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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1870)
Chronicle & sentinel. WEDNESDAY MOKNIH6, APRIL 0. Cotton titatei Mechanics’ on<l Agricultural Fair Association- We publish this morning a list ol , Premiums, with regulations governing the j Horticultural exhibition to be held on the grounds of this association on May lJt!i. By that time the buildings and grounds will hsvo assumed a more finished state than they now present. The building in which the exhibition will be held, is al ready under oontract, and will be finished by the first week in May. The entrance gates will also be finished and the other improve ments contemplated will afford every facility for the proper exhibition of fruits, flowers, Ac., and the full enjoyment of visitors. The affair will take place during the Con vention of Stockholders •of the Georgia Railroad, and we look for a large number of visitors from amongst our up country friends. ' The Horticultural exhibition will not be the only attraction our association will offer. An address will be delivered by a dis tinguished orator, and as fruits and flowers will then be in their most abundant aDd luxurious season, we may look forward to a splendid show of both. Under the management of the Associa tion a ball will take place in the evening, for which suitable preparations will be made. A detailed programme of the day will be issued iu a few days, and wc urge upon our hortioultural and fruit and vegetable growing friends to prepare for the occasion. In connection with the above it might be well to state that Mr. P. J. Berckmaos, who is Chairman of the Committee on Premiums, does not intend to exhibit for competition, although he will make a dis play of plants. The Spring Trade. The New York Bulletin says the spring trade thus far has been anything but sat isfactory. It says : “All sections of the country have been amply represented by buyers, who speak hopefully of the con dition of business in the interior, and are apparently intending to buy freely ; but their purchases have been confined to small parcels for supplying immediate wants, and the aggregate of business has been comparatively light. This rule applies even to Southern merchants, who usually buy early and who this season are pre pared to take a larger supply of goods than any period since the war. These are the main elements for an active, healthy trade ; and yet the commission merchants and jobbers universally complain of unsat is' factory sales.” The Bulletin adds : “Certain special causes, however, have contributed to this condition of business, The extreme decline in gold has necessita ted a fall in tho price of cotton and of some other raw materials, and has induc ed an expectation of a genera! decline in prices; and, although very many classes of goods have been reduced to tho extent legitimately required by the fall in the premium, yet purchases have been made cautiously, under a supposition that gold might deoline still further. Tho agitation of measures in Congress looking to the refunding of tho debt and the quiok pre <jipitation of specie payments—backed as ihese proposals have been by the urgent pressure of tho Adminstration—has pro duced a vague idea that by some incom prehensible magio we might bo suddenly Drought to the verge of the specie basis. This idea, wholly preposterous to reflect ing observers, has produced a stubborn eaution among country buyers and has wrought incalculable mischief to business.” John Bull Ahead- This country has been somewhat famous of late years for its great shows and fairs. We have had premiums offered for the biggest calf, the heaviest hog and the fat test baby, and many hearts have been made glad by the winning of these glittering prizos. London now takes the lead iu this department oflatter day progress. We see it stated that there is to be a great Bar maid show there with a grand prize for the most beautiful. What a fluttering this announcement will make in the tender hearts of the deli cate creatures whose charms will be ex hibited to tho gaze of admiring thousands ! What WilTTie Do ! Iu a ease brought before him last fall, when the question as to who was the lawful Sheriff of Warren county was directly and distinctly made, Judge Andrews, after full argument and a patient investigation of tho law and the facts, decided that Chap Norris was not the lawful Sheriff of that county. In January last General Torry sent this saino Chap Norris, escorted by a large body of soldiors, to the county of Warren, with an order reciting that Norris was the lawful Shoriff of the county, and ejecting from office Jack Raley, who had been, by the decision of J udgo Andrews, declared tho lawful Shoriff. Sinoe that time Norris, backed by the military foroe placed by Terry at his dis posal, has been excroising the functions of Sheriff, and, if reports be true, of a Mag istrate also, in issuing and serving war rants, and making arrests in various parts of the oonnty. He is now, by force, and through tho agency of Terry’s bayonets, acting Sheriff, and as such must be, by the terms of Terry's order, respected aDd obeyed. Tho spring term of Warren Court meets next Monday, and Judge Andrews will either liavo to reverse his own decision, deliberately and carefully made, or violate the imperial edict of dictator Terry de claring Norris to be the lawful Sheriff. It aeems to us that the Judge is in a tight place—in other words, that Chap Norris and Terry have got a “corner on him,” from which he will hardly be able to ex tricate him-elf except by some brilliant coup de main. The Judge is a remarkably sagacious gentleman, and we have faith iu his ability to avoid a contretemps which would he fatal to his continued position ou the Bench. Without attempting to advise, wc ven ture to suggest that an adjournment of Warren Court for a few months might afford an escape from Terry’s vengeance. We have heard that such a course will, it is highly probable, be taken by the Judge, and tiuat the Court will be adjourned to the 4th Monday iu May next. How Mow ! The Columbus San says that the Sheriff of Muscogee count; applied recently to Gen. Terry for instructions in relation to his duty in the levy and sale of property, under execution founded on contracts made prior to the first of J une, 1866, and that Terry replied by letter that he does not reoofui*e the validity of the “Stay Resolution” ot’ the recent session of the Legislature, beoau.se he considers it to be in contravention of the Constitution of the United States. The Judge of the Superior Court of that circuit has held the Stay law operative and binding, and if the Sheriff proceeds to enforce old fi. Ja’s. will doubtless stop biui by writ of injunction. This will bring about a conflict of authority between (Uc Radical civil authorities of the State and the Radical military usurper, which promises to be of considerable interest to the public. We learn that all, or nearly all of the Jndges of the Superior Courts have rec ognised the validity of the action of the Legislature, and refused to take any action whatever in oases falling within the pro visions of the new stay law. Gen. Terry's repudiation of that action will place Sheriffs and other levying officers in rather a per plexing condition. Tug Farmeb'hTax. —The Commission er of Internal Revenue decides that farm ers are required to make a return of pro duce sold withiu. the year, but not required to return produce until the same is sold. Representative Reeves has had futtber correspondence with the Bureau of Internal Revenue, which adheres to its decisioo heretofore announced that farm ers selling their produce from wagons or etails in cities must pay the special license tax of ten dollars as produce brokers. There are indications that the Committee of Ways and Means will strike out this legal feature from the internal revenue bill. '! Itc Supreme Court. The December term of this Court, after a session of nearly four months finished, the call of the docket on Wednesday last. The:c were about one butdtei and filly cases on the docket, and the labors physi cal and mental peiformed by the judges, have been onerous and exhausting. So far as the value of this service to the country is concerned, wc confess, that with a few exceptions, the public good would have been best promoted if the decisions of this term had never been pronounced. The truth Ls, the majority of the court decide cases not upon principle or prece dent, but from partizan bias and prejudice. In a few cases where Judge V arner has delivered the decisions, we find -an ad herence to legal principles and such an illustration of the science of the law as to remind us forcibly of the earlier and better days of this tribunal. . We venture to assert that in less than five years, every decision made at this term with the dissent of Judge Warner will he reversed, and that this action will be in response to the almost unanimous voice of the bar of the State. One of the greatest objections to Radicalism is that it invades every branch of the governmen t and re quire.