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Fon'stHtttion.
ATLANTA, GA., 3IAUCII19, 1872.
Colonel Style*
Col. Stylo, sleeted" State Senator, Is s
Sooth Carolinian by birth. The Edgefield,
< 9. C.) Adrertieer thus speaks of him.
Col. Stylo is one of the bravest, ablest and
true imprumialng of oM-ltae Democrats. IIif
many friends and admirers in Edgefield will
tie glad to heir that so mod a champion of
the old cause has a broad field to fight ul-
Pr.ze Candy Gambling.
The Supreme Court of Tennessee has Just
decided that prize candy selling is gambling,
and A. D. Eubanks baa been convicted of
vi'.'iiting the gambling statutes of the State.
The Court held that the prize candy selling
w.is a game of rl.ance in which money was
paid for the chance of winning morn or lees
in value than ihe money paid.
The Recalcitrant Republican Sena
tors.
A Washington dispatch to Hew York on
the 13, says that Ihe recalcitrant Republicans
decided to send a Senator, probably Tipton,
to Cincinnati to confer with the leaders of
the Liberal Republican Convention. Sum
ner, Trumbull, Scburz, Fenton and Tipton
bare bad repeated conferences, and have
agreed not to abide by the action of the
Philadelphia Convention if it nominates
Gram, but look to Cindnatli for a candidate.
Sumner is understood to favor Davis.
or Murat Halstead, editor of the Cincin
nati Commercial, and Wash McLean, editor
of the Enquirer, arc savagely at loggerhead
McLean comes at Halstead with “assassin,
“able leidie.1 scoundrel,” and “lecherous
ti . .' r. hi. - Halstead fires back such gentle,
southing confectionary as “sneak-thief,
felon."
There seems to be no blood-ebedding in
proipecL These savage fellows spill nothing
but ink, use no weapons but pens, and in-
du.gc in no lighting but a war of mud.
I literal Republican movement,
The committee appointed by the liberal
Republican mass meeting held at Jefferson
City, January 24, to select thirty delegates to
the Liijemi National Mas* Convention, to be
.bcld at Cincinnati, May 1st, have reported
1LI u{ delegates. Among them are Senator
Scburz, Governor Brown, General John
McNeil, Charles P. Johnson, Enos Clarke,
and nenry C. Haarstick, all of 8t Louis
cz-Coogresaman George W. Andercon, and
quite a number of members of the Legisla
ting Among the alternates are Lieutenant
Governor Gravely, Secretary of State Wegtl,
ex Congressman Joel T. Asper, and several
members of the Legislature.
The Methodists,
The numberof members in the Methodist
Church in the United States aggregates aa
follows
K-thr-U.. Fplvopal ClxfKh, North. 1,00,4*1
MuboUi.f Episcopal Cssrch, South *
Jl.i Wi.i Pi utmost Church
VMco
‘-Hctamlt-t Church'
gran-rllcil Aiuorls’.lon (Methodist)
W—leyaa Melhodlet
C',.l .red Methotnc Kplaeopsl Chsrch. 11*00
Afuci.t Mctholl.t Episcopal ntiarcli SOOOOO
Af ton Zion Obareli (Mcthodlet) 161.000
Pr-e MetaoUl.t Ctiluch | SHOO
Prtmlilv- Mcthudiet Church *,000
Tutsi ... ...V»siMi
It thus appears that there are in the United
Status more than two million seven hundred
thousand members of the various Methodist
churclies.
The I.essoa of New Hampshire,
The Chicago Times in commenting on the
Democratic defeat in Hew Hampshire, says
the defeat is ICundantly compensated by the
moral which it affords. This moral ia em
bodied in the obvious dsOuciioa Uu
Democratic party alone stands no shadow of
chance to prevent tbo re-election of Grant.
It infers that the hope of rescuing the coun
try from imperialism and corruption depends
solely on a union of all elements of oppoci-
tion. To secure this union, end to achieve
victory which it almost assures, it asserts that
It is necessary that the Convention at Cincin.
nati shall recognize the wide and spontaneous
expressions of popular approval that have
been elicited by the selection of the candi
date which was made at Columbus.
Cafee and Radical Hamt*f<
One of the most cheering signs of the
times is the broadening diaenthrallmenl of
the negro from the Radical deception. For
five years has this faction lead Sambo by the
to hisown and the country's injury for
the benefit of the faction.
One by one the cheerful deceptions of the
faction have been pnnclered.
In Southwestern Georgia, in the late con
test for Senator of the 10th District, we are
informed that the negroes refused to vote fay
the hundred, declaring that hitherto they had
lone only barm by voting. They bad put
robbers and thieves in office, and they meant
to wait and vote Intelligible.
In the Radical State Convention in Ken
tacky, jut held, composed chiefly of Grants
officers, a fine illustration occurred of this
growing distrust by the negro of the Radi
cals.
A resolution was offered pledging the
party to a division of offices with the blacks,
it was fought by certain white men wbo
harped much on the gratitude the blacks
owed the white Republicans for their freedom.
This brought a sharp negro to bis feet, a
fellow named Griffith, a delegate from Louis
ville, who thus spoke out for the race, and
disputed the wholesale claim of his white
brother to the whole glory of negrofrecdom.
The thing is very suggestive:
We are American citizens, and we were
not made free by the acts of the Republican
party simply. We were made free because
one hundred and nine thousand of us went
into the ballle-ticlJ. [Applause.] All through
the State of Mississippi the graves of black
men are as numerous as those of white men.
I feci today that our forty thousand colored
men in tlie'Slate of Kentucky have been de
barred from I lie privilege of exercising their
rights ns citizens. How often have I gone
into district conventions where attempts
were mule to throw these men out of the
convention I, for one, ask no popularity.
I only ask what is Tight. I tell you that the
alack man in this country, let let him h - Re
publican or Democrat, will demand his
rights; and I tell you colored men to a ork
aatil you get them. In order to get your
rights, get right behind some white man and
follow him, and you will get the same tiling
[Laughter am. applause.]
In order that-llic Republican parly might
pul down tbo rebellion, I went into eleven
battles, and was wounded twice, and 1 say
■hat it is hot true that the Republican party
alone gave na our freedom We earned it.
When this country was tottering upon the
verge of the precipice, when McClcrnan said
that if he thought this was a negro war he
would break bis sword and go home, and
when the country waa calling upon every
man to come forward, the negroes girded on
their arms and rushed to the rescue, and to
them belongs at least a part of the credit.
OUIt WASHINGTON LETTER.
The c enSlilon and Prospects of the
Labor Ticket —Senator Sliermaa
Shows dp the Senate —JelTersan
Da via a Radical Bngabao—Dr. nary
Walker and Her Breeches—Eats.
Washington, March 12,1872.
The Coiambus nominations have been be
fore the country for sometime, and it must
be confessed that they have not been received
with that enthusiasm anticipated. The Dem
ocrats, who are keeping their heads remarka
bly well, did not rush in blindly to the
support of Davis and Parker, though it was
generally, bat privately, admitted that tbe
ticket was a good one. The platform is ob
jectionable, however in some of its features,
and notably, that in support of a protective
tariff This could not find favor with the
Democrats, while it is equally objectionable
to liberal Republicans who would readily
vote for tbe Labor Reform candidate on tbeir
personal merits. Should tbe Cincinnati
convention ratify tbe proceedings
the Labor Reformers the movunent
would at once assume an importance
which it cannot otherwise possess. This is
not anticipated, hrwever. Washington poli
ticians wbo have been studying up the situa
tion. predict that Me-srs. Trumbull and
Gn-f-ly will lie nominated at Cincinnati In
this case Davis and Parker would go to the
wall, and it would be left to the Democrats
to decide whether to nominate tbeir own
candidates or support the Cincinnati candi
dates without the formality of bolding a con
vention. From present appearances a Demo
cratic Couventien will be held after those at
Cincinnati and Phi adclpbia, and nomina
tions made which can be supported consci
entiously by the parly. This is purely specu
lation, however, and I give it for what it is
worth.
TBE DO-NOTHING SENATE.
Mr. Sherman read the Senate a well dc
served lecture yesterday, at tbe close • f u
session entirely devoted to personalities. He
announced that he bad prepared a second,
which he asked the Senate to hear. He then
went on to show that three weeks had been
soent in debating a resolution for an investi
gation of the New York Custom House;
three weeks in defeating amnesty; and three
weeks in discusring the sides of arms. lit all
this time the Senate had passed no' bid of
any importance, no bill relating to taxes or
tariff, (Mr. Sherman himself defeated several
bills of this description) no appropriation
bill. All that fiad been done was to pass a
resolution for final adjournment Tbe House,
in the meantime, had passed eight appropria
tion bills, an amnesty bid, and a tariff bill,
and is now ready to prepare a revenue bill.
After bearing its shortcomings thus effectu
ally exposed, the Senate adjourned. It i- ev
ident that a goodly number of honorable
Senators have President-making on the brain;
but they will have to come down to work,
sooner or later, notins rofens, as tbe appropri
ation bill mutt be passed before adjournment
Or The question in Georgia just now is,
was Ib'ury clews knowingly connected with
the Hillock bond fraud? Georgians have
generally agreed lliat he was. After, how
ever. Clews has wined and whiszyed and
dined, in New York, the Bond Committee,
llu re Him telling wbat may be the report
submitted to Hie legislature. Tbe committee
had better stay in Atlanta—Columbus Sun.
