a wistful glance at the
\ dead and buried issues of the past. In its
leading editorial under the caption of “The
Bible in the Schools” (Public), this is
exhibited by th; following paragraph:
“There looms upon our near horizon a
tempest aestined o roek our fabric of pop
ular government to its foundations. Slave
ry was a gigantic evil and peril in its noon
day of pruJe and power; but religious
antipathy and sectarian bitterness threaten
us with a strife more envenomed and im
placable than we have yet known. For,
profound as may have been our interest,
! pro or con, in the enslaved negroes of the
South, our devotion to our respective
creeds or no creeds is far intenser, and, if
oontravened, may provoke outbreaks more
formidable than was the Southern Rebel
lion.
“The immediate bone of contention, so
far as this controversy has ye,t developed
itself, i- the Bible in Schools.”
In this part of our Territorial Republic!
war and oppression has so completely
rounded the sharp edges of “religious antip
athy” and “sectarian bitterness,” by sacri
ficoin the camp, andthe battle-field, and by
the trials of spoliation, as to give abundant
play to toleration and the largest liberty
in matters of religious faith. Tolerance,
always a characteristic, has been engraved
upon the Southern mind by the feword un
der the influence of common dangers.
Audit' ihe„lessons of thejast he not too
quickly effaced, matters of laith will never
be made matters for civil administration,
nor Divine rights confounded with civil
duties, whether sosial or political.
Again : shortly a flood of Josh wor
shipping Celestials will bo turned upon us
to become fifteenth amendment American
oitizens ; and our condition will be very
much that of the Japanese Tycoon who,
under a demand supported by British guns
of the British Ambassador, for toleratiuii for
Christianity, r plied—l have consulted my
counsellors and wise men, and find that
wo have now twenty five differing re
ligious sects : the addition of tho twenty
sixth can do no harm if not made a matter
of political authority and civil administra
tion.
The i«sue which “looms” up on the
Radical horizon has already been made.
It is now a judicial question under arbitra
ment in the courts ot Ohio, where a Public
School committee -have decided that the
Bible is not to be prescribed by law as a
common school text book.
Let us have peace, guidei by the good
old rule of Jeffersonian Democracy, which
is, “Error ceases to be dangerous when
Reason is left free to combat it. ’
Georgia from u Northern Standpoint.
The New York Times has a leader on the
material prosperity of Georgia. As we
like occasionally to see ourselves as others
see us, we publish herewith the Times'
article:
The evidences we daily receive that Geor
gia is recovering from tho prostration of
the late wiir arc exceedingly gratifying.
Georgia used, in the days of the rebellion,
to bo called "the keystone of the Conffd
eiate arch;” and the implied analogy be
tween it aud tho "Keystone State” of the
North is obvious. Its breadth, its geo
graphieal position, its network of railroads,
! opening up all parts of the State in easy
! intercommunication, its mineral end
agricultural resources, its political
importance, all make its prosperity
! or adversity synonymous with the pros
-1 perity or adversity of the States about it.
Upon the whole, considering all its draw
i backs, and especially the tact that, hy rea
! sen of its proving a battle-ground for the
W estern armies, much ot its railway aud
agricultural wealth was destroyed, Georgia
has recovered with remarkable elasticity
; trout the effects of the civil struggle. The
1 preparations for the approaching grand lair
at Macon read like those of any one of the
n 0.-t elaborate exhibitions of indu-try in
t he richest and most thriving States ofthe
j North. The show of machinery and of
farm productions will far surpass anything
known in the “palmiest days”pof the State,
and will prove most significantly how
Northern enterprise, ideas and inventions
have been utilized by the people of Georgia. !
! Prominent agriculturists from all parts of 1
the country are to meet at Macon and com
pare notes. And, in tine, the details of the
whole scheme set in the strongest light the
I “new era” which has dawned in that
region.
But our correspondent , in writing from 1
Macon, mentions two evidences of return
ing prosperity in the South, which are
specially noteworthy. In the fir-t place,
he tells us that although the cotton crop
is much less than tbe planters expected to
gather, and the price is much smaller than
tney hoped to receive, yet that “the coun
try generally is prosperous.” A nd as a
proof of this statement he cites the fae:
that “during the past week a large pro
portion of the notes of the planters in this
part of the State to their merchants and;
factors fell due, and on inquiry I found
that not one had been protested. Every ;
one was paid in full at maturity.
Auother point that the same correspond
ent speaks ot is that “the laborers are gen
erally contented, and notwithstanding the
reeent labor convention, are contracting
largely to work for another year with the
same employers. The inference he cor
reetly draws is that the laborers wbo made
these re-engagements "were well and fair
ly treated, and were liberally compensa
ted.” And, in fine, he adds. “The coun
try is perfectly tranquil. Thetc are re
markably few eases of crime and none of
an aggravated character. Politics are
neither spoken or thought of. The fair,
i th-’ price of cotton, fertilizers, and the
nest crop are the all-ecgrossing subjects
for thought and discussion.”
Our readers will agree that we have not
taken an over-hopeful view of the returning
prosperity of Georgia and the South, and
tbat already "the darkest days are over,”
and all progress henceforward bids fair to
be in the direction of public wealth and
happiness.
Why Taey Refused.
Reconstruction is a iai’ The most
bitter Radioal partisan ad-uits it, and now
the question is what will they do with it?
They are afraid to confront the result ot
their infernal partisan legislation. That
d’gnificd pad influential paper, the New
York Journal of Commerce, very justly
complains “that Radical Congressmen are
perfectly willing to cross the continent,
travel through New England, voyage to
San Domlego, or go to the uttermost parts
of the earth M public expense, but they
will not visit the South, where they would
j see with their own eyes how little they
know of li® people and the public senti
ment there. That paper predicates its
complaint upon the recent refusal of the
sub-committee on elections to go to South
Carolina and investigate certain elections.
They are afraid that, like Parker Pillsbury,
they would become disgusted with the re
sults of their own labors, which are to be
seen on every hand.”
That is the whole truth in a nut-shell.
But the time is coming when the people
will see the result, and it is not in the
power either of Congress or Congressmen
to keep the true condition of affairs from
the people of the North. We have a firm
laith in us, however, that the people of'
South Carolina will be in a position ere
long to form a combination which will
sweep the plunderers and thieves now in,
out of office, and give the death-blow to
Rajicalism in their State.
Ihe Democratic Party.
The Democracy stdi lives and wiil con
tinue to live and triumph when Radical-
Republicanism is dead and forgotten. In
less than six years the Democratic party
will have control of the Government, and
the power and infiu nee ot the South will
again be felt and acknowledged in the
leading departments of the Government.
The New York Herald, says that “the
elections which have just taken place in
the State of New York and other States,
as well as the previous elections within the
past few months, show that the Demo
cratic party still holds a strong position
in the country. They show, in fact, that
with all the blunders and short-sighted
ness of the party managers, this old and
once overwhelmingly powerful or
ganization sti.l continues to have great in
fluence over the masses of the people.
The present administration will so dis
gust the masses with its blunders, ex
travagance, ignorance, and general incom
petency as to render the defeat of the
Radical party almost certain in the next
Presidential election.
New York S:ate--Carpet-baggers.
New York State has been most glorious
ly relieved from the incubus of Radical
misrule. One of the most important re
sults of this victory will be the restoration
of the right of self-government to the people
of New York city, who have been for years
subjected to the manipulations of the Radi
cal ring at Albany. These rural carpet
baggers will now be kicked out of the of
fices which they have so long defiled, and
the obnoxious laws passed by a Radical
legislature will be repealed. New Yora
city has been (on a small scale) to Albany
what the South is to the Radicals at
Washington—a rich field to prey upon
and steal from by and through a speeies of
rascally laws ei.acted for the injury of the
people and the benefit of Radical car
pet-bag office-holders. This has now
been changed in New York city
and State by the recent verdict of
the people at the ballot-box. The
time is not far distant when carpet-baggers
and scalawags will be as scarce in the
South as they are in Heaven- In a few
year- ntoic no man in Georgia will over
acknowledge that he was either a scala
wag or carpet-bagger, and tho same will
be the ease with this class ot pestiferous
wretches in all the Southern States.
