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OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVIL Chronicle * ?cutinrl. TKR.HS UV HI'BSCaiPTIO*. Us U '* .1 Otl °® 1 ■ ' ’ 5 m r. ru- Kftit; ...10® -nti-w t ki.y. ,« ,/) o»jw > llmso n. It DO ...m SajoTi'Ji* I *1 >■ »ui WKBVKBIAY ItliillCi FKBRIARY 16 Supreme Court- of Jad?e Hoar. General Grant has been again snubbed l,y bis party. The vote on the nomination of .Judge Hoar for a seat on the Supreme Bench, shows a degree of weakness which must be exceedingly annoying t> the Presi dent. It had been better to have taken the previous vote postponing act on on the nomination, at it was intended at the time it should be, a warning that the Sen ate did not intend to become the mere pup pet ol the Executive, to execute his orders withoi* question ot hesitation. The truth is, the Senate came out of its conflicts with Andrew Johnson with very high notions of its perogalives and powers—notions which v;; insist can not be maintained by any fair construction of the Constitution. But General Grant having aided them in their fight against Johnson can not now claim that the Executive has higher rights than those accorded by the Senate in that conflict and which secured his approval at that time. If the public reasons given for the re jection of Hoar are really true, then the President must look to the South for a successor to Judge Wayne. The New York Tribune and other leading Radical journals opposed the nomination of Hoar because of his non-residence in the District over which he was to preside. It was in sisted that the nomination should come from the South. The Senate’s action in dicates that these aio the views which con trolled its vote in rejecting Judge Hoar. This being the true state of the case, Gen. Grant’s course is very plain. Let him cast his eyes smuth —let him look to the mate rial in the fifth District from jvhich a selec tion must be made. In taking this view, his attention must be arrested by the repu tation and legal lore of one of our own citi z ih. If he would find a worthy successor to Wayne- oue'whose experience, learning and legal ability long since placed him at the head of his profession, who-c personal character is above suspicion and whose public integrity is known by all men—ono who was, before and during tho whole war, a true and consistent IJnioa man—let him appoint Hiram Warner, of Georgia. Congress and lli« Morntons--A Central Despotism. The bill reported to the House of Rep resentatives last week to abolish Poly gamy in IJ tub, is one of very great moment. The Committee sooms to have been fully aware of the grave results which mizht 101 l >w this attempt ou the part of Congress to interfere with the social and domestic relations oi Brigham Young’s people—the Mormons. Hence they provide, for the use of military foroe, if it shall become necessary to enforce the provisions of the bill. Tho President is authorized aud direoted to enforce the law by the use of the army of the United States, and if, in his opin ion, it shall become necessary, be is em powered to call out. vnluntoors for uuoh term of service as he may deem proper, not exceeding one year. The bill also pro vides for the care and support of the superfluous “wives” who are deprived of husbands by the law. If’ this bill passes we shall saon hear stirring news from the Silt Lake country. We are greatly doceivcd in our estimate of the pluck and obstinancy ot t.c deluded but sincere followers of Joe Smith, if they surrender the corner-stone of their traditions without a scvot'e struggle. The power given to General Grant to raise an army of volunteers to destroy the Mormons, will enable him, when that job is finished, to begin active operations against the State governments. The Fed eral Government exists only in name now. It has been converted into a oentral des potism, and only needs the destruction of theStnte Governments to tuako its power absolute and unlimited. The destruction of the Mormon Government by force is only a prelude to the graud drama which shall forever blot out all our State govern ments. Rich Scene In the Senate. The negro Revels, just electod United Statos Senator from Mississippi, appeared the other day on the floor of the Senate and was made the subject of much atten tion by Sumner and Tipton. Indeed, theso worthies, not content with playing lacquey to llevols himself, ascended to the gallery, where sat the “dark-browed wife of Revels, and seating themselves by Lor side, preceded to entertain her with a lively conversation on the subject ot the art' of eookiug for white folks, in contradis tinction to the art of cooking for field bauds on the cotton plantations of the South, and the quantity of soil soap which should be consumed in doing the weekly washing ot a white family of ten. Having discussed these questions until there was not another word to be said, and untif they saw that they were becoming a bore, Sen ators Sumner nod Tipton took leave of the new candidate for popular favor in Wash ington society, aud descended to the floor ot the Senate.” These Radical negro-lovers, although so attentive to Revels and his negro wife, are verv apt to vote against his admission to a tent in the Senate on the ground that he has not been a citizen of the United States seven years. These personal attentions will be con sidered by Revels and ihe negroes generally as more valuable than a vote in favor of ihe former’s admission as a Senator. Sumner and Tipton are not fools. They understand the negro character. They know that a vote against Revels’ seat is fully atoned for by playing the gallant to hjs black wench. Sensible Views from a Republican. We have, on occasions recently, expressed the opinion that the more in telligent and thoughtful Republicans were becoming tired and disgusted with the never ending reconstruction business. The Butler-Su uuer mania about the negro and Southern loilists has nearly ruu its course. These two pinks of Radical extremists have on more itiaD one occasion recently been ignored by a majority of their party in Congress. Their success in regard to the bill re cently passed for the admission ot Virginia has rot strengthened them with their i party. The ablest of their presses in the North and West are outspoken in their condemnation of this attempt to place greater restrictions on one of the Slates of the Union than arc required of all. The Now York Pott, one of the ablest of North ern Republican journals, in strong and caustic language, exposes the short-sight ed and destructive tendency of all such legislation, and appeals to its party to give up these miserably abortive attempts to place dogs and manacles upon equal soverign States and give more of their at tention to the pressing wants of tbecountry ■ The Post says, “it is a matter of regret that the ultra Senators of the R;publiean party, headed by the visionary, impracti cable Sumner, have triumphed in their en deavor to obstruct the dosing of this re construction business. There is no excuse Jor the imposition of the additional eondi- tions upon Virginia imposed by the Senate hill- Ihe only result which will follow is to delay the admission of the State and to embitter the people. It is folly to at tempt, under our republican-system, to bind the people of any State for all time. No requirement which does not bind all the States can bind any one. So long as the Constitution of the United States per mits any State to amend its constitution, restricting tne qualifications of voters, any conditions imposed on anew State forbid ding this will be held null and void. Sum ner is too much of a lawyer not to know this. The talk about additional protection for the negro is bosh. The real object in reopening the question of reconstruction is to divert the attention of the country from the tariff and financial question ; and in this light the whole matter becomes an outrage, which will be resented by an in dignant people.” “Outside of the halls of Congress there is not even a faction of the Republican party that justifies Sumner’s course. Even so decided a Radical as Greeley denounces it. Everybody is sick of this eternal re construction. The whole country wants peace. The business of the country, ground down by the burden of taxation, the masses smarting under an unjust tariff, demand relief and will have it. The people have waited patiently and borne long with the negro, but now they are considering their own rights, and it will go ill with the Re publican party if the present session of Congress is squandered in fighting over again this dead question. The old cry of ‘loyalty’ rouses no emotion in the popular heart. We have fought the last compaign on this rallying cry. We must have an adjustment of this tariff, a reduction of taxation and retrenchment in public ex penses. The kind of reconstruction that is needed now is a reconstruction of the ultra members of the party.” The People and their Masters. The New York Journal of Commerce , in an able and forcible leader, is endeavor ing to arouse the people to the utter con tempt of “this Radical Congress” for public opinion and the forms even of jus tiee. With reference to the adoption of the resolution requiring