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\ l\\t gluing $tvc$ ^NoTlllBAY 8THKET. TERMS. 810 OO 6 OO 2 OO d«ht—•; Trl-W*ekly VI eeklT CCOXYBY ft* BSC aim OH 8 piiamj zh advance. All papers by mail are slopped at the expira tion of the time paid for without farther notice. Subscribers will please observe the dates on their trappers. The postage on all papers is paid at Savannah. Persons wishing the paper furnished for any fljue less th*r ono year will have their order** promptly attended to by remitting the amount tor th« time desired. No city subscription di&oontinned unless by positive craers left at the offidk Te Advertisers. A SQUARE i® tec measured lines of Nonpareil 0 f the MoKHnte News. casement advertisements and special notices |1 oo per square for each insertion. Other advertising, first insertion, $1 00 per aquan;; each subsequent insertion (if inserted every day). 78 061113 ? er square. Local, or reading matter notices, 20 cents per line for each insertion. Advertisements ‘nserted every other day, twice 0.,. : or once a week, charged $1 00 per square for *ach insertion. No contract rates allowed except by special agreement- Liberal discounts made to large .ad vertisers. Advertisements will have a favorable placo when fir.-t inserted, but no promise of continuous publication in a particular place can be given, as »11 advertisers must have equal opportunities. Affairs In Georgia. An Augusta man suggests that corns and bunions are only an effort on the part of na ture to suppress tramps. Give us another bunion. When Kimball sues Sawyer for libel we propose to issue three editions of the Mous ing News a day. The mother of the Gracchi lives in Dodge county. When the old man eats too much supper she compels him to sleep ou the fence. Colonel William Moore, of the Atlanta Herald, sleeps in Atlanta and takes his meals in Marietta. There is & discrepancy here somewhere. There is one Augusta man who doesn’t believe in the practical benefits of the canal. The bank gave way with him the other day, and he involuntarily waded in with his clothes on. He now states that even the Suez Canal is a failure. We trust he won’! make any crusade against canals until Col. Frobel finishes digging the Atlantic and Great Western. The Atlanta Constitution perpetuates the absurd calculation of Commissioner Janes that there were only forty-three gin-houses burned last season. However, it’s none of our business. Jackson county comes forward with seven' teen ears of corn covered by tho same shuck. According to the Democrat they arrest ne groes in Decatur county simply for picking cotton—out of a gin-house. Berrien county comes forward with a double gourd—one at each end of a common handle. Monroe county can grow pecans. Our special correspondence from OkefP' nokee swamp, printed elsewhere, will be found exceedingly interesting. The Columbus Enquirer says that the fire in Lumpkin was the act of an incendiary, information has been received in that city to the effect that two negroes had been caught in the woods near Lumpkin, in the very act of dividing the plunder and goods taken from Stokes & Kimbrough’s store. They confessed to the robbery, and said they fired the store to cover up the theft. They were taken to jail. It is said their confessions implicates a white man in the neighborhood, but as yet the white is not in arrest. Quito a number of citizens of Morgan county have contributed to aid in replen ishing the cemeteries of Texas. Such pa triotism as this cannot go long unrewarded. It now appears that Joe Brown was the cause of the recent ridiculous proceedings an the State University in regard to the board of students. This is not the first time that Joe has created confusion in Geor gia, as witness his inoperative, bat seduc tive, relief clause in the Constitution of the State. Joey will be & great man yet, if he keeps on—and he is certain to keep on. A Griffin lady with a crippled husband pitched into a wretch who insulted her, and came near undressing him. Col. It. H. Hardaway, of Thomas county, writes : “It gives me pleasure to promptly auswer your question as to tho cost per pound to raise cotton. I give yon the cost for seven vears, to-wit: 18GG, 14:50; 18G7, 12:50 : 1868, 12:25; 1869. 10:90 ; 1870, 8:60 ; 1871, 13:61; 1872, 10:77. The average is 11:38. This includes interest on value of land, repairs, interest on team, taxes, fertil izers. labor of cultivating, picking and pack ing, but nothing added for personal super vision. The latter would be hard to esti mate. This rear’s crop has not been mar keted, but will not exceed ten cents. I keep a record of my crop annually, and it simply required the copying, as the calcnlation was already made and entered on my memoran dum book.” J. W. Small, in Atlanta Constitution: An old darkey of the ante helium, type was found prowling around in among the offices of one of the railroads ending in Atlanta. “Whar is de boss of de railroad cars, young mas ter?” bo anxiously queried. We directed him to the office of the distinguished Presi dent of the road and he entered it, bowing and grinning in a very imposing wav. •“Well, old man?” said the President. “Yes, sah : Ef yer could spare time ter talk ter an ole nigger a few minits, sab ?” “Oh, yes; what is it ?” “Well, yer see, Boss, I isD’t a much larned nigger and libs in de country, au’ de gemm&n down stairs said he’d sell me a first-class ticket in de secon’-olass kyar, an’ a secon’-claes ticket was de same fur a fus’-claBs far’ an’ called fur de secon’-class kyar, and ’fore de good Lord, Boss, I’m mightily mixed, an’ a nigger’s purty lierbel ter get him neck bruk ’bout dis fus’-class secon’ syar bizness ef he don’t git it jis right, so*I come up to you what am de giu- eral boss an’ kin splane how it is, sab, ef yer please!” It was quickly and clearly ex- t lained, and the old man left in a serene and appy frame of mind. Atlanta Herald.: A reporter of the Herald met a gentleman yesterday who had just had a long talk with Foster Blodgett, over in poor Carolina. He is inclined to the be lief that what the Herald said in regard to Blodgett’s return to Georgia is true. Ho thinks, as we do, that Blodgett is likely to turn up in Atlanta on any of these fine mornings. We are willing’to stand on the assertion that Blodgett will be in Georgia in leas than sixty days, either upon his own accord or upon a demaud from the Gover nor. Blodgett says that he has about con cluded not to publish his book, descriptive of the scenes in the Bullock regime, as he does not think that it would soli outside of Georgia, and besides wo think that he can make more money by not publishing, than he could by publishing it. He is very much discouraged by the political outlook. He •ays that the Radicals will probably carry South Carolina next year, under press of the Radical canvass, but thinks this will be the last time the State will ever go with the Re publican party. We pray that his prophe cy may prove a trne one. David Dickson, of Hancock county : You ask me what it costs mo to make cotton. At one time I could have told you its cost per pound; but what it costs to make it now depends on so many contingencies it cannot be estimated beforehand. I have sixty or seventy tenants, and it costs no two the same to make cotton. It depends on the price of labor and its efficiency, direction of the aun and rain, time and quantity, worms, caterpillars, storms, frosts, and land as well as many other things. Crops vary from one bale to eight bales per hand. Then* is one thing certain, when cotton is below 16 cents the tenant and landlord, in four cases out of five, lose money. For example, two hands on an average in Georgia, without manure, will make about 3 bales each, making G bales; planting 12 acres each in cotton, making 24 acres; 6 acres each in corn, mak ing 12 acres; that is, per each mole, 36 acres. Yon may say this is low average, but it is high enough as Georgia now is. Six bales cotton, 2,400 pounds at 16 cents $384 00 Six bushels corn per acre on 12 acres at $1 per bushel 72 00 Fodder 7 20 J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR. SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1875. ESTABLISHED 1850. 