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Communlcatioa* of general or local in terest, under a genuine signature, are reapeetlulh «<rticite<t from any source. .« VINi ENT & MORRIS, . Publisher*. ■ The People’s Paper ! T II E Atlanta Constitution, DAILY AND WEEKLY, With Great 8-page Sunday Edition IMt4 t I H Every FAMILY should have the CON- S'iTTLTION—It is full of carefully selec »e<l general rva^htg— poetry, literature, wtoriea, new*. Every Farmer shauld have It—lt make* a specialty of crop and farm news. Every Lawyer should have it—The Su preme Court Decisions are exclusively re ported for it immediately when rendered. Every Merchant should take— Its cele brated Colton Editorial* contain facts and tigure* to l>e bad nowhere else. Every lady wantsit— lts famous fashion Letters nrc eagerly sought. Everybody should take the Constitution it is a n*wsp*|>*r looking to the inter ests of nil <-|*«»ea. The corresiMindencc department is not expelled in the United State*. embracing ‘“Hortnd the world,” I‘un>pepu, and letters from Georgia and the American States. Largest Editorial Staff in the Month—l. W. Avery, political department: J. T. Lumpkiu, News; XV. <j. XVhidby, Citv; N. r. Finch, Hovy/11 (J Jackson, Asso ciate*; E. X’. t’Urir. Managing Editor. lion. A. 11 v**tephens, Corresponding Editor, ( apt. Henry Jackson, Supreme Csurt Reporter, fnrnisiie* dailv pro. ceding* <>t Hie Court, and the Decisions. t-W Splendid new feature* «re soon to be added. HI Terms—-Inaly. filf) no per annum: 1 5IM> for ttix month*; $2 50 for three month*; $1 ’ Tor one mouth. Weekly fi’ 00 per annum; 31 (X) for six month*. A SPLENDID LIST OF CON- TRIBUTORS Write fertile Chrimtiax I’jftox. Inchid ] •»K many famou* author* of England and ' America, GIVEN AWAY! A. new ami exquisite French Oleograph. ( \ name given only to the highest ami cho cent class of French and Italian Art printing in oils, die perfection of Oil Chromo) The picture is a sac-simile of the la tot ami moat brillint work of the French painter I<o' richon, a charming sub ject, charmingly |»nrt rayed, a beautiful cnation of art, entitled “Little Kuttawa* nnd her I’eta” Thia pictu c is printed In Paris, and is the larg st and haudaonvst French Oil • hromo ever offered by any |M.ri»xli<al. The size is Ujxilj inc! ex, and gives a very elegant pictu c, wlik'li waa pnbli bed, and is for sale in the picture store* at sl2. T< is picture, w hile lamutifully complete , in its-If, is the must charming centre piece to “Wide Awake and Fast Atdcr|i," those two pretty French Oil C; romos, now fam ous the continent over. We shall continue to present thia pair to every annual sub' aeriber who proPrs them to the (Hr<.graph, , subjects life-size, and cannot fail to please I all who love ait and children. i CLUBS! CLtIBS I For the mammoth wreklv- Containing the ! cream of the dully |K> ini for ten annual I miim.'rilH>«>. ami a paper to the vetter-up <d' the t lol>, Ou editorial matters, address "Editors ' C onstitution;" on hushiesM matters ad dress W. A. Hkmchu i .< <•«.. ; Atlanta, tty., }r<nri Krchttugf, The Atlanta c im haa merged into the Atlanta Constitution. with Hou. A. 11. Ftephrna, corresponding editor. The Cna s itu’ion, idrendy one of the best journal* «.f the I'nitt-d Htattw, will deiibthw*. with that ac-tyeum, Irome the leading jmirnal in South. For One hundred and ten acr • (110) of land, ' ««• the McAfee bridge rmnl, two and a half tulles from Norman, atwxtt twelve acres cleared fnwh, amt in a good state of rultb a- : tkm; g«iod log braise and rartbuildlnga. ami ’ a* gvsxl a a II of h at<r aa there is in North 1 <1 icgia. The wiaaln arc heavily timb<*red, and well w t>-re.k Term* easy. Other l.vvW for sale adjacent. Apply •’* ! “S ’* <*• Wiglev, at Nor- row. THOri. K RAINEY. «*ct29tf Mrs. M. E. Sharp, O F l> EC A T V R, lias t,A a charge of the Chirk IXottsno, 43, Whifvh’tH Mrset. Atlanta,Ga. I) KIiSONS * retting Atlanta vntil do well 1 to call at u* above bonar. as it ts kept OH tire tirMo <«nkr. Iniri per day . .. THE NORCROSS ADVANCE, BY VINCENT k MORRIS. CHEAP HOMES, AND 01 LOIS TIME I’oll MALE IX GWINN ETT COUNTY. f,jsf» \j. I rt ej . - ; •<..