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Trouble About Georgia.
The Radical Senators are moth troubled
what to do about Georgia. Whichever
way they turn they are compelled to con
fess there Is difficulty and danger. They | TT'/'vx TTsrT' TTT 1
feel morally sore that If they admit Geor- » L/XJUlfJJb 111. I
gia, and secure to the people there an elec
tion next fall, pursuant to the State Con'
stltntlon, the State will go overwhelming
ly Democratic, and the carpet-baggers will
never be heard of any more. They all dis
like to face tills fact, and yet it is the plan
which seems to promise lets mischief to
their party ascendancy at the North. The
alternative schemes are, first, to agree to
the demands of Bullock and Blodgett to ah
low them to prolong Bullock’s term and
the terms of the State Legislature by their
own act until 1872, and to bankrupt the fi-
nances of Georgia, after the fashion of
North Carolina, Florida, and South Caro
lina. The second plan Is to reconstruct
Georgia a third time, pat her under mili
tary government, and provide for an elec
tion at some future time by a part of the
legsl voters, so as to make a Republican
State of her If possible. But the majority
do not believe either of these plans can be
safely adopted.
It is urged that the Northern States will
not allow this question of reconstruction
'to he reopened every montb'to suit the ne
cessities of Radicals. On the whole, it Is
believed by those who have made a careful
.estimate of the vote of the State, that,
though the Bingham Amendment will be
voted out. yet that (n lien of it there will
he adopted some provision,like that already
forcaliulowed by a Republican -Senator,
declaring that the Legislature have no
power under the State Constitution to pro
long their own terms of office, and that to
do so, would be such a violation of Repub
lican principles as would justify interven
tion by Congress to correct It. Bollock Is
In constant attendance upon the Senate.
It Is said that lie feels very little interest In
the admission of the two Republican Sena
tors lately elected, Inasmuch at they were
chosen In caucus over his own favorites,
and that his principal concern Is to have
the term of the Legislature prolonged so as
to secure tlie admission of six years of
Foster Blodgett, one of the rebel heroes
who captured Fort I'ulaski when Georgia
llrst seceded. The postponement of the
Georgia question was not a voluntary act,
or agreeable to the Senate Republicans. It
was resorted to because they did not know
what to do with her.— World.
The Radical Defeat in Connecticut.
The S L Louis Republican says that the
Chicago Tribune, in mourning over the
Radical defeat in Connecticut, gives its
readers glimpses of a great troth. After a
hitter fling at the faction in the Senate which
delayed the admission of Texas and Geor
gia, and so lost Governor Jewell the negro
vote which he might havo had, the Tribune
proceeds to remark very sensibly and phi
losophically, that it is a matter of mnch
more interest to know “ what has become of
our whito voters,” and that "after putting
together the funding bill, the project for
keeping Georgia oat of the Union, and the
Domingo sell, it is not difficult to account
for the defection of enough votes in Con
necticut to turn the scale.” In other words,
tlio Tribune lays tlur blame of tho disaster
upon three of the most prominent features
in the recent policy of the administration
—an administration, too, which the journal
zealously supports. Tho funding bill, al
though ostensibly the invention of Senator
Sherman, is known to havo originated with
Secretary Boulwcll, and it is to bo pre
sumed lias the sanction of a majority of the
cabinet as well as the president. " Keeping
Georgia out of tho Union ” has the support
of a large proportion of Radical Senators,
including such shining lights as Revels,
Brownlow, Sumner and Drake, and almost
as much strength in tho Ilouse. - “ The Do-
mingo acll ”—irreverent expression!—is the
favorite child of President Grant himself,
who has urged it from tho beginning with
an enthusiastic pertinacity which will take
no denial. These, then, are the three sins
which the Tribune thinks haTe drawn
heaven’s vengenco upon the heads of the
Radical party in Connecticut. They arc
nut merely accidental transgressions, brief
lapses from the path of strict Yirtue liable
to occur in the best regulated families, hut
they arc the legitimate results of a certain
code of principles which Radicalism has
approved and is now engagod in carrying
out.
Having assisted materially in the planting
and cultivation of the tree, we insist that it
is bad taste on tlie part of our contemporary
complain of tho fruits thereof.
About tlio Constitution.
The editor lias been indisposed for nearly
two weeks, and trusts that the readers or
The Constitution will excuse the lack of
the usual variety In its columns.
The editorial force of the journal ha.
been Increased by the addition of Mr
salaries \Y. Hubiit-, as tho news editor
Mr. Uubncr Is an experienced journalist,
and we commend him to the kind consid-
eratlonofour readers and exchanges.
Tub Constitution' of this morning was
printed on our new steim printing press.
>Ve trust that we begin a broadening ca
reer of the success that has marked this
journal.
We take the liberty of calling the atten
tion of our many and friendly patrons to
the promises of improvement that we made
them but a short twelve months ago, and to
their literal and liberal fulfillment. And
we Intend still to be progressive. No In
stitution in this advancing age can bo sta
tionary without seeming to retrograde. He
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 19,1870.
iNUMBER 5
Tobacco.
Tobacco farms and plantations extend
from Lynchburg in every direction miles
and miles away. Before the war, almost
every business man of prominence here
was dealing in tobacco. At the commence
ment of the war, there were here about
eighty large establishments engaged in the
manufacture of fine-cut, plug, and smok
ing tobacco, and In packing and shipping
the same to foreign ports. Now the num
ber of establishments in operation is about
twenty—none of them being carried on so
extensively as ten years sgo, although the
crop raised in this vicinity is nearly if not
quite up to the olden time. Most of that
wbiofe is raised in this vicinity now is sent
abroad unmanufactured, taking the place
of gold In payment for foreign goods, ar.d
in this respect helping cotton to be once
more king.
Tobacco-planting commences in this sec
tion in May, and the harvest completed
generally by the 1st of October. There
are little tobacco farms and big ones, small
plantations and large ones, small patches
and immense fields, on hill-side and level,
where negroes raise a little for the fun of
tho thing, or the purchase of necessaries,
or planters, largely engaged, are making
money or a subsistence.
HThe cost of raising tobacco averages
about seven cents per pound. Concerning
the mode of culture, curing, harvesting,
etc., we shall not attempt any description
at prcsent,other than to say that it is planted
and hoed, cut or gathered, and the bunches
twisted together, as one would twist a
handful of horse-radish leave*. Then these
bunches a>e dried by hanging them in sheds
through which the air circulates freely, or
dried in the sun or over a fire In the smoke,
us the case may be. Tobacco is marketed
very much as In the Western country, at
all seasons of tho year, as the producer
wants money and the market be enticing.
All of the tobacco raised for sale is brought
from the patch, farm or plantation to mar
ket, exhibited in one of the many auction
warehouses, and sold at auction to the
highest bidder.
Now there is as much difference in the
quality of tobacco as in butter—more than
in wheat, corn, or other grain. The reader
can form some Idea of the difference of
quality when wo tell him that the price
varies here from fire dollars to two hun
dred and twenty-five dollars per one hun
dred pounds, the average price being
twelve dollars and a half. You may ask
why this difference when all is tobacco?
Some is better than other tobacco.
