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WKDXKSIHY MOK.MNti, SEPTEMBER'.’!.
Very Much Mixed-
Will our fricnas of the Augusta Chroni- I
oi.b & Sentinel sound their fog bell and )
let ns know exactly where they stand on j
the question of electing eligible or in- |
eligible representatives to Congress I Per- j
haps our own brain may be a little mud- |
died, but they really appear to as to be i
fighting on both sides.— Savannah Eepub- j
Uean.
As the Ckboxk i.e & Sentinel never !
gets befogged, politically, we have no
need of a “fog hell,” and hence we are un
able to wake up our sleepy neighbor.
The course of this paper was explicitly
announced in our leader of the 3d instant i
We have not abated one jot or tittle of j
what we then said. On the contrary, we I
are more thoroughly convinced, after read- '
ingthe strictures of some of the Demo
cratic press upon that article, that our
position is invulnerable, and our argument
unanswerable:
As the Republican has evidently been
“nodding” during the absence of its
editor-in-chief, and has not perhaps seen
the article we refer to, we will, to oblige
the loeeem tenens, briefly re-state our po
sition.
We are opposed to the nomination of
candidates for either State or lederal
offices who are ineligible under the provis
ions of the XfVth amendment.
Wo are opposed to the nomination o
any one for Congress whose only recom
inundation is that he can swallow the test
oath, or who has been relieved from its
exactions.
We are in favor of nominating the
truest, ablest and most patriotic citizens in
the several districts for Congressional
honors who are eligible under the 14th
Amendment without regard to the fact
whether they can or cannot take the test
oath.
We trust the Republican will have no
trouble in ascertaining now our position
without tbo assistance of a “fog belL"
While on this subject—will the Repub
lican pardon us for propounding a few
questions ?
Did the Republican insist pending tho
election in this State for members of the
doth Congress upon the selection of can
didates who were eligible under tho law
then in force?
Did the Republican insist in 18C8 when
nominations wore being ruado for the 41st
Congress upon the selection of candidates
who were eligible under the 14th Amend
ment, and who could also tahe the lest
oath ?
Will the Republican tell us why it is
that in 1870 the selection of candidates
who aro eligible under tho 14th Amend
ment, and who can tako the test oath is in
sisted upon as necessary and imperative,
whilosuch rcquiremontH were not made a
sine qua non iu the previous elections ?
We feel quite sure that the Republican
hits some good reason for this change in its
nourse, and respectfuly ask to ho advised
thereon.
Tlie Legislature.
The action of this body for tbo last ten
days has been a disgrace to the State. The
vicious system of “bolting” has hecomo
ho fully developed that bnrdly a question
is now acted upon, which docs not produce
a bolt on tho part ofthoso in the minority.
Tho llouso iu frequently left without a
quorum and members draw full pay while
lounging in tho beer saloons and other
places of public amusement. Tho public
business has been so often and openly dis
regarded that tho House found it neces
sary to adopt a rule imposing a fine of
eighteen dollars for absence from roll call.
This is a disgrace to members and a stain
upon tho Legislature. If .members oan
not afford to attend to their official duties
they should resigu and let tho people el-eot
men who will bo willing to devote their
time to the public service.
[fit ba truo that membors are satisfied
that their holding over the forty days al
lowed by the Constitution is an unlawful
usurpation thoy ought to have tho honesty
and courage to adjourn sine, die and stop tho
exorbitant and rnoro than useless expenses
which their oonlinued sessions involve.
As matters now aro they aro little better
than a mob, and tho sooner thoy disperse
the hotter it will be for them and for the
people of tho Gtatc.
• Let us Have Peace.
Tho Demooratio State Convention ro
fused to take action or advise any course
to bo adopted by tho party in regard to
tho question of eligibility. Tho aotion of
the Convention was concurred in by tho
entire press of tho State, and unanimously
approved by tho peoplo. If tho minority
of tho Executive Committee, which met
in Atlanta two weeks after tho Convention
adjourned, had not undertaken to revise
the aotion of that body—if they had been
content to let a good work alone wo should
have had no distraction in tho party—no
oriminations aud recriminations—no cruol
and unjust suspicions of improper motives,
and no open warfare upon a largo portion
of tho party, who have neither said or
done anything iu opposition to tho actiou
of tho Conr ‘'ntion or tho platform of the
party.
This tire-brand of eligibility has boen
thrown into tho canvass by tho imprudent
and uncalled for action of a few gentlemen
—clever and patriotic if you ploase—but
who in no sense can claim to bo fair
exponents of the popular sentiment upon
tho subject which they bring prominently
into the caavass. We give these gontlo
ruen credit for good and patriotic motives,
but tho result has showu that their pru
dence aud discretion is not abovo just
criticism. Having, without just cause,
thrown this exciting and disorganizing
issue into the canvass, their friends seek to
make concurrence in the views they pre
sent a test of party fealty. Thoso who
insist that this is a more matter of expe
diency in deciding upon which the larges 1
latitude is to be allowed in the severaj
districts, arc charged with being disor.
ganizers and faetionists, and some of the
moro rabid of the Committee’s friends
insist that this latter class shall bo read
out of and refused participations iu the
triumphs and honors of the party. The
motives of as good men as there '■
are in the h——a, i
the charge openly made that those lead
ing gentlemen who refuse to follow the
dictation ot the minority of the Commit
tee are influenced in their conduct by
personal ambition. Judge Stephens, than
whom no truer, or more patriotic citizen
o»n be found in the party, is charged with
having been controlled in his judgment by
his ambition for a seat in Congress. The ;
same charge has been insinuated against
other gentlemen who fail to acknowledge
the wisdom ot the Committee’s action.
We protest against such conduct as
ruinous to the party, and to the whole
btate. If, upon mere questions of party
axpcdieacy, every member of tho party
is to be compelled to submit to the direc
tion and dictation of a minority of the
Executive Committee, the party organiza
tion cannot be preserved. Honest and
honorable gentlemen will not consent to be
stultified in this way. They claim for
themselves nothing more than they are
willing to acoord to others—the right, in
mere matters of policy, to obey the dictates
of their own consciences. If they are
denied this right, then the party organiza
tion is an unmitigated tyranny, to which
they will not submit.
These gentlemen who differ from the
minority of the Executive Committee upon
the question of selecting candidates who
arc eligible under the law, have made no
war on tho Committee or its friends-
Upon this matter they “agree to disagree,”
without calling in question the purity of
the motives, or the patriotism of those who
differ lrom them, They havo not called
hard names —they have made no mean
insinuations —they have impngned no
motives, nor have they questioned the
integrity ot those who oppose them.
Whatever of split, or of discord there is
now in the party, is not fairly attributable
to them, They feel, however, that an
unjust and unprovoked attack has been
made upon them, through the denuncia
tions heaped upon Mr. Stephens, and they
indignantly resent this ungenerous con
duct.
A clamor has been raised for the resig
nation of Mr. Stephens. It appears that
the committee has never yet organized,
and benoe that no legal selection cf a
chairman has been made. The committee
will be soon called together for the purpose
of organizing, and the selection of a chair
man. Judge Stephens is the man who
should be selected. This is eminently due
to him when the recent course pursued
against him is takeo into consideration,
lie Las been cruelly and most unfairly
assailed. The people, in whose interest
alone Mr. Stephens has acted, should now
sustain him. He may cot be willing to
accept the place now. Upon this point we
have no direct information. But we insist
that whether he acoept or not, it is due to
him and the public sentiment of the State,
that the position should be tendered to
him.
Inconsistent.
When the people of Georgia were called
upon to nominate candidates for the 40th
Congress thero was not a single Demo
cratic paper in the State which insisted
upon the selection of candidates who were
not ineligible. So far as we know there
was not a Democratic candidate in the !
State who wag selected because of his
eligibility, and if we are not mistaken, not j
one of them were eligible under the con
stitution and laws then in force.
Two Democrats were elected. Neither
of them were eligible. One labored un
der the disabilities of the 14th amendment,
the other could not take the tost oath.
Both of these Democrats were allowed to
take their seats—their disabilities having
been first removed by the House. It is
well known that in the 40th Congress
there were but a mere handful of Demo
crats—less than forty, all told. Yet a
House of Representatives, overwhelmingly
Radical, admitted the two Democrats from
Georgia. One of them had held high rank
in the Confederate army, and what was,
in Radical eyes, much worse, he had been
educated at West Point. He was elected
as a Democrat, on a Democratic ticket,
by Democratic votes, and in opposition to
a regularly nominated Radical candidate.
The other member was, and had always
been, a decided Democrat, had frequently
been in the Legislature before the war,
and held various other public offices. He
ran in a district where there was an over
whelming negro majority, and the Radi
cals openly charged that his election was
procured by cheating, bribery, threats and
intimidation of the colored voters. These
charges were industriously circulated
among Radical members of Congress, and
we believe, tbo election contested by the
defeated Radical candidate. Yet, not
withstanding all these villainous charges,
and notwithstanding the evident consti
tutional disabilities of Mr. Tift, and his
firm adhesion to the Democratic party, an
intensely Radical Congress removed his
disabilities by a two-thirds vote, and ad
mitted him to hi* seat.