•'£ jp •’ • The land* which were *dv*rtt**d for •ale In Lawrenceville, on the fret Tues day In this month, by the subscriber. were not sold at auction, a* was intended, in consequence of the money crisis now pre vailing. and the heavy rein which fell dur ing sale hour*. A minimum price was fixed on each tract, however, and a few were sold at private sale. Those described below were not sold, and are now offered at the price to each aanexed, to-wit; The Northeast corner of lot number 141. and a pprt of number 148, containing about 75 acres. This p’aoe lie* one mile south ot the Com Chouse, in Lawrenceville, on the Covington road. There is a dwelling house, stable, r. ell of first-rate water, • young orchard, and about torty acres of pretty level gray land in a good conditio » for a crop next year; the balance is all in the woods. Price fito per a -re. The Southeast corner of the *ame lot, and part of number 148, making another tract of about 75 acres. Thia is all in the woods, and contains a good deal of branch bottom, with a beautiful building spot, on the same road. Price fi7 per acre. The Southwest corner of number 141. Thi* is all in the wood*, lie* well and I* well timbered, except *om» ten to fifteen acre*, which Is a pine old fine. Th* soil I* good and contain* a large proportion of bottom land. Price fit per acre. The Northeast, Southeast and South west quarter* of lot uuu*ber 140, coulain ing, according to original *urvey, aixty two and a half acres each. The Cov ngton road runs nearly ou th* Northeast line of this tot. and a right of way to th* lower •id* of the lot from the road will be re serve These three tract* «r* all in the wood*, well watered, and on each could l»* opened a nice little farm. Price of each |7 per acre. A* many of the above tract* will he *old together a« tn*y be deaired, or any f*eraon applying can have either alone. • A tract of acres, adjoining Win. .4. Born. Dr. Mitchell and Colonel X. L. Hut chins’ land*, lying in«ide of the town cor poration, and good red land, well watered, all ready for the plough. PrbeflS per a. re The Gord< n place,with 50 acre* of wood land. In the Bouthei at corner of number 130. On thi* pine* there ie a good dwelliug house, with seven rooms, and a peer crib a ivd etable, one and a fourth mile* from the Court-house, on th* Jefi*rson road. There is a first-rate apring, well improved and surrounded by the native forest trees, near the hoti-*. nnd about 75 acres of first rate red land, now all lying out. The honsee and fencee ar* in bad condition, but can he made good with but reasonable cost. The two tract* contain 175 acre*. Price Any competent judge would, j on seeing this property, pronounce It very | eh*ap. The Holltnsworth pine*, on th* same : road, two mi e« from the Court-houe*. | Thi* place eoatain* 350 aeres. number M>7. and has always been considered one of r.he l»e«t farms in the neighlavrbood. Im i prevemvnts fair, alxvut one-half e’eared. : and the other in ths wood*. If d«air*d. . thi* lot will he divided iat<« two *qusl parts, by running a line across th* read, so as to threw one-half on th* side next to ' K. T. Terrell, and th* other next to J. M. I Ambros’ farm, and the purchaser can I have choice nf sides at the price asked, which U |lO per sere. Also, alsvut 75 seres In the Northeast comer of lot number IM on th* same , road, and adjoining ths lands of J. M. ■ Ambrose aud others. Os this tract about | 25 acre* ia old field, aud tbs bslance all ! veood lands. There I* an old bonne place on tbs nuuk two and three-fourth mil*s j from town, and several fruit nnd shads ‘ trees around it—a beautiful plac* for a i i e«ide nee. Price six dollars per acre. All these lands lie in the fifth district of said county, and within eight or ain* miles ! ! of the Air-Line Railroad, and to enable , | iwrenue of small means to secure home* for thwmseheM and famißen. sre offered on | th* following easy term*, to-wit: Oue ♦ fourth cash, was at two year*, one at three sad the other at four year*, with interest ! t at lea per cent. XV Uli *nt E. Simmons. Samuel J. Winn, |or Dr. T. K. MitchelL would show the ! prt»i>erty to strenser* wi»hin< to see it. F«»r further partic tlars, address JAMK* P. 81MMON NorcroM Gevrfia. I : novtttf l>r. Ray offers hh arrvire in the practice ii ,4 Medh-inr ami Surf*-n. His reshience is it n«»lf lw DON’T SLAM THE GATE. Now, Charlie, pray don’t laugh at me; But when you go out late, I wish you would be careful, dear, To never