463 20 Loss rent of land 115 80 347 40 One mole and feed $175 00 Tools, machinery and horses 20 00 Hire of two hands 240 0C Lae of house, board and wood 120 00 555 00 Los* 207 60 You mav sav my estimate is too low. Then add 'to the product 331-3 per cent., making $463 20, still a loss of $91 80. Add on 50 per cent., making four and one-half bales per band and nine bushels of com, and amounting to $521 10, still a loss of $33 90. Who will say a hand will make four and a half bales of cotton without mannre,an a fifty-four bnahels of corn, which is in the last estimate ? I can see very plainly what causes so much loss and hard times. The planter furnishes everything—bouses, gar dens, patches, and the best wood on his place, free of charge. The true plau is to pay for all you get, and get pay for all yon let go. The planter famishes house, wood, fruit, garden and patches, for three per sons, to get poor labor out of one—out of proper time, poor in quality, etc. Atlanta Constitution: We learn from a gentleman who passed through Douglass- villo on Wednesday, that -James Clinton had been committed for the murder Of James Seal. The evidence was very strong against him, and the current opinion was that Clin ton would turn State’s evidence against his two accomplices, who were to have a pre liminary examination yesterday. The body of the murdered man was exhumed, a post mortem held to find the ball, but with what result, our informant did not know. Strange rumors are afloat concerning the probable connection of the accused with the killing of a man named Hicks near Dallas some five vears ago. Hicks’ honse was tired, and as he ran out of the house he was shot and killed by parties in ambush. It is thought that Clinton’s evidence will disclose the perpetrators of this deed. Thus the Griffin News: Friday, as the S. G. A N. A. train rolled up to the depot the conductor, Davie Croft, lit off and shouted “Griffin ! change cars for Atlanty!” A pompons, fat individual, who had been enjoying a comfortable snooze, was awak ened suddenly by the conductor’s shrill pip ing, and raising tho window gazed in aston ishment at Dave’s meagre make up. Be coming satisfied at last that he was in the flesh, he withdrew his cranium inside and nibbing his own portliness where it is most convenient to rub, he soliloquized thusly: “Well, that fellow makes more noise than a hand calliope. I had no idea that he had enough breath in him to make a damp spot on a ten cent looking glass.” Columbus Enquirer: Tho homestead laws of Georgia give heads of families $1,000 personalty and $2,000 real estate in gold. An endeavor was made at the last session to re duce this amount, but it failed. The Legis lature granted such estates to be encum bered and sold with the consent of the par- nroHnfirons rendition ties and when sanctioned by the Ordinary. ^ ^ l 1 The Supreme Court has decided this cannot be done. A number of these homesteads have been disposed of, and some inquiry has been made regarding them at the Ordi nary’s office. The lawyers generally are of the opinion no fortunes are to be made in this business. Very few are able to pay counsel very heavy fees, and if yon go halves and recover land, it hardly pays the taxes. Such cases do not appear to be sought after with the greatest avidity. Florida Affairs. The Jacksonville Union alludes to the Morning News as a “kettle.” We accept the insinnatlon, so to speak—and there is just about enough hot water in the afore said kettle to scald the hair off of the back of every dog of a Radical in Florida. Fat some more wood under ns, please. Now the question arises, where did Ilioks get a copy of Conover’s letter to Dyke ? The next interrogatory is, who will sit up with Conover ? It is most melancholy. Monticello is to have some more new stores. In the name of all that is curious, where is Purman? Hasn’t he got his contemplated band wagon hitched upyot? Magbee doesn’t discourse on Republican ism pow-a-days. Mag. has evidently sworn off. Ten thousand indigenous citizens of Florida are engaged in evaporating syrup in order to arrive at the saccharine deposit known as sugar. The Ocala Banner says that corruption is like a ball of snow. We didn’t think snow was as bad as that. Jacksonville denies that gambling dens in that city arc in full blast. 'There are no blasts at all. They work as qnietly there as elsewhere. The Mayor of Key West presides with a cigar in his month. Well, you wouldn’t want a man to pull off bis socks for polite ness’s sake, would you ? Big Moccasin, a Cheyenne Indian, died in St. Augustine on the 4th. Key West is to have a new Episcopal Church. A brace of Brazilians have landed iu Orange county. Orange county wants to “culture” the in digo. A jolly young man in Jacksonville has been arrested on a charge of robbing *his employer. Captain Thomas William Brent, of Pensa cola, is dead. We learn from our traveling correspond ent that P. L. Decourcey, sheriff of Leon county, Florida, died at Tallahassee, the county seat, on Friday morning, after a brief illness, of pneumonia. He was a mulatto, but had so conducted himself, officially and otherwise, as to secure the respect of the entire community, without regard to party lines, and his sadden death is regretted by all classes. There is no end to white and colored applicants for the vacancy, and it is not yet known who Stearns will appoint. Greenwood, in Jackson oounty, has shipped four hundred bales of cotton this season. A reporter of the Jacksonville Press has received the first shad caught this season in the United States. It was presented on the 11th by Messrs. S. H. Melton & Co., the en terprising fish dealers of that city. The Union says that a very neat and chasto marbleized tombalono has been ordered by Samuel Spearing, colored, to be placed over the grave of bis old master, Elisha Green, who died a few weeks ago, in Baker county. Tampa has two large pecan trees, both bearing fruit. Jacksonville is to have a new hotel on the shell road. The Sentinel has heard another version of the Wakulla county murder. It is said that since the indictment of Walker he has made a confession to this effect: He says that on tb e night of the murder Joe Allen came to hi s honse about 8 o'clock, and asked him to go coon hunting with him. Allen had bis gun with him. He consented, aDd when a short distance from his honse, Allln said to him, “you know the difficulty be tween me and Jackson ? Well, I am going to kill him right now. Here is ten dollars if yon go along with me, and if yon don’t I will kill you right on tho spot.” Walker was terrified, and went along; and he says that Allen pnt his gun through the opening in the wall of Jackson’s honse and shot him. He says further that Allen had his feet wrapped in moss to conceal his tracks. While in prison, before the meeting of the grand jury, Allen and he were in the samo cell, and Allen told him if he were called before the grand jury to swear that he knew nothing about it. He did so, being, as he says, terrified by the threats of Allen. Seeing that Allen has escaped and that he is held, he now makes a confession of the whole matter. He says * that he could have no'possible motive for the murder of Jackson, for they were good friends ; but that Alien and the deceased were enemies, and that Allen had attempted to take his life before. In defense of Allen it is said that on the night of the murder he had a sick child, and he can prove by parties who were with him that he was not out of the honse daring that night. Thus the matter stands. Marianna Courier: The shooting of Mc- Whorley, a colored man, of which men tion was made in our last issne, and in which was stated that the party parties and cause was unknown —since the shooting we have been informed that on the night of the shooting, one Jack Clark, a colored man, a notorious villian and thief, was undoubtedly the party who did the shooting, and F. Me Keel,another colored man, a teacher of one of the public schools of this county, was arrested and tried before ’Squire Harvey, at Greenwood, accessory — furnishing Clark with the necessary ammunition to commit the act. The evidence was insufficient, however, to warrant a committal, and McKeel was released. Olark bad already left for parts unknown. The reported cause of the snooting is, that Whorley and Mc Keel are aspirants for candidacy to the Leg islature. Some time since Whorley, by let ter to Rev. George Martin, denounced McKeel as a bummer and instrumental iu the defeat of a Republican in Alabama. If the above statements be true, politics was undoubtedly the cause of the shooting ; but whether McKeel was accessory, we are un able to express an opinion with the informa tion at hand. South Carolina Affairs. The annual meeting of the So nth Carolina Conference M. E. Church South, will begin in Orangeburg on Wednesday, 15th of De cember. Bishop Keene*-, of New Orleans, will preside over the Conference, and more than two hundred delegates are expected to be pfesent. Bivingsville wants to be incorporated. The Anderson merchants will not buy cot ton from any one after 8 o’clock at night. The True Southron has reduced its price to $2 per annum. Messrs. R. C. McLeod, Maxcy Farmer, Timmey and James Rogers and Frank Mc- L&uchlin, all from Darlington county, left with their families for Georgetown, Texas. We thought the Texas fever had abated. Mr. Andrew M. Wicker, of Newberry, died on the Gth inBt. On Saturday night last an attempt was made by an incendiary to barn the dwelling house of Mr. W. A. Mixon, who resides about four miles from Tirnmonsville. The town council of Union has purchased new ootton scales. Mr. E. E. Mason, of Pickens county, for merly of Atlanta, is engaged in building a mill on Pacolette river for Rev. T. J. Earle. Wally Green is about establishing a hack line from Beaufort to Port Royal. Two small negro boys on the plantation of Mr. J. B. Mobley, near Pleasant Hijl, got into a difficulty on Sunday morning last, when one of them cut the other quite severely. Another foundry is going up in Spartan burg. A company of Northern gentlemen are in Spartanburg prospecting for a shoe factory. The colleges at Due West are in a most about ninety stu dents having already matriculated in the female college, and more than sixty in Erskine. Mrs. Wm. Whooten, of Valley Falls, a most estimable ladv, died at that place on Wednesday evening last. Tho cotton house of Mr. J. W. Stnckey, of Tirnmonsville, was entered by burglars last Monday night, and about one bale and a half of cotton taken therefrom. Colonel Joseph Walker, intendent of Spartanburg, has been invited to the rail road mooting at St. Louis, on the 23d in stant. The depot office at Easley station was broken into one night last week and about one hundred dollars stolen out of tho money drawer. The streets of Union have been provided with lamps, which are lighted every even ing, about dark, and are kept burning all* night. The “Excellent System.” Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 2, 1875. Editor Morning News: I propose now to say a few words in regard to the “excellent system” of inter nal improvements in Florida and how it works,and then what'constitutes the “ex cellent” part of it. I copy here from the fourth page of the printed report of the Board of Internal Improvements, sub mitted by Governor Broome to the Sen ate Friday, December 22, 1854: “The system we recommend for aid consists of a railroad between the waters of Escambia bay and the St. Johns river at Jackson ville, with an extension from suitable points on the line to the wa ters of St. Andrew’s bay in West Florida, and the St. Marks river in Middle Florida ; and from Amelia Island, on the Atlantic, to the waters of Tampa bay, in Sonth Florida, with an extension to Cedar Key, in East Florida, and to connect the country east of the St. John’s with the system, and thus to comprehend that section more fully in its benefits, we recommend also the construction of a canal to connect Indian river with the St. John’s.” “These improvements, with roads from Macon in the direction of Cedar Key, and from Montgomery to Pensacola, and to some ether more eastern point of our system, will complete all the desirable lines for a prosperous system.” The report was made and signed by David L. Yulee, James T. Archer, Rich ard H. Long, A. S. Baldwin, John C. Pelot and John C. McGehee. These gentlemen represented all the different sections of the State—“West,” “Middle,” “East” and “South,” and were about as well qualified to form a correct opinion upon this subject as any others who could have been selected for the purpose. They did not appear to entertain that mortal dread of railroad connections with the adjoin ing States of Alabama and Georgia that appears now to haunt the minds and warp the senses of the statesmen of the present day. The “system,’’ as recom mended, was not entirely adopted by the Legislature, and I will point out the dif2 ference between the “system” of the re port and the “system” of the Legisla ture. The Legislature refused to adopt or was silent as to the recommenda tion of the committee in reference to a line from Macon to Cedar Key, leaving it out of the act which was passed soon afterwards, saying no more on this sub ject than that no connection should be made with Georgia unless it was east of the Alapaha river. But that both the committee and the Legislature favored connections with Alabama and Georgia does not admit of any sort of dispute or doubt. The people of Florida were then in favor of these avenues of trade, and they are now in favor of them. They were then in favor of using the “fund” or applying it to the use of constructing such channels of trade, so far as practi cable. It does not now look like con sistency, or even common honesty, on the part of any department of the gov ernment to raise its voice against meas ures of public policy so long and so well settled as these. It does not look respectable to style this an “excel lent” system with one breath, and with the next refuse to permit the same to be carried out—it is lamentably weak and foolish to display such inconsistency. It would appear by the policy pursued in this case that the votes of the people’s representatives were to be secured by holding out to them the inducement of the construction of a great and useful work, but when that vote was obtained, to abandon much of the original plan and leave vast areas of the State neglected. The fund of 500,000 acres of internal im provement lands, as well as the ten mil lions of acres of swamp lands, were to be used up, if possible, constructing only about one- third of the work originally designed by the Legislature. The sale of the property by the State immediately after the war goes far to establish this theory. In one instance the State, which was the only paid up stockholder in the concern, lost 80 per cent, of its investment, and in another the entire amount of the fund contributed towards the construction of the work was swept away. This is the way the “excellent” system has worked, and it was this “excellent” thing whose drooping spirits the nurses of the grand bond scheme of nearly six millions want ed last winter to revive. The spirits are still drooping. Yours, X. BY TELEGRAPH THE MORNING NEWS. Evening Telegrams. THE COTTON CHOP. Noon Telegrams. THE KCSSIAN WAR MOVEMENT. PROGRESS OF THE ST. LOUIS WHIS KY TRIALS. TIDE ON THE COASTS. The Herzegovinian Revolution. HIGH TH>B ON THE BRITISH COAST. London, November 15.—The tide on the Thames this morning was the highest on record at Greenwich, and the lowlands alGug the river were partially inundated. The weather around the coast continues very heavy. The wrecks have been numerous. Lloyds to-day publishes reports of wrecks that occurred last night off Bridlington, Cardegan, Clovelly, Berwick, Sunderland, Bride and elsewhere. The British ship Astride, from this port for the United States, has been lost near Boulogne. Nine of the crew were drowned and the vessel has gone to pieces. THE WHISKY FRAUDS. St. Louis, November 15.—The trial of Mc Kee & Maguire is set for the 15th of Decem ber. Yoorheea defends them. Avery will bo tried on Wednesday. Butler defends him. Thirteen distillers and rectifiers, seven gaugers aud store-keepers have pleaded guilty. THE TURKISH TROUBLES. London, November 15.—A Times special from Cottare says eight Turkish battalions under Selim Pasha were surrounded near Gastachi by three hundred Herzegovinians. At the latest accounts the battle is progress ing. FROM PERAK. London, November 15.—A dispatch from Perak says that troops are intrenching the British residences, and await reinforcements before attacking Ahe Malay stockade, which is seven miles distant. THE RUSSIAN MOVEMENTS. Berlin, November 15.—It is emphatically denied that the movements of the Russian troops are connected wth warlike prepara tions. THE CABLI8TS. Madrid, November 15.—The Carlists, in attempting to prevent Quesada from forti fying in the Dest Rioja, are reported to have suffered a heavy loss. inundated. London, November 15.—The river Folka,, near Dablin, burst its banks, inundating one thousand acres. DEAD. New York, November 15. —George Bel- more, tho English actor, died here this morning. BEAST BUTLER’S NEPHEW. The Ilood! ii in Wounded Friends. in of the Nile Severely Ilie Company of Hid (From the New Orleans Picayune of Friday.] At half-past 11 o’clock last night Col. George Butler, editor of the New York Arcadian, and formerly United States Consul General to Egypt, was dangerous ly cut at the corner of Carondelet and Canal streets. Col. Butler has been in the city for the past week or ten da; s, .