Some is coarse, thick-leaved stuff,
without strength or much more taste
than a mullen leaf, looking dark, black,
and unfit for anything, except the very
cheapest grades of smoking tobacco, or to
be used only for makiog a wash tor sheep
in Australia or Texas, where large quanti
ties are consumed for this purpose. And
some of it is very fine; that which is called
tbc u goldleaf” being the best. Itiscalled
“gold leaf” in compliment to the color of
tlie leaves, which are a bright yellow,
sweetish taste, and of a high flavor, as the
article itself is fine in texture and appear
ance.
■The very best article Is only to be found
here and there, in spots, where it is grown
upon new land, and where the soil seems
to have some peculiarity which gives to the
crop, in certain instances, its superiority.
The best tobacco is raised upon land just
reclaimed from the forest, though the soil
bears large crops year after year, without
the use of fertilizing material. Yet tobacco
llands will in time wear out. Some of the
soil In this section is used the first year for
tobacco, the next year for wheat, and then
seeded down In timothy orclover for graz
ing purposes. Tobacco cured in the sun Is
used for chewing, while that known as fine
or smokc-cnrcd tobacco, is manufactured
for smoking purposes. Sometimes a crop
of tobacco will not pay for the raising, this
especially being the case where the yield of]
an entire field will not bring OTer five or
six dollars per hundred, when the cost of
raising is never less than seven, no matter
whether the quality be good or bad.—Rri'cX*
iPomeroy.
Chinese Missionary Experience.
FROM A HUSBAND.
Fonder, tenderer, erer fonder.
But increase my Iotb can know,
Here on earth, hereafter yonder.
Txiye with me must ever mow;
lariat yon. it must be so.
Hearer, dearer, ever dearer:
Jx>ve<l in youth for that fair face.
Bow my heart haa teen you nearer.
That flrst love to this Hires place.
Tot your sonl'a diviner grace.
That fed full even from the fashion
Of the dress yon deigned to wear.
When yonr beauty innned tha air.
O, the life-qnako then that shook me
When on me seemed turned that gaze.
When hsir.brow, speech, or laughter took
Captive with a dnmb amaze.
Dazzled with yonr beauty’s blaze.
Time that charm has not marred tdindly.
irbis touch a harm has wrought,
Still some rarer beauty, kindly.
Every fundiing year haa brought.
Softer, dearer to my thought.
How mueb more than youth was seeing
Now I lore, with heart grown wife;
Now the whole dear, perfect being,
I haTe fltlier learned to prize.
Clear at last to the souls' eyes t
IJearer through Joya. cares and sorrows.
Known, how well, through smiles and
tears, - *
Now I feel that all the marrows’
Hopes and pleasures, labors, fears.
Bring but knowledge that endears.
[CKomltn' Journal.
(^Chicago now boaata a female broker.
VS' New York Fitz-Adolphuses wear
bracelets on their delicate wrists.
bam a.
There are 10,423 Masons in Ala-
_ JOS'* Paris is to hare's $000,000 gymna
sium and 8wimming-shools.
New York has 5,000 vagrant chil
dren who never attend school.
VS' A little cotton batting, wet with
sweet oil and laudanum, put in tho ear, will
cure ear-ache in the beginning of it.
V&S“ Spirit of ammonia, inhaled, is good
for headache, and to help the breathing in
had colds.
Spangles and Sawdust.
At present thcro ire thirty-two circuses
and menageries in the United States. Of
this number, ten are circus and menageries
combined, three menageries without the
circus, and nineteen circuses without men
ageries. These establishments give direct
employment to over seven thousand men
and horses, requiring nine hundred vehicles
for their transportation, and representing a
capital of two million dollars. Some' idea
may be formed of tho enormous expenses
of these concerns, when it is known that over
fiTe thousand dollars alone is spent annu
ally for pictorial, newspaper and other-print-
ibg. The receipts of each company I aver
age about eight hundred and fifty dollars
per day, while their expenditures r amount
to seven hundred. From this it is readily
seen that for the amount of money invested
tho gains are not large, proring tho old ad
age “ that all is not gold that glitters.” The
following is a list of tho names of the vari
ous concerns: •'••vi'tjfcr
Van Amburg’s Great Golden Menagerie;
Tho European Circus and Trained Ani
mals; Geo. F. Bailey & Co’s. Circus mid
Menagerie; French’s Oriental. Circus and
Performing Animals; Leut’s New York Cir
cus; Van Amburg & Co’s. Circus and Men
agerie; Forepaugh’s Circus and- Zoological
Aggregation; Bryan’s Menagerie; John
Robinson’s Circus and Menagerie; Charley
Noyes’ Crescent City Circus; Yankee .Rob
inson's Circus and Menagerie; Campbell's
Circus and Menagerie; Gardner & F<*e-
. paugh’s Circus and Menagerie; Stone. Sc
Murry’s Circus; DeHaven’s Circus; T.fS.
Ames’ New Orleans Oircua and Manager*;
Alex. Robinson’s Circus; OldeFs Circus and
Menagerie; The Metropolitan Circus; lUn
Rice’s Circus; Dr. James Thayer’s Circus;
Ward’s Star Circus and Trained Animals;
Hemming?, Cooper & Whitby’s Circus aud
Menagerie; Grady’s Circus; John Stowe's
Circus; Wilson’s California Circus; Reyn
olds’ Menagerie; Jas. T. Johnson’s Circus
and Trained Animals; Wheeler & Cushing’s
Circus; Stow & Ortons’ Circus; Smith’s
Crescent City Circus; Ortons Bros.’ South
ern Circus, and a number of. others of less
note, whoso names are not now remembered.
tar A Chinese cigar-maker at San Fran
cisco has gone to the insane asylum,
through trying to keep tho run of internal
revenue decisions regarding cigar stamps.
VS' A New York paper says that Ole
Bull is soon to be married to a yonng Nor
wegian girl, at present living at Madison,
Wisconsin.
8®* One of our religious papers has fig
ured out Job’s wealth (who was said to bo
“the greatest man of all the earth”) to
havo been $370,000.
VS" The salt tax produced in the king
dom of Italy, in the first two months of
187Q, 1,000,000 lire more than in tho cor
responding period of 18G9.
t3S~. Chief Justice Chase, it is said, has
symptoms of soon marrying a Mis3 Con
stance Kinney. The question is, at his age,
Kin-ney be excused for such a suicidal act.
” But boys will be hoys.”
US' For chapped lips and hands use
camphor ice,” ordure mutton tallow put
put on warm. Candles are unsafe for this
puTpose,as they aro sometimes poisoned
with arsenic.
On the 15tli of November I started for
Shcncbo, an important place, 170 miles
sonth-southwest from Peking. Our com
pany consisted of two native preachers, a
cart driver and uiysclf. Perhaps mention
should be made of the cart. We trundled
on slowly, only two riding at a time, the
other half of the party (to use tlie sarcas
tic expression of the Chinese for walking)
•• riding the road.” On the second day we
came to a bridgelcss liver of considerable
width. So we were somewhat in the condi
tion of the Israelites by Plbablrotb, minus
the Egyptians In the rear. However the
Chinese helped to settle the difficulty, lead
ing our animals half way over the stream,
backing us a short distance to their boat,
and rowing us the rest of the wav. It was
my first experience on the back of a Chi
naman. ami the only similar experience,
since I was a boy, was riding ashore on a
negro at 1!lode Janeiro. Hum! I prefer
riding on cleaner animals.
