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THE CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, JANUARY 4. New York Trade. The Herald gives a long account of the retail bnsiness in New York among the smaller dealers. The fall In gold and the appreciation In greenbacks has almost made a panic. Prices have fallen, though money Is more valuable. Firms are rushing their goods oil to escape a greater decline. General uneasiness prevails, and many failures are occurring. English Tippling. Whisky tippling is actually quitting off in England. In 1866 the British grog- driukers guzzled 30,014360 gallons of the ‘ craythur;” in 1868, only 29,407,4GO. The Scotch drink more than the Irish— twice as much on the average. Tills is a cnrlous fact. The air of Scot land. however, 1* conducive to toddy. The British revenue on all this liquor was 870,000,000. Stanton. The Radical honors paid to Stanton's memory have been many and brilliant. Ills funeral obsequies were marked by magnitude and ceremony. The Radical press have heaped eulogies upon his char acter. The other papers show the vestige of the cordial hatred that he Inspired in his enemies. Occasionally they blurt out a stinging ebnllitlop of bitter commentary that not even the charity of the tomb can restrain. But even his warmest cnlogista In their most fervent praise utter the keenest of condemnation. The Herald compliments him :£ the leading spirit of Lincoln’s sd- ni>lrtrationj but with unconscious, yet withering irony, strikes him hard by comparing his “ remorseless wrath ” with Lincoln’s tender humanity. Are! ‘•Remorseless!” True word! Bonttrcll’s Redaction of Circula tion. Boutwcll wants authority to contract the currency at the rate of two millions month. This question of contraction is one of the most puzzling of the financial questions of the day. The National Intelligencer has a table of the United States Currency since 1830, which we give as affording matter of in terest in connection with this thing ex pansion and contraction of currency: per. capita. *7 SO 8 0S IS 40 is as 14 00 12 GO 15 40 11 SO 10 70 800 cm 9 10 040 990 10W 11 10 10 GO IS 50 14 20 11 50 14 80 15 80 16 40 16 10 IS 70 14 00 10 40 14 SO 13 70 91 <0 27 40 38 GO 34 90 23 GO 22 80 22 00 21 20 Currency. S 93.00n.00S 119.700.000 183.000,000 905,000.103 222.000.000 903 000,000 233000,000 190,0.0,000 187 000,000 143.700 000 198 800,030 175000.000 ..... lWjOuO.OOO 9000 .... 240.000000 .... 234,700.000 .... 235.000,000 .... Sil.OOi.OX) .... aeoono.ooi .... 380000.000 418600.000 414,600 003 .... 4M9CO.OOU .... 471300.000 s'seooooo .... 458.800000 .... 457000000 .... 443.400,000 .. 482 50 *,000 ... 673.(20000 .... 743.000000 .... 751000000 ..... 850000.000 SM.0WW0 .... 830.(00^00 *32,000.000 The Feeling in Georgia. The Chicago Republican, in the main, is a very fair paper, bold enough to leave the Radical rut when it honestly differ*, and independent and original enough to differ from extreme Radical orthodoxy very of ten. Itut it docs sometimes show most egre gious prejudice, and misconstrues Southern IIcmooratlc sentiment most sadly. Under the caption heading these obser- v.itioi s. It comments on sundry extracts from Georgia papers, showing the feeling in Georgs* about tlie Georgia Bill. He first quotes Rom Mr. Hill,calling him an ox-Confcdcratc General, and makes this single comment on Mr. Hill’s letter to the Augusta Chronicle: It is noticeable that he keeps his advice to “say nothing” In true Milesian style, by stringing words together to the length of more than a column in small type. Tlie sarcasm is hardly fair. It then quotes from the Savannah Re publican, assuring it of “ renting its ma lignity.” a very nnwarantable aspersion on our dignified, fair-minded, and conser vative contemporary. It winds up Its reflections in the follow ing unjust and unkindly style: From these extracts, our readers can form some bleu of the tendency of affairs in Georgia. A vein of mingled despondency, malignity nnd doubt is plainly dlsrernable. The language is that of men who feel that, finally, they have readied the last dltcli. uml comprehend that the struggle is al most over. We look now for acquiescence. After the first storm of passion and resent ment hits spent Itself, we shall «pwt to see lovo of office triumph over the bitterness of defeat, and to fliitl the Democratic Sen ators nnd Representatives In their seats, striving to save something for themselves nnd their friends in the general wreck of plans and hope*. Culm. Os pedes, the Cuban President, has pub lished a proclamation stating the progress of the Cuban enure during the last year. The first Army Corps, under General fnvndn, lins grown from 800 to 10.000 men. 10.000 mounted nnd Instructed. They have (Might 117 lights, lost 3,300 killed, and 2.001 wounded. For every man lost, there arc ten to take Ills place. The second Army Corps, tinder General A.Cuvada. lias 12.000 men, has lost 7,000 men, mid fought 220 lights. The third Army Corps, under General .Iordan and Castello. lias 0,000 tnen, and has fought 1»3 fights. (Vipedes say* lie can count on 10.000 well-armed men with passable discipline. They are receiving supplies quite regular ly. They have made the enemy employ 73.000 troops, In the face of whom they have steadily expanded their territory. They have captured 1,026 Spanish soldier*. 0.329 stands of arms and 20 cannon. They have freed 115.000 slaves at a cost of 6100,- 000.000, nnd enrolled many as soldiers. They have waged » bum a no warfare znlnst the ntrocltlcn of the Spaniard* Cespcdc* compliments Jordan in the strongest term*. He I* confident of sue- cvs*. „ .. In response to a call from Congress, the President furnUho* a largo hatch of matter relating to Cuba, hut withholds a portion of the correspondence. The Spaniards lately formed a plot to as- aissinate the Cuban Generals, hut It was seasonably discovered. The late Intelligence of Cuba * undoubted success lias had its influence at Washing ton. The pressure is heavy for the recog nition of the Insurgents. And it is sup posed tlint early after the re assembling of Congress the matter will bejoassed Tlic Georgia Bill. —Ntnvvolutionnry measure of a Radical Congress has excited stronger feeling, or more general comment than the Georgia Bill* All of our exchanges, Northern and Southern, comment upon it freely. And to the credit of the moderate Republican pi pers North, be it said, that they.?peak its unmeasured condemnation. Radicalism surpassed itself in the nndac- 1830 1803 1835.. ... 1886 1887* 1888 1839 1810 1841 180 IMS . 1844 1845 1846 1WI..... 1848 18» I860 !«! 185* 18G8...: 1834 ; MS. 1948.. ..: 1861* 1858 ... 18W""""‘ " 1891* 186* 1863 I86*t 18651 1866 >867 1888 186* •Suspension. fUiRhest inflation dming snipen- lion. iBpring panic. The fluctuations are suggestive. A Phantom Ball. The latest novelty in the way of amuse ments has just been enacted in New York. Mrs. Geo, Townsend gave a Phantom Bali Christmas Eve. Every conceivable phase of ghostly character was present, Including demons, fairies, sprites, gnomes, witches, and down-right ghosts. The costumes were unique and rich. Over ten thousand dollars was spent In floral decoration. Hamlet’s Ghost was on hand, and did the agreeble to Scott’s Lady of the Lake. The Enchanted Prince bucked up to the-Wltch of Endor. The Black Imp was spooney on the Enchantress. The White Knight capered around the Maid of the Mist. The parties were all masked. The scene is rep resented by the Sun as bizarre and gorge ous, with n liberal and bewildering admix ture of the wlerd and supernatural. At midnight the unmasking took place in a perfect blaze of light. A minUnre Santa Claus sprang out from some mysterious place and showered beau tiful presents about. Every one got a rare gift. The snpper was in keeping. The city is all agog over the unique and original festivity. Oysters. The New York Herald has a racy article on the interesting