Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, April 08, 1869, Image 2
Straps aitd ??tf.
At Leesburg, N. C., uviegro school teacher
got drunk and whipped his whole school, consisting
of tixty little negroes.
-? A young woman in Montana was charged
with "putting on airs," when she refused to go to
a ball barefooted.
The Hillsboro (N. C.) Recorder records two
rapes in that section, committed by negroes upon
white girls, each only fourteen years old.
-A Connecticut rogue stole a horse and carriage,
and then borrowed money of the Littlefield
county Sheriff to pay the expense of pursuing the
thief.
??Some mice got into a drawer in Mobile, containing
matches and pistol*3fertridges. The mice
ignited the matches, the inatchae tired the cartridges,
and the official report mentions the killing
and wounding of several of the gnawers.
Dr. G. W. Graves, formerly of Perry county,
Ala., now in California, writes a long letter to
the Selma Time*. He thinks people in Alabama
and the other Southern States haa better remain
where they are.
The New York Snn has astonished its readers
by an editorial intimation in favor of Buch constitutional
changes as will ". practically abolish the
Executive Departments altogether, and make Congress
supreme.
The Laurensville Herald says: Through the
Newberry 7 emigration Society, several of our farmers
have received able-bodied, yonng and finelooking
Germans, who have gone to the cotton and
^ 1 * * *? ? ItAAM ^rtTTAWft Klfl
corn neias. in every iu?unnx, we uiviwn.
reports.
f Forney writes to a Southern man that his
"whole object is to see the South not only to return
to its past prosperity, but to sec it embarked
upon a career of renown that will place it in successful
competition with the North. ' Forney has
land to sell.
A negro woman forty-two years of age, living
seventeen miles from Athens, Alabama, gave
birth to twins on the 27th ult?one a white infant
and the other black as tar. A similar occurrence
as to the infants happened near Somerville, Ala.,
about ten years ago. The mother was a white
woman.
The daily evening train out of Washington
is now generally known atf'the "swearing tram,"
from the number of homeward-bound office-seekers
who not being friends of the Grant family, and
haying neglected to contribute to the gift enterprise,
endeavor to relieve their disappointment and
the tedium of the forlorn journey by profound interchanges
of profanity.
A dispatch from Richmond announces the
appointment of General Alexander Webb to suoceed
General Stoneman in the command of the
first military district, (Virginia.) It also announces
that Governor Wells, who was suspended by Gen.
Stoneman, has been reinstated as the provisional
governor of the State, and Stoneman ordered to
go with his regiment to California..
Brick Pomeroy fitly says: "Corn is scarce at
the South, the demand beihg for thousands of bushels
from the North-West. How long will the people
of that section be content to raise cotton for
the benefit of New England manufacturers, rather
than provisions tor their own consumptionr it
strikes us as poor policy to starve one's self to
death for the purpose of enriching enemies."
The Washington correspondents say that the
Georgia, Governor Bullock, deliberately procured
the Senate of his State to reject the Fifteenth
amendment, in order that he might use that rejection
as an argument for the expulsion of the State
from the Union; and he is now canting the result
of his own work as a reason why bis State should
be handed over again to the boys in blue and the
negroes.
The Chicago Tribune says "Cleveland is
Kroud of a citizen woman who has had seven husands
within eight years. One was killed in the
army and another in a street fight. The other five
survive, she having been divorced from four of
them. Her daughter bids fair to rival her mother's
connubial exploits, having been already twice
married and divorced, and is now ready to snap up
a third man, though but in her seventeenth year.
_ Some interesting developments were made
in the New York courts Tuesday. It was shown
that the Union Pacific road is not completed to
Ovden, as stated, and that temporary tracks were
laid down in some places on a grade exceeding two
hundred feet to the mile, upon which the company
had received the full quota of bonds, although
the road is not built on the approved lino of sur
vey, and two tunnels are still unnmsnoci.
An elephant belonging to a menagerie in
Ecrest, Mississippi, became enraged, broke his
chain, and upset things genefally._ A passing-railroad
train still further exciting his ire, he pitched
into it, knocked the locomotive off the track, but
himself knocked into smithereens. The steam
from the demolished locomotive bursted the cage
in which.a lion was confined, and the beast made
his eteape, and at last accounts was killiDgmen
and horses.
The following are a few facts about the celebrated
Siamese twins. Chang and Eng married
two sisters, the daughters of a North Carolina
clergyman. Each brother has nine children. The
family of Eng consists of six sons and three daughters
; the family of Chang consists of three sons
and six daughters. The first children were born
in three or four days of each other, the others at
regular intervals. Chang's ninth child was born
three months ago.
?- The religion of the members of the new Cabinet
is stated to be as follows: Attorney-General
Koar is a Unitarian; Secretary of the Interior Cox
is a Swedenborgian; Secretary of the Navy Borie
is a Catholic; ex-Secretary of State AVashburne is
a Universalist: Secretary of State Fish is a Dutch
Reformer, and Postmaster-General Creswell eschews
churches altogether. The religious faith of
Boutwell and Rawlins is not yet known to fame.
Grant's family are Methodists, and that is the
church whith he usually attends.
The Baltimore Sun of Tuesday says that a
large number of foreign emigrants have left New
York within the last few days, to try their fortunes
in the Southern States. A majority of them were
young and healthy men and women from Germany,
and the remainder were Irish, English and
French. South Carolina was the destination of
most of them, and in most cases the emigrants had
come to this country under the auspices of some of
the Southern emigrant companies, who are trying
to attract labor and capital from Europe, to aid in
the development of the Southern country.
In the re-distribution of Congressmen after
the census, next year, the East will Jose and the
AY est will gain a great number of representatives.
After 1870, the AVest, if united, will control the
legislation of the countrv, and control the national
; 1- ? Tt? 1?,:..t
conventions lor uoruuiauug rre>taeiunw viiiiuiuaic-s.
The West is equitably entitled to this superior
weight now ; but it cannot receive the benefit oi
its wonderful growth since I860 until after the ten
Years are fully up. when, by a sudden stride or
leap, it will make a great advance in political influence.
Mayor Hall, of New York, has published a
letter addressed "To the Press of the United
States," in which he says: "I beg to caution
strangers against New York circulars and prospec?
tu<es of tickets, shares and chances in co-operative
unions or gift enterprises or dollar stores, or in any
other possible scheme whereby property or the
value promised is greater than the price asked to
le paid. Every such advertisement scheme is
necessarily a swindle and false pretence. There
do not and cannot possibly exist any such schemes
in this city. Country newspapers which aid them
siiuply aid the swindle."