Sixty miles from Peking we reached a
place called “Grandson village.” At this
place two years ago, fifty men went out
against two hundred rebels, were sur
rounded and forty-seven of tlie number
killed. We saw a temple erected to their
memory, and a tablet with their names en
graved on it. Every year ineense is burned
there by relatives and friends. It requires
only distance of time to change the names
of these men into tlie names of heroes and
even deities. Such is tiift beginning of the
heathen gods. It is an excessive veneration
tor men and things in the past resulting in
worship. Near this place I heard an amus
ing anecdote. A man professed to have
wonderful power, and offered to induce the
moon to rise a second time if the people
would raise a subscription of twenty-live
dollars. Tlio money was raised, and tills
second Joshua repaired to a place east of
tho village, and one-half mile distant,
placed a lighted lantern (alrcadv prepared
by cutting a round hole on one side) in the
center of a gonrd, xml drew it gradually
up a pole. And so the moon bts risen once
out of due course In China.
Not far from Grandson village, 1 saw no
le~? than 9 flocks of sheep feeding on fall
grain, within a radius of one mile, the
keepers of these flocks being mounted on
horses, and armed with spears and guns.
The owners of the land dare not disturb
them. This is only a single instance where
tlie rights of the people are trampled ou,
and they tamely submit.
On the Sabbath. November 21, after
preaching all day, a Chinese Catholic came
into onr inn. lie lived in a village near
by. roost of whose inhabitants formerly be
longed to a secret society. The members
of this society are said to possess certain
wnnderfui;powcrs. A spear can not enter
who fails to keep up with the current must, tbeir body. They possess the power of fly
lag behind the times. | |ng through tlie air. They can make a
It ha* been the pride of Tits Constitu
tion to be enterprising. We have enlarged
our space; wo liavo tlie flnest press in the
State; wo have a large corps of talented
and paid correspondents at tlie great com
mercial and news centres of the world; we
have increased our editorial talent; we
haTe greatly aided to our telegraphic ex
penses—and all thUjrithont a dollar's more
expense to our subscribers.
We contemplate other im provements that
will enhance the interest and magnify the
attractions of the paper-
Tub Constitution has never been so
prosperous as now. and Its proprietor* have
liberally given to Us readers the full ben
efit of its successes. Wc desire the readers
to feel that their investment will be one of
constantly growing value.
CB - The New York World severely rep
rimands some of tlie Democratic members
of Congress for their failure In being at
their posts, especially in the House. When
the overwhelming pressure of the Radical
dement In Congress is considered, It be
comes criminal for the friends of right and
justice to absent themselves from their
places when the welfare of the country Is
threatened by corrupt legislation.
. S' The yearly report of tho general Gas
Company of the Austrian capital shows
that the lower prices of 18G9 led to on in
crease of consumption, involving4,033 new
burners and 21,642,100 cubic feet of gas.
t£~ The Columbus Enquirer of yester
day, comments upon an editorial in the
“^Atlanta Locomotive.” The editorial was
in the Opelika Locomotive. The error was
a proper one. as we very justly claim to be
another Atlanta.—Opelika Locomotive. .
S' The public schools of Florence con
tain 4,906 Catholic. 23 l’rotcstant and 12
Israelite pupils. Of these 3.039 pay for
their own school material and L070 avail
themselves of the gratuitous distribution;
70G are 12 years old, 1,201 over 10,2,431 over
6, and COS less than G.
Tub Envelope Contract Awarded.
The contract for furnishing envelopes to
the Post-Office Department for tlie next
four years, commencing July 1, next, has
been awarded to George H. Racy, of New
York. Arrangements have been made by
which the contractor will also funish en
velopes with the ruled or black line* for
the address in such numbers as the public
may demand.
— -«»ii »- —
®- The Rev. H. Ward Beecher always
has his own way of doing things. Gener
ally it is a pleasant way. Not long’ since,
at a temperance meeting in Plymouth
Church, he introduced the Rev. George H.
Hepworth as “ a yonng man who has come
from Boston, the most modest placo in the
world, and has dared to expose the ev ils of
New York life, and to tako hold of public
questions by the nui end.”
The IIeidelbebo Tun—The Great. Wi%
Hogshead of the World.—A German cor
respondent of a San Francisco paper writes:
Tho famous inn of Heidelburg is in a vault
ed cellar of the castle. 1 was misled ba
ttle name, and supposed it was a sort of vat,
but it is a regular hogshead, containing
49,000 gallons. Tho staves aro each mas
sive sticks of timber. The hoops aro im
mense hands of oak, six inches thick, and a
foot across. It is supported by a Inigo frame
work of oak. There is a staircase leading
up the side to a gallery on the summit,
along which people used to pass with the
wine, which was poured in at the top. How
tho huge thing was ever built, put np and
banded, I can not conceive. The tradition
is, that it was built by a prince, who re
ceived apart of his taxes in wine, and paid
his servents and officers part of their wages
in wine, and that a complaint grew up that
the wine paid was unequal in quality. So
this huge tun was devised, into which all
tho wine received was poured as it canto in,
and from which all tho' wine paid out or
used was drawn, of a uniform quality. But,
as I stood below the great tun and .looked
up twenty feet to tho top, it began to grow
upon me. Forty-nino thousand gallons'. I
said to myself. That is one thousand hogs
heads (I am tolerably apt at mental arith
metic), or fifteen hundred barrels. Forty-
nine thousand gallons! Why, at a gallon a
day—and 1 did not think I would master
more than that—it would take at least one
hundred aud thirty-years to drink the hogs
head dry. 1 did not feel that 1 could stop
to do it. In fact I had other engagements
elsewhere. But a ray of hopo struck me.
I said to tho little girl who accompanied mo
as a guide: “That is a vast quantity of
wine. Do yon think the tun is quite full?”
“ Why, Lord bless your high-and-well-born
Worship, said she (I had just given her a
double handful of kreutzers), “ Worship,
the tun has only been filled three times,
and tho last timo was more than a hundred
years ago. There’s not a drop of wine in
it!” ■
Breadstuff* in .England.
horse or man out of paper which possesses
tlie wonderful property of becoming di
rectly a living animal or roan. This society
is under a ban. and if found out by the em
peror or his officers its members would be
put to death. To avoid such an undesira
ble result, the villagers entered the Catho
lic church, where their precious bodies are
safe. They have at least the “ promise of
the life that now la.”
The Emperor will scarcely Injure them,
now that they are under the protection of
France. Fartlier on in our journey, we
came to a flair, of which I can cot write yon
particulars, except that every tiling is sold
there, from cabbages and onions to pre
cious stones. Here, for the want of a more
suitable place, I mounted an ox cart, and
from such a pulpit preached the gospel.
