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WEDNESDAY ...... NOVEMBER 20
THE MEETING OF GOVERNORS.
The Governor of Tennessee has signi
fied his acceptance of the-[invitation to
meet in convention the Governors of
States interested in the Mississippi and
Atlantic or Great Western Canal. We
hear that all 'the Governors of States
interested, witllbut distinction as to
color in politics, have accepted, and
that shortly we shall have, as the result
of their convention, some well defined
plan whereby to inaugurate this great
enterprise.
VALE BELMONT.
August Belmont, the lame little fel
low, so long tlie’executive head of the
Democratic party, as well as the “ best
man ” in America, of the great banking
house of the Rothchilds, having retired
from manipulating Democratic, princi
ples, now sells his pictures and with
draws to enjoy o Hum cum diejnitate un
der the shadows of Imperialism in
Europe. Doubtless King William of
Prussia, Emperor of Germany, may find j
a place for him as an amateur worthy to I
be held in high esteem in manipulating j
the growing principles of European De- j
mocracy. Vale Gus. All hail, M. Count, ]
Viscount, or Duke De Belmont, as the 1
fates may have in store for thee, or as
thou didst put money in thy purse.
Vale et Vale, thou Prince of Democrats.
SOUTHERN STREAMS TO BE
STOCKED WITH SALMON.
The United States Commissioner of
Fish and Fisheries, Professor Baird, had
a consultation with the Commissioners
of Massachusetts and New Hampshire
upon the subject of introducing salmon
eggs into the different streams of the
United States, in which it was decided
that the salmon egg of the Sacramento
river should be placed in Southern
waters, as the water of that river is warm,
and the South more adapted to this
character of fish. It is known that the
salmon of the Sacramento river, in flavor
and texture, is the most superior fish of
the species. Its average weight is about
fifteen pounds, and its color the same as
the gold of the mines. . It may be called
the staple- dinner disli in California, and
such is its popularity that it supercedes
the general use of meats. Its introduc
tion into the waters of Georgia would
complete the delicate varieties of fish
that we now have. What is most to be
dreaded in the future, however, is that
close “netting” of fish that “run,”
which promises to reduce greatly if not
to extirpate some of our most valuable
species.
IH THE UNION TO BE CONTINUED
A.S A UNION OF FORCE ?
The Philadelphia North American,
commenting on the late State election in
Pennsylvania, says :
“ Anotlier'term of four years will un
doubtedly finish all our work at the
South,” and thereupon proceeds to con
gratulate the country.
Phillips 'differs with the
North American as to the finishing of
tlio South in four years. He thinks a
longer time will bo necessary ; and a
despotism to boot. He says :
1 hope to see Gen. Grant remain
President until every Southerner now
living over forty years of uge shall be
put forever under ground.
These people were furiously in favor
of the reconstruction laws passed by
Congress for the South ; and to carry
them into effect, they supported the
Congress of the United States in tramp
ing on the Constitution, and in annihi
lating the independence of the judiciary
of the United States, wliieh would have
arrested them. Well, without let or
hindrance they have done their “work
at the South” for the six years past.
And wliat is the result ? The one wants
four more years “to finish all our work
at the South,” and the other a despotism
of at least forty, years’ continuance, un
til every man “shall be put under
ground” who is now over forty years.
NOVEMBER 20
A MONEY PANIC IMPOSSIBLE.
There is some apprehension and much
talk about a money panic, which is sus
tained by ambiguous phrases in editorials
and money articles in favorite journals,
and by some very grave facts which,
under other circumstances than those
of a suspended or irredeemable cur
rency, might lie alarming. It is true,
the losses by fire in the last few years
have been enormous. Portland, Chicago
and Boston; in each of these great cities
the destruction of property by the re
morseless element has been immense;
probably aggregating four hundred mil
lions of dollars iu those three cities
alone, saying nothing of the losses sus
tained in other parts of the country.
But when it is considered that the an
nual increase iu the wealth of the Union
amounts to two billions or more, this
loss, however fearful and terrible to
contemplate, shrinks to the simple fact
that large as it is, it is only a tithe or so
of annual increase. Again, it is held up
as ominous of. disaster; that a large
American banking house has failed, aud
that the Bank of England has placed
the rate of interest at double the
usual rate, seven per cent. But so long
as the national currency is irredeemable,
aud so long as the Secretary possesses
(as he claims to possess) the power of
expanding the currency o we cannot see
that a money panic is possible. Mr.
Bontwell asserts that he has the power
to expand by the re-issue of about forty
millions of notes redeemed and cancelled,
and to make good whatever loss to the
currency may have occurred, and can be
ascertained, by the great calamities
which have overtaken Portland, Chicago
and Boston. This reserve power of the
Government is certainly equal to the
suppression of ell attempts at panic
making, whether originating in foreign
designs or home combinations. We are
utterly incredulous as to the possibility
of a money panic which would sweep
over the country as in (Jays of yore, so
long as the currency is irredeemable, and
its control is iu the hands of the Govern
ment.
As we write a friend places at our dis
posal a telegram from a leading bouse
in London, which states as a fact that
the street rates for money in London on
Monday and Tuesday last ranched as
high as nine per cent., and indicates as
probable that the Bank of England
would increase the rate to eight per
oeut. This does not modify our opin
ion. The influence of this increased
rate will temporarily depress prices cur
rent for marketable values of produce,
and 'greatly affect the prices of bonds
and stocks. But there can be uo panic
am this side of the Atlantic. It is a
matter of congratulation, however, that
as a rule the farmers in this section have
sold freely of cotton as gathered, and
have paid their indebtedness. Ihev
will, therefore, be exempt from what
ever evils way ensue from a spasmodic
money market in Liverpool. Europe
must and will have Southern cotton.
THE LINE OF EMIGRATION.
Emigration still pours along the line
of the Paeilic Road. The sales of the
land department of the Union Pacific
Railroad Company for the month of Oc
tober were 20,657 acres, amounting to
the sum of £92,379, at an average of
$4 50 per acre. The total sales from
July 28, 1869, to November 1, 1872, were
(>40,051 acres, amounting to 82,757,309,
at an average of §4 25 per acre. From
lliis statement some idea may be formed
of the rapid development of the country
along the line of this road.
The sales for the most part are effect
ed in Europe. The emigrant’s destina
tion is determined before he leaves the
place tA bis nativity, and from the hour
of departaw to the hour of reaching the
newly aequixed purchases these emi
grants constitute ifc? source of immense
revenue to agents, steawaebip lines, rail
road lines, brokers, &c., all .working tor
# common end, and with the oowjuMi
I design of receiving their respective
shares in the way of commissions, fees,
discounts on hills of exchange, and in
the conversion of the gold and silver
coinage of Europe into national cur
rency, transportation charges, and what
ever else may be seduced by enterprise
from the emigrant's pocket.
FULL VOTE IN ALABAM A.
The Montgomery Advertiser, making
all due allowance for a fraudulent Radi
cal vote of not less than 3,000, claims
that there was a larger turn out of voters
at thc_ recent election, by 15,000, than at
any previous election in the State. The
Advertiser notes the increased vote in
several counties, aggregating a net in
crease of 4,367 votes in one-fifth of the
Stute. The same ratio, if preserved
throughout, will give an aggregate in
crease in the State of 15,679. Os this
increase, according to the ratio already
known, the Democrats will have 5,269
and the Radicals 10,440, making the to
tal vote of the State stand as follows:
Lewis, 88,126; Herndon, 84,706 —Lewis'
majority, 3,420. The official figures will
not greatly vary this estimate. The
Advertiser says further:
It is, therefore, a great error to sup
pose that the people did not come to the
polls. The Democratic and Conserva
tive vote increased heavily, and Greeley
received at least nine thousand more
votes in Alabama than Seymour did,
and more votes than were cast for our
State ticket in 1870 by several thousand.
But the increased negro vote in North
ern and Western Alabama, and the im
portation from Georgia and Tennessee,
together with heretofore Democrats who
patriotically voted to secure bogus
“loyal claims” by selling themselves to
Grant and Lewis for the occasion, and
other Democrats who shrank from their
duty from various motives—all takeu in
combination—lost us the State. But we
now know the utmost strength of the
Radical omnium gatherum. The negro
vote has been polled to the last man :
and it is impossible to imagine a combi
nation of circumstances more fortunate
for the Radicals, or unfortunate for the
Conservatives !
PROGRESS IN RUSSIA.