Ic is said that Mrs. Charles Summer, formerly
the widow Hooper, and now grazing somewhere
in the Alps as the widow of the senator
from Massachusetts, has sent a handsome cash
uieseiit across the water to the relict ot the late
Preston S. Brooks. Mrs. Suutner declares that
Brocks deserved the thanks of the public for having
drubbed her consort, and that during her briel
stay wiih him as her matrimonial partner, she wa*
only prevented from repeating the famous scent
in the Senate by Charles's a Idee t cowardice. The
two widows?Mrs. B. and Mrs. S. ?corresDond
regularly. In the mean time Charles, in his lonely
bachelor's attic in Washington, is annotating
his famous speech on the "Barbarism of Slavery,'
with reminiscences of his wedded weeks with widow
Iloojier. "lie learned in suffering what ho
taught in slang."?Exchange.
We learn that on Monday last orders were
received at Abbeville Courthouse for the immediate
fbrmation of a company of negro State troops.
The news that $1G a month, army rations, and
perhaps a uniform, could be had for the asking,
spread like wildfire, and within twenty-four hours
about fifty negroes were enrolled. Many of then
had been working steadily in the field, out abandoned
:!n-ir employers without leave or warning.
No public notice of this new prank was taken b}
the white people of the district : but Hutsor
L imax, a colored member of the Legislature, and
another prominent Radical, sent to Columbia ar
argent-request that the order for the enlistment of
the negroes should be revoked, or at least suspended.
This was, we believe, the oondition of affairs f
in Abbeville three days ago.?Charleston Nncs.
Wendell Phillips, in the last number of his
Anfi-Slavery Standard has a characteristic admonition
for Congress, with reference to the Fifteenth
amendment. He says: "The amendment must
not fail. We must, if necessary, swamp Delaware
and Indiana by the creation of new States. There
is Georgia vaporing in old Southern style, in insolent
defiance of the nation's will. She is not a
8tate, having not yet been reconstructed nor readmitted.
che could easily be divided into two
good sized States, and admitted when she sees her
way to the adoption of the Fifteenth amendment."
Again, he says: "This is no time for maudlin sentiment
It is a time for drawn swords, and for
going to the extreme verge of our constitutional
power. We say, therefore, to Congress, carve out
of rebel territory like Texas and Georgia, enough
States to ratify the amendment, if events shall
show it to be necessary."
lb* farMlt <?mjuir*r,
YORKVILLE, S. C.s
THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 8, 1869.
Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that
our terms for subscription, advertising andjob,
work, are cash, in advance.
X.?The paper will be discontinued on the expiration
of the time for which payment has been
made. A Subscriber finding a (X) cross-mark on
the wrapper or margin of his paper, will understand
that the time paid for has expired.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
We have been requested by Rev. H. R. Dickson,
the Pastor, to state that in consequence of his
absence at Presbytery, there will be no service at
the Presbyterian Ghnrcb in Yorkville, on next
Sabbath.
THE COLUMBIA GUARDIAN.
Mr. C. P. Pelham announces that the publication
of the Daily Guardian will be resumed in
Columbia on the first of May, proximo. Further
particulars are promised in a few days with regard
to terms, &c.
AN ENTERTAINMENT.
We have been requested to state that the ladies
belonging to the congregation of the Presbyterian
Church in Yorkville, will give a public entertainment
at the Hall of the Female College on Thurs(?or.
atrnntnrr novt ISth instant. The obiect of the
VI fMJ VfWMIU6 ? ?
entertainment is to raise funds in aid of the Church.
The price of admission to the Hall has been fixed
at 25 cents. By attending, the young and the old
can pass a pleasant hour, and at the same time
contribute to the success of a worthy object.
'HANDWRITING OF GOD."
We have been furnished by Bev. S. Head, the
agent for York and Chester Counties, with a copy
of a very interesting book, bearing the above title,
written by Bev. D. A. Bandall, of Colombus, Ohio.
It is in the form of a journal and describes in an
entertaining and graphic manner, what the author
saw while on a recent visit to Egypt, Sirai and the
Holy Land. The book is gotten up in good style
and, all things considered, is sold at a reasonable
price.
THE WALLACE-SIMPSON CASE.
The'Committee on Elections have reported Mr.
Simpson ineligible, for the reason that he is unable
to take the oath of office prescribed by the act of
< July 2, 1862. This inability, say the Committee,
is alleged in writing by Mr. Wallace, and admitted
by Mr. Simpson in his written answer to the notice
of contest in this case. This, of course, unseats
Mr. Simpson.
With regard to the contestant, a majority of the
committee report in favor of giving Mr. Wallace .
the seat, and a minority report adversely to it. 1
Congress has not yet adopted either report.
+ ?
THE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
Owing to the circumstance that no effort was
made to get a meeting together, there was nothing
done in the matter of organizing an agricultural
society on sales-day. York will not meet in convention
with the other counties of the State on the
28th.
But other counties are not so indifferent to this
important interest We see that such societies
are forming all over the State, and the Columbia i
agricultural convention is as much a certainty as <
anything future can "be. We hear expressions of ;
regret on all sides, at the failure to organize a so- ]
ciety last Monday ; but whose fault is it? (
FROM CUBA.
The complications of the United States with Cuban
affairs are increasing. More vessels have been
sent to the Gulf squadron, und a memorial has
been presented in Congress from a U. S. citizen
claiming to have received certain injuries from the
Spauish navy in Cuban waters.
As for the belligerents, both sides claim to be
gaining ground. The Spanish authorities have
followed the example of their opponents, and are
seeking to enlist negro soldiers. The T occ ch Cuba
claims that the negro population favor the
Spanish rale, and repel all offers of the insurgents.
On the other hand, the insurgents claim to be able
to bring an army of 200,000 men iuto the field.
They are yet a long way below those figures, although
they have received considerable reinforcements
of fillibusters.
? >
THE TENURE-OF-OFFICE ACT.
As public attention has been attracted by the
long debates in Congress on this subject, many
would doubtless like to know what the tenure-of- ]
office, or, as the Irishman in the West called it, 1
the "ten-year-office bill," is. The history of the
straggle is briefly this:
While Mr. Johnson was President, Congress,
in order to prevent him from removing their ad- ]
herents and his opponents from office, passed a .
law which entitled office-holders to keep their of- ;
fices, in spite of the President's orders for their
removal, unless the Senate confirmed such orders. 1
Under the protection of this law, Mr. Stanton
defied Mr. Johnson successfully, when the latter
wished to remove him from the office of Secretary
of War.
When Gen. Grant became President, he found
this law very mtieh in his way. in the matter of
' dividing the spoils among his numerous hungry
, adherents. He very soon called for a repeal of the
act. The House was both ready and anxious to
! gratify him in this particular, they having nothing
> to lose by it But the Senate had tasted the
? pleasure contained in the office-giving power, and
; was loth to give it up. The House repealed the
act; the Senate refused, but made amendments,
which effected no material change. The House
refused to concur, and made amendments of its
own. This bandying of the act between the two
branches of Congress was continued nearly a
month, and was only ended last week by the la1
bors of a committee of conference, as is related in
' another place.
f As the matter is finally settled, Gen. Grant and
i the House have gained the victory. The act is so
? charged as virtually to repeal it The Senate
' have, however, managed to insert a partial recog'
nitiou of their right to confirm the removal. The
first section declares the right of every person
holding office to retain it during the time for which
he was appointed, unless sooner removed by and
i with the consent of the Senate, or by the appointment
with the like consent, of a successor in his
1 place, except as hereinafter provided.