The same evening, and when I was suffi
ciently weary, a crowd came to onr inn to
hear us preach. Shall I tell you I was
sorry to see them ? But no, I must forget
myself, and tell them the message I came
to preach. That would he only following
the Master, who preached, though weary,
to one poor woman at Jacob's well. So.
for two hours, we talked and they listened
moreqnictly and earnestly than Chinese
are wont. Finally we sent the crowd away,
aud went to bed tired hut happy,
J®“ Chassepot, the inventor of the re
peating rifle, lias been mado an officer of
the Legion of Honor of Francs, and is at
tacked by the ultra-liberal journals in con
sequence.
Value ot tre Cotton Coop.—A cotton
crop of 3,000,000 bales, at the average prico
of tho season, so far, is worth about $310,-
000,000 currency, in Southern ports, which
is equivalent to ovjr $250,000,000 in gold
This is a greater aggregate valuo than was
ever received for any cotton crop in tho
United States, exceeding, by some millions
of dollars, the value of the great crop ol
4,8(30,000 bales in 1859-CO.
Letter "Writers • from .Washington.
There’s Ben Perley Poore, who is prob
ably the most successful, as to his emolu
ments, and Ills employers are satisfied as to
other essentials. He is clerk" to tho Com
mittee on Printing, which pays about $2,-
500 a year, gives him possession of the com
mittee-room, and the privilege of tho floor
of the8enate. llo has a soft plage, has Per
ley, and tho light labor of correspondence
is the jolliest employment imaginable, when
performed in the midst of luxurious sur
roundings and to the music of $5,000a year.
He has the pay of a member, with more ad
vantages. Done Piatt, who docs for Cin
cinnati folk, is one of the most popular and
racy of the fraternity. The most system
atic and thorough correspondent of a lead
ing daily is Connery, of the New York
Herald. He was formerly the Albany cor
respondent of that paper, and was transfer
red to the charge of their bureau at Wash
ington because of his peculiar fitues3 for
the place. Absorbed as he necessarily is
with the details of duty, he has little time
to devote to letter-writing; but when he oc
casionally works up a gossipy letter he
writes nothing inferior, and many of his ef
forts are full of spicy incident and abound
with gems of humor. Mrs. Mary Clemmer
Ames is one of the correspondents of tho
New York Independent, and is said to be
the best-pud letter-writer in Washington.
She is young, bright, and pretty, and has
access to the best circles of Washington
society. He husband is an cx-Congrega-
tional minister. She it also one of the edi
tors of the Brooklyn Union, where she re
ceives a liberal salary. 4 Olivia,” of the
Philadelphia Press, is Mrs. Briggs, whose
husband is Printing Clerk of the House.
He was formerly an Iowa editor, hut ismore.
cuccessful in the performance of .the light
duties of Clerk. “ Cimon "is Mr. Crounse,
the Washington correspondent of the New
York Times. Ho, too, i3 clerk to a com
mittee, and onjoys its light labor and liberal
compensation. He is a good writer, candid
and accurate, hut never humorous. He
owns stock in the Times, which gives him a
permanent position in Washington.
We extract the following from tlie Mark
Lano Express of March 21st, which, while
its statesments as to prices and stock of
breadstuff* in Europe are worthy of cre
dence, evinces the prevailing European
ignorance of the causes operating lo effect
the relative prices of corn and wheat on
this side of the Atlantic:
“The past week was divided by winter
and spring, the sterner season taking the
first choice, so that for the last few days
wc have had all nature stirring herself to
make up for lost time. The opening bods,
the verdure of the grass, alike tell, tlie tale,
and the Lent corn already sown will verv
quickly show itself; bnt there is a good
deal yet to be done, and tho heavy rains,
should they continue, will be a hindrance
to the completion of the work. In France
they are muck earlier, and write that the
work is nearly over. We bear of no gen
eral complaints of the wheat plant, which,
though small, lias yet time to recover; but
there is some, outcry am the continent,
backed by speculation, after a period of
great stagnation; though this is mostly
confined to parts of Germany. The Ital
ian States write favorably, with calm
markets and our late general advance has
had its influence in many places.
Dautzic and Hungary being again
dearer, while our own markets note
a full average riso of Is—some even
more. Still the week closed heav
ily. tho suddenness of the change
making buyers pause, till they more
clearly see how matters are likely
to turn; nlthongh the base yet being
a very low price seems anything but dan
gerous. At Odessa financial difficulties,
brought on hv excessive supplies of wheat,
for which there was m> vent, are likely, to
have an influence on tho high rates which
have been ruling there; and, if so, at open
witter tiiere will very likely be some forced
shipments; bnt these may be long on the
voyage. and see very different markets at
Marseilles or London by their arrival.
But it is marvellous to note a further ri-c
of t wo to three cents per bushels on Indian
corn at New i'ork. coupled with a decline
of two cents on wheat: as this shows that
in the New World, as well as the Old. how
prone people are to drive on iu the ordina
ry rucks of custom. Nevertheless one
would think that tlie free use of bread by
tlie negroes must greatly increase the de
mand, especially when there is so much
less to pay, and more nutrition as well.
“We shall see,” a* the French have it, and
perhaps before long. If some of the
French markets still show a riso of Is per
quarter, as well as those of Belgium, Paris
has found less activity in flour as well as
wheat. In Holland they have been per
fectly in calm. Our granaries continne to
feel the benefit of lessened arrivals from
abroad, there being a constant though
gradual outflow into consumption. The
arrivals off the coast since March 11 were
63 cargoes, of which 23 cargoes were wheat.
32 maize, 9 barley, 1 rye.
. How to Test Meningitis.
Villa Rica, Ga., April 1,1870,
■Editor Constitution: Dear sir; I notice
accounts of cerebrospinal meningitis from
different sections of country, respecting its
prevalence and treatment, and thinking
that others might not be less interested
than myself on this important subject, I
deem it expedient to make a report from
Villa Rica and Its surrounding community.
Six or eight .cases (fully developed) have
occurred at and near this place, besides a
number of others that seemed to be in a
formative.or incipient stage, and probably
would have resulted in a more serious form
had they not been timely and properly
treated.
I am aware that, In many Instances, this
potent and fearful destroyer of tlie human
family gives no warning to its poor vic
tim, but, like a vicious beast, seizes upon
its prey and destroys him iu spite of all
possible linman aid. This was instanced. I
believe, in three Ot those cates mentioned;
at least it was so far as the ability of the
attending medical skill was concerned, and
I have no doubt would havo resisted the
medical skill of the combined world. His
tory shows that where this disease prevails
as an epidemic, that a majority of those
well defined cases prove fatal. No doubt,
however, this, like other diseases, is influ
enced by localities and peculiarities of con
stitution. Hence, wo observe, on tho one
hand, that abrupt and sudden attack, while,
on the other, tho patient-Is admonished
of his impending danger by premonitory
symptoms. 1 do not propose to speak of
tho pathology of tills disease, to .give Us
history, or Its-symptoms—all of which are
full of interest—but to set forth that plan
of treatment which seems to be most avail
able in this alarming malady.