The work of progress has been inaugu
rated in Russia, and that despotic gov
ernment lias recently had its first popu
lar election. A late number of the Mes
senger Official, of St. Petersburg, gives
the results of the first elections in Rus
sia for Mayor, Municipal Councillors
and other officers, in one hundred and
twenty-fiye Russian towns. The new
law is based on the principle of giving
votes to those who pay local taxes, and
the results of the elections are that in
only forty-six of these towns have nobles
been elected to fill the post of civic mag
istrate. In ten towns the nobility
form tlio majority of the council, while
in thirteen no noble lias been elected to
any post. To 10 per cent, of seats in
the councils, and to 15 per cent, of the
magisterial offices in those 125 towns,
the electors have returned nobles, while
20 per cent, of the councils and 17 per
cent, of the magistrates were filled with
peasants or small tradesmen. The mer
chants and manufacturers supply the re
maining 62 percent, of tlio holders of
the magisterial offices. The new law
does not apply to St. Petersburg, Mos
cow or Odessa. This law is anew fea
ture in the Government of Russia, and
cannot fail to be an entering wedge to
still more important steps.
HAPPY MEXICO.
Mexico is tranquil. Pronunciamentos
have ceased. Internal commotions seen)
to have subsided ; and there does not
seem at this present writing the slight
est chance of a “war with Mexico” or
for establishing a protectorate by the Gov
ernment of the United States. All read
ers of newspapers must have remarked
how few items concerning Mexican af
fairs have appeared in the newspaper
columns of late. Happy is the country,
it is said, that has no history ; and
Mexico is to be congratulated that for
the last few months —ever since the elec
tion of Lerdo de Tejada to succeed
Juarez—she lias furnished the subject
for few comments. After a stormy in
terval, a period of quietude lias come,
which it is hoped, under a wise and
moderate ruler, may long continue.
Lerdo de Tejada is no warrior. Asa
private citizen he was no revolutionist
He was, before his election, a civilian of
enlightened views and legal education.
He lias been a judge of the highest
court known in Mexico, and may be
supposed to have, therefore, a respect
for the law. He is strong in the sup
port of the Mexican people, there hav
ing been but a few scattering votes
cast against him. He can b 8 a re
former, without any powerful and or
ganized party to thwart his plans. Even
Porfirio Diaz has apparently given his
sincere adhesion to the new government,
and the robber chief Cortina lias sued
for pardon.
There is, therefore, no chance for
laurels and fame, fresh and gory, in
Mexico or elsewhere, except as against
the red man in the West, unless we>
U. S., go to Cuba and help the patriots
against Spain.
CHEAP RAILROAD FARES.
The question of cheap fares on rail
roads is to receive a practical solution iu
Massachusetts. The Legislature of that
State passed a law last Winter providing
that when a certain nun; her of persons
living on the line of a railroad should
petition the managers for the same, they
should put on two daily trains at re
duced rates of fare, to be ran at hours
that will accommodate working people
in going to and returning from the place
of their employment. The Boston Ad
vertiser states that petitions have been
presented to the Eastern Railroad, and
the officers of that company, though de
nying the competency of such legisla
tion, and averring that the proposed
rates will not pay the expense of run
ning the trains, announce that they will
try the experiment, and run an addi
tional train between Lynn and Boston.
The fare will be five cents, without ref
erence to how l'ar the passengers may
ride. That is, the tickets will be sold
twenty for one dollar. Such an arrange
ment will enable working and trades
people to live all along the road from
Boston to Lynn, nine miles, and attend
to business in the first named city at a
cost for riding uo greater than is de
manded for a mile trip on one of our
street ears. The experiment is interest
ing, as upon its solution may depend
similar legislation in other States. It
is important that the mechanics and
working men of large cities should have
comfortable homes at reasonable rents.
These points cannot be reached while
such homes are HvaieJ iu the densely
crowded portions of cities. The only
way to effect the reform is to so cheapen
communication with the suburbs of a
city as to allow working men to live
where rents are cheap. This is the con
summation aimed at by the Massachu
setts law, and that is the hold it has
upon the masses. How the scheme will
work remains to be seen. The tendency
in the populous portion of the North is
to the absorption of railroad lines, tele
graph lines, and whatever is essential or
may be of general utility in public use,
by either the State or General Govern
ment.
GEORGIA STATE COLLEGE OF
agriculture and the me
I'JIANIU ARTS.
From a auzmlar received from this
College, which now forms a department
of the University, we see thu %t has as
sumed a permanent organization with a
full faculty, and now offers six separate
courses .of study to the students. All
these courses of study belong to the in
dustrial professions. A young man may
now prepare himself at the State Col
lege to be an agriculturist, a practical
chemist, an engineer, an architect, Ac.
These are the profession# that will add
to the wealth of Georgia and derelop her
resources.
We look for valnabie results to the
State and the cause of industrial educa
tion in the South from this inatitu^.
In its qjganization, the Trustees have
exhibited a commendable liberality to
the State in grouting as many free
scholarships to residents of the State as
there are members of the House of Rep
resentative* and Senators in the General
Assembly. We subjoin the following
extract from the circnlar in regard to
the “ object of the College
The “ leading object" of this College
is, as defined bv the act of Congress,
“to teach such branches of learning as
are related to agrieultuie and mechanic
arts —in Older to promote the liberal and
practical education of the industrial
classes.” The course of education,
therefore, here prescribed, is not to teach
agriculture as an art, but, in accordance
with the law, it includes “such branches
of learning as are related to agricul
ture."
The courses offered are adapted to
both a “liberal and practical education”
—that is, a practical education based on
a liberal education. It is no part of the
System to make empirics. The practi
cal education given will be the practical
application of the sciences, whose prin
ciples have been previously studied.
The students will have these practical
applications in the laboratories and at
the experimental farm.
The resources are now too limited to
fully develop this department of indus
trial education. Its expansion here, as
elsewhere, must be gradual, in propor
tion as moans are available.
It is designed, when the resources will
permit, to provide commodious labora
tories and thoroughly equip them with
modern apparatus; to provide an experi
mental farm and furnish it with im
proved agricultural implements; to es
tablish a plant-house for illustrations in
botany; to place in the industrial mu
seum models of implements and ma
chines, products of agriculture, of man
ufacture and the mechanic arts gener
ally; and to provide for the students a
reading room, with reviews, magazines,
and the prominent agricultural journals.
OPINIONS OF THE ADMINISTRA
TION PRESSi
As the smoke of the late contest be
gins to clear away it is a matter of some
interest to the South to note public
opinion as it finds expression in public
journals. Some of the leading North
ern journals, from which heretofore we
have quoted, affirm the existence of
hatred to the South as unabated and
wide-spread and omnipotent in the con
trol of Northern public opinion. This,
we believe, is the opinion of H. G.
himself, or, at least, this is the utter
ance of the New York Tribune, over
which he has resumed the editorial con
trol. The New York Herald (inde
pendent) foreshadowed before the elec
tion, and reaffirmed after the result, that
the fear of a financial disaster, resulting
from a change in administration, was
the dominant influence which controlled
public opinion, and this, and this alone,
would be the deduction which could be
safely drawn in shaping the future
policy of the Administration, which,
necessarily, would be conservative. Now
we quote further from the journals sup
porting the Administration :
[From ilie New York Times, Administration.]
The South.
Previous to the election of Tuesday,
no one doubted that there were a good
many men of lawless temper and des
perate fortunes in the South, who chafed
under the restraints of a restored Union.
There were others, and perhaps as many,
who were disgusted with the condition
of the Southern State governments, who
believed the evils in those governments
were sustained at Washington, and who
looked to the election of Mr. Greeley to
bring relief. These latter, in the mean
time, regarded with a lenient eye offen
ses committed against the State govern
ments. Thus the South was notorious
ly in a bad way. Some of the States
liad had governments manned by Repub
licans; others had equally bad govern
ments controlled by Democrats, and all
suffered from the unsettled condition of
the public mind. The result of the
election must remove this latter and
chief source of difficulty. There is no
longer room for hope that lawlessness
will be protected at Washington. There
is no longer any ground for expecting
interference of any kind from the nation
al capital. The South can and must,
by peaceable means and by its own ex
ertions, -work out its own salvation.
The result is largely due to Southern
men, who saw that the nation had deter
mined never again to trust the Democ
racy, though in disguise, and who deter
mined to make friends conclusively with
the mass of the Northern people. They
saw that it was of no use to preach a
“reconciliation” which had for its first
result the restoration of the South to
her old domination in the Government.
They divined that the answer to that
would be: You can have as perfect re
conciliation as you desire, but you can
not have the National Government as
yet. So they made up their minds to
give the one absolutely unquestionable
evidence of tlieir good faith and reason
ableness by accepting the national can
didate for the Presidency.
They were certainly wise, as well as
genuinely patriotic, in doing so. They
are now masters of tlie situation. They
have earned the right to be heard at
Washington as well as at home, and they
are sure to be respectfully listened to in
both places.