elam the gate. f' For Annie listens every night, And so does teasing Kate, To tell me, next day, what o’clock I’hey heard you slam the gate. ’T* a* nearly twelve last night, you know’, But now ’tis very late— We’ve talked about so many things, Oh, do not slam the gate. For all the neighlxvra hearing it Will say our future fate We’ve been discussing—so I l>eg You will not slim the gate. For though it may be very ti ue, I *irii that they would wait To canvass our affairs until Well—pray don’t slum the gate. At teut, not now; bat by and by, W hen in “our bouse ” I wait Your coming, I shall always like To hear you slam the g&te. For whether you go out or in, At early hour, or late, 'I he whole world will not tease me then, About that horrid gate 1 THE WORKER TO THE DREAMER. Fling away’ the idle fancies, They but weaken heart and brain— Break the pleasant dreamy fetters, Os romance’s shinning chain. Com- out from the misty kingdom— 'l'bou hast lingered there too long. Come out, girded as for battle, Armor true and spirit strong. Sit no longer by the waters— Hark; nag to their murmurs sweet— Up I while yet the morning sbineth.— Then go forth with earnest feet ’ Cast away the idle dreaming ; W ork with ardor, willing brave, For, oh, dreamer! life is action; And to act a duty braye. Steep and ragged « the mountain, Y» t the faithful toilers say, When they gain its hallow’d summit, *• Bl 8 - -d was our weary way.’’ So to ther, shen thou hart battled Bravely, nobly, for the right— Will they labor, though a burden, Seem, with sweet content, but light. Truth and error wage a warfare, Constant in thi* world of ours; We have need of champions fearless— Come front dreamland’s rosy bowers! Cast away the idle fancies ; They will cumber thee in life, Be hen eforth a warrior n ighty— Earnest in a glorious strife! SUBMARINE LANDSCAPE. When the sea is perfectly clear and transparent, it allows the eye to distinguish objects at a very great depth. Near Mindora, in the Indian Ocean, the spotted corals are plainly visible under twenty-five fathom of water. The crystalline clearness of the Caribbean Sea excited the admi ration of Columbus, who, in the pursuit sf his great discoveries, ever retained an open eye for the beauties of n t ire. “(n passing over these splendidly adorned grounds,” says Schopf, “where marine life shows itself in an end less variety of forms, the boat, suspended the purest crystal, seems to float in the air, so that a person unaccustomed to the scene easily becomes giddy. On the clear sandy bottom appear thousands of sea-stare, sea-urch ins, mollusks, and fishes of a bril liancy of color unknown in our temperate seas. Fiery red.intense blue, lively green, and golden yellow perpetually vary; the spec tator floats over groves of sea plants. gorgonias, corals albyon iuuis. and sponges, that allo rd no less delight to the eye, and are no less gently agitated by the heaving waters, than the most beautiful garden on earth when a gentle breeze passes through the waving boughs— The Stu and iU Wondfi'k. Max is creature of interest and ambition. His nature leads him forth into the struggle bustle of the world. Love is but the em bellishment of his early life, or a song piped in the intervals of his act. But a woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world ; it is there hrr anbition strives for empire; it is there avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure, she em barks her whole soul in the traffic of affection; and, if ship wrecked, her case is hopeless, for it is a bankruptcy of the heart.— lrving. u When I put my foot down. I'll have you to understand/’ says Mrs. Nojoker, “that there's some thing there.’’ On investigation, it was found to be a No. 11 shoe. NORCROSS, GA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31. 