As soon a3 wo are satisfied that we have
to contend with meningitis, tho patient
should be placed in a barret of warm water,
immersing the whole body, the head ex
cepted, and upon which (tho head) a stream
of cold water must ho poured while, re
maining in the bath. Tlio water in the
vessel or barrel must be kept as near
the same temperature a3 possible, by
means of other water of a higher
temperature. After letcingthe pitient re
main in tills hath from fifteen to thirty
minutes, hn Is to lie taken out, wiped rap
idly and thoroughly'dry, wrapped warmly
In bed, with an iron or sointhlng else as
warm to tho'feet as lie can hear it. Then
cut the hair closely and apply cup* freely,
or until from two to fonr ounces of blood
are taken from each temple. This being
done, a blister is to be applied along the
whole course of the spine, and kept up till
the symptoms abate. In tlie same period,
a large dose of calomel and jallapis to be
glveu and assisted ih Its action by Injec
tions of a mild and laxative form; also,
cold applications to the head are to be used
throughout the disease. Along with these
remedies, the system must be brought
speedily under the influence of mercury
by using it both Internally and externally.
After two days, it is proably better to leave
off the warm bath. In the latter stage,
when tho powers of the system aro far
spent, it Is well to support it by wine and
nourishing diet. Also, tire barks seem to be
of much service iu tiiis stage.
J. G. Arnold, M. D.
■One of onr Energetic Citizens.
Coinmunicxted.1
. Editor Comtitytion: If the defeat of
tho “Bingham Amendment” ia calculated
to advance the interest of Atlanta, and
-Georgia generally, (and there are grave
doubts (!) about it) it will ho seen that one
of our energetic citizens is entitled to much
credit for the gallant part" he has borne in
the contest at Washington. I quote from a
late Washington letter to the Atlanta New
Era:
* * * “Tho service of one gentleman
I liavo heretofore neglected to mention, be
cause knowing he shrinks from publicity;
hut the fact should be stated, that John
Rice, Esq., of your city, who is here upon
his own account, has exerted all his influ
ence—which, by the way, is great with his
personal friends in Congress, of whom there
are many—to secure the passage of the bill
reported by the Reconstruction Committee
of the Houso. He obtained the confidence
of many Senators when the hill was up the
present week, by his frank and evidently
truthful statements as to tho necessities of
his people. When Gov. Bullock and the
Hon. Foster Blodgett have the endorse
ment, at home and abroad, of men of this
class, they can afford to treat with contemp t
their Ku-Klux detractors.”
This “ Ctcsar ” to whom the above cor
respondent seems desirous that the “ things ”
that aro his’n shall bo “ rendered,” is Presi
dent of the Georgia National Bank, of this
city; and it is hoped that the business men
of Atlanta will hold in grateful remem
brance tho yeoman’s service which the head
and front of that institution is doing for us
at Washington. The correspondent “ neg
lected ” to accord him tho deserved praise
before. I simply desire in this to aid it iu
giving the proper amende, by keeping the
facts before a public ever prompt to do ho
mage to one of their number so energetic
and public-spirited. Permit mo, therefore,
to ask that you will give space to this for
that purpose.
Citizen.
Atlanta, April, 13,1870.
Nows by Last Night’s Mail.
The Mechanic Hose Company, of Au-
gnsta, will visit Savannah in May.
The venue In the cose of the negro boy
who killed a white boy in Harris county,
has been changed to Muscogee.
Major Joseph H. Sloss has been elected
Mayor of Tuscumbi*.
the McFarland trial.
A Plot to Drive McFarland to In
sanity or Death—What the De
fense are Going to Do—Free Love
and Free Lovers to bo Put on
Trial, with McFarland as Chief
Spectator in the Scene—A Bitter
Fight Between Mr. Graham and
Mr. Davis.
From the New York Sun, Uth 1
The sixth day of this trial opens this
morning; and that the readers of tlio Sun
may l>e able to comprehend the compli
cated and exciting scenes which are to fol
low, we will give a resume of the facts of
tho case as they may have been tlius.far
presented, and also tlie theory of the “de
fence as far as it lias been developed on tlie
trial. Tho
CENTRAL POINT
on which tho defense turns is. that McFar
land was not a responsible being when lie
shot Richardson; and surrounding this
central point is the theory that there was a
preconcerted scheme on the-part of the
friends of. Richardson, first to alienate the
affections of Mrs. McFarland'from her hus
band. and then, by persistent persecution,
to drive McFarland to a lunatic asylum or
tho grave, in order that Richardson might
possess Mrs. McFarland In safety.
To sustain tills theory, the defeDSO have
alleged, and already partially proved, and
claim that they will fully prove, that as
earl as the summer of 1SGG. Mrs. Calhoun,
whilo with Mrs. McFarland at the White
Mountains, began to implant iu her mind
tlio seeds of alienatlon .from her husband,
and induced her to lend a hospitable ear to
the doctrine of tlie
FORK LOVERS ;
that Mrs. Calhoun succeeded in inspiring
Mrs. McFarland with a hunger for social
distinction and enjoyment boyond what
Air. McFarland in his then impoverished
condition could gratify; that this led to
Mrs. McFarland’s becoming dissatisfied
with her humble homo; that she became
intimate with Richardson, who sympa
thized with tier social ambitiou; that Mrs.
Calhoun and'Richardson got an engage
ment for her at the Winter Garden Theatre,
where she appeared under the name of
Miss Cushing; that she fled from her home
to flic house of Samuel Sinclair, 8 Wash
ington Place, where she and Richardson,
OCCUPIED ADJOINING ROOMS
Without any .door between them; that
tlie conspirators spirited away McFarland'S
children, and that Richardson supplied the
funds to eontest the legal proceedings
which McFarland brought to recover them;
that Richardson
INSURED HIS LIFE
For the benefit of Mrs: McFarland; that-
McFarland became unsettled in mind, was
stricken down by fever, and came so near
death that tlie conspirators supposed they
had got rid of biin, but tiiathu finally stag
gered baek upon tho scene, a hopeless-
hearted man. witli ruined constitution ami
shattered mind; that while in that state lie.
on tlie 10th day of March. 1S67. intercepted
the letter from Richardson to ids wife
which was read to the jury on Friday last
and ap|>earcd in the Sun on Saturday
morning; that that letter still further un
settled his mind; that his subsequent
struggles to regain his children, the sneers
and taunts of Richardson, the Indiana di
vorce of Mrs. McFarland, and tlie common
report that she was soon to marry Rich
ardson, deepened hi* malady. '■
DROVE HIM TO DISTKACnoX.
and finally resulted in the homicide on tlie
25th day of November, 1SC9. As a collat
eral reinforcement of thi* theory, it has
already lircn shown that insanity is hered
itary in McFarland’s family, nnd that hi*
first cousin died in tlie Luuatic Asylum on
Blackwell's Island in 1S17.
Another, nnd in some respects the most
Interesting point in the dolcuse is, that
Richardson's death wan hastened by what
is known as tlie Astor House marriage and
other Astor House excitements, and that,
as a legal consequence,
m'fakland ia not responsible
for his dying at that precise timv.as charged
in the indictment. Under this point the
whole course of treatment to which Rich
ardson was subjected after he was shot, in
cluding the marriage ceremony at the As
tor House, will be put in evidence. This
will of coitrso lead to exciting scene* and
bitter fights between opposing counsel.
Tho defense claim to be exceedingly
strong in the preparation of their case.