- officials to betray their trusts or lose their places. Oar Supreme Court Judges, or at least two of them, have shown themselves folly qualified to sit as Radical judges. They are quick to con form their decisions to the behests of their party, and place the whole power of the court at the command of party necessity. Another Farce. Judge Erskine, of the United States Circuit Court, has ordered General Terry to show cause before him why a writ ot Habeas Corpus should not be granted on the application of John Stephens, recently arrested in Atlanta by order of Terry, and committed to a military prison- If Terry deigns to notice this order ot Judge Erskine—which we are inclined to doubt-he will no doubt answer that, under the reconstruction laws and his own order, he is the Supreme Ruler in the State, and that, until Georgia reconstruction is perfected anew, all civil officers and courts must exercise their duties and powers in subordination to his august will. Valuable Publication. The Atlanta Constitution will, in a few days, publish in pamphlet form the head notes of tho decisions of the Supreme Court at its recent session, with a copious index. This will be a great convenience to the Bar and to the country, for although lawyers may, and do entertain little respect for these decisions as true exposi tions of the legal points involved, they know that, for the time beiDg, they are the laws of the land, and as such must be respected and enforced. The price of the publication is only one dollar, and tho book will be sent by mail on the receipt of that sum. Address Con stitution office, Atlanta, Ga. Money or Blood. The Ohio Governor of South Carolina, is organizing a battalion of Winchester riflemen for the county of Edgefield, South Carolina- Five companies meet, the de mand of Mendoza’s military judgment as requisite for military purposes. This bat talion of four hundred men, can deliver fivehunund or more death-shots in an hour. Five hundred per day was the ut most limit reached by the Spaniard with five times the number of ipen. The Radi cal progross is really delightful. Scott in South Carolina, Bullock in Georgia, and Holden in North Carolina, are all anxious for war. While the peaceful farmers, shocked and intimidated, contract their engagements; and trade languishing, and dull, drags a slow length along ; and capi talists again grow chary of money lending, doubtful of dubious times and draw close the purse strings and seal them in double cast iron boxes: these valiant promoters of reconstruction cry out, the combat thickeDS ! On ye brave 1 Who rush for greenbacks, or the grave ; with the full hope and confident expectation that the loyal will catch their spirit and sing joyfully the wild refrain : Lay down the shovel and hoe! Take up the pistol and the gun ! No more hard work in the cotton row ? March! by the bugle and the drum! “Let us have peace,” and plunder, or glorious war is re-echoed from' the circumference to the centre of progres sive Radicalism. The Northwest and South. A writer who seems to have been care fully observing the relative condition of the Northwestern and the Southern States, finds that the South enjoys overwhelming advantages which he says are daily realiz ed. He says the Northwestern States are burdened with heavy debts, and the peo ple have no means of paying off the incum brances on their property. Sheriffs are everywhere busy despoiling (he farmer and mortgages are being foreclosed. We oopy : The wheat crop of the Western States can not bear the cost of railway transpor tation to Eastern citiesjarmers cannot hire laborers, lands are lessened in value; greenbackn and gold, nearly equalized in value, arc equally scarce. In these facts wc discover reasons that irupei Western laborers and farmers to seek homes and employment in the South. While lands in the West are lessened, hero they are augmented in value. While retrogression distinguishes the fortunes of the richest farming districts of the Northern Valiey of the Mississippi, the Southern flourishes as never before. Chicago grows solely because its railway system is constantly extended. The country near Chicago gains nothing in resources or population. Therefore, a tide of immigration from tho Northwest turns towards the South. We are only amazed that it was Dot long ago diverted from Kansas, Nevada, and remote new States, as inhospitable in climate as tho South is attractive delightful and productive. The change comes at last. A benignant fortune at length smiles upon once blighted States, and a future is expanded before us more brilliant than the destiny which dreamers and enthusiasts once beheld in the consummation of the wildest dreams of Southern patriotism. ATTRACTIVE PACTS. The tide of immigration once turned in this direction cannot be diverted or dammed up. The attractiveness of the South is stronger thaD present repellaut foroes, actively developed in the North, and driving hither vast numbers of people. That law of Mississippi which exempts SSOOO worth of property from execution sale, will attract every bankrupted farmer of the Northwest even as exemption from taxation will draw trades people from all directions, and purchasers of goods and ware to Memphis from every portion of the South. The iUtHiT Spirit. —Among the per sonals in the “Collegian” a journal pub lished at Athens.,by students of -the Dni versaty, we find the following: "N. J. Bussey, class of 69, is confirm ing his degree of A. B. in the ‘Eagle and Phoenix' Factory of Columbus. We be lieve f.bat not one of his classmates has shown muri good sense than he, in the choice ot a busin*«i. Almost every speech, by a Southern young mat,, Jepfecates our dependence on Northern uianuilictafes; laments that the South is, in this respect', buts child at the apron strings of New Engiaud. Yet they do not seem to know that the only way by which we are to be emancipated from the dependence on Yankee spindles is for educated young men to undertake the aaperv.-ion of Southern Factories. With talent and well-taught ski’! to preside over the latter, Georgia might soon have a Lowell. All honor, then, to those who are willing to serve their country in this most important department—the building up of Southern manufactories.” Buadlet IN Lick.—The News says that this irrepressible leader of the re spectable portion of the Republican party in Savannah is in luck. We learn that, owing to the scarcity of intelligent negroes in our sister State, he has been appointed Assistant Keeper of ths Insane Asylum at Columbia, South Carolina, with a salary of $2,000 per annum, with pickings from $15,000 expenditures per month. We hope soon to hear of his retirement to the classic shades of Boston, as his income as Senator from Chatham county and the collections taken up by him at the numer ous political meetings which he has managed during the past four years, with his present berth, must soon give him a competency. Door Virginia.. Gen. Imbodcn and Col. 'Thomas S. Flournoy, of Virginia, publish a card in the New York Iribune, denying the state ment made in that paper that the Virgin ia Legislature intended to recall its ratifica tion of the XVth amendment. This is all very well, for we hardly sup pose that such action could have been se riously contemplated by any respectable number of the white men of that State. But these gentlemen go farther cud say : “On the contrary we want the XYth amendment adopted because its adaption will impose upon the whole country a uni form suffrage." We can scarcely believe that such a declaration is endorsed by the free white man of the Old Dominion. We are greatly mistaken if the true men of that grand oid Commonwealth want the XVtir amendment adopted for any pur whatever. Like her Southern sisters Vir ginia may be willing to submit to the amendment because she has not the poweT to resist, but farther than this we cannot believe her noble patriotic people can be made to go. A New Cabinet. The New York Herald is decidedly in favor of a radical change in General Grant’s Cabinet. The chief objection, it says, to the present Cabinet is that it is entirely sectional. The South should have a representative in the national administra tion, and to secure this it suggests the name of Jas. L. Orr, of South Carolina. We suggest that if this Southerner is to take a place in the Cabinet, his associates should be selected with a view to con geniality as well as homogeneity, and to make this perfect, we should have But ler and Kelly and Ashley, and Holden and Revels to sit around the Council board with this “distinguished son of the South.” When Rogues 1 all Out, Ac. Lieutenant General Sherman, he of Atlanta and Columbia fame, has raised the ire of the redoubtable Illinois State rights rebel. John A. Logan, Chairman of the House Committee on Military Affairs. The immediate occasion for Logan’s wrath was the letter written by Sherman to Senator Wilson on the army bill. The Illinois rebel made a forious onslaught upon Sherman in the House, which, ac cording to our Washington advices, was received with marked demonstrations ot sympathy and approbation- The truth is, Sherman has, during and since the war, on several occasions expressed decided contempt for Logan as a military chief tain. This has cut Logan to the quick, and he was ready to seize upon any pre text to make a thrust at his old enemy. It is a nice quarrel as it stands, and we don’t care a straw who whips. We indulge the hope that, as the war has commenced, developments may be made on both sides which will show up these Buckram heroes in their true colors. News For Tea Drinkers* The science of chemistry in its applica tion to practical subjects is making as tounding developements in relation to the impurities and adulterations which exist in almost every article of food which re quires skill or )£bor in i's preparation for the use of man. The irrepressible Yankee was the first to bring this practice to the perfection of a regular system. Years ago beans, onions, and other artie’es were used to adulterate flour —sanj was added to sugar—capsicum, strichniuc, tobacco juice and water, with the addition of a little pure spirit made “the common whiskey of the country”— maple wood was ingeniously cut and fash ioned to the similitude of Dutmegsand shoe pegs whittled at each end made pretty good oats. More recently we have candies, confections, crushed sugar, and the finest grades of flour improved by the addition of thirty-three per cent of terra alba. Shoes and boots are improved by the use of paper for their soles, and our clothing manufactured from old rags, cotton waste, cordage, &c. John C.iinaman has not been slow to learn something of our cute Yankee tricks. Englishmen and Americans are very fond of Tea, the staple production of the worshippers of Sosh. The great demand for this beverage has stimulated the cu pidity and sharpened tho ingenuity of our \siatie friends, and they have succeeded in manufacturing an article of rich break fast Tea, much superior in kind and delicacy of flavor to that made from