edible at the head of this lender. It claims the Oyster merely to be an ap petizer. There are 7,000 Oyster Saloons in New York City, and 20,000 men are engaged in the retail branch of tlie Oyster business. Over 1,000000 dishes are sold daily In the city, of which one-half ore stews; one- fourth, fries; one-sixth, raws; the rest roasts nnd broils. The average receipts of a saloon are $30 per day, or 6210,000 for all, or 650.000.000 for tho 9 months, that make tlie Oyster season. The wholesale trade amounts to near 64S.000.000 more—making 6100.000.000 as the Oyster business of New York City. Pretty large item that for one little wee bit of a “ marine acephalous mollusk of tho lamelllbranctriabo order of the gems ostrea,” all of which big concern of a name means simply Oyster. Tin- oyster lias neither jaws or teeth, but a sort of lips. It may not be wholly an uninteresting fact to the woman’s Rights renders of Tint Constitution that tho fe male oysters largely outnumber the gentle men. Ttic oyster can sec, but can’t move. The oyster Is propagated by eggs. Tho spawning occur* between May anil A ugnst It matures In seven years. At six months It. Is no idgger than a very email egg, and doulde* in size in a year. If 1,000 bushels are planted In tlie beds, nnd onn-thlrd live, they will increase from 2,500 to 3,000 bush el* in four years Tlio largest oysters measure n foot in length, hut the average of tlie largest class is seven Indies by six. But theso whop- |icr* only are called for by one-twelfth of tlie caters. One-half of tlie whole con sumers use tlie smallest oysters. We must confess wo like tiiosmaller fry. Tho hugo chap* stick in our throat, and are rank nnd gross Over 10.000 men are engaged in shipping oysters to New York The oyster beds stretch for 3,000 miles on the Atlantic coast, and wo are very confident one of them trots right in to Atlanta. <)ti Social Demoralization A day or two ago wo alluded to tlie culpability of Journal* In recording too lavishly and orinntely the revelries of crime, and the carnivals of Immorality, A New York correspondent of a Western paper touches graphically upon tho same theme. But be relieves the journalist and blames the public, that demands such a diet. He declares that the public taste North is so prurient, so false, so morbid, that It will ho satisfied with nothing but there highly seasoned mental carrion This puts an even graver aspect upon the social condition. I f the journals but traefc the appetite ot the general reader, and this banquet of festering putridity is the only food the caterers can sell, it shows bow rotten to the core is that society. We reproduce some of the paragraphs of this vigorous writer: Details, which a quarter of a century ago, or even ten years ago, would have been deemed too brutal and disgusting to be tolerated even in the dirty gossip of a Five Points grogshop- are now blazoned forth with scrupulous exactness and utter shamelessness, as Hie spiciest titbits of the daily repast. Hungry reporters mouse for them as eagerly and gloat over them as triumphantly as theso gold-prospectors over nuggets If necessary, their fertile _ imaginations are liberally drawn upon to itv of tills measure. Grant that party nc-. - lo ench a bit of scandal and to each • . . .1 . ACM nnr 7 . e l 2a. J..o nmnorfinno - If DOUGHERTY AGAIN. A Scathing Review of the Fifth- teenth Amendment. KUUBEB Jim 'What is meant by and included in the 15th Amendment? It proposes to make permanent and per petual the right of every citizen of the United States of America to vote. It de clares this right shall not be abridged either by the United States or any State, “ on account of race, or color, or previous condition of servitude.” It averts: 1. That the United States as well as the State Governments, has the right to de clare the right of the citizen to vote. When did, or where did snch a power accrne to the United States Government? It usurped during the war. and since, in its dealing with these States? Are yen satis fied that it Is a saffi depositar of this power? It is an artful and cuno.ng con trivance, by which the people are made to recognize this right, and such a recogni tion will be used as a grant of this power. 2. The right to abridge is limited only to one thing: “Race, color nnd previous con dition of servitude.” So that both the United States of America, as well as the States,can abridge.the right of the citizen to vote, for any other reason or for any other cause. Er.pressio amicus est ezcliisio al iens. Docs a party in power hereafter wish to perpetuate their hold to office and plunder? Under this grant Congress could easily throttle the people by disfranchising such portion of them as it desired. The grant is ample. The pretext could be easily found ont by an astute Congress. Will that party in power do this thing? They have done It once in violation of Constitu tional right. Will they refuse to do it. with n full grant of power delegated to it. Bat it professes to protect this right of the citizen by giving to Congress the right to secure it by “ appropriate legislation.” “ This is the Greek horse.” It has tlie ele ments of destruction on its very vitals. Protect the rights of the people? Away with such offers of good. - Tiomo Danaous dona forenlos.” “ Appropriate legislation.” What is the use? Why put in this section? No snch grant is attached to any of the other fundamental provisions of the Constitu tion, except the 14th. If the purpose was to secure to the citizen the right to vote, why not declare it—as the old Constitu tion does—in securing the right of trial by jury and personal liberty, and integrity of their contracts in religions rights and privileges do? Has it been found out that tlie citizens have been -unsafe in their great rights here tofore? The only serious complaints on that subject, that ever was heard, has been the hostile acts of the t’.S A. Government. Has tlie citizen no protection for these con stitutional privileges? .Most ample. The State Legislatures, the State courts and the Federal courts have stood guard over tlie rights of the people and they have been well seconded. Will it he said that it was dangerous to trust this right with tlie State Legislatures? Why so? The oath of each member to support the Constitu tion of the United States of America would have prompted hostile legislation. But if snch act, under strong political ex citement, should be passed, the right is clear for the citizen to resist it, either in the State or Federal courts. This has been fonnd to be a security in the past, why not try It for the future? New. untried and dangerous experiments must be resorted to. Is universal suffrage such a great improve ment in political science that most extra ordinary verdict must be-pot on loot for its preservation? If so, it is remarkably strange that it has never been incorporated in the Constitutions of the Northern States, where involuntary servitude lias not existed for long years, and where all the people have been educated. Is it true that “previous smitude" eminently befits people to excel in this high prerogative of a citizen ? If so, the white people in these reconstructed Stales will be in a good con dition in a few years to mau-igc the affairs of State. It is not true that the sole purpose and aim of the projectors .of this amendment is to secure the right of the negro to vote In the States, for under tt e provisions of this bill the State governments could ex clude the larger body of these persons from the ballot by attaching a property or educational qualification. But the sole purpose and aim Is to vest in Congress u specific grant of power on the subject of regulating the right of citizens to vote, and thus acquire liie foothold in the States. Having thus entered, tinder this pretence. It would use the power thus acquired lor all purposes. • ' , It gives to Congress a surprising control of the elective