‘he guest of Gov. Warmoth. Last night, in company with the latter, he was for some time at Haw kins’s saloon, on Gravier street. Here he met Mr. James Golding, the foundryman and it appears a quarrel ensued between them, which was quieted by the interven- tion of friends. At the time stated, Col. Butler left the saloon in company with Gov. Warmoth. Mr. John Hawkins and another gentle man, and the four walked in the direc tion of Canal street. Golding was not then with them, but they no sooner reached the corner than the cry of “Watch! murder!” was raised. The police arriving, Golding was found on the spot, and CoL Butler was being raised from the ground by his friends. It was then found that Butler had a deep wound on his fabe under the right eye, from which the blood issued copiously On the declaration of Mr. Hawkins and the other gentlemen that Golding in flicted the wound, the latter, though pro testing that he was not the man, was taken into custody. It is believed by Mr. Hawkins that Golding followed the party up after leaving the saloon. Nobody appears to have actually seen the blow, but Mr. Hawkins says he saw Golding stamp on Butler as the latter lay on the ground. Col. Butler’s wound was examined by Dr. Davis, who found it very deep and triangular in shape, and pronounced it dangerous. He was removed to the Charity Hospital to obtain medical as sistance. It is stated that the wound must have been inflicted by a sharp weapon, sup posed to be a knife, or possibly a boot heel. The hitter is the more plausible supposition, as no trace of a knife can be found. On removal to the hospital, Colonel Butler remained in a stupor for some time and could only speak with difficulty. Golding was put into a cell in the First Precinct Station. He professed entire ignorance of the occurrence, and stated that he met Colonel Butler in the evening at the St. Charles Hotel, but had not seen him afterwards. THE FIJIAN PLAGUE. Forty Thousand Deaths in Four Months- Burring People Alive. Silk culture is increasing so rapidly in South America that the Government of Brazil contemplates offering subsidies for the scientific cultivation of the worm. The climate is well adapted to the in dustry, and the country possesses an abundance of the Palma Christ*, a plant upon which the worm feeds with avidity. Henry Ward Beecher, in publicly re ferring to the famous Brooklyn revival ist, is very fond of designating him as “Brother Moody.” But nobody has noticed that the famous revivalist has ever returned the compliment by speak ing of the Plymouth pastor as “Brother Beecher.” (From the Sydney (Australia) Herald.] Further information from Fiji conveys still darker accounts of the plague which has recently passed oyer the new colony. A resident of long standing, writing to a Victoria contemporary, says: “The death rate is not yet made up, but the proba bility is that 40,000 Fijians died during the four months plague. The native population of Fiji is now about one-third only of what it was when I landed here about twenty-five years ago.” The accounts given of the magni tude of the disaster are less harrowing than those of the sufferings of the vic tims. “Very few died of the measles, the majority dying of subsequent disease in the form of dysentery, congestion of the lungs, etc. Want of nourishment, or starvation, carried off thousands.” We are told that “all work was suspended for two months. You could pass through whole towns without meeting any one in the streets, which were soon completely covered with grass. Entering a house, you would find men, women and children all lying down indiscriminately, some just attacked, some still in agony, and some dying. Some who were strong enough attempted suicide, and not always unsuccessfully.” We are further told that “as the scourge became more permanent, some four or five were buned together in one grave, and generally without religious service. In some cases the dead were buried in the earthen floor of the honse. The burials were hurried, and the probability is that some were buried alive. In many instances the husband, wife and children all died. In one village all the women died, and in another all the men.” It is interesting to read the different mental effects produced by the torture of the disease. It is not surprising that “some made fruitless appeals” to their ancient god. Some inland tribes, who had only re cently embraced Christianity, considered that the disease was conveyed by their religious teachers, and they dismissed them and then abandoned their new re ligion. Among these some were for killing the teaqhers, but wiser counsels prevailed. It is said that one tribe buried alive one teacher’s wife and child, whose husband and father died of the plague, to stop infection. But while some in their distress fell back on their former superstitions, the greater number are said to-have borne their calamity with fortitude, and to have suffered and died under the influence of Christianity, REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. Affairs in the Post Office Department. THE FINANCES OF SOUTH CAROLINA REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. Washington, November 15.—The official cotton crop report for November makes di rect comparison of the product this year with that of 1874. As former reports of con dition have indicated, the States bordering on the Atlantic all show a reduced product, and those in the Mississippi valley an in creased yield. Prior to November 1st, kill ing frosts had appeared in the more north ern States of the cotwu belt. In some coun ties of Northern Georgia, and in the dis trict north of the Tennessee river, in Alabama and elsewhere, the cotton plant was uninjured, and generally in vigorous growth ou the best lauds. Iu one parish iu Louisiana (Claiborne) it is claimed that & week’s continuance of fine weather would increase the local yield several hundred bales. There is much inequality in the pro gress of picking. In some of the counties of Georgia and Alabama the harvest is nearly over. Iu Mississippi the work has been ’ delayed by political difficulties aud sickness. Tn Washington county two-thirds of the crop was nngathered, and it was feared that Christmas would find one- fourth still in the fields. Fine weather has been the rule with a few exceptions, but iu Louisiana much fibre has been lost or stained by storms. The effect of the great September storm in Southern Texas proves less disastrous than at first represented. The amount of lint in comparison with the weight of seed cotton is quite variable, ranging from 25 to 33 per cent., but, so far as reported, appears to be less than in 1874. The State percentages representing the aggregate quantity as compared with last year, are as follows : North Carolina 91 South Carolina 7G Georgia 74 Florida 90 Alabama •. 102 Mississippi Ill Louisiana 100 Texas 114 Arkansas ’ 135 Tennessee 116 The crop of Arkansas is a good one, but the figures are increased more by the fact of last year’s poor yield than by the excess of this year’s crop. These figures point to a small advance on last year’s aggregate, if November aDd December be favorable to the opening and picking of the top crop. WASHINGTON NEWS AND NOTES. Washington, November 15.—In the Su preme Court the case of Henry Brenner and H. S. Moore vs. LeRoy P. Walker and oth ers, from the Northern District of Alabama, the decree below i6 sustained with costs. The opinion on tho appeal from Judge Bradley’s decision in the Grant parish cases is not completed. It was found difficult to frame an opinion which would command the sanction of a ma jority of the justices in all its points. The question of importing Chinese women for immoral purposes is set for January 11th. James Lockey, Deputy Commissioner of Pensions, has resigned. Robert F. Campbell has been appointed Collector of the Third District of Texas. Commodore Cooper, commanding the Pensacola Navy Yard, telegraphs that all quarantine restrictions are removed at that place. The collectors of enstoms will be ordered to reduce their forces and curtail expenses. The appropriation for the collection of customs will be deticieot $600,000. The President has commenced the prep aration of his message and will receive no visitors until it is completed. Tho Treasury called in twelve and three- fourths millions of bonds of 1864 and five millions of 1864 and 1865. Interest ceases ou the 15th of February. This closes the refunding for the five hundred million 5 per oents. POSTAL AFFAIRS. Washington, November 15.—The Post Offico Department’s estimates are $77,415 in excess of last year’s appropriations. The expenditures of last year lor transporting mails was to eight hundred and seventy- one railroad routes, nine and a quarter mil lions; eighty-nine steamboat routes, five- eighths of a million; seven hundred and thirty-two other routes, designated as star routes, an aggregate of one hundred and ninety-two thousand miles in length, five and three-eighth millions. The total cost of inland transportation this year is esti mated at sixteen aDd a half millions. l'he Commissioner of Internal Revenue in his report on the sayings banks or provi dent institutions, where deposits under $2,000 by one person are exempt from taxa tion, suggests that the amount exempted be reduced to $500. WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET. Washington, November 15.—Probabili ties—For the South Atlantic and Gulf States occasional rains probable, with westerly winds gradually shifting to northerly, rising barometer and falling temperature. For Tennessee, Ohio, and the upper Mis sissippi valleys and iake region, rising ba rometer, fresh and brisk north to west winds, colder, partly clondv weather, and in the last district occasional snow. For the Middle States winds veering to southwest and northwest, rising barometer, light rains and snow in the northern portion, followed by colder, clear and partly cloudy weather. FROM SOUTH CAROLINA. Charleston. November 15.