Be just, brother Sun. The Bond Commit
tee have no purpose to be wined, whiskyed,
or dined by Clews and his compeers. Tbe
committee will pay its own bills and do its
'duty faithfully. It is doing that dnty well
now. The members arc able and conscien
tious gentleman. V»c ate willing to trust
them anywhere, and feel sure that our con
temporary will, on reflection, withdraw tbe
injurious suspicion of their integrity con
vert il iu its hasty paragraph. The doty of
the committee is a delicate and difficult one.
Let not our Democratic friends render that
duty more perplexing by remarks calculated
to weaken confidence in tbe committee.
True and Timely.
The Atlanta Constitution makes some
very sensible and opportune remarks regard
ing the political situation, the moat signifi
cant portion of which wo append. The
present is truly an emergency in which all
patriotic and conservative men have need for
the exercise of all their vigilance and discre
tion. A revolution in the Government has
been alm,ui accomplished—not by the con
flict of arms, but by the more alarming and
absolute rulership of a party in power whose
strength and organization has been too groat
for resistance in the mode in which revolu
tions arc usually resisted.
This party has for ten or twelve year*,
while in the uninterrupted possession of all
the departments of the Federal Government,
been continuously advancing its work of
breaking dow n all Stale prerogative and au
thority nnd concentrating all power in the
government at Washington. Tbo rejection
of General Grant, with another Radical Con
gress, will unquestionably enable the ruling
party to perfect the work now so near com
pletion, and to impose npon the people a gov
ernment very greatly different from that un
der which we lived prosperously for throe
score years and ten. This is the vital issue
which the people of tbe country have to de
cide in November next—if, indeed, the Gov
ernment has not already obtained such a
mastery of the people as to enable it to secure
by patronage, dictation or intimidation such
a result as it chooses to demand.
It is an issue that rises above party organs-
rations, and esDccially above party same*.
The momentous question to be decided is of
too grave a character to permit any estrange
ment of conservative men, or to allow any
personal or party prejudices to prevent a
thorough union of such men. If, therefore,
our friends of The Constitution wish to be
understood as insisting -that the Democratic
party organization shall, in view of this great
peril, be so rigidly adhered to as to prevent fl
union and cooperation with it by ccsuerva*
tree and patriotic men of other parties, we
have only to ray that we do not fully Indorse
tbeir article to the extent of this exclusive-
ness, and that we take a broader view of the
field of battie, and of tbe dnty which South
ern men especially owe to themselves and to
their section.
Even while we write we receive tiding*
from New Hampshire that admonish na of
the necessity of a concentration of all the
conservative strength of the country to resist
a revolution almost complete nnd a usurpa
tion which, if no: overthrown this year, will
to firmly establish itself as to make opposi
tion hereafter almost hopeless. We are sum
moned to a struggle, cot for party but for
murdry—not for a Jrnnittration but for prt-
terralim; and it would be folly in such a
crisis to permit party names, jealousies or
prejudice* to stand la the way of the hearty
nnioa and co-operation of all men who agree
is prinsipls — Orlumbus Enquirer.
Henry Clew*.
We are daily looking for another letter
from the talented Mr. Clews, but the indica
tions are that he won't trouble the editor of
Tub Atlanta Constitutioh any more.
Colonel Avery’s reply to Clews' assaults upon
him rather unhorses tbe eminent bond-bolder.
But it U hardly possible that Henry will re-
tiro from literary life without fluttering
another score or so of bis insulting pamph
lets and letters in tbe faces of tbe swindled
Georgians.—Satanndh Norn.
Mr. Henry Clews, of New York, the Geor
gia Bondist, recently published an article in
tbe newspapers, in reply to some strictures
of Colonel Avery, of The Atlanta Consti
tution, on Ciewa' operation in Georgia
bonds during Bullock's administration.
Colonel Avery was absent at tbe time Clews’
article was published, but has returned and
moat effectually answered every argument it
contains, as woj as established bis former
charges of irregularities on the part of the
ring, to characterize them by no harsher
name.—Gainesville Eagle.
Tho following card (Henry Clews’ letter)
will awaken new interest in the bond ques
tion, but it will fail to change the current of
public opinion as to Mr. Clews’ complic ity
with the mystery.
No man In Georgia will believe that Colo-
ncl Avery gave false coloring to facts, though
it may lie that he was the victim of a sly
trick to manufacture just such a cas
Clews' presents.—Albany News.
The Extent of England.
Hon. James Brooks, in a letter from Cal
cutta, Bpeaks as follows; England, once
more, one everlasting England I That ti tle
seagirt island has not only girdled the great
isles of the world, and put its stamp upon
them, but, here am I, in the portals of the
great British East India Empire, the very
magnitude of whirl is astounding. Think
of it, over 200,002,000 of people, native end
British in the Indian Government proper,
tier the Briii-h flig! Satiated with the v
vastness of ''.'million here, the British Cio
declines more land, and all the populatio;
wants—nay, more, loo, refuses, actually,
lie bothered witu yet morel Think of die
revenue and expenditures of this British In
dian Empire, $'200,(00,000 of onr money, in
coming and outgoing, each year. Think of
its immense army, 320,000 in all, of whom
70,000 are European soldiers, the others, In
dians, under British officers, all! Think of
a Christian government over 110,000,0c 0 of
Hindoos, 25 000.000 of Mussulmans, 12, 00,-
OOO of Ahociginul Nothingarians, 3,Cain 000
of Buddhists. Ac ! What a tt.edley c f hu
manity to rulu 1 What a mixture of law .
well as of creeds, and of tongue, nnd lan
guages ! (There are sixteen, or metre. lan
guages that a British tiller ought to h am.)
What a vast trade, some $250,000,000 of ini
ports, and over $500,000,000 of exports 1 The
little England at home, which governs all
this vast territory and these millions of | eo-
pie dwindles, herself, into insignificance,
when contrasted with this her mighty < m-
plre of the East —Putnam County Standard.
Feb. 17.
m m rai
The Southern States.—The London
Chemist and Druggist, of a recent date, says
truly of the Southern States: “If the South
ern United States are not the garden of the
world, it is rather tbe fault of those who arc
responsible for their cultivation and dev lop
ment, than from any other cause on the face
of tbe earth. Cotton, sugar and tobacco are
products of such immensity as todwarf those
which other lands bring forth. Vast qnu-
tites of wbeat and rice are exported. L xu-
rious bat uncultivated vegetation also testi
fies to its immense resources which are forth
coming. Watered by the grandest rivers,
rich in cvety variety of soil, millions of acres
of swamp yet unreclaimed, make it a terri
tory which will supply the world.”
Alabama News Items.
Father Ryan ia lecturing in Mobile for the
benefit of tbe poor.
A large number of Mobile bar keepers have
been arrested for retailing without license
Bishop Quinlan, of Mobile, will celebrate
St. Patrick's Day with a pontifical high mass
in St. Patrick's Church.
Fourteen building lota located in East
Selma, averaging seventy by one hundred
and fifty feet in area, were sold at auction a
few days ago by Dedham Boylan at prices
ranging from $20 to $185 per loL
Birmingham, a new city of Alabama, is
attracting the attention of tbe capitalists of
the country. Il is situated in Jones Valieyl
between mountains teeming with iron and
coal, and of unparalleled richness. Iron mas
ters from other Stales, among them ex-Uov-
ernor Parker and David Thomas & Sons, of
Pennsylvania, and Hillman & Bros., of Ten
nessee, are making purchases. Since June,
1871, two hundred dwellings and stores have
been put up. and about two hundred more
are under contract. Tbe following railroads
will center at Birmingham: Tbe Alabama
and Chattanooga Railroad, finished from
Madison, Mississippi, to Chattanooga, Ten
nessee: the South and North Railroad, com
pleted from Montgomery to Birmingham, and
soon to be completed to Dccatnr,'Alabama;
tbe Savannah and Memphis Railroad, from
Opelika via Birmingham to Pittsbnrg Land-
ing, on Tennessee river; the Mobile Grand
Trunk, from Mobile to Birmingham; tbe
Georgia Western, from Atlanta to Birming
ham, thence westward to connect with the
Southern Pacific Hoad.
Condensed News,
Tbe .shipping of oysters to England is
proving very profitable.
The Stockton Republican anti.-ipates that
the wheat yield of the San Joaquin va’lty
this year will exc- ed 12,000,00) bushels.
There ate DO manufatoriesof India rubber
articles in America and Europe, which eon-
e over 10,0.0,000 pounds of the gum per
year.
Tbe advance criers are said to be enor
mous for Marion Uariand'snew novel, “True
as Steel.” Carlcton has four presses running
on iL
A man in Illinois has patented an iron
shiagie roof. The shingles are about six by
thirteen inches, lap each other so as to insure
a water-proof, and are fastened by headless
n>i!c
The recent census returns fer Ireland, con
trasted with those of the past thirty years,
show a steady decrease in population. In
1841 the population was 8,193,507; in 1851 it
was 6,574,278. while this year it is but 6,402,-
TV0—nearly 400,000 1ms than ten years ago.