That last clause constitutes the surrender. ProI
visious are made afterwards, by which the consent
pf the Senate is rendered an unnecessary part of
? the title to office. The second section enables the
i President to remove officials, and that finally; for
there is no provision for their restoration to office,
as there formerly was. Such removal is indeed,
( termed a suspension, but as the suspended official
| cannot return to his office, it is in plain English a
i removal.
/
Although he has gained an advantage over the
Senate, Gen. Grant is not entirely a victor, as he
could, by a little firmness, have got all he wanted.
According to the correspondent of the Baltimore
Svii, the President "informedseveralSenators and ,
members who called upon him that he had not
signed the bill, but that he intended to do so. To
one gentleman, a member from Pennsylvania, he
admitted that he had made a mistake in not insisting
upon its absolute repeal." He did sign it on
the 5th. _ ^
? ?
AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.
The annual report of the Agricultural Bureau
has been published, but its statistics are for the
year before last. It is announced therein, that in
1867 the proportion of land devoted to the cultivation
of cotton, in the cotton States, was 44 per
oent. while only 38 per oent was planted in corn.
This statement includes Tennessee, which is only
to a limited extent, a cotton State. If we leave
out Tennessee, it follows that over four-tenths of
the whole area cultivated in the South, is occupied
by cotton, and less than four tenths, by corn, while
all other crops are allowed bat two-tenths, or onefifth.
In South Carolina the proportions were
cotton 37, corn 40, and other crops 23 per oerit
The above quoted figures are suggestive, and
full of interest also, for the reason that we have no
ground for supposing any material change in the
relative proportions of the same crops now being
planted. If there be any difference, there will be
more cotton and less corn planted in 1869. Now
let us examine the results. The report says the
average yield, per acre, was 190 pounds, and per
hand, 1,750 pounds. In South Carolina the yield
was 145 pounds per acre, and 1,400 pounds per
hand.
The crop of 1867 was nearly all sold at low prices
and that simply because the planters were not able
to hold it. Their necessities were great and pressing,
and the vast majority were forced to sell in
order to buy?what? Corn and wheat which they
might have raised on their own land. The Bureau
report furnishes no statistics of the amount of provisions
sold to Southern planters at high figures,
during the winter of 1867 and spring of 1868. If
these statistics oould be furnished, we suspect the
?- -? v 1 j zuiu. ... i.v
tact CUUIU dc JlUJpiV JjrUVt'U iubi lull/ uuu-uau vu
that cotton crop was turned into corn and bacon.
The cotton crop of last year yielded double profits,
while the corn crop was also good enough to enable
the planter to pocket his cotton money. Still
it is not yet certain that the supply of corn was entirely
sufficient. It may yet be necessary to import
considerable corn. This is but a repetition of
the history of former years. It iff1 the old story of
robbing Peter to pay Paul, which has ever been
such a favorite policy in Southern farming. The
only objection to it Is that it is so uncertain. In
1867 it laid most of its supporters fiat on their
backs, while in 186S it set them up on a high horse.
The practical question iB what is this policy going
to do for us this year? Who can say whether the
price of cotton is going to be high enough next
Fall to pay for a possible deficiency in other and
absolutely necessary crops ? The price of cotton
depends on so many and so different causes, that
to predict it is mere guess work with all but the
favored few who can partially control it. A sudden
war, and such is not impossible, may depress
it, by raising the value of articles more essential,
and destroy its availability to planters by keeping
the crop shut out from market. An overcrop
would do as much, and an unexpected financial
crash would equally destroy the market, by making
money scarce, buyers scarcer, and sellers
eager. Are farmers really willing to trust their
whole capital to such an uncertainty, or are they
going to provide for what they know to be essential
to a successful carrying on of their business,
by planting grain enough to ensure them against
being forced to buy it at a sacrifice of cotton?
lime will show.
THE ENLISTMENT STORY.
Among our Scraps and Facts this week, is an
article from the Charleston i\ews, giving an account
of alleged enlistments of negroes for the militia,
in Abbeville county. The attention of Gov. Scott
having been called to the matter by Mr. George
yt. Williams, of Charleston, he replied to that
gentleman in a long letter, in which, he says that
while at the proper time he will organize the militia,
he ha9 done nothing in the matter. If, therefore,
any such enlistments have been made anywhere
in the State, they are null and void, and the
negroes so enlisted are the dupes of designing
parties, who will probably come to grief. The gist
of the Governor's letter is contained in the following
paragraph:
I have given no orders for the "immediate formition
of a company of negro State troops." No j
orders have been issued for the enrollment of the
militia, under the recent Act of the Legislature; :
even the Adjutant-General's office has not yet been
opened, and before any organization of the militia ,
into companies or regiments can be attempted, an
enrollment of all the citizens of the State, white
and colored, subject to militia duty, must first be
oompleted; which, in itself, will require considerable
time. I am led to believe, however, from a i
letter recently received from Mr. Guffin, of Abbe- |
ville, that the Adjutant and Inspector General, ,
now absent from the State, promised him the po- j
sition of enrolling officer for that county, when the
enrollment is ordered. This may have given rise 1
to the rumors of enlistments and excitement in that 1
neighborhood, spoken of by the Xcics, and of which ;
I know nothing, except what I gather from its
fulminations. In reply to Mr. Guffin, who is a
native of Abbeville, and as respectable and patri- 1
etic as any in the county, I directed him, if any of
the colored people had supposed they were to be
immediately enrolled, to disabuse them of tlpit uotion;
direct them to return to their homes and ,
labors, and remain there until the enrollment is
ordered, .when they will be duly notifid.
? - ?
MERE-MENTION.
Green peas and ripe strawberries have appeared
in the markets of Charleston and Savannah, Georgia.
Henry Mclver, of Cheraw, hns been
elected President of the Cheraw and Darlington
Railroad, i-ice Colonel Allan Macfarlan, deceased.
There are two negroes residing in Columbia,
aged respectively 109 and 112 years. It
is said that Adjutant and Inspector-General F. J.
Moses, Jr., has gone to New Haven, Connecticut,
for the purpose of purchasing two thousand Springheld
Rifles for tho Militia. The Lancaster
Ledger states that the l>ody of William Bowers,
(whose mysterious disappearance was noticed several
weeks ago,) has been found in Bear Creek.
He is believed to have been murdered. The
taxable property of Laurens County is put down
at $3,029,065. "The Graniteville Manufacturing
Company has declared a dividend of ten dollars
per share, payable on and after the 10th instant.
The English papers state that Gen.