franchise of the several States, ami In fact the power can be used to make permanent (lie party in power. I do not see what is to hinder Congress in tho exercise of this power from ap pointing the managers, clerks and police, and thus control every tax on all the State*. It completely and compactly lay* tho foun dation for the establishment of the depart ment of Congress at the sacrifice of the liberties of the people. The friends of tills measure are the friends of absolute pow er—and tho enemies of popular liberty. I prefer a military government, with nil It* wrongs, to suen it one as this. And we hear it said wo mnst do tills great wrong for peace—that we may escape from the present precarious condition in which our country Is now placed. Congress cun then do constitutionally, what It does not now do—endow military rule. Indeed. It will establish worse than military despotism in this country. It would give us peace, hut It would be the peace of prisons nnd the quietude of tho grave. We nre toldI that ft give* tho blessings of universal suffrage to tlie Northern States—nnd If not adopted, the negroes at tlie Nortli will como South to get the right to vote. This Is Ideal. I never knew a people to move Just to secure the right to enjoy the ballot. But If they will thus bo induced, will It not be a strong inducement tor thorn all to concentrate In tho South, In order that they may have to go there for profit in politics? Will the right of voting given to the colored man In a State where tho majority of the whites is overwhelmingly large, likely ke i> bi n there? Will ho not be more likely t<> some to bis race at the South If he I* am 1 ' tlous when ho Is assured that tills right is perma- Wo have not much to fear from tills evil, if an evil. We want population; wc need laborers—and it may be os well to get this people to live with us, ns others Hint are now songht r.ftcr by our people. W e know Coffee in all Ills varieties, and we can ac commodate ourselves to suit him in all his phases, but John Chinamatt l* a stronger to us, and will be for ages to come. It is more natural, more pleasant and more In conformity with divine appoint ment for the descendants of Ham to “dwell in our tents.” But besides, it is not just to attempt a Barrick. The following extract from the Carrier’s Address of the Eta. written by its poet local, Mr. Watson, is a graceful and feeling tribute to a brother poet, who has left a sweet memory behind him, and to whose genins The Constitution owes a deep debt: If there’s aught tor which we blame him it Is that bis hard «i|<l fall Upon one who was the bravest, truest and loveli est >'t us Ml: Ah. why Sbnnia he slay ven, Barrick. who were the kindliest of your race. With the snnlightoriove and heaven so pure upon yonr facet our lire* _ai time of thr year. The very flrst flowers he gave ns, we scattered them on yonr bier; And a pauper the year had grown for the manly worth or yon Who were strong-sonlcd, weak-framed, so tender, gentle and true Oh. singer at home now in ether, amid a celes tial throng, I think yonr tool is singing the burden of that new song „ The echo of which came to Von in the light of yonr golden days. :cn the hill-lops and skies wore blended and kissed in a purple haze. I think yon arc singing now up yonder where stars in heaven glow Bythcba ks of tint radiant river whose glim- Closebv tie throne of the Father of song and bear upon each w- ve Echoes f anthems to ns-ward no farther iban tho grave. >n,si . jlow | Sing on, where in ether yonr songs shall have perpetual flow 1 g on. s’n arc 1>le»t And the bard old year that weatied ns has given vou your rest. Valuable Statistics. The foreign trade for the yeara 1868 and I860 shows thus: Domestic Re-exports, exports (roreif Months Imports (mixed commo, values) ties.) Sept., 18G9 *38632.797 *29 093.424 *2.783,6(16 Sept. 1863.... ... 84 524 091 22 687.253 150 052 9 raos end. Sept 69 3 4 573 934 324.8Xi.798 22164.199 9 mos end Sept 63 936.023183 330,412.900 18 670 0SC Proportion transported in America and foreign vessels and vehicles in September. I860: Imports Exports Re-exports American *129335'.2 *41.210.337 *876.813 Foreign 25 699215 13.433 031 1,912 929 Proportion transported in America and foreign vessels and vehicles during the nine months ended Sept. 3), I860: Imports Exports Re-exports. American *114 372318 *104469.295 *13232471 Foreign 250.131,616. 2I7291.G03 8.931.72S The following are such commodities as exceeded $1,000,000 in the imports for Sep tember: Free of Duty—Gold coin. $1.311.447; sil ver coin, $1,796,292. Dutiable—Coffee, $1.- 713.295; manufactures of cotton, $i.718,- 862; manufactures of flax. $1,510 205; hides and skins other than furs. $1,136,766; man ufactures of silk, $2,451,262; brown suvar, $3.169 453; tin. and manufactures of, $1,- 012.30S: iron ami steel, and manufaerpers of. $3 437.431; wood, and manufacture* of. $1,365,074; wool, sheeps’, goats’ and camels’ hair, and manufactures of. $4,147,968. The principal commodities exported dur ing tlie month of September, 1869, were as follows: Live animals. S95.6S7; corn meal, $182,- 497; wheat. $3,585 317; wheat flour. $2,419,- 166; coal. $182,553; cotton and manufac tures of, $2,143.869; dyestuff-,$110.763; furs, and fur skins. $79,484; gold bullion, $766.- 24C; gold coin. $274,590: silver bullion. $1,- 002377; silver coin, S1G4.398; hops. $lj>9.- 427; iron, and manufactures of, $485,172; steel, and manufactures of.$171,036; rosin and turpentine. $93 934; oil cake, $250,695; refined petrolium, *3.050.277; bacon and bams. $459,894; beef. $110.167; cheese, $1,- 255.890; lard. $477,875; pork', $308,504; quicksilver, $100,050; sewing machines, and parts of,! $149,138; distilled spirits, $145,036; spirits of turpentine, $255,309; tallow. $263,111; leaf tobacco, $2,901,716; manufactures of tobacco, other than cigars, and snuff. $150,132; wood and manufac tures of, $331,602. Tlie warehouse transactions for Septem ber are shown by customs, districts and commodities, respectively. The value of commodities remaining in warehouse Sep tember 30, 1869. was $50,250,601, against $43,229,089, Sept. 30.1868. WASHINGTON .JOURNALISM Gossip About It—Flopping About. It is worthy of note, that tho Baltimore American has secured the services of the "war correspondent” of the Sun, as its Washington correspondent. To those who recollect how this gentleman was abused by the American, which so often sought to impugn his veracity tho selection might seem curions, were it not understood tnat the Baltimore American, and the paper published hero under the once honored name of tho National intelligencer, nfo rowing in the same bruit. Tlie American is deserting its Radical friends to secure Dem ocratic patronage, nnd to bring about a combination, or ring, which shall control tho State of Maryland in tho interest of a few men, whose names could he mcntioied if desirable. The Intelligencer, after flop ping feebly about under its new manage ment for a time, is now on tho same plat form os tho American. When Mr. Delmnr first assumed control, the paper was for somo days neither fish, flesh, fowl, or good red herring! Then it announced itself as “ a white man’s paper,” “ Democratic to the core,” etc., etc., and for a time preached sound constitutional doctrines. Mr, Del- mar even went so far ns to state that*no person not a Democrat could find employ ment at the Intelligencer office; forgetting, possibly, that ho himself had held office under a Republican administration. One of tho preaent editorial cores of tho Intelli gencer is tho So-called "Professor,” J.'H. Wilcox, who is a rabid Abolitionist, and'ho takes great credit to himself for the i)art,;ho says, bo took in securing the abolition of slavery. It is here whispered about that General B. F. Butler is the power behind the Intelligencer throne, and that Wilcox is tho representative of his interests. Y, [Wash, Cor. Bal. Gazette. Literary