—Information having reached Columbia that a report pre vails in New York that the new consolida tion bonds of South Carolina were issued in exchange for coupons alleged to have been fraudulently outstanding will be repudiated by the State, the Governor and Comptroller General and State Treasurer authorize a contradiction of the report, aud express the belief that no such purpose is anywhere en tertained or can be legally accomplished even if desired. a desperado. Richmond, Va., November 15.—Henry O’Divier, one of the officers in charge of the chain gang, attempting to arrest an escaped negro, was assaulted by the negro witn a shoemaker’s knife. He received twelve cats about the head, neck and upper part of the body. Some of the wounds are serious and may result fatally. The negro was subse quently arrested. SPAIN AND AMERICA. Madrid, November 15.—The Correspon- dencia states that the reply of Spain to the receut note of the United States in regard to the treaty of 1795, will defend the rights of Spain with energy but moderation, and will express the hope that, in order to main tain good relations, the two countries meet with reciprocity. THE WACO. New York, November 15.—In the investi gation of the Waco’a cargo, it is shown that she had neither petrolenm nor kerosene aboard. She had 300 caus of refined petro leum stowed*on the upper deck, a part aft, part forward, distant 100 teet from any fire. T o other inflammable freight was aboard. COUNTERFEITERS. Providence, R. I., November 15.—In the United States Circuit Court Geo. E. Butter- worth and Maria J. Butterworth, indicted for passing counterfeit currency, George pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years iu the State prison. The indictment against Maria was nolle prossed. LETTER FROM WASHINGTON'. Radical Music—The Bush for Office Zach’s Slaughter-honae—A Newspaper Move—Vour Correspondent Castigated —A Florida Filibuster—The Local List —Southern Claims—Delano Again—In ternal Revenue Notes. Etc., Etc. [Special Correspondence of the Morning News.] Washington, November 13,1875. COMING IN. The tide has jnst began to set in, and this burgh has began to fill up. Cameron is here with a host of Pennsylvanians at his back, clamoring for place in the Interior Department, which the average Radical de scendant of W. Penn believes to be the legitimate plunder of that State. Watts, the old agriculturist, has crammed his de partment with proteges of the Keystone State, and enabled several young men to start into the seed and horticultural busi ness. Morrill, of Vermont, is also raiding on Zach, and Patterson, of South Carolina, is forcing things to have one Thoman, an emigrant from Dalmatia, placed in a soft position. Thoman is very dark complex- ioned, and passed himself off in Sonth Caro lina as a negro, after the war, and was elected by the colored vote Secretary of State. But they found oat afterwards, from bis association with the Mennerchor, that he was of German proclivities, and there and then went back on him. He should be taken care of. Jere Black, of Pennsylvania, Senator Kelly, from Oregon, who cleaned out Williams, and others, including a scat tering of Radical members of Congress, are in town. A SERENADE. Some hangers-on and office hunters and holders, anxions to display their loyalty, got up a serenade for Grant & Co. after the elec- tiin news got in. The occupant of the White Honse came forth after the music was over and addressed the viebald crowd in his usual laconic style, stating, however, that the indications pointed to another four years of power. Boss Shepherd also received some music, and other lessor lights were also given & dose. Since Chandler has been going for the boys in his department and takiDg scalps by the wholesale, the other departments have closed their lines, and now a clerk thinks it worth his place to go forth during office hours for a supply of nourishment. It is rumored that there have been over seventy discharges in Zack’s ranche, including the chief clerk of the De partment and the chief clerks of the Patent and Land offices. The youths who did not pony up for electioneering purposes are now feeling the wrath. the newspaper men have beon trying to shove one of their party in under the great Michigander. The youth is Arthur Shepherd, formerly connected with the Republican, and they want to make him Superintendent of the Patent Office. Shaw, the Nestor of the press, Murtagh, proprietor of tho Republican, aud a dele gation of Bohemians, visited the war Sena tor and urged Arty’s claims. But Zack, be ing down on newspaper meu, gave them a cool reception, and told them that no va cancy existed. He is savage against the News for its lucubrations, and to please him THE KEE-RONICLE, The colicky organ of the left wing of the administration, which is eking oat a miser able existence on government pap, pitched into the News about its Washington corres pondent, and informed its readers that we are an “impostor,” and “hold a position under the government, obtained by repre senting ourself to have been a persecuted and ostracised Southern Republican.’' This is good for the Chronicle, and about a3 truthful as the majority of its lies. Harlan, the saint, is no longer connected with it, or he would not have such hard things said; but little Georgy Corkhill, who sold himself to the Pacific Mail crowd for the small sum of $1,000, is agitated to find out who is writing up the history of the administration from this point, and is hitting out wildly. He has just got back from Europe, deposed W. Penn Clarke, the etymologist, from the edi torial chair, and *stauds ready to vindicate Bill King or die in the attempt. Georgy would r iake & nice partner for the great MC., who steers the Tallahassee Sentinel with Isaac Walton, the ex-fisher of trifles, at the engines. Me. can tack better than any man in tho South, aud Captain Steam’s ship of State could not be managed without him. A gentleman from North Carolina, a bosom friend of the defunct railroad king! Littlefield, gave me Mc.’s pedigree. He snys Me. was a rampant advocate of seces sion, and went into the Confederate States army as a Lieutenant, but finding that his hide was in danger of being perforated, jumped the issue and turned up' next as a clerk in the Freedman’s Bureau under Pur man, which place he lost from his love of the bowl ana bad habits. He became a bit ter partizan of bonny Governor Reed’s, but betrayed him and joined his opponents. He is a valuable accession to the Radical ranks, and lives now only to avenge the f mbllc cowhiding given him by Cocke in Tal- ahassee. He should be here with a ramb ling youth from Live Oak, who sports the name of Mr. Rice, of Pensacola, has been here for several days, but has returned home again with the intention of returning daring the session of Congress. J. C. Kimball, of Atlanta, is at the Metro politan Hotel, and W. U. Garrard and Mr. Fallig&nt, of Savannah, are in the city. The American Public Health Association, consisting principally of army medical offi cers and Marine Hospital attaches, have been holding a convention in Baltimore, and are about to attack Congress for legis lation to bring about co-operation between the general government and State govern ments for a uniform and efficient system for the registration of births, doaths ana mar riages. Of course a bureau on the Bureau of Statistics principle will then be needed, and some of these boys anticipate a good berth. Old Pratt, in bis annual report on Internal Revenue, states that there are eighty mil lion chewers, smokers aod snuffers in the United States (bow is that ?) who consume fifteen pounds of tobacco each per annnm. Pratt mast have given his census report a wav, or sold it to some second-hand book' store. The talk of Orville Grant aDd Babcock being connected with the whisky ring has not been hushed up yet. Avery, late chief clerk of the Treasury, has been hanging aroond here, but has been called to St. Louis to answer the indictment against him. Billy McG&rr&ban, the man who claims the New Idria mines, is preparing to go for Con gress again, and Sutro is expected here to open np his tunnel claim again. A Colonel Craig, who claims 70,000 acres of land in Colorado,which there is some trouble about, is here also. The Land office make some quibble about his title, and unless he “comes down” handsomely, he may have trouble about it. The wheels of govern ment must be greased. Walt Whitman, the good grey poet, is on the streets here in his big slouch bat aud with bis shirt collar open. Bayard Taylor has been lecturing on bckiller, aud Joaqpim Miller went to California on a dead-head ticket. Senator Jones, of Florida, has located for the season here, and has fitted np a cosy home, where his estimable lady gracefully presides. The Board ef Indian Commissioners are iu session here, and have paid their respects to the new Secretary. A delegation of Warm Springs Indians, captors of Captain Jack, are here also. They want more ap propriations for their subsistence, etc. The appointment clerk of the Interior Department, Jack Thompson, was suddenly removed a few days ago, and bis mother-in- law’s name was stricken from the rolls. Sam Walker, the one-eyed expositor of the Indian frauds, whooped over Jack’s demise. Delano is here trying to sustain some of his friends in the department. Edmunds, the Postmaster here, has more influence with Chandler than any one else, and he advises on all appointments and re movals. The Rev. Smith has not been removed yet, but the day is close. It is rumored that Burdette, the Commis sioner of the General Land Office, will also go. Cyclops. BEECHER HAD BETTER CONFESS. Tell-Tale Pumpkin Seed*— \n illustration from a Farmer. A Canal Bing Victory.