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Orijc lllcclvln Press.
SATURDAY January !), 180'.)
The Ogeechee Riots
There is no denying that there is an
organization on the Ogeeche river,
near Savannah, which recklessly takes
hntan life, seizes property belonging to
, other people, and resists the legal au
thorities when an attempt is made to
arrest any member of the gang. So
far, they have been too powerful for
the officers of the law, and those en
. tiered to assist them - . It is the inter
est of the white and colored popula
tion that this band should be summa
rily crushed. If possible, the blacks
have a deeper interest in the suppres
sion of the outbreak than the whites.
They’ should show that they have
neither affiliation or sympathy, with
these infamous members of tlieir race.
There can be but one conclusion to all
such' emeutes. Those engaged in them
will meet with a terrible fate, if it
takes the entire power of the State to
accomplish that result. No part of the
State can or ought to be surrendered
to any lawless class.
The people of the State have
an equal interest with the people of
Savannah in bringing these murdering
marauders to j ustice. And we would
most respectfully suggest that all the
facts should be officially laid before
the Governor and he called upon to
use his influence and authority, as the
Chief Executive of the State, in sus
taining the legal, authorities in sup
pressing the mob. If the Governor
responds, these ignorant and brutal
men would see that they had no sym
pathizers anywhere. If the Governor
declined to interfere, the responsibility
would rest on his shoulders. If the
State authorities would take some
action, these negroes would see that
they were not only fighting the officers
and people of Savannah, but were
making war on the people of the State.
We throw out this suggestion for the
consideration of our Savannah friends,
hoping it may meet their approval.
Spirit of the Georgia Press.
The Constitutionalist, of Friday,
lias a leader devoted to the recon
struction of Georgia. It quotes, with
hearty approval, an argument of the
.Journal of Commerce , taking the
ground that reconstruction is as much
needed in Indiana as in Georgia:
Apropos of this subject, it gratifies us to
learn'that Senator eicct 11. V. M. Miller
writes from Washington that he has had
a lengthened interview with General Grant,
during which the Georgia imbroglio was
passed upon in full. The President
elect virtually declared that “if we can
manage to hold our present status until the
till of March, all will he well; that there will
he no more reconstruction by Congress, so
far ;i> Georgia is concerned.”
"If we can hold our present status until
the 4th of March”—there’s the rub. Just as
the f’amilia affair was stirred up for Con
gressional purposes, so the Ogecclice outrage
is traceable to the same source and inspira
tion. Aaron Alpeoria Bradley rallies his
“Ogeecliees,” and Senator Edmunds and the
Bnllockites jubilate and feel happy thereat.
The true people of Georgia are most willing
and most anxious to preserve their present
status, bad as it is, until the 4th of March ;
but the evil-minded and desperate are evi
dently determined to keep up tlieir infernal
agitation to the last. They sow tl*e wind ;
they shall surely reap the whirlwind. We
may be thwarted in our endeavors for*pcacc;
they shall not always triumph.
In another article our neighbor con
tends that “State Eights is not dead,
but slcepctli;”—and quotes Re
vmtuY Jon ns o.\ to prove it.
The Chronicle <0 Sentinel lias very
little politics. In addressing its read
ers it says:
If we have given offence to any one—if
we have, in the excitement of the moment,
and under the influence of strong feelings,
aroused by what wc considered foul wrongs,
j-.poken too harshly of some who, in other
and hotter days, wc were wont to consider as
gentlemen, and esteem as friends, we plead
in extenuation the great interests at stake,
and the helpless and dependent condition of 1
our beloved native State. We have endeav
ored to sustain, untarnished and undeiiled,
the fair escutcheon of the glorious old Com
monwealth, and have contested with her
enemies every inch of ground in their at
tempt to enslave and degrade her.
The policy which we have advocated, and
t!ie principles for which we have contended,
we still maintain and cherish. Wc take no
steps backwards on this point. But if, in
our advocacy of these, we have been un
necessarily rude or personally too bitter, with
the ushering in of hapfiy New Year’s morn,
we express our regrets, and crave the indul
gence of our friends.
Mr. P. J. Berck.ma.ns lias a very
neat Salutatory as Agricultural. Editor
of the paper.