A RADICAL BCOABOO.
Certain “trooly loil” members of the House
of Representatives dread even the name of
.TelTerson Davis as the devil does holy water.
Every time an amnesty bill has been proposed
there have been inquiries as to how it would
efftTCt Mr. Davis, whether it would remove
his disabilities or not. Of late, so many bills
removing disabilities, containing hundreds
upon hundreds of names, have been intro
duced iu the House, that the formality of
leading them has been dispensed with. On
every occasion some one of tbe “treaty bill,”
has popped up with an inquiry as to wheth
er the name of Jefferson Davis might not
have been slipped in. Yesterday, alter the
House had passed a large number of amnes
ty bills without the reading the name* of
those to be relieved, Mr. Shank, of Indiana,
suggested that “the name of Jeff. Davis
might get in this *»ny.” The Speaker re
plied that the enrolling clerks would notify
him if that name should appear, and the
little parrow-minded Radical legislators were
relieved of thier apprehensions.
woman’s drew.
Dr. Mary E. Walker has addressed a letter
tonne of our city pnpers on this subject
Mary herself looks like a forked radish, and is
not prepossessing enough to make many cor
verts. She never appears in public without
train of small boys after her, and frequently
lias to appeal to the police for protection. J
subjoin the concluding paragraph of he r let
ter, which is calculated to provoke a smile:
“This is tbe most serious and important
question of the age, and it the United Slates
Treasury were to Imj drained of its contents
nnd given to women who would dress sensi
bly, as an inducement to establish a healthy
condition of the mothers of the nation, it
would do more towards making Die United
States a conqueror of the rest of the world
than all the armies and navies that viginlil-
lions of gold could purchase.”
X&RS MENTION.
The claims of Abbott, the bogus North
Carolinian, to a seat in Uie Senate, will come
up this week. Senator Carpenter ia about
the only man of nay note who favor- Ab
bot’s preposterous claim.
The Senate Committee on Claims has de
cided adversely on the claim of R. II. Gar
rett, of Virginia, the owner of the barn in
which J. Wilkes Booth took refuge from his
pursuers, for compensation, for the destruc
tion of his property, on the ground that Gar
rett was disloyal.
A prominent Democrat thinks Judge Davis
too fat to be a good candidate for the Presi
dency, as he i- not likely to be aggressive
enough if elected.
At the rate which Congress is making ap
propriations for public buildings in different
parts of the country, Atlanta ought to have
a share.
It is reported that Donn Piatt’s Capital is
to become a Grant organ.
The Government is expecting trouble with
the red skins as soon as the spring grasses are
green.
The chances of Senator Wilson for a norai
nation to the Vice-Presidency on the ticket
with Grant are in no respect warming.
Tommy Uauck.
C'AUTEBSVtf-LE LETTER.
Court—TIi e LeffMatlre Committee
and Tbeir Workand* Discov
ered—Cutton—Tlic ConiMfttnflona
Cartersville, Ga., 3Iarch 14,1872.
Editor* Constitution: This place has been
quite lively this week. The Superior Court
is In session. Judge Harvey presiding; trans
acting business rapidly. The case of the
State vs. Rev. James Pierce was continued to
the adjourned term in April. Much interest
is felt and manifested in this case. Your
readers will doubtless remember the circum
stances, therefore I will not repeat them.
Two of the legislative committees have
been here two days doing good work. I
learn that the Committee on the piannge-
mentof the Western and Atlantic Railroad
have discovered large frauds, amounting to,
perhaps, thirty thousand dollars, in connec
tion with the Cherokee Railroad. It seems
that the Western and Atlantic Railroad fur
nished engines, cars, iron and crossties with
out charge.
The committees are traveling in elegant
style, but I was glad to learn that it was en
tirely without cost to the State. Former
committees were not so patriotic. The com
mittees dined with Colonel Lewis Tumi in to
day. The planters of Bartow are going in
for cotton this year, and arc using guano
quite extensively.
What has beco.ne of Hoyt? -Is he in jail,
or has he given bond ? We regret to see that
G. W. Evans was allowed to make his es
cape. *
The country requires that the utmost vigi
lance be exercised by the officers in regard to
prisoners who have been arrested for plun
dering the people of Georgia; and such offi
cers will be held to a strict accountability by
the good people of the Slate.
The Constitution is read with interest
here. We admire your bold stand taken
against Clews & Co. and all bond robbers.
Lay on, and never cry enough until Georgia
is redeemed. Bartow.
How to Acquire a Good Memory.—As
a general thing we read too much and think
about what we read too little; tbe conse
quence is that most of the people we meet
know something, in a superficial way. about
everything, and very little, in a thorough
way about anything. Not a tenth part of
what we read is rvraemliered for a month
after tbe book, magazine or newspaper is laid
aside. Daniel Webster being asked how he
remembered so accurate’}* replied that he had
been in the habit for years to reflect for a
short time on what he read, and so fix all the
facts and ideas worth remembering in his
mind. Any one who does this will be sur
prised to find how retentive his memory will
become, and how long, after reading a book
or interesting article, the best portions there
of will remain.—Christian Observer.
ST. LOUIS*
Interesting Facts A Lent tf£e Great
City of the West--Her People,
Steamboats* merchants’ Exchange*
etc.* etc*
St. Louis, Ho., March 9,1872.
Editors Constitution : Our last letter left us
steaming up the Mississippi, within some 50
miles of the city. The river banks assumed a
more picturesque and varied landscape,
though nothing to compare with the views on
the Hudson. The tall smoke stacks of Caron-
delet Iron Works rose up In perspective far
ahead of us, and finally passing these with
numerous other manufacturing establish
ments which line the river’s bank below St
Louis, and send vast volumes of black coal
smoke into the atmosphere above, we swept
along side the great barges or Acts engaged in
hauling ice down from above,to be packed into
numerous ice bouses near the city, for sum
mer use.
We stepped ashore on the rocky levees of
St. Louis.' Impressions No. 1, 2 and 3, and
4, great town, wonderful boats, wonderful
river, astonishing people, but the smoke, the
awful smoke. Reader, have you ever visited
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania? If so you have
never forgotten it. Well, St Louis ia not as
bad as Pittsburg—oh, no, not that bad yet—
but we sadly fear it will be some day. A
week yesterday we landed from the “Belle
SL Lous.” If we were to undertake a narra
tion of but a th*rd of the wonders—splen
dors—or great curiosities of this Western
metropolis (which has not as yet one-half
fulfilled its destiny) that have been inspected
and could be reported on in that'short week,
we are sure your patience would give out,
and the tolumns of The Constitution
would be unrighteously infringed upon.
We call your attenCion to a few, most
prominent:
1. The people, eo far as our experience has
gone, are liberal minded, communicative,
trank, energetic and honorable. Although
the population is made up of every feature
and style of man from all quarters of the
globe, there seems an undercurrent of great
force which influences the popular heart that
the Great West ia broad enough and great
enough for all. and there is a welcome for all
who will take it as they find it, faults or no
faults, virtues or vices, as they come in order.
We have met an open-handed hospitality
which we are sure could not hope for reward,
and in some cases has proven of a style and
profuseness that surprised us.
2 The river and her steamboats are a very
striking feature in the make up of St Louis.
To a very large degree the city is dependent
upon them for her commercial importance.
Many of them are gorgeous and costly be
yond description.
We must not dismiss the eubject without
a notice of perhaps the costliest, largest, most
profusely furnished boat on the river, “ The
Great Republic,” which we visited to-day. We
class her alongside of the celebrated “Bristol,”
plying the New York and Newport line on the
Eastern watere, whose fame has gone over
the water to Europe. With a beam of 335
feet, breadth over all of 97 feet, a cariying
capacity of 2,000 tons, a length in main cabin
of 255 feet, and height of cabin alone of 18
feet, a pilot house built high up in the air, the
top of which we stiould say is fully 75 feet
above the water level; water-wheels whose
huge diameters measure 33 feet; a stroke in
the vast cylindeisof the piston rod of 10 feet,
and diameter on the outer face of her cylinders
more than five feet across, she rides the broad
bosom of the Mississippi on acknowledged
royal qneen among a thousand wonderful
competitors. It was in this princely cstab-
ishinent, that still more princely apartments
were fitted up with truly oriental profuse
ne®s, for the Duke Alexis’ trip down to
NetwOrleans. Being caught, however, and
locked in ice above this point, the “Great
Republic” was compelled to resign the honor
of transporting the royal person to a smaller
boat named the “James Howard,” which the
owners of tbe “Republic” subsequently
charted for the occasion, thus complying
with their contract. We regret that space,
nor time, will admit of entering upon a de
scription in detail of the four state-rooms, as
originally prepared for the Duke’s luxurious
comfort*. Jt would remind your readers of
a fairy talc far more than a reality, which
we actually and critically scrutinized.
3d. Our Southern merchants may wish to
know something of the “Merchants Union
Exchange,” where all the provisions, bread-
stuffs and produce that are sold or consigned
South from this point arc bargained for.