Ripley, "who fired the first gun at Fort Sumter,''
is a bankrupt in London for about two hundred
thousand dollars. Archibald C. McKinlay.
colored, has been appointed assistant postmaster
at Oraneeburg, S. C. Dr. B. A. Boseman,
colored, has been appointod by Governor Scott,
physician to the Charleston Jail. The colored
Masonic societies of Charleston are giving entertainments
for the purpose of raising a Masonic
charity fund. The value of tnxable property
in Lancaster county is $1,300,492.
It is said that Governor Senter, of Tennessee,
will disband Brownlow's militia and send them to
their homes." An exchange remarks "good for
the State, but terrible for the homes. At the
latest advioes but eighty miles of the Pacific Kailroad
remained unfinished. It is expected that the
fourth of July next will see San Francisco and
New York united by rail. Frank Pierce's
Cabinet was the only one in the history of the
United States that remained unbroken from the
beginning to the end of the administration. It
is stated that Mr. Jefferson Davis proposes to return
to the United States at an early day. A
lady in New Hampshire, weighing four hundred
pounds, has just married a man of one hundred
and thirty. The Rhode Island Methodist
Conference has resolved to admit no man to mem
bership who uses tobacco, except for medicinal
purposes. A Northern gentleman who has
lately settled near Petersburg, Virginia, intends to
plant this year two hundred acres of land in sorghum,
and will manufacture sugar. The Captain-G(
neral of Cuba officially declares that hereafter
all vessels captured in Spanish waters, with
men, arms, and munitions of war on board, will be
treated as pirates. Railroads from Boston to
Huntsville, Ala., have agreed to pass immigrants at
21 cents per mile. All the negro regiments
but two have been "consolidated" out of the United
States army. On the Chicago and Northwestern
railway recently, a train ran ninety-one
miles in ninety minutes. The spring style of
bonnet? is described as "reduced in size and increased"
in price." Burns' only surviving son
is now living in Cheltenham, at the advanced age
of seventy-seven. There are said to be over
16,000 Free Masons in Georgia. "The Louisville
Courier-Journal, commenting upon the remark
that the mantle of Thad. Stevens had fallen
upon Ben. Butler, wishes it had been Thad. 's mantle-piece.
Wood is so scarce in France that
they save their sawdust, mix it with glue and press
it in moulds, making, it is said, very good itnita*
- a /V _ i .
tions or carved wood." a ioou or snow ieu ai
Albany, New York, on Thursday, the first of
April. Massachusetts has a population of
1,610 Indians, '^Phree colored women have
government clerkships in Washington. Seventy-two
cotton aniPwtolen mills are being erected
in Georgia. It is stated that a hen in Maury
county, Tenn., is laying bottle-shaped eggs. Why
don't the owner give her a little whiskey, and let
her hatch him out a few hottles of that beverage?
It is Baid that the Elk Mountain Cheese Factory
in Buncombe county, has proved to be so profitable-that
the people of that section have determined
to establish two or three more factories. A
minister in Mitchell County, Ga., says that the
"forbidden fruit" that Eve partook of and gave to
Adam was?tobacco. Laraartine was asked
by a friend if he did not spend too much money in
advertising. "No," was his reply, "advertise1
ments are absolutely necessary. Even divine worship
(1c Ion Dieu) needs to be advertised. Else
what is the meaning of church bells?" John
Robinson, the Showman, is a candidate for Alderman
in Cincinnati. The North Carolina Legislature
has agreed to adjourn on Monday, 12th
instant. The stay law of North Carolina has
been declared unconstitutional by the Superior
Court of Craven county. Sugar planting has
been successful in Louisiana this season, and the
crop is estimated at from 260,000 to 300,000 hogsheads.
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.
On the 30th ultimo, the Senate passed the supplementary
currency act, having first adopted an
amendment increasing the amount to be withdrawn
from States having an excess of circulation
to $30,000,000. The bill goes to the House. If
it becomes a law, the effect will be to take the
above named amount from the Eastern States, and
the South and West will get it, in proportion to
population.
The House refused to concur in the Senate
amendments to the tenure-of-otficc bill, by a vote
of 100 to GO. A committee of conference was then
appointed to dispose of the subject A resolution
to adjourn, if the Senate concur, on the Gth, was
passed.
Ou the 31st, the conference committee on the
tenure-of-office bill reported, and the report was.
adopted, the vote in the Sonate being 42 to 8, and
that in the House 100 to 67. The Senate debated
the resolution to adjourn on the 6th, but took no
action thereon,
On the 1st instant, the Senate passed a joint resolution
requiring all parties, desiring the removal
of political disabilities,, to make application over
their own signatures, with a sworn statement giving
the reasons why they ask relief.
In the House, the bill to provide a provisional
government for Mississippi came up, and after a
long discussion the whole subject was postponed
until next session: Mr. Butler, the fatherof the
bill, made a strong fight to have it passed, and, as
usual, got himself into several j>ersonal encounters
of wit. To do the Falstaff of the House justice,
he turned the laugh on his adversaries; but his
strategy was in vain, and he came out of the contest
beaten, which is no uncommon occurrence in
his history.
On the 2nd, the Indian appropriation bill was
passed by the Senate.
In the House, the committee on contested elections
rej>orted that in the case of Hoge versus
Reod, from the 3rd Congressional District of South
Carolina, the contestant, Hoge, is entitled to the
seat The report was made the special order for
Tuesday, the 0th, when it is very likely to be
adopted. The same committee reported that in
the case of Wallace versus Simpson, from the
same State, Mr. Simpson is ineligible. This report
was ordered to be printed and laid upon the
table.
On the 3rd, the Senate confirmed Longstreet's
nomination as Surveyor for the port of New Orleans,
by a vote of 25 to 10, after two days' discussion.
Mr. Sprague made a personal explanation,
to the effect that "his courage .and his words do
not rest upon wine or whiskey, but on his knowledge
of the danger to the country from legislative
and executive power assumed by the Senate."
Both Houses adopted a resolution to adjourn on
the tutn instant.
On the 5th, the Senate judiciary committee reported
a bill, and recommended that it pass, as
follows: "That when any person who is not rendered
ineligible to office by the provisions of the
Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution shall
be elected or appointed to any office of honor or
trust under the Government of the United States,
and shall not be able, on account of his participation
in the late rebellion, to take the oath prescribed
in the act of Congress, July 2d, 1802, said person
shall, in lieu of said oath, take and subscribe
the oath prescribed in the act of Congress entitled
"an act prescribing an oath of office to be taken by
persons whose legal disabilities shall have been removed,
approved .July 11, 1S6S."
Sumner introduoed a bill forbidding district
courts to consider cases involving slave contracts.
In the House, the bill carrying into effect the
Convention of !C8 between the United States and
Mexico was passed. It goes to the President. The
bill continuing the Freedmoti's hospitals at Richmond,
Vicksburg nnd District of Columbia was
passed. It goes to the President.