Io 1868 when it was thought that we
would be permitted to elect members to
tho 41st Congress, Democratic nomina
tions were mado in tho several districts iu
tho State, and not a voice was heard in
sisting that candidates should be selected
who could take the test oath. If euch a
proposition had boon then made , public
indignation would have driven to the wall
tho luckless wight who had the termerity
to make what was then considered so de
basing a proposition.
Wo distinctly remember that Lawson in
tho 4th, Alexander in the 31, and Christy
in the 6th, were put in nomination by the
Democeatic patry neitherlof whom was it
pretended could take the test oath. TheD
the people wero not told that tho nomi
nation and election of such gentlemen
would streßgtJjfln the Radical party. Then
wo were not warned by Congressional and
State Committos that the selection of men
who were unable to swallow the test oath
would injure the NationalDemocratio party.
Then, the only point insisted upon ae a
matter purely pf expeilienoy, was, that wo
should endeavor io geleot candidates who
were not constitutionally disqualified, and
even this was left to tho discretion and
discussion lof the several District Nomi
nating', Conventions free from the dicta
tion or ioteffirooeo of tho Executive
Committee. It is trua that the election
was not held, but io every district in the
State except tho fifth, the nominations
wore auuoUQ.eed and an active canvass
made.
When these nominations Wei & tefido
there were, as before stated, but a mere
handful of Democrats in the House ot
Representatives. Now there are upwards
of seventy. Then the passions aroused
by the war had not cooled. Theu there
was not a tinglo leading Republican in
Congress who was in favor of removing
the disabilities of the 14th Amendment
net one that was in favor of a repeal of
the test oath. Yet the Democratic Press
of the State failed to warn the people
against the impolicy of nominating ineli
gible candidates. The Democratic State
Convention which met in July of that
year, failed to take action on this im
portant quostion, and tho Executive Com
mittee could see no good reason why such
warning should bs given.
Two years have elapsed. Public senti
ment at the North and West is under-;
going a decided change. The passions
aud animosities of the war are dying out.
Reason begins to assert her sway. The
leading minds of the lvadieal party in
both Houses of Congress—such men as
Ferry and Trumbull, and Carpenter and
Sprague, and Edwards, in the Senate,
and Bingham and Logan, and Farnsworth
and Dawes, and even Butler, in the
House, backed up by an increasing
spirit of toleration and moderation among
the masses in tho North and West, are
now demanding that Southern pro
scription should coase. Anew Congress
is about to be elected. Tho canvass, in
most of tho States, has already begun, and
from Maine to Oregon the people—and
more particularly the rank and file of the
Republican party—are insisting upon a
cessation of tho cruel war upon the South.
In .the State of Missouri, where the
bitterness nirainst Southern men has been
more intense than in any other State,
Tennessee not excepted, the Republican
masses havo demanded a repeal of the j
proscriptive clauses of their own Constitu- !
lion, and have, in consequence of the re- |
fusal of the Radical State Convention, j
which met on the Ist inst., to pledge the !
party to an immediate repeal, repudiated j
the candidates and the action of that Con
vention and placed in nomination for Gov- j
ernor a Republican, pledged to their repeal,
and a lull State ticket, who are under
similar pledges. The party of Drake and
M,.C!urg, the representatives of continued j
persecution and proscription, is opposed
by Grata Brown, Carl Schurz, Stanard
and tho ablest men es the party, who
make the fight openly upon this issue
alone. And this is but a fair type of the
condition of public sentiment generally in
the West.
AS hy, then, should the people of Geor- I
gia stultify themselves by selecting candi
dates whose only or chief rcccmmenda- i
tions are that they can take the test oath
or have been relieved from the exactions
of the oath T If such a course was not re- J
quired in ’67 and in’6s what is there in
the condition of parties or of public senti
ment which now require such action ? We
oonfess that we fail to discover such neces
sity. Will those Democratic presses who
now declare that the welfare of the party
depends upon the selection of eligible can
didates please tell as why they failed to
give this adyice in ’67 and id ’6B ? Will
they have the kindness to tell the people
why they suspect that the next Congress
will not admit tneligible members when
the Fortieth Congress so promptly admit- 1
ted Messrs. Tift and Young ? Will they
tell the people why the change in their
present course from that pursued in pre
vious elections ? We think there is glaring
inconsistency in their conduct, and would
be much obliged for an explanation.
LETTKB FROM JIDGE LISTON STE
PHENS,
HE DISCUSSES FULLY HIS LATE
LETTER!
HE PRONOUNCES THE CHAIR
MANSHIP OF THE COMMIT
TEE VACANT BECAUSE
THERE WAS NO QUO
RUM !
HE REFUSES TO RUN FOR CON
GRESS !
CrAWFORDVTLLE, Ga.. Sept. 12, 1870.
Editor Constitution , Atlanta. Ga. :
Dear Sir ; —After seeing what you and
others have said, through the press, in re
lation to my letter accepting the Chair
manship of tbe Democratic Executive
Committee of this State, I ask a place in
your columns for a final summary of what
I have to say on that subject.
It in very clear that the resolution which
purported to come from the Executive
Committee, recommending that so-called
“ineligible” men shall not be presented as
candidates cither for Congress or the State
Legislature, was not the act of that Com
mittee, and is not entitled to any official
character. Under the resolution of the
Convention, providing for tho forma-ioD
of an Executive Committee, the Commit
te is to consist of fifteen members, four
teen appointed by t! e President of the
Convention, and the fifteenth to be added
by tho election and acceptance of a chair
man, outside of the fourteen. Until the
requisite number of fifteen is completed
by the addition of an outside chairman,
there is no “committee” to do business.
Before that completion of the requisite
number, the only act which can be done by
i a quorum of the fourteen, or by the whole
fourteen, is the election of the necessary
additional member.
This statement is too plain to need illus
tration or argument, and I leave it to stand
on its own clearness and impregnable
strength. Your correspondent, in your
issue of the 10th instant, finds inconsisten
-1 cies in my position. only in his own mis
statements of it. I cannot waste further
space on this branch of his criticisms, for
they are not of the slightest real impor
tance. They are fully answerd by a care
ful reading of my letter.
In answer, however, to another criticism
of that correspondent, I have to say, that
if "many have taken serious offense,” and
i a “great many” have felt “profound pain,”
tho "offense” and the “pain” do not lie at
my door. The whole responsibilit/ for the
disturbance of harmony rests upon the
small number wbo, without authority, put
forth the disturbing resolution, as the ac
tum of the “committee When thechair
manbhip was tendered to me, coupled with
tho announcement of this resolution,
whether I accepted or declined, I was
equally obliged to apeak cut, or else be
justly considered as aequiescing in a course
which I regard as a dangerous departure
from sound principles and sound policy.
But to say no more of my peculiar posi
tion, which required me to express my
own views, it was exactly a case where,
not one, but numbers, would feel con
strained to enter a protest.
The resolution was necessarily an ele
ment of discord, not only from the rnuDoer
in which it was put forth, but from the
matter which it contained. Not only is it
no official act ot the committee, but it is an
act which goes beyond any legitimate con
struction of the committee’s powers. It is
worse tbau a mere usurpation of power,
for it is in direct eocfl'ct with tiie.aotion of
the Convention itself. The same proposi
tion, in the same orsome very similar form,
was before the Business Committee of the
Convention, and found so little favor that
it was passed over as njected, without a
formal veto. This resolution then under
took to add to the platform matter which
had been rejected from it. This matter
was not overlooked by the Business Com
mittee nor the Convention, but was pur
posely omitted. The attempt, therefore,
afterwards to introduce it, by the actiou of
the Executive Committee, especially when
that attempt was made before the forma
tion rs the committee was completed, was
necessarily a fire brand ; and harmony can
be restored only by removing the element
which disturbed it, and leaving the mem
bers of the party in different localities,
just as the Convention left them, perfectly
free, on this point, to pursue their own
convictions of sound policy, consistant with
sound principles, as announced by the Con
vention.
And now, a few words In defense of the
opinion expressed in tuy letter that, in
to looting o<tndiol-it*o fov (IqnproHu. ltits
so-ealied disabilities ought to be disre
garded; or, in other words, that the ablest
truo men in every district should be select
ed without any regard to the so-called
“disabilities.” II confirmation of its
soundness and importance were needed it
ha* been abundantly furnished in the na
ture of -the objections which Lave been
made against it, and the quarter from
which they have been urged with the hot
test zeal. One of the loudest in lamenta
tion j$ Dr. Bard, ex-Governor of Idaho,
and editor of a Radical organ, miscalled
the True Georgian. Hs has already used
columns of his paper, onq threatens to use
un indefinite number of columns in the
j future, to persuade Democrats that if they
act pp the policy advocated in my letter
they Sill rqjti the Democratic party. Who
is silly enough Lot to see that his professed
concern for ibe safety pi' the Democratic
party Only betrays his real alarm at the
peri! of his own ! The danger which he
scents on the brct'ZC is danger, not to the
Democrats, but to !ho 60'Calff and Republi
can party. And wliui ore his reasons with
which he hopes to frighten Democrats
away from the ground of their greatest
power ? lie, like your correspondent
(who, perhaps, gets his cue from the ex-
Governor) cries out that the letter is
“revolutionary," and yet the only “rev
olutionaty” feature ’.vh ch he points out in
it is tho proposition to “shake the country
from centre to circumference'’ -by argu
ments On the theatre of Congress 1
This sort of “revolution” is indeed what
I do most devoutly desire, aad what he and
all his so workers in usurpation and des
potism do most trembling dread. There
is nothing they tear so much as the pros
pect of having their deeds of usurpation
ar.d malignity put on trial before the great
tribunal of the Ami rican States. ,fl he
whole fabric of measures called reconstruc
tion, including the so-called )4'-h and loth
amendments of the constitution, rests upon
usurpation too palpable and gross to be
denied even by its authors. The prime
author of the scheme, Thaddeus Stevens,
openly proclaimed that it was outside of
the constitution. Its supporters cannot
maintain it by argument, and hence they
cunningly endeavor to draw and scare
Democrats away from the field of argu
ment by singiDg eensejess laudations to the
irreversible arbitrament of arms, and by a
shower ot high sounding phrases about
“verities,” “fixed facts,” and modern ten
dencies towards nationality and centralism,
with the derisive epithets of “Bourbons”
and “fogies.” Tha vita! principles of
State sovereignty, State equality, and State
rights, which they have trampled ia the
dust, are contemptuously dispatched with
the one favorite phrase of “dead issues.”