They will either go back to their filthy
dens in the North, or, washing themselves
from their filth, try and remain here
to oke out an existence among a people
whom they outraged and despoiled when
the power of the government was at their
beck and call.
THE STATE FAIR.
Bad Management—Considerable Confu
sion and Loud Complaints — The Ar
rangements on the Ground-The Special
Train and Northern Visitors—His Bo
vinity and His Lackeys.
correspondence of the chronicle &
SENTINEL.
Macon, November 15th, 1869.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
I have just returned from a visit to the
Fair grounds, and regrot to bo compelled
to state that I found preparations tor the
exhibition, which commences to-morrow,
in a very unpromising condition. Every
thing seems to be behind hand, and, with
the exception of a few agricultural imple- j
ments and carriages, I found nothing at
all novel or creditable.
Exhibitors have been extremely tardy
in arranging for exhibition the different
articles intended for tho show. The ar
rangements made by the Executive Com
mittee are crude and incomplete, and not
at all creditable to those who have charge
of affairs here. The rooms for the exhi
bition of planting implements, farm ma
chinery, fancy articles, agricultural pro
ducts, specimens of ores and minerals, and
the fine arts arc ample, and might have
been handsomely arranged in time for the
opening to-morrow. These are alt in the
Laboratory Building—the machinery and
tools on the lower or main floor, while the
second floor is devoted to the exhibition of
the lighter and more elaborate and costly
articles. A large stationary engine is being
put up at the West end of this building,
which is intended to drive all the ma
chines requiring such power which may be
exhibited. For this purpose a long line
of shafting and pulleys is placed along al
most the eDtire length of the first floor ot toe
building, andwheu the engine is got ready
for use (which I fear will not be for several
days yet) the different machines will be
fully and accurately tested by actual use
and experiment. I noticed also a large
portable eDginc on a railroad fiat about
being landed near this building, to be also
used for propelling machinery. This en
| gine, it is thought, will be in operation at
tue opening of the Fair to-morrow morn
ing.
On every hand I hear loud and bitter
I complaints both among soeetators and ex
hibitors at the tardiness and bad rnanage-
I ment of those whose doty it was to have
! the necessary preparations made. It was
to be expected that many croakers and
■ grumblers would be here, but I assure
you that the com. hints are general, and,
I so far as I have been able to see, in the
main well founded. Many persons arriv
i ed on the ground With articles for exhibi
tion while I was there this morniDg, and
wore unable *o find aDy one to point out
I the places which they were to occupy.
I With the exception of 'Colonel D. W.
I Lewis, the energetic Secretary, no one
I seemed to be giving any attention to ex
hibitors.
The rooms intended for the exhibition of
fancy articles and specimens of the fino
arts I tound covered with a mass ot filthy
debris of all conceivable kinds, and really
I unfit for any use whatever. I am told they
wiil be cleaned up to night, ready for use
i to-morrow-
The arrangements for the shelter, care
and exhibition of stock are very tine,
though I regret to state that, with the ex
ception of a few horses and perhaps half
a dozen horned cattle, the stock dep&rt
! ment is, so far, a failure. I learn that
i quitea number of horses are in the city,
brought here for exhibition, which will be
j sent to the Fair grounds this afternoon,
l and)that several htrds of fine cattle Will also
I reach here in time for exhibition to-mor
row. I did not see 3 single hog or coop of
i poultry, and did Dot learn whether or not
specimens in these departments were ex
■ pected.
There is quite a display of wagons and
carriages already on the ground, principal
ly from the Tomlinson Demerest Cos. y, of
New York. I noticed a very beautiful
single baggy, weighing only IDT pounds,
from Ciuciucaii. 'Quite a number of cot
ton gins and clothes washers are also here.
Among the former I notice a Carver gin,
entered by Mr. Robert Schley, of your
city. Augusta is also represented here by
the house of Wilcox, Gibos & Cos., who
j have on exhibition several sewing ma
| chines, tor which they are agents, and
have also samples of the various fertil
izers which theyeomiound and sell.
The crowd here is quite large already,
and promises to be very considerable. The
Hotels are not yet crowded, and perhaps
will not be before Thursday, as the differ
ent railroads running into this place take
out every night a large number of visitors,
who spend the day here and return home
at night. The arrangements for accommo
dating the visitors are very ample. All the
hotels have engaged extra rooms and bed
ding, and quite a number of good private
boarding n uses have been opened.
Isaacs, the prince of restaurant keepers,
has. in addition to his fine eating and
lodging house in this city, opened a couple
of Targe restaurants at the Fair grounds—
one for ladies and one for gentlemen.
These are much better in their arrange
' ment and more genteel in their style than
AUGUSTA. GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 24. 1869.
any similarestablishments lhave ever seen.
The department for ladies is tastefully and
handsomely fitted up, has good tab|e lur
niture ana is neatly carpeted, xhis wiil
prove a great benefit to the ladies espe
cially, as the Fair Grounds are so far from
the city to make it inconvenient to return
here lor dinner-
Huff's velocipede rink is completed, and
will be a most interesting portion ot the
exhibition. The track for the trial of the
speed of horses is a very fine one, and
much interest is being felt in this branch
ot the exercises.
A large number of Western and North
ern men are here, and I learn all express
themselves well pleased with their visit.
The special train sent by Bollock to
Lynchburg has just arrived. A commit
tee was sent .rom this place to escort the
invited guests here, consisting of A. O.
Bacon, C. L. Ross, J. A. Walker, E. F.
; Best, G. W. Gastin, and Benj. C. Smith.
They brought with them Hon. G. W.
Woodward, M. C- irom Pennsylvania;
Hon. Benj. Harris, from Maryland; Col.
! Campbell, President State Agriculture
i Society of Pennsylvania; Prof. Henry, of
the Smithsonian Institute; Mr. Delano,
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and
quite a number of Pennsylvania andMary
land farmers. The train brought also Dead
' dog Forney and Simon Cameron,the noted
I Pennsylvania corruptionist.
Judge Woodward and Hon. Mr. Harris
are guests ot Colonel Thomas Hardeman ;
Mr. Delano and Professor Henry are
guests of Mr. Nutting, the banker; and
the balance of the gentlemen of the party,
I believe, are quartered with different citi
zens. The Lanier House is honored (?) by
the presence of Forney and Cameron.
General Hampton is expected to arrive
to-night and will deliver the annual ad
dress on Thursday. To-morrow Hor. Mark
A Cooper will deliver tho opening ad
dress, which is looked forward to with
much interest.
I forgot to mention that the great in
surrectionist and hater of the State came
down in the special tram, having rung
himself in at Atlanta. The miserable
creature looks as cunning and facile as
ever. I saw hint a few moments this even
ing talking iD a very subdued tone to a
small knot of aspiring Democratic cross
road politicians, ail of whomseemed great
ly honored by his notice. I was much
surprised to see him soon after escorted to
the carriag'e of a leading citizen of this
place and himself and Judge William
>. chley enter it with the owner and drive
off from the hotel All the lackeys and
bootlicks are not dead yet. I shall keep
my eyes on these people and give you full
reports of their actings and doiDgs. W.
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
General Terry—The Warrenton Out
rages Thanksgiving Emasculated
Bullock Democrats—State Road—State.
Agricultural Society Colonel Thomas
C, Howard.