1873. SHATTERED BY THE FJLST STORM. At the ripe age of twenty-one. handsome Harry Melville decided to go into business on his own accoun t. “Wait until you are twenty five,- ’ said Harry's prudent father And lose tour yenrs? - ' return ed Harry, almost with indignatio. • “It is folly.” “ And gain fen,” said old Mr. Melville. “The earlier a younp man goes into busiru ss,the oftener he has got to fail, before he gr< w wise enough and strong enough for success. My advice is to wait until you are thirty. There will be ten chances in your favor then to one in your favor now.” But Harry considered his father old fogyish and behind the times, and so let his prudent couns 1 go for naught. He had been three years in a jobbing house on Mar ket street and considered himself fully posted up in business mat ters and quite equal to the com mon run of meichants. Indeed, to hear Harry talk on matters of trade was quite edifying; and an uninitiated listener would hardly fail to give him credit for consid erably more than was his due. Harry Melville had ten thous and dollars left him by an ui e!e. At twenty-one, the property came into his hands. It was in the shape of State stocks, and read.ly convertible into money. Upon this sum he commenced business, in company with a young friend about his own age and equally experienced. Ten thousand dollars in cash was something <. f a basis for ‘credit; and, although our young merchants expended twenty-five hundred dollars in fitting up their store, they found no,, difficulty whatever in stocking wi h more than all the goods they needed. The times were propitious. Credit was cheap. Every! oiy bought and everybody sold, scarcely the formality of enquiry as to the basis upon which confi dence rested. In less than two years, Melville Morris were doing business at the fast rat< o one hundred ami fifty thousan 1 dollars per annum, and making fabulous profits. To marry and set up flashy domestic establish ments came as a natural result. Both the young partners commit ted this additional folly. To mar ry would have been well enough, if modest Prudence had smiled her quiet blessing on the rites. But, as it was, silly Pride and weak Ambition reigned trium phant. Old Mr. Melville shook his head looked grave and remonstrated in private with his son; but Ha’ry grexv impatient at the'old gentle man's narrow thoughted interfe - ence, and finally requested him to cease the repetition of language that was only felt as an annoy ance. Os course, the father was hurt, and did not go near Iris sen again for some weeks. As a j e.ic; offering, Harry bought a new house, for which he paid dt xxn three thousand dollars cash, and gave his notes tor the ba’aiice, I four thousand. With th? title- 1 deed in his pocket, he called al the modest patir.ial residence Mr. Mclxille received his sen kindly, yet not xvith the oi l c< r- ; didity, for some one or two sen I tences uttered during their last interview stung him severely, aud the pain had not yet subsided. “What are these?’ asked the elder Mr. Melville, as Harry laid upon a table, before his father the title [ ajers of tl e new Louse. “Read them,” was the smiling answer. With a half curious manner, Mr. Melville opened a broad parch ment sl.eet. His eyes g ! anc<d hurriedly over the contents; but Iris face, instead of biigh en nz. grew clouded. ‘ lixp'ain ibis Harry,” he said, looking up at Iris son. “ Docs it not explain itself, fath er ?” “ No.” Mr. Melville s’nxik his Load to make his “no” sti’d moreemj hat ic. “I Lave always looked forward j to this time with a p!ea.-u e that words can hardly expns--,” said Harry, leaning toward Iris father aud speaking with a sudden warmth of manner. “These pa pers are simply the title-deeds of a house, which is yours. Take them a® «ome small return for all that I owe you. A son's debt canceled.” Mr. Melville was touched by this act, and softened by the man ner of his son. For almost a min ute he set with his gaze upon the floor. Then looking up, he said in a low voice that trembled with suppressed feeling: “My dear boy, i., pains me to refuse what, in he generous impulse of your heart, is now so freely offered But this house is not yours to g.ve, am], therefore, honor and right compel me to decline its acceptance.” “Not mine to give? Fathe ! what do you mean ?” “It belongs to your creditors, Harry.” “My creditors! Am I, then, only a bankrupt in your eyes? Father, this is too much !” “You are scarcely two years in business, my son; and now you propose to take from that business two-thirds of your original capital, and put it into a house for me.” “But we have made over fifty thousand dollars, and we are ac tually coining money in our busi ness.” “Profit on paper, at best,” an* swered the incorrig b’.e (Id mvn. “ B it my word for it, if the foot ing up h so large, sh re is a m s take in the figures somewhere. Tiie thing I r- gird as simply im possible, Yon are dashina ahead at too des} e ate a sp< el, my son, as 1 have before decland; and just as sure as any disastrous change in the business world takes place, will you be hurled to swift destruction.’’ In anger, Harry paired with his father on that day. On the next, his b; n’. offerings were al’ thrown out. He called in surprise, upon the cashier, to ask the reason Tie e was a stringency in the market, and an unusual demand for money ; depositors were draw ing out heavily, and the bank was restricting its loans. This was the comfort he received. He tried to borrow from acc nmnndating neig'ibors; but ev rjbedy hid been cut down or off at bank, and -o everybody was “short.” A pulse of fear throbbed sudd< nly in the heart of Hany Melville? He look down sundry bank no tices from a rfle , and ascertained the amount which must be paid before three o’clock The sum reached the uncomfortable aggre gate of fifteen thousand dollars; while the bank balance was be l>w three thousand. So there were twelve thousand to raise. Young Melville considered him self great as a financier. His self confidence overleap d all poss - bilities and impossibilities, Bus the time of trial and proof hr.d come now. Credit ami confidence are sensitive tilings. When bank restrict, private lenders take the alarm; and the [nice of money goes up to ruinous figures. So our xoung merchant found it. Melville’s financiering operations on that day were things for after e nernber.mce. fie has not pro! - ably forgotten them up to th h t me. Ar three o'clock, his notes I were all li t 'd, but ala sacr.tice ' featful to contemplate. After a glance at his bill book | for the next day, Melville starUd I t» his luxurious home, to med! nis dainty fashionable wile, in a j state of mi d bordering on des-, pair, for the next day's payments were over twelve thousand do!* 1 Ins. He bad seen and hfftrd ei.o igh during tiie day's financial ; experiments, to satisfy him that; not one 'a fol fa sum c •uhl be ; raised ; ami so a x ague te. ror took i the place of conceited seif c n i 1 dvnee; and the frighti ntd young | merchun’, who had ccme in and gone out with such an elast c Dead a .<. proud bearing, entered his home with all his feathers drooping. o juietly had he come in that his waiting wife failed to hearti.e opening door a id f imiiiar step in the pass ge. Wondeiing at her husband’s stay b yond the usual h mr, she t ame down stairs, under t it- influence of a restless feeling. Ei tering the pail »r, -he started 'm sudden surprise a id alarm, for t sere, reclining upon a lounge, was htr handsome young hus band, his pale face the image of weak de*p iir. “ Oh, Harry, you ate ill!” she exclaimed, flying across the room and dropping down upon the floor in front of the lounge. “ 1 am in trouble, aas his chok ! ing reply. VOL. I.—NO. 26. “Oh, what has happened, Har ry ?” “I don't know,” he answered. “I am bewildered. Something has gone xvrbng in business. Oh, Florry, I have passed through a fearful day! and there is no strength left in me.” What a change from the lo!d business braggart of the day be fore! But Harry Melville was a mere dandy in trade. There was no muscle in the man, no reserved power, no elastic property. He had grown as a balloon, and col lapsed i t the first sharp puncture. What could a mere summer blossom of a wife do to help a man in such an extremity ? Nothi ng. She could weep, and could wring her hands, and sob like a distressed actress. But she had m comforting suggestion-, no brave words, no hopeful sen’i ments to offer. Did our young merchant, after a period of cool reflection, take heart again? Did he go out on the next morning, and nerve him self lor another struggle with the difficulties which had so suddenly closed around him? No! Busy memory, through the remainder of that day and evening, supplied him with data enough io complete his total overthrow as a man oi nerve an 1 action. His boyi-h partner came to see him, and tried to reinspirit him with brave words. But they were of no avail. He was panic-stricken by the fearful aspect of things, and gave up without a struggle. On the next day, the notes of the firm went to protest. An assignment followed; and, at the settlement of affairs, tiie