No one familiar with the facts will
deny that the monopoly of indisputable
loyalty possessed by the white Republi
cans of the South has had some bad con
sequences. Men have been trusted who
would not have been had there been a
numerous class of proven good will to
ward tlie National Government from
wliom to choose. Now there is such a
class. At the same time, tlie South lias
it in its power to elect good men to local
offices. None .worth mentioning are
now disqualified. The choice is free,
and the fault will be in themselves if
the Southern States do not make a good
one. With sound and efficient local
governments, and with as perfect an ac
cord with tlie loyal sentiment of the
people as is now established, the South
is on the broad road to prosperity. Her
material interests will rapidly feel the
favorable influence of the confidence
which must now continually increase
with reference to her future, and what
ever difficulties she may have to encoun
ter, it is almost impossible that they
should be more than local and tempo
rary.
[From tho Baltimore American. Administra
tion.]
Let Us Have Peace.
The Cincinnati movement in its es
sential idea was salutary to the being of
free institutions. The reconciliation of
the South and the complete eradication
of the bitterness aud prejudices engen
dered by the rude clash of war is, in
deed, a great and noble work—one which
commends itself to every good citizen.
From the very beginning, however, it
was apparent that the movement was a
sham, veiling, as it did, under specious
pretense of high intent, the attacks of a
disappointed clique of politicians upon a
gentleman whose moderation and mag
nanimity extorted the grudging appro
bation of his opponents. When it put
forth as a remedy for these evilsj one
who did more than any other man in
the country to produce them, the flimsy
sham became apparent, and the indigna
tion of the country was expressed sharp
ly and decisively! The political trick
sters, who endeavored to make the great
yearning which the nation feels for the
undivided love and veneration of all its
citizens, a means to effect their own am
bitious designs, have been justly and
effectually rebuked, and it now remains
to bring about a real and permanent re
conciliation. We have done with the
Liberal movement. “ Abortive, mon
strous and unkind mixed,” its fitful ex
istence is at end, its dissolution is com
plete and it is gathered into limbo with
the dead follies of the world.
When Mr. Greelev, in his little speech
in Baltimore, said that, whatever the re
sult cf the election, his candidacy would
be productive of good, he spoke the
truth, but not as he thought it. Al
though rough-hewed, an end was shaped
that lie little thought. His henchmen,
when tffey constructed their design, and
offered it to the nation in the name of
peace and amity, were unaware that in
directly they were to effect that result.
They struck the right chord in the popu
lar breast, but the people differed with
them as to the means which were best
adapted to bring this reconciliation
about, and by their action they showed
that they had it really to heart, and so,
while endorsing the good of the Cincin
nati movement, chose better instruments
to effect it than those which were offered
to them by the originators of that
scheme. So it was that a movement per
verted controlled by designing men,
although successful in its principle,
crashed and defeated those who' expect
ed to be borne by it into “fresh fields
and pastiaw new. ” It was. as in the
beautiful poem qf Mr, Emerson;
• They bmiffed wiser than they knew .
The conscious stone to beauty grew;”
And now, in their defeat, there is brought
about a unanimity of feeling that might
otherwise have not occurred. The co
operation of so many Southern States in
effecting the defeat of the coalitiqn gives
them a just claim to participation in the
conduct of public affairs, and will con
tribute more to the establishment of a
permanent reconciliation than anything
else could have 4 one - Gen. Grant, al
though through cogent necessity he was
I invested with extraordinary powers, ex
ercised them with such moderation that
the country feels a confidence in his Ad
ministration that the government of no
other statesman at this juncture could
inspire. He lias lxsen quietly and unob
trnsivelywatching the progress of events,
aud we concur with the former Horace
Greeley in believing that he is better
fitted for his great trust now than he
was ia 1868. Steruly economical in the
use of words, what he says is pregnant
with meaning. He struck a chord when
he said “Let us have peace,!” that lias
never ceased to vibrate. Now that faei
tious opposition lias been crushed by
the united efforts of both North and
South, irrespective of past divisions of
feeling, we may now look for peace in
deed.
The Duty of the Democrats of Georgia.
Editors Chronicle <t- Sentinel :
The Presidential struggle is over, and
Grant is elected by an overwhelming
majority. The coalition between the
so-called Liberal Republicans and .a
large majority of the Democratic party
of the United States lias utterly failed
to accomplish what it so ardently de
sired and confidently expected. Greeley
returns to the Tribune, aud, in hot
haste, pledges liis support, at least to a
limited extent, to the administration of
Grant, without a word of gratitude to
the Democracy for the immense sacrifice
which they made in his interest.
The contest was fierce, and, to a de
gree, bitter in Georgia between the
Greeley Democrats and those that were
denominated “ Straights.” My opinion
is, that among Democrats in this State
there was much less difference between
the two wings, as to principles, than
was charged by the “ Straights.” If the
Greeley Democrats, as a body, had en
dorsed the principles of the Cincinnati
platform, then I think the charges of
“ departure” alleged against them would
have been just. But, as I interpret
their course, there were very few who
really supported Greeley upon principle.
This, I think, is fully justified by the ac
tion of the Democratic Convention, held
in Atlanta on the 20th of August. That
body deliberately ignored the Cincinnati
platform, and reaffirmed the adhesion of
the Democracy of Georgia to the great
principles of the Jeffersonian school.
But, under the pressure of circum
stances, they acquiesced in the policy
adopted by the Baltimore Convention,
and in their great anxiety to defeat
Grant, and in the hope that thereby
they would secure some benefits to the
South and make a beginning in favor of
restoring the Government to constitu
tional administration, they resolved to
support Greeley. The patriotism of
purpose by which they were actuated
ought to be, and I think is, generally
conceded. On the other hand, the
! “Straights” determined to adhere to the
| principles of the 20th of August, an
nounced by the Atlanta Convention, and
to cast their votes for O’Couor. Hence,
there is no reason to doubt their patriot
ism and purity of motive. I know that
each wing of the party in Georgia has,
to some extent, questioned the upright
ness of the other. Each has respectively
indulged in tart discussion aud acerbity
of tone. This was not universal, I am
glad to know, but too much not to have
left its mark in hundreds of individual
cases, and those among many of the
brightest and-ablest men in the State-
Tile “Straights” thought it was wisest
to maintain the time-lionored principles
of the party, even at the expense of de
feat ; whilst the Greeley Democrats
judged it more wise to hold in abeyance
the same principles, for the time being,
in the ardent hope of displacing the
Radical party. I think I have fairly
presented the difference between the
two wings of the Georgia Democracy,
and that difference shows that the cause
of its existence was temporary, and
known to be so by both, yea, and I trust
intended to be so.
Now to the question of duty. What
is it? It is simply this: The cause of
the difference having been removed by
tlio termination of the contest—close up
our ranks; “shake hands across the
bloodless chasm;” let all unfriendly allu
sion by the press and people of each
wing, to the unfortunate difference, be
buried for ever in the tomb of oblivion,
and the party be again united in the
bonds of political brotherhood.
I have seen allusions, indeed, recom
mendations in some quarters, made to
the necessity mid propriety of forming a
new party. But no announcement has
been made, so far as I have seen, of the
principles on which such party is pro
posed to be organized. Is it upon Dem
ocratic principles or those of the Cin
cinnati platform? It can scarcely be
the latter, for that has just been repu
diated with an emphasis and significance
which the historian will record in italics.
It is decided now that the grand old
party cannot be brought to the point of
organizing upon any such condemned
structure. Is it proposed to organize a
new party on Democratic principles, un
der some new name ? This is scarcely
true, for a true Democrat is neither
ashamed nor afraid of the name. He is
rather proud of the name, aud lie glories
in the history of its past achievements.
Anew party on correct principles, needs
no other name, fA’ the name is signifi
cant of these principles. It is not,
therefore, very uncharitable to surmise
that the proposition is prompted by de
sire for political honor rather than for
the conservatism of constitutional gov
ernment and popular liberty; for these
inestimable blessings cannot be main
tained on this continent, except upon
the old principles of Jeffersonian Demo
cracy. No sound party, therefore, can
be otherwise than Democratic. Then
let the idea of a new party be abandon
ed. All true Democrats should look
upon it with suspicion.
But it may be urged that the Demo
cratic party never can succeed. It lias
been too often defeated. Its principles
and policy are distasteful to a large ma
jority of the people of these States.
This I deny. lam satisfied that a fair
presentation of them, with a pure and
free election, would show them to be
triumphantly in the asendaut in the
great American heart. The Democracy
has always succeeded upon . these condi
tions, and always will. We lost in 1860,
by the rupture in the Charleston Con
vention. Lincoln was elected a second
time under the pressure of the then ex
isting war. Grant was first elected
upon his military popularity; he was
elected the second time by the corrupt
use of money and the great unpopulari
ty of Greeley. If a pure Democrat had
been nominated at Baltimore he would
have made a stronger race than Greeley,
if he would not have been elected.—
The party would, at least, been saved
from seism and consequent demoraliza
tion.