Atlanta, November 16, 1869.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
Radical bootlicks and emasculated Bul
lock Democrats praise General Terry as a
lawyer and a gentleman. Tney forget
that when ne first came to Atlanta he
made himself the butt of public ridicule
by his National Hotel/kis'co ! and can the
conduct of Colonel Hull, tho commandant
at vVarrentoii, be a source of wonder when
the autocrat of Georgia takes private prop
erty for public use without just compensa
tion, and when Dublin necessity does not
demand it ? Mr. Willis P. Chisolm, a
business man of known integrity, has been
subjected to heavy damages by the whims
of Terry and his officials. Mr. Chisolm is
a brother of the gentleman who whipped
out some Rads with their own weapons.
But we think that it is not legitimate to
wreak vengeance upon an innocent party
by taking away his property without color
of law, and simply because backed by a j
force of United States soldiers.
Mr. Chisolm owns a lot oflandon Peach
tree street. The present Government sta
bles run over on it, about 25 feet in length
and five feet in wiltb. The stables were
originally built by a man named Y\ bitaker,
on land leased irom a Mrs. Curry, but, as
the lot was unimproved, nothing was said
about it, until Chisolm got ready to put up
a brick store. He called upon Terry and
some of his staff, and explained the situa
tion. Notwithstanding Mrs. Curry’s ac
knowledgment that .he building did pro
ject over, Gen. Terry actually sent a guard
to prevent him from building on his o»u
land, and his store is lessened that much in
length, and thereby damaged in value-
This is no less an outrage than those
perpetrated at Warrenton. Presses in
Georgia there are who are loud in con
demning “Ku-Klux,” yet, with puritanic
fervor, laud Terry and his acts to the skies.
Money hath great power in the land!
It should be borne in mind that these
outrages are perpetrated by the God-and
morality party, who are continually reiter
ating “Let us have peace !” They do not
mean that they intend t > let the people of.
the South have peace, but their remarks
are supposed to b; addressed to the Spirit
of Evil to let them have peace.
Acting Governor Lester has issued a proc
lamation appointing the 18th as a day of
Thanksgiving—the 24th being set apart
for prey—ing. It is a mistaken idea to
believe that Democrats are included in the
thanksgiving proclamation. It is design
ed simply lor the Radicals and emasculated
Bullock Democrats to return thanks tifat
they have the State Road and its princely
income; the largest liberty at State funds;
the presence of the military to overawe
the people who might grumble at their
unblushing thefts into silence ; that they
have the means of gratifying all their licen
tious and depraved appetites, though it
may wring from the earnings of a poverty
stricken people; and more than all, that
God has permitted them to live.
The people of the South have sinned
greviously, and it is time that they were
repenting in sackcloth and ashes. We
have lost our first born, and are afflicted
with worse >han the Egyptian plague of
lice which afflicted Pharoah and his sub
jects.
The R ids have a meeting here on the
24th- Bard, Bryant, Blodgett, Beard,
j Ac., expect to fix up a trick to have Geor
i gia remanded under a Provisional Govern -
! ment, with Bullock as Dictator- Bullock
| is playii g a heavy hand for Senator. He’ll
sell out to ti. e Democrats to secure the
position 1
Those Democrats who have sold out to
Bullock, Blodgett & Cos., are termed emas
cu ated Bullock Democrats, and are con
sidered proper subjects for the yoke 1 The
name is very appropriate.
Supervisor A. L. Harris, and
Baker, agent for the State Ii >ad at Dalton,
| have been indicted by the Grand Jury of
- Whitfield county for playing cards. They
are Blodgett men, and are connected with
j the “Ring” to get Hulbert out.
Large numbe s are pas ing through to
I he State Fair at Macon. Col. Thomas
! C. Howard has been nominated for Seere
i tary of the State Agricultural Society, and
| he will make an efficient officer.
Hannibal.
•Pol tlcal Financiering.
The Reports of the Secretary of the Treas
ury Examined —Discrepancies Amount
ing to Over Forty Millions of Dollars.
Special Dispatch to the World.
Washington, November 11. —The
Treasury statement of receipts and ex
penditures published to-day in response to
A1 x. DelmaPs note to the Department,
and in accordance with the hw of 1844, is
discovered to be erroneous to the extent
of many millions.
The cash on hand July i, 1869, is given
at 1155,680,340, and a toot note to the
statement declares this sum to be $45,-
477,628 in excess of the balance as pub
lished in the debt statement of July 1.
This would make it $! 10,202,712, but in
point cf fact it "as given in the July state
ment at $147,300,531, a discrepancy of
$37,097,819. The amount of coiu certifi
cates outstanding July 1 was $30,483,640.
The redemption up to October 1, according
to this statement, were $8,274,520, which
would leave the balance on October 1
$22,215,120 ; but the debt statement for
October gives the amount as $24,412,720,
a discrepancy of $2,197,600. Among the
receipts of revenues are included $3,243,-
| 553 premium on gold sales, and $810,457
j tVum sales cf fractional eun-ency, neither
of which are revenues. This last sum is
also at variance with the amount of frac
: tional currency shown in the debt state
ments of July and October respectively.
This difference is $939,271, while the pres
ent statement gives it at $810,457, a dis
crepancy of $128,813. _ The balance in
Treasury September 30 is stated to have
been" $120,014,858, while in the October
j debt statement it is given only $115,-
: 363,663, a discrepancy of $4,651,195. As
both the starting and leaving balances are
incorrect, the various items of receipts and
expenditures shown in the body of the
statement are all of en to suspicion. This
has been the first opportunity of testing
the correctness of the monthly debt state
ments by comparison with other state
j ments, and the result cniy leaves the
whole matter in great perplexity.
AFFAIES IS >E 1 .- J 1
Depressed Condition of Business in the
Metropolis—The West a Heavy Debtor —
No Remittances from Western Cities
Heavy Commercial Failures —The
Banks Exceedingly Cautious—Excellent
Condition of Southern Trade— Wall
Street Clamoring for Specie Fayment
—The Banks Preparing for the Onset-
Indignation Against Boutioell —Can
the Massachusetts Grocer Listen?
Bright Prospects Ahead—Netc York
to the Rescue—Fifteen Years of Long
Suffering —The Empire State to Lead
the Vanguard to Throttle Radicalism
Tor ever, etc., etc.
[from our own correspondent.]
New York, November 12, 1869.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
Trade and commerce in New York to
day are very similar to the condition of af
fairs which brought on the panic of 1857,
when many of our heaviest commercial
firms had to suspend. Now, the same as
then, the West is a heavy debtor to the
East. Remittances from Chicago, Cincin
nati, St.. Louis, and other great Western
centres are few and far between, and our
merchants suffer in consequence. The
farmer does not gat his price for wheat,
and cannot pay the local tradesmen with
whom he deals. These, in turn, cannot
meet their payments in New York, and the
jobbers and importers here have on hand a
large amount of acceptances, which they
cannot dispose of in the street, except at
ruinous rates, sueh as no merchantcan afford
to pay, the Banks being unwilling to come
to the assistance of the mercantile commu
nity, owing to a well grounded fear that
specie payments wiii, ere long, be forced
upon the country by a decision of the U.
S. Supreme Court declaring the legal-ten
der Act unconstitutional, or by the con
stant and steady decline in the premium on
gold, both of which must necessarily re
duce the price of all merchandize to a
specie standard, or, in other words, to a
standard lower than at which they were
bought. Hence the banks of New York,
with a caution which is disastrous to indi
vidual merchants, but beneficial to the
community as a whole, have suspended ad
discounts of even first-class paper, while on
the street the very best names cannot be
discounted less than at 18 or 24 per cent
per annum-
Quite a number of merchants, therefore,
have to choose between-submitting to a
heavy shave or to suspend, and during the
past two days the latter course has been
resorted to by many very heavy houses.