The Savannah Republican of the
31st, in a very temperate article justi
fies the recent sale of that city’s Rail
road stock to the Central and other
Railroads. One paragraph will give
the reader an idea of the spirit ol the
article :
We regret to set that some of our interior
cotemporaries are disposed to discuss the
question with considracblc acrimony, and wc
hear that persons interested in other roads arc
denouncing all the parties to the recent trans
fer, taking it for granted—as one of our
Savannah contemporaries did—that the ob
ject of the move was to break down the
.Macon & Brunswick road. The grounds of
this idea we cannot exactly comprehend, and
wc feel pretty sure it did not occur to either
one of the contracting parlies. We do not
sec how it is possible for any combination of
interests, not including that road, to prevent
its extension through to Brunswick, and con
sequently its doing business vvilli the seaboard
on its own terms. If the idea lie that the
Brunswick road is to be allowed no freights
to or from Savannah, it is simply to charge
the parties, nearly every one of whom 1 hat
took an active part in this matter is identified
with Savannah, with downright stupidity.—
To build up Brunswick would certainly ben
efit neither Savannah, nor the purchasers of
her interest in the Gulf road. Yet such would
lie the certain result of a refusal to deliver
freights to, or receive them from, the Macon
and Brunswick road on equitable terms.
The News of the same date de
nounces in unmeasured terms the
Ogeechee rioters and those responsible
for them.
The Savannah Republican ol yes
terday refers to the Ogeechee Rebel
lion, and from the following it would
seem the editor is by no means satis
fied with the efforts of the authorities
for the suppression of the outbreak:
The extraordinary condition of affairs on
the Ogeechee plantations, full details of which
have been given from day to day, continues
to exist, not only without abatement, but
with an excess of lawlessness and outrage
which promises to make what is already seri
ous, most alarming. The management of
the civil authorities in its measures for the
suppression of the outbreak, has up to this
time most signally failed. Sensible men, wc
apprehend, looked for no other result, for the
whole thing has been managed with a degree,
of indecision and purility that is little short
of disgraceful. The Sheriff, witli his possee,
made a second attempt yesterday at something
—we don’t know exactly what —but be had
papers in bis pocket for somebody’s arrest ,
and returned without accomplishing any
thing, his means being inadequate to the end.
In the mean time the AvliitS inhabitants, men,
women, and children, have all been driven
from their homes, their or de
livered to the flames, and the results of the
entire year’s labor and capital of one of the
Wealthiest districts of the South, eitlieqde
stroyed or appropriated by the insurrectionists.
The Macon Telegraphy of yesterday,
in reference to the report that General
Grant demands the repeal of the
tenure-of-officc bill, uses the following
language:
These facts borne in mind, the vital char
acter of the issue made by General Grant
will be clearly comprehended. He means to
go into oflice armed with- the whole constitu
tional panoply of the lofty position ; for be
knows he will need it all, in bis great-pend
ing struggle with the hydra of universal
corruption, waste, misappropriation and mis
management, which pervade all branches of
the public service, and which have raised our
Government expenditures to $372,000,000 in
1868 from $03,000,000 in 1860 !
If he means to confront and correct abuses,
the whole success of his administration de
pends upon liis being a constitutional Presi
dent, armed with all the rights and remedies
established by law and precedent, and not
the mere powerless and defenceless creature
of Congress.
The law and the Constitution make him a
co-ordinate department of the Government —
as supreme in his sphere as Congress in its —
and the people will back him to the fullest
extent in his efforts to reconquer the ancient
Com titutional boundaries of the Presidential
oflice. Congress must yield to these just and
equitable demands—no matter how reluctant
that body may be to give up power and con
fess error and wrong-doing. If they refuse
a repeal, the President will disregard and
defy the act, and a second issue of Presiden
tial impeachment under its Constitutional
provisions will not end so favorably to Con
gress -as the last one. Wc hope the matter
will be settled by an amicable concession by
Congress of claims and powers which they
will find it impossibic to justify and retain.
The Constitutionalist ol Sunday,
in an article on the “ Old and the
New,” has a glowing word-paiuting
of the losses of the South during the
war, and speaks hopefully of her
ability, by an improved agricultural
system, to regain her lost wealth.
The Chronicle & Sentinel oi the
same day continues its arguments in
favor'of the farmer obtaining all the
profits that is now realized on cotton
by the middle men. The laws of trade
are inexorable, and can neither be
changed by the farmer or the Chron
icle.