But suppose J am wrong in my reason
ing on this score, and it be true that
the old Democratic party can never,
hope to succeed ; can any man assert
that any other new party would succeed ?
Surely not. And if it succeeds, it
must be upon priueiples aud policy
other than Democratic. What would
such success be worth ? Literally noth
ing. If the Democratic principles never
can succeed, then the Government must
inevitably terminate in centralism. For
the Jeffersonian doctrines, which the
fathers of the Constitution so zealous
ly advocated, present the only point
blank antagonism to centralism. Hence
anew party—organized with the view to
getting control of the Government, and
ignoring the pfinpiptes of Democracy,
if it should expect success (assuming
the wisdom of those who propose it) —
must organize upon principles so nearly
approximating to those of the present
Radical party that it would necessarily
be centralizing iu its- tendency, anil its
accession to power would afford little,
if anv, guaranty for sound constitutional
administration. Away, then, with the
idea of anew party. The Democratic
partv is good enough. If it cannot
save the Government and public liberty,
centralism is our inevitable doom, and
if the glorious structure of the fathers of
1787 must be overthrown, as I fear it
will. I prefer to perish iu its ruins,
fighting tor their principles, cqnsecra
ted, as thev are, with the blood of 17/6.
Then let 'Democrats, forgetting their
recent estrangement, and each wing
forgiving the other for all ascerbitv of
temper in discussion, rally under their
same old banner, blazing with the un
dimmed lustre of its hallowedprinciples.
The interest and welfare of Georgia
demand such a reunion. It is notorious
that the party includes the great mass
of the white people of the State. To
organize anew party will permamently
divide them and jpve the balance of
power to the colored voters, for which
each party will contend and to which
each will cater. What true Georgian
desires to witness such a state of things ?
Whocac contemplate,with complaisance,
such degradation of the ballot, now
already becoming, by its abuse, the in
strument of our ruin ? What will then
be the character of our Legislature, and
what of its enactments? I wish no detri
ment to the colored man. I would say
nothing to give him just offense. But
the simple truth is, that the black race
is too ignorant to make laws or vote j
wisely. L>et them have the balance of
power, and our State government, in all j
its branches, will fall into the hands of |
unprincipled and ignorant demagogues.
The Democratic party, by being united,
can avert those calamities —by dividing
they will invite them. Let us be cautious
to preserve good State government.
The suggestions for a new party, as
far as I have seen, emanated from
sources that never did love Democracy.
From the small number of O’Conor’s
votes, they perhaps conclude that the
great body of the party that votes for
Greeley may now, under the sting of
defeat," consider tlie proposition favor
ably. Let them not be too sanguine on
this score. There were thousands who
would have voted for O’Gonor if they
had seen auv prospect of success. But
knowing that there was no such hope,
they did not vote in the Presidents!
election. They stood aloof, and said,
if Greeley’s friends can elect him let
them do’ so. And many of them pre
ferred to see Greeley elected, but ex
pecting no good from it, even if they
could have believed their was any chance
for it, they were unwilling to be respon
sible for even the temporary ignoring'of
their principles. In fine, seeing no hope
in any quarter, consistent with their
principles, they were neutral. I repeat,
there are thousands of them in Georgia.
It will be a fatal mistake to form anew
party, in disregard of that element, upon
the supposition that it is insignificant.
If it be asked when shall this reunion
be made? I answer now—in the heart
of every Democrat, advocated by every
Democratic paper aud public speaker.
And let it have formal expression, im
mediately on the assembling of .tlie ap
proaching Legislature. Such action
will secure harmony in that body upon
all great questions—the election of offi
cers; the confirmation of Executive
nominations and the election of a United
States Senator. Let it never be asked,
in any or all these cases, whether lie was
a “ Straight” or whether he voted for
Greeley ; but simply is he a Democrat
and otherwise fit for the office to be
tilled. If animated by this spirit, the
Democracy will continue to be a broth
erhood on tlie good old platform ; we
shall have salutary laws and a wise State
Government. A Neutral.
November 12, 1872.
LETTER FROM BURKE.
Tlie Courts, Crops and Improvements
in that County.
Waynesboro, Ga., Nov. 13, 1872.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
The Superior Court of this county lias
been in session here since Monday last
aud adjourned at noon to-day. But one
or two jury trials were had, but a large
amount of old business, which has been
encumbering the docket for some years,
was disposed of by the presiding Judge,
Gibson. There lias not been a large
attendence of the members of the bar,
this being an adjourned term, and many
lawyers who practice here have been
detained at Jefferson Court, and by
business in tlie United States Circuit
and • District Courts, now in session in
Savannah. Among the visiting bar I
notice Judge Hook, F. H. Miller, M. P.
Carroll, Davenport Jackson, tlie Solici
tor-General of tlie District, and Gen.
Wriglit, from your city, and R. B.
Knight, Esq., from Emanuel.
Upon inquiring among the planters, I
learn that tlie crops, both of cotton and
corn, in this county are very good—equal
to a good average production. The
Fall lias been fine for harvesting tlie
crop, and the planters are generally
much in advance of the season in this re
spect. The negroes are reported to
have worked well, and tlie relations be
tween the planters and laborers are bet
ter than since tlie close of tlffe war.
The people of the county seem at last
to be recovering from the disastrous ef
fects of the war, and indications of re
turning prosperity meet tlie eye in every
direction. This is particularly notice
able in the improvements of the farmer,
the use of better farm stock and farm
ing implements; and in the increase of
home comforts, which nearly all tho
planters now enjoy to an extent equal if
not greater than in anti-bellwn times.
But no where are there greater indica
tions of thrift and improvement than in
this ancient and heretofore somewhat
dilapidated village. The trade of this
town has increased more than four
fold. Large quantities of goods are
now sold here, and at reasonable prices,
and I learn that tlie neighboring planters
are beginning to rely almost entirely upon
their local merchants for their family
and plantation supplies. This increase
in the amount ami activity of the trade
is due in a large measure to the energy
and enterprise of some of the leading
merchants, who have inaugurated a con
siderable trade in cotton here, often, I
am told, giving nearly or quite as much
for cotton here as conld be realized in
Savannah or Augusta. Os course when
tlie planter sells liis cotton in this
market he will purchase most of liis sup
plies on the spot, and in this way these
farseeing merchants are making a good
thing ont of this new branch of trade.
Foremost among the merchants who
deal largely in cotton I mention W. A.
Wilkes, S. A. Gray, Mr. Moses aud Mr.
Barr.
I hear of several new residences to be
erected soon, and one or more business
houses are now in process of construc
tion.
The regular Fall term of the Superior
Court will commence here on Monday
next, and I will endeavor to keep you
posted as to events of interest or im
portance which may transpire during the
term. Visitor.
THE CONTEMPLATED CABINET
CHANGES.
Making Up the Slate for the Next Term
—Harlan’s Anxiety aud the Colored
Candidate’s Contusion.
[From tho New York Herald.]
Washington, November 11, 1872.
The Boston fire has but momentarily
interrupted the anxious discussion here
of the changes through every grade of
official position that are to mark the
opening of the second term of the Pres
ident. In the inferior places there will
be but little movement, but as the grades
ascend to Chief of Bureau tlie prospects
are brighter for the aspirants for place.
With respect to the Cabinet the Presi
dent will be subjected to no other em
barrassment than that of satisfactorily
disposing of the retiring members with
out displacing other officials who expect
to retain their positions. . The certainty,
as it is admitted to be in the best in
formed circles, that all the present
Cabinet, except Secretary Delano and
Attorney General Williams, will be
counted out with the present term, j
makes the task of placing such as re-!
quire suitable offices outside the Cabi- j
net a matter of difficulty. Secretary;
1 Fish is said by his friends to desire j
nothing beyond the retention of the
cordial friendship subsisting between'
himself and the President, and the kind
treatment of the personal and political
friends on whom he has bestowed offices
suited to their capacities. Secretary
Robeson, who desires to go abroad,
covets a vacant foreign mission, but
will permit none to be vacated express
ly to make 4 place him; and Post
master General Creswell is said to
be willing to take anything that an
cx-Senator and Cabinet Minister can
take with propriety. There is absolute
ly no reliable data concerning the sne
cessorship to the Cabinet offices soon to
be vacated by the present incumbents,
the President evading all attempts to
smoke him out and manifesting no dis
position to take anybody into his confi
dencence except those immediately con
cerned, it being doubted, even by near
friends, if he has exchanged a word with
anybody as yet on the subject. Senator
Harlan is known to be anxious for a seat
at the council board, and if lie cannot
get the State Department, will be con
tent to relieve his fellow lowan at the
War Department. But the most careful
inquiry fails to indicate anything in
favor of his ppospepts, and it is known
that he is personally disfavored, anil
must count on his assumed political
strength and party services in the last
session and during the campaign for
support to his pretensions, But to get
the ’ War Department he must be ac
ceptable to Gefi. Sherman, as the Presi
dent, with so many to choose from, will
unquestionably be careful to put nobody
over the General-in-Chief who cannot es
tablish and maintain the same personal
relations tjiat exist now, and must con
tinue to exist, between the heads of the
War Department an<| the army. The
Colored aspirant for Cabinet honors has
met the fate that has befallen the
long line of white predecessors whose
“claims” and chances were prematurely
advertised by themselves or partisans,
his name being only mentioned with de
rision and his self-asserted rights re
pelled by the President’s friends and
the local politicians of his own color.