the income tax to be paid another year, tho editor thinks the action ofthe House reveals with startling distinctness the progress of that mighty revolution which has placed the destinies of the nation in hands that feel no restraint. Thus (says the Journal) at one hold stroke has the House, in a moment, voted to impose a tax on the people of this coun try of say thirty or forty million dollars, not a cent of which is collectable under the present law! There is not in the whole history of legislation a ca-c that, approaches this as an exhibition ofthe sublime auda city that accompanies the consciousness of unfettered power. The Journal proceeds to show why the Revenue Department and the Radical ty rants who govern us according to their pleasure desire to continue this exaotion. It shows, in the first place, they are bent on corruption, through every form of ex travagance, as just exposed by one of their own party who could be muzzled no lon ger ; because the more money that can be squeezed under any pretext out of the pockets ofthe people, the more there will be for those whose arms are ro deeply in the publio purse. “But,” adds the editor : There is still another reason, and one more to be dreaded by the people who would be free than any growing out of the greed of these legislaive leeohesand their friends. It is the desire to hold their gripe on the business, the peiaons, au<l papers, and the inner domestic life of those who might bo restive under their intolerable tyranny. No other form of taxation gives such a hold as this on persons likely to prove restive u der official exactions. It repeats the terrors of tho inquisition, and places the instrument of torture in hands that are daily learning the many uses to which it cau be applied. The question now is, can nothing be done to stay this gross .injustice ? The Journal replies : Absolutely nothing. The will of those who have taken this step is the supreme law of this land to-day. Having submit ted so far to it, there is a precedent for further patience. After a while our mas ters will probably follow the fashion of other associated tyrants, and take to quar reling among themselves, in whioh case, if the proverb be true, honest men may retake tbi ir own, and vengeance come upon tho wrong-doers. Up to that time there is no hope of even a decent administration of public affairs. This is not partisan rant, but plain truth, which good people of all parties may as well look squarely in the face. The evidence has become too palpa ble for denial, now that those who rule us feel secure in their assumption ; the people will be robbed and oppressed beyond all former example, and without any present remedy. More Forgery. The Atlanta correspondent of the New York IVibune denies having sent the dis patch to that paper in relation to the pro posed people’s meeting which Bryant was charged with getting up. The Tribune says its correspondent’s name was signed to the dispatch, and has taken measures to discover tha forger. If it will take our advioe it will search for the guilty party in Bullock’s office. This is not the first time that worthy has been guilty of sending false and forged dispatches. It is a part of his plan to keep up a series of untruthful and men dacious dispatches to the Northern Radi cal press to “fire the heart" of the North ern Radical masses and strengthen their prejudices against the people of this State. Revenges of History. The New York Tribune has the follow ing:— , “The revenges of history are singularly illustrated in the Senatorial election in Mis sippi. One of tbe Senators eleot, Mr. H. R. Revels, is a negro, a native of Ohio, a graduate of Oberlin T College, and for some years a resident in Natchez, where also a former Senator of Missisippi, Mr. son Davis, has somestimes resided.” This is awfully cutting, and “History” must surely be a remorseless fiend to take such “revenges.” Perhaps it’s not “His tory” that is so vindictive after all. It has often happened in this world that “the rogues have bound the honest men, but it is hardly accurate to style those deeds “the revenges of History.” It has hap pened before now that the basest scum ot socie:y, as in the French revolution, has risen to the top; that the patriarchs of the earth have sat in sackcloth and ashes, while those whose fathers they would not have set with the dogs of their flock, make songs upon them, but neither these, nor any other brief triumphs of wickedness and lolly, deserve to bo dassed with the righteous and enduring retribu tion which History brings upon national iniquity and wrong. Why, in this instance, is History only revenging itself in the one , case of the negro Senator from- Missis sippi, and he for the short term only, when in order to display its wrath and justioe signally, it ought to send negroes from all the slave States both to the Sen ate and House of Representatives- In stead of this, "History," whom we sus- l pect to be no better than all enterprising carpet-bagger, rarely permits a negro to have an office, State or Federal, of any importance, where it can help it. We may add that as to its “revenge” in this case, it is more humiliating to those who inflict than those who suffer by it. The men who can rejoice to see the place of such an intellectual and political luminary as Jefferson Davis was in the United States Senate, filled by a negro, indicate tastes and sentiments which no one will envy them, and we dare say Mr. Davis will not 1 covet that companionship in the Senate which Radicals naturally prefer to his ' own. — Statumau. Fat Salaries. The salaries paid to army officers are very much larger than that given to the highest class of civil officers, and very much disproportioned to the duties per formed by each class as will be seen by ref erence to the following table : SAX-ARY Gen. W. T. Sherman $18,780 Lieut. Gen. P. H. Sheridan 13,804 Major Gen. H. W. Halleck 9,863 Sec of War B»lknap 8,000 Chief Justice Chase 6,500 Vioe-President Colfax 8,000 Sherman receives nearly three times as mueh as Judge Chase, whilS the position of tke latter and the duties performed by him require the very highest order of talent and long and patient labor and mueh responsibility. We can see no reason why the pay of a military officer in time of peace should be hs;her than that ot important civil posi tions. Congress should apply the knife of retrenchment here at once. A Sew llodge. Some of the loading Radical Senators will, it is said, vote against seating the negro Revels, on the ground that there is really no vacancy for which he was elected to fill, inasmuch as Mississippi has not been entitled to representation in Congress during the last nine years and will not be until re-admitted into the Union, Decrease of the Negroes. The census of Kentucky, taken in 186 ), showed a colored population in that State of 236,167. Tho Courier-Journal states that by the State Auditor’s report for 1869, the total colored population is only 140,445. This is a fearful falling off of the black race. Where have these negroes gone? There has been no general or ex tensive emigration from the State. A few here and there have gone North, but the number hardly reaches, all told, more than a few thousand. Those who would find the true cause of the diminution of the negro race in Ken tucky and elsewhere in the South, will look for it in the increased mortality which has prevailed amoDgst them since emancipa tion. This increased mortality is- itself easily accounted for. The negroes, when s’aves, were relieved of the care and responsibility of their sick, decrepid and infants. Their owners assumed all the expense, trouble and re sponsibility of nursing the sick and pro viding medicines and medical attention. They also furnished careful nurses for the young and the old and infirm, and in fact took the same care of their slaves as of their own children. Hence, the negroes never learned to take care of themselves. There was no necessity for it. They relied entirely upon their owners to do this for them. Emancipation threw them suddenly upon their own resources. In those cases where their old owneis would have continued their protecting care, through the agencies of that “infernal machine” called the Freedman’s Bureau, the poor negroes were so estranged as to render the old familiar aid of “massa and missus” impossible. This condition of the Kentucky negroes is no worse than that ot their race gener ally throughout the South. They are per ishing by thousands and tens of thous ands—perishing because they have neither the capacity or inclination to protect and preserve their offspring—because they are inexperienced and dull nurses—because they are rapidly relapsing to their old state of barbarism, and do not pay sufficient at tention to the laws of health- Imposters We find in the Barnsville Gazette a card from Drs. McDowell & Strother, denouncing the class of peraphatic medical imposters who have swarmed over the South since the close of the war. There is no doubt but that great injuiy has been done our people by the nostrums of these characterless quaeksand imposters. They have also filched from the pockets of the too confiding and credulous, large sums of money which, when