They know that these issues are not dead,
and that lhoy will novor dio until tho Doui
oeratic Party can be induced to commit the
stupendous folly of joining the enemy iu
burying them alive. They are now indeed
in the dust, but they are fail of vitality and
power.
They, with the liberty which is insepara
ble from them, were onee before under the
heel of the Alien and Sedition Acts, but
were rescued by one of those glorious
“revolutions” which are ever so teriible in
the prospect, alike to liberty’s usurping
enemies and her unwisely timid friends.
Under the lead of Jefferson, the Democrat
ie party, State by State, declared those
odious acts to be “unconstitutional, null
ami void and on that issue, not only the
acts, but the whole party which originated
them were swept away by a storm of in
dignant condemnation. The country was
“shaken from centre to circumference,”
and the constitution was rescued from the
hands of its enemies by a “revolution” as
peaceful as it was splendid.
The freemen of Middlesex, in the days
of Chatham, were denied the right of
being represented in the British Parlia- i
ment by John Wilkes, the man of their
choice. He was subject to a so called
"disability” which the House ot Commons i
had unconstitutionally put upon him. j
Chatham declared the so-called “disabili
ty” null and void ; and in pursuance -of
his advice. Wilkes was again and again i
elected aod returned to Parliament after :
each new rejection. This issue, on the I
right of a single man to a seat ia the Brit- I
ish Parliament, contributed more than all j
others to the total overthrow cf the Tory
party, which had committed this breach ;
of the constitution. Here was another
“revolution” as bloodless as it was com
plete aod beneficent. Such “revelations”
can always be achieved in the cause of
liberty, when truth is wielded by courage,
ability, wisdom and patriotism. The mu
tations of political power which lie within j
the recollection of the youngest man in the ,
Democratic party, ought to banish all do- j
spair, and tospire soul-stirring confidence, !
even under the dark shadow of the pres- j
ent colossal proportions of tho centralizing
organization which now bears despotic
sway in this country, by virtue alone of
confessed usurpation.
Let no one be dismayed or deoeived by j
such mistaken statements and gratuitous I
assumptions as thoso of your correspond- *
cut. He is utterly mistaken in the idea
which he seems to have that the invalidity
of the .so-called “disabilities” has ever
been argued on the floor of Congress by any
man demanding a right to his seat. Equally
gratuitous is his a-sumptien that the va«
lidity of the 14 tb and 15th so-called amend
ments, as well as the 13th amendment,will
be upheld by all of our courts. It wi II be re
membered that I make a distinction between
the 13th ameDdmeDt on the one haqd and
the so-caded 14th and 15th amendments on
the other ; and I will here state, for the
special benefit of the ex-Gjvernor of Idaho,
what I conceive the difference to be. Tire
13th was constitutionally proposed and rat
fied, in good faith, by the requisite num
ber of State Legislatures. It is true that
when it was proposed by Congress, ten of
the States were absent, but their absence
was voluntary, and therefore did not affect
the validity of the Congress or of this act.
The subsequent ratification of this act by
the States in good faith gave it, in my
judgment, all the elements of a valid
amendment to the constitution. It is true,
also, that while the Southern Legislatures
which ratified it were not connected with
their predecessors by an unbroken chain of
legality, and had their initiation in a
palpable usurpation of power on the part
of the President, yet it is unquestionably
true, also, that they were elected and sus
tained by overwhelming majorities of the
true constitutional constituencies of the
States represented by them.
Tney had all tbe substance of legal gov
ernments, and rested on the unquestion
able consent of the constitutional “people.”
Every man of information knows how ut
terly absent these vital elements are in the
case of the 14th and 15th so-called amend
ments. These two were not constitutionally
proposed, because the ten States volunta
rily absent on the first occasion were now
denied all voice in | reposing these amend
meets, although they were present by their
representatives stud claiming a hearing.
Aod this, too, io the teeth of those ex
press provisions ts the constitution
which declare that no State, without
its consent, shall be deprived cf its
equal suffrage in the Senate, and
that each State shall have at least one
representative. As to the ratifications of
these two so-called amendments, they were
made in these Southern Slates by bodies
which were not Legislatures of the States,
but were notoriously the creatures of Con
gressional usurpation, and acted under the
duress of dictation and bayonets. How
naked and indefensible the usurpation of
Congress was in laying its hand on the
j suffrage of the fctatos to form these crea
tures of its own, is showu by the decision
j rl the Supremo Court, pronounced by
| Chief Justice Chase in the recent ease of
Texas vs. White. There the court held
that these States were, during the war,
and have ever since been, States in the
Union. It rnußt be borne ia mind that un
der the constitution prior to the passage
of the so-called 14rh and 15th amend
ments, t lie whole subject of suffrage was
under the exclusive control of the States
in the Union.
This was the univcr-ally received con
struction, aDd that feature in our system
leceives a marked prominence from the
faotthst the electors of offices of the Fed
eral Government its'lf aro expressly made
dependent by the constitution itself, upon
the action o! each State for herself. When,
therefore, the power attempted to bo con
ferred in the so-called amendments was
exercised by Congress previous to their
passage- a power to lay its hand upon the
suffrage of the States and mould it at its
will—the usurpation stands out with all
the distinctness and gigantic prominence
of our own Stone Mountain. These so
called amendments are but confessions that
the powers sought to be conferred by them
upon Congress did not belong to Congress
before. Chief Justice Chase also held in
tbe same case that the States aro inde
structible ; and it is yery plain that these
so called amendments are aimed, and in
tentionally aimed at the very vitals of the
States; for the control of their sufirage
places their political power, and their very
existence, at the mercy of a grand consoli
dated centralism which already begins,
through Mr. Attorney-General Akerman,
to designate the States as bare “corpora
tions.”
To show how gratuitous is tho assump
tion of yoUr correspondent as to what the
courts will do, it is only necessary to re
memer that while the reconstruction ae s,
which aro the indispensable support ot the
so called. amendments, have been before
the Supreme Court of the United States
on several occasions, yet their validity has
never received the sanation of that court ;
but, on tho contrary, on each occasion, the
particular parts of them which the court
held to be involved in the particular case,
were also held to bo unconstitutional and
void. I allude specially to two leading
features of these acts suspending the priv
ilege of the writs of habeas corpus, and
creating military tribunals for the trial of
citizens. It is to bo specially noted, also,
that on every occasion the court has failed
to affirm, and seems studiously to have
avoided the affirmance of the validity of
these acts in any particular whatever, aud
has announced principles whion >—w
carried to their logical consequences, are
decisive against the validity of the entire
fabric of reconstruction, including the so
called 14th and 15th amendments.
It is proper at this point to remind your
correspondent that this court has also de
cided that the iron-clad, or test oath, i3 un
constitutional and void, even when applied
to lawyers ; and for a much stronger rea
son is it void when applied to members ot
Congress whose qualifications are pre
scribed hy tho constitution itself, aud can
not bo changed either by subtraction or
addition. The courts are a forum of rea
son and argument. Usurpers and crim
inals make their appearance upon that
lorum only when they are dtmgged there.
Just here, I remark, in passing, that Gov
ernor Bullock’s recent notice to county
officers-, that any of them who are subject
to the so-called “disabilities” will be
prosecuted if they continue to hold their
offices, is regarded by me as nothing but a
trick to fill tho offices with his own crea
tures, awl thus get into his owd hands the
manipulation of the elections in as many
counties as possible, Ret the incumbents
stand firm, and either there will bo no
J r.rosccutions, or if any shall be instituted
■ to fc«Bg up the sham and augment the
scars, they wjU bo allowed to linger, and
lingering to dim
In this connection, 1 will also add a
word in roply to a sensational telegram
from Washington City, published in your
paper, dated the 10th instant, and signed
“Sam. J. Randall, (dbairman.” It advises
the people of Georgia to plect no men to
Congress but such as can take the test oath.