the Tea plant. These fine Teas are made especially for the English and American markets, and their superior quality and fine bouquet, has induced a celebrated London , chemist to make au analyses of their constituent elements. This analyses has just been give through the London Press to the English public. Several specimens taken from cargoes just in port from China were submitted to rigid ana lyses, and were found to consist of “ dried silkworms , dust, dirt, and a solution of gum, the flavor being imported by tea sweepings.” The dried worms variety is largely sold in the United States, and we doubt not that many of our readers will sip this morning with considerable gusto their worm Tea, and bless from their inmost hearts the inquiring mind that first made the delicious discovery. A New Dodge. —ls the corruptionists cannot succeed in forcing a ratification of tho Grant-Baez treaty, they will make a bold dash for a party of pleasure at the ex pense of the government. The movement dow upon the part of the friends of the treaty, is to have a committee consisting of tho members of both Houses, to be sent to the Island at once upon a United States vessel to reconnoitre and examine tho coun try and its incumbrances. This will meet with opposition ia the Senate as it should. Enough money has been spent iu this way. More than a million of the Secret Service fund is missing, and bills have been paid by the government of various kinds in con nection with the Grant-Baez job. The people of this country are opposed to shouldering the negroes of San Domingo, and a debt of fifteen or twenty million of dollars at the same time, and both the treaty and the party of pleasure should be killed by a decided vote. — I’hila Age. University of V irginia.— We have received a catalogue of this Institution for the present year. There are reported 464 students, of whom Virginia has 179; Maryland 36 ; Alabama and Vorth Caro lina 34 each : Mississippi 33 ; Tennessee 27; South Carolina 24 ; Georgia 25 ; Texas 22; Kentucky 14 ; Louisiana 8 ; Florida 6 ; Arkansas 4; 4c. The Faculty numbers 27—many of them men of na tional reputation. Os the schools or studies, there are in Lat'm 165 ; Greek 99; Modern Languages 137 ; Mathe matics 176 ; Nataral Philosophy 100; Chemistry 106 j Medicine 57; Moral Philosophy S2 ; Law 109 History and Literature 102 ; Engineering aD4 Archi tecture 43; Agricultural Chemistry 21. A student usually has three studies. Board, washing, lodging, lights, incidental fees, &e., about $276, not including ciothing. books, pocket money, 4c. Tuition, lectures, £e., about SIOO addi tional. Total expenses about £4OQ, be sides clothing and travel, for the yearly session ofnitie months, from Ist Oct-, to 2nd July. Bailer's negro candidate for West Point has been rejected. He is not of the re quired age. Some other Charles Sumner Wilson, of a dusky color, must be found in Massachusetts. We suppose that is not dffiicult. The Rice Chop.—The freshet which prevailed for some time past in the Sa vannah, Altamaha and Ogeechee rivers, has seriously interfered with planting operations, and in many cases interfered materially with the rice prospect for the coining year. Coming just at a time when all the preparations had been made for planting and ia the majority of cases the seed already sown, it has put baek opera tions at least three weeks. In all the plantations the fields have been and are still under water, and if the rivers do not fall this week, the damage to the present riee will be incalculable. We know on the Savannah, Altamaha and Ogeechee rivers, that the rice crop which ought now to be in the ground and fairly up, will be put back to an alarming extent by the preval ence of the recent freshets. Savannah Newt. The City Council and tlie Rail road Petitions. Much iuterest was manifested on the streets yesterday on the probable action in the CityCouDcil in relation to the applica tions of the Port Royal Railroad Company and the Augusta and Summerville Rail road Company for permission to lay their tracks and run steam locomotives through Walker street from East Boundary to Washington street. So faras we are able to ascertain the drift of public sentiment on this subject, it is almost unanimous against the granting of the privileges asked for. Our experience so far with locjmotivcs and long trains of cars running through populous and narrow streets of the city, is not of such a charac ter as to induce a desire to 6ee these priv ileges extended beyond the thoroughfares, where by past improvident city legislation they are now located. The road in Washington street has caused much feel ing and led to litigation, which, before it ends, may lead to serious difficulties. We should he slow to condemn another street to such uses unless there was as a pressing, overruling necessity for such action. Walker street is one of the most pleas ant and desirable localities in the city for residences. Many of our oldest and most respectable citizens live on this street, and have built large an l beautiful residences, and improved their grounds to a very con siderable extent. Besides, the trustees of the orphan asylum are about to commence the construction ot anew and handsome edifice upon this street, which when com pleted will be an ornament to this city • The City Council last year expended a large sum in enlarging and improving the City Hospital loeited on this street, and the constant running of locomotives and long trains of cars so close to those valu able public charities would seriously im! pair their .usefulness and destroy their value. We are, and have always been strongly in favor of siding and promoting to a rea sonable extent, all enterprises which promise to increase our trade and enlarge our business facilities. If there was no other convenient and practicable route by which the Port Royal Road could enter the city and make easy connexions with the existing roads—if tbfe occupation of the line of Walker street was a great pub lic necesssity, we should be willing to grant it the right of way through this impor tant thoroughfare. But no such necessity exists. The road can reach and run into the city by a route quite as short and ac cessible and which will make its connex ions with the Georgia and other roads quite as convenient as the one proposed through Walker street. The true and best route would be by the line of South Boundary street, to some point between Centre and McKinnie streets, and thence through the unsettled portions of that part of the city to the Union Depot In regard to the application of the Street Railroad for the privilege of using steam power in Walker street, the same objec tions exist" and apply with equal force. Walker street should not be subjected to the inconvenience and annoyance which would result from the use of 3team along its line. The fair grounds can be reached quite as conveniently by the line of Wat kins street, and for more than half the distance between East Boundary and Washington street the city owns the prop erty on the south side of the street. Be sides, this street is already covered with the location of the j ail and parade ground on its southern line, and lower down the white and colored cemeteries are located, which will forever prevent the property in that location from becoming valuable or desirable for residences. We can perceive no serious objection to granting the Street Road the privilege of usiDg steam on this street at such times and tor such purposes as may be necessary to aid and iacilitate the successful con summation of the Cotton States’ Fair en terprise. Farther than this we do not think Council ought to go. [From, the JV. O. Picayune.] Currency at the South. The New York Bulletin , in a lengthy article under the above heading, gives cur rency to the views advanced by several other Northern journals, concerning the hoarding of money at the South. This, it says, “is confirmed by the statements of well informed business men of that section, and also by the fact that of the many mil lion that have goDe Southward during the movements of the past two and the present cotton crops, but little has been returned to the North, and still less deposited in banks throughout the South.” Why should it bo presumed that vast quantities of currency are hoarded by the people of tho States south of Mason and Dixon’s line is hard to imagine, unless we sup pose that writers on this subject have taken it up without stopping to inquire in to the actual facts. As the Bulletin says, at the close of the late war, the currency of the South consisted almost exclusively of Confederate paper, which had become so depreciated that its value was more nom inal than real. A large part of the specie in the South had been shipped to other countries to help defray the expenses in cident to the war, so that on the re-es tablishment of commercial relations with other sections we had no currency of any kind, except a limited quantity of U. S. legal tender notes. The widespread ruin which existed on the renewal of peace, and the immense sums requisite to ena ble the people to make the neceseaiy re pairs, and purchase agricultural imple ments, etc., that they might resume their labors, besides the payment of the ne groes under the new system brought about by their emancipation, have absorbed a much greater part of the crops up to this time than is generally supposed. A glance at the statistics of the shipments of pro duce from the West to this port will show also that no small part of our crops have gone to swell the profits of the Western farmer and others engaged in the produc tion and marketing of the grain and pro vision crops of the West. An idea of the extent of our payments to other sections may be gained from the faGt that exchange between New Orleans and New York has not been below the shipping point but once this season, and that only for a short period. In other words, the demand for New York exchange to liquidate Northern and Western bal ances ha 9 been such as to keep the rates unusually high, notwithstanding the large accumulations of