New Orleans City Finances —A Re
markable Scheme. —The New Orleans
Common Council has passed an ordi
nance giving effect to a proposition from
the Louisiana Savings Bank and Safe
Deposit Company, in accordance with
which the bank is to pay off floating
obligations of the city to the amount of
$450,000, at the rate of not less than
840,000 a week, receiving one per cent,
commission; to pay current expenses of
the city in November, December, Janu
ary and February total amount of
8500,000, the whole amount to be ad
vanced by the bank not exceeding, with
previous advances, $1,250,000. For all
this $1,250,000 the city is to pay 8 per
cent, interest in gold. M oreover > f° r
every 1545,000 of floating debt yedeemable
by the bank, the city is to issue to the
bank $50,000 of new consolidated bonds;
and, to secure the cash advances, $50,-
000 of 10 per cent, bonds for every $40,-
000 cash, these bonds being for security
only. Besides this, when the indebted
ness to the bank shall have reached
SSOO, Cioo, it is to be also secured by
mortgage to that aggregate amount on
the eleven markets of the city. The
bank is also to have until October 1,
1873, the refusal of £2,000,000 (or any
part thereof ) of new consolidated city
bonds at 90, and is guarantied the sole
fiscal sigency of the city until October
26, 1877, with liberty to the bank to dis
continue it sooner. The market reve
nues are all pledged to pay interest and
principal of the bank loan, and are to
be deposited with the bank and become
its vested right, as fast as received. The
city, moreover, binds itself to incur no
other indebtedness until March 15,1873.
The New Orleans Picayune denounces
the ingenious scheme as a job, and calls
upon the Mayor to veto it. It dwells
particularly on the impropriety of a
Common Council whose term would ex
pire in ten days being so ready to bind
the city for five years.
[From the Charleston Courier.]
Fronde on the Grievances of Ireland.
Fronde’s History of England has gain
ed for its author a name and fame not
only in Europe but also in the United
States, “the land of the free and the
home of the brave;” consequently, when
the eminent and eloquent historian
touched the snores of America, he was
warmly received and kindly welcomed.
His mission here was to deliver a series
of lectures. The subject of the first
was, we believe, the “Norman Conquest
of Ireland,” and in which he called to
aid all the power of his genius, his
beautiful imagery in his efforts to prove
that the sufferings and wrongs under
Which Ireland has groaned for centuries
were more imaginary than real. But all
of his nicely rounded periods, harmoni
ous metaphors and choice flowers of
rhetoric, have failed to convince the dis
criminating and unprejudiced public
that England’s rule iu Ireland has been
just and equal. Dr. Hitchcock, Pro
fessor of History iu the University of
New York, formed one of the brilliant
coterie who “hailed the coming aud sped
the parting guest. ” He was lavish in
his praise of the lectures, the solution
of which is to be found in the fact that
the learned Doctor belongs to that class
who are the apologists even of the perse
cution which has been inflicted upon
the people of the Smith.
Froude excuses, if he does not approve
of, the cruelties perpetrated on the de
voted Irish by Cromwell and his follow
ers, who spared neither age nor sex;
who tired the lordly hall of the rich as
well as the humble cabin of the poor;
who entered and desecrated churches;
broke open and violated tombs, in which
had reposed for centuries the sacred
ashes of the good and the pure; whose
relentless swords clove in twain the
hoary-lieaded sire who knelt and wept
over the body of his slaughtered son.
Even the innocent and unconscious babe,
as it nestled on the breast of its mother,
was slain. An eminent Irish Protestant
writer, Barrington, distinguished alike
for liis patriotism aud ability, in writing
of the desolation by Cromwell, states:
“ The wrecks of Cromwell’s desolation
still appear scattered over every part of
Ireland; blood that had escaped the
massacres of Elizabeth was only reserved
to flow under the sword of usurpation;
and Cromwell lias the credit of having
done his business more effectually than
any of his predecessors. He cooped up
the surviving Irish in a contracted dis
trict, confined the clergy to one county,
confiscated two-tliirds of Irish territory,
and stained his sanguinary career by in
discriminate massacre in every fortress
that resisted him.”
But a few years since the lovely Val
ley of Virginia, in flames reddened the
midnight sky, while troopers after the
fashion of Cromwell’s laid waste and in
ruin once happy homesteads, and ruth
lessly butchered the weak aud defense
less, and yet there are those who justify
these acts, on the idea of military ne
cessity, forgetting, or not wishing to re
member, that men cease to be men when
they wage war upon women and chil
dren.
For seven centuries Ireland has been
in chains. Year after year her fetters
have been riveted tighter and tighter.
She has made the most heroic efforts to
burst the bonds that enslave her, but
they proved abortive. The saddest
among the sad of nations—the most op
pressed of all the oppressed, with a
cordon of steel encircling her—the tramp
of the soldier resounding through her
once smiling vales, her ancient halls of
justice are as silent as the manly voices
of her Emmet, Curran, Grattan and
O’Connell, the first of whom expiated
his love for Ireland in the sacrifice of his
young, gifted and heroic life; the others
ever struggled for the rights and liber
ties of their country, and, dying,
breathed the fervent hope that she would
yet be “Redeemed, Regenerated and
Disenthralled.” The heart of the na
tion is neither pulseless nor cold. It
still throbs with devotion to nationality.
Her patriot sons, whether enduring
the yoke at home, or scattered as
exiles abroad, mourn not without
hope. The same spirit that animated
and strengthened “Grattan and the vol
unteers,” that noble baud whose breasts
glowed with the promethean fire of pa
triotism, whose hearts were nerved with
the recollection of their country’s wrongs,
and the determination to resist every en
croachment on her rights and liberties,
is breathed on the shores of the Atlan
tic, along the slopes of the Pacific, aye
in every land where the footsteps of
civilization are to be seen, and with it
the fond prayer of “ freedom for Ire
land.” The Niobe of nations appeals in
the most touching manner to the sympa
thy of every lover of liberty. Here in
America her voluntary exiles have found
an asylum, and hundreds of our most
distinguished countrymen claim kindred
with the Emerald gem of the Western
wave. Sullivan, Knox, Barry, Mont
gomery, Rutledge, and other Irish rebels
of our first revolution, are among -the
brightest names upon the scroll of Co
lumbia’s fame. Andrew Jackson, John
C. Calhoun, and George McDuffie, that
great triad w'ho shone like bright stars
in the constellation of our nation’s glo
ry, sprung from the loins of Irish sires.
Mr. Froude lias endeavored to alienate
our sympathy from Ireland, and lias
failed. We are burdened with our own
woes, and it is but natural that the mis
fortunes of others should touch the ten
der chord of pity in our breasts, and
and awaken a fraternal feeling in our
bosoms.
Mr. Froude stated in his lecture that
for several centuries England has been
trying to find a remedy for the griev
ances of Ireland, and his Government is
almost of the belief that “the herb that
would heal the wound did never grow. ”
There is but one remedy, and that must
be applied sooner or later—restore to
Ireland her long lost freedom ; while
that is denied her she will ever prove
a thorn in the red rose of “Merrie
England.”
It is the declaration of our own inde
pendence, “that all governments derive
their just powers from the consent of
the governed,” and ‘that whenever any
form of government becomes destructive
of those ends, it is the right of the peo
ple to alter or abolish it, and to insti
tute anew government, laying its
foundation on such principles, and or
ganizing its powers in such form, as to
them shall seem most likely to effect
their safety and happiness.”
Gen. Colquitt Not in the Field.—
The Griffin News, which has been vigor
ously urging the claims of Gen. Colquitt
as the next Senator from this State, to
\ succeed Hon. Joshua Hill, prints the
following in its issue of Thursday :
Atlanta, November 11, 1872.
Editor Daily News—l wish to thank
you for your kindness and partiality.
The manner in which you present me to
the public as a suitable choice for the
United States Senate is bo hearty, so un
reserved, so complimentary, that I can
not let it pass without giving you the
assurance that it is highly appreciated.