The advice given is enough to show the
Democrats of this Slate that Mr. Randall
iis a very bad adviser. He means to have
us semi negroes to Congress, or else he is
clearly ignorant of the “situation ’ in Geor
gia,for in most of our Cosgrebsiona! districts
men who can truly take the test 03th are
exceedingly seircc, outside of the negroes.
The white men whose sympathies and
wishes were against us in the trying days
ot the war, do not, as a class,, command
the confidence or even the respect of our
people, and if sent to Congress by us would
only misrepresent, demoralize and debase
us. Better to remain unrepresented for
j ever, if need be, than thus to render our
| selves the subservient instruments of our
I own degradation, I firmly believe that the
greatest numerical _ victory gained by a
| surrender of our principles would be the
i greatest calamity that could befad the
i Democratic party. Such a victory wouid
i destroy its moral force, and bring it to
| decay, dissolution and contempt.
| Now, a word, Mr. J?4jtor, in response to
your suggestion that I, as ehaipman, shall
call an immediate meeting of the Esecu
j tive Committee. Information obtained
from several quarters since my letter ofae
• ocptance wan written, jpyes me eaM-ifacfory
I assurance that there was uet » oygrum of
the committee present, when a s'm".!i num-
I ber of them (certainly not more than six,
! and soma say only five) went through the
form of electing me chairman, and pass
; ing the resolution which has given ri-e to
j ail this trouble. My chaitmaaship is,
therefore, regarded by me as only one of
the very many “so-called” things of the
day. and I cannot presume to exorcise any
! of the powers belonging to a legally elected
i officer- Tbe chairmanship of the ytm
j miltee is vacant; and the committee is yet
i incomplete.
| And now, in conclusion, please allow me
: a few lines on another subject. The man
ner in which my name has been suggested
| as a candidate for Congress, in the sth dis
trict, in many quarters, and particularly
by the very able letter of Judge Hook,
renders it proper that I should mako
knewn my determination on that subject.
I want no office whatever; and under the •
present circumstances I could not be in
duced to accept any. [ fee! some satisfac- :
tion in announcing this determination,
because it will give the Democratic party 1
full assurance, if any were needed, that my :
advice to them is colored by no personal j
object, and springs entirely from a pro- j
found conviction that the course recom- j
mended by me ia essential both to the !
preservation of our principles, and to the !
achievement of ultimate success. Every ;
throb of my heart is for the restoration ot j
that constitutional, local self-government :
which is. the foundation of our whole
American system, and which distinguished
us for more than three-quartcis of a ccd
tury, as a congregation of the freest and
happiest people on the face of the earth.
I am also thoroughly persuaded that this
great end can be accomplished only by the
Democratic party of the United States act
ing in concert in all the States, and, more
over, that this party will be powerful only
as it shall be pure.
Yours, very respectfully,
Linton Stephens.
The taxable property in Greene county,
as assessed for the present year, is $2,-
029,984, which shows a considerable in
crease since last year; this is attributable
to the increased value of real estate. The
number of polls in the county, including
whites and blacks, is 2,087- — Herald,
From the Fmancid Chronicle.
Cotton
Friday, P. M. Sept. 9, IS7O.
By special telegrams eceived by us to
night from the Southed ports, we are in
possession of the return showing the re
ceipts, exports, &e., of ettton for the week
ending this evening Snt. 9. From the
figures thus obtained i appears that the
total receipts for the even days have
reached 11,104 bales a/ainst 6,868 bales
last week, 5,454 bales th; previous week,
and 5,287 bales three veeks since. TLe
details cf the receipts tor this week (as
per telegraph), and tie corresponding
week of 1869. areas folhws:
Received this wiek at—
-1870. 1869.
New Orleans—bal«_ 2,101 2,345
Mobile 605 976
Charleston , 2,286 1,87S
Savannah i 3,412 6,481
Texas 1 347 591
Tennessee, xe 1,293 273
Florida ..... 3
North Carolina.... .... 199 103
Virginia 861 198
Total receipts „ ,11,104 1 2,351
Decrease thi. >ear 1,247
The exports for the week ending this
evening reaoh a of 3,704 bales, of
which 3,704 were to Great Britain and
bales to the continent, while the
stocks at all the porp, as made up this
evening, are now 54f23 bales.
From the foregoing statement it will be
sccd that, compared with the correspond
ing week of last seasoi, there is an increase
iu the exports this week of 3,211 bales,
while the stocks Ip-night are 41.817 bales
more than they Were at this time a year
ago.
The market thdpast week opened with
a decidedly better feeling, owing to the im
provement at Livt-pool under tbe belief
that the war would soon
be brought to a clot. Later advices from
the Continent not being interpreted 60
favorably, the stroui buoyant tone pre
viously observable Ipas lost, and prices
gradually returned ti very near the point
ruling last Saturday.! Offerings have also
during the past few Ays been increased,
the appearance of tfe new crop leading
holders to sell out. gales have not
been pressed, but thVe is now a fair as
sortment of stock on Vhe market of ail
descriptions. The cfve to night was
quiet but steady, the olferings being less
abundant and yet holdets are inclined to
accept any lair offer. FcrVorward delivery
there has been a good b sincss doing at
about the prices of last w£k. Total sales
of this description reach 4,700 bales (all
low middling or on tho ba is of low mid
oiicg), of which 4 200 bales were for
September—3oo at 18, 1,1 X) at 18i, 1,000
at 18[, 300 at 18f 200 at 18 5-16, 900 at
17L and 200 at 17|-; 6,10 bales for Octo
ber— 200 at 16|, 1,200 at 17, 1,300 at 17$,
400 at 17$, 30u at 17$, ana 200 at 17 1-16,
1,700 at 16f, 200 at 16 IJ-16, 500 at 16j
and 100 at 16$ ; 1,900 biles for Novem
ber—3oo at 16 11 16, 2)0 at 16|, 300 at
17$, 100 at 16$, 100 16$. dud 300 at 16$ ;
2,000 hales for DeceuiberLlOO at 16$, 200
at 16$, 400 at 16 7-16, ICO at 16f, 400 at
16$, 300 at 16$, 500 at <ss ; also 200 bales
for October and Nivemler at 16 9 16, and
200 same month at lit, and 200 rame
month, one-half each mjoth, at 16$. The
total sales for immediateßclivery this week
loot up 7,779 bales, mcitding 888 bales to
arrive, of which 6 513 b|les were taken by
spinners, 427 bales on spiculation, 839 for
export.
Consumption op Ofa Mills.—De
have received to day (trough tho kind
ness of 13. F. Nourse, of (Boston, the mill
returns obtained up to this date, as to
cotton used by them durisg the year. It
seems that 76 per cent of the Northern
Mills have been heard Amu and 70 per
cent Southern spindles, aid from this data
a summary of results has been reached by
comparing returns ot the same corpora
tions la-st year. In these mills North the
number of spindles is increased 2$ per
cent, but in the South there is an increase
of only 453 spindles. U,oo these spindles
the consumption North was reduced 1.7
percent for spindles, but increased 1.02
per cent in aggregate quantity ; South
increased 6$ per cent spindles and 7 per
cent in aggregate average. No. of yarn
produced, North 29 (lastyear 28|), South
12$ (last vear 12 33), consumption per
spindie, North 49.68 pounds (last year
50.54), South 127 96 (last yeai 119.01).
Number of spindles, North 4,665,806
(same mills last year 4,539,653), South
137,127 (last year 137,583). The North
ern Mills reporting on 4,665,806 spindles
show an actual consumption 0f231,510,250
pounds cotton. Now apply to these spin
dles the spinner’s rule of consumption on
No. 29 yarn, 4$ skeias per day to each
spindie. They usually reckon 300 work
ing days in the year of 11 hours each,
leaving out 65 days for Sundays, holidays
and bad days ; but this year, owing to the
six or eight weeks strike suspending work
at Fall River on about 600,000 spindles
(indorsed in the returns), aud the short
work enforced in the last two months by
low water at nearly all the large mills, we
havo to take off 15 days (or 5 per cent)
more, anq count trtt W -irking
On cotton worked in No. 29 yarn (average)
we reckon waste 19 per cent (gross) of cot
ton on 16 per cent of the yam product.
Thus 4,665,806 spindles x 4$ skeins x 285
days, gives in the year 5,651,457,375
skeins. Divide bv No. 29 (skeins to the
pound) == 194.877,840 pounds yarn x 37,-
026,790 pounds waste (or 19 per cent ot
the weight of yarn), and tho result is
231,904,630 pounds cotton used. Tbe
reports, say it _ was actually 231,810,
250 pounds. This is one of the practical
tests applied to the mill returns, to learn
if they are consistent in their several parts
end in aggregate results.
Satisfied with the correctness of the
data, and that these give a fair average
rate of comparison for all the spindles in
each section, we make these deductions for
this year taking tho average weight of
bales at 465 72.
Bale?;
Nor'hern consumption 777,602
Southern consumption 79,843
Taken from this crop 856,505
Add decrease stock in mills 30,000
1809 70 home consumption 886,505
These figures may of course need some
slight rev’sii n when full returns come in.