the ss ason was over they took back to their dens in the North. Drs. McDowell & Strother say “ that nine tenths of these persons have no oOnnection with the radical profession aud have no authority to practice; and instead of being the great lights which they proclaim themselves, are the wildest adventurers, ignorant alike of the science of medicine and the laws which govern the profession. Their very pres ence is an insult to the intelligence of the community. We profess to know the standard by which scientific men are dis tinguished from impostors, and emphat ically assert our ability to prove tho whole herd of advertising quacks who pass this way to be without character in any locality and without authority to practice medi cine or surgery. • “We speak plainly and earnestly be cause it has been the custom < f those pre tenders to presume that physicians would keep silence whi'e they fleeced bhe public, through tear of being ebar-ed with selfish motives if t 1 ey attempted an exposure. It we a knovrledged to obi gation to the peoi 1-' ot this community but that of vis iting them in sickne sand receiving the fee, we might well await our reward in the disappointed hopes and injured health that follow in the filthy wake of these vile creatures." Freight Accumulations on the State Road. The new? from the Western terminus of Road discloses a wretchedly dis graceful management of that great thor oughfare. Freights have accumulated at Chattanooga until the Depot building and all the private warehouses are crowded, and the lines connecting there from the West actually refuse to receive freights to be sent over the State Road until the latter moves or makes some disposition of the freight already accumulated at Chatta nooga. The Memphis & Charleston and the Louisville & Nashville roads h ive dispatch ed agents to Chattanooga to assist :n re moving the blockade which, through the inefficiency and bad management of the State Road, has been established there. We saw a gentleman, a few days since, ,»ho passed over th- 1 road recently, and who informed us that scarcely a train passes over the road now on its regular schedule time. That accidents occur almost daily, both to freight and passenger trains, and that travellers are getting to be afraid to pass over the line, ou account of the mise rable management now of the road. The income of the road, with proper management, would average over $l2O,- j 000 a month, and would net to the State upwards of sixty thousand dollars. Instead of this the rolling stock is being destroyed by numerous accidents, the road bed allowed to become unsafe, the-business of the road diminished, aod little or uo in come paid into the Treasury. With pri vate management, such as we have on the Central and the Georgia Railroads, this great public work would yield a net annual income of more than half a million of dol lars. Asa Radical machine, to promote reconstruction and advance the interests of Bullock and Blodgett, it is simply a curse to the State. The Yelping or a Cor. The New York Tribune -has an article, headed “Pocahontas in the Market Place,” in the course of which it quotes the pre posterous slander of one Neill’s so-called researches, that Pocahontas, the daughter of Powhatan, was a “wanton young girl, sometimes resorting to the fort ; of the age then of ten or eleven years getting the boys fMrth with her into the market place, and making them wheel, falling on with their hands, turning their heels up ward, whom she would follow and wheel so herself, naked as she was, all the tort over.” This is a pleasant picture, quoth the Tribune scribe, for a Virginian to oon- AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 16, 1870. template, and perhaps Congress will order its transfer to immortal canvas, or enduring bronze. “Then it also .turns out that Mr John Rolfe was ‘one of rude educa tion, manners barbarous and cursed gen eration,’who only married the Princess, if he married at all, to gain possession of her father's estate—although it is further stated that no evidence -of a legal marriage could ever be discovered. There will he weeping and wailing amoDg the first families at this disc'osure. There wSI be sorrow and lamentation at this sud den extinction of a royal ancestress. There will be wretchedness in Roanoke, if any Randolphs are left there.” The abovo is about as fair a specimen of first-class spite as ever emanated from that free love kennel, which proffered its hospitalities so generously to Richardson aDd Mrs. McFarland, and others of that ilk. We*don’t condescend to discuss the question of the truth or falsity of its story, but, on the ground that it is true, would simply call attention to the characteristic malignity, which, without any provocation, hurls such missiles as this upon the graves of the ancestors of Virginians. Is it not enough that the State should be hand cuffed, despoiled, impoverished, put below the feet of its negroes, but that the very graves of its dead should be thus filthily defiled ? The venomous reptile, who got off the shove, winds up with saying : ‘‘lt matters but little, if a man but do his work well in his day and generation, who his ancestors were.” That is true enough, but we don’t believe the writer thinks so. No man ever talks in the style and spirit of the above extract who is not tormented with a sense of social inferiority and eaten up with envy of his betters. — Statesman. The New Tariff. The Journal of Commerce characterizes the proposed new tariff as “complicated, vexatious and outrageous,” and the World fairly howls over the report made by the Committee of Ways ajid Means. Hear it: “It is a disgraceful report—contemptible xor the bottomless ignorance which it be trays in the committee of every sound prin ciple of political economy; shameless for the rapacity which it betrays of main hers seeking nothing but their personal and pe cuniary interests, and who combine, by log rolling, to secure them. Beside the iniquitous provisions which we pointed out on Monday, it contains provisions still more brazen and audacious in furtherance of the purpose of members of the committee to line their own pockets, theugh the purses of the people.are emptied. .We have sub jected the bill to a careful analysis, and find that it actually increases tho duties on the following articles, over and above the duties imposed by the existing tariff.” These articles are cotton cloths, cotton and linen laces, webbing, mixed materials for dresses, flax—dressed and undressed — tow, jute, hemp, iron in,a early all ot its forms, steel, brass, nickel, manufactured articles of German'silver, hair, hair cloth, crinoline, dice, billiard balls, pocket books and umbrellas. Mrs. Slandercss Stowe. A correspondent of the Nashville Union <& American, who was of the Green Line excursion party, writes to that paper a long and interesting letter from Jackson ville, Fla., giving a description of the country along the beautiful St. Johns, and a visit paid by a few of the “excursionists” to Mrs. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” who is now spending the winter amid the orange groves of the Land of Flowers. We give his report of the visit in his own words. He says: About 12 o’clock a party of about thirty ladies and gentlemen took an excursion on a small steamboat twelve or fifteen miles up the St. Johns. Alfer we had been some time out, the Captain informed us that Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s plantation lay immediately on ‘he bank of the river, and that the old lady had arrived there but a few fo * her usual winter sojourn, it was then that me excursionists would cal 1 upon her, and when the boat arrived opposite her resi dence a committee of Cincinnati gentle men called at the house to learn whether it would be agreeable tor us to pay our respects to her. She informed the com mittee that she wou'd be t Teased to rs eeive the ladies and gentlemen of the ex cursion. Accordingly all marched up to the house and were presented to Mrs. Stowe. We were very much disappointed in her appearance. She is -e->rcely up to the medium height, and has strong mascu line features, but greatly lacking in the in telligence she has displayed in her contri butions to the literature of the day. Were she placed in a room with a number of ladies selected promiscuously, there is scarcely one in a hundred who would se lect her as a woman of genius. She ap peared diffident and ill at ease in the com pany of our ladies. Whether she was em barrassed and forgot, or whether it is characteristic of her, she certainly exhib ited none of the hospitality with which a ady in the South receives visitors. She left the ladies of our party to get seats as best they could, did not introduce them to her daughters, who were present, nor did she offer them a cup ot water nor an orange, which hung in profusion on the trees around her door.