Messrs. Graham ami Spencer say that in
the whole range or their professional ex
perience they never knew another case so
well prepared as this, and they give the
whole credit of its preparation to Mr. Ger
ry. He lias worked on it assiduously from
tlie day of McFarland's indictment, and it
is claimed that he has brought it out
to perfection. He has not wurked for
money, but from a sense of duty. He ha*
money enough. There are probably few
lawyers in America who, ail tilings con
sidered, are as well off as Mr. Gerry. His
library alone is worth
~ OVER A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.
The prosecution arc also strong in pro
fessional knowledge aud natural ability.
The District Attorney is a veteran. J udge
Davis lias been retained to satisfy the
friends of Richardson,- and he is a man of
great legal powers. Tho contest between
him and Mr. Graham waxes hotter every
day, and it bids fair to become a forensic
conflict of unexampled bitterness.
Under the double line of tlie defense, to-
wit, tbe conspiracy to alicnato McFarland’s
wife and drive him to his grave or a lu
natic asylum, and the claim that Richard
son’s death was hastened by what took
place at the Astor House. oil tho facts and
circumstances surrounding the case, from
beginning to end, will be developed by the
evidence. Ont of the copious materials
which he lias gathered, Mr. Gerry has
thrown up a sort of legal Olympus whereon
his associate. Mr. Graham, can sit like a
forensic Jupiter, and
HURL HIS THUNDIRBOLTS
at every one who lias assumed, or even
been involuntarily placed in an attitude of
either real or seeming hostility to bis eii-
ent; and tbe practical result bids fair to be
to put free love and free lovers on trial,
with Daniel McFarland as ehief spectator
A Michigan woman has recovered by law
all tho money that her husband had spent
in a liquor saloon for six years. The pro
hibitory liquor law of that State does not
regard liquor as "property,’’ and tho wo
man recovered tlie money on the ground
that it hRd been paid to tlie llqnor vendor
without consideration.
Mr. IV. D. Robinson, the inventor of the
railroad track laying machine, and a ma
chine for ditching, was drowned a few days
ago in Suisun Bay, California.
The town of Lyndon', Washtenaw coun
ty, Michigan, has been settled for more
than thirty-two years, and yet it lias neith
er church, hotel, store, post-office, grocery,
nor mail of any kind.
A remarkable case of resuscitation is re
ported from Montpelier, France. A yonng
man. asphyxiated by charcoal, was touch
ed on tlie soles of his feet with red hot iron
without avail. Electric batteries were then
brought to hear, and, after eight hours of
effort, animation was restored.
The people of Bath have petitioned the
British Parliament to amend the law which
gives the earnings of married women to
their husbands.
' Small New England grog shops are se
dulously watched on Sundays, but tlie Bos
ton hotel bars are winked atvprovidcd they
keep mum.
“Mum " must bo a new term for whisky
carried by Snmncr. yclept “Chawlcs.”
Dr. Packard, at the mcetingof the Amer
ican Colonization Society, In New York, on
Sunday, stated that there are more negroes
ready to go to Africa than means could .he
furnished to send them.
Nearly tlift whole Jtali in navy Is to he
laid-up, in pursnanceofadetermlnation on
the part of the Government to reduco the
expenditures.
Cotton Crop and Supply.
From the Now York Commercial and
Financial Chronicle of the Otii lust, we
tako the following figures compiled at night
of the Sth:
Vi*isle Softly OF Cotton.—Tha fulfewlarta-
le shows tin “■ “—”■— * •-*■*- — - '
Qato at each
A Note ran Sunday Reading.—The edi
tor of a. vigorous journal, says that many
a'ble and good ministers destroytheir use-
frdness by tho tediousness of their services.
Their pulpit prayers, instead of being from
tv.ro to five minutes long, sometimes are from
te n to thirty. The sermons are prefaced by
loieg introductions, and branch out into di
visions and subdivision*, reminding one of
the beast with scTen heads and ten horns.
The suggestion may possibly be worthy of
note in this section.
yjv- A Colorado romance: Seven mi
ners, exploring the mountains, fonnd an
omormous chunk of gold. They fonght for
ih possession till all were killed hut ono.
It was too heavy for him to carry off, so he
I sat down beside it and starred to death.
Heavy Shipment of Guano.—Tlie ship
ment of guano from Macon by tho South
western Railroad, for nso in the crops
of this year, have reached the enormous
amount of 3.044,933 lbs. This quantity
doe* not Include the amnnnt received from
the Central Railroad, which passed through
without reshipping.
Tho Georgia Medical Association is in
session in Macon. Dr. Magrnder delivered
the welcome address. Among other reso-
lntions offered was tho following: Re
solved, That tlie name of Wm. L. King be
stricken from the roll of the Georgia Med
ical Association, and all others whom it
may bo known are practicing charlatan
ism. Referred. Tlie following resolution
was also adopted: Resolved, That wo of
Georgia Medical Association will co-ope-
rate with all State societica aud the Amer- i „f the scene.
ican Medical Association in raising thej
standard of pulmonary and medical edu-! Fact aud Incident.
eation. I
Dr. Alferd Clopton died in Montgomery,j A skating rink is to he opened at Cliarlcs-
Ala., on the night of the 12th insti, over j ton, S.C.
eighty years or age. He was a Virginian i A compositor in a London printing office
by birth, removed from that State to Put- j has fallen heir to 315,000.000. He lias quit
nam county. Ga, about sixty years ago.; working at forty cents a thousand on “bot-
was a prominent citizen of that county.! tied” nonpariel.
serving the people in a pnblie capacity in ; Chinese printers are the latest novelties
many different positions. . . jin San Francisco. They set type from
At Macon a man 50y ears of age was fined; -copy” written in English, and are said
one hundred dollars by the Mayor for strik- to be exceedingly expert,
iog bis aged wife. Wisconsin cheese factories make a brand
The Barnesville Gazette says that cotton 1 of cheese called “Truth.”
planting is progressing; wheat prospects I A Huntsville, Ala., firm have jnst com-
never better; peach crop an entire failure.; pleted the first steam engine manufactured
The editor of the Macon Telegraph, and I in that place,
several polite “chesterfields” of that city,! The strike in the office of the Cincinnati
are waging’a furious war; many hair-; Commercial, which began a week ago, has
breath escapes. ; proved an entire failure.
The Railroad war in Augusta is Btiil in By a law recently passed by tlie Florida
progress, according to the Chronicle and I Legislature, drugs are only allowed to be
Sentinel. A police officer ou horseback• .-old by regular apothecaries. A general
attempted to arrest a running train, but 1 store-keeper can not sell medicines of any
signally failed in his Gilpin attempt. j description now in that State, not even a
The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel; bottle of hitters, without subjecting him-
states, on good authority, that it has been { self to tho chance of prosecution, and if
determined to build the Athens and Rabun 1 convicted, to fine and imprisonment.