Thus the firm of A. Bminger & Cos., one
of the oldest in the wholesale grocery and
liquor trade, h-is suspended; so also have
the firms of White, Heath & Cos. and
Randolph A Bros, in the cloth business,
and two or three other firms in the oil and
dry goods trade. More commercial
failures are daily looked for, and the
prospect, at least for those who have
large connections with the West, is gloomy
indeed. Those houses, on the contrary,
that have a large Southern trade are doing
well. The South is, in fact, making up for
the delinquencies of the West, and nothing
is regarded here as safer just nqw than
Southern paper which matures toward the
end of the year. Were it not for the in
tegrity of the Southern merchants just now
and the excellent condition of Southern
trade during the past Summer, New York
would even now be in the midst of one of
the most disastrous crises it ever experi
enced. To New York especially ;he pres
ent happy relations with the South are
peculiarly gratifying. Nowhere can there
be found truer friends of the true Southern
merchant than in the business centres of
the Metropolis and, compared to the delin
quent Radical traders of the West, the
magnificent conduct of the South in paying
up under the most adverse circumstances
presents a striking contrast which does not
fail to rekindle once more those genuine
| feelings of commercial intercouse which
helped so greatly in making New York
what it is during those happy years which
preceded the war.
What will be the ultimate upshot of the
present state of affairs out West, which has
such a vast effect upon business here, re
mains to be seen; bat some ofour best finan
ciers are convinced that the legal-tender
act must be declared unconstitional by the
end ol’the year and,already satisfied that the
probe must be applied some time or other,
are clamoring for a resumption of specie
payments now, and Boutwell is urged up
on all sides to strike the first blow and
anticipate, if necessary, the decision of the
United States Supreme Court; and mer
chants say they are ready for it now and
just as willing to stand adverses now as at
any other time, when they are unprepared
for it. Our banks even are ready for the
blow. Most of them are entering into an
argeement with their depositors—a clause
to that effect being inserted in the pass
book—to pay hack in whatever currency
deposits have beer, made—so as not to be
compelled to pay out gold for greenback
liabilities when the blow should suddenly
be struck. All hands, therefore, are
about reidy. But will the Secretary
heed ? Did you ever see a Radical office
holder heed the voice ofthe public ? We
have not in this section of the country.
Like his master, Grant, Boutwell is a sel‘-
willed, obstina-o individual, who learned
finance in a yankeo grocery store and
thinks he can manage the business of the
country with what little he/learned as
Chairman of the Committee of Ways
and Means in a Rump Con
gress. Is it not disgraceful that this
Massachusetts lawyer, of grosery antece
dents, should now control, at tho most
critical period, the finances of the country,
and Dot even listen to the appeals of men
who have all their lifetime managed
heavy financial institutions, and, by their
operations, extending over a half a cen
tury, have made New York what it is, and
through it have aided the prosperity of the
Republic ?
However, it is a long lane that knows no
turn. Here, in New York, we already see
the signs on the horizon of a change that
forever afterward will prevent the Radical
scoundrels from ruling and ruining this
blessed ceuntry, as they have done during
the past ten years. As New York fur
nishes the life-blood for commercial pros
perity, so will New York be the heart
from which henceforth will flow the blood
of liberty, independence, and anti-Yan
keei-m.
For fifteen long years this Empire State
has been, more or less, under the heels of
New England hordes, whose emissaries
have alternately had control of various
branches of our State government. For
fifteen long years the Democratic party
has failed to get possession ot the entire
State administration, and been harassed
and defeated, then in this, and
then in that enterprise, shnply be
cause they had not full control of
the legislative, judicial and executive
branches. We have just changed all that
and, with the blessings of Providence, on
the fir.-t of January next not a single Re
publican will hold an important office in
the State of New York. Fifteen long
I years re have fought for it, and at last
victory perches upon our banners among
the huzzas of a regenerated people who,
to-dav, cannot understand why they ever
permitted sueh a God forsaken party to
have control of even the least important
j department in our State admiristration.
The responsibility before us is immense,
but with the noble Gov. Hoffman as our
leader, laws, wise and benevolent will be
enacted, and the Radical statute book will
be consigned to the flames. With the
glorious Democratic light that at the com
mencement of 1870 wiil illumine the Em
pire State and reflect its splendors over
! our sister States, we have no fear of what
j will follow two years later. The future of
j the country is safe in the hands of the
Democracy of the State of New Yoik.
Argus.
rutted Staffs Judgeship,
i Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
i The report having been circulated that
I am an applicant for the District Judge
ship of the United States Court, I desire
to say that I have never, directly or iudi
: rectly, sought any Federal position in my
: life, and if my name has been in any way
placed before the President for office of
any land, it is without my knowledge or
! consent.
I am very respectfully,
Yours, &c.,
Wm. Gibson.
The State Fair.
Macon, November 16, p. m.—The
crowd here in attendance upon the State
{ Fair is immense, and every train brings
fresh accessions.
General Wade Hampton arrived here
this morning. He will deliver the annual
address before the State Agricultural
Society.
Hon. Mark A. Cooper delivered an ad
dress this afternoon upon the destiny of
Georgia and the interests and policy of cot
ton planters indicated thereby. It was a
strong, practical effort and was received
j with much favor by a large and attentive .
audience.
OUR WASHINGTON LEITER.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
Washington, November 15.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
Three weeks from this date and we have
Congress. The signs of its coming are
visib’e now in the advance army of the
members of the “third house,” or, more
plainly speaking, the lobbyists, button
holers, black mailers, professors cf great
influences, et id omne genus, who throng
the capital during the Winter, and who
give it the bad name it has in seme localities
abroad, and furnish arguments by the hun
dred why it should bo removed. These are
swarming now and this Winter they will
be the veriest birds of prey extant. Some
how these delightful personages have con
trived to create the impression that this
will be a Winter rich in the profusion of
“fat jobs” to be engineered—by them of
course, and for greenbacks without stint—
their wish is most certainly “father to the
thought.” This intensely loyal Congress
cannot be allowed to waste the Government
moneys, and squander its resources, as the
lobbyists hope to make them, while the
national debt remains unpaid, and in the
face of the declarations of General Grant,
Secretary Boutwell, Treasurer Spinner and
the other great Radical officials here, who
assert that now the National Treasury has
no fund to be used in furthering schemes.
It remains to be seen how much power
the lobby will exercise. Some of the
schemers will have money to use, and the
virtues of Congressmen will aertainly, in
some instances, be put to the test.
Very few speculations have yet been
hazarded concerning the probabilities of
legislation this Winter. The few members
of Congress who have oeen here during
the recess had no opinions to suggest,
owing, partly to their complete ignorance
of the views of the Administration, and
partly to the tact that there have beeQ
fewer opportunities this Summer and Fall
than at any previous time, since the end
ing ofthe war—for meetings of Congress
men at the capital, where events to oome
have been generally discussed, and put
into some kind ci shape in advance of the
session. The roving disposition of the
Frcsidsnt and Cabinet, and the perfect
uncertainty ot finding any one “at home,”
kept memDers ot both Houses away from
Washington.
There is one thing Congress will find
when it meets, and here I do not object to
help the capital movers with their argu
ments-they will find this city under its
present Radical municipal rule one of he
worst governed capitals in the world.
They will find an army of idle, vicious
negroes all of course voters —who
' wage relentless war upon deoeucy and
order. They will find roaming through
the streets and avenues of America’s capi
tal, droves of hogs, geese, goats, sheep,
&c., which the cries of even the Radical
newspapers combined, with the protest of
every respectable citizen of Washington,
fail to remedy in the face of the demand of
the negro voters, who own these bogs,
geese and goats, that their rights shall not
be interfered with. If Radical Congress
men have any desire to be edified on the
subject they will have no difficulty in see
ing the practical portrayal of some of the
delights of negro suffrage.