Litter. Tho Louisvillo Commercial, a new ftc publican daily, lias made its appearance.' Lexington, Ky., is to have a monthly called tho Prophetic Key, devoted, to tho exposition of the prophetic Scriptures. Wbat shall it prophet a man to read it?' Than are forty-one newspapers and 'six weekly, literary and scientific journals pob- lished in Athens, Greece. Lottery In New York. A heavy assault is being made in New York on the lottery business. Certain big squabbling between Ben Wood and John Morrissey has ventilated sundry objection able matters, to tbe disparagement of the business. The Now York Herald thus truculently scores it: There should be an end of all this, and Jadge Barnard can do no better service to the public, than to sweep these demoraliz ing policy shops from the island. The tickets in which they deal come from the authorized lotteries in the States of Mis souri, Kentucky, Delaware, Georgia and Louisiana; but they are no more lawful in New York than is an Indiana divorce or Mormon polygamy. The United States Government recognizes these lotteries in the States in which they are established, and In the States in which their tickets are sold hy a tax on them; but even upon this head, it appears that the Government has not been paid by many thousands of dol lars, tbe taxps clue from the shops in this city. From the last affidavit of the Wood party, it appears that the lottery agencies of this city, involved in these Supreme litigations, arc embodied in 120 shares; that John Morrisseyjand Zachariah E. Sim mons sold out resently to Wood their in terest (less, we infer, than one-fourth of the whole concern) for the sum of $200,000; that another individual of the Morrissey elan sold out ten shares for the sum of $60,- 000. retaining a lien thereon for upward of $50,000; that this business in the aggre gate amounts to several millions of dollars in this city. Outside of this affidavit we are informed that the sales of these lot tery tickets in this city average about $20,000 a day, say for 300 days in the year which amounts annually to $6,000,000; that deducting tlie costs of the numerous dens and employees of the managers engaged, and incidental expenses, the sales may be set down as pretty much all clear profit— tho praises occasionally allowed being only a part of the busines to stimulate sales where they may be falling off; that thou sands of young men are ruined by this spe cies of gambling, and hundreds of poor families are reduced to want from the in fatuation of fathers and mothers in these purchases of lbttery tickets; that even re spectable merchants and professional men, supposed to have more sense than tho fool ish negroes of Laurens street, are some times wrecked in these policy shops. Surely there is a fearful margin for the increase of poverty and crime in the sale of these lottery gambling checks to the ex tent of $6,000,000 a year. The business has, in fact become a terrible nuisance, of the Peter Funk order, calling'urgently for the intervention of the strong arm of the law for its abatement. If Judge Barnard, there fore, would do this community a great and memorable service, he will at once proceed to sweep the whole batch of these lottery policy shops from this island. When the gamblers concerned have the audacity and the power to bring our courts of law into them squabbles over the spoils, surely tlie time has come for a general clearing out. OUR MISSOURI LETTER. Don’t Buy Pork Now. St. Louis, Dec. 24,1869. Editor Constitution: Ton will see. from last quotations in this and other western markets, that the article of pork has de clined from $3 to So per barrel. All the people of the South should do. is to hold off and not buy until they are. com pelled. to get cheap meats. Let them use up nil their surplus before buying a barrel of pork at present rates. Sixty days lienee they will get mes3 pork $5 per barrel cheap er than now. There is no outlet for the packing tills season but to the Southern country, and St. Lonis, Chicago, and Cincinnati are full of hog meats. _ They can not ship East or to Europe at present prices, and the only market is the South. Tho Booth would act the fool to come in and help these hog and provision sharks to sustain the market. No. let tho planters hold off, and both use nnd buy sparingly, and they have the game in their own hands this season. Flour $o to 6; beef 10 to 12c; and pork $30 to 32— *• Shoo. fly. don’t bodder me! ” Yours, Alabaman. Futiny Farrago. How long docs a widow mourn for a hus band ? She mourns for a second. Lucy Stone tlilnkshoys are like vinegar— tlie more “ rnOThcr” In them tho sharper they are. A few mile* from Nashville there is an old negro** who is one hundred years old. She says, “ Do Lo’d done forgot to call for ‘•Werevou ever at Cork, Mr. Foote?” said an Irishman to the commcdlan. “ No, I never was at Cork.”rcp11ed tho wit; “hut I have been nt a great many drnwinga of it.” A Spaniard In tho first pages of his Eng lish Grammar, desiring, one evening, to bo helped to some boiled tongue, said: “1 will thank you, Mis*, to pas* mo tho Inn Political. The London Spectator consider* Score tnry Boutwcll a child in finance. Hi* flan, the writer continues, of forbidding ntorest on deposits and limiting advances on collateral*, Is idiotic. A correspondent, writing to Zion's Her aid, Boston, say* that quiet U so fur re stored In Georgia that bo believes tlie timo for killing Methodist preacher* has gorio by forever. - -- ----- „ - There are 185,227 volumes in the Con retaliation upon the Northern people. It —jggiona] Library, exclusive of pamphlets they wish the negroes, or women »rchil-^ i t d ! ’“‘” d .^ il ^ if dren of this section to vote, they cm give it, nn ° . a, ° to them and will do it. Their negroes are The New York Tribune office is to be educated (or ought to be for they have been rebuilt next season, the work beginning on to school long enough to b?.) end If they : the 1st of May. The new edifice, which do not see the wisdom of oinfrring tlie will embrace the Sunday Times and Mes - baliotnpon them, we ought not to com- senger office, will rival this Herald and plain. It is no concern of oors. The; Times buildings. trouble is the old one of our fathers. “ Let „ , every State manage its own internal con-j cerns to suit itself.” Who is it that thus: ccssltics required it, the blindest can not but see that the precedent is gravely dan gerous to liberty. The matter involves a serious question of all State independence. In all the exultation of success, the Bad- icals secretly tremble at the consequences ahead. One other feature or this business we re fer to The ventilation of Gov. Bullock has been perfect. Col. Tiffs denunciation of lilm as a “thief, liar and coward,” has gone into every paper in the country. Every editor is thoroughly familiar with tbe charges against him. And some of the most censuring comment has come from Republican papers. This is of course highly satisfactory to the Governor, and a compensation for any little trouble and expense lie may have been to in his philanUiropical endeavor for—Bnllock, costs Napoleon $5,000 to give dinners. He will give but works have not ennan, the previous not having paid GOV. BULLOCK. His Arrival in Georgia—Federal Troops tinder the Pretext of De serter Hunting. Meet Him at Dalton-y-A Royal Joke. Dalton, Ga., Dec. 31, 1S69. Dc&r Constitution; Truly, “ The wicked flee -ichen no man pursueth. Yesterday morning, at 2 o'clock, r. m., the up passen ger train brought to our city a squad, of fifteen or twenty of the bine-coated guar dians of Georgia liberty, (?) (God save the mark.) Armed to tlie teeth, they looked as ferocious as if they had breakfasted on Kn-Klux and expected to dine on the same delectable food. Wherefore we were hon ored with their presence they did not keep us long in suspense, but with utmost assidu ity set about to inform everybody that they had come up in quest