® Her daughters, twin-sisters, had rothing to say; indeed we believe they did not speak to one of the visitors. One of them was engaged On a piece of crochet work, and she plied her self to the work before her, as though she were a hired seamstress who had no right to speak. This conduct attracted the at tention of both ladies and gentlemen of the party, and it was suggested in extenua tion of their want of hospitality, that, be- ing the family of a distinguished author ess, they were, perhaps, subjected to visits from a great many curious .and imperti nent people, and that they had adopted this method to rid themselves of both boors and bores. One ol our party, a mischiev ous, fun-loving disciple ot Blackstone, from Atlanta, states that while one portion of the party were interviewing “the old woman” on the verandah fronting the river, and others were viewing the oranges as they hung temptingly on the trees on either side and in the rear of the house, he made his way to the kitchen to inter view tho " servants. He encountered a rather prtty and witty Irish girl, from whom he 'earned a good deal in regard to the domestic habits of the Stowe family. In response to an inquiry, she stated that Mrs. Stowe’s twin daughters were thrty years old, and that they did not want to marry. Our Atlanta friend said he thought as much from their behavior. Mrs. Stowe looks to be sixty-five years old, though under fifty-eight, having been born June 15, 1812. She wears her hair, which is quite gray, in curls, and was dressed in very plain, unpretending style. She was married in 1836 to the Rev. Prof. Calvin Ellis Stowe. Shortly afterwards she commenced her literary career, and in 1851 began the publication in the Nation al Era , an anti-slavery paper in Wash ington, as a serial tale, her celebrated work entitled Uncle Tom’s Cabin. It at tracted so much attention, that when com pleted, ini 1852, was published in book form in Bo’ston, and so great wa, the de mand for it that at least 400,000 copies were sold. The English reprints are estimated to have reached 500,000 copies, and it was rapidly translated into all European and some Asiatic languages, and it was also extensively dramatized. It has been justly said with reference to this book, that “never did an American writer achieve so sudden and great a literary suc cess, or exert a more profound influence upon American politics and society.” One of our party, a Republican, remarked that our troubles dated from the promulga tion of this work, and the memory of the “fat, sleek negroes’ he lost by the war, inspired in him no high respect for Mrs. Stowe. Although she has written two other anti-slavery and a number of literary books, none of them are remembered, ex cept her last, which has called forth the denunciation'of almost every press in the i country. Notwithstanding her abuse and misrepresentation of the people of the South, she is treated by them with the courtesy due to a lady. It was learned from the who has charge of the place that Mrs. fetowe owns about ninety acres of land, on which there is a small orange grove. He stated that the trees yield from 2,000 to 3,001) oranges each, and that they sell for $5 to $8 per barrel, averaging 250 to 300 oranges per barrel. The demand for oranges is not so good this season as formerly, ana prices are lower. It was noticed that .Ira. Stowe s oranges were not so largo as those on an adjoining place; but perhaps t„e larger ones had been gathered and market ed. A few minutes before the party returned to the boat, Prof. Stowe made his appear aoee, and was introduced to a few who still lingered at the # house» He is a venerable, patriarchal looking man, and made rather a favorable impression upon those who 1 conversed with him. Mrs. Stowe stated that she would return to her liew England home in May. Her residence on the St. John’s is an unpretending butneat cottage, and it is claimed to have bee) built upon the spot where the first dwellng was erect ed in Fi rida. It may be historic ground, as the French attempted to cake settle ments in Florida as early as 1139, Out were subsequently driven out by the Spaniards, who founded the first permanmt colony at St. Augustine about 1565. FROM ATLANTA SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OFTHE CHRONI" CLE A SENTINEL. Atlanta, February 3, 1870- Editors Chronicle <& Sentinel: This is the centre of importait events ; all eye3 are turned to Atlanta and every body is anxious to know what is going on aul what is to be done. AtUnti, as they call it here, is a live city. There is much of bustle and activity—everything moves, but it is very questionable whither there is as much of wealth and commercial prosperity as the surface viewseems to in dicate. The everlasting puffiig of locomo tives, ringing of bells, the msh of stock through the streets—all imfross a visitor with life, animation. In many lespect Atlanta i3 the hub, if not ot’ the universe, certainly of the State. There is mueh speculation about its future. One thing strikes the occasional visitor, and that is, it spreads. From the number of shanties to be.seen in the suburbs, it appears that there has been a large mflux of negroes into the city. The prevalence of a consid erable beggar population is a remarkable fact. The Legislature, Bullock and Terry are the principal subjects of interest here now. Yesterday that body adjourned, but to-.day a considerable numbtr of members, col ored and white, are to be seen on our thoroughfares. It is useless to speculate on what Congress wll do. The battle ground has been removed to Washing ton, to which place both sides have gone to engage in she conflict. Bul lock, so far, with tie aid of Terry, has “whipped the fight,” but the Bryant and Caldwell party say they intend to whip it out in Washington. Bullock’s plans are well understood ; he is “playing a bold hand,” and intends to plunder the State and feather his own nest. Never was this grand old State in such danger as now. It is said and believed, that there are Democrats in Bullock’s counsel and in the combination of fraud and public rob bery. . The programme leems to be this-- after getting rid of the State House officers, J udges, and all obstacles ; bills are to be rushed through, organizing a militia of loyal citizens, (of course, black,) the adop tion of a general system of education for both races; the puichase of the Kimball house, and the sale of the State Road—it is said that capitalists are now here with a view to its purchase—in the Bullock interest. If Congress should ratify the acts of tnis Legislature, all of these sell ernes will likely be carried, and ! others, ton, of equal enormity. They ex pect to control the State for ac least two years longer, and in that time they will make a clean sweep of the public treasury. The efforts of such men as Caldwell, Bry ant and others deserve, end will receive from the people, irrespective of party, just commendation, whatever have been their past errors—and they have been many— their war upon this den of thieves for the last five weeks has already done great good. They deserve the gratitude of every citizen of the State. How strange some things appear! In the House of Represen •at iyes, Bryant—a “Union soldier,” a “earpet-bagger,” a Radical —is seen standing in the breach, baring his breast to a storm of abuse and bludgeons, maintaining “the honor of Georgia,” while in the Speaker’s jehair is a native Georgian, an officer who once wore the Confederate grey, in open, shame less alliance with negroes ami Bullock to dishonor his State and plunder the Treas ury. The official conduct of McWhorter during the brief session past, is without a .1“ 'Mtibe soTof old county of Greene. Democrats and others now say they were deceived by the fair promises of McWhor ter, and even somo are duped with assur ances that when the “pressure is lifted” he will redeem himself. Persons here, who seem to be well in formed, say that a sufficient number of members of Congress have been heard from to insure a successful resistance to the recognition of the new regime. Bul lock, it is said, determined to go to Wash ington, but has declined; rumor bas if that ho has received a big scare, and that Blod gett has gone with the documents, and also that Judge Gibson of your city has been sent by Bullock to help press through the Georgia bill. It is well known here that the Judge is in the Bullock ring, and that he made a characteristic speech in the Bullock-Radical caucus. I am glad to know thit the remarks imputed to Judge Andrews were not made by him. The Judge only made a humorous speech, in terlarded with a good many fresh anec dotes to satisfy the brethren that he was holding faithful. It is thought here that the speeoh took, and that he went home comforted. The Supreme Court drags aloDg. The Judges all seem to be in high feather. •Judge Warner holds a defiant head, ready for the block when Bullock gets the axe in ; hand. It is thought here that Bullock would like to get rid of Brown; he is ! “willing to wound but yet afraid to strike-” lie can’t afford to lose Brown, but the im pression is tha he has bided his time, and now thinks the time has come to separate from his company. To-day a considerable number of the bar were in attendance on the Court, among them was a nigger law yer among the brethren. The woild j moves. Observer. LETTER FROM WASHINGTON. FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. Washington, February 3, 1870. Editors Chronicle & Sentinel: Congress is making a great