Gunny Bags, Bagging, etc.—There
has been a good, steady jobbing demand
for bagging ever since our last, and
although no large sales have been made,
transactions for the week foot up 900 bales
native in this market at 30$c cash, and
2,000 rolls domestic at 31a32e. The de
mand is entirely from the South, specula
tors not buying anything. Holders gener
ally talk of higher prioes, and a continued
active demand, ba=ed upon tho expected
short supply. Jo Boston 'a salo has been
made of 200 bales ior the South at 30a30Jc
for Calcutta Standard. Bags remain in
active, and though weak, are nominally
quoted at ?0-21C T Currency aDd 12c gold in
bond to arrive/ Jute also continues with
out movement, and our prioes are merely
nominal. We quote sasc gold- Jute Butts
have bcea mors active, with uales of 2,000
bales at 4a4sc curren«y.
Stoc £s of Cotton at Interior Towns.
—Below we give the figures received to
night, showing the stocks of cutton at the
interior ports ut ilia close of business to
day, and add those fir fast week and the
corresponding periods of last year for com
parison :
1870.
ISept. 9 Sept. 2
Augusta, Ga 1,800 1,444
Columbus, Ga 1.242 1,573
Maoon, Ga 1,760 2^201
Montgomery, Ala 1,665 1,580
Selina, Ala 1,525 1,310
Memphis, Tonn - 4,012 4,330
Nashville, Tenth, 2,100 2,191
Total 13,G0t 14,029
1869.1
Sept. 9 Sept. 2.
Augusta, G? L 825 124
Columbus. Ga .L 625 125
Macon, Ga ()|o 265
Montgomery, Ala 710 gp
Selma, Alai 31)
Memphis, Tenn 102 94
Nashville, Tenn., 3
Total „. 3,235 ns
The foregoing shows He interior stocks
have decreased during the week 965
bales, and that they are »ow 10,429 bales
in excess of the same period of last year.
Visible Supply of Cdtton.— The fol
lowing table shows the quantity of cotton
in sight at this date of each of the two
past seasons:
1 1670. jggg
Stock in Liverpool.bales 401,000 449 000
Stock in London 26,821 23 359
Stock in Glasgow 2.000 *350
Slock in Havre, 155,300 44 jog
Stock in Marseilles 13,0 0
Stock in Bremen 18,850 5 200
Stock rest of Continent. 30,000 iV/w,
Afloat for G. Britain
(American) 16,000 6 003
Afloat for France (Am.
and Brazil) 22/ 22 15 &07
Total Ind. cotton afloat
for .Europe 458,000 501 non
Stock in U. S. ports 54,723 12 906
Stock in inland towns 13,664 3 235
Total 1,304,680 1,166,307
These figures indicate an increase j D t{j e
cotton insight to-night of 138,373, bales
compared with the same date of 1869.
The exports of cotton this week from
New Ymk show an increase since last
week, the total reaching 2;476 bales
against 1,599 bales last week.
Singular Discrepancy.— lt is a little
singular that while the population of Sa
vannah, _by the late census, is fixed at
twenty-eight thousand, the recent school
report of the city fixes the population at
thirty-five thousand, the latter figures hav
ing been furnished, as we are informed, by
the census takers themselves-the falling
off being just twenty per cent, of the esti 1
mate. — Advertiser.
A bill has been introduced in the Legis
lature for the purpose of incorporating
the Georgia Magnetic Telegraph Company.
Annual Statement of the Cot
ton Crop of the United States,
for 18<i9 -70.
V. e present this morning to our readers
the annual ootton crop statement, as pub
lished io the New .York Commercial <&
Financial Chronicle of September 10,
which places tie crop at 3,154,946 bales;
the exports at 2,178,917 ; the home con
sumption at 907,369; and the stock on
hand at the close of the year at 59,747.
The Charleston Courier of Friday, also
published tLc annual cotton crop state
statement for 1869-70. Summing up of
the Courier shows the crop to be 3,203,-
828 bales, which by compaiison shows a
difference of 48,882 bales between the two
statements. We quote from the Courier
as follows:
“We present to the commercial world
this morning, tbe Annual Statement of
the Cotton Crop of the United States for
the year et ding August 31, 1870, as pre
pared by the Charleston Courier . It is
hardly necessary .for us to sty that it has
been compiled with great care, from au
thentic information received from our cor
respondents in all the great Cotton cen
tres of the country. We lay it before our
readers, feeling confident that it shows the
product of the great staple the past year
as correctly as is possible.
The summing up'of the cropoflS69-’7O,
as shown by our statement, is 3,203,828
bales, an increase in production of
bales over 1868-69. This increase has
been mainly absorbed by European coun
tries, as will be seen by the annexed com
parative statement of foreign exports for
the pas: tvo years :
IS7O. 1569.
To Great Britain 1,478,849 989,491
'io France 346,430 224’186
To North of Europe,
Spain, et 348,844 233,650
Total 2,174,123 1,447,327
1,447,327
Increase 726,796
After making the necessary deductions,
there is left for home consumption, North
and South, 964,842 bales. We have put
down for Southern consumption 112,000
bales, which includes twelve thousand
bales taken for consumption in Virginia
and counted in the exports from that
State, leaving for Northern consumption
852,842 bales, against 840,720 in 1869,
showing an increase of 12,122 bales.
From a letter dated Ist instant, received
from B. F. Nourse, E>q., of Boston, Chair
man of the Statistical Committee of the
Manufacturers’ and Planters’ Association
of the United States, an increase of 1 per
cent, in Northern consumption is assume !
the past year, over that of 1868 69, which
shows an increase of 8,407 bales, thus
making, according to Mr. Nourse’s as
sumption, the past year’s consumption,
849,127 bales. Our figures show the
Northern consumption the past year to be
852,542 bales, a difference of only 3,715
bales.
The value of the crop of tho past year
(1869-70), may be put down in round num
bers at $325,000,000. This immense
amount of' money has been of incalculable
benefit to the entire country.
The summing up of the crop, ns devel
oped in our statement, exceeds the esti
mates of tbe most sanguine in tho early
part of the past season from a half to
three-quarters of a million of bales, which
proves the utter fallacy of the many ad
vance statements of growing crops, which
are heralded throughout Europe and the
Northern States for the purpose of affecting
prices. Such statements work 'treat injury
to the planter as well as the buyer and the
consumer.”
Cotton Crop of tlie United States
tor tlie Year Heading Septem
ber 1, 1870.
L From the Commercial and Financial
Chronicle, New fork.]
COTTON MOVEMENT AND CROP FOR 1869-
70.
W.e give below our annual statement of
tbe cotton crop of the United States for
the year ending September 1, 1870. Our
returns are, we think, more complete than
have ever before been presented. Espe
cially would we call the attention of our
friends to the details of tho overland
movement for the year. They show how
cur railroad system, and Its more perfect
development in the South, is again chang
ing the course of the Western movement
of cotton. Immediately after the war the
product of those States sought the North
ern mills through tho railroads north of
the Ohio, and hence the avaount direct to
manufacturers was then large; now, how
ever, an increasingly large portion is seek
ing the market through Charleston, and
especially Norfolk, and the direct overland
movement is smaller again. But we refer
our readers to a subsequent part of our re
port for a full explanation <■'' *- Lo or
these shipments. It will be seen from the
following tables that the total crop this
year reaches 3,154,946 bales, while the ex
ports have been 2,178,917 bales, and the
home consumption 907,309 bales, leaving
a stock on hand at the close of the year of
59,747 bales. The stock of cotton at the
interior towns, September 1, 1870, not in
cluded iu the receipts, is 14,629 bales,
against 718 bales last season.
We now bring forward our tables show
ing tlie whole movement for the year.
Tlie first table indicates tlie stock at each
port, September Ist ot 1870 and 1869, tbe
receipts at the ports for each of the last
two years, and the export movement for
the past year (1869-70) in detail, and the
totals for 1868-09.
Receipts,year ending
Ports. U TT Z 1 1
Sept. 1, Sept. I,
1870. 1869.
New Orleans 1,142,(97 794,205
Alabama 306,061 230,621
South Carolina 246,500 199,072
Georgia 488 204 357,253
Texas 246,284 147,817
Florida 22,874 13,592
North Carolina...... 59,612 35,9 '8
Virginia 20-1,898 140,971
New York* 135,876* 10',584*
Boston* 21,316* 35.033*
Philadelphia* 12,509* 20,114*
Baltimore* 26,274* 19,467*
Portland* | 616* 1,991*
Total this year >2,911,121
Total last year | | 2,100.428
Exports, year ending September
1, lb7o, to
Port*.
Great I Other
Britain. France For’gn Total.
New Orleans 549,60^1259,‘223 196,704 1,005,530
Alabama 165,9891 15,910 18,939 200,838
South Carolina.... 87,287 1,825 7,997 97,109
Georgia 204,570 43,796 17,205 265,031
Texas 122,100 7,939 22,514 152,559
Florida
North Carolina.... 60 60
Virginia 9,660 9,660
New York 326,740 17,757 69,195 413,701
Boston 1,187 490 1,677
Philadelphia
Baltimore 7,494 24,668 32,162
Portland -
Total this year.... 1,474,695j346,4501357,772 2,178,917
Total last year.... 989,677!224,5271233,816! 1,448,020
Stock.
Port*. Sep. 1, Sep. 1,
1870. 1869.