Gap Railroad. j Tho Selma and Gulf Railroad lias up-
The large brewery of Leglor Bros., at wards of gxteen or eighteen miles of track
1ST0 is*
Stock tn Liverpool bales.. 455 0'X) S1B.CM
Stock tnLondon .... BOtm 18,785
Stock tn Glasgow 401 *60
Stock In Havre CO 6*1 4V9IS
Stock in Marseilles 8 sit 8.406
Stork in Bremen 8.49* 5063
Stock rest or Continent S9000 410CO
Afloat Tor Qrcat Britain (liner.
lean) *18,000 155.000
Afloat for Havre (.\mcrlc tn ami
Brazil) 40,333 lt.lU
Total Indian cotton afloat Tor
Europe 1*95*1 MOSS!
stock In United State? ports 556.511 *46*83
Stock in inland towns. 80,010 69,850
Total ”1,435,199
Those figures indicate an increase in the
cotton in eight to-night of 14G.023 bales
compared with tlie same date of 1889.
Supply and Coksumpion op Europe to
October 1.—We showed in onr Issue of
March 2c.. that tlio export of cotton
from the United States to European port*
would, if the prospect* of the new crop
continued favorable, reach 2,000.000 bale*.
Last we indicated what wa* likely to be
theext-ntof tho European supply from In
dia. i\’.:h these facts before us, anil taking
the figures for other ports tlie same as last
year, we reach the following os the proba
ble European supply from January 1 up to
October 1. of thi* year. For Imlia. we tako
tho lower estimate*, as the latest advices
are rather less favorable:
Uuropean supply front
the United State*. - 2000,000
Less receipt* in Europe
up to January 1, - 380.000—1,620.000
Supply from India to Oc
tober 1, - - - 1,150,000
Supply from Egypt, Bra
zil and other coun
tries, ... C 10.000
Total receipts from January 1 up
to October I, (33 weeks.) - 3,710.000
Appended te its trhnlar statement of for
eign receipts and stocks, the Chronicle has
tlie following:
From tlio above, it appears that the con
sumption in Europe during the first two
month* of thi* year ha* been 674.811 bale*
against 74G.S09 bales last year, or 84351
bales per week for January and February.
1S70, against 93,351 bales for January and
February, 1S69. These figures are, howev
er imperfect, of cour*e. as they do not in-
clude’stocks held by the mill* at the two
period*, but they certainly indicate that
the requirement of Europe have not been
as generally represented. Still, oven if wc
make the consumption up to Or.toiier 1 at
93.1)00 bales per week, tlio *tock« of Eu
rope at that dato will be considerably in
creased.
Leaving stock* ia Europe Oct. 1,1811 ....1,051,000
—against 583,000 bates on tlie 1st of Octo
ber. 1SG9.
Ofcourse. should the mill* stock up large
ly during tlie summer, tlie stock in sight
might be tea* than given above; or. if our
crop during the early months look* very
nncotnpromiilng, more of the old crop
would probably tie held back. On tlie oth
er hand, the supply, especially from India,
rosy be larger, and hence wo think tlie
chance* are that the stock October 1, will
net. be less than above stated.
Valckof Crop.—A cotton crop of 3.000,-
000 bales, at the average price of tlie sea
son, so far, is worth about $310,000,090 cur
rency, in Southern ports, which-i* equiva
lent tn oyer $250,000,000 in gold. Thi* is a
greater aggregate value than was ever re
ceived for any cotton crop in tlie United
States, exceeding, by feme million* of dol-.
lars, tlie value of the groat crop of 4,860,000
bales in 1S59-G0.
Stocks or Cotton at Interior Towns.
Wo clip the subjoined table from the Fi
nancial Chronicle, being made up by tele
graphic reports to tho night of the Sth in
stant-last Friday:
L.xsta . , 1869
Aprils. April 1. Aprils. April 1.
amount of fertilizers cost about $730,000.
A pork firm in Cincinnati forwarded *
lot of bacon to Hong Kong, China, last
Saturday. i • i -. »
Sprigs of cedar scattered about tho fdwl
house will relieve chickens of lice. Tar In
tlio chicken trough is a preventive of dis
ease.
Apply hot water a lung time with wet
cloth?,fora bruiscor blow. Beef brine i* an
excellent lotion for both sprains and
bruise*. A veteran among horses claim*
that it will almost set a joint or heal a
fracture. Wormwood or tan*y lotions aro
also good.
Cape. John C. Turner, of Sumner countr,
Tennessee, sold last week, to Coter A Co
ol Nashville, his crop of broom corn of last
year, at $2,943, the product of about twon-
ty-live acres, besides.about 700 bushel* or
seed, that ii worth one dollar per bn*ho>,
which is within a small fraction of $110 per
acre. Capt. Turner think* that the seed
will pay for the entire expenses of raising
the crop. Upon hi* small farm of ninety
acres, he has cleared the past year $2,500
over all expenses of production.
Spice.
“Do you think,” asked Mrs. I’eppar,
“ tiiat a little temper is a had thing in a wo
man?” '“Certainly not, ma'am,” replied a
gallant philosopher; “itis a good thing,
and she ought gever to lose it.”
voting lady in Notvark, when her jeal
ous admirer sontback her letters with a re
quest that she should return liis, answered
that sho regretted that she could Rot com
ply immediately, a* sho had iont them to a
young gentleman to read.
As proof of the fact that girls are useful
article*, and that the world could no.t very
well get along without them, a late writer
states it as a fact, that if all tlio girl*, were
driven out of the world iu ono generation,
the boys would all go out after them.
“Do you believe in second love, Mr. Mc-
Quade?” “ Do I believe in second lore?
Humph! If a man buys a pound of sugar,
isn’t it swate? And when it’s gone, don’t
ha want another pound? And isn’t that
swate, too? Troth, Murphy, I do helioro in
second lovo."
A citizen of Rendout, who married two
days after the (unorai of his first wife has
started with hi* new brido on a compulsory
bridal tour at the instigation of hi* towns- -
men, who felt agrieved at his precipitate
wooing and wedding, aDd advised him to
leave without further ceremony.
Since a rich young foreigner lias resolved
to marry a shoemaker's daughter, all the
mothers of maiTiagablo young ladies in
Washington insist on having their precious
charges accomplished artist* in the boo',
and shoe line. So much for a good exam
ple.
The new-fashioned parasol* are to large
that only one tady can pass under an awn
ing at a time. They have the appearance of
perambulating skylights.
A doctor, who declares a certain cosmetic
is composed of pulverized marble, says the
ladies whiten their faces with ground grave
stones.
Auguita, Ga., .
ColumbtM, Ga., 15,409
Macon. Ga, 15.ECU
Montg’ery. Ala., 8SS9
Se'ma. Ala.. 6.531
Memphis, Tcsm., 16,636
NathvtUe,Town., 6,514
13009
13,165
10.014
6.453
M.re5
6.509
11.570
6 575
4.<J«
5.773
16.919
6.109
16.711
11.655
6,435
6 400
5.6W
55.721
5,168
If Tne Earth wkketo Stand Still.—If
the revolution of the earth on its axis were
to be suddenly stopped, tho temperature of
everything would be raised to snch a de
gree as to be incapable ot existing in any
other form than vapor. When a bullet
strikes the target it becomes so hot that it
can not be held in tho hand. It* velocity
is at the rate of 1,200 feet a second, but
what must he the heat produced when a
body like the earth moving at the rate of
90,000,000 feet a second, i* suddenly ar
rested! It would soon lie converted into a
sea of fire, aud all life would become ex
tinct.