The Macon Telegraph, of the 3d,
opposes any general legislation by the
Georgia Legislature when it assembles
on the 13th. It thus advises the Gen
eral Assembly :
We hope the Legislature will realize the
momentous nature of the crisis, and be ex
ceedingly chary in relation to its course and
attitude.' We see no proper occasion for
much talk or action when its own legal right
to existence is called into question by the
United States Government. That fact alone
properly precludes all attempts at general
legislation, and renders any prolonged dis
putation equally needless and untimely. The
plan of Senator Burns strikes us a natural
and just one—that the Legislature, by a
single resolution, should make its appdhl to
the supreme judiciary of the State aqd the
United States—disclaim all intention to con
travene the reconstruction legislation of Con
gress, and adjourn. That is enough Jo do, in
our judgment.
If there he any point of compromise-short
of the extreme purposes of the Radical ma
jority in Congress, that will indicate it.
Congress, which undertakes to pronounce
sentence oi condemnation ex cathedra and
ex parte , will rest upon a proposition for a
judicial decision upon the points in contro
versy, or it will accept no compromise at all.
The experiment will be -an appeal to that
body in behalf of th’c simplest principles of
law and justice, and* if it fails, nothing
would serve us. That, and all other previous
and subsequent action of the Legislature,
will probably be annulled in case the Senate
judiciary bill prevails, and therefore it will he
idle to attempt general legislative business. ,
The Telegraph, also announces the
tact that flic Judge of lire Superior
Court of the Macon circuit, at suit of
certain stockholders of the Southwest
ern Railroad, had granted a bill of in
junction “against the Southwestern
Railroad Company, forbidding the
purchase by said companies of stock
in the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad
Company recently transferred to them,
or either of them, by the city of Sa
vannah, and restraining said compa
nies from all attempts to control,
through said stock, the Atlantic and
Gulf Railroad, and the commercial
and bustness interests of Central,
Southern, and Western Georgia! This
looks as if tho Savannah monopolists
were to be met with vigorous opposi
tion to tlieir selfish and grasping policy.
The Columbus Jhhiquirer of’the 3d
spoaks favorably of the proposition to
refer the Georgia question to the Su
preme Court of the United States.
This seems to us a fail* and just means
of disposing of a much-vexed ques
tion.
The Atlanta Constitution of the 2d
has been given fresh courage by “a
gentleman of Atlanta just-.returned
from Alabama,” as follows. All such
reports are very cheering, and will
cause those mischievous politicians who
feed on our country’s misfortunes to
tremble in tlieir boots:
From a gentleman of Atlanta who has just
returned from Montgomery, where he had
been spending the holidays, wc learn that, as
far as liis observation extended, then; is a
general disposition among the white popula
tion to eschew political matters, for the pre
sent at least. Conscious of their inability to
arrest the evils already upon them, they are
wisely directing their energies to the estab
lishment of trade in its "various departments,
and more especially to the dcvelopcment of
the agricultural interests of the State
Though the cotton crop of last year fell far
short of the year proceeding, yct_ planters, in
consequence of advanced prices* have real
ized sufficient profits to more than counter
balance the difference. Hence the bouyancy
of farmers generally as to the succeeding
crop. The negroes having obtained all they
can hope for, in a political point of view, are
seconding the efforts of planters and readily
contract for another year, on the basis of a
certain'interest in the crop. This seems to
bo the plan universally adopted, and most of
tlie freedmen, after having got fairly at
work, generally adhere to tlieir obligations.
They do not, of course, work as industrious
ly as in times past; but tlieir indulgence in
that idleness so peculiar to tlieir race, is in a
measure counteracted by tlie fact that all
hands having an equal interest in tlie pro
ceeds of a united labor, even tlie obtuse in
tellect of Sambo can perceive that a drone is
the common enemy of all.
Does the Test Oath and the Four
teenth Amendment Conflict?
Those who conceived and advocated
to its final adoption the much-agitated
Fourteenth Amendment, evidently in
tended one of its principal provisions
to operate as a punishment of a par
ticular class of tlie people of the South
who aided" the Confederacy in her late
struggle for independence. It specifi
cally prohibits any and every person
who held a United States office or a
Stale office that required an oath to
support the Constitution of the United
States, before the war, and afterwards
voluntarily aided the Confederacy,
from holding any office under the
Government, or in any State, unless
relieved of his so-called disabilities by
a vote of two-thirds of Congress.