onr bankers and others of currency at New York from sales of cotton, foreign exohange, etc. There can be no doubt that the quantity of United States and national bank notes in the Southern States is large, but there are laws which govern its detention that would, probably, operate with the same effect in any other part of the country, similarly : circumstanced. It does not necessarily follow that the people of the Southern ■ States are hoarding their mtaus. It has . never beep a leading trait of the negro j to economize, and, with very few excep j tions, we doubt if any of the freedmen j ever go through the year without hav j ing spent ail their previous earnings. Among the planters, there is a feel j ing decidedly averse to habits of luxurious ease and wastefulness, such as character ized many of them in times of slavery, but this feeling is not carried so far as to cause them to pursue the short-sighted police* bearding their profits, a policy from whirip fofip .pould expect to derive no benefit whatever, bgt tyhich would naturally lead to considerable lossea from the failure to take advantage of' some of the numerous cbanecs offered for -afe and remunerative investment With our limit ed banking facilities, a much larger volame of currency is necessary for the furtherance of copapicrce and trade. This is especially the oaue lo the furai districts, where there are few or no banks, the difference being the facility with which exonangesars made in cities through means of bank checks and bills of exchange, which not only serve in the stead of a money circulation, but greatly expedite the transfer of values. The amount of currency per capita necessary throughout the South from the siowoesa with which it circulates is consequently ipuch larger than is needed at the North, ami this has led to the impression that there is con siderable idle capital in this section. An other argument put forward in support of this opinion is the disappointment expe rienced by the merchants of New York and other Northern cities in not meeting with the brisk Southern trade in necessi ties and luxuries, such as were formerly demanded. But this merely serves to show that the merchants of the North -cere mistaken in their calculations as to the course of the Southern trade, which run on the cheaper and oommoner styles of goods mow durable, and leaving the purchaser the difference between the price of his purchases and the finer classes, which he had previously been in the habit of buying, to assist in cultivating a larger scope of lands or to invest in any other way to his advantage. The fact is the disposi tion of our planters to invest in impiove ments at or near home, is becoming more and more apparent, and as those improve ments progress, and the industry of the South becomes more diversified, it will be found that onr purchases from the North and Went will be proportionably lessened ; more especially will this be the case with the former. A Fish Story. —Almost everybody knows that in olden times there were “some fish” in the section of the world now known as South Carotins, in proof of which wo have only to refer to the large bones, Aa-, found in the phosphate beds of the State, and call attention to the trade-mark of the Carolina fertilizer, but no one believed that there was a live speci men extant; yet there is, if the story of a gentleman related to the Savannah Adver tiser be not a “freak of fancy.” He stated that on last Monday noon, while in a boat in Wright’s river, in South Carolina, near the mouth of the Savannah, “the slight built craft was suddenly, and without any premonitory sign, lifted up, as by some immense roller, throwing the crew out of their seats and completely scaring the life out of them. The shock was so sudden that danger existed for a second of the boat turning over, but luckily it righted again and sank back into the water, which foamed like breakers.” The hero of the advent u j was pretty badly seared, but kept his tye upon the hideous monster which had tossed his boat, and then made its way lazily out of the river into the low rushes on the bank. It was, said he, “a creature almost indescrib able, though its general appearance is fixed in my mind’s eye too indellibly for pleas ant after thought. The beast, fish, or reptile, whatever species of God’s creation it might be classed under, was of a tawny, greenish color, growing more definite to ward the head. The body of the creature wa3 seal-shaped, apparently twenty feet long, and as thick as the carcass of the largest sized elephant. From this trunk spruDg forth the most remarkable feature of the phenomenon, a long, curved, swan like neck, large enough apparently to have taken a man in whole, terminated by a head and jaws and similar to that of an immense boa constrictor, the eyes fishy, yet possessing feiocity enough in their ex pression to make a man treble. The back of the beast was oeeply ridged, the ridges running from the base of the neck to the extreme end of the tail, and several inches deep. An immense tail, shaped some thing like an alligator’s, and three times longer, so it seemed, than the body, com pleted the tout ensemble of this wonderful anomaly. The creature navigated by feet, resembling the forefeet of an alligator, and its progress on land was slow.” As soon as the beast disappeared, and the crew recovered from their surprise, they pulled to Savannah as hastily as possible, and then perhaps, rushed off to Atlanta to have introduced in the Legislature a bill giving them the “exclusive right” over the beast, with power to dig, mine and remove from his carcass ail of the “phosphate” material therein contained. No use in this, however. That “fish” belongs to South Carolina; and its indirect pecuniary advantage to the sable members of the next Legislature must not be lost sight of. Correspondence or the Chronicle & Sentinel. Appling, Ga., March 30th, 1870. Editors Chronicle & Sentinel: The Spring Term of Columbia Superior Courfbommenced its session here on Mon day morning and adjourned to-day at noon. Very little business was disposed of during tho term, owing mainly to the fact that Judge Gibson refused to take aetion in any case falling within tho in hibition of the stay resolution of the mon grel Legislature. Among the members of the Bar in at tendance upon the Court, I noticed Col. C. Snead, Capt. Roswell King, F. 11. Miller, Capt. G. T. Barnes and Gen. Wright from your city; Generals Toombs and Dubose, and Judge Reese, from Washington; Col. Pottle from Warrenton, C. 11. Strother from Lincolnton, and Solicitor General Prescott, besides the local Bar, Messrs. Moore, Schockley and White. TLc-re are quite a number of cases on the various dockets, and I learn that the number of cases returned to the present term is unusually large, growing out of the lact that parties were compelled to bring suit on all old causes of action in order to evade the provisions ot the law which required suits to be brought in such cases by the first day of January last. There is not, perhaps, much litigation in these old cases, but they cumber the dockets and retard action iu cases which require promptness and dispatch. So much has been said and written by Radical slander-mongers about the bad condition of society in this oounty, and the alleged law'essness of its cit:zens, that I was greatly astonished to find that not a single criminal case was tried during the term, and that but one or two trivial misdemeanor cases were all that were on the criminal docket. The truth is, that the great body of the people of this coun ty arc ns orderly, quiet, peaceful and law abiding as any portion of the State. It is true that a few cases of violence have occurred within the last four or five years, but in almost every instance the evidence showed that they were in no wise attribu’ table to a lawless spirit on the part of the community, but were rather the result of unfortunate circumstances which no de gree of prudence or caution could have prevented. Such, lor instance, was the case of double homicide at Deariog last Christmas, where a party of friends unex pectedly and unfortunately became en gaged iu a broil, when pistols and guns were hurridly seized, and two persons killed. Columbia county has been so often and so outrageously slandered by the At lanta slander-mill, that many good people in remote sections of the State begin to fear that there must be some truth in these oft reported charges. It is with a view to correct such misapprehensions, if any really exist, that I reter to the mat ter now, and as a simple act of justice to a much wroDged and vilely slandered people. In my travel through the county I have been surprised at the evidences of recuper ation and the beginning of prosperity which meet the eye on erery hand. Where a few years since miles upon miles of abandoned farms, decayed fences, pine thickets and broom sedge fields scarred and seamed with gaping gullies, were seen on every load, we find now farm houses repaired, fences rebui.t, sapling thickets cut down and cleared up, oldfields subjected to the ploughshare, and an air of thrift, industry and general prosperity indicated in ail the surroundings. I remember taking a trip through the county in the spring of 1866, when decay and desolation, and gloom and despondency hung over the whole laDd, and the once rich fields of the Uchee and the big and little Kiokee, where in the years before, broad acres of waving com and the fleeoy locks of our great staple covered the bills aDd valleys of this splendid coun ty. Now somewhat of ihe old time ap pearance ot the couoty is resumed. The people look more cheerful, and the coun try looks more prosperous aDd everything indicates that the crisis has passed—that, Phoenix-like, these courageous and in dustrious people have risen from the ashes of the war and are onGe more on the high road to prosperity and fertune. I was pleased to learn from interviews with leading planters thit greater atten tion will be paid to the cultivation of corn this year than has been done smee the close of the war. Most