—The New York Canal Board have reinstated En gineers Yates and Babcock, who were suspended some time since for alleged complicity in the canal frauds. This re sult is significant, as being the first vic tory of the canal ring since the election, and it is thought presages an ample amount of vigorous fighting close at hand. NlTRO-GLYCERINE IN HlS POCKET.—A man named Knight, in charge of a gang of laborers at South Natick, Mass., slipped a charge of nitro-glycerine into his pocket, which subsequently exploded as he was entering a wagon with a man named Ryan. Both men were blown to great distance. Ryan’s injuries are fatal. Some of the Pittsburg rolling mills now feed their furnaces with natural gas from well m Butler county, about twenty miles distant. A six-inch pipe carries the gas, which when first turned on flowed from the well to the dearest mil^ seventeen and a half mflaij in thirty-six qxinates. To the Editor of the Sun: Sir—How the pranks of our boyhood come back to us ! Memory, that wonder ful faculty that keeps all and loses noth ing, reproduces its pictures with aston ishing vividness. More than fifty years ago my brother George and I were set to stick pumpkin seeds between the hills of com. We both wanted to go a-fishing. Our father told us we might go when we had stuck all the seeds we had. So we both worked as smart as we could. But the sun was sinking fast in the West, and we decided that our only ohanoe to go a-fishing was to get rid of the pumpkin seeds in a more expeditious manner. Near by was a big, flat stone ; so the stone was raised and the pumpkin seeds put safely under it, and the stone let back again to prevent all future ex posure. Never, v/e thought, had two boys more safely buried their secret. A-fishing we went and had good luck brought home trout enough for all Strange to say, when the seeds came up between the hills of corn, about one-third of the field had no vines. One Sunday afternoon we strolled with our good father past said field, and around said flat stone on every side was one mass of pumpkin vines! We stood confounded these seeds had all grown out from un der the flat stone, and our fault was man ifested ! The thing was so ridiculous, our kind-hearted father forgave us on our owning up the truth and the whole truth, and asking his forgiveness. It was to us a warning never to try to con ceal a fault. The good book says, ‘*He that covereth bis sins shall not prosper, but he that oonfesseth and forsaketh his sin shall find mercy.” In the “Vedas” we read: “The great lord of the world sees as if he were near. If a man thinks he is welking by stealth, the gods know it all. If a man stands, or walks, or hides, if he goes to lie down or to get up, what two people sitting together whisper, King Varuna knows it. He is there as a third. ” It seems to me our friends in Plymouth Church must have a very large fiat atone under which they seek to hide the secrets of their church and the very eerious se* crets of their pastor, Mr. Henry Ward Beecher. One would think that having tried it with such poor suocess they would tire of it by this time. All moral actions have a tendency to sprout, and in vain do we seek to hide or cloak them from His eye or even the eyes of our fellow men. A Farmer. THE CASE OF HARNEY RICHARD. Tweed ledum and Tweedledee—Suapennion af Operation* for a Time—Saaarlty of the Radiral Oligarchy—A Little Drama. Comedy, or Farce—Attempted Snppres- aion of the .Vlorninr News—Savannah to be Annexed to Florida, Perhaps— The Chagrin of R hod am an thus and ills Imps. [Special Correspondence of the Morning News. JACKSON, ex-proprietor of the Shackson House in that village. His motto was “Duff and Hash,” but he fed Keep, of the Live Oak Times, so high that the latter individual threw him down stairs when he went to collect his bill. This led him to drop Live Oak aud open the Planters’ Honse in Tallahassee, where fried liver and stnrgeon made the tables groan, and five cent whisky rejoiced the souls of thirsty Radicals. But the flames consumed his hostelry, and now he faces the world as au insurance agent, and takes risks on eve rything but Florida hotels. REER. Tho convention ol lager manufacturers assailed the Commissioner of Internal Re venue yesterday, and the great Pratt trembled before the indignant representa tives of long drink. They don’t want to be assessed for mait used in excess of two and a half bushels to one barrel of beer, and swore by the memory of Gambrinus to stand up for their rights. No matter how the Teutons may stand on the financial is sues, when the cry of beer is raised they stand shoulder to shoulder to resist any assault upon it. look out. Don Pedro, of Brazil, is being anxiously looked for here. He is bringing two hun dred thousand dollars worth of diamonds with him, and as the treasury robbers and safe burglars will be turned loose before his arrival we will see the officials here sporting brilliants in profusion very soon, uulesa he fortifies like Jones, of Nevada, and keeps a guard on duty at his door. PASSED AWAY. The colored cadet at the Naval Academy, Master Baker, of Mississippi, has been dis missed by request of the Superintendent. The boys could not overlook the color line, « wnen we Dear tnia m n I that the partnership was formed five old Admiral Rodgers got tired and ran him out. All the old naval officers are opposed to the enlistment of colored seamen, and like the army, do not intend to admit a col ored officer in their circle if they can avoid it. Thus the colored cadets at the Military Academy have failed, and their chances for A National Organization of Fraud, The startling facts brought to light in this city in connection with the whisky frauds have so engrossed our attention that we have overlooked the scarcely less important proceedings of a similar nature in other quarters. What has been con fessed, and what, besides, is suspected here, is so staggering that we easily im agine that St. Louis was the centre of the whisky ring, and that our city enjoys an infamous pre-eminence in the wretch ed business. But this may be a mistake after all. The promise of a San Francisco paper, if opportunity is afforded,to exhibit whisky frauds “ before which those of St. Louis and Chicago will grow pale, and the dispatches of yesterday stating that the ring at Chicago defrauded the government out of the tax on two and a half million gallons of spirits, suggest the possibly national character of this wonderful conspiracy. This significant feature of the business has already been demonstrated—that the ring was a confed eration of (distillers and revenue officials. When we bear this in mind, and reflect years ago; that it extended over the whole countrv, from New York to San Francis co, and from Milwaukee to New Orleans; that its operations had all the method, reg ularity and organization of government business; that it possessed a system of And eidorly maiden, who bad suffered some disappointment, defines the human race i “ Man, g conglomerated mass of hair, L/jacco smoke, confusion, conceit and ***jU. Woman, the waiter .perforce, on the aforeaaid animal.” acaueuij nave iaueu, ana ineir cnances ror I * turning out an officer of ebon hne from ?£P“ er communication with Washington; - -- 1 that notwithstanding the undisguised boldness of its transactions, Secretary Bristow’s two latest predecessors in the Treasury Department never exhibited a symptom of knowing anything about it; that its dividends amounted, probably, to .$5,000,000: and that thelate Commissioner of Internal Revenue steadily refused, when his attention was again and again called to it, to take the first honest step towards breaking it up—it looks almost as though the internal revenue bureau had trans formed itself into a whisky ring and lent its powerful and elaborate machinery to the business of defrauding the govern ment. The conspiracy grows in propor tions every day ; we begin to see that its control of the authority of the govern ment made it almost as formidable as the government itself • and it is plain that it will require all the honest efforts of Secretary Bristow and Attorney-General Pierrepont, supported by the personal approval of the President and the moral sentiment of the whole country, to bring its members to justice.