creditors received a dividend of twenty cents on the dollar! .Just txventy-three years of age was Hany Melxile, when he shrunk back from his advanced position in the business and social woiLl, a bankrupt, his name a word of reproach or contempt on hundreds of l.ps, and sought a I i i.ig place with his helpless wife in the hoi se of his father, whose predict ions had been so speedily fulfilled. His bark was shattered at the first storm. Take the lesson to heart, ye too eager young men. The story is scarcely an exaggeration. Old Mr. Melville was entirely right in his counsel to his son. A busi ness commenced at twenty-one, or even as early as twenty-five, is almost certain to result in failure. The first thing that a young man who hopes to succeed in the w< rl i needs to learn is economy in his personal expendituies. If as a clerk, he spends Iris entire earn ings, and trusts to get into busi ness by virtue of credit, the chan ces of failuie are two to one against him. His habits of mind will tempt him Io almost certain destruction. WEDDED LIFE ONLY TIIE BEGINNING. “ According to the love idyl of of the period,” writes r J’. B. Aid rich, “ when Laura and Char'es Henry, after unheard of obstacles, are finally united, all cares and tribulations and responsibilities slip from their sleek backs like Christian's burden. The idea is a i pret y one, theoretically, but, like s mie of those models in the Pal - i ent Office at Washington, it doesn't work. Chai les Henry do< s not go on sitting at Laur.?j feet and reading Timothy Titcomb to !i< r forever; the rent of the cot tage by the sea falls due with prosaic regularity; their are ba kers and butchers and babies and tax collectors and doc ors and undertakers, and sometimes gen tlemen o’ tie jury, to ’ e < tti i.de o. Wedded life is not one long amatory poem, with recurn 11 rhym* r o love and dove, and kiss and bliss. Yet when the average sentimental novelist has supplied his hero and heroine with ibe r bridal outfit attended !o that little matter of the marriage certificate, he usually turns off the g s puts up the shu tus, and saunters off with hi- ham's in his pockets, as if ti e day's business xv< re over. But we, who are hon< st in real life and disdain to give short weight, know better. The busi ness is by no means over—it is just begun It is not Christian throwing off his pack for good and all, but Christian taking up a load heavier and more difficult than jmv he has carried- OUR WASHINGTON LETTER. Washixgtox, Dc«. 1301, 1873. Editor* Advance : The House of Representatives passed, by a large majority, and with commendable promptness an universal Amnesty Bill, h was moved, the previous question called, and sustained, aud the bill passed with twenty Line Republicans vot ng against it— without debate. The bll was reported by Mr. Maynard, of em., from the Commit* t .'c on Rtil-s, when no one was expecting it. So that it originated with the Republi cans. The spirit of sectional hostility does not seem so fierce as It has hitherto been— the reason is partly found in the fact that that adventure * carpet-baggers are not hanging around Congress, invoking recon struction and misrepresenting the feeling®, conduct and principles of the southern peo ple. That lexicographer who conceives, or invent* a word to property difine and ex press the infinite meanms of the carpet bagger, will seenre immortality. The con duct of these mis rable xT.nin bred in the debris of war, and warmed into an ephem eral cx stence in the heated coj*cl. ves x,f free negroes, whose araocaatfor, degraded as it was, elevated them, are ri-s]K>nsible f< r the larger part of the woes of the South. They invoked reconstruction and re-recon structmn; they induced the Federal Go- - ermnent to gag the South, while they rob bed it. Their days are numbered, and the'r name is a hiss and by-word in the Lind. Tue financial crisis—the necessary in crease in appropriations for the Navy De partment, in view of probable trouble wit.i - p in the falling off in the a nount «f Revenue, and the iwpular condemnation of he Act of the last ( on the last night of the session, with a retroactive prevision m ’king the compensation of five thousand dollars more than that fixed by law when they were elected and took their seats, aud after the Franking Privilege and a 1 the p rqiiirit’-s had b e.i enjoy, d, have given a national importance to the s. lary qu< stion, nnd hence t. 1 week has bek in. ily devoted to its dL-cus 1 >n. The dis cus lon, whilst much hr* been said for “ Buncomlx*.” has in the ma n balten an ab'o on« Mr. Stephens made an able speech ia favor of past compensation, In which be defended those who received the back pay, and in which he gave it as his opinion tlnd the Pr-sident *h< ukl receive $ 100,000, Chief Justice Supreme Court SSO 00b Heads of Departmen s $25,000, etc.