persoas are determined to plant enough for afull supply, and some of the best lands will be devoted to tfie cultivation of this meat useful and ne cessary cereal. Large ouaatities of com mercial fertilisers' hiVPh§ e P purchased, and much care and later expended in a more perfect breaking aad preparation of the soil than has hitherto been the custom in this county. The coatiuued heavy rains of the present month has somewhat re tarded preparations for planting, but I find that the 'oorn crop is nearly all well in the ground, and tfcst the planting of cot ton will begin within the next eight op ten days. The fruit crop is nearly if not quite all destroyed. A few peaches are left, but it is the opinion of our mfS observant plan ters that these will be defective and prob ably drop before maturity. Much interest is felt here in the success of the Augusta k Hart veil Railroad, and many inquiries made as to the character of the parties from the ?ort Royal Road, who seem to have the piesent direction of affairs. There can be no doubt of the great benefits this county will derive from the completion of the road, and from what I see and hear the people along the line are willing to make libera contributions it they can have any reasontble assurance of its ultimate success I aotice the Presi dent of the road, Dr- Catey, was present during court, and seemet to be setive in his exertions in behalf of the enterprise. Augusta should lend a liberal assistance to this important work. W. Drake is terribly affrontej that Georgia has not a truly repubiicac form of gov ernment, and prescribes bayonets as a means of procuring the same. It smells to Heaven that such rogues as this should be iD the Senate. Put hia to-day before the lawful suffragans of Missouri, and where would he be? Were he a real Sena tor his malignity would be lad ; but, sur reptitious as he is, the v«ry child of dis franchisement, it is nauseous to bear hi m From the Mobile Register, March 26. The Cuban Emissaries. ARETVALOF MAJOR CESTEDES AT MOBILE— WHAT HE SAYS ABOUT CUBA—HIS OPIN ION OF GEN. GRANT. Major Jose de Annas Cespedes, a mem ber of Gen. Quesada’s staff, and a nephew of Gen, Cespedes, arrived iD this city yes terday, and is stopping at the Battle nouse. The Major is a young officer of pleasing address, courteous, affiable and zealously devoted to the cause of his be loved isle. He had a plantation near Havana, where he resided. He was also editor of the Siglo, which was the organ of the Cuban patriots, and which on ac count of successive prosecutions by the Spanish auhorities for articles offensive to that Government, was compelled to sus pend about a year before the war commenc ed. The Major at once went into active ser vice under the flag so bravely defended by his illustrious uncle, and became a staff officer with Gen. Quesada "•ime over from Cuba with Quesuda some three weeks ago. Sailing from near Guanaja in a Cuban vessel, and running the guantiet of Spanish blockaders, they landed on a certain key or island, from whence they sailed in a Brit ish schooner to Nassau, and thence in another to San Augustine, Fla. As is well known, Quesada proceeded North to com mence the work of raising supplies for the Cuban army. .Major Cespedes remains in the South until Quesada returns on his way to Cuba, which he expects to do in a very short time, and he is confident of be ing able to land there with more than one hundred taousand guns. Ilia resources are abundant, and he intends to ask no TaT°!n States Government. The Cuban leaders are sanguine of success, and of their ability to accomplish it out of their own resources. At the begioniDg they expected aid from us, and were not inimi cal to the idea of annexation, but the utter apathy exhibited by the administration and the obstacles it has thrown in their way, has destroyed that feeling of affinity en tirely, and driven them to the extreme measure of devastating the island as they proceed, to prevent the Spaniards from fol.owing and finding a subsistence where they cculd not garrison. The Major and his General left the Cu ban army in good health, but from this until fall the Spaniards have got in the climate a still deadlier foe. The months in which Europeans can campaign in Cuba have just closed, and the Spanish army will be on the defensive until fall. This will give an advantage to the Cubans, who, accustomed to the climate, can keep up uuintermitting operations. The con duct of the Administration at Washington has thoroughly disgusted the Cuban lead ers. They attribute President Grant’s course to faults of the head rather than of the heart. As Major Cespedes expresses it, Grant is like a man trying to play chess who does not understand the game. Eng land is at the other side of the board, the Alabama claims are the stake. Grant is afraid to make a move in the direction of Cuba for fear England will chockmate him. A few years’ practice will probably improve his diplomacy, butbythat time Cuba will be free and in business for herself, and with nobody ia Washington to thank for it either. The Sue* Canal. The following is an extract from a pri vate letter recently written by a leading American engineer at Port Said. His views regarding the success and capacity of the canal are entitled to consideration : “I have just passed over the great Suez Canal. We left Suez yesterday morning, after passing a day there. I cannot say the canal, commercially, is a success. Financially, so far as the present stock holders are concerned, it cannot be. It has cost in cash 400,000,000 francs (SBO,- 000,000), which, for one hundred miles of canal, is too large a sum to pay dividends upon. If the company charge a very high rate for vessels passing through it would deter maDy from coming this way. Only light freights could afford it and that would f'urnLh but small tonnage. Cotton from India is the great bulk of the return traffic, which would continue to go round the Cape of Good Hope. The canal will become the joint property of all the Governments interested in the trade that would pass through it, they paying the stockholders a fair price for the canal, and thereafter make it a public highway, charging only sufficient tolls to keep it in good working condition, which I am pleased to find will require very much less than represented. I thought the drifting sand would continue to fill up the canal. This is not the case. The entire canal, or nearly so, is excavated below the level of the country on either side, hence the embankments are very wide and high, and serve as a protection against the drifting sand, as well as a buiwark strong enough to prevent breaches in the embankments. The harbors at either end are admirably constructed for the accommodation of the immense busi ness the canal is destined to do. The water is at present twenty-two feet throughout, and will soon be twenty-five, with a width of 1,600 feet, and more in many places. There is not a lock of any description on the canal, from the Medi terraean to the Red Sea, or Gulf of Suez. There is no obstruction of any kind. The water of the two soas is about the same height—the tides affeoting the canal only for the distanco of a few miles at either end. 1 repoat, that in my judgment, as a canal and railroad man, this canal is a great suceess, and will mark an era in the history of the world. I regret our Gov ernment did not order oae or more vessels of war to represent us here. All other nations were thus represented at the open ing. We had some fine ships very near here.” Bank Stock Taxable.—The United States Supreme Court Monday of the pres ent week decided, the Chief Justice dis senting, that the property in a bank called a share is distinct from the capital of a bank, and that such a share as the proper ty of the shareholder may be taxed although the stock of the bank may be all invested in United States securities. The law requiring the bank officials to day the tax does not make it a tax on or against its stoox. A national bank as an instru ment of the General Government may, within certain limits be liable to pay such a tax ; otherwise such an instrument might be so created as to invade the rights ot a State. These banks are subject to State laws in respect of the tax on the shares of shareholders, and they may be compelled to pay it. They could bs garnisheed for a personal debt of a stocknolder, and to make them similiary responsible for this tax is the virtual effeot of the State law. The Republic of Liberia.—A report was read before the American Colonization Society in New York on Sunday, March 20, showing that from the first departure of colored men from this country for Libe ria, who were shipped at New York in 1820, the tide of emigration increased every year until up to the present date the number of colonists landed on its shores amounted to 20,000 freedmen and unfortunates rescued from the captured slave-traders by our war vessels. During the last four years 2,400 persons have been sent thither, and nearly twice as many ap plications were made by those desirous of returning to the land of their fathers.— The population of Liberia amounts to near ly 600,000, all doing well, enjoying the rights and privileges of a republic, whose constitution is framed after that of' the United States. These colored people have a college with thirty-three students at present, and there are fifty churches in the country. Now the society holds 900 applications for passage to the new land, and although it owns a ship and a build ing in Washington, yet needs $50,000 to carry on the good work of colonizing Africa with intelligent negroes. Sailing of the Steam Ship South Carolina.