of some desert ers, who had taken French leave of the Atlanta camps. This information relieved us vastly as we knew not who might be mistaken for a Kn-Klux and eat np sans ceremonte. Bnt in their excessive eager ness to convince everybody that to arrest deserters—” only this and nothing more”— was their business, they went a little too far. and let the cat out of the bag. The Lieutenant Commanding determin ed to pnt tbe matter beyond doubt, pro ceeded to the office of our worthy Justice of the Peace, Squire L > and gravely asked him if he was a civil officer. The Sqnire replied that he was. Upon which the Lieutenant Y'ank very meekly begged that he would be so condesendingly kind as to furnish him with an officer authorized to make an arrest, so that he might proceed legally to arrest some deserters from tbe United States army l Completely over powered by the enormity of the compli ment, Squire L placed tbe entire civil police ot the city at his disposal, and the Lieutenant, chuckling over the success of Ids ingenious blind proceeded to Kicth Station, where he arrested • three Federal soldiers, whom lie had himself put off tbe train that morning, with orders to remain until he returned and arrested them. They were brought back to town under guard. The deserter tale had now exploded. For the idea of employing a civil officer to ar rest a military deserter, when the military was on the spot, was an Idea so supremely ridiculous that the most credulous could not take it down. But the Lieutenant nnd his men remained in blissful ignorance, and were, I suppose, secretly compliment ing themselves on tlie approved style in which they had hoaxed tlie benighted Rebs. This farce being exploded, the curious among 11s employed themselves in watching tlie movements of tho Squad, with a view to learn what important mat ter had rendered necessary so nice (?) a piece of finesse. Soon their labor was rewarded, for on the arrival of the East Tennessee train tlie de serter-hunting squad was sfccn to rush frantically to it ; and when they had scour ed the country on both sides to see that there was “nary ” Ku-Klux lurking round, forthwith descended His most Royal Maj esty, King Cow-ox I, accompanied by His Royal Highness, Grand Duke Bloster Fod- get. nnd others ot His Majesty’s court, and ivas received within ilie ii vincible ranks of the aforesaid deserter-hunting squad; whereupon His Majesty drew a mighty sigh of relief, and all of the court sighed in unison—for mirabile diclu, they had ac tually traveled through twelve miles of Georgia territory unquarted, and had not been Ku-Ktuxed; and now safe behind the bayonets of the deserter-hunters, and there by protected from the caresses of his lov ing subjects. His Majesty and court pro ceeded to Atlanta, whore I suppose lie has since arrived and assumed his throne. CONNUB1ALITIES. Wc met—heigh bo I A year ago; To -co was to adore you; At least. I know I told yon so. And many more before you. I bade yon speak— Yonr Mashing check Referred mo to your mother; Yet. fatal freak. Within a week Yon flirted with another. My hopes were bright. My cares were light. No fa to our love* could sever; And now, to-night, I have to write— Adien. adieu,*forercr! DEAD IN TBE STREET. Under the lamp.lights, dead In the s’reet. Delicate, fair and only twenty; Dalton begs its compliments be present ed to the deserter-hunters. P. Georgia News. Macon is to have a new bank with a cap ital of $200,000. 0 The Columbus Enquirer reports the deatli of Sherift' John R. Ivoy. Tlie Macon Telegraph Messenger reports the demand for tunics lighter this than last year. They range from $150 to $275. The Savannah News says that last month seventeen licenses to marry were issued to negroes and thirty-six to whites. Tlie Rome Southerner nnd Golumhus En quirer endorse tlie call for the Executive Committee to meet. The Griffin Star reports the killing of Green Wiggins by Sir. Whittle, of Merrl- wethcr, in self defense. Cause, Christmas nog. In Doubt.—A hopeful view of tho Geor gia Legislature. as it will bo left after the now reconstruction law i* applied, will bo found in tho article Which wo cony from Tub Atlanta Constitution, Werfionldbo rejoiced to find that that paper is correct In it* calculations. But we fear that it will find that a sufficient number of Democrats will be turned out to give Bullock tbo working majority ho seek*.—Columbus Enquirer, No! No!! No!!!—Somo of our State Democratic paper* are urging the Demo crat* of tho Legislature to resign, hoping thereby to defeat the plans ot the Radical*, by leaving tho Lcgl*latu*e,wlthout a quo- fl As wo love iiurdonr old State, ns wc love our family, and its we wluc tho peace and good order of society, wo eliull oppose any such n suicidal policy, even If wo should be drummed out of the newspaper busines* for 10 doing .—Rome Southerner J.E. Bryant, writing from Washington on Christmas day, »ny* that there Is no evldenco against Turner. Bryant further support* tho idea of calling n convention In Georgia to get tlie Georgia bill repealed. Ho mako* till* statement 1 I am in favor of tho General Assembly pasting a healing act after It 1* ro-organlzed. Then the only change that will be made will hu to reseat the colored member* and THE NEW YORK SUN, It Ammn.es the Role of Democratic ^ai^Thert '^if ho no‘chanwof Auvmcr. Judge*, of State Homo officer*, or of uny the pemocbatic party ought to look I other officers. abead. democratic Duty.—If It were possible The death of Mr. Stanton leave* two va- to prevent a quorum of the Legislature concle* on tbo bench of tlie Supremo Court, from assembling under Bullock s procia- Tiiey will bo filled by men holding »ub- raation by any legal action on our part, It srnntlallv the same opinions which ho en- was and f* still our opinion that U ought tertalned concerning thecordlnal measures to bo done. But since It 1* very doubtful employed in suppressing tho rebellion nnd whether the absence of every Democrat In reconstructing the Insurgent State*, In- the body would accomplish that end, the eluding the 13th nnd 14th Amendments, and next he*t thing in our judgment U to adopt tho lBth. soon to bo adopted. When these every possible legal meant to reduce the scats aro filled. Judges Nelson nnd Clifford Radical strength of that body, and by the will ho tho only representatives in this Im- adoption of every honorable means either portant tribunal of the old epoch of Taney to control It or neutralize It for harm, and McLean. All the other members of [Savannah News. the Court will have received tbolr appoint- Meeting of the Georgia Dental So- ments from either Mr. Lincoln or Gen. ciety.—Yesterday morning tills Society Grant. met, with Dr. Clark, the newly elected It has been rumored that Judge Nelson President, In tlio chair. More gentlemen will soon follow tho example of his long- of the profession were present than we saw time associate, Judge Grier, and retire from any previous day, and more good cheer was the bench, leaving bis seat to be filled by expressed on every hand. It may not be Spnrno<l by *11 tbat I* pure and sweet. Passed by busy and careless feet— Hundreds bent- upon Tolly and pleasure. Hundreds with plenty, time and leisure— Leisure to sneed Christ’s ml'slon below. To teach the erring and raiso tho lowly— Plenty in charity’s name to show That life has something dlvino and holy. Boasted charms—classical brow. Delicate features—look at them row 1 Look atherllns-oncetheveonld smile: Ryes, well never more shall they beguile; Nevermore, never more, word* or her’* Ablnsb sh II bring to the saintltcst race. She has found, let us hope and trust, Peaco in a higher and better place. And yet, despite of all, still. I ween. Joy of some heart she must have been. Somo fond mother, prond of tbe task. Has stooped to linger the dainty curl; Somo proud father ha- bowed to ask A blessing for hor, his darling girl. Hard to think, as wo look at her there. Or all the tenderness, love and care. Lonely watching and sore heart-ache. All the agony, burning tears, _ d hopf , and f car , ■etsr"- Fancy will picture a home afar, Ont where tre daisies and hntterenps arc, Out where life-giving breezes blow. Far hem theso sodden streets, foul and low; Fancy will picture a lonely hearth. And an aced conplo dead to mirth. Kneeling beside abed to nray; Orlylng awako ’o nights to hark For a thing that may como in tho rain au-l the dark. .