I beg you will not think it any affecta
tion of virtue when I say to yon that I
had rather be esteemed worthy of all the
good you have said of me than to have
any office in the gift of the people. You
are aware that my friend and neighbor,
General Gordon, is a candidate for the
United States Senate. To him ) am
fully committed, and I sincerely wish for
his election. I have no desire for that
or any office, and if I had, he and I
would not be competitors. While this
is so, I feel none the less gratified for
your good opinion, and the great honor
you have done me.
Yours, very truly,
A. H. Colquitt.
.Logic as Applied to Great Fires in
Great Ciotbs. — Again Northern journals
are discussing the logic of great con
flagrations in great cities. The conclu
sions reached are as follows: First, That
granite and other stone-fronts afford no
security against fire. Second, Brick |
and even wood are to be preferred as
building material to granite, marble and i
iron. Third, That narrow streets give i
increased facility for the spread of fires, j
serving as conducting channels, and be-!
ing easily filled by falling buildings,
preventing access and effective opera
tions. Fourth, That very tall buildings—
six, seven or eight stories in height—in
crease fire risks; and lastly, that Man
sard roofs are only immense tinder boxes
for setting whole cities in flames.
In Savannah, on Wednesday afternoon,
a portion of the rigging or tackle of the
schooner White Wing gave way and fell
on her commander, Capt. Williams, and
a negro deck hand, inflicting injuries
which it is thought will prove fatal.
(From Smith. Edwards A Co.'s Monthly Cotton
Circular, dated Liverpool. Oct. 01 * 1872. J
The Liverpool Cotlon Trade.
The Manchester market at the date of
our last was in an extremely depressed
state; not only were producers Buttering
from along coura4 of unprofitable busi
ness but- much uneasiness existed as to
the stability of shipping houses, arising
from the magnitude of the losses known
to have been sustained, especially in
the Eastern trade. There was little hope
of any improvement entertained in Man
chester at the beginning of the month,
but as usually happens, the trade turns
just, when hope is expiring, and slowly
but surely a healthier state of things
sprang up, a demand set in for the small
er markets, and to some extent for the
“ home trade,” which cleared away
stocks; although there were few signs of
activity discernible on the surface, it
gradually transpired that spinners had
come well under order, and that a large
business had been put through. In the
early part of the month there was little
or no advance in price, but latterly yarn
has improved materially, and au ad
vance has been gained about equal to
that on the raw material. There is no
doubt that the state of trade is sounder
now than it has been for a long time;
even from India there come signs of
improvement. A large business has
been done in piece goods, and though
prices are low, stocks are very moderate,
and prospects decidely better than
they have been for a long time past.
Iu China, however, the improve
ment is more tardy of coming, and stocks
are still very large. It must be observed,
however, that there is very little margin
between the raw and manufactured ar
ticle; there is little or no profit on much
of the trade going on, and in some de
partments, such as tlie manufacture of
Eastern cloth, there is a serious loss; tin'
fact, however, is undoubted that all
spindles are now working, and all idea
of short time has passed away, and we
consider that consumption has increased
materially in the last mouth. There is
a tendency to spin lower counts of yarn,
and we understand that numbers made
from Surats, and even from Bengals,
pay better than from American cotton.
There has been a marked tendency
during the past month to go upon East
India cotton, and tlie consumption of
Brazils has exceeded anything ever
known. It is, therefore, difficult to give
the weekly Consumption in bales, as the
weight various so much; but, taking into
account the small average bales at pres
ent used, we cannot put it at less than
61,000 bales per week for the Kingdom;
as the deliveries from Liverpool and
London the last few weeks have been
83,000 bales per week, spinners must
have added to their stock 10,000 to
80,000 bales, but this does not represent
a great weight of cotton, as it consists
mainly of Brazil, East India and other
small packages. We may add that the
takings of Brazils tlie last four weeks
have averaged 25,000 bales per week; but
from this time forward they must be
greatly reduced, as the stock is nearly
exhausted, with little on the water.
In treating of the prospects of our
market the primary consideration is the
out-turn of the American crop, and we
are lidppy to be able to give a better
account of it than in our last issue.
Very tine weather for picking lias been
experienced since the beginning of Sep
tember, and planters have been able to
secure an unusual quantity of cotton for
tlie time of tlie year; tlie yield has also
proved much larger in several districts
than was anticipated in September, and
the accounts now reaching ns from the
South are much more cheerful than they
were a month ago. At the time when
the damage from worms and rust was
most alarming, tlie favorite estimate
estimate from tlie South was 3 to 3f
millions, but now we should say that 3r
millions is the figure most generally
adopted, and in Neiv York 31 to 3f mil
lions.
One point need to be observed, viz :
that accounts vary very much from dif
ferent localities; there are some, as for
instance about Montgomery, where the
yield is not expected to exceed last
year’s materially, while in others, such
as Northern Georgia, it is expected to
be as great as was ever known. The
crop is very irregular, and it will be un
safe to rely upon any estimate ; but we
should say that the private advices now
reaching ns from America indicate
rather over 31 millions ; against this it
lias to be said that the last Bureau
estimate is very unfavorable—it places
tlie prospect of the crop at only .82 per
cent, of an average, which does not
indicate more than 3j millions, aud
last year the Bureau accounts were
more correct than private ones,
so that we dare not depend too
much upon the favorable letter advices
now rer eliing us. It may be said that
the statement of the Bureau only refers
to the end of September, and that next
month’s will be more favarable; this is
highly probable, but till it is issued it
will be well to keep our judgment in
suspense, and not be carried away by
too sanguine views. The receipts at the
ports continue very large, and from all
we can learn they will increase and be
unusually large up to the eud of the
year, so that whatever the actual result
of the crop may be it is probable that
public opinion will tend towards higher
estimates.
It is surprising under these circum
stances that prices are maintained at so
high a level in the American ports, but
we attribute it to the fact that spinners
all over the world had run themselves
out of American cotton, and were com
pelled to buy largely at the opening of
tlie season ; the demand lias been most
eager for the Continent, especially for
France, and tlie shipments to that quar
ter are. far larger than last year. For
this reason it is likely that a great
scarcity of American cotton will be felt
here for several weeks yet, for tlie ar
rivals up to tlie end of November can
scarcely meet tlie consumption. No doubt
the actual stock in port somewhat ex
ceeds the estimate (we understand this
will soon be tested), but the extreme
scarcity of tlie middling and better
grades shows that they uro literally ex
hausted, and it will be vain to look for
much decline till a better supply is
available. Notwithstanding the strong
demand on the spot, there is little dis
position to speculate in American to ar
rive, and prices remain with little varia
tion at 9fd. to Did. for uplands. ■ This
shows that there is little confidence in
higher prices of American cotton later
on, and we quite share in this feeling.
A three and a half million crop if re
alized will give a sufficient supply at the
present high price, for it must be re
membered that during the coming sea
son East India cotton will supply a much
larger share of the consumption of Eu
rope than it did during the last twelve
months. The chief strength of our
market lies in the fact that our stock is I
small and must apparently go still
smaller, and it cannot be materially in
creased until next year. The revival
of trade in Manchester has come at a
time when holders of cotton can turn it
to advantage, and it seems not at all un
likely that prices of East India will go
on hardening till they reach a point ;
where spinners will turn buck to the use ;
of American.
Bengal cotton in particular seems very
cheap; there is now a large consumption
going on, and almost nothing on the
way from India, nor is there likely to be
any large export while the price keeps
so low. The stocks in Europe must
rapidly run down, and probably we will
see fair Bengal next year at its usual
proportion to American, say about (JO
percent, instead of 45 to 50 percent.,
as it has been lately.
From Bombay the crop accounts come
very favorable, but the is late,
and as there is hardly any old cotton
left in the country, we anticipate very
small shipments till February or March.
From both Egypt and Brazil the ac
counts are very good, and the crops are
believed to be larger than last year.
Effect of the Boston Fh e on the Wool
Trade.
The amount of wool bqyned at the
Boston fire is variously estimated at
from five to fen million pounds. The
house of Morse, Denny & Cos. had 800,-
000 pounds of Australian in store, and
another house 160,000 pounds of Califor
nia wool, all of which was destroyed.
Boston held the largest stock of any of
our cities, and had been selling immense
quantities. The stock was not delivered,
owing to the prevalence of the horse dis
ease, and the new stocks recently bought
to replace the olfi supply arrived mean
time, to, swell the aggregate that was on
hand to be burned up. A large house
there kept all its hands busy till seven
o’clock storing wool that they had just
been enabled to get from the transporta
tion companies in the afternoon, and be
fore morning it was all destroyed by the
fire. There was, however, in Boston, a
stock about equal to that which was de
stroyed, stored in bonded and private
warehouses in parts of the city that es
caped the conflagration, and this, with
the large amount still on the way and at
the depots not delivered, will keep up
the supply for a time. But such a drain
must inevitably tend to stiffen prices.