Every day since reaching the city we have
been'honored with an admission ticket to this
creat central point of commercial interest
No adequate conception of it can be con
veyed except to an eye witness. Here vou
meet some three hundred or four hundred
men in an immense hall, known familiarly as
“change,” who do business six to Eleven miles
apart Line after line of tables containing
samples of every grade and variety of grain,
flour, liquors, fruits, sugars, coffee and a host
of other products, foreign and domestic, meet
the eye, (not including ary goods and Yankee
notions) civilities, courtesies aqd compli
ments are liastiiy exchanged, then business
begins; telegraphic reports, railroad and river
receipts, and shipments, are .hurriedly, but
keenly, examined; the weather indications
as indicated on a large weather map, by a
system of sign, are looked at, sales are made,
bargains struck, market reports are prepared,
visitors arc requested to call again and “ be
at home.” Two hours have quickly winged
their flight, and in that time the vast bzlk of
business, amounting often to a million or up
wards that moves and animates the great
west, is transacted, and men return to their
offices to condense, classify or ship off the
merchandise that a few minutes intercourse
has set in motion. Gen. G. T. Beauregard
was, yesterday, one of the visitors on Change,
fro BE CONTINUED.]
Dangerous Counterfeits.
The following counterfeits are in circula
tion, and should be looked out for by the
business community:
Tfcos on the Ninth National Bank, New
York City.
Tens on National Bank of the 8tate “in”
New York.
Tens on National Bank of Commonwealth,
New York.
Tens and' twenties on National Bank of
Commerce, New York.
Twos and tens on Marine National Bank,
New York.
Tens on City National Bank, Auburn, New
York.
Twos on Union National Bank, Kinder-
hook, New Yoik.
Tens on First National Bank Lockport,
New York.
Tens on Highland National Bank, New
burgh, New York.
Ones, tens and twenties on Market Na
tional Bank, New York City.
Twos on St. Nicholas National Bank, New
York Citv.
Twenties on Farmers' And Manufacluers'
Bank, Poughkeepsie, New York.
Tens on Flour City National Bank, Roches
ter, New York.
Tens on Central National Bank, Rome,
New York.
Tens on Third National Bank, Philadel
phia, Pa.
Tens on Mutual National Bank, Troy,
New York.
£3F A visitor to the Supreme Court of the
United States says; “Facing the door as you
enter, on a raised platform, in silken robes.
*ia tbe nine Judges—supposed to be the mo.-1
dignified tribunal in America—and I have no
doubt it is, notwithstanding I have seen one
of the Judges eat an apple with great gusto
while seated on the bench, and another par
take of molasses candy, and a'ter the repast
lick every one of bis ten fingers with great
satisfaction”
{3F*It is said that “a corset is on exhibition
at Dubuque which ha* squeezed three fe
males to death.” And now, if that remorse
less corset would atone for its past crimes
and win the eternal gratitude of mankind,
let it take a good old healthy squeeze at
Woodhull, Ciafiin and Company.—Courier-
Journal.
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Light Jlelazfe.
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A VAST JfATIOS OP CAKDT BATE 113.
All over India, sweetmeats are consumed
ns a substantial article of food. A native
when traveling seldom eat* anything else;
and between the two great meals, at afl times
he whiles away the long noon of tbe sum
mer day by sacking lolijz^ or candy be
tween the wliifis of bis hookah. Large dishes
of sweetmeats are very common presents to
make on religions festiralror domestic red-
letter days; and wben a Hindoo wants to be
very merry or very dissipaaed, be never gets
drunk, as a Scotchman does, but goes to a
“mitiuti” shop, and mnkej himself ill with
candied sugar.
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WOMAX'S CUHIOUS DIATRIBE AGAINST
WOMAX. k ‘
I tell yon there Isn't a tiling under the son
that neros to be done at at), bbt what a man
can do better than a woman, unless it's blar
ing children, and they do that in a poor make
shift way; it had better ha’ been left to the
men—it bad better ha’ been left to the men.
1 tell yon, a woman 'ull bake you a pie every
week of her life, and never come to' see that
the hotter th' oven thaw hotter the time
Don't tell me about Go& having made such
creatures to be companions for man! I don’t
ray but He might make. Eve to be a com
panion to Adam in Paradise—there was no
cooking to be spoilt tbereqand no other wo
man to crackle with and make mischief:
though you see what mischief she did as soon
as she’d an opportunity, lint it’s au intpios,
unscriptural opinion to say a woman's hles-
f to a man now; yon might as well say
iers and waaps, and foxes and wild l-cas's,
arc a blessing, when thtv're only the evils
that belong to this state o’ probation, which
it’s lawful for a man to keep » clear of as he
can in this life, hoping to get quit of ’em for
ever in another—hoping to get quit of ’em
forever in another. -*
m.
ANOTHER FBOH t MALE SOURCE.
Beautiful and repulsive, glorified and dc
formed, “faultlessly fair and icily null,” n
Venus and a Caliban; clothed in white or
hateful in scarlet, merciful ill all feminine
ways or charming only to destroy, soft as a
vesper or cold as a frown, a Christian by the
fireside or a sinner on the street, crowned or
discrowned, regal in the ball-room or drank
in the brothel, an angel of love or a monster
of hate, radiant with genius or working life
out in the garret—woman lias ever played
her part in the great drama of time as only a
woman could.
IT.
BTHOX.
It was one of those whimsical spectacles,
periodically occuring; where an idol is sud
denly set up by hands,which afterward help
as assiduously to take it down. Though he
was far from being a. great or ambitions
talker, bis presence at this time made the
fortune of any dinner or drawing-room party
for which it could be obtained; and was
always known by a crowd gathered round
him, tbe female portion generally predomi
nating. There was a certain haughtiness or
seeming indifference In his manner of receiv
ing the homage tendered him, which did not,
however, prevent hint from resenting its
withdrawal—an inconsistency not limited to
the case of Lord Byron. He was not a man
with whom it was easy to cultivate friendship.
He had that double or conlliciing nature, well
pictured by Dante, which rendered difficult
any close or continued relations with him.
v.
THE STALACTt* aC^ABADISEOP TEAMS A.
When he has pissed a portal about eight
fathoms high, and half as broad, with pro
portions ns symmetrical as if it had been
sculptured by the hand of man, the thunder
ing roar of n distant cataract announces still
grander scenes. The portal widens, and the
astonished explorer suddenly emerges on o
lake two buudred and fifty feet broad, be
yond which the cave is seen to divide into
two arms, giving passage to two streams,
whose confluent waters form the lake. This
broad sheet of water affords imposing but
melancholy sight Tbe walls or the cave
rise every where abruptly out of tbe water.
No description can do justice to tbe
fascination of this subterranean voyage.
In some parts the roof is adorned
with coral-shaped draperies of snow
white stalactilies, but generally the walls arc
mere blaok, naked stone. Here nnd there
sources gurgle down lluir sides, and along
with the mciancho’y trickling of singlcdrops
of iva’cr from tjc vault, alone break the
silence of the dark, interminable cave.
Sontli Carolina Acres.
James Heise, of Columbia, is dead.
General Philip D. Cook, of Fairfield, is
dead.
Colonel Joseph Gist has been arrested os a
Ku Klux, at Union.
There are between fonr and five hundred
visitors at Aiken.
The Railroads of the State are heavily
taxed moving fertilizers.
Professor Bond, tbe wire walker, is in New
Tork.
J. J. Patterson has been elected President
of tbe Spartanburg and Union Railroad
Company.
The Senator from Union county was fined
one dollar, by the City Council of Colombia,
for shooting robins in the streets.
The Grand Jury of Union county have In
structed County .Commissioners not to grant
license to any party to retail liquor in the
county, saying such licensed shops are of
very great annoyance and injury to the citi
zens.—Edgefield Advertiser.
Conundrums.
Why is a man in meditation like a mon
arch ? He's a thin-king.
When is a concert singer silent? When he
holds his piece.
Wbat nation produces the most marriages ?
Fasci-nation.
Why is an omnibus strap like conscience?
It is an inward check on the outward man.
Why is a woman in love like a man of pro
found knowledge ? Because she understands
the arts and sigbences.
Wby is a minister near the end of his ser
mon like a ragged urchin? Because he’s
to’ard (tor’d) his close (clothes).
Monet in the Hands of the People.
An examination and analysis of the reports
of tbe Secretary of the Treasury and Comp-
toller of the Currency gives some very cari
ous and useful Information. The whole
amount of United States notes and fractional
currency outstanding is $382,000,000, of
which amount tbe National Banks, 1,790 in
number, bold $110,000,000, and the whole
amount of National Bank notea issued is
$337,000,000, of which amount the banks
hold $’,3,000,000. From this it appeals that
out of the whole issue of $718,000,000 of cir
culating notes the National Banks hold but
$123,000,000, thus leaving the enormous
amount of $590,000,000 in circulation, which
most be mainly in the hands of the people
Some Strong Facts, and Sensible De
ductions,
New York, March 13, 1872.