Reconstruction must be completed this
Winter. The finances are to be consid
ered at length, and important laws of
finance framed. These subjects are cer
tain of consideration. Then arises the
Cuba question—the question relating to
the purchase of Sau Domingo—more
money out of the Treasury—the Alabama
claims; but there’s a “ticklish” subject,
and the “party in power,” although it
raved and fumed when Reverdy Johnson
was iu England, is now as mild as a suck
ing dove, when discussing this issue.
Railroad interests, steamship line subsidies,
claims of all kinds, etc., etc., are looming
up ; but “sufficient for the day is the evil
thereof.” Let them come along in their
own time.
Grant is still at work on his annual mes
sage, which quid nuncs say will be short,
because his inaugural was only about five
ninutes in length , and because he never
made a speech in his life. But in reality
nobody knows how long the President’s
message will be, or what important topics
of National consequence he will elaborate
00, or in fact whether he is writing it him
self or leaviug that duty to Fish, or Bout
well, or Hoar, or to all of them. Grant
will tell no one nEat he is doing, and the
Cabinet has been properly schooled in the
art of reticence.
It has be.n intimated that Attorney
General Hoar is to retire from the Cabinet.
The intimations commenced when Bout
well was forced on Grant, after he found
that A. T- Stewart was disqualified, and
have continued with proper intermissions
ever since Hoar, in the meantime, likes
being in the Cabinet, but may get a better
paying or a more permanent “billet.” If
he goes out who will come in ? Where is
the man to answer that inquiry? Echo
responds. Query? It would probably be
someone “unknown to fame.” This re
minds me of a story told ot a member of
Congress who took a friend with him to
the White House one day last week, a day
on which the Cabinet was to meet, and re
quested that he would point out to him
the Cabinet officers as they arrived. He
could recognize Boutwell and Cresweil,
having served in Congress with them; but
the other gentlemen were unknown to him,
and for the sake of his constituents it was
necessary that he should at least know
them by sight.
Reverend John 1. Smith, Pastor offhe
Fourth Presbyterian Church in this city,
who will be remembered by many in the
Southern States, where, many long years
ago, he labored in the cause of the Ameri
can Tract Society, was recently tendered
by bis a' ectionate congregation an addi
tional thousand dollars to his salary, which
was then only two thousand,but the venera
ble pastor has declined the offer, on the
ground that he has no need for it, and his
conscience would not approve of its ac
ceptance.
It is thought here that the go’d market
in New York will fluctuate but little from
* rri-ent st atus—about the twenty-fives—
until Congress meets; but that the y some
thing will occur to seel it rushing up
again. Very likely i
The Grand Army of the Republic are
E reparing to make a raid c-n the very few
democratic clerks who have been left in
the Department by the ruthless political
executioners who have been canvassing the
various Government ofioas since the fourth
of last March. They view with suspicion
these members of the “Grand Army,”
the scalawag Southern officials who have
been appointed to office because of their
Radical pietensions, and what they will do
about it no one knows.
The weather is becoming cold, and the
amusement season is commencing in earn
est. Washington will be vivaoious in ten
days. Jasper.
From Washington,
Washington, November 10, noon. —
The Supreme Court refuses to enter the
resolutionsof the Bar on the minutesin the
Walker case.
Judge Dent will be in Jackson Sunday
and re-r pen the Mississippi canvass Mon
day- He has received atditional assur
ances from General Ames’ superiors of a
fair election.
Thos. J. Durant has not been tendered
the Circuit Judgeship of Louisiana and
Texas. He never applied lor office.
From Alabama.
Mobile, November 16, p. m.—The city
was visited by a gale to-day, doing consid
erable damage. The roof of the main
building of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad
Freight Depot was blown off. Several
negroes were badly hurt and one white
man killed.
Montgomery, November 16, p. m.—Ail
i the newly elected members of the Legiela
j ture have been admitted to seats. The
| rent? of Messrs. Proskaner and Magee.
, Democrats, from Mobile, will be contested
by their opponents. In the Senate Mr-
Pennington (Rep.) introduced resolutions
requesting Congress to remove all disabili
ties ol the 14th amendment.
The eighth annual Fair of the Alabama
State Agricultural Society commences in
; this city on the 23d, and continues four
days. Ample arrangements have been
made to accommodate a large crowd. All
the indication o are that, in point of num
bers and entries, it will surpass any of the
ante-bellum fairs.
Montgomery, November 16, p. m,—
The Alabama Legislature has ratified the
15th amendment in the Senate by a vote
ot 24 yeas to nay3 none. In the House 69
yeas to 16 nays.
Suicide.
Milwaukle, November 16, p. m. —Ma-
jor Howard, Agent of the Pittsburg and
Fort Wayne Railroad, has committed su
icide.
Gold-bearing quartz has been discovered
i near Los Angeles, Cab, and the surface
‘ rock abounds in free gold;
THE MONEY STRINGENCY.
Cincinnati Times, Monday Burning.
The banks recalled loans to-day, and the
screws of the market were thus given an
additional turn. The contraction was not,
perhaps, made necessary by any further
depletion in means, but is consequent upon
; t!le weakening effects of the two or three
suspensions announced. Confidence is
wavering, and a very decided stringency
appears inevitab'e. The activity in loans
1 was intensely active. The pork dealers
checked more freely, and deposits generally
were further reduced. Discount rates
| were sharp—l2al3 for gilt edge 30-day
| papsr, and 15al8 tor prime names.
MONEY ORDERED FROM NEW YORK.
Cincinnati Enquirer , Monday Evening.
Several banks have bee\j ordering sup
plies of currency from New York, and
they were not able toincrease their balances
to any extent, as local checking was heavy,
and the country banks have been checking
freely on this city. The market retains
its stringent features. The regular dis
count houses are generally limiting their
favors to those who have claims upon
them, and are endeavoring to curtail their
discount lines in anticipation ot a heavy
demand from the poik trade in a short
time. There is still a very large amount
of outside paper afloat, but the regular
discount houses have in most cases shut
down on this class of borrowers, aud they
are compelled to seek accommodation else
where. The banks have been carrying a
large number of persons whoso demands
upon them were constantly increasing,
and they have concluded to cut them off.
This has increased the offerings of paper
in the open market. Private capitalists
have absorbed a considerable amount of
paper, but they are scrutinizing closely,
and promptly reject all which does not
come fully up to their standard.
{Gazette same date.)
Money continues close, and the banks,
having all they can do to meet the demand
for loans Irom depositors, are not accepting
any outside paper. Considerable currency
is going to the country to buy hogs, and
pork packers are checking on their bal
ances, but have not yet become borrowers.
Rates ot discount are firm at B@lo per
cent, in bank and 12@15 per cent, in the
open market for first-class commercial
paper, and other than this is difficult to
negotiate eveu at IJ@2 cent, per month.
The supply of currency is short of the
wants of the market, as there is a demand
tor it t om the South, and large orders
were telegraphed to New York lor ship
ments to be made.
THE CURRENCY MOVEMENT AT A STAND.
Chicago Tribune, Monday.