A FAITHFUL PUBLIC MAN.
Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island, has attracted
the attention of the whole country, by his recent
out-spoken rebuke of the corruption and incompe
tency now so prevalent. Mr. Sprague is beyond
suspicion a.s to his "loyalty," the only touchstone
of merit now recognized. At the beginning of
the late war he equipped and sent into the U. S.
army, at his own expense, a regiment of infantry
and a battery of artillery. In his speech on the
24th of March, when taunted on his desertion, so
called, by some whom his remarks made sore, he
stopped their mouths by the assertion, which they
could not disputo, "In means I have contributed
more than any member of this body, and in character
quite as much, to the success of the Republican
party. In point of means I think my contributions
in that direction would offset the contributions
of all the other members of the Senate."
He now, however, rises above prejudice and
breaks the shackles of party, by publicly declaring
himself disappointed in the results of that success,
and the unusual spectacle of a modern public man
who is not afraid to speak his honest opinion,
when adverse to his party's interests has gained
him applause from all parts of the country. Speaking
of the misgovoromentof Congress, Mr. S. said:
"What position do we occupy to-day? Is there
peace at the South ? Is there a spirit of harmonious
influence here in this Senate toward those peo?le
? Is there government among tho6e people ?
>o their occupations prosper? Are they not in a
state of chronic revolution ? And have you not
had four lone years in which to assure peace among
that people ? Who that is a poor man dare take
one that is rich Defore any court in this land? Is
there individual protection?is there citizen protection
in this land of liberty ? Mr. President, if
a railroad, or manufacturer, or a rich man is
brought to the bar of any court in this land by a
man not as well off as he, or a poor man, all the
nice points of the law, and the arrangements and
knowledge of judicial precedents, are brought to
bear to defeat the poor and the weak.
I have called to the individual attention of Senators,
and I have called to the attention of the body
the fact of the loss of nearly all?I may say, to-day,
| all of your industrial interests; but the apathy
which seems to have been inoculated into every
nerve and into every vein of this body and of the
country, will not allow them t<* believe it until tbe
mischief is upon them. Your immigration fell off
thirty thousand last year from the yearbefore. Why
is that so? Is it not a clear case that it must be so?
Where can these people obtain employment by
cominghere ? If they take possession of the farms
at the West can they produce sufficient to supply
themselves, at the cost of everything now, with tbe
ordinary necessaries of life ? Sir, it cannot be done.
They cannot come here: and is it not a shame and
a disgrace to all your legislation that it should be
so? .
You have lost your commerce. You ask the
reason for it; and there is not a man in this chamber
that gives a satisfactory reason for the loss, except
and because we are not paving specie for our
bills. The reason is plain and simple; for the
construction of your treasury is such that you, in
common with the capitalists of this country, arc
speculating upon every industry and upon every
laboring occupation. That is the reason, and there
is no other. I told you the other day that the
condition in which the crops of the South were
placed, conseauent on high prices, was the most
dangerous ana disastrous position that it was possible
to place them, for the apparent high prices
here give a stimulus to the operations in and the
production of cotton in Egypt, in India and in Brazil.
It is my deliberate judgment, and nobody can
gainsay it, that in five years you will be clamoring
here for a tariff to keep out foreign cotton. How
are you going to pay your debts with that state
of things r Send more bonds to Europe, send
more of your capital away from the industries of
the people. * * * * - *
There is a paralysis throughout the body and
throughout the country. I have pointed to Mexican
society, I have pointed to Spanish society, I
have pointed to Italian society, and if I have read
anything, I find that when they, powerful, civilized,
refined, commenced the demoralization and
loss of honor and virtue and prosperity, they occupied
a similar position to that in whicn^his country
is placed to-day."
? I
NEW ADVE&TI8EKBNT8,
W. I. Clawson, Register in Bankruptcy?Notice
to Creditors holding liens against the estates
of John R. Johnson and S. W. Porter A W.
T. Thomson, Bankrupts.
A. Adkins?Notice.
F. C. Harris, Judge of Probate?Citation?John
A. McCullough, Applicant?Wm. C. McCullough,
deceased.
Knykendal A Tomlinson?Quinine?Extract Sarsaparilla?Essence
Coffee, Ac.?Worm Candy?Stop
the Chills?Cupping Qlassea?Indigo?Hair
Renewer, Ac.
E. A. Crenshaw?Hair Jewelry.
* n TT L
JHiiiuMr. nun?^uvw:r.
F. C. Harris, Judgeof Probata?Notice to absent
Defendants.
R. H. Glenn, S. Y. D.?Sheriff's Sales?Equity
Sale.
J. R. Schorb <fc Son?Photography.
M. Jones?Doubt no Longer?Phacksand Prophe-ce.
T. M. Dobson & Co.?Coffee Mills?Carpet Tacks
?Hammers?Knife Sharpeners?Powder
and Pistol Flasks?Bells?Scytho BladesWhips?Bed
Screws, Ac.?Hames?TraceChains?Our
Way of Dunning?Knives and
Forks?Flour?Boy's Axes.
E. E. McCaffrey?Old Silver Wanted.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Preparing for Bankruptcy.
A correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle
& Sentinel says that $450,000 wcrth of fertilizers
has been received at Covington within the past
few months. To which the Macon Journal <0
Messenger adds: "As it is all for cotton, of course,
there, there will be a gene, 1 break for the benefit
of the Bankrupt Act next fall."
Gen. Longstreet's Case.
Gen. Longstreet's nomination to office was
confirmed, after strong opposition which was overcome
byadiligent electioneering on the part of three
or four Senators, prominent among whom were the
Senators from Alabama. Since bis confirmation
many of the radical Senators who voted for him
say they are glad he was confirmed; but they don't
want the President to send in any more like him.
|The President doubtless agrees with them in both
| particulars, as he has few relatives among prominent
reconstructed rebels. Gen. Longstreet's case
is not likely to become a precedent.
A Summer Residence for Grant.
On motion of Mr. Morrill, the House Committee
on public buildings was lately directed to ascertain
whether there is any building belonging to
the government, available as a summer residence
for the President. In former times Presidents
were supposed to be able to find residences for themselves,
if they found the White House too warm
during the summer. But as Congress is so wondrously
anxious to keep Grant free from all cares
except finding offices for their friends, it is probahlu
nil riffht. There does happen to be a public
building admirably suited for the purpose of a
summer residence, at least it was thought so for
two years after the war. It is situated on the seashore,
and the balmy breezes of old ocean greet it
daily, while the dear old flag flutters patriotically
over it from sunrise to sunset. It is, too, hallowed
by proud associations, which would tend greatly to
soothe Grant's perturbed spirit. Could not Congress
secure Fortress Monroe for his summer residence?
"To the Victors belong the Spoils."