-eve,. they never know She whom they cherished so Lies this night loneacd low, Dead in tbe street. SPANISH VENGEANCE. Ten Cubans Tried by Drum-head Court Martial and Shot. Havana Cor. of the New York World. | On tho night of the 12tli of December, two Spaniards, named Torres and Cuni— the first a Sergeant, and the second a Cor poral of volunteers—were killed in the lit tle villago of Lagunillas, situated a few miles southwest of Pinar del llio. Torres was found with not less than eighteen stabs, most of them mortal ones, while Cuni was nearly as much mutilated. The murderers of the men at first were unknown, butsoon it became suspected and then generally be lieved, that they must have been killed by certain parties related to two young Cuban women of the village, to whom the two murdered Spaniards were ascertained to have made dishonorable advances, which were most probably repeated the night of the murder. Tho Spanish loyalists became furious from this killing of two of their comrades, and as soon as suspicions were directed to the parties in question, proceed ed to arrest them, and more upon venge ance bent than upon doing justice, tried them by drum-head* court-martial. Not less than ten men were arraigned before this military tribunal upon the charge of murdering the two Spaniards, to which was added by somo unexplained legal jugglery, the charge of disloyalty. After a short session, and quick proceedings at variance with all known rules of law and civilized practices, the accused parties not being al lowed any defense, this tribunal for venge ance declared ail of the ten accused guilty of the charges proffered against them, nnd sentenced them to bo shot. No opportuni ty to appeal from such a sentence, or time to prepare for death, were allowed to the unfortunate ones. ,At 2 r. m. the doomed victims were marched, under military es cort, from San Juan Martinez to Lagunillas, arriving there at 3:30 o’clock, and in half an hour more they were all shot, in the presence of a largo crowd of Spanish loy alists, somo of whom outraged death itself by yelling and shouting for joy, when the Spanish bullets ended tho existence of ten of their fcllow-incn. Interesting: Facts. The battle field ot ChnncellorsvHla has beoBbought by a Baltimore gentleman for The comjiosltlon of the United States five nnd three cent piece* Is une*fourth nickel; the balance Is copper. Only forty student* now attend the Uni versity of Bouth Carolina. Six of its nine professor* resigned during tho last year. ThnOnvcrnmontlin* granted to r*1lron<1» 480.890)794 acre* or public lands, nr 200.454 square miles—equal to the combined nre* or Groat Britain and France. The British Government will receive over $5.0004)00 a* legacy duty from the estates of tlie Marquis of Westminster, Earl Der by nnd Mr.i’eubody. New York city ha* 421) churches. «f which 47 are Baptist.63 Methodist Episco pal, 71 Old School Preubvtcrbin. 96 Protes tant Episcopal, and 39 Catholic. The clergy cost tlio United State* $12.- 000.000 per annum; tlie criminals $10,(100. 000; tho lawyers $70,0004)00. nnd rum $209, 000,000. THE BYRON BUSINFSS. A Fresli Chapter for Sensation- I ♦ * Mongers. An entirely now solution of tlio Byron mystery is furnished by it writ or in the Madras Mail, who says that “his .'.iihcr had it from ono of Lord Byron’s most intimate friends.” According to this lively corre^ pondent, whose story wo find in The Echo, “Lord Byron was, in a sense, a devil. In credible as tho thing may seem to the thoughtless, tho handsomest man in Etig- land had a small tail, a pair of rudimentary horns, and short, squab feet divided for wards from tlio instep into two part*, in stead of being furnished with toes. , Before ho was born, his mother had been once greatly terrified by seeing, wh n in a very dehcrato state of health, the ectobroted pic ture of Satan Spurned, in tbo gallery of La Uaye, and the result had Ikjcu the fash ioning of her child to somo extent after the monstrous form of which tho sight can«c<l her alarm, and of which the continuous recollection could not be effaced bv any means known to her physicians. At tho time of her ccnfinemont it was at first sag. gested that the monstrosity shonld not bo suffered to live, but tho child’s body, as a whole, was so perfectly shaped, and his face so wondrously beautiful, that the sug gestion was forthwith put aside, and Eng land was not deprived of what was to be come in dno time ono of its chicfost orna ments. Poor Lady Byron never recovered wholly from the shock caused by herdis- covery of what her husband really was; and partly through excess of imagination, and partly in consequence of bad advice from persons who shall be nameless, she felt it to bo her duty to insist upon her husband subjecting himself to certain pain ful operations. But this Lord Byron ob stinately refused to do. lie urged, and with considerable forco, that the peculiar manner in which ho wore Ms abundant cnrls effectually hid from view the rudi mentary horns; and that, as he never ap peared in public without his boots and trousers, none would ever suspect the ex istence of his other defects, with the ex ception of his valet, in whom he placed im plicit confidence. Georgia Reconstruction. Astonishing as the Georgia reconttruc- tion bill is by itself, it becomes more so when one reads the arguments by wiiicli It is defended. Georgia has been admitted to the Union under a solemn act of Con gress or, in other words, under a pledge of the nation, after having formally fulflihsl all the conditions exacted of her by the original reconstruction acts. What the supporters of the present bill say In sup port of the theory that she is not in the Un ion is that her Senators had not been ad mitted to tlicir places in the Senate, the ma jority of the Senate pronouncing them dis- qimlificd.somcthing which might h*p|*cii to New York to-morrow, and this is trraveiv given’now as a reason why Hie General Government may overturn the State Gov ernment. and put the people under martini law, and impose fresh conditions of recon struction. The expulsion of the negro members of the Legislature was a great outrage, but the constitutionality fit It was very sensibly, on President Grant's recom mendation, submitted to the court or the State. The Supremo Court lias accordingly decided that it was unconstitutional, and it now remains for the Legislature to abide by the judicial decision, which it is gener ally believed it will do when it meets in January. Bnt the promoters of the pres ent measure, apparently having a hor ror of the slow ami regular pro cesses of American jurisprudence, ami being enamored of impartial way* of set tling things, refuse to wair, and have ac cordingly passed an act repudiating the legislation of last winter, over which tlie country toiled and sweated so much, break ing the public faith, ami setting a shocking example for contempt of law. The worst of it is that one of the excuses pnt for ward in defense of this high-handed vio lence is that It is done for the protection of negroes nnd loyal men against the vio lence of their neighbors, as if flic wav to provide for tlicir protection was fo keep them before the eyes of their fcllow-ehi- zens ns tlie cause of the subversion of tlio State Government; autl as if the n speed of juries and magistrates for the law of the land cotdd he promoted by exhibitions of Congretional disregard for it; and as if— in case the public opinion of Urorgia ran not. or ought not, lie trusted to for tlie pro tection of Georgia citizens—we ought not at once to provide permanent gendarmerie and Federal magistrate*, armed with sum mary processes, instead of chesting the negro and tho loyal white* with airy noth ing* called " provisional government,” or “martial law”—thing* that have just enough iubstance to Irritate, end not enough to afford the smallest protection either for life, or limb, or property. Mr. Bingham made a strong and able protest against the farce, bnt In vain. [Tlie Nation tl the ablest Radical iiaper In the country].