The week closes with no improvement
in the condition ot finances. The general
produce movement Eastward is sluggish,
as is shown by the high price and upward
tendency of New York exchange. The
movement of currency to the country has
almost ceased, and yet there is very little
coming in, and the supply of currency
here, as well as the amount of produce
bills on the market, is small. The banks
generally are as much expanded as they
dare be, consistently with safety. Under
this condition of things the money market
could not be otherwise than tight. In
what manner and by what means complete
relief will be obtained is not jast now ap
parent, bat it the hog crop is marketed
promptly, it will be one means of making
money circulate more actively, and wll
have a beneficial effect on the money mar
ket, and upon trade generally. The banks
continue to supply a l of their regular cus
tomers who are entitled to accommodation
with some proportion of what money they
apply for, but in nearly all oases they find
it necessary to cut down the amounts ap
plied for. There is a good deal of well
secured paper afloat in the open market,
wkioh is being offered at from If to lj per
cent. per month. Those who have un
doubted security to otter, and are willing to
pay these high rates, can get plenty of
money, which is held back, and will not.be
let*out for less. Applications for long
loans on real estates are very large, and
the supply of capital for that class of in
vestment is not equal to the demand, at
reasonable rates of interest. Loans of
sums of $5,000 and over are to be had lor
five years, at a total cost to the borrower
(Including commissions, etc.), of 10 per
cent, per annum. Smaller sums and for
shorter petiods are only to be had at con
siderable high rates.
COUNTRY COLLECTIONS.
Chicago Times.
The local money market continues in the
same stringent condition as last reported.
The demand for money is fortunately light,
or the small supply of loanable funds, and
the consequent inability of the banks to
enlarge their discount lines would occasion
very general inconvenience.
The main inconvenience experienced by
businesa men is due to the slowness of coun
try collections. The banks are disposed to
give a preference to packers. On the
street a good deal of paper is offered, and
some of it is bankable, showing that the
banks are not disposed to take all really
good paper. .
LOWER PRICES FOR HOGS.
Chicago Tribune.
The receipts of hogs for the week just
closed have been 31,625, against 44,060 re
ceived last week, and 26,-371 for the cor
responding week in 1868. As compared
with last week, there is a falling off in the
supply of 12,435 head, but the arrivals
from day to day fully equaled the demand,
as the prevalence of mild weather prevent
ed any con. iderable movement on the part
of packers, while the dull and drooping
condition of the Eastern markets served to
cneck somewhat the demand for shipment.
Brices have been unsettled and irregular
throughout, but at the close do not vary
materially from those current one week
ago, the change, if any there be, being in
favor of sellers. Had the supply, however,
baen as large as was generally anticipated,
or as might necessarily have been expected,
prices must have taken a much lower
raDge. Messrs. Wall work, Mallony &
Co.’s circular of to-day contains the fol
lowing :
“Owing to the warm weather during the
early part of .he week, packers purchased
but few hog o , and the market ruled dull at
a decline. New York shippers have taken
but few, and, had the receipts been large,
very serious losses would undoubtedly
have been sustaiue 1 by the Western ship
pers ; at the close, however, there is an ac
tive demand by packers. The weather is
good, and all have been sold at prices rang
ing from $8 50@9 25 ; for fair York to
choice I aeon of the above grades—most
saies of the above grades being at and
within the range of $3 75@9 00. Choice
heavy assorted hogs of 275(aj325 lbs aver
age command $9 50@10. There are but
few of this class coming in.
The following were the closing prices for
this week, and the corresponding week
last year :
• Nov C, 1369. JVov. fi, 1818.
Extra $9 75@510 00 $7 75@$8 00
Good.to choice 9 25(aj 950 7 25(d) 72)5
Medium 8 75(a). 900 6 85 (ff 7T5
Common 8 40(aJ 865 6 25(af 675
Stock hogs... 6 50(af 675 @
THE PINCH AT ST. LOUIS.
Republican, Monday.
Rates of interest, however, are un
changed, banks not desiring to increase
largely their di count line, and the money
available in the ont: : de market being I eld
stiffly in anticipation of a strong de naod
after the 15th. Southern sight exchange
rules at l off buying, to par selling ; New
York bought at $1 per 1,000 off, and sold
at par. Domestic time exchange is taken
at 12@15 per cent off.
A WARNING FROM BALTIMORE.
Baltimore Sun of yesterday .
The rapid decline in gold creates a good
deal of uneasiness, especially on the part
of those who are loaded up with foreign
goods, and by needy and weak firms. The
lower currency rates for gold in some
measure account for the decline in cotton,
though not entirely. At 127 for gold, cot
ton at 24 is worth hardy 19 cents ip gold,
while at 140 for gold, 27 for cotton is equal
to about the same in gold, arid as the
precious metals approach in value our
currency, the great staple will go along
with it. This should teach a lesson to all
wh are in doubt, and that is, in every way
reduce liabilities. The sum total of an
individoal’sbiib payable remain stationary,
while the currency in wlich they are paya
ble becomes more and more valuable, so
that to meet them a larger amount of pro
duce is needed.
THE FEELING IN PHILADELPHIA.
• (Ledger this morning.)
The New York failures have had the
effect of creating distrust in the money
market, and of considerably advancing the
rates for loans.
Fire and Loss of Life.
Milwaukle, November 16, p. m. —
During a fencing scene a rapier struck a
kero6ene lamp, which exploded, and the
theatre was burned- Fifteen or twenty were
badly burned; two bodies have been re
moved, and others are still in the ruins.
From North Carolina.
Wilmington, November 16, p. m.—
The first Aonnal Fair of the Cape Fear
Agricultural Association opened 10 day
under favorable auspices. The number of
visitors was larger than anticipated and
the first day promises to be a success.
NEW SERIES, VOL. XXVIII. No. 47
J Easton & CV» Nett lork Cotton Re
port for me Week Ending Novem
ber 12,1869.
Received by Telegraph Friday Evening.
Exoorta to E<p->rßto
Receipts, Stock, Ot.B it*n, Cv>nti’nt.
New Orleans, 31,711 101170 10,896 7.019
aUobile, 10,475 1:0 568 U,llS 1,972
Galveston, S ■ii'i 22 424 1,143
Florida, 519
Savannah, 21.39- 38200 11870 1458
Charleston, 10,<00 16.980 6.<*o
New York. 6.547 Is 061 11.85S 1,310
Boston, Poll. A Bolt. 4.830 9,000 150
Total this week. 58 015 2»5,405 44 049 11.75,
Previously reported, 519.755 148,374 74 077
Tot. Unce Sept. 1, '99, 5.2 SOO 256.405 171873 95 536
Same time last year, 467 594 191.1,l 95,759 74,153
QUOTATIONS.
Upt'dA Flor. Mobile. N. Or'eans, Texas. I
Ordinary. @23q @2B* @24 @24* !
Good Ordinary @24 @24 4 @24* t
Low Middang, @24* @24\ @25 wSil, I
Middling, @25 @2SJ, @25.q @2s*
Sales of the week, 18,924 bales—includ- J
ing 5,242 to spinners, 1,177 to speculators
and 12,565 to exporters.
Gross receipts at this port for the week, !
21,572ba1ea. Since Ist Beptemberl6B,s7l I
bales.
Stocks in the interior towns Sov. 5
.. 1869. 1868.
Aueusta, Ga A Hamburg 8,481 3.765
Columbus, Ga 5 963 6 630
Macon, oa 10i95 9 8 - 4 ,
Selma, Ala 3504 3 4 W1
Mon-go,mery, AL 18592 7 241
Memphs, 'loon 10BS9 10 090
Nashville, Tenn is; 505
T3tal 50 844 40,37
Statistical Position : 1869. 1868.
Stock in Liverpool 435,000 405,460
Afloat from India 118,000 135,000
Afloat from America... 76,000 55,000
Stock in London 81,250 127,290
Afloat from London.... 90,000 107,000
Stock in Havre 70.3p0 56,194
Afloat for Havre 30,154 26,790
Stock in Bremen 3,926 10,935 !
Afloat for Bremen
Stock in U. S. p0tt5...236,405 191,111
Stock in the interior
towns 50,844 40,377
Total... 1,191,879 1,155,157
Increase in visible
supply 36,722
Stock of Cotton held by Manchester
spinners at the mills, now 70,000 bales,
same time 1868, 130,000 bales. Middling
Orleans, now ll|d.@U|d., then llid.