—8*. Louis Republican. either academy are daily growing less. ODDS AND ENDS. The serious illness of Yice-President Wil son led to a good deal of discussion as to who would occupy tne vice chair m the Sen ate this session. Matt Carpenter would have been first choice if he was in the Sen ate, but he has gone from our gaze. Ferry, of Michigan, acted daring Wilson’s absence in the called session, being elected by the Senate, but Hamlin and Cameron feel dis posed to urge their claims. Hamlin is the oldest Senator and was Vice-President under Lincoln, so that his ohances would be the best. Ex-Senator Fenton ia swinging around here, trying to work himself into the good graces of the administration again. The friends of Thurman are talking him up again as an available Presidential candi date. They say he can make a better fight than Hendricks. Grant's friend, Routt, Governor of Colo rado, is here talking of his Senatorial pros pects. The claim agents are excited upon a point lately sprang. They say that the act of 1864 providing for the payment of Southern claims specifies that the Auditor shall pay the claims upon their being duly certified by the Quartermaster General. Ingalls has only been acting, and Meigs, who has been shipped off on a fool’s errand to Europe to get him out of the way, shonld sign the pa pers. The claim agents fear that the Au ditor may refuse the payment of claims on this ground, bat, as he has no appropriation yet, they had better wait awhile before get ting excited. Tne Florida Railroad case ia still under digestion by the Supreme Court, and Mr. Holland is awaiting anxiously bat confident ly for their decision. He thinks that road is his and he proposes to hate it. Fern and ina, November 12, 1875. In consequence of the non-appearance of a number of the defendant’s witnesses this morning, for the very cogent reason that the prosecution had purposely neg lected to summon them in time, counsel for Harney Richard asked for a post ponement until the 15th instant. THE RENOWNED FLUNKEY who happens to be dignified with the misnomer of judge, commonly oalled Archibald, condescended to patronize the defence, and announced bis willigness to oontinue the case over until the spring term of the Circuit Court. No objection being raised by either party, such was made the order. Now please be careful not to allow Archibald any credit for magnanimity or a desire to mete out justicb to the accused until you have comprehended his motive for this unex pected stroke of policy. The Judge, by some means or other, hath suddenly dis covered that he cannot constitutionally extend one term of court into another, as such a proceeding would invalidate all transactions before the protracted term. The time prescribed by law for holding court in Nassau county expires on the 13th inst., and although these fellows have never allowed their gyrations to be circumscribed by any suoh a dead-letter as the Constitution, they have in this instance seen fit to deviate from their general plan of disregarding the existence of that docu ment. I am fully cognizant of the fact that they had succeeded in getting a jury , of the kind to suit their nefarious pur poses, and only the apprehension that some avenue of escape might be left open for Richard indneed them to order continuance. The accused has entered into a recognizance in the sum of twenty- five thousand dollars, and has furnished some of the staunchest men the State can boast of as sureties. They are extremely anxious to gain time also, and Archibald has lately been uttering the most puny laments!, jus to the friends of the ac cused, and reiterating his intention of playing an even-handed role. THE EXCORIATION administered editorially by the Morning News seems to have cut him to the quick, and has certainly deepened the convict kind of a look he has always worn. Mc Donnell is endeavoring to sneak away from the odium which has enveloped him, by asserting that if he had a hun dred thousand dollars he would cheer fully relinquish it if this thing had never happened. It is to be regretted that he has not that trifling sum, but as it is, he may evince his sincerity by refunding to Harney Richard a portion of the ex pense which his friends and himself have been compelled to undergo. Other- we must perforce consider the grandiloquent wail of “Uncle Tad,” noth ing more nor less than a stupendous con centration of the veriest balderdash. J. P. C. Emmons, associate counsel for the prosecutors, remarked within the hearing of your correspondent that if it wore not for the fact that he was religious man he would become seriou^y exasperated at the truths contained in the Morning News. This is particularly severe on re gion, and may indicate the early downfall of that institution, if Emmons’ compan ions conclude to follow suit. THE CELEBRATED NINCOMPOOP. sometimes called Judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit, has been making the most heartrending overtures to the friends of Richard for a compromise, and claims that the tlying has gone far enough. None of the Radical crew like your correspon dent, and if they are able to detect the inhuman barbarian who disclosed their secrets dire will be the aforesaid barba rian’s fate. The negroes do not appear to relish the continuance in the least, and evidently are itching for a demon stration of their revolutionary feelings. The opportunity for them to make asses of themselves in conjunction with Mc- Donnoll, Archibald ana Emmons was too enticing to be lost. “banquo’s” ghost is in possession of a magnificent drama, comedy or farce, or whatever you please to call it. The dram. pers. are Archi bald, Emmons and “Uncle Tad.” The scene was this city, the time one day last week. Some of the “jedge’s” enemies are so uncharitable as to insinuate that his Honor was drunk, but I brand this jilander as false in toto, and conscientiously asseverate that the distinguished individual was—if the drama has any basis of fact whatever— merely suffering from indigestion, and the tremendous tension which his ner vous system has recently sustained in grappling with the intricacies of the plot to extinguish an innocent man and se questrate a couple of thousand dollars. Not to create undue suspense, and to avoid provoking equivocation, the comedy runs that at the hour of midnight, at some period during this month, the learned Judge was heard yelling in a semi-somnambulistic stale: Mr. Henry G. Bowen still retains his Pew in Plymouth Church, but neither he nor any member of his family will oc cupy it. Mr. Bowen is determined to hold his memberehip in Mr. Beecher’s church, for reasons of his own. We are authorised to say that if any attempt is made to drop Mr. Bowen’s name from the roll for non-attendance, as in Mrs. Moulton’s case, ha will fight the church and pastor to the bitter end. “suppress it at once. ’ The following colloquy is reported to have ensued : Archibald—(holding a copy of the Morning News)—This must be stopped. Let me command the Sheriff to forthwith suppress this merciless newspaper. Emmons—Nay, nay, most honored and revered Seigneur, Savannah is without your jurisdiction. Archibald—(frantically)—Talk not to me of circuit or jurisdiction. Did not I dispatch Joe Valentine into Alachua, and did not my master, the inimitably gra cious Stearns, approve my action? Therefore my behest—the Savannah Morning News must be arrested, and by noon to-morrow we shall have quashed that imperious sheet. Ho! Mr. Sheriff * McDonnell (ia tears)--Great, glorious potentate, I make bold to say that Savan nah is not even in this State; ah.’ boo- hoo! boo-hoo! Archibald—Aye ! aye \ ’Tis e’en so; what then shall be our project? We have been marplots, sycophantic slaves, fiend ish rascals, and shall we not be revenged for being told of it to our teeth? The State line shall be extended, or by the mighty Stearns . Here the trio are said to have closed their eyes. So yon will infer it is by no means im probable that the Forest City will be in demand as soon after our next Legisla ture convenes as possible, if not sooqpr. Banquo. Queer Doings in a Connecticut Church.—There was a very loud disturb ance in the Methodist Church on the Hockanum border, East Hartford, on Sunday evening. Prayer and praise services were being held, and had pro gressed for seme time, when a youi^g man named David E. Curtis left his seat and started to leave the church. Just as he got near the door he was stopped by Mr. Ralph Rialey, who insisted that he should not retire. The young man said it was necessary that he should leave, and started to do so, when Mr. Risley took him by the collar to prevent him. Mr. Curtis thereupon, to break the hold upon him, struck Mr. Risley in the face, and then the excitement began in good earnest. The boys in the audience shouted all sorts of impious things, and the pastor, the Rev- Mr. Morse, left the pulpit and joined the crowd about the door in a vain endeavor to still the disturbance. Fi nally, the young man Curtis was com pelled to take a seat and remain there till Mr. Thomas Dowd, a Justice of the Peace, had been sent for, the pastor an nouncing that a trial would be held then and there to punish the offender. Upon the arrival of Mr. Dowd, an effort was made to clear the house of all the young people, in order that the trial might pro ceed, bat there was a general refusal to stir, and finally the young man was held under bail, to be proceeded against on a. secular day.