Now*, wo hold that by the ratification
of this Amendment, the. people under
stood and intended to declare that the
class wc have just mentioned should
not hold any State or Federal office
without Die consent of Congress. It
absolutely bars politically that class
from holding official position except
by the consent of two-thirds of (lie
U. S. Senators and members of Con
gress.
The Constitution says to these Con
federates, “ you cannot hold office
except on certain conditions;” and,
according to our interpretation of the
meaning of tlie Amendment, it means
that all other cx-Confcderates have a
right to hold office, and that the Test
Oath is in direct conflict with this
fundamental law of the land. As the
authorities now construe the law, the
most conspicuous leader of secession,
with hi/3 disabilities removed, has a
decided advantage over the humblest
volunteer in the Confederate army.
Wc will illustrate a case from Geor
gia. At the election for members of
Congress, Gen. P. M. B. Young and
J. 11. Christie, Esq., of tlie Athens
Watchman, were elected to Congress
from tlieir respective districts. Gen.
Young, from the fact of liis having
been a cadet at West Point, was
ineligible under the Fourteenth Amend
ment —he had to be re
moved. Mr. Christie, oh the other
hand —who has ever been and is now
a very moderate man —had none.
Gen. Young’s disabilities were very
properly removed, and he is allowed
to take liis seat. In this case the
Fourteenth Article meant that Chris
tie, not coming under its prohibitory
clause, was eligible, and that Young
was ineligible. But is Christie al
lowed to take his seat? Not at all.
He is confronted with the test oath, a
mere statute of Congress. He cannot
take it, and it is at once announced
that he has disabilities to be removed.
Nonsense! He is not proscribed by
the Constitution. A law which is in
conflict with the Fourteenth Amend
ment prevents the carrying out what
we conceive to be the only legitimate
interpretation of its intent and
meaning.
Decidedly Personal.
We hope wo may be' pardoned for
transferring to the Daily Press the
following from the La Grange Re
porter, the neatest and Host conducted
paper in the-South. Tho . editor, has
known us for many years, and, whilst
evidently over-rating our capacity,
does us no more than simple justice in
his reference to our aspirations and in
stincts. Here is his cordial New
Year’s greeting:
The National Rki’Ukltcan. -Mr. E. 11.
Pugtte, the proprietor of this paper an
nounces that the Augusta Daily Press will
bo resumed, to supercede the liepiililtytm, to
be continued as an independent news, Com
mercial and agricultural journal, and to be
published and conducted hy that old veteran
of Georgia journalism, Col. C. It. 1 bin loiter,
whose reputation as a printer, editor and
journalist is second to no man in this State.
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With open anus and a joyful hear.tj we
welcome Col. Hanleiter’s return to journalism,
a profession lie has adorned as lew men have
in Georgia. It is truly Ids legitimate profes
sion in file. Trained from early boyhood in
all the dutios«of a printing-office—-ascending
by regular gradation, from “printer’s devil”
to tlie editorial tripod—no one knows or un
derstands better the duties and requirements
of tlie profession, or is more capable of cater
ing for the cultivated, intellectual tastes of an
exacting public with success and honor to
himself or the journal over which ho will
preside. A Georgian by birth, interests and
all the associations of a long and useful lil e,
every aspiration of his heart, every instinct
of his nature, every impulse of his soul, are
in perfect unity and accord with the true and
honored people of his State.
When we say that wc receive him back
into the editorial fold with open arms and
joyful heart, we but feebly express our sin
cere pleasure at his return. Under his able
and judicious management we wish the Au
gusta Daily Press a career of usefulness
and prosperity.
Remember Your New Year’s Vows.
In this professedly Christian land
nearly every person—save that degen
erate class lost to all sense of responsi
bility to Society and to God —on the
first of January of each year, make
many brave resolves to reform great
and small faults. It is highly probable
that the first of the present year fur
nished no exception to the general
rule. On the presumption that most
thoughtful persons determined, on
Friday last, to “turn over anew leaf ”
for the year, we venture to remind
them that promises arc more easily
broken than observed; and that, if
they would faithfully fulfill their New
Year’s vows, it will be necessary to
constantly remember their purport
and importance.
Reader! this is only the third day
in the New Year—have you not already
violated some of: your bravest pledges?
If so, don’t abandon your resolves.
Stick to them.