New Orleans 20,696 770
Alabama 9,743 1,064
South Carolina 1,399 250
Georgia 2,833 363
Texas 4,795 202
Florida 11 18
North Car01ina..,,,., 126
Virginia 591 141
New York ...., 12,984 7,367
Boston 4,668 1,756
Philadelphia 885 160
Baltimore 1,017 253
Portland
Total this year 59,747
Total last year 1 12,344
♦These figures are only the portion of
the receipts at these ports which arrive
overland from Tennessee, Ac. The total
receipts at New York, Baltimore, Boston
and Philadelphia, for the year ending Au
gust 81, 1870, are given in a subsequent
part of this report.
By the above it will be seen that the
total receipts at the Atlantic and Gulf
Shipping ports this year has been 2,911,-
121 bales, against 2,100,428 bales lastyear.
It now we add the shipment from Tennes
see and elsewhere dfireot to manufactu
rers, wo have the following as the crop
statement for the two years:
Year ending Sept. 1
1809- 70. 1868- 69.
Receipts at the ship
ping ports bales 2,911,121 2,100,428
Add shipments from
Tenn., <tc direct
to manufacturers... 153.825 258,611
T0ta1....,, 3,064,916 2,359,039
Manufactured South,
not included in
above 90,000 80,009
Total cotton crop for
the year, bales 3,154,946 2,439,039
The result of these figures is a total of
3,154,916 bales as the crop of the Uuited
States for the year ending August 31,
1869, against 2,439,039 bales as the crop
for the previous year.
OVERLAND MOVEMENT,
The pomt in crop reports, upon which
the public has always desired light, has
been in the overland movement. Ever
since we first issued an annual statement
it has been our effort to make up these
figures from railroad returns. This year,
however, we not only follow the same sys
tem, but, in order that proof of the cor
rectness of these figures may be in the
possession of our readers, we give by re
quest the details upon which our couclu
sioais based.
It will of course be at once admitted
that no cotton can come overland to the
North from the South except by crossing
or passing up the Ohio, Mississippi or
Potomac River. Hence, if wc obtain 1
r f^ u £?- s which show each bale received on
the Mississippi north of Cairo, and on tho
entire north side of the Ohio for the
West, and on the north side of the Pi
tomac for the East, we must have reached
every part of this movement. Pursuing
this plan, and beginning at the Mississip
pi, we find firstj that the receipts for the
year at St. Louis have been 18,298 bales.
This cotton passes to the north over rail
roads centering at that point, »nd is all
that is taken trom the Mississippi by those
roads. Other than this no cotton (not
including local consumption) pas es up the
Mississippi except what reaches the
Illinois Central Railroad. A full return
from that railroad shows this ; thas taken
from Cairo and Southern Illinois, and
carried north, 21,567 bales during the
year. Following u i the north bauk of the
Ohio, the first point ot departure we find
to ho at Evansville, and a de'ailcd return
made to us ot the Evansvil e <fc Craftfords
ville Railroad shows that they have taken
from Evansville for the North during
the period in question 40,371 bales.
Passing ou the tfi xf lines of railroad,
which are nppoei e Louisville, we have
first the Louisville, New Albany & Chi
cago. This road has carried no.cotton. Next
is the Jeffersonville, Madison & Indian
apolis Railroad, including the Madison
branch. The returns of that corpo
ration give 106,506 bales transported. The
Ohio and Mississippi branch (opened
in May) reports that it has car
ried none. From Louisville to Cincinnati
there is no railroad running north from the
river which has carried any cotton except
the branch of the Jefferson, Madison aud
Indianapolis road to Madison, included
abovo. At the City of Cincinnati receipts
for tlie year not otherwise counted are
146,424 bales. As to the quantity of cot
ton shipped to places above Cincinnati
without touching at the latter city, it is
not possible to give an exact statement;
but from much information in onr posses
sion in regard to that particular movement
wo aro enabled to make an estimate which
must necessarily be very close to tbe
truth. The amount shipped in this man
ner is at best but a very small proportion
of the Ohio river movement, as nearly all
cotton for points high up on tho river is
re-shipped at Cincinnati and included in
the receipts at that port. For instance, a
prominent mill at Pittsburgh inform us
that they purchased during the year 2,438
at Memphis of which only 63 bales were
shipped through direct to Pittsburgh by
boat, and the balance was re shipped at
Cincinnati. On the basis of this and tlie
other returns we have received, we esti
mate the total shipments from points be
low Cincinnati direct to points abovo that
city on the Ohio river, together with the
consumption of such mills as are located
near the river and use cotton landed di
rectly at their wharves, at 17,250 bales.
Turning now to the east of the Alleghanies,
it will be found that there is no cotton
transported overland—it is all reported at
tlie Virginia ports. The Orange and
Alexandria Railroad, the only through
line connecting both with tho South and
Southwest, reports that not a bale of cot
ton has passed over their road ; and tho
less important road from Richmond to
Washington, via Aqnia Creek, makes a
similar report. A summary, then, of the
figures given above produces tbe following
result:
Receipts fir the year at St. Louis... 18,298
Carried North over Illinois Central '
Railroad 21,567
Carried North over Evansville and
Crawfordsville Railroad 40,371
Carried North oyer Jeffersonville,
Mad. and Indianapolis Kai1r0ad.,106,506
Receipts at Cincinnati not other
wise counted ...146,424
Shipped to points above Cincinnati
without touching at Cincintiali,
and consumed by mills adjacent
to the river, &c 17,250
Total overland movement 360,410
Deduct atnout received overland at
N. Y., Boston, Phila., Ac 196,591
Total direct to mills ba1e5..1c3,820
It may be asked why this movement di
red to the mills is so much less than last
year. A moment’s examination will ex
plain it. First, the movement by railroad
to New York is 31,292 bales more than in
1808-9. Second, the movement to the
South from Memphis alone is over 17,000
bales more. Third, and chiefly, because
Western cotton is seeking the market
more and more through Norfolk and
Charlo.ton, the movement in that direc
tion being largely in excess of tbe previous
season. For these reasons our returns
show a smaller movement direct to the
mills than was generally expected. With
these explanations we give below the de
tails of the crop fur the two years:
LOUISIANA.
Exported from New Orleans :
1869-70 1868 9
To foreign ports 100553'.) 619534
To coastwise ports 179520 222871
Burnt and manufactured... 1357
Stock at c.ose of year 20888 770
1208103 843175
Deduct:
Halved from Mobile 49890 3651,5
Received rrom .M onigninm y isar j
Received from Florida. 3477 747
Received from Tinas 11869 7376
Slock beginning oi ihe year 770 1959
• 66006 48970
Total product for year... 1142097 704205
ALABAMA.
Exported from Mobile:
To foreign ports 200838 163154
To coastwise jiort.s 97685 81821
To New Orleans from Mont
gomery : .373
Stock at close of year 9713 1064
308266
248412
Deduct;
Receipts from New Orieans.. 1141 15630
(stock at beginning of year... 1001 2100
2205 17791
Total product for y0ar...306001 230623
TEXAS.
Exported from Galveston, Ac:
To foreign ports 152559 83376
To coastwise ports 89132 64505
Stock at close of year 4795 202
246486 148C83
Deduct:
Received from New Orleans 100
Stock at beginning of year... 202 100
202 206
Total product for year 246284 147817
FLORIDA.
Exported from Fernandina, St Marks Ac:
To foreign ports 810
To coastwise ports 22881 12564
Stock at close of year n 18
22892 13392
Deduct stock at beginning of
year 18
Total product for year... 22871 13392
GEORCIA.
Exported from Savannah .-
To tbe foi ign ports-Up
lands 209102 161516
To foreign ports—Sr a Is
lands 6529 6021
To coastwise ports—Up
lands 214188 180989
To coastwise ports—Sea is
lands 9007 5174
Burnt - 540
Stock at Savannah atciose
year 2833 313
Deduct,: 492798 363013
Rec’d Iroi* Beaufort, S. C. 317
Received from Florida-Up
l*nds 372 1 240
Received from Florida—Sea
Islands 241 4S2J
Stock at begiuu.ng ot year.. 313 696
4594 5760
Total product for year 488291 357273
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Exported Iroin Charleston :
To foreign ports-Upland*... 89851 52814
“ “ Sea Island 72-58 3995
To coastwise ports—Uplands 14''760 142024
“ “ Sea Islands 5586 3313
Exported from Georgetown... 379 477
Exported from Beaufort to
Savannah .317
Stock at t harloston—Uplands 1161 3 8
“ " Sea Islands 238 42
2516-50 202873
Deduct ;
Received from Florida—Up
lands J6O 156
Received from Florida Sea
Islands 4740 1700
Stock at Charleston beginning year—
Uplands 208 18s9
Sea Island.. 42 9(1
51.50 3801
" Total product for the year... 216500 199072 !
NOKTIi CAROLINA.
Exported :
To foreign ports s*l
To coastwise ports 59137 35908
Stock at end of year , 125
59612 35908
Total product for year 595J2 35908
VIP.UINIA.
Exported :
To foreign ports 9060 6253
j To domestic ports 192788 134747
j Stock at end of year at Nor
\ folk, etc 5M hi
203039 161141
Deduct stock beginning of
year 141 170
Total product for the year. 202898 160971
TENNESSEE, ETC.