In conversation with several of our
largest wool merchants regarding the
probable effect of the Boston calamity
on the price of woof, the fact is appa
rent that they all expect an advance in
price of the staple. But none of them
are prepared to give a quotable market
price for to-morrow. Before the fire oc
curred the price of wool had an upward
tendency. That was in a great measure
owing to the fact that the Western far
mers at present hold about a third of the
last clip for higher prices. The recent
advance stimulated the forwarding of
some lots, which are now on the way.
The price of wool is at present unset
tled. Holders are not generally anxious
to sell except at fancy prices, believing
that the upward tendency will continue
till it shall reach their expectations.
One lot of fine domestic was sold yes
terday at an advance qf five cents per
pound, but this was not regarded us a
fair criterion. On the contrary, conser
vative dealers are in doubt about the
propriety of setting their faces towards
a heavy advance, for the reason that per
haps forty cable dispatches were sent, off
for cargoes to-day, and it is certain that,
there is plenty of wool on the seaboard
to last till Western and European (con
signments can reach here. For this
reason the conservatives advise their
friends, in the general interest, against
too sanguine prices. Several of the East
ern mill owners threatened a month ago
that if the farmers would not yield they
would close their miils. They said the
price of fabrics had not advanced iu
ratio with tho staple, and that they could
not continue and make money with a
constantly advancing wool market. Os
course this expedient is always a last
resort, because idle machinery is a very
unprofitable possession. It is not likely
that a woolen mill will close just now,
unless the price of wool shall sustain a
heavy advance. The amount of woolen
goods, piece goods and clothing burned
at Boston was also very heavy, and the
demand for replacing thorn will bo im
mediate. In some instances it is prob
able that mill owners are large sufferers
by loss of goods displayed for sale on
commission, and at the mill warehouses
in Boston. What distress this ramifica
tion of the disaster may bring upon
woolen goods manufacturers remains to
lie seen.
We have yet to hear of a New York
dealer in wool who is a direct loser by
tin* destruction of staple. The losers
will be Eastern dealers and manufactur
ers who owned and Western and foreign
men who .consigned wool for sale on
commission. Aud the effect of the tre
mendous consumption of staple, by the
fire can only be determined when the
smoke shall have cleared away, and a
general balance of accounts shall bo ex
hibited. Tho extent and character of
the injury to manufacturers will deter
mine in great degree tin- home demand,
and the amount destroyed may be found
much less than at first supposed. Un
der the circumstances dealers with large
stocks on hand may esteem themselves
fortunate if they obtain an average of 2
to 3 cents per pound on the domestic
staple —New York Journal of (Com
merce.
ARMS FOR GEORGIA.
Muskets and Accoutrements for Thir
teen infantry Companies Sabres and
Revolvers for Two Hundred Horse
men—Method ot Distribution.
|Atlanta OorrcHpondnnco Savannah Nowh.J
Atlanta, Ga., November 9, 1872.
Sure enough, some of the arms distri
buted to the States by the Federal Gov
ernment, and for which Gov. Smith
made application tho first of October,
have come to hand, while others are on
the way. To avoid misunderstanding
and prevent unjust criticism, the Gover
nor decided not to apply for the arms
pending liis own election. The applica
tion was deferred, therefore, until the
first week in October, when assurances
were given that they would be sent for
ward without delay. The U. S. military
authorities, it now appears, reconsidered
tin' matter, and withheld the arms until
after tho Presidential election, and then
started them off immediately.
THE AMOUNT DUE.
The amount due the State of Georgia
in arms, accoutrements, .to., June Ist.
1872, was a little over §25,000. This sum
lias accumulated since the war, the
amount annually distributed tq tlie State
being near SI,OOO. These arms are dis
tributed under a law of Congress to all
the States and Territories, for the pur
pose of arming tli,e militia, the number
distributed to any one State being regu
lated by the number of its arms-bearing
population. ■
NUMIIEK AND QUALITY OF THE ARMS.
Governor Smith applied for the best
arms the Government had, to-wit : tho
Springfield breech-loading muskets for
infantry, and Remington revolvers and
sabres for cavalry. Owing'to the limited
amount coming to the State, and the
great cost of heavy ordnance, he did not
include guns for artillery companies in
his requisition. The number of muskets
obtained is 78!), with the usual accoutre
ments. This will arm thirteen infantry ■
companies of 60 men each. Sabres and I
revolvers w re procured for 200 horse
men, or five companies of cavalry, num
bering 40 men each. A supply of ball
and blank cartridges for both arms was
obtained also. The arms, Ac., are all
new and of the most approved pattern.
TIIE METHOD OF DIHTIIIIiUTION.
: The act of the Legislature, as was
i stated in a former letter, makes it the
duty of the Governor to distribute the
arms, first to such companies as were
organized and existing before the war,
according to tlioir original priority, and
next to such companies as have been
formed since January 1,1872, and among
the latter, according to the discretion of
the Governor. Eighty-eight companies
have applied for commissions, oniy two
of which are artillery companies.
The companies have all been requested
to communicate the date of tlioir original
organization. Os those which have re
ported, the following appear to be the
live oldest cavalry companies, and were
organized as follows:
CAVALRY.
Liberty Independent Troop 1785
Georgia Hussars 1786
Burke Hussars 1827
Jefferson Hussars 1818
Seriven Troop 1848
The thirteen oldest infantry compa
nies that have reported up to this time
were organized as follows :
INFANTRY.
Savannah Volunteer Guards (con
taining threecompanies) 1802
Republican Blues 1808
Macon Volunteers 1825
Columbus Guards 1835
Washington Rifles 1835
I Irish Jasper Greens.' ,1812
I Jefferson Riflemen 1841
| Liberty Guards 1844
German Volunteers 1845
Oglethorpe Infantry 184>i
Irish Volunteers 1850
Baldwin Blues 1851
Clinch Rifles 1851
LATE APPLICATIONS. .
It was only a few days ago that the Ger
man Volunteers applied for an order to
elect officers and reorganize. The time
within which this can be done, so us
to entitle the companies to compete for
the arms, is limited by the act of the
Legislature to the 24tli of the present l
month. If the Savannah Guards are euti- ;
tied to arms for three companies—core- \
posing their battalion—then some of the
companies named above must go with- j
out for the preseqt. The above ealoula- i
tion proceeds upon the assumption that |
the companies will average sixty mus- j
kets.
OLD ORGANIZATIONS.
The Chatham Artillery was organized j
in 1786, and is the oldest artillery com
pany in the State. The Savannah Vol- I
nnteer Guards is the oldest infantry !
company, and the Liberty Independent j
Troop is tlie oldest cavalry company, j
Indeed, it is the oldest company of any
kind, having been organized in 1785, or !
one year earlier than the Georgia (Savau- i
nah) Hussars.
j Another Murder—All Anour How
! Much a Mule Gould Full.— lt seems
i that the mania for killing has broken
; out in this region of the country. To
the list of casualities elsewhere, we have
another to add;
It seems that on last Saturday after
noon some negroes and a white man—a
Mr. Banard—were returning home in a
wagon, when two negroes, Willis Wil
liams ami EUiok Harris, in the employ
of Messrs. George A Hardnett, on their
farm, got into a dispute about which
mule could pull the heaviest load. One
word brought on another until they
commenced cursing each other, and
Willis threatened to cut Ellick. At
this stage of the game the lattev drew
his knife, and gauging the blade on his
finger, stuck it into Williams, striking
the heart. This occured near the resi
dence of Mr. Henry K. Williamson, and
the wounded man died in a few minutes.
Harris made no effort to escape, but |
went home with the corpse. On Sun- j
day morning an inquest was held, Dr.
Yarbrough attending physiesan, and the I
jury rendered a verdict that the |
deceased came to his death from a■
wound inflicted witli a knife in the j
hands of Harris. The latter was arrest- j
ed and lodged in jail in Zobulon, but
was to have been brought here last;
night. Life seems to lie getting pretty ,
cheap.— Griffi n News.
A Child Eaten by Rats.— An instance
! of the danger of leaving young children
i alone occurred in Jamaica, New York,
on Wednesday evening. Mr. Thomas
1 Robinson and his wife, living on 1 res
pect street, were absent from their house
\ about an hour engaged in shopping,
I leaving an infant child asleep in a cradle.
During their absence the child was at
-1 tacked by rats with most horrible results.
One side of its face was badly mutilated,
one ear was nearly eaten on, and one
eye was entirely destroyed. A physician
was immediately called, who gave it as
his opinion tbfl-t tlio child could not re
cover from the injuries.