The new administration is practically demonstrating
the Jacksonian motto, that "to the victors
belong the spoils."' The indications are that every
Federal office holder in the country not "truly
loil"?to the Republican party?will be decapitated,
and his place supplied by an adherent of the
party in power. The following paragraph shows
that the work, among the post-masters, has commenced
in South Carolina :
"At Society Hill, Darlington County, James
Hamilton, postmaster, vice John Douglass, removed
; George Lunney is postmaster at Darlington
Court House, vice S. M. Brown, removed; Enoch
Cannon, (colored) postmaster at Spartanburg Court
House, viceS.T. Poinier, removed; John S. Smnllwood,
postmaster at Beaufort, vice T. R. Ycrdier,
removed; II. J. Maxwell (colored) postmaster at
Bennettsville."
On Friday last the President sent to the Senate
for confirmation, the nomination of Charles M.
Wilder (colored) as postmaster at Columbia.
A Little Embarrassing.
-Mormon gentlemen, when their families go
abroad, subject their friends to some inconveniences.
Brigham Young has lately sent a portion of his
family (only twenty of his wives) on a grand tour,
by way of the lakes, to Washington. At last accounts
they were enjoying the hospitalities of Chicago.
Before they reached that noted city of domestic
and social bliss, they made a brief sojourn
at a small town in Nebraska. While resting from
the fatigues of travel, they were invited to spend
V.O ounninrr end meet Rome of the "society" of
the place, *at the residence of a Mr. Tompkins.
Mrs. Tompkins, the hostess, was of course charmed
; but one part of her duties she found to be
slightly embarrassing. When Mrs. Brown was to
be introduced, it was "Mrs. Young?Mrs. Brown,
Mrs. Young?Mrs. Brown," until the whole twenty
had passed in review. In like manner, when
Mrs. Smith's time came, the formula of "Mrs.
Smith?Mrs. Young" was repeated twenty times.
Brigham ought really to have had them numbered
when he sent them visiting.
Let Us have Peace.
Gen. Rawlins, the Secretary of State, is not
so pliant a tool as it was desired he should be.
He resented General Sherman's absorption of all
his duties and privileges, and demanded the unconditional
repeal of the order by which his subordinates
were instructed to report directly to the
Lieutenant-General. Sherman did not want to
disgorge his capture?indeed disgorging is not his
forte. The matter was left to Grant, who found it ei
difficult to decide between two such devoted friends. **
One had been his right arm in the oweoution of ?
his campaigns, and the other his right hand in the ^
matter of writing orders and dispatches. _ pj
Rawlins, however, brought him to the inarlc, by pi
intimating that he would resign at onoe, unless the d<
order was rescinded. Sherman and Grant were
reluctantly compelled to give it up. The effects ^
were appalling. Sherman got mad and Grant took A
sick, and it is said they are both in the same respective
situations yet. General RawHns is eri- &
dently no sardine. He has vanquished the two
so-called greatest generals of the age. |
Letting States "glide." \t
When the Reconstruction committee had ei
adjourned, on the 4th instant, after hearing testi- { '
mony in the cases of Texas and Virginia, a conve? J1 j
sation was had between two of the members of the a
committee, Butler and Whittemore. Hie latter is t<
described, in the Baltimore Sun, as "a Yankee tl
parson, who went South 8? Chaplain of the 30th T
Massachusetts regiment, and remained there, en- ^
gaging in politics. Like all of his class, he is par- *
ticularly severe upon all people in the Sooth, who n
do not exactly agree with him. and his vote wonld h
never remove a disability from a single individual." ?
This so-called Carolinian was very severe on the
Virginia delegation who had jnrt been heard, and p
opposed to doing anything for them. Mr. Botler, "
though milder than Whrttemore, finally expressed ^
the opinion that "in view of all the circumstances, tl
Congress had best 'postpone the election in Texas, e
and let Virginia slide.' " It is a remarkable sight ^
to see sovereign States arraigned before two such ?
worthies; but the sublimity of the scene is inoon- t]
ceivably heightened, when they are so coolly told tl
to "slide." ' a
k
The Supplementary Currency Act. ^
On the 30th ultimo, the Senate took up the Q
supplementary currency act, the object of whioh is e
to make a redistribution of the national currency, ti
by which the amount deposited in national banks
shall be more equally divided among the States. ^
The bill proposes to take from States which have j
more than their share according to population, and a
give to those that have less than they are entitled
to. On this question the West and South are allied
against New England, which section opposes I
the bill, as she now holds the lion's share of this **
kind of financial aid from the government, and is
indisposed to give it up. n
The debate was loug and hot Mr. Sprague, of a
Rhode Island, expressed the opinion that he "had ri
never in his life heard so much ignorance displayed ?
upon any subject as be had in this discussion." "
This, together with his prenous unflattering dea- "
criptions of Senatorial ideas of financial legislation, a'
drew on him the concentrated fire of New England p
eloquence. He was charged with ignorance, pre- (
sumption and a desire to publish his own vast bu- *
sincss. But Mr. S. stood fire very calmly and ^
had the satisfaction of seeing the bill passed by r
the Senate. D
A Substitute for the Iron-Clad Oath. t
Mr. Sawyer, of South Carolina, recently in- p
traduced a bill in the Senate, which waa referred
to the Judiciary Committee, prescribing an oath ^
to be taken by persona who participated in the re- t|
bellion, but are not disqualified from holding office a
by the fourteenth amendment. It enacts that in- q
stead of the oath prescribed by Act of June 2, v
1862, they shall take that of Act July 11,186& The
latter oath is as follows:
"I, , do solemnly swear (or affirm) that
I will support and defend the Constitution of the United
States against all enemies, foreign and domestic
; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to
the same; that I take this obligation freely,
without any raentaj reservation or purpose of eva- ~
sion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge
the duties of the offioe on which I am about to en- {j
ter. So help me God."
President Johnson as a Tailor. II
Ex-President Johnson bas returned to his ?
home in the vicinity of Greenville, Tennessee. A c
correspondent writing fronrthat place, in speaking
of the Ex-President, says: - c
I had a long and interesting conversation yesterday
with an old gentleman, a tailor by trade, who '
formerly worked in Johnson's shop. He says that
Andy was the best tailor he ever saw, and that '
coats made by him never ripped. His work was
not only substantial, but neat and*tidy. All the *
young bloods about Greenville who parted their
hair behind and stalked about with ^old-headed N
canes, used to patronize Andy, as it was the cur- ?
rent report that a young fellow who wore a full s!
suit of Johnson's cut ana make could many quicker,
and stood higher with the ladies than others.