The first and greatest resolve which
it was the duty of every person to
make was never to forget that every
“good and perfect gift” comes from
the Christian’s God ; that wc are not
the mere creatures of accident, but
were placed here for a wise and good
purpose, and that our Maker will
never turn a deaf ear to the earnest,
honest prayer of Faith. Those who
do not forget will not be forgotten by
Him. If all other pledges arc forgot
ten, be sure to remember your Maker.
If, during the last year, there lias
been too much extravagance in your
family expenditures, you have doubt
less Solemnly promised to * stop all
leaks this year. This is a very im
portant matter to every adult. I3ut
those who have not educated them
selves to practice rigid economy, will
find it' a hard matter. A book where
in every cent expended, and the arti
cle or articles purchased, will serve as
an oxccllent monitor of economy.
The keeping of pass books, to set
down weekly or monthly family sup
plies purchased of the grocer, is an
extremely bad practice. It is so con
venient to pick up a pass book and
run to the grocer’s, that, before heads
of families arc aware of it, they are
heels over head in debt for articles,
many of which Avere entirely unneces
sary. Let a little book of daily cash
expenditures take the place of the
pass book, and, our Avord for it,
thoughtful families will consider well
before making purchases.
It is the duty of every man to live
within his income, and to save some
thing—be it ever so little—of each
day’s, Aveck’s, and month’s earnings.
For that class of healthy men who arc
continually complaining that they can
obtain no Avork, Avehaveno sympathy.
There is Avork for every able-bodied
man in America. There may be a
surplus of labor here in the city ; but
the tOAvn is of man’s making—God
made the country. The fields of
Georgia are inviting all out of employ,
ment to come and dig an abundant
support out of the earth. After all,
this is tlie honest, manly, innocent
Avay of making a living. Then, our
advice to those out of employment, is
to go to the country. Don’t hang
round the streets, eating Avhat you
can catch, and disgracing humanity.
■ls you did not make that resolve on
New Year,.make it now. If you Avill,
in less than three months you will feci
Di’oud of yourself and thank us for the
advice.
A multitude of pledges to reform
arc Avholly unnecessary. All avlio Avill
faithfully observe these lour rules,
viz.:
1. Be moral;
2. Industrious ;
3. Economical; %
1. And charitable ;
and aid in the circulation of the Daily
Press—the cheapest and best daily
newspaper in Georgia—entirely inde
pendent of politics or cliques, and
wholly devoted to the interests oi the
People, they Avill be prosperous and
happy. That eaqh of our readers may
realize that pure happiness which
springs from the conscientious dis
charge of all social and domestic
duties, is our most devout prayer.
Miscellaneous Editorial Items.
Brick. Pomeroy’s New York Dem
ocrat says that Avhen in Washington,
a few days siuec, General Frank
Blair expressed the opinion that
-“Grant, as President, will load, not
follow, and will be far more likely to
demand new power instead of relin
quishing a single prerogative.”
Notwithstanding .-the dullness of
the times, the Government receipts for
customs at New York for December
wore $0,557,573 —being $1,109,229
more than was received during tlie
same months in 1807.
The United States District Attor
ney for the District of Columbia is
making an effort to get up anew in
dictment against .John A. Surratt.
Perhaps he deems that the best means
of securing the favor of the next Ad
ministration.
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—A Chinese printer works on tlie
San Jose (Cal.) Mercury .
‘‘Keeping the Babe for his Mother.”
. Among my beautiful memories,
Os a summer beside the sea,
Is one of a fair young mother,
With her baby on her knee.
How proud she was of her treasure,
How solemn and sweet her joy !
You had but to glance at her features,
As she bent and kissed her boy.
Oh! oft in that beautiful summer,
That summer beside the sea,
I prayed for that fair young mother,
And the baby on her knee.
For, pale as of winter,
And gragile as flower of spring,
It seemed as 1 gazed on the darling,
I could hear the rustling wing—
The rustling wing of the angel,
That beareth the babies away,
To that distant yet beautiful heaven,
Where life is eternal day.
And watching the boy and his mother,
And hoping amid my fears,
I prayed that the Father would spare him,
For many beautiful years.
But, alas! ere the llowcrs of summer,
Had faded and fall’ll from sight,
There were tears in the eyes of that
mother,
One gloomy and sorrowful night.
Iso longer she’s proud of her treasure;
Gone is her solemn, sweet joy,
Alas! one glance at her features,
Will tell she has buried her boy.