It is not probable that this catastrophe
will take place iu our generation, hut as tlm
light of the snn is sai.t to be due to the
combustion of world* in its atmosphere,
our timo may sometime com* to add fuel to
the flames.
Tlie Georgia Bill.
Ih tlie Senate. Morton nude -alabored ad
dress ou tlie Georgia quraiion. Ii amine tlie
Democratic party iu tlie North tor the
partial failure of reconstruction, lie
proved from the proceeding* or the Teti-
uessea Legislature and other document*,
that tlie Ku-Klux really had a formidable
organization throughout tha South. Quot
ing from Freedman's Bureau reports he
allowed the South very bloody. He showed
from VarioH* elections in tlic'South, that if
tlie election is held in Georgia thi* fall, it
wilt place the State in tlie litnd* or tlie
Democracy. He narrated bloody events
in the South, and asserted that in many
section* freedom of opinion wa* not toler
ated.
Williams’ Amendment Defeated.
Finally a Vote wa* reached on William*’
amendment, providing tiiat the next elec
tion fo'r the members of the General As
sembly (hall be field on the first Tuesday
after the first Monday in November. 1SJ2.
Also prohibiting til* extuiitinn of olUeiat
term* beyond tlie regular period named in
the State Constitution, and requiring tlie
consent of the Legislature to this Legisla
tion. It was defeated hy a rote of 25 in
24. Many Senator* dodged the vote, and
the result is quite donbttul.
OS’ a remarkable marriago took place at
Galesburg, III., on the 4th, tho parties be
ing Mr. Samuel it. Crosby, of New York
city, aged cighty-threo year*, and Mr*.
Anna It. Hurd, of Galesburg, aged eighty-
ouc. They were engaged at the age of
eighteen and sixteen respectively, but cir
cumstances compelled a breaking of their
troth, and since then each has followed
three companions to the grave.
tST At a meeting of Government clerks, a
petition to Congress wa* agreed upon anil
will be circulated for signature* in the dif
ferent depertment*, asking that the income
tax may not bo deducted from their sala
ries during tho year 1870£|
As Congress favors class legislation, tlie
bcau-ocracy f othc departments will doubt
less succeed in their scheme.
US' Grace Greenwood is seen nearly
every day in tho Senate gallery, at Wash
ington, looking quietly on. She is a bru
nette, with large, dark eyes, rather sharp-
featured, a high brow, and just a suspicion
of silver in the hair. In private circles she
has given decided ovidenco of dramatic tal-
ont by her. humorous personification of
character.
Total. £3,076 84,479 69.83) 15,110
The foregoing shows the interior stocks
have decreased daring the week about 4,-
402 hales, and tiiat they are now 15.C53 bales
in excess of the samo period last year.
Food for Fanners.
norses have increased 5 per cent, in tlie
Ohio valley, and 13 per cent, in the Missis
sippi valley.
Mule* have increased in ncariy all the
States; Alabama, Mississippi. Arkansas,
Hamburg, S.C., was partially destroyed by
fire on tbe morning of tbe 3d. Loss $4,-
500, partially insured.
There no longer exist* any freight block
ade or hindrance to the prompt transmis
sion of freights to all points along the line
of the Nashville and.Chattanooga Rail
road. The road is in tip-top condition and
freights are regularly received and moved
forward without delay.
A Pennsylvanian claims an invention
that is to revolutionize railroading. The
trip from New York to San Francisco ean
be made in alxty hour? including stop
pages.
laid fromSelma upon which construction
trains are running. Work is progressing
rapidly. The bridge over tbe Alabama,
near Selma, i* under contract, and will be a
splendid structure.
An exchange says that rations to the ex
tent of eight to ten thousand daily, are
beiDg issued to the poor of Washington.
The Cumberland Presbyterians are in
troducing the custom of licensing colored
preachers to preach “ among people of tbeir
own color.”
None of the Judges of the United States
Snpremo Bench aro less than fifty-three
I years old.
tS~ In the flouring mills of Nornah and
Menaslia, \Vis„ there are 45 run of stone,
which can turn out 3,375 barrel* of flour
per day. These figures'indicate a capacity
for grinding 5,000,000 bushels of wheat per
year.
JJ©-The Cincinnati Commercial's new
force of printers are kept within tho build
ing altogether, sleeping, eating, and work
ing there, to avoid the ceaseless watching
of the committee of the Union posted out
side.
V • ,.. , , . VS' The opening of fine new boulevard*,
Kansas and Nebraska, showing the largest i s t ree t? and quays progresses rapidly in
cStie'arc generally increasing in n«m- j will makethat port on.
ber, although slightly. Report* from Maine, ?. f h *" Jso, “ e J t ’ “ ,tM one of tho live-
Connecticut. New Jersey, Pennsylvania. “ c st> ,n the world.
North Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana. Tcxa*, — ■“
Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois and Ohio indi-1 1ST Austria is endeavoring to open a
cate a loss. The State* bond the Mississip- regular exportation of her flour, silks, iron
pi show the largest relative increase. ! and steel hard ware, etc, to Morocco direct.
The New England State?, excepting i by a regujar line of steamers to Gibraltar
Massachusetts, show a reduction in the j and the Morocco ports,
number ol swine. The same is true of New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia.
North Carolina. Georgia, Alabama, Missis
sippi. Texas, West Virginia, Illinois, Indi
ana, Ohio and Michigan An increase of
twenty-ODe per cent, appears in Kan***,
and- a considerablu Increase is shown in
Missouri, Minncssota,Nebraska, California
and Oregon.
A declluo in the number of sherp is
shown in most of tho States, notwithstand
ing “protection.” tiic only State* in which
Attempt* to commit suicide are
hereafter to be punished in Masiachu-
sett*. upon tlie principle that attempts to
commit a crime are indictable as misdo-
tncanor* at common law.
VS' Since the President came into office
he has signed eighty-two bills and vetoed
one—a private bill.
$3F*Thc tariff of prices on tho Austrian
sheep are increasing being California. ‘ . OI P n ="O n Austrian
Kansas, Missouri. Arkansas, and Ne- * nd Hangamn telegraph Imts has been rc-
b-atka. iluced.
The price of horse? and mules ha* in
creased in some of tlie Southern States
since last year; swine have maintained last
year's prices; cattle have somewhat de
clined ; sheep arc little higher Ih price.
The Calloway County (Mo.) Farmer's
Club hare derided that stork and grass
raising is the more profitable character of
farming in that State. j
Daring tlie month of March, then; wa*!
ST* A “ graphic” writer remark* that “a
woman will always love the nearest man
of suitable age, after a fashion.”
tSTThe engrossing clerk of tlie Iowa
House has engrossed one of the member*,
and is going to matey him..
„ T , VST Pere Ilyacintho cut a lay figure at
shipped from Clr.rlratnii. hy the South | tile funeral of Count Montalembert.
Carolina Railroad, 18.2C0590 pounds of for- j - —
t'Uizrr*. This is equal to about 9.13) ton?, j SS~ Brazil anticipate* a heavy coffoe crop
pr 1,141 car load*. At $30 per ton, this thi* year.
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