Shipments :
From Memphis 286551 247651
From Nashville 58263 65825
From other places In Tenu.,
Kentucky*, etc 123784 194172
Stock in Memphis and Nash
ville end of year 6471 94
Deduct:
Shipped to New Orleans 42039 30767
Shipped to Charleston and
Norfolk 8 2520 35666
Shipped direct to manufac
_ tu f erß ,” ;y 153525 258614
Received from New Orleans 1402
Stock in Memphis and Nash
ville beginning of year 94 107
Total shipments to New York
Boston, Philadelphia and
Portland 196591 18n89
Add shipments to manufac
turers, as above 153826 258611
Total prod uct for year, from
Tennessee, etc 350110 439800
Except the shipment* to New Orleans, Norfolk and
Charleston, which are included in the New Orleans
5 lrgima and South Carolina crop.
Total porduct detailed above by
States for the year ending Sept
1, 1870..... 3 gdg
Consumed in the South not inclu- ’ ’
Jed 90.000
Total crop in the United States for
year ending Sept 1, 1870 3,154 946
Below we give the tctal crop for each
year since 1822:
Years. Bales. Years. Dales.
1869-70 3,154,946 1843 44 2,030,409
1868-69 2,439,039 1842-43 2,37S 875
1867-68 2,593,993 1841 42 1,683!574
1866-67 2,019 774 1840-41 1 634 945
1865- 2,193,987 1839-40 2,177830
1861-65 no rec’d 183 S-39 1,360,532
1861-61 3.6.46,086 1837-38 1,801497
1859-60 4,669,770 1836-37 1 422'930
1855- 3,851,481 1534-36 t’360,752
1857-58 3,113,962 1834-35 1',254 32S
1856- 2,939,519 1833-34 1 205 324
1555- 3.527,545 1832 33 1 070 438
1854- 2,817,339 IS3I-32 987 457
1853 54 2.930,027 1830-31 1.1 38348
185 J 53 3,262,882 1829-30 976 845
18-51-52 3, 1828-29 870 415
1850 61 2 355,257 1827-28 727.593
1849-r>o 2,096,706 1826-27 957,281
1848-49 2,7:8,596 1825-26 720,027
1847-48 ..2,317,634 1824-25 569,249
1846-47 1,778,651 1823-24 609,15S
1845-46 2,100,537 1822-23 495,000
1844 45 2,304,503
The crop of sea island the past year has
been as follows: Florida, 9,948 hales;
Georgia, 9,225 bales; South Carolina,
7,334 bales—total, 26,507 bales, the par
ticulars of which are set out below:
FLORIDA.
Receipts at Savannah...bales...6377
Receipts at Charleston 343S
Receipts at New York 103
Receipts at New’ Orleans 3 )
Total Sea Island crop of F1a...9918
GEORGIA.
Receipts at Savannah...hales... 16241
Deduct received from Fla 6377
Deduct rec’vd from Charleston.. 322
Doduct received from Beaufort.. 317 7016
Total Sea Island crop of Ga 9225
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Receipts at Charleston 13140
Receipts at Savanna li from
Beaufort 317—13457
Deduct received from Florida.. 343S
Deduc t rece’vd from Savannali 2685 6123
Total Sea Island crop of S. C.. 7334
Total Sea Island crop of the U.
S., 1769-70 26507
Total Sea Island crop of tho U.
S., 1868-69 18652
The crop of sea island during former
years has been as follows :
1855- ba1e5...44512
1556- 45314
1857- 40566
186S 59 47592
1859 00 !. 46649
1860 66 No record
1866- 3222S
1867- 21z75
1868- D6Bi
1869- 20507
CONSUMPTION.
The takings of the Northern mills from
this crop have been less during tho past
year than during tho previous year. This
is duo to the belief which prevails among
our spinners that the next crop is likely to
bo marketed at a lower range of prices;
this belief having induced them to rt n
down a considerable portion of tho large
stock they carried over last September.
Hauco, notwithstanding they have taken
less from tbe crop, their actual consump
tion has increased, as is more fully ex
plained below. Our u°ual summary, show
ing the result for ihe year, North aud
South, is as follows:
Total crop of the U. 8. as
above stated bal4s. 3,154,948
Stock on hand commencement of year
(September 1, 1869:)
At Northern ports 9,533
At Southern port3 2,807 12.313
Total supply during year
ending Sept 1, 1870 3,167,289
Os this supply there lias
been exported to foreign
ports during the year... 2,178,917
Sent to Canada by rail
road direct from tho
West 27,533
Burnt North and South.. 4,172
Now on hand Sept. 1, ’7O:
At Northern ports 19,55-4
At Southern ports 40,193—2,270.429
Total consumption in
United States year end
ing Sept 1, 1870 bale-. 890,860
Consumption in Southern
States including above
total 90,000
Leaving taken from the
crop by Northern mills., bales. 806.869
The foregoing statement indicates that
the Northern mills have taken from this
crop 806,860 bales.
The difference of about 30,000 bales be
tween our own conclusion and mill returns
may possibly be lessened when the com
plete figures are received. If, however,
this should uot prove to be so, a part of
t perhaps may be put down to “con
sumption other than the mills,” while a
part is undoubtedly the amount now in
transit overland (in excess of last year),
and in increased stocks at the interior
ports such a**St. Lanis, Cincinnati, Provi
dence, Portland, &c., which of onursc
cannot befhown in eur tables.
TOTAL EXPORTS OF OOTTON TO FOREIGN
PORTS FOR SIX YEARS.
Exports to foreign ports for
yvar ending August 31.
From 1361. 1806. 1867.
N. Orleans bis.. 1783673 516188 618940
Mobile 456121 270934 123424
S Carolina 214388 53324 80896
Georgia 3 )2187 92905 114101
Texas 602.9 6438S 76908
Florida 25073 37977 3009
North Car.>liua 195 21 534
Virginia 810 13011
New York 248049 495462 460068
Boston 24225 12014 17014
Philadelphia 3793 2035 3155
Baltimore.. 3545 6709 7975
Bortland, Maine 103
San Francisco... 32
Total from U. 5...3127508 1552457 1558787
Exports to foreign ports for
year ending August 31.
From 1808 1860. 1870.
N. Orleans bis.. 581477 619031 1015530
Mobile 236511 163154 200838
S. Carolina 105813 56809 97109
Georgia 269604 167537 265631 '
Texai 68095 83376 152559
Florida 810
North Carolina 50
Virginia 8283 6253 9000
hew York 374034 327808 413761
Boston 1411 1491 1677
Philadelphia 1440 99
Baltimore 16300 19212 32162
Portland, Maine... 2807 1907
San Francisco 1
Total from U. 5..16570L5 1448020 2178917
Below we give a detailed statement of
the year’s exports from each port, showing
the direction which these shipments have
taken:
I N Grins Mobile OnlT't’n Cb'tn sav’h N York Ps’mre Ot’r p’ts Total.
Liverpool 544,832 162,414 122,U«| 87,287 204, 670 325,212 7,4f1» 10,8371 1,465,20
Queenstown & Cork. | 4.7 3,470 7,9391 I
;Havm.. 259,223 15,910 1,825 4A 796 TtJM ("i i";" 3^47
j Amsterdam I 7,858 2,*219 !!!!!! 1 m *290 ono
(Hamburg | 17,103 2,898 19 lil — ' 160 i'tg
■ llarcelona, Ac > 46.159 8,759 6,6:, 9 1,187 2 000 U
Santander 1 200 ' oon
!Malaga 4,576 ,
Man Sebastian \ ,221
:Genoa i 10,177 1,888 i.ooo ""up ! i44,"u
.Gottenburg GOO "fed.
Bt. Petersburg ' 8,281 R ,
(ru'et™ 1 *-: 10.98* 3,1291 2,877 '.'.'.[l aa'.Sw
Jf exico 8,410 6,522 192 i”: I n 124
1 Total 1,005,530 200,838 152,619 97,109 265,631 413,701 32,162 11,687 iTusfiol
*Otber ports includes 9,660 bales to
Liverpool from Norfolk, 60 bales to Liver
pool from Wilmington, N. G’„ and the
balanco from Boston.
The following arc the toial gross re
of cotton at J, T ew York, Boston,
i [Jilaaclpnia and Baltimore for each of the ■
laht two years endiDg September 1 : |
j * KW TORK * BOSTON. PHILADELPHIA, BALTIMORE.
HEK2IFTS FROM j *
J IS6B -»- J 1869-70. 1868-9. J IS99-70. 1868-9. j 1869-70. 1868-9. j 1569-70..
New Orioaus 12,5807 116991 73008 53612 6929 5188 1594 isa
i'exas j 41191 64873 19869 10910 ... . one 1S *
Savannah 145364 161362 2666 23446 16781 195 H 15754 ~1/i
Mobile 17610 IS6OB 6919 17657 338 232 50 3
Florida I 7465 6966
South Carolina../ 106500 121830 00*9 5189 10341 10930 19221 154 m
North Carolina.. J 27514 46012 152 178 1313 1378 2887 2789
Virginia i 70774 97316 25713 s'lol 23490 34275
Norihoru Ports...; 12640 5357 76263 65356 V 902 136 37-3
Tennessee, etc | 16458-1 135876 35983 21316 20114 12509 19467 28274
Foreign 3031 11786 9311 228 ( 28 6
Total this year..! 6627801 780017 246433! 254993 55811 56653, "82426 96922
Letter from BurUe.