—AT. 1*. Nation. Population Witntal. Editor Constitution: A mania tar mov ing away seem* to have taken hold of the people living near nnd adjacent to Rome. Ever slnrti (September, they have I,.■<•»» go ing by 10,90 and 80; a few day* ago, forty- three went In ono body, and shortly IhOo-c •17. It I* estimate I that at least one-third of tlie farmers In Floyd County have li ft, and more arc going. Now wc want yon to a**ist tia in siop- tdngtld*. Our stdl 1* productive, suitable to raising cotton, wheal and toiaicen and corn. A* to health, there I* no healthier country, nnd wo will welcome all farmers and mechanics with open arm#. Wo havo plenty of merchants and professional men. Many farm* are unoccupied, and the iwners will will them or rent on most fa- Tlio hog* kilted In the principal Western pork depots, up to November 27tb. 1869, !SdS. n t # M(jV U «S b to MSSttSrfc I v»r*Ma terms. They will furnish the farm- agalnrt 800,442 tip to the same date »• | ln)I implements, team* and teed for team*, and give the renter half, or even more. We are feeling the abaenee of farmer* IruadfiiBy In every branch of trade. Tlie merchant* (ay they are not willing half what they did la*t year. All throe tiling* combined, will make u* extend a more hearty welcome to all farmer* and mechan ic*. Friend or Gborota. 1808. Nineteen national bank* have, since the war either failed or voluntarily retired. Tlicir aggregate circulation* amounted to $1,004,690; which, of course, will he ull re deemed. Tbe Louisiana 1’enltcntlary lin* 341 in mate*, who make every week day 12000 yard* of cotton and woolen good*. 400 pairs shoes. 79 .barrels, and 40.000 brick. The machinery employed cost the State $400,- 000. A contested fund of $1,500,000, derived from deserters from the United States army, when arrested. Is now lying in the United States Treasury. The Managers ol tbe Soldiers’ and Sailors’ National Asylum have received about $2,000,000 from for feited fines and penalties, Ancient Females Putting on AiRS. JIlMtnmnnii the views and sentiments of Quite a number of old maids and other I'e- turning up in different parts of SJSSSra man Ind never hJs Wen i the country, to whom, according to their Hs h« £X'n willing^o allow^ I own stories, Mr George Peabody, inby- peopie to attend to their own business He I g^otth^pESttveiv ma — ge ' has seen the folly of attempts to grow New, One of them P^voly, item of horror its dtte proportions. If there lie times of nnusnal dearth of dirty facts, the imagination must father all. and the gaping public is regaled with fictitious filth. Not do I hold journalists wholly or even principally responsible for this state of ihin<’3. In truth, they do but respond more or less fully to the dgrnands or the public. Let a conscientious editor wash bis hands of the whole dirty schools, and his jour nalistic death knell has already sounded. His paper, let it be ever so ably conducted otherwise, will go unread, and dio for want of support. Even “Christian” people- shame on them!—will not patronize a jour nal that attempts to hold itself above eTery form of tacit ‘endorsement of g'dded sin. It is humiliating and discouraging to con fess so much; but it is true, and the sooner we set about some genuine confession and repentance the better. To realize that the rising generation, our sisters and daughters —tho girls of the period—must come up through this pernicious atmosphere of mock sentiment and unblushing sensual ism and applauded shame! CS" A well-dressed female walked into a Saranaw saloon tbe other day, with all the dignity of Miss Anthony or Mrs. Stan ton, laid a fractional currency on tbe coun ter, and called for a drink with the noncha lance of a toper of long experience. The Enterprise thinks the woman’s cause is progressing. refused the million- nnvwhere exceDt uiion! aire because she was already dead in love * ny He^ever^hasatteroM- 1 with a poor young man. and 01 hers rejfct- *\ e .'T SnnleoftheGreen Mountain' e<1 him for other reasons equally beautiful ed to force the peopleof theGreen Mountain , honoraWe . It appears, however, that f°r;^£ t0 1 ^ 0 P r , S ^* r h,mJred years hei they all kept an eye on him.as long as he if Jonathan lives one hun . - ' d lived; and it seems that, to the last, he never will Jiyctosee th c Phllllns treasured up in Ids heart tlie thought of his P S ar fS'H a J t the ^nth If he love and devotion to each of them. It Is •Aoptri by q wgavnan at the South. Ifhe tftm , hlng . 0 rea d such stories, and it is wonld locate in this tcOTTO- generous ^i to fee j a ^ ar ,.(] that none of them mate of ours, as a missionary of his school: ^ contradicted to convert these benighted people, but few will now do contraoictco. moons would come and go before he would; assail his former friends, and laud to tlie ; How a Crown Prince Lives.—The skies his neto made friends. I do not cer- Crown Prince of Prussia resides in Berjin, tainlyknow that he would be a cotton and occupies the same apartment in which planter the first year, but of one thing I Frederick the Great once resided, when am sure, that when he did. lie wonld not heir apparent to the throne. He lives in a be able to control the politics of as many manner at once simple and rehned. Not of his laborers as his neighbors who have luxuriously, sumptuously, or gaudily. His lived and been raised with this people. 1 wife, one of the daughter*^ the Queen of “ Dougherty.” 1 England, presides over his establishment j with dignity and grace. Their summer Gen. Grant. But, whether he do so or not, out of place to state here, that this Society, it is safe to assume that for a period which I although small in numbers, is composed or will reach beyond the close of the next the best members of this profession. All Presidential term, the Supreme Court will sections of the State were represented, and never disturb any of the cardinal measures those dentists who live in Georgia, and who to which we have referred, however often took the pains to come to Savannah to at- tliey may be brought to its bar for adjudi- tend this meeting, were - gentlemen who cation. *:. . stand foremost in their profession. Though tlie Democratic party should sue- Dr. Clark, the President, upon taking the ceed in carrying the next House of Repre- chair, made some appropriate remarks, sentativea, and should elect the next Presi- The other officers were then inducted to dent, and obtain a majority in each of the their seats. two Houses of Representatives chosen dur- These officers were the unanimons choice in” his term, they could pass no distinctive of the Society. party measure through Congress, because The various committees, as provided by the majority in tbe Senate would be Re- the Constitution, were appointed by the publicans; for such is the present prepon- President. Delegates to the Southern Den- derance of the latter party in that body, tal Convention, which meets in New Or- that if the Democrats should for six years leans in April next, and also delegates to to come retain control of all the States the American Dental Convention, which they now hold, and carry every doubtful meets in Nashville next July, were then State, they could not chang* that prepon- announced. After this. Dr. Clark, of this derance. Therefore, until after the close of city, read a very interesting and instruc- the next