* lie elevated the dtacussion to a level of stetes manihip far a’ >ove the mere details cf the bill. V\ hils* Ido not concur with him, In the amount of salaries, still it must be cou ceeded th it he presented strong argument* in a manly way in support of his views, lliis is a question that should lie tal nly consid'-rcd and w;s ly settle 1. It a a fact that the mow rof th s bill is v. ry rich and married an h -ir> ss whose father is said ‘o I e worth five mil ions. It is true that there are a great many very rich men in the House and Senate who care uoth ng alx ut tl.o mere salary, aud who have but little knowl edge of the struggh s of the j o >t aud Iws sympathy Tor them. It is true tlr t all c asses s muld have fair representation. It is also true that living Is necessarily expen sive in Washington, Ihe sil U y ought to be settled at an amount that would supj ort the membeis cr. di’ubly and pay them what they could make at their respective avoca tions. 'the House r’-committed the bill with ins!ructions to rc]M>rt a bill repealing the increa-ed salaries *3 to nil excel t Judge’s of the Supreme Court of the Unite, -.tates, and to report a bill fixing the amount of comp nsatiou at what the old salary, with perquisites and mil a ” equal ized, Would amount ta lam inclined to inclined to think that this will be finally done; if so the compematiot) wifi be fixed ut about SO,OOO |.cr annum and actual tra - cling expense, with perquisite What the fate of this measure may be In the S< na!o no one can tell. There is sa ! d to 1 e some trouble over the confirmation of Mr. Willi: ms, as ( hl.f Justice. lam sat s!led, however, tl at he will be confirmed. < ongress will dou' tires take a recess for the ( hi istmas holiday?, of ten or twelve days; at which tima most of the Georgia members, I understand, will visit their homes and f imiliea Republican members are pressed with applications for positions, by their friends and constituents. The positions in the Government are much in the eond tfon < f the Clown’s ineashs that attacked a family so large that there wax not measles enough to go round. I supjmbc that there are fu ly a dozen applications to each office that is vacant. The bane of t' e country In, and will be, the thirst for office that character ize a large class of the people. The thcoi v U tl a' pub I offic s were created for ti e public l-en iit—the popular idea is, that they w-r* crated to supply hungry rsoi rant# with the means of living and the facil ities of stealing. And, however much tbs ' ivil Service R form may be ridiculed still its conception was a grand one, and its adoption and successful enforcem'nt will do mtK’h to correct abuse and disipste th* idea which many have of living at tlw ptf - lie expense. There is a great rush for pens'ons just now. And, while it is true, that thosj n: n who fought the battles of our country m the Revolutionary war, the war of 1812, the Mexican war, and the Indian w r<, ought to lie provid<*d for, in their o’d ag •, still their is just now a spasmodic excite ment among the Republicans growing out of the Credit Mobeiier affair and kindred operations, ostensibly in favor of eta tomy, that, in my judgment, will defeat, for the promt, any extension of t'-e pension Itw . The defalcation of unfaithful and eqrri pt officials have lost so much money to the government that it l>ecom<a important to r< trench. Os courac faithful parCsu.s must rtill be fed, and wh'*n n onry is to be. saved it must be from the a;ed and decrep ed solde rs, their w idows and orphans, fm the**, if they complain are a helplew US important Mt in elections. This is the long session and promises to be, if not an important oik-, at least a hn«y one. MISCELLANEOIS. i Gon made man tiro strongest, but worn .tn's tongue the longest.