deal of haste, but it is being made very slowly. To-day the House of Representatives got one more link in the reconstruction chain by passing the bill for the admission of Mississippi. They will follow along rapidly with Geor gia, as there is an intense anxiety to have the fifteenth amendment aufait accompli as speedily as possible. The Mississippi bill contains the same provisions and conditions as the Virginia bill. It has not yet been reported in the Senate ; but upon its passage being an nounced from the House was referred to the Judiciary Committee. It may not pass during the present week ; but the disposition is to make it a law at a very early day. Georgia will of course be hampered with the same conditions. There was considerable discussion this morning on the resolution of yesterday requiring the President to furnish in formation concerning the treatment of -American citizens in British jails for po litical offenses ; but further than the dis cussion no action was taken on the report. Notwithstanding the demand which the agents of the Ropublicin party are making for the recognition of the belligerency of Cuba by this administration, the evidences accumulate that the tdministration will not do anything of the kind. The public debt and the conditon of the • national finances are such that just at present the mere idea of iocurrit* “war expenses” frighten off any dispontion that may be felt from sympathy of persons with Cuba from using their official influence in favor of practical aid. Senator Carpenter to-day opened his batteries upon Sumne’for the speech of the latter, made some time ago, relative to the fitting.out of Spanish gunboats at New York. The subject ifon which Carpen ter’s speech was made was the bill intro duced by Senator Hove to provide more effectually for the repeal of the neutrality of the United Statet bv repealing the neutrality act of 18(8. He combatted Sumner's statements—first, that the law of 1818 was passed foi a specific purpose, and was therefore isapplieable to the revolt in Cuba; second, that the statute applies only to the caie of a contest be tween two parties, boti ol whom are ac knowledged as belligffants, and that the republic in Cuba has u)t attained to a con dition to warrant Cubs to be so regarded ; third, that Cuba or Cibans may be levy ing war against Spain, but that Spain is only proe;edingin the exercise of her ex ecutive functions to esablish her authority but is not levying war against Cuba ; and, therefore, the United States was justified in detaining the Hornet but would not have been justified in ditaining the Spanish gunboats. Mr. Carptnter proceeded to show that these proportions were wholly untenable, citing at lingth from history, ' from diplomatic correspondence and from I decisions of tho courts in illustration of the ! fact that the act of 1818 had not applied to i every rebellion and every war that had ariseu from that time to the present, ; including the rebellion of Texas against Mexico and the Crimean war. He | contended that the statute applied to any | contest between a revolted colony and tho i parent State as soon as it could be said that a state of war existed, and that this ; of state war did exist when the civil courts were closed and the government was unable to arrest and deal with offenders by civil process and methods of civil administra tion. Admitting correctness of Sumner’s position, he held the statute only applied to a case of actual public war; nev i ertheless such a state of things did exist in Cuba. He read at length j from the report of the Spanish War Min t ister to the Cortes of Spain, showing the number of forces sent to Cuba within the past twelve months, in corroboration of his assertion that existing state of hings in Cuba was public war, according to defini tion of the law of nations. He admitted the case of every traitor exhibited an in stance, within the meaning of municipal law, of a levying of war against the King, although the King might merely smile at the attempt and make no effort to arrest the offender; but if the King, in attempt ing to arrest the offender, was obstructed, and was unable to arrest him by civil means, and was compelled to call out the military and proceed against the rebels by military operations, that then the King was levying war against the traitors as well as the traitors against tho King. Carpenter’s speech attracted great at tention. He alluded to Sumner’s theory of neutrality, as announced in his speech on the Alabama claims, and maintained that that doctrine was anti-American, and could not he maintained wit!out tying our hands from recognizing the belligerency of any of the colonies on this continent which might be disposed to rebel against the tyrannv of European powers. I have given so much of Carpenter’s speech to show how great the feeling is among those who are considered the lead ing Republican minds in Congress on the Cuban situation. That they are not backed up by the administration occasions much fault-finding, but there’s no help for it while Secretary Fish is at the helm. Jasper. AFFAIRS IN NKff YORK. Tinkering with the Finances The Pro . posed Reconstruction of New York — Arthur's Supposed Escape from Assas sination—The Gayest Week of the Season—House Hunting in Ntio York— McFarland's Trial—Preliminary Skir mishing, etc., etc., etc. FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. New York, Feb. 5,1870. Editors Chronicle & Sentinel : Wall Street is discussing the various financial schemes now before Congress, and just as usual, the bankers and brokers take quite a different view of those plans than the legislators who intends to benefit the varied sections of the country. As to the tariff, which has just been introduced, it is considered as a mere call to the various interests throughout the country to come to Washington and settle with the Ways and Means Committee. Following close upon a season of extraordinary dullness, all these plans tend to check further large enterprises tor the present, and until the various acts are made into law, merchants and importers here will naturally hold themselves aloof from entering into large operations. Nearer home we have at present goiDg on the discussions in regard to THE NEW CITY CHARTER, Which the Legislature has at last before it, as was promised by the now Democratic State government. There are of course always those who find fault with every thing, and they do not fail to denounce what is really a plan to restore municipal sovereignty tq a j?reat eitv. of which it has been deprived of so many years. Ail our Radical commissions are swept away, and all of them are metamorphosed into city departments, of which the Mayor, to be elected for four -year?, is the responsible head. The bill will not be made into law until all classes have had their say about it, which will be about the end of March. PRINCE ARTHUR. Prince Arthur, after viriting Washing ton returned to this city early last week, departing on Saturday for Boston. He walked down Broadway several times—the Prince being, it is averred, very fond of wajking— rode aDd drove in Central Paik, visited the forts on Governor’s Island, where a real salute was fired in his honor and made himself generally agreeable. On Tuesday evening he was entertained at" Delmonico’s by thirty-six of the leading citizens of this city; he attended the charity bail at the Academy of Music on Thursday evening; was wined and dined by Mr. A. L. Stewart, Mr. Augustus Bel mont, Mr. L. P. Morton, and other dis tinguished gentlemen, and was the re cipient of a kind and cordial greeting on all hands. Some few ardent Fenians talked mysteriously of kidnapping the Prince during his sojourn in this city, and on Saturday morning rumors were rife that an attempt to assassinate him ha i been made daring the previous night. Mr. Edward Thornton, the British Minister at Washington, accompanied the Prince on his return to this city and remained with him during the week. m’farland’s trial. In the Court of General Sessions, on Friday, a motion was made by the District Attorney to transfer the case of Daniel McFarland, indicted for the murder of Albert D. Richardson to the Court of Oyer and Terminer. The motion was opposed by McFarland’s counsel, on the ground that he would forfeit the right of appeal aud review in case of conviction, to which he would be entitled should the trial take plaoe ia the General Sessions. The Court reserved its decision, . THE WEATHER. The winter has been an unusually mild one, but during the past week the weather was quite cold, the thermometer ranging about 35 degrees, and getting as low as 24. Most people anticipated a cold snap early in February, aud they were not disap pointed, though it has not been as cold as during the corresponding period last year. HOUSE HUNTING. The house hunting season in this city, preparatory to the annual May migration, appears to be about beginning. An un usual number of houses display bills at this seasoD, ami the rents demanded seem to be a reduction rather than an increase over those of last year A great many houses were unoccupied during a part of the sum mer on account of the exorbitant rents de manded-in some instances last