Oh ! friend of that beautiful summer.
That summer beside the sea,
Oh! gentle and son owing mother,
My heart is aching for thee.
Too well do I know the anguish,
Os losing one’s beautiful boy—
Too well do I know how it shadows
The light of our dearest joy.
Oh! my lips are yearning to whisper,
Os God and Ilis Blessed Son,
Who are keeping thy baby in heaven
Till tliy earthly work is done—
Keeping thy beautiful darling,
From sorrow and sin so free—
Till by and by thou slialt hold him,
Once more upon thy knee.
The Gold Now in this Country-
The Commercial and Financial
Chronicle shows that Senator Morton’s
estimate of the gold now in the United
States, is far too high. The Senator
thought that the amount had actually
largely increased since 1860, and
might be now as high as $5 72,000,000;
certainly above, $400,000,000.
The Chronicle , assuming that trav
ellers in Europe have taken out as
much as emigrants have brought in,
and leaving out the circulation in the
Pacific States, as of no use to the
banks or people of the Atlantic States,
makes the following estimate :
Gold in Alantic States in
1861 $165,000,000
Product of mines for 8
years endiag June 80,
1868 485,01)0,000
Imports of spccio for 8
years ending Juno 80,
1868 141,900,000
Total supply, 8 years. $791,900,000
Exports of specie last 8
years $548,100,000
Sent from South during
the war 15,000,000
Total loss in 8 yea?s. 568,100,000
Stock in 1868 $228,800,000
“It would thus appear that the present
stock of the precious metals in the Atlantic
States is close upon $230,000,000. It is not
to be supposed, however, that all this exists
in the form of coin, nor even of coin and
bars. A certain portion of the supply of gold
and silver has been taken for commercial
purposes. That form of consumption lias
been largely increased within late- years,
under the high duties on jewelry and plate,
and perhaps could not be safely estimated at
less than $10,000,000 per annum. Assuming
this to be a full estimate, and deducting only
$70,000,000 from the foregoing balance, we
should have about $100,000,000 as the present
stock of coin and bullion in the Atlantic
States.”
If there is so much gold in the
country, where is it ? It is difficult to
account for much more than half of
even that sum.
Oath to be Taken by Persons Believed
of Political Disabilities.
The public generally arc ignorant of
the precise form of the oath required
to be taken by persons whose disabili
ties, under the fourteenth article of
the Constitution, have been removed
by Congress, and who may be elected
or appointed to office, under the U: S.
Government. For the information of
our readers we insert the law passed
by Congress on the subject, which
contains a copy of the oath, as follows:
An Act prescribing an oath of office to be
taken by persons from whom legal disabil
ities shall have been removed.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of Amer
ica in Congress assembled , That whenever
any person who has participated in the
rebellion, and from whom all legal disabili
ties arising therefrom have been removed by
act of Congress by a vote of two-thirds of each
House, has been or shall be elected or ap
pointed to any ollice or place of trust in or
under the Government of the United States,
he shall, before entering upon the duties
thereof, instead of the oath prescribed by the
act of July two, eighteen hundred and sixty
two. take and subscribe the following oath
or affirmation : “ I, A. 15., do solemnly swear
(or affirm) that 1 will support and defend tin?
Constitution of the United States against all
enemies, foreign and domestic; that 1 will
bear true faith and allegiance to the same;
that I take this oath freely without any men
tal reservation or purpose of evasion; and
that I will well and faithfully discharge the
duties of the ollice on which 1 am about to
enter. So help me God.”
Approved July 11,1868.
The Cotton Trade at New Orleans.
The Times , of the 30tli, has the
.following, which will he read with
interest by factors and farmers:
An enlarged trade was noted yesterday in
cotton at a fractional advan« in prices, the
reported sales making an aggregate of nearly
7,200 hales, 'flic estimated supply now
here is about 30,000 bales, and at all the
shipping ports of the country, at latest dates,
about 295,000 bales. The receipts at the
ports since September 1, add up 981,000
bales, hgtiinst 807,000 bales same time last
season. The exports .since September 1
amount to 458,000 bales against 401,000 last
year. Thus, it appears that the exports
since the commencement of the current
son, have been equal to nearly fifty per cent,
of the receipts at the ports, or approximately
in the same proportion as during the first
four months of the year 1807-8. Middling
grades closed in this market yesterday at
25hv20j- cents, against 15|a16-] cents per
pound a year ago. The currency value of
exports during tf:o first, four months of the
current cotton year, will be probably forty
per cent, more than that of the shipments
from the port, the corresponding month of
the hist cotton year.