Editors Constitution : .For the past twelve
months tbe price of- cotton has gone up and
down-until it rose nine cents per pound. For
the next year it may go down and up the
same amount. One great cause of the l ise
was ail cotton dealers nil over the world
believed it would go up, and it did so. Now
tbe planters still think it will remain Ligli,
while consumers and dealers believe it is too
high, and must go down. Liverpool is
lower than it lias been in six weeks, which
surprises many, who say tbe receipts are
falling off so fast—80,009 bales last week and
50.000 bales this week, there will soon be no
cotton in the country.
Tbe planters have all sent forward their
crop to port. There is 10 more in planters’
bands, aud the supply will be exhausted be
fore another crop can be raised, aod we will
bold our cotton for tbe high prices which are
sure to come. Those who believe the price
is too high say that the general belief is that
the crop will be one and a quarter millions
less than last year, and ns we are now only
750.000 bales short, how can there be 500,000
more short with only 20 percent of the crop to
come forward—that notwithstanding our
very short crop there are 75,000 biles more
cotton for sale now than this time last year,
and 500,009 more in the hands of spinners;
that the receipt at the interior towns will be
50 per cent more for the next four weeks than
in 1509-70,and nearly as much as last years,
showing very clearly that all the cotton is
not out of the e nntry. Some parties say
the amount carried overland will he much
less—only 170,000 bales. This will be 10,000
bales more than 1809 and ’70, and only 50,000
bales less than last year; while our oun spin
ners have taken from the port 100,000 bales
more than for 18G9 and ’70, and 30,000 bales
more than last year up to this time, showing
they are well stocked up. That the receipts
into Bombay for the past five months are
three times as much as last year, same lime.
That although our receipts are falling off so
rapidly, it will not effect the price in Liver
pool, as tbe majority of dealers there only
expect a crop of three millions bales. Thai
American cotton is now too much higher
than India about seven cents per pound,
and that the India is now being mixed
with Amcrifttn to such an extent that al
lhough Manchester spinners have bought
75,C00 bales per week for e : ght weeks, and
55.000 bales per week for same time, still
they have bought less American than last
year, and business is so very dull at Man
chester that speculators are getting uneasy
and selling their goods at less than spinners
are willing to sell at. This is of itself a
great element of weakness.
Much has been written to induce planters
to plant less cotton. This is time thrown
away, as they will always say, “I do not
thank you for the advice; yoq only
want us to plant less so you can
get a larger price for what you have on
hand.” Now the prices will soon touch bop
tom for the present, aud then will react a
little. H this communication will cause any
planter to sell his cotton at the present very
high price instead of bolding and, perhaps,
taking much less, we shall be fully repaid
and possibly may write you again on tbe
same subject
An Old Cotton Planter.
Tennessee Acres Items.
Horse thieves are doing a heavy work in
Knox county.
Meningitis continues to prevail as an epi
demic in Memphis and vicinity.
A Knoxvillian pawned bis set of false
teeth for two drinks and a small flask full of
whisky.
Tbe Knoxville Chronicle savs that Gover
nor John C. Bowen, General W. A. Quartes,
and General Vi. B. Bates, are the most prom
inent Democratic candidates for Governor of
Tennessee.
CS~ Ab, this beantiful world! I know not
what to think of it Sometimes it is all sun
shine and gladness, and heaven itself lies not
far off, and then it suddenly changes, and is
dark and sorrowful, and the clouds shut out
the day. In the lives of the saddest of tt9
their ary bright days like this, when we feel
as if we cotfid take the great world into onr
arms. Then come gloomy hoars, when the
fire will not burn on our hearths, and all with
out and within is dismal, cold and dark'
Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows,
which The world knows not, and oftentimes
we call a man cold when he is only sad.—
Longfdiow.
£3“ Theodore Thomas says the saddest
thing on earth is that people will blow their
noses when bis orchestra are in their most
delicate pianissimo passages. If they would
strike the proper key, it would be something,
bat they are invariably an octavo or two out
of tbe way.
(3*The Boston Globe says; “High
French-heeled ladies’ boots are inducing
among tbe wearers a very dangerous weak
ness of the spine, by causing an unnatural
strain. Bo tbe Boston physicians have dis
covered.”
E^Chrislian grace, like the stars, shine
brightest in the darkest hours.
Geargta Acres Items.
Mrs. Elizabeth Dickens, of Washington, is
dead.
A cask of bacon was extracted from the
smoke house of Mrs. HcLarin on Tncsdsy
night—Albany Feres..
W. H. Wiltburger has been re-elected Presi
dent ot the Skidaway Railroad Company.
SaeannaA Republican.
Tbe grand jury of Clayton county, are
unanimously of the opinion that the county
does not need a Connty Court
Between four and five thousand dollars
have been subscribed to the stock of the Co
lumbus Ice Company.—Enquirer.
Col. W. H. Weems, of Atlanta, writes an
interesting letter to Mayor John Screven, of
Savannah, on the Atlantic and Great Western
Canah
Dr. Simeon F. Lasse ter, of Dawson, is dead.
Vegetation is fast springing up intbagardens
and fields, aud the trees of the forest are
budding preparatory to sending forth their
leaves.—Dawson Journal. *
Mrs. Jaiboe, the lady of the Mayor of La-
Grange, was knocked down and badly bruised
by a cow on Sunday last. Mr. GossieLong
won the first honor at the tournament in La-
Grange on Friday last, and crowned Miss
Viola Frost as Queen of Love and Beauty.
Rev. Dr. Jones, of Virginia, delivered a lec
ture on Tuesday last in LaGrange upon tbe
subject of “Religion in General Lee’s Army."
Reporter.
Mr. John Seely, of Columbus, bad a dozen
game chickens stolen from him a few nights
since. Lawyers who have been in attendance
at the courts in Talbot and Marion counties,
report that large breadths of land are to be
cultivated in com Columbus boys are in
love with the great beauty of Camilla Dubois
of the Lydia Thompson Troupe.—Columbus
Sun.
A number of new buildings arc being
erected in tbe suburbs of Augusta. Several
cases of scarlet fever, it is said, have appeared
in the city. Mr. A. Levy has been elected
President of Clinch Fire Company No. 2, of
Augusta. Tbe Planters’ Loan and Savings
Bank, of Augusta, has declared a quarterly
dividend equal to 12 per cent per annum.
The ravages of miuingetis seems to be in
creasing in Augusta. A number of children
have fallen victims to it lately, and we un
derstand that a numberof white laborers had
died of it in the last two or three days.—Con
stitutionalist. . ■
On Sunday morning, as the Express
Passenger train was going west it ran into a
wash some three miles cast of Quitman. Thu
engine apparently jumped the break and
barely gained t-rra Anna when it completely
turned upside down on tbe side of a high
enbankmenL The tender fell back into toe
break and two cars upon iL Tbe first car
was a perfect wreck. In this car was the
Express Messenger. He was only slightly
hurt. The engineer, Mr. Maxwell, had one
hand badly smashed and somewhat scalded.
Mr. Dodson, the fireman, was severely
scalded, otherwise escaped unhurt—Valdosta
Times.
Savannah will invest $1,000 in procuring
life preservers and having them fastened to
the wharves. Mr. James Kearney has been
elected Superintendent of the horses of the
•Fire Department of Savannah. Mr. C. It
Goodwin has been elected President of the
Pleasure Park Association of Savannah. The
neighborhood of Savannah on the Ogeecbee
road boasts of a calf with heavy beard re
sembling the human article, gracing a face
said to be strikingly like a woman’s At-the
same place can be seen a bull “ptirp” with
three legs and minus the caudal appendage.
Savannah was the first city in the United
States that had a paid fire department.—Sat.
News.
Vic have been informed that at the meeting
of the directory of the Georgia Railroad on
Thursday last the board voted in favor of
indorsing the bonds of the Port. Royal Com
pany to the amount of one million of dollars.
For this ioan of'its credit the Georgia Rail
road will receive one million two hundred
thousand dollars of the stock of the Port
Royal Company. This stock will give the
Georgia Koad a controlling interest in the
affairs of the company. The indorsement is
not to be made nor tbe stock received nntil
the action of the board of directors shall be
approved and ratified by the stockholders,
who will meet in Augusta in convention, in
May. Rev. Robert Irwine, D. D., of Augusta,
will deliver an address before the Hibernian
Benevolent Society on Monday.—Chronicle
and Sentinel.
. The wbeat crops in Newton county are
looking fine. The freshet on last Saturday
night broke the rock wall of Floyd’s mill
race. Covington depot and surroundings has
been full to overflowing w ith guanos since the
season opened. Covington was visited on
last Saturday night by a shower Much raised
Dried Indian Creek higher than the oldest
settlers remember ever having seen it before.
A negro by the liatne of George Avery, at
tempted to cross the ford above Floyd’s miil
some time during tbe night, on a mule,
nnd was found next morning wrapped around
a sappiing stiff and stark, about half a mile
below the mill. A jury was summoned to
tho spot, and an inquest held over him. Their
decision waa that he came to his death sud
denly, by attempting to cross too deep a
creek, on too small a mule. At the public
debate at the college in Covington on the
question, “Should woman be allowed to exer
cise the rightof suffrage ?” The crowd went
away happy in knowing that petticoats should
not crowd the polls. Active preparations are
being made to rebuild the burnt block in Con
yers. Conyers boasts that it rains harder there
than at any other place; that the sun shines
brighter, and the birds sing sweeter, and the
girls are prettier than any other place. In
tbo Greensboro Superior Court during the
present week, the widow of Mr. Oaks, wbo
was killed some time ago at Union Point,
was given $10,000 damages against the Geor
gia Railroad.—Examiner.