May, and the lesson appears to have been salutary at least in preventing any increased de mands this year. GAY SCENES OP TIIE WEEK. Aside from the festivities especially in honor of Prince Arthur, the charity ball ; at the Academy of Music, on Thursday evening, must be considered the event of the week. The Academy fairly bubbled over with the array of beauty and the dis play of jewels. Even in the shoddy days of war times the profusion of dress was not more unbounded. Some of the ladies wore jewels of almost fabulous value, and the lace alone on one dress was said to be worth $3,000. Prince Arthur, who was present during part of the evening, de clined to participate in any of the dances, and remained seated in his box during most of his stay, only promenading once around the floor with Mrs. Thornton, the Trite of the British Minister. REDDY THE BLACKSMITH. William Varley, who enjoys an unen viable notoriety as “Reddy, the Black smith,” was assaulted in a saloon on Broadway, on Thursday evening by a notorious Philadelphia rough, known as Jim Haggerty. Reddy was very much in toxicated so that he could not defend him self, and was beaten so badly that his life l is despaired of. He is at present in ! Bellevue hospital. Haggerty has not been arrested but is very much “wante’d” in Philadelphia as well as in this city. It , will be remembered that he was rescued in ! that place from a prison van seme months ago by a crowd of roughs, and his where abouts have since'been unknown to the I police. Argus. If Revels, the Mississippi negro Sena tor, hasn’t yet got into the Senate, Mrs. Revels has. At least, she got into the gallery ; and Sumner desired the telegraph to announoe, that as soon as he saw her, he “went for” her, and “waited upon” her. Tank you, sah 1 dough de Lord affiiek you wid a white skin, he gib you a heart as black as anybody’s 1 [.Prowl the Leavenuoi'th (Ka.) Oommon wca th.] lIIRAM R. KKYKLS. THE ANTECEDENTS OF THE NEGRO SENATOR. Most people have heard that for the first time in the history of the United States a colored Senator has been retu-: ed to the halls of Washington, aud they have consequently wondered who and what man ner of man is Senator Hiram 11. Revels. Every one does not know that he is a Leav enworth man, and that while here he was a minister of such scandalous proclivities that his own brethern and flock turned upon him and forced him to seek other fields and pastures r.ew. The outlines of his history we propose to give in as brief a space as possible. Mr. Hiram R. Revels was born in the State of North Carolina, and we first hear of him at St. Louis, where he.succeeded his brother ih the charge of a church, and where he became involved in a desperate church not, wherein he himself was knocked down with a bottle, and in conse quence of which about .fifty arrests were made- For this he was dismissed from the church, and took to school teaching for a living. In 1864 he was again admitted into the church, and came to Leavenworth in 1865. In this city he speedily became, as pastor of the M. E, Church, involved in a dispute with the elders in regard to some alleged misappropriation of the funds of the church. It was at this time that Mr. John Morris, the barber, who now resides on Delaware street, and who is a man of mueh talent, published a pamphlet en titled “A Humbug,” in which he made specific allegation that Revels had plun dered the church ofthe sum of $1,150, and bringing forward proof of the same. For this, Revels, in the month ot June, 1867, brought an action against Morris for libel, which he lost, the jury beingi convinced of the truth of the allegation. This trial was noticed at length in the Commercial of the 23d of June, and the substance of it is contained in the following paragraph cut from our edition of that date : “It is charged that the libel consisted in charging Revels with having appropriated funds of the church. A large number of witnesses testified, and papers, account books, and other documents were offered in evidence. The case was very ably con ducted by the prosecution and defence, and after able and lengthy arguments to the jury, was submitted to them. The jury re tired, and after being out six minutes, re turned a verdict (of not, guilty, thus sus taining the charges as made by the author of ‘AHumbug,’ a little book, the merits of which, it seems, consisted in its being true.” Revels being thus acknowledged as guilty by his own people, left Leavenworth in the fall ot 1867, and removed to Louisville, Kentucky, where, in consequence of a pamphlet published in this place by John Morris, calling attention to his misdeeds, he removed in the fall of 1868 to Natchez, Mississippi. It must have been somewhere about this time that we hear of him at Memphis, but how long he remained there we know Dot. While in that city, however, he assisted in tho character of exhorter at the hangingof ,a man named Moody, who was executed for. murdering a Captain Perry, In this, however, he only anticipated Henry Ward Beecher, Mrs- Stowe, and other remarkableßadicals,who have a sanctimonious relish for the horri ble, and his instincts in this respect can hardly be deemed perverted ,but seem to flow in the legitimate channel. Tho last we hear of the Rev. Mr. Revels is from Mississippi, of which State he is now elected Senator—to which high office ho appears to have been elevated under peculiar circumstances. He obtained no vote atj the first ballot—was afterwards selected as a compromise between Messrs. Mygatt and Flournoy; and he wa3 prin cipally chosen in order to catch the African vote, which in the State of Mississippi has an immense majority. Y/e shall watch the future of this interesting Senator with the same precision with which we have record ed his past career. STATE ITEMS. The small pox has broken out among the negroes in Atlanta. Qeul. Teprv is in Wasbingtirn. The spring term ot Clarke Superior Court opened on Monday at Watkiasviile. Judge Davis presiding. The Southern Watchman advises plan ters to plant corn and clover. Preparations are being made to build an extensive female college on the site of the old hotel at Marietta, Ga. Mr- Ben. Jordan, of Upson county, was shot and mortally wounded, a few days ago, by a negro man named Elbert Den ham. Colonel John Milledge is being spoken of by some friends in Atlanta for United States Senator. Ten shares Atlanta and Gulf Railroad, Bainbridge Extension Bonds, par value SIOO each, sold for $59 25. Thirty shares Georgia Home Insurance Company, Columbus, Ga., par value S3O per share, sold for $32 per share. Central Railroad shares, $115; South western Railroad shares, $93 50. Frank Higgenbotham, of Glynn county, was arrested by the military at the instance of a proclamat on issued by the carpet bag Governor of Florida charging him with killing a man in that State some months since. Mrs. Oates’ burlesque Opera Troupe opened at the Savanna .. Theatre Monday night to a crowded house. Our seaport village is waking ur> at last—there is yet some hope for it. Mr John might find it to his interest to give them one more opportunity to redeem themselves. The City Council of Atlanta is agitating a Fair next fall. John L Hopkins, says the Constitution, is spoken of as the successor of Judge Pope. Mr. James Stewart, a respected citizen of Sumter county, died in Americus on the 3d, aged 78 years. The Brunswick Avpeal say's President Hazlehurst’s annual report shows the Macon & Brunswick Railroad to be making SI,OOO a day since its completion. The Atlanta Era says the alarm iD re gard to meningitis in that city is subsiding —very few eases have proved iatal- The Intelligencer learns that the pros pect of the wheat crop in that section is highly favorable. The mild winter through which we have thus far passed has left a good stand, and the plant looks healthy and vigorous. The amount planted is un usually large. The Rome Courier says it is impossible to conceive of the confusion that now ex ists upon the State Road. The trains miss the connection nearly every day, On one day last week we understand that five freight trains ran off in one day. Parties are in Gainesville making ar rangements to commence work on that end of the second section of the Air-Line Railroad. The Air-Line Eagle says that the corpse of engineersjsurveying the line from Greene ville to Charlotte is composed of high toned gentlemen. We have no comments to make on that corpse. Under the caption of expeditious trans portation, the Albany News says: Our guano, shipped from Savannah twelve days ago, is somewhere en route • The Central and Southwestern cao’t keep up with the guano shipments to Southwest Georgia. A writer in the Brunswick Ay/peal thinks that a caDal through Florida, trom the St. Mary’s river, Georgia, to some point on the Gulf, would create a great revolution in the carrying trade of the Gulf and West ern States, and benefit not only the South, but the whole country. The Thomaston Herald says: “A few days ago Mr. Benjamin Jordan, of this county, went out to his negro quarters to quiet some disturbance between bis bands in regard to the division of some corn, whetr one of the negroes, Elbert Denham, became very much enraged and fired his gun at Mr. Jordan, lodging the contents in his right side. Mr. Jordan was not dead •at last accounts, but he is pronounced mortally wounded. The negro made his escape. Some COO acres of Walton lands were sold on Tuesday, by divers Administrators and Sheriff Ammons, which brought from $4 to $6 per acre. The “wi and lands” lying in different parts of the States—about 2700 acres—belonging to the estate of Wm. W. Nowell, deceased, were sold by the ad ministrator for about S7OO, a mere song, not quite 30 oents per acre. Among these were some valuable lands. Cotton prom a Sand Plantation.