—This comodious and elegantly ippointed iron steam ship left her dock yesterday afternoon with a fair amount of freight, including 714 bales of cotton, and about forty passengers, mostly from .Florida, Aiken, C. C., and the West, even as far as Chattanooga, was also represented on her sriendid promenade deck as she steamed off. Both the South Carolina and her oonsort, the splendid Tennessee, have ex perienced some of the worst of the bad weather which has prevailed on the coast during the past three months, and both ships have come out of the raging elements in safety and go and condition. In size, construction and material these iron steam shi-'s have no superiors on the Atlantic coast; and the admirable arrangement of the cabin? and saloons, which are all on deck and newly furnished, are justly at tracting the attention of the traveling pub lic. Another conspicuous convenience in these popular vessels is their draft of water, which enables either to cross Charleston Bar at mean low tide. With this import ant advantage the agents are able to fix the hour ot sailing, without regard to high water or low water, and they announce that the hour of departure will be five o’clock in the afternoon during the month of April, which enables travelers leaving Augusta, Aiken or Columbia by the morning trains to reach Charleston in good time and make close connection, and gives to the Florida traveler a day in Charleston, di ning on board at 6 P. M. With the advent of April we may ex pect genial weather and smooth seas, and sojourners in our sunny South seeking their Northern homes, and wanting a comfortable way pointed out to journey by, we reooommend them to take Charleston enrout, stop and see the historic points in and around tbecity, and take passage on one ot the splendid New York sseam fleet for home. —Charleston Courier April I*6 A fir orgla Sheriff and a Carolina Con stable. Some time ago the Chronicle & Sen tinel published an account of the trou bles in Edgefield county. South Caro lina, and the arrival of negro militia at the Court House. The following article, from tho Albany News, gives the history of the young man Lanier who was arrested and confined by the negroes at that time on a charge of bushwhacking : Some time last spring a negro was killed in a melee, at Edgefield Court House, S. C. Mr. T. B. Lanier, a clever, peaceful and good citizen, being in the crowd at the time, was accused by the negroes of the killing. Soon thereafter, the State Con stable, Hubbard, we believe, marohed an improvised army of negro militia into Edgefield, arrested Mr. Lanier, threw him into jail, and bound him in chains; declared martial law, and for some weeks guarded, taunted and threatened their one-armed chained prisoner- He was finally taken out by habeas corjms, and there being no proof that he was a murderer, he was dis charged on bail. By the advice of his triends and bonds men, Mr. Lanier came to Southwestern Georgia last fall, and has been the guest, most of the time, of his many acquain tances, friends and kinsmen in Early, Miller, Baker, Mitchell and Dougherty. Early in February, we think it was, he came to Albany, and stopped at the Town’s House, and soon thereafter called at our office, and gave us a history of the events in Edgefield, and his exile. He spoke of returning and standing his trial, and sought our counsel as to the propriety of doing so. He also asked our opinion as to the chances of his being detected and arrested in Albany, at the same time informing us that he had stated all the facts to his friend Kemp, one of the proprietors of the Town’s House. He visited our office several times, and examined our Carolina exchanges to see if any reward was offered for his ap prehension. There seems to have been none at that time. We missed him some three or four weeks ago, and heard no more of him tilt the an nouncement that Mr. Kemp and the scala wag Sheriff of Edgefield, by virtue of a demand from Gov. Scott on Gov. Bullock, had arrested him at Damascus, in Early county, and carried him to Columbia, 8. C. Mr. Lanier was a gallant Confederate soldier, and lostaD arm in the service. He is well connected, and bears a good name; owns property in Edgefield, and has many friends. Daring his exile in South western Georgia he found friends, and many who were natives of Edgefield— among them Mr. Kemp—and until it was known that a reward 0f55,000 was offered for his apprehension, his asylum was un discovered, and the protecting negis of un tempted lricndship was thrown around him. lhe Early County News of the 25th, says : “We are informed that Mr. T. B. La nier, who is oharged with having killed a negro in Edgefie.J District, S. C., was ar rested at Damascus (in the 6th District of Early) on Friday morning last, by the Sheriff of Dougherty county. This Sher iff (Kemp by name) was accompanied by the Scalawag Sheriff of Edgefield, who claimed to have a demand from Radical Gov. Scott, of South Carolina, on Bull head, of Georgia, for this man. The poor man Lanier, who lost an arm in the Con federate service, and has been stopping in this and adjoining counties for several months past, has been eariied by the Doughorty county Sheriff to the Carolina line, where ho will be placed in the hands of tho Edgefield Sheriff, and by him in the jail of said district, there to await a trial before a negro jury, and, probably, a negro Judge. There is no doubt but the prisoner was betrayed, and thus placed in the hands of said officers, who are doing the dirty job for the sake of the $5,000 reward of fered for the prisoner by Scott. The meanest feature of this affair may be sur mised, when we say, with proof positive, that this Sheriff Kemp was not only in the confidence of Mr. Lanier, but held valu ables belonging to him when stopping in Albany soon after his arrival in this sec tion. This Sheriff Kemp promised to give Mr. Lanier warning, should any at tempt be made looking to bis arrest—but instead of doing this, he falsified his promise, and, for the sake of a littlg money, would have the unfortunate one-armed brave Confederate’s n«ck broke. Hell is entirely too good and pleasant a place for Kemp. But as it is impossible to find words sufficiently strong and damning for us to express our contempt for Kemp, for the present we’ll let h m slide with this simple exposure of the facts in the case, feeling confident that they will damn him in the eyes of all true and goed men and women.” High Life in New York. The New York World is serving up the details of a disreputable and disgusting ball which took place in the Everett Rooms in New York last Thursday night. The Bal de la Grand Duchessee is a dis graceful commentary on the morals of the people of New York. The World says of it: A few respectable women had ventured to come in and 6tay until the proceeding had reached a pitch too much for them to endure. The outside ruffians who lined all sides of the rooms were be coming exceedingly noisy with the help of wine, and every female who showed daring enough to kick her heels up into her part ner’s face, was loudly cheered. The storm increased in force and became a hurricane. Dancing according to the order was aban doned, and the musicians were compelled to play what was called for by the largest number of voices. Here was a hr.lf drunk en female with a crowd of a hundred men surrounding her and calling for the Can- Can. She was elad in tights and her shoulders completely bare. She was slight in figure, but her la;civious manners drew a host of gaping men wherever she went. The band was playing the “Shoo Fly” tunc, and her heels were keeping time, one or the other constantly as high as her headj When the music ceased she stopped dancing, but was urged to go on, the gentry around picking up the air and baUine out, while she was pressed to dance oa. A man held out a $2 bill and asked her to take it and dance. A deputy sheriff whipped out five dollars more, but she looked upon it with scorn. At last they got tbe song go ing, she began to sing herself, and then launched out again, as if she had turned wild, throwing first one heel in the air and then the other. The eight policemen, un der Captain Burden, had to exert every power to keep the crowd spread out as well as possible ami prevent close packing. Soon the girl in tight costume bad joined another about her own size, who wore a green satin dress, and the two were dancing together in the other end of the room. Next to being brother-in-law to the President of the United States, tbe posi tion of cousin to tbe Queen of Great Britain is the most profitable thing a young man without means can embark in. The Duke of Cambridge, a stout, bald-headed gentleman, with the largest beard in all England, has, as a grandson of George 111, an allowance 0f560,000 a year out of the taxes; $25 000 a year as Ranger of St. James, the Green and Hyde Parks ; $12,- 500 a year as Ranger ot Richmond Park ; as Field Marshal Commanding the Army he has£l6 Bs. 9d. or $76 90 a day, which is $37,068 50 per annum. Lastly, he has $40,000 a year as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, of the Royal Horse Artillery, of the Royal Engineers, and of the 60th R_fl.es, and $5,000 as Governor of Wool wich Military Academy. These sums make an aggregate of $179,568 50, which is the annual pay of the Queen’s cousin.— Courier-Journal. Scenes at the Trial of Prince Pierre Bonaparte.—The High Court of Justice now sitting at Tours, like every other tribunal in France, finds itself in vaded by the political rancor so con spicuous in French politics. The lawyers and the witnesses exhibit this rancor—the former in their speeches, the latter in their testimony. One of the lawyers for the prosecution, on the third day of the trial, applied offensive language to Prince Pierre, when the latter turning upon him “announced him and his party as a fac tion.” Fouvielle, tbe champion of Noir when shot, and the chief wimess agaiDßt the Prince, rose during the progress of the trial and in great excitement called the latter “an assassin,” for which he was sentenced to ten days’ confinement, as being in ooDtempt of court. One of the counsel for the prosecution (M. FJouquct) commented with great asperity upon the character of the Prince “as a man of vio lence,” which so greatly exasperated the latter that he uttered an exclamation of rage, for which he was severely reprimand- i ed by the court.