Gen. McClellan is Engineer-in-Chief
of the Department of Books in New
York city, and at his own request his
salary has been reduced from #20,000 to
#IO,OOO a year.
THE BOSTON FIRK.
Further Insurance Losses.
New York, November 12.—Tlie Spec
tator furnishes the following list of the
losses of Massachusetts insurance com
panies: America, Boston, $1,000,000; Bay
State, Worcester, $200,000; Boston, sl,-
500,00(1, suspended: Roylestoii', Boston,
8800,000, suspended; City of Boston,
$1,200,000, suspended; Equitable, Pro
vincetown, suspended; Mechanics’ Mu
tual, $1,300,000; Massachusetts Mu
tual, $1,200,000; Merchants X Farmers’,
$300,000; Quincy Mutual, $400,000;
l niou Mutual, $1,200,000; Exchange,
Boston, $250,000, suspended; Faueuil
Wall, Boston, suspended; Fireman’s,
$50,000; First National, Worcester, §2,-
000,500, suspended; Gloucester, sus
pended: Howard, Boston, suspend
ed; Lawrence, Boston, $1,800,000, sus
pended; Merchants’, Boston, $2,000,-
000, suspended; National, Boston, sus
pended; Neptune, Boston, $1,000,000,
suspended; People’s, Worcester, $500,-
000; Prescott, Boston, suspended; Shoe
and Leather Dealers, Boston, suspended;
Springfield, Boston, $250,0(H); Suffolk,
Boston, $1,000,000, suspended; Wash
ington, Boston, $1,000,000; Dorchester
Mutual, $14,000.
New York, November 13.— The Spec
tator has tho following announcement
from companies forming the Underwri
ters'Agency: The directors of the Han
over • today resolved to increase tho
eonqiany’s capital to $500,000. The Re
public, Germania and Niagara directors
resolved at once to make up any defi
ciency that might exist by assessment.
l'he losses of these four companies will
be paid promptly in full. Neither lias
suspended or will suspend. Their re
sources are ample aud business continues
as usual.
The Spectator says Superintendent
Church, of the New York Insurance De
partment., is here, and will at once make
the necessary examinations as required
bylaw. He announces that, he will use
the powers vested in him for the full
protection of the companies, every one
of which shall have every opportunity to
work out.
Corrected statements make the losses
of the Black River Company $65,000,
instead of $30,000; the Continental
$400,000, instead of $500,000; the Hoff
man, $100,000; the Market, SIOO,OOO, in
stead of $00,000; the Merchants’sll6,-
500, instead of $50,000; the Relief, $40,-
000, instead of $511,000, and the Union,
of Bangor, Maine, $150,000.
Citizens’ Meeting Held.
Boston, November 13.—A meeting of
citizens was held to day to consider
present emergencies and future contin
gencies. Mayor Gaston, who presided,
after alluding to the proffers of assist
anco from other points, said from our own
citizens, too, had also come manifesta
tions of the same spirit which made him
rejoice thut God had given to them largo
hearts and large means.
Resolutions were adopted in favor of
the reconstruction of the street lines of
the burned district on abetter plan; pro
hibiting Mansard roofs, aud, also, in fa
vor of erecting a Merchant’s Exchange
in some central locality; favoring an ex
tra session of the Legislature, to author
ize the issue of building bonds by tho
city, and for an application to the Gene
ral Government for an extension of the
new post office building upon the burned
district over the lot adjoining, and for
au act of Congress allowing drawbacks,
on building material.
Human Remains Found.
On searching the ruins on the site of
Mixon X Co.’s store, 172 Washington
street, this morning, a Rinall bundle of
charred human remains was found. It
is impossible, of course, to identify the
remains, but it is known that, two men
perished in the tire at that place.
Clearing Away the Debris.
Boston, November 14. —The work of
pulling down walls anil eloai •ing off the
debris from the burnt district is pro
gressing vigorously.
Stopped Business in New England.
There is but little additional news as
to insurance. The Amazon and Triumph
Companies, of Cincinnati, have stopped
writing policies in New England.
The Old South Church has boon leased
two years for a post office.
Thanks.
A meeting of the Citizens Relief Com
mittee, this morning, passed resolutioua
of thanks for the sympathy and aid ex
tended from all parts of tlie Union.
Relief From England.
London, November 14. -At a
meeting yesterday in Boston, Lin
colnshire, it was resolved to aid the suf
ferers by the great fire in its American
namesake, and subscriptions for that ob
joot are now being secured.
Measures for the relief of the sufferers
are also being taken in London.
Adjustment of Insurance Losses.
Boston, November 15.—As the suffer
ers by the fire become better acquainted
with the nature and extent, of lessee, the
feeling of confidence among all classes
interested seems to grow stronger that
both home and foreign insurance offices
which lmve been brought to the verge
of insolvency will in time liquidate their
entire debts. Salvage is found to vary
from fifteen to sixty per cent., in pro
portion to loss. As schedules of saved
property are being made out rapidly as
possible, and policies and proofs ol
losses are in some eases already sent in,
the work of adjustment will be pushed
forward with tho utmost rapidity.
Large quantities of goods stolen at
the fire have been recovered by the
police, the value being estimated at be
tween SBOO,OOO and $400,000, and a lot
of unclaimed property now awaits
identification at the City Hall.
New York, November 15. - - The
Market, Insurance Company winds up
and divides 25 to 30 per cent, among
stockholders.
Waifs Huccesfully Blown IJp,
Boston, November 14.- A large part
of the militury guard over the ruius was
withdrawn to-night. The experiment
of blowing up tho wulls of W. EL Glea
son’s granite building, in tho square
formed by the junction of Snmm. .■ and
High streets, proved perfectly success
ful to-day. The first charge of five
pounds, was effective in blowing out
the northern wall only; but the second
charge of twelve, pounds, one pound to
a cartridge, lifted the massive walls
from their foundation, and they dropped
perpendicularly into the cellar and upon
the sidewalk, scarcely a store diverging
from a direct downward course so far us
to fall in the street.
Safe and $150,000 Recovered.
The safe of Westcott X Cos., on High
street, was recovered to-day, and its con
tents, of $159,000 found uninjured after
sixty-two hours exposure to the intense
heat. The locality had been guarded
by a detachment of dragoons.
Resumed Business.
F. A. Hawley & Cos., bankers, whose
temporary suspension was announced,
resumed business to-day.
Dress Disasters.
One daily, fifteen weekly and eleven
monthly papers were turned out of their
quarters by the fire, while almost every
publishing establishment in tho city
suffered more or less.
Contributions for the Sufferers.
The resolution adopted by the TicHcf
Committee, to accept contributions fr om
other cities in aid of the sufferers, will
afford immediate relief to the many poor
families who lost their all, and to thou
sands of persons thrown out of employ
ment. The noble generosity exhibited
all over the country is calling forth
thanksgiving from thousands of grateful
hearts.
Preachers in the Penitentiary. —A
I remarkable criminal is described by the
I Asheville (N. C.) J Conner. The ex-Rev.
Wm. Wilson, of Yancey county, who lias
just, been sent for nine years to the
j pcnilontinry, before the war was a Bab
tist minister in good standting, and com
manded the respect and esteem of a
large circle of acquaintances. Domestic
! infelicity led him to abandon his wife.
1 He thus fell into disfavor with tho rcli
gious community, so that lie abandoned
, the ministry and betook himself to higli-
I way robbery. Singularly euougli,' In
j goes to prison for robbing a wagon in
IKOt. For five years lie evaded arrest,
| was then fried, carried his ease up oil,
1 law points, and now the verdict is sus
tained. Speaking of this unfortuuate
man, we may mention that, the cx-ltev.
Mr. Green, one the moSt noted con
victs in the Indiana State Prison, was
discharged on the 25th nit., by expira
tion of time,. . Hi* crime was forgery.
He was on ye a Baptist preacher of some
note, ami is a man of fine talents. In
prison he has been tlio leader of various
moral reforms, mid lias been especially
active in organizing a temperance
society among the inmates. It is infinite
ly to the credit of the clergy that Such
cases ns these arc so rare, am) are always,
spoken of as remarkable exceptions.
Daniel Boone’s Rifle.—Doctor Gra
ham, a venerable citizen of Louisville,
lias presented to the public library of
that city the first rifle bought by the
pioneer hunter, Daniel Boone, when he
came there from North Carolina in 1767.
With the rifle is also the shot-pouch,
powder-horn and hunting-knife of the
old pioneer, and the calfskin vest worn
by him while he was lord of all ho
surveyed in the wiki woods of Kentucky.
It is whispered in Americus that Col.
Jack Brown intends to contest the elec
tion of Gen. Cook, and that Gov. Smi.tl*
is to be deposed. The reason assigned
is, in the first case, the vote was not
sufficiently large to elect, while that, ot
the latter was too large.