— Toe other day one of the manufactories bought a bale of cotton weighing 1,050 lbs. WheD opened it was found to contain 562* lbs. of sand, dust, etc. Adding to this 28 pounds ot bagging and rope, and substract ing from the whole amount, it was found that of the 1050 lbs. only 459* were cotton. Jerusalem! sand as high as choice cotton. Os course buyer will go back on buyer until the packer is found. A sand planta tion, at this lick, will pay immensely, and some owners will yet get into peni tentiaries for such stealing.— Cohtm/ms Sun, NEW SERIES, VOL. XXVIII. NO. 7. The citizens of Newton county are agita ting the building of a road from Coving tin to Macon. The Federal Union states tfiat Judge John W. L. Daniel, an old and respected citizen of Milledgeville, died at Americus on the Ist inst. ’His remains were brought to Milledgeville, and buried with Masonic honors on Thursday last. Five storehouses were (destroyed by fire at West Point, Ga., last week, involving a loss of $30,000, of which but $3,000 had been insured- Believed to have been the work of an incendiary. We understand that a lot of farmers, twenty in all, in and around Forsyth, have agreed among themselves to offer a pre mium worth one hundred dollars for the largest crop of cotton made by any one of t hem on one acre. It is desired that all those who intend competing for the pre mium, should deposit five dollars with Messrs. Merritt & Turner at once, so that there be no delay or mistake about ‘the matter. — Advertiser. How Subscriptions are Obtained.— One of the Radical organs of this city an nounced, a few days ago, with a great flourish of trumpets, a large increase to their subscription lists from the State road. That subscription, we are informed, was obtained under circumstance* like these : An employee would be approached, aod the idea suggested that as the paper belonged to Messrs. Bullock, Blodgett & Cos., they ought to take it. They would subscribe 50c: to sl, When pay-daycomes round, their wages are short $5, a receipt for six months’ subscription taking its place. Verily ! yea, yerily ! — Atlanta Constitution. Quitman. —The Banner says : In the year 1857, a citizen of Brooks county pur chased a negro, and gave his note for SI,OOO as the consideration. Although the negro proved unsound, the purchaser, at various periods anterior to and since the war, made payments on his note, and on last Wednesday visited Quitman, paid over S3OO to the holder of his obligation and carried it off in triumph. The total amount paid was $1,000; aud when we take into consideration the facts that the negro proved unsound, that he was eman cipated by the Government, and all such debts declared null and void, we are of opin ion it can be referred to as an extraordi nary act of honesty in these days of gen eral demoralization and repudiation. New Yorß Cotton Market. New York, February 4, F. M.— | Financial Chronicle.] —COTTON. —By special telegtams received by us to-night from the Southern ports we are in posses sion of the returns showing the'receipts, exports, &e., of cotton for the week end ing this evening, February 4. Fr in the figures thus obtained it appears that the total receipts • for the seven days have rcaohed 104,601 bales (against 104 772 bales last week, 98,851 bales tho previous week, and 88,311 bales three weeks since), making the aggregate since September 1, 1869, up to this date, 1,835,290 bales, against 1,455,183, for the same period in 1868-9, being an increase this season over last season of 380,107 bales. The exports for the week ending this evening reach a total of 57,260 bales, of which 44,138 were for Great Britain and 13,122 bales to tho Continent, while the stocks at all the ports, as made up this even.ng, are now 529,248 bales. The market the past week has been just the reverse of the previous week ; instead of activity there has been unusual quiet, and in place of an improvement in prices we have had a falling market, almost daily. This condition is the result of the large re ceipts reported last Friday night and the continued heavy arrivals daily during this week, together with the unfavorable re ports received from Liverpool and Man chester. In fact, there has been no influ ence to support prices except a general belief among'holders that there must be an upward movement during Ihe spring months as during the two previous sea sons, based on the idea of the small stocks at ard afloat for Great Britain. This.feel ißg is very decided, and gives a strong un dertone to the market, so -that prices yield very slowly. Still, as buyers refuse to op erate without concessions, holders have to give way to effect sales, and the result has been,’he almost daily decline noted above. Saturday last, Middling and Row Middling declined } cent, Ordinary closing at 23}, Good Ordinary at 24}, Low Mid dling 24}, and Middling 25}c. Monday, Or dinary and Good Ordinary were off }c., and Low Middling }c. Wednesday, there was a further decline on Ordinary and Good Or dinary of }- cent, and Low Middling and Middling of } cent. To-day the downward movement was continued, and the close dull, Good Ordinary and Ordinary being i cent, lower, but prices of other grades are nominally unchanged. For forward delivery there has been considerable doing through the woek, but prices are lower, \ The total sales of this description are 11,975 bales (all Low Middling, or on the basis of Low Middling), of which 850 bales were for January, 250 at 24 15 16, and 100 at 24}; 3,250 bales for February, 600 on private terms, 200 at 24}, 200 at 25, 900 at .24}, 200 at 24 9-16, 500 at 24|, 150 at 24}, 300 February 1 st at 24}, and 200 from February 15th to 28th at 25; 2,800 bales for March, 600 on private terms, 750 at 25}, 850 at 24}, 400 at 24} and 200 at 25; 3,475 bales for April, 400 at 25}, 100 at 25, 400 at 25}, 200 at 25}, 1,200 at 25}, 200 at 25}, 250 at 25}, 700 ou private terms, and 25 April Ist at 25 15-16; 450 bales for May, 250 at 25}, and 200 at 25}; 1,350 halos for June, 300 at 26,250 at 25}, 500 at 25}, and 300 on private terms; 100 bales for July at 26}; 100 bales for Febtu ary and March ou private terms; 100 bales for July and August, half each month, at 26} cents. The total sales for immediate delivery this week foot up 7,458 bales (including 182 bales to arrive), of which 4,379 bales were taken by spinners, l 421 bales on speculation, 2,488 bales for export, 170 bales in transit, and the follow ing are the closing quotations : Upland <£• New Florida. Mobile. Orleans. Texas. Orii’ry, $ 1b...22%a 'n%a 23«a O Oral. &ry, ,23%a 24Xa 24;.a L Mlddlmt..24si< 24J<a Utiia 25%:i Middling 25>$a 25%a Helow we give the total safe of Cotton and price of Middlingat this market each uay of the past week : Upland <£- New Florida Mobile. Orleans. Texas. Saturday...2og«...'..:at3ta ?« .a Vexd Monaay.. 2i a 1 uesday... 25 %a 25%a 26 a 2 %a Wedne.**lay.2s%a 25)£a 25% i 26)fa Thursday.. 2 >%u 2S%a 25% u -2f,%,/ F rid ay 25%'i 25* a 23% a 26%a Total sales.—Saturday, 831 ; Monday, 682; Tuesday, 1,195; Wednesday, 2,5(7 ; Thursday, 1,045; Friday, 1,188 bales- Receipt.- -The course and amount of the receipts this week have been very much as we indicated id our last report. Instead cf a falling off, as many seemed to expect, tho movement his been free and liberal, especially at New Orleans, where the largest week of the reason is reported. The figures for the cotniDg week will be less, but our advices report so much cot ton remaining in the South, especially in the Southwest, that the total each week through this month must continue to show a large increase over the same period of last year.- Transit Cotton. —There has been only one small sale ft transit this week, 170 bales, and we have therefore, nothing new to report. Buyers are unwilling to pay the nrices of last week, but hollers are unwilling to accept lower rates. India Crop.—We have received by telegraph from Bombay this week, infor mation of further storms of considerable severity ia the Oomrawuttee district, but the latest advices indicate that but little injury has resulted. A dispatch received to lay states that the crop wil he a “full ouc,” and that the shipments during Feb ruary “are expected to reach 100 00U bales, one-half by the Suez Canal.” We hardly tbink the latter half of this expectation will be realized, even it the shipments reach the figure named. The Effect on Consumption of High Prices for Cotton.