New York, Saturday, Nov. 13, 1869.
The Market.—-In our last Report the
market closed' dull at 251 c. for Mid.
Uplands. Liverpool was steady at 12id.
tor Uplands and 12Id. for Orleans. Satur
day, the Market was dull and heavy. Sales
2,239 at 15fc. Liverpool was dull at 12d.
for Uplands and 12Jc. for Orleans. Sales
10,000. Monday, affair business was done
by exporters and sp.nners, at easier prices.
Sales, 3,292 at 25fd. Liverpool was dull at
11-gd. for Uplands na 12d. for Orleans.
Sales 10,000. "Tue-day, the market was
heavy at 25£c. Soles 2,476.]Liv< rpodclosed
steady at lljd.@ll|d. for Uplands and
lljd.@l2d for Orleans. Wednesday, the
market was more active but lower and
irregular. Sales 4,945 at 25e. Liverpool
was easierat lljjd. for Uplands and ll|d.
for Orleans. Sales 10,000. Thursday, there
was*a steadier feeling. Sales 2,515. Quota
tions unchanged. Liverpool was dull at
llid. for Uplands and Ufd. for Orleans-
Sales 10,000. Yesterday, there was a
better demand and a steadier feeling. Sales
3.457 at 25c. Liverpool closed steady at
H#d @llid.for Uplands and Jlf J.@llfJ
for Orleans. Sales 12,000.
During the week prices here have de
clined io, and in Liverpool Middling is
quoted at |d to Jd lower. The arrivals of j
cotton have been heavy this week, and the j
amount afloat is reduced to a small figure.
Smith, Edwards & Cos. uow estimate the
weekly consumption of Great Britain at
46,000 bales, against 38,000 bales on Ist
October. This increase was due to the
fact that the price o goods had held
up while cotton had declined, thus im
proving the position of the trade. Leech,
Harrison & Forwood remark that “a fall
of 20 shillings per quarter in the average
annual price of wheat, is equivalent to 2!
million pounds sterling surplus in the
funds available for the purchase of articles
other than food.” An wheat is now so 1
much lower than in 1867 and 1868 this is
important.
We have this week received the report
of the National Association of cotton
manufacturers and planters, in which we
find a statement of the amount of cottoD
spun up, during the year ending 31st Au
gust, 1869, in this count!y by actual re
turns from the mills. We have looked for
this report with much interest, for by add
ing the amount exported to Europe to the
amount spun up in the North and de
ducting the decrease in stock at the end of
the year, we arrive at the exact amount of
the commercial crop of this country.
By commercial crop we mean all cotton ar
riving at the ports ana at the Northern
mills direct by rail.
The Northern consumption is reported
as follows: Spinning 767,512, used other
wise than in spinning, 31,744. Total
consumed North, 799,256. To this amou t
is added an item of increased stock held
by the mills on Ist September, 1869, of
50,000 as compared with their stoex on
Ist September, 1868. This item we take
the liberty of throwing out, because, Ist.
It is not based on returns from the mills,
but is an estimate of the Committee ; 2d.
The price of Cotton ranged during July
and August at from 34c to 35c, and it was
apparent to every one that prices would
fall rapidly as soon as the new crop com
menced to come in. Now if the spinners
held this excess of stock, they either
bought it in July and August at about
34Je or before that time at lower prices.
IT in July, they bought with a certainty
of a large decline in the immediate future,
and if before July, they did not work it
up into goods, but held it to be put into
goods in competition with cotton at much
lower rates. To say that our spinners
held, not 50,000 bales, but 50,000 more
bale' than on 31st August, 1868, when
Cotton was 4c lower is a statement that we
cannot believe. Taking the actual con
sumption at 799,256, adding to that the
foreign exports and deducting the deorease
in stock, the crop statements of the Ship
ping List and the Chronicle should have
been as follows :
Shipping Jjist. Chronicle •
E x ports 1,444,6ti8 1.466,020
Barnt. 203
Spun in Vir inia 20.0C0 20,000
Actual Noithe n con
sumption 799,256 799,256
2,264,127 2,286.276
Deduct difference In
stock 26.238 25,787
Commercial croD (ex
cluding Southern con
sumption) 2,837,887 .2,259,489
Stat< merit published
Sept mber 11 2,269 557 Published Sep 18. .2 379,039
Shipping List too large. 22,668 Chronicle sips do . .110 550
Estimate op Commercial Crop Ex
cluding Southern Consumption.—There
have be jo killing frosts in various parts of
the South, but the crop is now so nearly
picked that frost will make less difference
than usual. The lands that did the best this
year are tho bottoms, which could stand
the drought, and, therefore, from South
west Georgia, Southern Alabama, and
part. 6 of Mississippi and Alabama, we have
the best accounts. We believe there will
be an increase of 15 per cent, in Texas and
New Orleans, 20 per cent, in Alabama and
Georgia; and 25 per cent, in Florida.
North and South Carolina, Virginia and
Tennessee we estimate the same as last
year. Savannah may draw more this year
from Alabama and Florida, but this would
not affect the totals.
Per cent. Estimate of Crop
Jjast Year . increase. of 1869-70-
N. Orleans 794,20'. 15 91?,336
Alabama 30,726 20 27*,w7l
Tex 8 147,817 15 169,980
K 1 r da 1«,%2 25 16, 35
Georgia 357,253 20 4'-fc,7o>
So. Oar Lna.... 20 19-948
N- Carolina 35,9 .2 20 3-9 2
ViivlUA 160,418 20 l«*418
Tennessee. 321.891 20 >...'2.,8'1
2 260,'57 2/5*798
Receipts and Exports —The receipts
this week have been 93,045 baits, against
73,360 ba’es the corresponding wef'-: last
year, arid the foreign exports 55,858 bales,
against 45.272 bales in 1868. The totals,
so far this year, can be seen in the table
given above. The following table will
show the totals at each port:
1868. 1869.
New Orleans 204,560 207,309
Mobile 52,690 71,481
Galveston 35,091 37,286
Florida 2.106 1,644
Savannah 83,058 143,136
Charleston 41,523 78 581
New York 31.171 45 216
Boston, &c 17,395 28,147
Total to date 467,594 612,800
distribution of receipts.
1869. 1868
Stock 28th August 10,911 43,594
Received since 612,800 467,594
Total 623,711 511,188
Exported 258,209 173,214
Stock 236,405 191.111
Bales to spinners 129,097 146,863
From the Broker's Circular ot October
21st, we take the following figures:
AVERAGE WEEKLY DELIVERIES. f
Trade. Eip-rt. Import. !
1869 45,900 10,337 2,476,951
1868 52,290 12,504 2,857,036 '
AT SEA-
Am. E. I. Stock. M. Orl. K. Srr.
1869-49,000 274,000 428,240 I2id. 9d.
1868-29,000 271,000 445,390 llid. Bid.
The cotton at sea is 23,000 bales more
than last year, and the sto :k is 17, 1 50
hales less. The import so far this year is
j 280,085 bales less than last. The average
; weekly deliveries are 8,557 bales less than
I last. The consumption of American cot
ton has averaged 13,049 bales for the past
| s ' x weeks. Os the sales that week, 24 per
: cent, were American and 48 per cent,
burats. Stock ot American 7 per cent.,
a ® urats 80 per cent, ot the whole.
