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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.