—l hat the average price of cotton this season, measured in gold, has been above the p ice for the same period ot last season, is well known to our readers. The influence of this tact upon the question of future rates is evident. Last year the effect of the high values ruling was seen in diminished consump tion. In this country, for instance, the Northern mills consumed, for spinning only, 767,512 bales, against 861,840 bales the previous year; and at present their weekly consumption is still further dimin ished. In Great Britain the consumption of 1869 was 939,019,050 lbs (2,628,460 bales) against 990,197,100 lbs (2,801,940 bales) for 1868. Here is a falling off of 57,178,050 lbs. resulting from the higher prices. The temporary activity at Man chester during late weeks on account of the home demand for goods is evidently lead * ing many to forget the inevitable working [of this natural law. A good illustration of | its force is seen, however, in the following [ table (taken from the annual Liverpool circular of Messrs. Ellison & Haywood) showing hd* high prices for cotton of late years have forced consumers to substitute wool and flax. This table gives the aver age production of cotton, woolen and linen fabrics in Great Britain during the four years preceding the war and the four years ; ending December 31, 1867; , 1856-61 , 1856-61 . tio*ls proluctd . _ _ . fro'a Total lb*. Per cent. Total lb*. Perct . Cotton *88,347,000 71A 827,128,' 00 03 6 Woolen 11*9,698 000 14 5 341070 OHO 18.5 Li' on 169,256,000 13.7 282,131,000 17.9 Total 1,237,301,000 100.0 1.3001139,000 100 0 These figures show that while the out turn of cotton goods underwent a decrease of about 7 per cent, that of woolens expe rienced an increaso of 45 per cent., and that of linens an increase of 31 per cent. Hence the idea (which some entertain, and which we have seen expressed in cir culars), that since the consumption ot cot ton fell off last year there is to that extent an un.-atisfied demand existing which must be supplied this year, is by no means cor rect;. Much of the needed supply was satisfied by the use of other material, and the balance was the result of forced economy of tho poorer classes, whicn noth ing but lower rates can relieve. These suggestions have a special importance on account of the very large stock of cotton which is being accumulated at our ports under the belief which holders entertaiu that prices are to go above 12d. in Liver pool aad absorb it all. We advised our readers many weeks since, in view of the above facts and of the then large pros pective reoeipts, to let Europe have every bale ot'cotton it desired at the ruling rates, aud tne wisdom of that advice has grown more evident every week since. The exports of Cotton this week from New York show an increase over last week, the ti tal reaching -11,884 bales, against 7,789 bales last week. A Man who Eats Bullets. —The Cin cinna.i Enquirer has this report of an in ternet? between the Superintendent of the Cincinnati Police Telegraph and a blonde reporter: Mr. Saunders grew still more furious. He damned energetically, and he informed the young man that he believed he would whip him. The blonde reporter only intimated that he had .every reason to believe, judging from the physical disparity existing be tween them, that Mr. Saunders could do that job if he set about it, and concluded by rt’i-y calmly expressing his belief that Mr. b ounders way an exceedingly bad man. “1 am a bad man,” said Mr. Saunders, “a d—d bad man, and I’ll whip anybody wbo writes such d—d stuff about me-” “I guess I’ll have to publish this as an interview,” said the complacent and self possi - sed ink-slinger. “Ifyou do, d—n you,” said the furious supci ntendent, “111 come down and thrash h—l ut of you.” “Ii that event I very mueh fear, Mr- Sauc iers, that we’ll have to shoot you,” rejoiced the self-possessed and irritating repot ter. “Ob, I’m not afraid of your shooting,” how! and the electrical Saunders; “by G—d, I jus' eat them things—just eat bullets, sir; I'm not afraid of your snooting.” After an interchange of some more cor dial sentiment the parties separated. It has been suggested that Mr. Saunders might, with vrofit to himself, leave off the unrem inerative business of burnishing and oiling telegraphic instruments, and travel through the country as the Great Bullet Masticator. He might, too, by constant applicction, be able to swallow a cannon ball in Jue course of time. The Georgia Railroad and Port Royal Railroad.—Some time since, when the Port Royal Railroad was revived by the present company, a proposition was made by the builders to lease it to the Georgia Railroad after the completion, and let it be run by the latter corporation on condition that a certain annual income should be guaranteed to the owners. It was stated and belioved that after some negotiation the offer had been accepted, and the Georgia Road identified with the enterprise. On yesterday, however, we learned that the announcement on this subject had been premature, and that an arrangement had not yet been effected be tween the two corporations. It appears that the proposition was referred to a special committee which was composed of members of the Directory. On yesterday mnrnine' the Georgia Railroad Board of Directors held a meeting at the office of the company in this city. At this meeting the com-nittee above mentioned made its re port, and after some discussion it was de cided to postpone action upon the proposal until next May, when it will be placed be fore the stockholders oi the company, who will meet here in' convention during that month. A Novelty.—ln the Constitutional Convention of Tennessee, now sitting ia Nashville, there is not a single member whose nativity is beyond Mason and Dixon’s line. Five are from Virginia, five from North Carolina, three from Kentucky, and two from Maryland. The remainder are all natives of Tennessee. What a happy people ! A Convention to frame the or gar ic law which ia to act as the guide board of the future legislation of the State, has in it not a single carpet-bagger to mar the harmony of the body. The Augusta & Hartwell Railroad. —A meeting of the Board of Directors' of the Augusta & Hartwell Railroad, was held in this city yesterday morning. The meeting was held in the handsome rooms of the Company, situated on Ellis stro-t, between Jackson and Mclntosh. There were present the President of the road, Hon. H. R. Casey, the Vice-Presi dent, George D. Chapman, and a pretty full attendance of members of the Direc tory. The proceedings of the mooting wore not made public, but we learn that the exhibits made were very favorable, and th; c every thing seems to indicate an ear ly completion of this great enterprise. A corps of Engineers was organized sometime bince, and seDt out to make a survey of the route. Work was at once commenced, and tho survey has progressed a: rapidly as tha bid weather would per mi', and the engineers are now operating near "Broad river. As soon as the surveyors ha ve c jmpleted their labors and located th: best route, which will have b<»n accom pli -hed by the end of the present month, the. road will be put under contract as ra; idly as possible, and parties interested sta’e that the'completion of the road is cot fidently looked for within the next eighteen months. This appears to us to be a rather smarll time in which to finish a great railroad like this, but we heartily wish that the statement may prove cor rect. The large moneyed interest embarked in tLU enterprise shows conclusively that the ro. J, when completed, forming, as it will, one of the most important links in the gp at air line to the West, will be a re munerative one to the capitalists connect ed with it, and one which will greatly add to the wealth and importance of this city as the great railroad centre of the South. We are glad to learn that the people living ale- g the line of this Road seem to be fuliy alive to the great benefits which it will infer upon them, as is shown in the pr- uiptness manifested by them in the p, yr. ent. of the installments on their _ si. U called in by the Directory. “Mammy” Revels.—lt mast have b e a goodly sight to see the luminous Sunnier seated in the gallery of the Senate chamber talking to “Old Aunt Dinah” Revels. To do it was a part of the char acter he has been playing so many years, and, of course, such an opportunity .of 1 playing this strongest of cards was not to be lost. Fancy the rotund, oily Charles, in : hislnew-fkshioued brass-buttoned icoat and | Beecher tie, sitting side by side with aa i elderly old “Mammy” whose toilette prob ably consisted of a yellow and white linsey woolsey gown with wooden buttons in the back, cut skimp in the skirt, with her • head tied up in a red, white and blue ban dana “handkercher, a pair of dollar bro gans, and copperas-dyed yarn socks on her dainty feet, he/ knitting in hand, and a well-worn cob pipe solacing her. Imagine an old darkey, fresh from the quarter and the control of an army of little ne groes, dressed in their skins, suddenly in vested with all the honors and rank of a Senator s wife, and then believe, if you can that cant could make even Sumner make such an exhibition of himself as he has by being seen with her. It ts about equal to dressing up a gorilla afld int c dacing her at the Court of St: Janus. Sumner, though, must play hu part, it pleases his peord e.—Courier Journal.