Presidential term, tbe Democratic tive essay upon the “Disease and Treat- party can hope for no legislation by Con-1 ment of Dental Palps.” This was listened press that will invalidate any of those car- jo with great attention by every member dinal measures. of tbe Convention. These measures having passed Into his- A committee was then appointed to pre- tory, and the mind of the nation in the I pare a treatise upon the “ Care and General meantime having become occupied with Treatment of the Teeth for the people.” other agitating themes, it would be more | This Committee are Drs. Brown, Holland than folly for any party to attempt to re- and Ford. call to the arena of debate subjects which j Thanks were offered to tho Historical So had thus drifted quite out of sight. ciety, his Honor the Mayor, the different One would thick tbat this obvious view railroad companies, the Press and the pro of the case would arrest the attention of 1 prietor of the Screven House for their gen- those Democratic leaders who are bent on croQ3 hospitality. making the re-opening of these questions I In the afternoon, through the courtesy Clover as a Fertilizer^-Wh^n the palac& at Potsdani. has a home-like air of the main issue whereby they hope to carry of the Mayor and city officials, the mem- The gross receipts of the Central Pacific Railroad for the first four months of 1869. the portion of the year before its comple tion as a through line, were $1,306,943 15; the operating expenses for the same time were $824,044 06. For the six months since the opening of the road in connection witli the Union Pacific for through travel, the gross earnings have been $3,400,651 58; operating expenses, $1,678,19783; net earn ings, $1,722,454 76. The United States pensions paid during the year ending June 30.1869. according to the report of the Third -Auditor of the Treasury, amounted to $27,679,345, of which $18,313,064 were paid to widows and or phans, and $9,336.to invalids. The princi pal amounts paid in the several States were a3 follows; New York $4.173 240; Penn sylvania, $3227.159; Illinois. $2366,259; In diana, $2,262,456; Ohio, $1,852,876; Massa chusetts, $1,645,432; Maine. $1,277,752; Michigan, $1,190064; Missouri Sl.085,006, and Wisconsin, $962,856. AKOTiir.it Richmond in toe Field.—Our friend* or Tiie Constitution are certainly fortunate In ihe selection of their traveling agent*. Mr. T. K. Oglesby, well known to our people as agent of ton National Pnb- lishing Company, is now in our city in be half of the interests of that paper, and with two such .agents as “Thad ” and Col. Acton, we are sure The Constitution can not fall of having a subscription list com mensurate with Its merits, .Mr. O. is ullb general traveling agent for the St. Louis Home Journal, a first class literary j. ip.rr. which should receive the support 01 all Southern and Western people in prefer ence to such tainted sheets as Harper and the Waverly. The Journal is a marvel of cheapness; and everybody knows Tin: Constitution to be the “live-cst" paper in the State. Mr.O. is on an extended tour South in the interest of these papers, and we are confident tbat in liis hands their circulation will be materially increased. [ Griffin Star. X£T Tlie Boston Post proponnds this in judicious conundrum: “ If It be- improper to send a Northern man South to act as Judge. Is it not equally improper to send a Northern man South to govern it?” The Post and other indiscreet Democratic jour nals should at once stop ail such talk as this. They should never have began it. It is the best way in tlie world to ladM* the Senate to confirm the appointment of Hoar. Convince tlie Senate that the Conservative people of the South don’t want his appoint ment confirmed, and it wifi be'confirmee the first thing when Congress rcasitmMcd. It is very improper to send a Northern man South to act Ui judge, and it i- <- t u lily im- SamanaBay is situated on the North east coast of San Domingo, and is about forty-three miles in length from east to west, by eight miles broad. It forms one of the finest harbors in tho world. On the North shore is the small town of Santa Barbara, which lies in a land-locked bay [ .. werc r jght and just and proper it and has natural facilities for repairing ves- ; „ ou j,j ncvcr £ c done.—Courier Journal. gels, a dilapidated Roman Catholic Church, | - a neat Wesleyan chapel, and a custom house. The Peninsula of Samana i3 tliir- ty-two miles long. Its highest peak, Su clover is plowed under to renovate the soil, comfort about it. The bed-chambers are and when the crop is good, the clover roots 1 neat and tidy, with chintz curtains, instead aBd stubble, with barn-yard manure, will of heavy silks and.damasks. The King s furnish all the vegetable matter needed in! sleeping apartment is furnished with rigid the soil, while in feeding clover hay. near- slmifiiel^; with a IV all the mineral matter, nitrogen and ain- monia is passed, and may l.e saved in :Sie manure; so that on good land, where all is •well managed, and the clover sod plowed up while yet in full vigor, so as to secure the largest benefit from the large mass of roots, nearly the full benefit of the clover chairs. Thus while our rulers are reveling in luxury, and wasting tbe substance of the nation, the present and fnfure heads of a great kingdom are husbanding resources, and leading lives of sobriety and quiet. Considerlng that we get great store by our republican simplicity.” as compared with the next House ot Representatives and bers of the convention took a trip on the elect the next President, and who also pro- steamer Pettit down the river, and a grand, pose to take the first step in that direction good time was experienced. Several la in this State by going through the nuga- dies were present, and every one expressed rm of rescinding the ratification by themselves highly delighted with their crop may be had. both for feeding and ma-j“aristocratic extravagance” of European king manure. • nations, the contrast 1* painful. tory form 1 the last Legislature of the 16th Amencf-1 trip, iue Doai returnea anout sevcu *r. ment. If, upon a calm survey of the last and alter a hearty supper they repaired to The boat returned abont seven v- M.. eight or nine years, Democratic leaders! the rooms of the Georgia Historical Socie- think they have made anything by resist- ty. where the closing scenes of this conven ing war measures and the reconstruction I tion occurred policy, let them persevere; but we advise A little spe ... - - * • 3 *• - - --1- ■—”— and merry-making, the <r ar Loaf Hill, is 1,936 feet, and Devil’s Hill is 1.309 feet above sea level. The soil is ex tremely fertile, and to a great extent Is cov ered with timber, suited both for ship building and cabinet-work. It also con tains gold, copper and bituminous coal. The population at tho last census was 1,721. Who Wrote It?—A Georgia financier writes a letter to tho Secretary of the Treasury, enclosing a genuine ten dollar l e gal-tender note, which lie declare-; be one of tbe worst counterfeits he lias ever seen, and warns the Department to put a detective on tho track of those who have placed this “spurious” currency - in circu lation, as tho Stato of Georgia'is flooded with it. Ho will doubtless feel better win AST* Tho Boston Post says: “ Lawyers j he reads tho reply of tho Department, an- — . should sleep. It is immaterial on which |jnouncing its genuineness and• cmi.-r.u u;t- A little speech-making, hand-shaking, g}de jf e „ Mr> Webster used to say j ting tho peoplo of the trtate or.Km; 2 mi- policy, let them persevere; but we advise A little speech-making, uanu-snaKing. .. thevlio” Mr. Webster used to say ting tho peopled the Mato on K m ; 2 ,. 1- study the admonitory fate of the hearty] lau , g ^i- D ?; o ?r'thev were amphibious and could lioa* welt ed” with such currency.—[Wa=h. r> r . P1'.- fftSJSfcr* CW they Pr0Ceed fUrtber < 8KS3 out of it. 1 timer, Gmtte.