—Hartford ~ Relations of Alcohol to Health. BY HOMER O. HITCHCOCK, U. D- At the meeting of the Health Associa tion in Baltimore on Thursday, a was read by Dr. Homer O. Hitchoock, o Michigan, “On the Relations of the J£x- cessive or Habitual Use of Alcohon Drinks to Public Health and Public Wel fare.” It was exceedingly lengthy; but as parts of it were very interesting ana contained calculations and statistics ol decided value, a selection has been made of that portion which treated of the economies of the question. “Let us now briefly consider some of the economic relations of this matter. What do the 49,000 deaths annually caused by alcohol cost the nation ? YA® average cost of burial cannot be less than $10 per capita, giving the sum °f U00. These 49,000 persons should have had, according to a table of working years, (calculated from life tables by Dr. Edward Jarvis, and published in the fifth annual report of the Massachusetts State Board of Health,) 37.46 years of effective life. From the best data obtainable we have been led to conclude that alcohol shortened the lives of those who use it habitually or excessively, twenty-eight per cent As this percentage pertains to the whole life, including both the devel oping and effective periods, it follows that these 49,000 persons have each lost to the nation 28 per cent, of 37.46 years, or 16.08 years of effective life, giving a total of 784,000 years. These figures are much below the actual loss according to the expectancies of intemperate pier- sons given above; for, according to those expectancies, the average loss of effective life is twenty-three years, within a small fraction. On this basis the annual loss of the nation of effective life from alcohol is 1,127,000 years. If each effective year of life is valued at $150, the nation loses on the first calculation $117,600,000, and on the second $169,050,000. English actuaries, from careful observation and calculations, estimate that for every death there are two persons constantly sick. We may therefore calculate that for these 49,000 deaths from alcohol there are 98,000 constantly sick from the same cause. Thue, in a single year, 98,000 years of effective life are lost to the State, which, valued at $150 p>er year, gives a loss of $14,700,000. The cost of this sickness, at the very lowest estimate, cannot be less than $150 per year, or a total of $14,700,000. What do the insane caused by alcohol actually cost the nation each year ? We have already seen that in a very moder ate estimate twenty-five per cent, of the insane are made so by alcohol. Thus 9,358 of the 37,432 insane persons enumer ated in the census tables are thus caused. These represent in each year a loss of effective life of 9,358 years, which, valued at $150 per year, gives a loss to the nation of $1,403,700. The average cost of main taining and caring for- these people can not be less than four dollars per week for S&ch, which is the average cost in three State asylums of Massachusetts. This will represent a loss to the State of $1,965,ISO. But, according to a table oonstructed by Mr. John L. Copeland, and also to the English life tables (quoted by Dr. Edward Jarvin, page 383 of the Fifth Annual Report of the Massachusetts State Board of Health), the average loss of effective life by their premature deaths is 6.3 years each. Moreover, as those made insane by alcohol are generally made so at or before forty years of age, the loss of effective life for the insane should be based upon the loss in the three first decades, viz.: From twenty to forty in clusive, which is an average for each person, male and female, of 10.5 years. This gives a total loss of effective life for the 9,358 insane of 98,259 years, which, at a value of $150 per year, gives a loss to the nation of $14,738,850. If now we adopt Lopd Shaftesbury’s estimate of the percentage of insanity caused by alcohol, these figures should all be increased by 140 per cent., and we should have for loss of effective life 235,821 years, with an estimated value of $35,373,150. The annual cost of supporting the insane, rendered so by alcohol, would then be raised to $4,716,432. What does the nation lose by her idi ots, made so by alcohol ? The whole number of idiotic piersons reported in the census tables is 24,527, of which, on f he basis of Dr. How’s statistics, 11,953 caused by alcohol—the degenerate offspring of drunkards. If we correct these tables according to the views of F. B. Sanborn we have as the probable whole number of idiotic persons 35,040, and the number traceable to alcohol or its effects 17,080. The average cost for the care and support of these unfortunates must be at least $150 per year, making a loss to the nation of $2,562,000. Allowing that one-half of these persons, if they were not imbecile, would die before maturity, and thus would have no effective life,there remains for the others a loss to the nation of all the effective life to which they should have beeD entitled, or 37.46 years each, giving a total loss of 319,908 years, with an estimated value of $47,986,200. As crime may properly be considered in one sense but a form or symptom cf disease, and as it has been and perhaps fairly shown that at least three-fourths of all the crimes committed in this nation may be traced more or less directly to the in fluence of alcohol, in our estimate of the losses of the nation from alcohol, the cost of the crimes committed annually in the country, and traceable to the influence of alcohol should be included. Also their cost in the direct destruction of property the loss of effective life by murder and the punishment of criminals, and the oost of detecting, arresting, convicting and punishing the criminals. Greatly to my regret I have at hand no reliable data from which an approxi mate estimate of these immense losses to the nation may be computed. I think it is plain, however, that they must be counted by hundreds of millions. The loss, too, from accidents by sea and annually caused by alcohol, including loss of property destroyed and effective life lost by premature death of those killed, would foot up to millions. Also, if pauperism be not a disease it certainly has a very close relation to the diseases and diseased condition of the system caused by alcohol, and the losses of the nation for pauperism thus caused should also be included in this estimate. We have, however, no reliable data from which we are ablG to express these losses in figures. No doubt, however, the an nual losses from crime, accidents and pauperism attributable to alcohol would equal or exceed $1,000,000,000. We are sorry to see a popular error re garding heaven adopted by Mx. Moody in one of his recent discourses. It is that of interpreting the imagery of the visions described in the Book of Revelations as literal pictures of the abode of the bless ed. The fact is that what St. John saw was not a permanent state of things, but a special array of smybols, relating as much to this world as to the other. For example, the New Jerusalem, with its streets of gold, gates of pearl, and foun - dations of precious stones, is expressly declared to have been seen descending out of heaven upon earth. In like man ner, the great white throDe, with its sea of glass in front and its attendant angels standing round about, is, we are told, a prophecy of things to be hereafter There is newhere in the Bible any del scription of heaven as such, and wise men abstain from dogmatbsing concern ing it .—New York Sun. A little five-year-older, who was always allowed to choose the prettiest kitten for his pet and playmate before the other nurslings were drowned, was taken to his mother’s sick room the other morning to see two tiny new babies. He looked reflectively from one tc the other for a minute or two, then poking his chubby finger into the cheek of the plumpest baby, he said, decidedly, “Save this one. The Ames Company, of Chicopee ass., received on Saturday the order they have been anticipating for some time to make 200,000 scabbarda for angu lar bayonets, to be used in tho Turkish army, a,000 which they had sent the Providence Tool Company for inspec tion as samples of their work havW proved satisfactory. They are required to make 1,000 a day till the job is <W A Baptist missionary in Jacmel, Hayti says that his first sermon there was S t orbed successively by a drill of the na tional guard m front of the church, by tne whispered news of an insurrection at Port-au-Pnnce. and at last b^he££ try of soldiers to arrest men suspected of treason. The congregation did not seom to follow the thread of the discourse. Chicago, loveliest village of the nl«i„ whi«ky, tells us that Pha Sberidsn <&>£ four mules of great beauty mud sueed Doubtless the fire are souree of StSd sdtmrstion to the Pboecix City.—