— Whig. A Fenian Address. —The Council of the Fenian Brotherhood, of which Mr. JohD Savage is chief executive, has pre pared ao address which says in substance that financially the Brotherhood is grow ing stronger, and the Couneii is confident that the grand object of Fenianism will be attained finally ; nor can the Brotherhood or any of its members ever join any or ganization or man in an attack on Canada, or on any other territory on this side of the Atlantic, except with the consent of the United States ; that the organization as now constituted shall never be dissolved until the object of Fenianism shall have been fully attained ; that every concession made by the British Ministry to Ireland proves that Eogland has been In the wrong and Ireland in the right. The su preme desire of every Irish nationalist, the address affirms, is to restore peace, prosperity and happiness to his country; that national salvation can never be achieved except through self-government, and that this oannot be attained until Ireland shall be no longer subject to Great Britain. Custom House Swearing-The Trade Value of French.—One of the shrewd est men in Wall street was reoently waited on by a Custom House broker, who asked him to make an oath to the value of an importation made to the order of his bank house. The invoice was in French. i haven’t imported anything,” said the banker. “Your house has, though,” said the banker, “and somebody has got to swear to its value.” What is it ? Let’s see your document! Tableau enhmle ; that must be Gallic. Lets see, huile means oil, doesn’t it? and tableau must be table, and the whole put together must be t able oil. A case of it is worth-how much?- a hundred dollars? Well, here goes for a Custqm House oath, to the amount of a hundred dollars;” and he swore. Some days after the broker entered tho bank in a sweat. He rushed up to the banker and said to him nervously “Mr C., there is trouble down to the Custom House about your oath. Your valuation is declared by the appraisers to be fraud ulent. That table oil is said to be worth $3,000, and you swore that it was worth only s\oo. There’s h—l to pay. Come down right off.” The banker went; was confronted with his affidavit, and the evidence that the importation was a valuable painting, act ually worth $3,000, which a gentleman travelling in Europe had purchased and had sent home to the care of the banking bouse. "Tableaux, en huile means oil paintiDg, does it?” said C. “Well, I would have sworn it meant table oil—and, indeed, I did swear to it. But it is not necessary for me to say that I don’t know ten words of French.” Does Collector Grinnell know as many ? -N. Y. Sun. Special Despatch to the London Dai'y Tele graph. The Bourbon Duel. THE MEETING OF MONTPENSIER AND PRINCE HENRY—THE PENALTY OF OBSTINACY— WAS NAPOLEON AT THE BOTTOM OF THE QUARREL? The greatest excitement has been caused in this city by the fatal result of a duel which was fought this morning, at eleven o’clock, at the Artillery Practice ground, outside Madrid. The combatants were the Duke de Montpensier and Prince Henry of Bourbon. The Duke’s seconds were two general officers and one of his aides-de-camp, holding the military rank of Colonel. Three Republican Deputies acted as the seconds of Prince Henry, who won the first shot, as well as choice of weapons and ground. The distance was ten paces. On first firing, the Prince missed his antagonist, who, returning the shot, also tired without effect. Prince Henry again missed, and was slightly wounded by the Duke’s second shot, the bullet first striking his pistol. Prince Henry then fired a third time, and his ball grazed the Duke’s cheek. The turn for the Duke to fire now came again, and his aim was deadly, the Prince being struck full in the forehead, and instantaneously killed. Seeing the latal effect of his shot, the Duke exclaimed, “My God! what have I done? His children shall not be orphans—they shall be my children.’.’ The Duke de Montpensier and his seconds are still at liberty in Madrid, the police having no evidence on which to arrest them. The cause of the duel was a violent and insulting letter, which Prince Henry addressed to the Duke, calling him a Jesuit conspirator, and a bloated French pastry-cook. A political intrigue, fomen ted by the French government, is at the same time talked about in connection with the affair. All persons on the ground are said to have behaved well. After the Duke bad fired twice the seconds wished the duel to terminate; but the Prince, nettled by his wound, insisted that the encount r should proceed. Though it is acknowledged that the Duke de Montpensher maintained his reputation for calm valor and generosity, he has, nevertheless, lost ground, by this deplorable catastrophe, in his candidature for the Spanish throne. Already there is an ominous outcry, and the people threaten to revive the tumults of 1808. PARTICULARS OF THE DUEL—HOW THE NEWS WAS RECEIVED IN PARIS. Le Gaulois of yesterday gives the fol lowing details: On the 7th of March Don Enrique do Bourbon, after having written several pamphlets in which the Duke de Mont pensier was the object of unsparing attack, published in the Madrid journals an arti cle (the preceding letter) in which the claims of the Duke to the throne of Spain were severely criticised. When this article appeared the Duke de Montpensier was in Madrid. He felt it to be impossible, notwithstanding the advice that was given him, to allow such outrageous insults to pass unnoticed. The preliminaries were all gone through, and finally a meeting was fixed for Saturday last. The duel was fought in the open country, in a field about 200 metres distant from the little town of Alcoreon, which is situate about eight kilometres from Madrid. We are well acquainted with this part of the euvirona of Madrid. It presents a moat dreary aspect—a‘ perfectly barren plain, where not a tree, not a house, not a blade of grass, especially at this season, is to be seen. eye can perceive nothing but interminable fields sown with barley or wheat, and to which the arid nature of the soil imparts a dusty hue. The town or village of Alcoreon is like all the other aldeas of Old Castile and La Manoha —a group of some fifty houses built of earth, burnt by the sun, the surface of which crumbles away at the first gust of wind or the first shower of rain. The church is the only stone edifice in the place. The inn where combatants refresh themselves when these meetings are arranged for Alcoreon (which is fre quently selected as a site for duels, and whither the wounded are conveyed when thejr injuries are too severe to allow of their immediate return to Madrid), is little more than a mud hovel like the others. It was there that the body of Don Enrique was taken after the duel. On the morning of the 12th, the Duke de Montpensier, accompanied by Lieutenant- Generals Cordova and Alaminos—the first Director-General of Infantry, and the other Chief of the Division in garrison at Madrid—his seconds, repaired to Aloor con in a landau. A surgeon accompanied them. Don Enrique de Bourbon, on his part, was accompanied by two Republi cans—Senors Santa Maria and Ortiz, the latter Deputy for Seville—and a surgeon, Senor Rubio. According to the arrange ments previously agreed upon, the adver saries were to place themselves at first ten metres apart, and were to draw nearer each other one metre after each fire, until one of them should be placed hors de combat. It was decided by lot which of them should fire first. Chance favored Don Enrique, who fired at ten metres distance without hitting the Duke. The latter replied with a like result. The distance between them was diminished to nine metres. Shots were exchanged in this position, but neither combatant was struck. They were then placed within eight metres. Don Enriquo each time fired first, and this time his ball grazed the Duke’s clothing. The latter fired in his turn, and his adversary fell dead without uttering a cry He was dead. The Duke de Mont oensier, serious ly affected by the events of the duel and its catastrophe, then lost the sang froid which he had displayed during the en counter, and his condition became such that the surgeon was twice obliged to bleed him- The news reached Paris on Saturday evening; and we now proceed to describe what has occurred here. As soon as the news of the death of his brother reached Don Francisco d’Assisses, that Prince sent to his nephew, the son of Prince Enrique, who is on duty in the gar rison of Madrid, the following despatch : Paris. s—Evening. My Dear Nephew—You know how much 1 feel the misfortune with which we have been visited. If it can afford any consolation, know that from this time you will find in me the paternal affection which you have lost, and whioh I desire to re place. Francisco d’Assisses. The young Duke replied : My Dear Uncle—l am in desolation. I know not what to do- Advise Enrigue and« Bourbon The King, Don Francisco, reolied to his appeal, so touching in its simplicity: Paris. Perform your duty. Attend the funeral, and then come at once to Paris. My arms are open to you. Don Francisco scDt for the daughters of his deceased brother from the school where they were residim?, and by degrees broke to them tbe mournfal intelligence of their father’s death. The funeral of Prinoe Enrique occured on Sunday, and provoked no manifestation in Madrid- THE CAUBE OF THE DUEL. The following is a translation of the letter from the late Don Henry of Bourbon, which was the cause of the fatal duel. The letter appeared in the Epoca of Thursday, the 10th inst. TO THE MONTPENBIERIBTB. It is due to my honor to break silence when the report has been put into circula tion since the arrival of the Duke Mont pensier at Madrid that I am daetardized, or in submissive relations with him, as if he were a conquering hero who is to bind all men behind his chariot. The report is as malevolently calumnious and as iniquitous as the report which makes the orowning of Antonio L by the distinguished Gen. Pnm depend on a deposit of millions as payment of the ser vice. Os the illustrious President of the Coun cil of Ministers it is not necessary to pro claim what, to his honor, nobody is igno rant of, and what is proved by his decisive wor*, whioh I also should not be obliged to repeat, if there was not a Montpen sierist interest concerned in forgetting them : “1, That I am, and shall be while I live, the most decided political enemy of rhe French Duke; 2, that there is no mo tive, difficulty, intrigue, or violence which oa /l , w f?