When Johnson was elected Alderman there was as
much hoDor in the position as there would be in T
owning a hen and chickens, and it is said that the
young fellows about town elected him for a joke,
Two years afterwards he was chosen Mayor. In
1835, when he was first elected to the ^legislature, r
he quit the tailoring business for the time being;
but the next session, when he was defeated, ne Cl
again resumed his old placd on the workman's a
bench. D
An Improved Butter Cham. ^
We find the subjoined notice of an improved pi
churn in the Columbia Phcmiz. We have seen a
the model, and donbt not, from the reports which
have reached us, that it embodies man? scientific o
principles, and can be furnished, with all the improvements,
at as low a price as any other five
minutes butter making churn. Arrangements have r
I ? ?tklf. on/] nin!ncr PnnnfidQ ^
UCCU I11UUC IAJ MljJjJij liliO) auu aujvuiing vvwmmvwj
as soon as the patent papers are issued, which are _
daily exjiected. The inventor, with whom we are
per~ 'illy acquainted, occupies our poet's corner of
this week's issue: ch
A Useful* Article in Every Family.?Mr. _
W. W. Brigg, an English inventor, at present residing
at Greenville, Tennessee, .has submitted for b,
our inspection an improved churnj manufactured 8
on scientific principles, and whioh is highly commended
by numbers of individuals who axe au fait b
in the manufacture of batter. He has applied for r
a patent for his machine, and is daily in expecta- c
tion of receiving his official papers. As soon as
arrangements are completed, wnich are now being c
considered, the churns will be manufactured and G
sold in Columbia. Maj. R. N. Lowranoe, of this M
city, speaks as follows of the machine:
"I have no hesitation in saying that the churn
exhibited by Mr. Brigg is a perfect machine, and
superior to any churn t have ever seen." m
Gen. Grant and Real Estate.
The Washington correspondent of the Balti- k
more GazdU: writes:
"General Sherman will have some trouble with
the house his enthusiastic admirers gave him.
The house, supposed to have been purchased, is
the one formerly occupied by General Grant, and
the history of tne sale is this: About the fir?t of
February General Grant put the property in the v
hands of a well known real estate nrm for the purpose
of sale. On the sixth of February it was sold b,
^ ' f t? j j ?r< ?
to oayies ?j. Dowcn anu a uieiuurauuuiu ui <*ticement
made, in which it was stipulated that forty cfl
thousand dollars was the price to be paid for the
property, one thousand dollars down on the signing
of'tne agreement, nine thousand dollars cash upon
the delivery of the deed and possession of the premises,
and thirty thousand dollars in ten years h
thereafter, with interest at six per cent., payable
semi-annually. The thirty thousand dollars were
to be covered by a promissory note, seemed by a o
deed of trust on the property. It was also agreed ?
that Bowen should insure to the amount of fifteen
thousand dollars, and that he should have posses- ?
sion on or before the 10th of March. This memo- ^
randum of agreement has attached to it a receipt
for one thousand dollars, which receipt is signed by <j
Kilbourn & Latta, General Grant's agents, and also
a note written und signed by General Grant
himself, in relation to the furnaces, gas fixtures, b
&o. It Is understood that the General had the "5
deed prepared and everything arranged for the %
transfer, when he met a very unexpected and insurmountable
obstacle in the refhsal of Mrs. Grant q
to give her consent to the transfer. She probably
thought the terms unsatisfactory, and positively
refused to sign the deed. Meantime, the Sherman 0
enthusiasts came along and made overtures for the ?
Surchase of the property for Sherman, and Present
Grant, ignoring the agreement with Bowen, i<
sells the honse for nearly double the price of the
original contract Bowen is furious and demands
to know why he has been treated so, and holds the
written agreement above mentioned as a rod over
President Grant'8 head, in a very threatening way. _
There need be no surprise if a suit for twenty i
thousand dollars damages is entered on the docket o
e long, in which President Grant will be defendit
ana Styles J. Bowen prosecutor. An effort
u been nude to hare Bowen make a quit claim
7 the repayment of the one thousand dollars; but
s demands ten thousand dollars advance on the
rice paid, which, he alleges he was offeredihr the
roperty. This, of worse, our worthy President
ies not want to pay, and the suit' islmminent"
Thx "All Cotton and No Corn" Manll?
Ie copy the following truthful article from the
ugusta Press: . < - ' . :* '
' "Ve regret to see from qur exchanges that in
)Pme parts of fhe'State'fhe pladterS have planted
ttle or no corn, and have devoted their time, en gies
and meina-to the prodaedon.of'abig cotton
op.' We can hardly imagine ah act of greater
nprudenoe. With so recent an experience of the
rii results of such a policy, it was to be hoped
lat the good sense of oar agricultariets would
avc savea them from another venture like that of
366-7. In that year thev also ^planted for a big
itton crop, and they made it They got from nine
> sixteen cents per pound for it It coat more
lan that amount to plant, cultivate and gather it
hey made but little oorn, depending on being able
i buy it at the West They had no money
herewith to buy it; had to borrow at usurious
ites of interest, and then paid from $2.00 to $2,50
w Imalial fXp a amntv annnlv nf <vnrn tn gwd their
aads and their half-starred males. There was
)me excuse for this folly then. The people were
npoverished, and, tempted by the prevailing high
rice of oottont hoped to get out of debt, ana have
loney to 'go along with' by the sale of their cot)n.
Now they nave no such an excuse. They
ave money and experience, and ought to know
bat no people that do not ruse their own. food
ver have been, or ever can be, independent
'hese 'all cotton and oo core' planters have risked
very thing on the. chance of one seasons and the
ontinuaooe of the present price of oottou. Were
hey to bet all they are worth at faro or roulette,
heir hasard could not be greater. Even men,
rhose proud boast it used to-be that they never
ought a bushel of core or a pound of meat in
beir lives, have been infected with the mania, and
ow insist that they are doing wisely in planting
very foot of their open land in cotton. It is still
me to flee from the wrath to come. Set to work
lis very day and put half of what yoo call your
)tton land in Corn, and at the end of the year you
ill have reason to Mem your stun that you abanoned
the all cotton folly that you were about to
>ramit"
A Novel Announcement.?The New Tork
Wizen announces that the prospectus of a paper
) be called TAe. /mperuz&t has been issued in
iat city. Its cretal, according to the prospectus,
i "revolutionary. Its mission is to prepare the
linds of the American people for the revolution,
I ready begun, which is to terminate in the Im peal
Government It declares that the national
lith in the keeping of the populace will be sullied
y repudiation; that "the Be public means jawlessess,
corruption, insecurity to person and proper> ,
robbery of the public creditors, and civu war;
nd that the Empire means law, order, security,
ublic faith, and peace." > . ThisJournal, says the
'itizm, is likewise to advocate General Grant as
Imperor. Things do not move much just now in
be direction indicated by this advanced expression.
f the opinion of the TmperiaKd. If such .a paper
eally appears it will have an up-hill business. lmerialism
will, never manifest itself popularly, but
rill be enthroned by a coup detat?the: people
assively submitting.
? ? ? .1 .*
The Wheat Crop m.TEjmMSii.?The Chatinooga
Republican says r "Firom parties Kmg up
be river, we learn that the wheat crop presents
very flattering' appearance.-w -Jttoat the usnal
uantity w<b sown, and has passed through the
rinter without iitfuiy. "1 ,
YORKTOIE PRICES OTOBEJT,
CORRECTED WEEKLY BY CA MOX.T, CLARK * CO.