Persona),
Pnrcpa Rosa has been invited to sing at
Dupeldorf in May.
Charlotte Cushman gets $1,50) for two
readings in Chicago.
The Mayor of London wears a gold chain
weighing three pounds troy.
Elizabeth. Empress of Austria, U the hand
somest royal woman in Europe.
John Smith, England, haa been sentenced
to ten days imprisonment for stealing one
lumipi
The Sultan of Turkey is a bad financier.
It is said that he owes to tradesmen in Con
stantinople the sum of $15,000,000.
A Boston widow wears with becoming
pride, a Masonic gold ring made from the
plate of her departed husband's teeth.
At a fancy ball in Florence, the Princess
Strozzi, wore a dress so heavy with pearls
and gold damask, ‘.hat, as her guests had all
arrived, she charged it for a lighter costume,
whicii would enable her to move with some
thing like ease.
Miss Lavina Lundore ia the new star in
the new firmament of woman’s rights. She
lends the Baltimore wing of the “ advancing
sisterhood.” One who has seen her cays:
“ She is as beautiful as Lady Blessingtou,
and os spirited as Joan of Arc.”
Aewe Condensed.
South Carolina has 705,606 inhabitants.
Gas is made of com cobs in Council Bluffs.
Five great hotels arc going up, in Chicago.
A Michigan log yielded 10,090 feet of lum
ber.
Albany, New York, is to have a $400,000
depot.
Dan Rice, the famous showman, has be
come a bankrupt.
Hartford women propose to establish an
insurance company.
Tbe sugar maple harvest of Minnesota is
the richest for many years.
A child was born in a London theater
during a performance February 12th.
Cape Cod is the most prolific cranberry
producing region in the whole United States.
The catalogue alone of the British Muse
um consists of twelve hundred printed vol
umes.
There has been an average of fifteen
theaters open nightly in New York city this
winter; sometimes the number haa reached
eighteen. —
Tiie Poetut of Trees.—Said Nathaniel
Hawthorne: “The trees, as living existen
ces, from a peculiar link between tbe dead
and os. My fancy has always found some
thing very interesting in an orchard. Apple
trees, and all fruit trees, have domestic char
acter, which brings them into relationship
with man. They have lost in a great meas
ure tbe wild nature of the forest tree, and
have grown humanized by contributing to
bis wants. They have become a part of tbe
family; and their individual character is as
well understood and appreciated as those of
the human members. Une tree is harsh and
crabbed, anothir mild; one is churlish and
illiberal, another exhausts itself with its free
hearted bounties. Even the shapes of app'e
trees have great individuality, into such
strange postures do they put themselves, and
thrust their contorted branches grotesquely
in all directions. And when they have stood
around a house for many years, and held
converse with successive dynasties of occn-
pata and gladcned their hearts so often in
the fruitful autumn, tiftn it would seem al
most sacrilege to cut them down.”
W Jefferson Davis has removed to Balti
more will make that city his future home.
He contemplates publishing at an early day
a “vindication of his administration” while
President of the Confederate States.—Ex-
Sound View* of Judge I'avi*.
The following is an extract of the opinion
of Judge David Davis, in the United States
Supreme Court, on the famous Milligan case.
It was delivered in 1888; but we believe that
Judge Davis, though known as a Republican,
has not in bis later declarations and action
as a judicial officer, departed from tbe broad
conservative principles herein enunciated:
“The Constitution of the United States is
a law for rulers and people equally in war
and in peace, covers with the shield of its
protection all classes of men, at alt times and
under all circumstances. No doctrine in
volving more pernicious consequences was
ever invented by the wit of man than that
any of its provisons can be suspended during
any of the exigencies of government Such
a doctrine leads directly to anarchy or des
potism, but the theory of necessity on which
it is based is false, for the Government with
in tbe Constitution has all the t owers grant
ed to it which are necessary to preserve its
existence, as has been happily proved by the
result of the great effort to throw off its just
authority.”
We append also Judge Davis’ brief accept
ance of the nomination of the labor party
for the Presidency.
Wasdinoton, D. C., March 11,1872.
Gentlemen: For the distinguished honor
you have conferred upon me by tendering
me the nomination of the Labor Party of the
Country, I desire to return my heartfelt
thanks. My sympathies have been and are
with tho labor element of tbe nati in. My
whole life I may point to as a struggle from
obscur.ty upward, and I trust it bas been
throughout of that exemplary character
which will commend me to the confidence
of my fellow-men. The present distinction
has not been sought by me, and it is there
fore particularly gratifying to me.
I accept it in the good faith, aud I must
express the hope that your efforts will have
the effect to crystalize the movement into
your own best interests. Y’onr ob’t serv’t,
David Davis.
The Attorney-tiezacralsbip.
“ For tbe benefit of papers clamoring ror
the abolition of Attorney General, The Con
stitution says the office is a constitutional
one, and can only be abolished by an amend
ment to tiie constitution."
Some of the papers are gassing in the above
style What if it is in the Constitution,can’t
that be changed ? Cannot Governor Smith
keep the unnecessary office vacant until it
can be abolished ? Wbat is the use of giving
a sixth-rate lawyer $2,500 to be Attorney
Gencral, when, in every case in which the
State has an interest, other lawyers have to
be feed heavily to conduct it ?—Columbus Sun.
Certainly, brother Sun, the Constitution
provides for its own change. But until such
change takes place, by the slow constitutional
method, we do not know of any law author
izing Governor Smith to ignore the constitu
tion and keep the constitutional office of At
torney General vacant.
And it strikes U3 that it would be cheaper
for the State for the Governor to appoint a
good lawyer Attorney General to attend to
the State’s interest, and thus save feeing other
lawyers.
lUcucmr. county.
The Discovery of an Organized Hand
ol Thieve*—Who They arc, etc.
Tuousox, McDuffie Co., Ga.
Editors Constitution: Oar town has been all
eyes and ears for the lost twenty-four hours.
It was discovered on yesterday that we had
an organized band of thieves in our midst,
and theyjiad been successful iu tbeir plans.
On lait Friday night a part of. the band pro
ceeded to Judge Jeff Evans’ twelve miles
from this place and got about $400 in cur
rency and specie. From a confession of a part
of tho band and the trial of another one, the
band, as far as names have been disclosed, is
ss follows: Chief, Capt. C. V. Hamilton.
The other officer is not named, lint par
ties arrested and committed to prison, Tom
Willis, T. H. Long, J. It Rooney.
Captain C. V. Hamilton ia under arrest,
and his triai will conic off to-morrow, 3
o’clock F. xr.
The sheriff baa in custody two of the clan
to await a requisition from the Governor of
South Carolina, for the c:lan made a raid on
that State in the month of January last
for the purpose of robbing one Little John
Smith, but failed to get Ike money, but did
abuse and vinlcnt'y misuse him. The part
of Uic clan that waa into that consisted of
Captain Hamilton, C. Wilkerson, T, H. Long,
George Tult, Jack I(imsey, Tom Willis.
This is believed to bo a part of the organiza
tion of Lowry, of North Carolina, and that
they arc all over our State. A portion of
this clan were looked upon as respectable
men of our community.
The chief came from South Carolina about
three (ninths ago. and had bis clan partly
organized by January 15tb, 1872. and made
within named raid.
Tbo prosecution was alilv repcscntcd by
Messrs. O’Neal, Cassy and Hudson. Tbe
prisoners had no legal advisers.
Capt Hamilton’s trial was postponed on
account of n wound received al the band of
Tom Willis accidentally.
Very respectfully,
your obedient servent.
Cigar.
N. B.—Judge Evans is about eightv years
of age.
Alabama News Item*.
Col. Lee Crandall has returned to North
Alabama.
DennisDvkons, late editor of tbe Alabama
Republican, died recently.
Mr. S. H. Fowlkes, has been appointed
cashier of tbe new Savings Bank of Marion.
Tbe Memphis and Charleston Railrod Com'-
pany are to erect an iron draw span over tbe
Tennessee river at Decatur.
The Talladega News reports six murder
coses to be tried at the present term of the
Circuit Court for that county.
Gadsden boasts of shipping more lumber
than any other place in Alabama. She lias
four mills on the Coosa which ship thou
sands of feet of lumber daily.
A committee of German gentlemen of
Montgomery wailed upon Janauschk at tbe
Exchange Hotel, and after requesting her to
remain longer in tbe city, and failing in the
effort, tendered her a Iiandsome address,which
was gracefully replied to by her.
Tennessee News,
The wheat crop in upper East Tennessee is
lookingwell.
Shelbyvillc has a calf that commenced its
existence weighing 127 pounds.
Sixty stone cutters and sixty-five quarry
men are engaged in building the United
States Custom House at Knoxville.