Editors Chronicle <fc Sentinel:
He views aud suggestions contained io
a late article which appeared io your paper,
upon the poliey proper to be d in
nominating Democratic candidates for
Congress in the several districts of Geor
gia, this fall, meets the hearty approval of
patriotic and reflecting men, not only io
l“' 8 humediaie locality, but wherever else
1 'l? ve heard the subject d.tcussed.
iiT ~B hort torm we should, certainly,
and by all means, select a candidate who, if
elected, will be wholly unexceptionable, in
a legal point of view as that matter is now
understood at the Federal capital. At
this particular time, and for the particular
purpose m view, we canuet wisely afford
to incur any risk.
But tor the long term thero ere many
reasons why we may nominate and elect,
with comparative safety, a different caodi
k'r- > Lave S ei | tio,D * , o ot ixeelient
abilities who are notobnoxious to the 14th
amendment, ond among the*}, you w jU
pardon mo for saying, that your General
VV right is commanding a deservedly large
B*-are of public attention. Tho t oopio will
understand his talents, his capacities and
his patriotism ; nor are they at all unmied
ful of his gallant services, either upon the
field of battle, or more recently, in the
arena.
With regard to the short term, I know
of no man in this Congressional district
who would ba lets i bj’ctionabie, in the
light before mentioned, than Judge
btephen A. Corker. Iu every sense he is
a .tru° uian. He is a good lawyer, a good
citizen, and a pure aud patriotic gentle
man. Moreover, he has had all his civil
disabilities removed, aud that, too. with
out any application on his part, and in
deed, without his knowledge ot the fact
until long afterward. His private charac
ter is above reproach in every panicular,
aud his military record, without a shadow
or a stain. J udge Corker, lam informed,
is perhaps, about forty years of age; is a
man of mature judgment, as your corre
spondent well knows, and, as ha lolly be
lieves, would make the filth Congressional
district an efficient, faithful and honest
representative. He is, it is folly behoved,
the most available man we have tor the
short term.
A meeting has been appointed for the
24th inst., to send delegates from this
county to tho Convention to meet in Au
gusta on the 29th. Burke.
Pollilcil Meeting or the Clilzeni ot
Ureeno County.
On Tuesday the 13th inst., according to
previous announcement, the Democratic
Club of Greene county, met in the Court
house, with the President, Judge Z auiet
nian, in the ebair. The Secretary being
abaeut, 11. M. Barns was requested to act
as Secretary. The President being c tiled
off, Dr. T. N. Poullain was requested to
preside.
Col. M. W. Lowi.i introduced and read
the following preamble and resolutions,
which were adopted :
The Democratic Parly of Grocno county
heartily endorse the enunciation of the late
Stato Democratic Oouvcotion, of thoso
cardinal principles of political taitb, whoso
violation by Federal and S.ate administra
tions is last undermining our temple of
constitutional liberty.
Wa as cordially approve of their silence
upon matiers of minor iiuportaucWhen
tbe lifo of the Republic, is in danger, its
true triends should not stop to quarrel
about past party alignments, or former
differences of opinion; but should rush
with united effort to the rescue of tho
sufferer.
We agree with the State Democratic
Executive Committee in their recommen
dation, that candidates for the State Leg
islature should uot be obnoxious to the
14th Amendment. For while we aro sat
isfied that this bastard appendage to the
Constitution cannot- live an hour under
honest judicial scrutiny, or a candid pub
lic judgment, yet we deetn it prudent to
afford no excuse for Federal interference,
either Legislative, Executive or military,
with tho organizition of our next Legisla
ture. The tax-payers ot Georgia caunot
afford to give Bullock two more years con
trol ot her finances, with uo check but a
Legislature manipulated to his liking.
While we think it would, perhaps, ho
impolitic to nominate candidates for tho
lower branch of the Legislature in this
county, we deprecate, as unwise and
ruinous in policy, the eagerness of some ot
our friends to rush into the contest. Pru
dence is as essential as valor. Public sen
timent will, in duo time, settle upon tho
representative men. “A word to the wise
is sufficient.”
In viow of the 19th Senatorial field be
ing more extended, and tho wishes of three
counties instead of one have to be consult
ed, we deem it proper to meet in Conven
tion in Crawfordville on tlie 3Jth inst., to
consult together, and if thought proper to
nominate a candidate for the Senate.
We differ with the State Executive Com
mittee in their views of tho requisite anto
cedents aud qualifications of candidates for
Congress. We had rather be unrepresent
ed than miirtprcscnted or feebly represent
ed. Nothing could advauco tho interest
of the National Democratic party (and
consequently the interest of tho Republic,)
more than a bold, determined and able at
tack, in tho halls of Congress, upon this
so-called 14th amendment, the infamous
teat-oath, and all lik<> ex post facto laws
and all bills ot attainder. Congress is the
arena to make the fight upon. ' From this
elevation every sound from the artillery of
tru'h will reach even the humblest peas
ant’s ears, and arouse the people to a vin
dicatton and assertion of their tong violated
rights. It would be infinitely better to
have an able representative at Washing
ton, even should he fall in this glorious
fight, but saattot the seed of truth broad
cast’over tho Republic, than to electa
negative man, or one who would compro
mise or yield principle for the sake of piaco.
Resolved, That this meeting appoint
four Delegates to represent them in the
Congressional Convention to be held in
Augusta on tho 25th inst.
Res lived That we appoint one delegate
from each Militia District in the c unty to
represent the party in a Senatorial Con
vention lor this District ; which wo recom
mend to be held in Crawfordviile, oa Fri
day 30th inst., and that Taliaferro and
Warren counties be requested to send a
like number of delegates.
Resolved, That in no spirit of dictation,
or wLh to embarrass tho proceedings of
the C mgressional Convention but merely
as expressive of our preferences, wa sug
gest the lion. Linton Stephens as one
whose anility, firmness and patriotic devo
tion to truth, eminently qualify him to
repre-ent the sth Congressman 1 District
upon the floor of Congress.
Oa motion, the Cba ; rn:an appointed M.
Vv. Lewis, W. G. Johnson, James L.
Brown, James W. Jackson, and H M.
Borns, to propose names to represent tho
county in the Conventions referred *r> in
tbe resolutions, who reported the follow
ing round gentlemen as Congressional
delegates :
Dr. A. A. JernighaD, Dr. Wo. L M
Harris, Col. M. W. Lewis and H.'m.
Burns.
Senatorial Delegates—J Ii Sanders L D
Carlton, Dr A II Randal, W W Moore
Jas W Jackson, Wm Brvan. Dr A A
Jernighan, Wm O Cheney, L B WilSs V
D Gresham, Charles Copeland, Jas Park
R II Ward H M jiurns. Littleberry Jack
son, W A Fo: ter, W A Corry, and John
owan.
On motion, (be report was adopted.
Resolved, That tho proceedings of this
meeting he published in the Greensboro’
lleratd , \V arrentnn Clipper , Chronicle
& * ENTINEL and Constitutiona>ist.
Oq motion, the meeti p adjourned.
. tl ..I 1 - ■ k* BoULI.A I.v, Proa, jiru tern.
H. M. Turns, Acting Sec’y.
Democratic Meeting; i>i Striven.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel :
Ly viituoof a call for a meeting of tho
Democrat party of Sorlven county a largo
number of citizens assembled at the Court
house on Monday Septcrr.b r 12 b.
The meeting was called to order by J.
Lawton Siugellton, Chairman of the local
Executive Committee, who ixrlaincd that
tbc object of tho meeting was for ihe selec
tion of delegates to the Blackshcar Con
vention, and for other party purposes.
On motion, the Chairman, with the aid
of a committee, selected the following
gentlemen a. delegates to the Blaokshcar
District Convention: John C. Dell, Jas.
D. Wade, and Win. Henderson.
Alternates Robert T. Lawton, 11. A.
Crockett and Richard Saxon-
Judge E- B. Gross offered the following
resolutions, which were adopted :
lletolved, That the Democratic party of
Burke and Bullock counties ho requested
to appoint delegates to meet delegates
from Scriven at Millen, cd tho Ist Satur
day in October, for the purno3e of nomi
nating a candidate for the I7th Senatorial
District.
Resolved, That while we believe tho
Damooracy of Striven are cntiiled to the
nominee of the Millen Convention, for the
promotion of harmony V7e cheerfully
yield our claims to Bulioek county.
The following delegates were selected
for the Millen Convention: Judge E. B.
Gross, Dr. B. R. Minin, and James
Parker, Jr.
Alternates—Janies B. Dell, Thomas W.
Oliver, and J. R. Cooper.
On motion, the Chairman was requested
to call a meeting of the Democratic party
of Seri von, od the Ist Tuesday in October,
for tho purpose of nominating a repre
[ sentativc to the Legislature, and other
county officers.
Od motion, the Secretary was requested
to transmit the proceedings of the meet
ing to the Savannah and Augusta Demo
cratic papers for publication.
After which the Convention adjourned
sine die. H
J. Lawton Sinoellton, Chair’mn
John W. Boston, Secy.