WEDNESDAY. APRIL 7,1809.
AGGING?Gunny?V yard @ *1
ALE HOPE? Heap V ft 12* A >
Manilla, Vft 25 S ?
Cotton, V ft W ..
10V/TIES, per pound, ? ft 10
LVE-8TQNE, V B) S 90
ANDLE8?Tallaw?V ft '
Adamantine, V 9> @ 35
OFFEE-Rlo-Vft..; 90 2 96
Lajuyra, 7 ft ft 30
Jafa.Vfc ft 46
OTTON YARN, V Hunch of 5 pound*, 9 95
UYPOWDER, V lb @45
ACKEREL?No. 1, half barrel* ft ,'i
No. 9, half barrel* ft
No. 3, half barrel*..... ft 19 SO
No. 1, V Kit, .. g *75
No. 9, V Kit, .. (a, 3 50
No. 3, V Kit, .. S 3 00
OLASSES?Cuba?V (milop.. .. ft 70
West Tndla, V gallon ., @
New Orlean*, Vgalka..'.A... .. ft 1 90
AILS?Northern-V ft.. 7* ft 8
ICE, V lb .. @ 13
ALT.V tack, . ft 3 40
UGAR?Pulverized?V ft ft 35
Cru?bed, V ft.................... ..ft 35
A, Vft <2 30
C, Extra, V ft.... .. ft >19.
Browa, * ft. ? 2 .16.
EA?Hyion?V ft 1 50 2 3 00
Imperial, Vft -S
Black, V ft 1 00 ft 1 50
fNEGAR?Cider?V eallou fc 48
PRODUCH MARKET?PRICES PROM WAGONS.
ACON?Ham*?V ft..I. v.... @33
Shoulder*. V ft ft 16
Sides, P ft S Si
DRN, V boahel .. @118
DBN MEAL, V buabel ft I 18
-"? ? A a 1-A UUmI 2*' ' <5 'ft Art
IUEU rHUH? npyira, prom, t xuiki.. >, w ?
Peachw, peeled, V huahel.. ,S .1 SO
Peachee, unpeeled, ? boihel .. S i 25
BOB,? dozen'.. . W (a tfjtf
uoifa,viooaw ? eso & 6 75
IDES?Gretn?P ft S 7
Dry. V ft @ H.
K^ST** 7 " SL 70
T vUMirliii* [UiJ. 4
ATS.'V buslvei <? 63
GAS, V buiihel 90 S 1 #>
DTAT0E8?1 rUh?V buabel 50 ? 73
Sweat. * buabel- 75 ? 1 00
FJfNQLES, P 1000 ? JM S 400
ALLOW. V ft 10 ? 12X
rHEAT, P buntiel ? Cotton?Dull
nt 26i, ?nd little offering.
CHESTE& PRICE8 CPEBB?T.
3RRECTKD WEEKLY BYMAJ. JAS.PAOAN, QftOCERY
1 A NT! COMMISSION MERCHANT.
~ ' TUESDAY, APRIL 0,1W9.
AGOING?Gunny?per yard K a 90
ALE ROHB?Heap, per pound 14 0 ..
Manilla, per pound 22 a 23
Oouob, per pound,.... 20 a 23
LUE-ftTONE, per pound a
ANDLE8?Tallow?per pound, ?
Adamantine, par pound, 95 a 30
OFFEE?Rio?per pound, 30 a 35
Laguyra, per pou id, ..a 33
Java, per pounds a 45
OTTON-YARN, perhuneh >f5poon<U, a 2 25
(TNPOWDER. per pound, ..A
ACKEREL?No. 1, half bareU,, o
No. 9, half bare to;.'..., .. a
No,3, half barrel*, .. ?
No. 1, per Klu. a 3 33
No.2, per Kit, ...... a 3 90
No. 3, per Kit, ,, a 3 00
[OLA BR E8?Culm?per gallon 70 a "75
Wrat India, per gallon, a
New Oriean*. per gallon,.... ..'a
AILS?Northern?perpound, a
ICE, per pound , 2. a 14
ALT, per anek - .. a 3 50
UGAK?Pulverized?per pound..... a 90
Cnidied, per pound a 22
A, per pound, a 20
C, Extra,per pound, .. a 18
Brown, per poand, 16 a 19
EA?Hyion?per pound, 9 00 a 2 25
Imperial, per pound, 9 93 a 3
Back, per pound,... ..a ...
INEGAR?Cider?per gallon,.... a 75
PRODUCE MARKET?PRICES FBOM WAOONB.
ACOX?Hams-pex pound, 25 a 30
8h natters, per Aosntt,. a M
8td?tpaipouu4?. ? a ?
DBN, perbusira 1 25 a 1 35
ORN-MEAL.per husbel 185 ? 1 35
BIED FRUIT?Apples, peeled, per bushel.. .. a ,.
P moms, peeled, per bushel.. ......
Poaches, impeded,per busbel .. a. ..
GIGS, per dozen,... I '. a ..
1.00 K, per 100 pounds ? 50 ? 7 00
IDES?Green?per pound, a . ?
Dry, per pound,..,.. .. I 19
AttD?CounUy?per pound, a 85
1MB, per bushel, .la-..
ATS, per basbel, ....... ..A. .. ? ?
EA8, rirr bushel, a 1 00
DTAT0E8? IrU6?per bushel, .. a . ..
Sweet, per bu&heJ,.. * 100
HIXGLB9, per 1000,r...!73.... ? W
ALLOW, per pound, ... ?
rHEAT, per busbel,. 2 00 a f 00
Cotton?Dull and tending downward. MidHnof
9A1 ntKop (PPO^M {A nvAnAk I AM
CHARLOTTE, March 5.?Cotton?Some 200
ales changed hands during the weelc at a alight
dvance on oar quotations of last week say 28* to
Ji cents, closing dnli, however, on Saturday at
3* cents for middling.
FnorR?The market is still overstocked; wo
note at $o.50 to |6.75 per sack from wagons.
Cobn?90 to 95 cents per bushel from wagons.
Baltimore Bacon?Sides, from stores, 20 to 21
ents per ponnd ; Lard, 21 cents.
CHARLESTON, April 5.?Cotton dull; sales
DO bales?middlings 27}; receipts 541.
NEW YORK, April 5.-Cotton dull and a shade
>wer. Sales 1,400 bales at 282 to 282.
Financial.
YORKYILLE. April 7.-Gold, ?1.35.
NEW YORK, April 5.-Gold strong at $1.31j.
CHARLESTON, S. C., Thursday. April 1, 1809.
-Bank of Camden, 70 ; Bank of Charleston. 64;
lank of Chester, 11; BankofGeorgetown, 10; Bank
f Hamburg, 7; Bank of Newberry, 63; Bank of