^ ea profouu.ie-t contempt which his person inspires me wit L —a most just feeling, which, on account of his political .luffoonci", sue.-y man of worth experiences in g»-n-r and every good Spaniard in particular.” It matters not to mo how I provoke the anger and underhand vindictive designs of those who have degraded themselves by kissing, while they weigh it, Mantpensier tst money. L an emigrant and laborer fer liberalism at Paris in the time of N&vaez and Gon zales Bravo, speak respecting this Mont pejpjer question with knowledge. this Prince, as crafty as his Jesuitical ancestors, whoso infamous conduct is so c * described in the history of Franoe, would have been proclaimed King in the waters of Cadiz if an illustrious comrade of mine in the navy had not refused to stain bis uniform by breaking discipline, and had not repelled with as much honor as dignity the greatest treason known to modern times. Mercenaries say that Montpensier is a perfect being, the iris of peace, and god of goodness ! Be it so; but whatever blood has been shed, and, perhaps, will be shed, before his complete disappearance, tails on this pretender’s head. A bad mode of lift ing up a crown lallen to earth. The liberalism of Montpensier, instigated by the fever of making himself king. is so selt-intorested that the terrible lesson is de served whioh is sometimes imposed by the justice of indignant nations. 1 am a Spaniard, and I feel the noble sentiMßta of my country. \\ henever on sbij board I passed within ° . ,ralt ar, I used to exclaim, W hen shall we becompletely Spaniards?” And whenever I pass in front of the august monument of the 2d of May, I repeat, t we tc entirely Spaniards?” in 18l»8, when my father instigated the rising of the valiant population of Madrid, the armed invasion against our country was the cause. To-day it is the hypocritical, Jesuitical, and suborning invasion of the Orlcanists against ourcountry—so wearied out, so disenoaanted, and so riddled with graptshot by its government. Hani ily, the glorious shades of Daviz and Velarde and of the martyrs of the Carral have not yet disappeared, and they still remain present to the hcarc of every good Spaniard. Montpensier represents the knot of the Orleanist conspiracy against the Emperor Napoleon lll.—a consuiracy into which certain Spaniards of rank have entered. Nevertheless, let these conspirators know that if the imperial dynasty fall the Orleans family would not bo the heirs, but Roche fort, or, what is the same thing, the French republic. Let them know, also, that in Spain the illustrious Espartcro is tho man of prestige and the object of national veneration, and by no means the inflated French pastry oook ! Enrique de Borbon. March 7, 1870. Paris Correspondence London Daily News. PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF PRINCE HENRY. The fatal duel between Don Henry of Bourbon, and the Duke of Montpen sier will not, I apprehend, oonduco to the success of the survivor in his candidature for the Spanish throne. No detailed ac count of the duel between the royal kins men has yet reached Paris. The Gaulois, whioh I expected would have had the full est aooount, preserves the most complete silence. This paper is now the organ of the Montpensier party, and its reticence may be taken as a sign of momentary em barrassment. Don Henry was the eldest brother of Francis d’Assise, the husband whom Louis Philippe gave to Isabella. His father, Francis de Paula, was the youngest child of Charles IV., and the daughter of a Bourbon Grand Duke of Tuscany. When a mere lad, he escaped from Madrid to control the Mexican insur rection, and had actually embarked at Cadiz for the New World when he was arrested. He afterwards married the Princess Charlotte of Naples, who stood bo aiuoh in the way of M. Guizot during tho negotiations on the Spanish marriages. Don Henry inherited the independent character of both his parents. lie and Don Francisco were brought up in tho Lycee Henry IV., along with the sons of Louis Philippe. His father and mother intended to have married him to Isabella. But Louis Philippe caused him to be set aside for Francisco. Having been person ality acquainted with the deceased Prince, I do not write about him on mere hcresay. THE PENALTY OF ROYAL BIRTH. I never met a man who struggled hard against the vices of hereditary or gai ization. His intellect seconded his as pirations very imperfectly. Though far from stupid, he used to say, with some truth, of his brain, that it was like wet timber which none of his sacred tire could light up into ablaze, or even into a dull constant fire. He frequently betrayed a painful consciousness of these mental im perfections, which he said was the penalty royal families pay to nature for emancipa ting them from the ordinary conditions of humanity. When he found himself in the company of intellectual men he hardly opened his lips to speak. Last summer I remember meeting him at a joyous dinner, at whioh were General Klapka, James Fazy, a renowned dramatic author, a French wit, and some celebrated Social ists- Everyone laughed and talked and argued except Don Henry. Somebody asked him why he did not also throw his. idea into the current of general circula tion. “Alas,” he said, “it would be pre sumption forme, born as I was, to speak before these whose ancestors won lor them the capacity to think like men.” LOOKING FOR A “YANKEE” WIFE. In pursuance of his Republican ideas, he was very desirous shortly before he left Paris of finding an American wife. His friends were negotiating a marriage be tween him and a great Western heiress, when he was called to Madrid last sum mer. A CURIOUS PRESENTIMENT. Before leaving Paris, the Prince called upon a Boston lady who had promi.-ed to make up the match, and said, putting his finger on his forehead, “Miss must not refuse any other offer for me, for I have a presentiment that before very long a bullet will cure the fevers of this poor, at dent brain. lam so convinced that a violent death stares mo in the face, as to beg that you will transfer your friendship to my poor little girl, whom I have been obliged to leave in a convent in the Fau bourg St. Germain.” Prinoe Henry o f Bourbon was in his forty-fourth year. He was a widower, and leaves four children. His eldest son is a lieutenant in the Span ish army and now with his regiment in the Phillippine Islands. FACTS ABOUT MONTPENSIER. A letter in tbe Constitutionnel, dated March 10, gives the following particulars relating to the sojourn in that capital of the Duke de Montpensier, which, whatever exception maybe taken to the spirit in which they aro written, cannot fail to be interesting at the present moment: The Mootpensier cause experiences al ternative ups and downs which are worked by speculators at the Bourse. The other day the funds rose to 23. 80 upon the strength of news favorable to his candida ture. Yesterday thoy closed heavily at 23. 30, owing to reports of obstacles in high places. But the Duke de Montpensier is not a man to be discouraged by such diffi culties. He considers himself as the neces sary, the providential man, and as the King designated by the revolution. His friends go about repeating that sooner or later, by the logic of events, the leaders of the revolution will have no other resource but to come to him. But the Duke him self is impatient for a prompt solution, be cause, he says, delay will render his posi tion difficult and even inextricable. Meanwhile, he affects great simplicity in his life in Madrid. Ha goes out frequent ly on foot accompanied by a single friend. I met him the other day going up six pairs of stairs to a photographer’s to have bis portrait taken. In the studio he noticed two portraits by a young French artist, M RougevoD, painted for the next Paris exhibition, and made some remarks upon them, showing that he is a competent a/i critio. His charity, more or less ealegh ted, is very extensive, and takes many formß. Every operative out of work who calls at his house, gets two little coins. He makes large distributions of food and money to neeessitious families. A striking proof that his residence at Madrid must De very expensive, is that he has just negotiated at the Bourse drafts on Lon don for £15,000 sterling. He is, moreover, co-operating with M. Santa Anna, the pro prietor of the Correspondeneia, with a view to build an entire faubourg of Madrid for the exclusive accommodation of the working classes. The Duke’s house is be sieged every day by crowds of Deputies, journalists, place hunters, &c. M. Vig nais, the son-in-law of General O’Donnell, has made the Duke a present of the mar shal’s baton w. ich was given him by sub scription after the war in Africa. You must not, however, suppose that tbe testi monies of sympathy for the Duke do MoDt pensier are unanimous. The moderate press, whether (jarlist or Republican, has lately assumed an attitude of irreconcila ble opposition with renewed ardor. The Iberia, the organ of the Progressist party, and more especially of General Prim, after a long period of reserve, has returned to its old ways. In fact, if we accept the Madrid tradesmen, who want a settlement of some kind, and would like to make a king of the Duke de Montpensier because he is ready to hand, and .a few command ants of the national militia who have been recruited by the Prinoes’ friends, the pop ulation of the capital is not only indiffer ent, but hostile. It is announced that the Duke will shortly return to Seville, and it is still said he means to publish a “true” history of the Revolution of September, with extensive schedules- You will not have failed to remark from the telegrams that Don Henry’s two sec* onds were Republicans.