The sales for future delivery have been
as follows: 600 bales November, at 25c,
150 at 24|c, 300 at 24}c, 100 at 24Jc. De
cember, 150 at 25e, 200 at 24|c, 50 at 24fc,
200 at 24Jc, 1,750 at 24c, 450 at 24jj. 200
at, 24fc, 100 at 24jfe. January, 300 at 24*e,
200 at 25c, 100 at 25jc, 300 at 2450, 300 at
24}c, 350 at 24c. 1,600 at 24i0, 300 at 24Jc
Feoruary, 450 at 25c, 100 at 25i>, 250 at
j -He, 100 at 24|c. March, 300 at 25i0, 300
| 25c, 150 at 24fc. Free on board at
Charleston 500 at 24Jc, 250 at 24c, 200 at
I 23}c, 300 at 231 c. 200 at 23fc. albo, on
private terms, 800 December, and 100
January. Total, 11,900 bales.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Special Correspondence of the Baltimore Gazette.
1 respective Action of Congress— Belief
from Excessive Taxation— Absorption
gt National Bonds to be Urged—
fPecie Payments Not to be Hastened—
Hie Question of Protection—Another
Jollification for Generals and Other
Public Functionaries—Grant to Van
derbilt.
Washington. November 12, 1869. —
j Ihe action of Congress this Winter will be
|iu the highest degree important The
| people have become restive under exces
sive and tyrannical taxation. Relief mutt
Jbe afforded in some form. The Radical
leaders must, perforce,“st least throw some
sort of a tub to the whale. I accordingly
learn from gentlemen who are familiar
with the doings and opinions of the various
committees authorized to sit during the
present recess, that the absortion (so far
a’ present laws allow) of the national
i bonds, and the substitution of public stock,
at a far less rate of interest, wdl be pres-ed
with vigor. Ihe Chairman of the Finance
Committee in the Senate, and of the House
Committee of AV ays and Means, are known
to favor this plan, which, they contend,
wih enable the Government greatly to re
duce the tax upon incomes, which bears so
■heavily upon business men of m .derate
or very limited means. Legislation de
signed to hasten the resumption of speoie
payments will not be attempted , although
it is possible that the imaginative M *rton
may inflict upon the Senate auother of his
flowery harangues to that end. In the
meamime the’ Administration (or rather
Mr. Boutwell -nd Mr. Delano) will vehe
mently insist upon a retention ol t e
internal tax-laws bodily, in order that by
unmerciful, illegal and tyrannical construc
tion and execution of them they may show
upon paper what they are pleased to call
monthly “reductions” of the public debt
under their “skillful” management.
I he external tax laws must, also undergo
earnest discussion, and therein will an op
portunity be afforded of crossing swords
between the Radical magnates ot the East
and West, The long threatened collision
cannot be longer delayed. Abuse of the
South has been worn out as a ligament to
bind the heterogeneous party together. No
party, nor wing of a party, nor, perhaps, a
single member ot the present Congress, is
sati-fied with the present tariff The
Eastern manufacturers want additional
protection, either by a diminution of
duty upon articles of foreign growth or
production necessary to their manufactures,
or a. heavier tax upon competing foreign
articles; while the representatives of con
sumers at the West will insist upon an ad
justment ot the tariff, so as both to cheapen
the necessaries of life and pave the way
for the introduction of thoir agriculcu ai
productions into foreign markets. The
difficulties in this matter are immeasurably
increased by apparently irrelevant topics.
It is the only stumbling block in the way
of a good treaty in respect to the British
North American possessions. The Ad-
ministration toox great credit to itself for
astute diplomacy in its proposition for re
ciprocal trade with the New Dominion. It
thought to save its bacon by obtaining, in
lieu of reciprocity, the fishing grounds
belonging exclusively to Great Britain for
the Yankees on the Eastern coast. In this
it is doomed to woeful disappointment. A
cotemporary thus touches the sore spot:
“It is evident that the producers of coal,
lumber and salt are organizing an opposi
tion to the reduction of duty on these
art icles. eveD if in return the Government
of ihe New Dominion shall open to the
United States the Navigation of the St.
Lawrence, and concede to our fishermen
the right to fish within the hounds no /
claimed. The lumbermen of Michigan are
especially clamorous for ,a continuance of
the ad valorem duty.of twenty per dent. This
is now collected on importations valued at
almost eight millions of dollars per anuum,
and not only added to the cost of that lum
ber, but to the domestic product, valued
at over fifty millions, so that for every
dollar now paid into the Federal Treasury
as a duty on lumber, the public pay over
six dollars through the consequent increase
of prices.”
Here are a bevy of “Generals” and
“Colonels” on the wing to a grand jollifica
tion at what is termed the “Grand Reunion
of the Grand Officers of the Grand Army
of the Tennessee. ” Not one of these men
but leaves pressing public duties, which
they have sworn to perform to the best of
their abilities. They are all officeholders:
General Sherman and Colonels McCoy,
Dayton and Audenreid, of his staffpGen.
Eli S Barker, Commissioner of Indian Af
fairs General \Vager Swayne, Gen Giles
A Smith, Second Assistant, General W H
Terril, Third Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral; General David Hunter, General T L
Dickey, General Oliver and other distin
guished officers, will leave here on Monday
night to attend the re-union ot the Army
of Tennessee, at Louisville, ou the 17th
and 18th instant. At Baltimore the party
will be joined by Generals McDowell and
Ingalls,of New York; Knox and Bingham,
of Philadelphia, and others, and the whole
parly will proceed together in a through
car from Baltimore to Louisville.
While on this topic I may as well men
tion the profound regret of General Grant
that he is not permitted to join in this
spree, and also give you a correct copy of
his letter to commodore Vanderbilt, where
in be almost shed tears at being deprived
of the “pleasure” of- seeing the statute of
the Water Dog unveiled Here it .s:
Washington, D. C , Nov. 4, 1869
Sir : —1 am trt receipt of your letter of
the 26in ultimo, inviting me to participate
in the ceremony of unveiling the "Vander
bilt Bronze,”in the city ot Nsw York on the
10th instant. It would afford me great pleas
ure '0 be present upon this occasion, and
to witness tho unveiling of a statute com
memorative of the distinguished services of
one whose life has been spent in develop
ing useful public enterprises , but I find
that my public dutie* will not permit me
to be aosent from the Capital at that time,
and I shall, therefore, not be able to ac
cept your cordial invitation.
Very respectfully, U- S Grant.
Albert DeGroot, Esq., No. 200 Forsyth
street, New York.
It will be remembered that the venera
ble Commodore was one of the heaviest
contributors to the famous “Gift Enter
prise." I merely refer to this fact to ac
count for the eucomium of “distinguished
services.” • X.
From Europe.
Paris, November 16, noon.—Twenty
eight opposition deputies have issued a
manifesto demanding the right of the peo
ple to govern themselves. They wiil use
peaceful means, unless an at empt is made
to silence them by force. The manifesto
concludes: “ The elective principle is the
only one which will stand through all rev
j olut’.ons, and must be the base of the in
stitutions of the country, but kept clear
I from mouarchial compromises and thevio-
I lence of demagogues.”
! The Emperor abandons the idea of a
change of ministry uniil alter the meeting
! of the Cortes, when he will select men ca
| pablc of commanding the support of a ma
| jority of the corps.
Rochefort’s election is certain.
Troops have been quietly concentrated
! in Paris.
A prospect of disorder is exceedingly
1 remote.
St. Petersburg, November 16, noon.
—lhe project of a treaty ot alliance, de
fensive and offensive, between France,
Austria and Russia is pending, to continue
three years, the East party to maintain
certain standing armies.
Paris, November 16, evening.—Baron
Werther, new Prussian Minister, was pre
sented to Napoleon to-day. Mutual ex
pressions of peace and good will were ex
changed.
London, November 16, p. m.-English
ship Monarch will bring Mr. Peabody’s
.remains home, attended by American ves
sels, and it is likely several French vessels
will join the funeral fleet.
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