The contractors for laying the Nicholson
pavement in Memphis, have recovered a
judgment against the city for over $500,000.
t37*A New York chemist has lately shown
that fifty percent of the vinegarsold in large
cities is made from chemicals so poisonous
as to gradually undermine the consumer’s
health. Sulphuric acid and sugar of lead are
largely found in this article of universal do
mestic use.
tg* The press of Atlanta is still persever
ing in the exposure of the fraud and corrup
tions that characterized the late administra
tion. The vigorous thrusts of this powerful
engine for good srescnrecs of great annoy
ance and distress to the miscreants who had
well nigh ruined our proud old Common
wealth. We trust thosejournalists of Atlan
ta who have labored so zealously in the
cause of honesty and good government, so
boldly exposed fraud, and opposed a fearless
front to corruption in ail its phases, will find
the encouragement they deserve from an ap
preciative public, wbo owe in a great meas
ure tbeir present prosperous condition to tbe
instrumentality of the press.—Calhoun Times
SrmtTUALisjL—'The American Spiritualist
gives the following ss an official estimate of
the numerical strength of the Spiritualists of
the United States:
Adult persons converted from disbelief in
i-iimortality by the te»t manifestation 4,000,000
Adult persons converted fiom indifference
and doatit by ihe ideas of Spiritual! m—1,000,000
Adult persons converted from ordinary ra
tional! *m by the hsrmonial philosophy—1,00
Adult persons converted from hell fire ortho
doxy by $plritoal manifestations 230,000
Adult perrons converted from despair and
fear of death by spiritualism 2,200,000
Total (very nearly)...,
9,000,000
Thebe is a Future.—It cannot be said
earth is man's only abiding place. It cannot
be that life is a babble cast npon the ocean
of eternity, to float a moment upon Its sur
face, and then sink into darkness and noth
ingness forever. Else, why ia it that tbe
nigh and glorious aspirations which leap like
angels from tbe temple of our hearts are for
ever wandering abroad unsatisfied? Why
is it that the rainbow and tbe cloud come
over ns with a beauty that is not of earth,
and then pass off and leave us to muse on its
faded lovlineas? Why is it tbattbe stars
which bold festival around tbe throne are
set above the grasp of our limited faculties,
and forever mock ns with their unapproach
able gloty? And why ia it that forms of hu
man beauty are presented to the view and
then taken away from us, leaving the thou
sand streams to flow back in an Alpine cur
rent npon onr hearts.
ty“Adversity,” said a Western preacber,
“takes os np short, and sets us down hard,
wben it is done, we feel as contented as a
boy that’s spanked, and tat away to cool.'
BY TELEGRAPH-
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCUBS.
SUNDAY’S DISPATCHES.
WASHfN GTON.
Washington, March 17.—The KuKlux
testimony, which will cover ten volumes of
700 pages, is delaviog the public printer.
Cbnrlcs W. Butts is counsel for DeLa-gc
la the election case. DeLarge and Bowen
from South Carolina, have been arrested on
a charge of systematic licentiousness toward
school girls.
NEW YORK.
New Yoke, March 17.—Every vessel arriv
ing to-day reports extremely severe weather
for the last fortnight; and all experienced a
tremendous hurricane on the first instant.
Arrived, the steamer Davan, from the
Meditcranean. The Captain reports the se
verest weather he ever experienced. On the
voyage for ten days the storm and rain was
incessant Suffered no damage.
The schooner, Samuel Hart, from W u-
mington for Boston, put into Vineyard
Haven Friday, reports very severe gales
She was driven across the gulf stream two
degrees. Her rigging was badly damaged.
Receipts of cotton at all ports for the week
49,972 against 50,063 bales last week, 73,702 the
previous week, 77,037 three weeks since; total
receipts since September 2,342,613 against
3,158,5.17 for the corresponding period tbe
Devious year—decrease, 810,904 Exports
from all ports for the week, 61,770 against
108.600 for the same week last yean total ex
ports for llic expired portion of the cotton
year 1,435,929 against 2,070.327 for the same
time last year. Stock at ail ports, 463,710
against 64*4,882 for the same date last yean
stocks at interior towns, 13,113 against 110.750
hist year. Stock in Liver|iool, 354,000
against 804,090 last year. American cotton
afloat for Great Britain 203,090 against 335,-
000 last vear. Indian cotton afloat for
Europe 415,000 against 169,000 last year.
Colton lias been heavy and prices have
declined during the week. Tlio sales
tor the week reached 118,5“0 bales, of
which 110,000 bales wero for future deliv
ery 8,500 bales on tbe spot and to arrive. Of
the spot cotton exporters took about 2,(j59
bales, spinners 3,820 and speculators 85.
LOUISIANA.
New Orleans, March 17.—John S. Wash
ington, for thirty-five years Marine reporter
of the Picayune, is dead.
The Hibernians celebrated St Patrick’s
Day by a grand procession.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Citarlestcn, March 18.—A destructive fire
occurred in Unionvillc, Union county, last
Friday, burning both hotels and eight other
buildings. The loss is estimated at $75,000.
The fire was attributed to incendiarism.
OHIO.
Cincinnati, March 17.—The Chronicle of
this morning says, on authority of Senator
Sumner, that he bits neither consented nor
been asked to preside over the Cincinnati
Convention, and, that with bis present opin
ions, he will decline to do anything of the
kind.
CALIFORNIA.
San Francisco, March 17.—At a large
meeting of citizens held this evening, a resolu
tion strongly condemning the cession of Goat
Island was unanimously adopted. General
B. F. Alexander, of the United States Engi
neer Corps, and Hon. Caleb Fay, were ap-
appointed a committee to proceed to Wash
ington to present the views of the people of
San Francisco against the cession.
Harry T. Jones, the pioneer merchant of
Novata, Maine county, was found dead near
his store yesterday. It is supposed that he
was murdered.
FRANCE,
Paris, March 18.—A compromise haa
been effected between President Thiers and
the Budget Committee on the war estimates,
which are reduced to 19,000,000 franca.
Pere Jungna, a priest of Bordeaux, having
been prosecuted for writings, pronounced by
his superiors to be against religion, haa ad
dressed a letter to the Archbishop in defense
of his authotdoxy. He declares that who
ever accepts the doctrine of papal infallibility
no longer belongs to the church; and main
tains that he and other priests wbo reject
that doctrine are depositaries of traditions of
the priuiative and universal church. Jungna
is organizing a committee of action corres
ponding with similar committees in France
and other foreign qonntries, and intends to
mako a direct appeal to tbo people of Bor
deaux.
ITALY,
eltove, March 17.—The demonstration in
honor of tbe memojy of Joseph Nnzzina to
day was a great success. The immense pro
cession, including all the workingmen’s so
cieties, with banners, flags and bands of mu
sic, carried the bust of the deceased patriot
through the pricipal streets to the capitol,
where il was deposited with imposing cere
monies, and eulogistic speeches. Good order
was maintained throughout the proceedings.
IRELAND
Dublin, March 17.—St Patrick’s Day was
celebrated throughout Ireland. No disturb
ances reported.
ENGLAND.
London, March 17.—The Observer states
that at a meeting of the Cabinet yesterday
morning the reply to Granville’s note was
read and discussed. It produced a favorable
impression, nnd was regarded as furnishing
an opening for further negotiations on the
of basis arrangements provided on tbe treaty
of Washington.
MONDAY’S DISPATCHES.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, March 18.—The nomination
of Parker as Collector of Customs of New
Orleans is still in the hands of the Commit
tee of Commerce: The result is problemat
ical.
_ The House is (filibustering on tbe civil
rights bill over the morning hour.
The Senate is discussing the apportionment
resolution regarding renomination to office.
It is stated that the Government Directors
have decided in favor of Council Bluffs as
the eastern terminus of tho Union Pacific
Railroad.
Warmouth and party arc here.
Manuel Ashicrioz succeeds Cushing as
Mexican agent before tbe mixed commission.
Ashicrioz is expected early in April, until
when no proceedings or decisions of the
commission will be announced.
NEW YORK.
New York, March 18.—Henry Ward
Beecher and Rev. Mr. Hopworth exchanged
pulpits yesterday.
Tbe Tribune’s Washington special says
Sumner will attend tiie Cincinnati Conven
tion, but has not either received or accepted
propositions to preside.
The World hopes that Democrats will
have nothing to do with the Cincinnati Con
vention.
Poughkeepsie, March 18.—Rev. Father
Scally, of SL Joseph's Church, is dead.
ILLINOIS.
Chicago, March 18.—Five hundred per
sons were present to-day at a meeting of the
Internationals, to commemorate tbo founda
tion of the Paris Commune. Addresses
were made in foreign languages. No Amer
icans of any standing were present.
Twelve million dollars are being invested
in hotel property here. Work is progressing
rapidly on the Pacific and Gardner hotels,
and contracts for a new Sherman Rouse
have been awarded.
INDIA.
_ Calcutta, March 18.—The assassin of
the Lftrd Mayor has been executed. The
assassination, he confessed, was not the work
of a conspiracy, that lie alone designed nnd
carried out the murder. He designed, also,
to kill General Stewart who accompanied
the Mayor.
Briefs*
“ ’Tis false,” as the girl said when her lover
told her she has beautiful hair.
One of the largest Mississippi steamboats
is commanded fay a woman named Sarah
Pinckney.