—
Our market, says tho Macon Tele
</?ap/t, 'is getting chock full of mules.
Tennessee, Kentucky and Northwes
tern drovers find Georgia a fh*o place
to sell this year. Our planters are
selling out their old brbken down
stock and replacing them with young
and healthy animals.
[From our ow r n Correspondent.
Our Washington Letter.
Washington, D. C., Dec. 31,1808.
The latest sensation comes from the Quar
termaster General’s office. It is alleged that
a Government officer was ordered to aban
don a post on the Western border, and dis
pose of all property on,hand at auction.
This wa3 done, but the property, winch was
appraised a.t over four hundred thousand
dollars, only brought four dollars and fifty
cents. There was one bidder at the sale, and
it is believed in some quarters the officer was
an interested party in the purchase. The
affair is to he thoroughly investigated.
1 remember, during the Mexican war,
several quartermasters and commissaries, it
was generally believed, made fortunes; and
one way they contributed to this result was
as follows: Os course hard bread was
issued to the army, and it would not keep a
great while in that climate. Upon the
arrival of each new regiment of volunteers
from the States, a Board of Survey was
called, composed of inexperienced officers, to
pass upon large quantities of commissariat
stores. These officers, never having indulged
in hard bread before, were ready to con
demn what afterwards they were very glad
to purchase at any price. This property, as
condemned, would be sold at auction, and
generally at a mere nominal sum; but some
how or other the exigencies of the service”
always compelled officers to purchase sup
plies for issue to the army on the spot, and
in some cases a good round price was paid
for condemned provisions. A quartermaster
interested in such sales and*purchases, at
such a depot as Brazos was in 1866-7, could
very easily make a fortune.
Anxious politicians of all persuasions are
busily engaged in making a Cabinet for
General Grant; but rely upon it, thus far the
President has not intimated his preferences
to any one, nor is there any foundation for
the statement put forth as to any particular
line of policy lie intends to pursue. His ad
ministration of the War Department should
admonish him to be alive to the importance
of exercising economy in all the departments
of government, and this necessity he has fre
quently given utterance to before as well its
since liis nomination and election; but then,
at the same time, he proposes to exact of his
subordinates a wise economy, and not that
kind to which alarmed theorists would urge
him to adopt. So also has lie expressed him
self in favor of the aid extended by Govern
ment to the Pacific railroad, now nearly com
pleted, but not as hearing upon any future
policy he may see lit to adopt in regard to
Government subsidies.
The General is as reticent to-day as he was
before his election, and all the reports which
have gone abroad as utterances of his, indi
cating the policy of his administration, arc
nothing more than what every one knew be
fore his nomination. Every movement, every
word of General Grant, in the absence of
anything definite, is caught up by hungry
correspondents, and very small matters are
greatly exaggerated. As an illustration, take
the case of Treasurer Spinner. Gen. Grant
called upon him soon after his- election, as a
warm personal friend, and I am assured no
thing passed between them of a political
character at this interview; but the quid
nuncs at once arrived at the sage conclusion
that Mr. Spinner was to be the next Secre
tary of yic Treasury. It may prove to he so,
but Treasurer Spinner has neither applied
for the place, nor has it been offered to him
as yet. .
The season was inaugurated last evening
by a children’s party at the White House.
The attendance was large and the whole af
fair was a success. It is hardly necessary to
say, that though invited, Gen. Grant’s child
ren were not present.
Some people have been puzzled to know
what Grant would do on tliefirst of January.
It is customary on this occasion for officers
of the army and navy to pay their respects to
the Chief Magistrate. Grant lias solved the
problem by visiting friends in Philadelphia:
The arrival of a fresh delegation has given
anew impetus to Georgia affairs. It is prob
able that a bill will be framed covering all
the unreconstructed States,including Georgia,
I am unable to give you positive informa
tion regarding Caleb Gushing’s mission. All
that has been said heretofore by correspon
dents at this point, has been pure speculation.
Mr. Cushing has gone to secure the right of
way to construct a canal across the Isthmus
of Darien. There are five Central American
powers claiming an interest in this Isthmus.