There were 36,866 volumes taken from the
public library at Boston last month, a daily
average of 1,536; 16,955 persons visited tbe
room, and 808 new names were registered.
Striped dresses are to be veiy fashionable
next spring, a la zebra style.
Last year almost $2,000,000 worth of
opium was consumed in tbe United States,
the greater portion by women.
“TheReverend Scoundrel.”—Speaking
of Dr. Hoston, the Baltimore American say s;
“ Now, the truth is, that this lascivious con
duct bas been a matter of comment and sus
picion ever since he has been in Baltimore.
Four yean ago his sentimental devotion to a
prostitute, and a care for her comfort, caused
the withdrawal of one lady from his church
and pnt two others on their guard. How
many of the ladies of his congregation he has
grossly insulted will never be known; but
since his flight, some of them have been com
paring experiences, and blushingly they con
fess tnst be approached them with the same
flattering words, and tried to confuse strug
gling virtue by the same insidious arts. Two
years ago, parents were cautioned not to al
low children to go to his study, and six
months afterward the revelation made by one
of the victims excited a commotion which
was in some inexplicable way suppressed."
griigious giyarlmtot.
I DID THIS FOR TUBE.
I cave my Ufe for thee—
My precious blood 1 shed.
That thou mlght'at ransomed be.
And quickened from the dead:
I nve my life for thee—
What hast thou dons for me •
r Joy thou mlghtest know;
I spent Ions years for thee—
Mast thou spent one for me ?
My Father’s horns of I rtt,
Jiy ralnbow-didcd throne,
I left for ssrthly night.
For wandering sad and lone:
I left it als for t -es—
Hast thou left ought for me?
Of bitterest sgonr.
To rescue tnee from bell:
Biiucihon thvworthies* »!]— .
Follow thy SivlourV o»ll.
ttclaglous Rcwi Items.
The Mi-ltcnclrcc Mcthnthodist Church in
Nashville has a membership of seven hun
dred.
One chu ch in Philadelphit has one thou
sand nnd lllirty-four scholars in its Sunday-
school.
Tiie average of American clergymen who
died last year was a fraction over sixty-one
years.
Rev. George II. Hcpworih obtained in two
weeks for his new church in Brooklyn sub
scriptions aggregating over $100,000.
In the Mount Pleasant Methodist Episco
pal Church, Nebraska, nearly the whole Sun
day school bas been convened.
The Rev. Henry Biodgct, of China, has
just finished a seven years’ work in revising
a translation of the Acts of the Apostles.
The largest Protestant Sunday school in
Philadelphia contains about eighteen hun
dred scholars; the smallest, ten. '
The New York Conference (Methodist) is
cousidcring the propriety of procuring par
sonages for its Bupcra.uu.itcd ministers.
The $50,000 necessary to rebuild the
Southern Methodist Publishing House in
Nashville, has very nearly been raised.
Dr. Gumming, the famous London preach
er, has in the press of Carleton & Co., a se
quel to his “Great Tribulation” entitled The
Seventh Vial.
A revival ia progressing in the Wesleyan
Methodist Episcopal Church of Savannah
under the direction of the pastor, assisted br
Rev. J. E. Evans, D. D. J
The most ancient libraiy on record was
formed at Memphis by Osymandyas, oae ot
tbe Pharaohs of ancient Egypt lie was a
contemporary of David, King of Israel.
Two missionaries in Unzamlee, South
Africa, have recently built a school house
with their own hands, laying over 20,400
brick and doing the carpenters’ work them
selves.
William H. Allen, President of Girard
College, has been chosen President of the
American Bible Society, which bas $66,000
for Bible works in foreign lands for the en
suing year.
Rev. B. Pomeroy, a Methodist preacher of
Rochester, New York, lias brought out a re
ligious work entitled “Shocks from the Bat
tery.” Reverend Mr. Pomeroy, is not a rela
tive of “Brick.”
The Baptist Year Book for 1872, reports in
the United State* 8,047 Baptist Sunday
schools, with 180,416 teachers, and 697,038
scholars, 8,614 of whom were baptised during
tire year.
Oneof the best temperance sermons ever
delivered, was recently given: “If it is a
small sacrifice for yon to give up drinking
wine, do it for the sake of others; if it is a
great sacrifice, do it for your own sake.”
Rev. Henry Little, D. D„ of Madison, Ind..
so says the Courier of that city, was the first
Presbyterian missionaiy to the Mi-sissippi
Valiev, nearly forty years ago. A hatter in
New York.-an entire stranger, paid his sala
ry and traveling expenses.
The Rev. Simon Beecher, to explain his
marvelous work in a Boston pastorate, said:
“It ia not 1 that do it—It is my church. I preach
as hard as I can on the Sabbath, then I have
four hundred members who go out and
preach every day of tire week.”
Hattie Tyng Griswold in her article “Con
cerning Preachers,” in the March Scribner,
expresses Uie opinion that religion is now
considered altogether too much of a post
mortem affair, and that there ought to be
•'more of the ever day world” in sermons.
There arc In the Archdiocese of New York,
128 churches, 24 chapels, 241 priests, 1
theological seminary, 3 colleges, 12 acade
mies, 10 select schools, 15 asylums, 1 home
for aged men, 2 homes for aged women, 12
religious communities of women, 67 cccelcsi-
astical students.
The Christian Union wishes to know, “if
there is one church in this country that can
show a belter record than the First Presby
terian Church at Elizabeth, New Jersey i”
It was oiganized in 1604, and for two hun
dred and seven years it has nut missed a
service.
A beneficial society exists among the
scholars of some London Sunday schools.
Two pence admission foe, and one penny per
week entitle the child to three shillings per
week when sick. This payment continues
through any period of sickness up to three
months, when it ceases. If a member die*,
his parents rccicvc two pounds for funeral
expenses.
Reverend S. IL Tyng, Jr., is bosily and suc
cessfully at work in New York, to found a
Theological school, and fora purpose some
what unique. It is to be called the “Homo
of the Evangelists.” Its aim is to train men
for the ministry who shall devote tbeir la
bors to the neglected classes. It is a free
college, aud those who really need such aid*
and prove themselves earnest, adopted and
worthy, will be boarded as well as tanght
without charge.
The Christian Church is China.—At
the time of the suppression of the religious
orders there were ui China300,OCOChristians
and 180 missionaries. During the la-t twen
ty-five years the Catholic church had been
reconstmeting the missions, until there are
now twenty-five dioceses,800 foreign and 150
native missionaries and about 500,000 Chris
tians. In the diocese of Nankin alone the
church supports 7,000 orphans, hat400schools,
and 800 places of religious worship.
A Holt Life in Little Tiiixus.—A holy-
life is made up of a number of email things.
Little words, not eloquent speeches or ser
mons; little deeds, not miracles, nor battle,
nor one great heroic act, or mighty martyr
dom, make up the true Christian life. The
little constant sunbeam, not the lightning;
the waters of biloam, “that go softly" in
their meek mission of refreshment, not “the
waters of the river, great and many,” lush
ing down in torrent noise anil force, are the
true symbols of a holy life. Tbe avoidance
of little evils, little sins, little inconsistencies*
little weaknesses, little follies, little indiscre
tions and imprudcncics, little foibles, little
indulgcncics of self and of tbe flesh; the
avoidance of such little things as these goes
far to make up at least tbe negative beauty
of life.
The Bbioht bios.—Look on the bright
side. It is Uie right side. The times may
be bard, but it will make them no easier to
wears gloomy and sad countenance. It is.
the sunshine, aud not tbe cloud, that makes
the flower. The sky is blue ten times where-
it is black once. You have troubles, so have
others. None are free from them. Troublo
gives sinew and tone to life—fortitude anil
courage to man. That would be a dull aca,
and the sailor would never get skill, where
there was nothing to disturb the surface of
the ocean. What though tilings look a little
dark, the lane will turn, and night will end
in broad day. There is more virtue in one
sunbeam than a whole hemisphere of clouds
and gloom.
(.2? Rev. Stuart Robinson, of Louisville, a
Southern clergyman, lias justentered suit for
libel against the proprietors of the Chicago
Evening Post, in which he lays bis damages
atone hundred thousand dollars. The Putt,
not long since, stated that the plaintiff, while
addressing his congregation, advised them to
ship clothing infected with yellow fever to
prominent Northern cities, and the reverend
gentleman declares that he never said any
thing of the sort, and now snea for the mod
erate sum named.—Exchange.
Journalism in the United States.—
The census report brings to light some curi
ous facts in relation to journalism in the
United States. There are 5,845 newspapers
and periodicals published in tbe rountnr, one
for about every 6,500 of population. The
average circulation is 3.560. It may be
noticed that the six sporting papers print
73,500 copies, which gives them the largest
average circulation—12.250; but those who
deprecate that state of things will be consoled
to know that the religi.ius journals come
n ® rt °R tiie list, with an average circulation
of 11,706, and an aggregate of 4,763,358.
The literary come next, with an average cir
culation of 8,808; then agricultural ureas,
with an average of 8,072; and lastly the p-e
litical papers, which have the lowest average
circulation—2,028—a fact due to tbe largo
number of weekly rural sheets with a few
hundred subscribers.