An attempt will be made to make a treaty
with all these powers so as to place the right
of way across the Isthmus exclusively in
American hands, and then defend that right
against all comers. France only claims such
right under a charter granted by a defunct
President of New Granada; but it, is not sup
posed that cither Napoleon or England, or
both combined, will risk a war to break a
treaty with the United States—because it is
designed to make the canal an international
highway, only a small toll being demanded
to pay tor the investment and repairs. The
route has been surveyed by American engi
neers, and the est imated cost of the work-is
only one hundred million dollars, while prac
tical men reduce the amount to eighty mil
lions, a very small sum when compared with
the immense benefits to be derived. The
canal will he 300 feet wide and 25 feet deep
—large enough for the largest merchant ship
now alloat.
It is estimated that on a small toll per ton,
the receipts for the first year will reach four
hundred million dollars. When it is con
sidered what a revolution such a canal would
create in the commerce of the world, it is not
to be wondered that Andrew Johnson is
anxious to take the initiative in tho move
ment, and wind up his administration with
so creditable an act. But it is hardly proba
ble be Avill be able to gain the credit of Ibis
undertaking. The residents of the hot lati
tudes are proverbially slow to act in diplo
matic matters, and It is hardly probable that
Mr. Cushing will be able to accomplish the
object of bis mission and return hero before
Congress adjourns.
Senator Abbott, of North Carolina, who
has remained here during the rcCcss, looking
after Southern interests, leaves this evening
for Now Hampshire to attend the funeral of
his father, who died yesterday at the ripe
age of three score and ten. He will hot
return until January sth. Capita],.
Improvement of the Navigation of
the Tennesses River.
The Chattanooga Daily Republican
contains a call for a Convention to
assemble in that city on the 24th of
February next, to Bike measures to
induce Congress to make an appro
priation of the necessary means to
construct a canal round the Muscle
Shoals of the Tennessee River.
We quote a portion of the call:
We, the Governors aforesaid, most earn
estly recommend that the cities, villages and
counties of tho Tonnessco Valley, nnTl the
counties adjacent thereto, the Boards ot
Trade and other business associations through
out the country, be represented in the Con
vention. 'flic ‘importance of providing free
transportation by water for tho vast products
of tho country drained by the Tennessee
River cannot be overestimated.
To the people of tho whole South and
West, to the entire country, tho measure is
of the greatest importance, and as a com
mercial'matter an imperative uooossity. A
consultation of representative men cannot
fail to advance it. * ‘
It B. Buli.okk, W. G. Bkownlow,
Gov. of Georgia. Gov. of Tennessee.
Sam’i, Mrciumm, Wm, 11. Smith,
Gov. of lowa. Gov. of Alabama.
Tuos. O. Fr, etcher, J. W. Stevenson,
Gov. of Missouri. Gov. of Kentucky.
The Engineer of the Ail* Line Rail
road from Atlanta to Charlotte, N. C.,
lias advertised for contractors, and
the Constitution is “pleased to learn
that it will soon be commenced.'*
J B YUUT E EE GR A P H.
Later from Savannah !
Tlic Negroc* still | n Position !
ARRIVAL OF TROOPS!
Families Going to Savannah !
Savannah, January 3, 1800.
Affairs on the Ogeechec remain in
slalu quo.
Nothing has been done on either side.
IVbite families from Bryan county arc
moving into the city. They report the
troubles spreading to that county.
Two companies of United States in
fantry, under General Sibley, arrived here
to-day.
The civil and military authorities are in
conference.
Wild rumors arc afloat but they arc not
reliable.
■
Still Later*!
THE MILITARY IN CHARGE.
The Negroes Willing <o Surrender
to the Military.
Savann.(ij, Jan. 4—afternoon.
Tlie military have taken charge of the
Ogeechec troubles.
The preliminary organization ol citizen*
to act as the Sheriff’s posse lias been dis
continued.
The Sheriff will be supported by the
military in the execution of warrants.
Two U. S. officers visited the scene of
trouble, and report that the negroes are
willing to surrender to the military, and
there will doubtless be no further troubles.
+ + +
THE LATEST!
FOURTEEN INSURGENTS SUR
RENDERED.
MO R E W ILL CO M E IN.
Savannah, January I—night.
The trouble on the Ogeechec was quieted
on the military taking charge.
Fourteen insurgents surrendered them
selves to the authorities last night. Others
implicated expect to come in to-night.
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