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THB CONSTITUTION. Tlio State Road Funds. ! sage and brush. As a further consequence BY W. A. HEMFHILL & CO. I- W. AVEUY, Editor. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION: WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, per annum... { 300 >ix months 900 DAILT CONSTITUTION, jwr unnum. 1000 •hemonths 500 nnMlii 5 No name enteral on the »ubseri{>tiofl book * money is mM. f A1»VKi;TX>KMBNTS inserted at onedol- ATLANTA, GEORGIA, JUNE 7. Treasurer Harris, in bia testimony before' thc P ,antcr u “Crting himself to the ut- the committee, gives the following as the | wth his diminished facilities, to bring receipts and expenses of tbefiCateBoad for up hk lncome to tho fiUndard of pre * four months of 1863 and 1870: December, January, reurnsry, March, Expense. *»5..-nt n tea m si 334.471 m 363,2.3 11 CJTTIic total revenue to the government in 18G9, on liquor, was forty-live millions. How much was paid to death, the devil, the poor-house and Uie iiospltal,is not knowr. 19T The lumber trade of Chicago, the largest lumber market in the world, in creased from 389,000,600 feet in 1863, at $12 75 per thousand, to 301,831,000 feet In I860, at $11 30 per thousand. Reduction of Taxes. By Ike act of Jaly 13.ISSS.. *33.000/00 lly the art •> March S, ISST 4 >.001,000 By the act of February *. IWS 13.0 O/XTl By the art or March 31.1SSS,t ttm.noo 11 the art of JhIj *J, law, j Maktug a total of *173.000/100 Catastrophe. A city contemporary, who delights in picking typographical flaws out of the Irady or its confreres, heads its column of Georgia News—State fc Mews.” Is tills to be placed in thc cat-egory of typographical cal-astroplics, or would die organ “Rather tie a kitten and cry mew ” than to own up that the infelicity of its feline “head” is a typographical cot-astrophe ? “ S’cat”! New Route to California. From Mr. D. II. Elliott, traveling agent of the Kansas Facilie Railway and Nation al Land Company, we learn that thc above route is completed to a point some 600 miles west from Kansas City, and is being completed attho rate of one iniie per day, and it is contemplated within 90 days will be running through trains from St. Louis and Kansas City via Denver and Cheyenne to San Francisco, thus opening a new and most expeditious route to the western Ter ritories, New Mexico and California. Cattle Plague in Europe. Thc intelligence received from eastern Europe relative to the extent and progress of the cattle plague is far from re-assuring. It was hoped that ail danger had passed with reference to an extenson of the mal ady from thc western and souUiwcstcrn (arts of Poland into Prussian Silesia, but recent information shows that thc Prussian government has found it necessary to ex tend its precautionary measures in tiiat di rection, and to have the frontier guarded by troops from Ncubcrun, in Silesia, to Wciechinic, in thc department of Po3en. Not only is Prussia threatened by an inva sion of tlic discascin her southeastern prov inces, but also in the northeastern, ns thc plague lias extended in Russia as far north ward as Knovno. To meet tills new source of danger, the government has dispatched troops to guard thc frontier from Tilsitt to Pillkallcn, in E ist Prussia. Poland is suf fering to a great extent from this visita tion of the plague, as are likewise Unldiciu, Transylvania, and Cuckowcria. Last Year’s Revenue. Till! list of tax collectors for I860, for thc National Government, presents some inter esting particulars: Lawyers |iaid $337,818, showing 33,781 attorneys; while stallions and jacks paid $325,602; showing 32,560, running bnt a little behind the lawyers in number. The doctor.s over-topped both, and paid $489,- 110; showing a corps of 48,911 pill- givers. Railroads paid $3,233,487, and insurance $1,323^30. In a population of forty mil lions only 115,822 watches were worn, or one to every four hundred persons. The banks and bankers, with their hun dreds of millions of capital, paid tho piti ful sum of $2,196,034; while manufactur ers, with not a tithe of thc capital, pay over five millions tax. Cigars and cheroots, that all thc men and a good maoy of the petticoats smoke, puff ed out nearly five millions; while candy, that all thc numerous babies delight in, only contributes the small sum of $8,161. Decoration Day. Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati.Enquirer.] Washington, May 30,1S70. There bos been an entire suspension o( business to-day,over thc ceremonies of dec orating thc twenty thousand Union sol diers’graves at Arlington. Most everybo dy attended, including nearly all the dig nitaries in town. General Logan deliver ed the oration, which proved to be one of the most gushing efforts of tho Pman schools. Part or it excited positive laugh ter. The eighteen graves of Confederate officers and three hundred and sixteen graves of Confederate soldiers were con spieoously decorated with pasteboard, as a warning that no floral tribute- should be placed on them. Several ladles and gen tlemen ventured, however, to place some flowers on them, but a Committee of the Grand Arm) of the Eepublic matched them of and threatened %clth arrest any one who repeated the act. After thc ceremonies the return to town looked like thc end of a horse race, bnt Grant’s team hitched to a fancy carriage distanced all others. Agricultural Imports of Great Britain. The British imports of 1S69 show that the wheat received amounted to 37,695.S23 hundred weight. In 1S6S. the receipts were 32/>39,76$ hundred weight. The in crease is about sixteen per cent. The pro portion received from the United States was much larger than usual. In competi tion with Russia, Prussia, Denmark, France, Turkey, Egypt, Chili, British America, and other countries, this country sometimes contributes a very small por tion of the quantity required to supple ment the home production of wheat. In 1868, Russia furnished thirty per cent, and and the United States eighteen; in 1S69, tills country sent thirty-five per cent, and Russia twenty-four. Our contribution was equal to 21.603,179 bushels of wheat be sides 1.711.000 barrels of flour, equivalent to &555s000 bushels more—about 33,000,000 bushels in all. The amount of raw cotton imported was 10.903.S13 hnndred weight; in 1S68, 11,837.833 hundred weight. The imports of China grass were only eight hundred weight in 18GS, and eleven hundred weight inlSGO; their value 2132 and 2125 in those years, respectively, or S*4d per pound in 1S6S. and 4^d in 1869. tSB~ In Cheltenham, England, samples «f aagar have been found so fearfully adul terated with chromate of lead that it is a wonder how any of the unfortunate par takers of it survived to tell the tale. Deduct l, . *4I,7lftO Excess of expenses over receipts. Let us compare this with the receipts for the same months in 1868 and I860 under Halbert: Expenses, f JIHjKSCl | years ex-f l peases. J January, ’ February. March, Excess of receipts over expenses. As the monthly expenses are not given, we can only take a third of thc yearly ex penses, which were $S22,193 76. This would give $274/165 25, as the proportion for thc four months, and leave $186,7G3 32 as the excess of receipts over expenses. It will be seen, therefore, that Colonel Blodgett, with $1,061,136 84 as the receipts for four months, puts the road in dcbt$41,- 743 09, while Colonel Halbert, with but $160,828 57 a* the receipts for thc corres ponding four months, has put io the Treas ury $186,763 32of comfortable cash.' But, as Mr. Harris says, his receipts in clude the amounts due connecting roads, and the committee should have questioned him as to such amounts. Under Halbert, the total receipts for the year were $2,233,4S0 02, of which $1,008,- 525 15, or about 10-21 were paid to con necting roads. Apply this rale to Blodgett’s showing, first taking off the 5109,139 92 of cash received by Harris, and we' would have about $600,000 as the State Road earnings for four months, or $140,000 more than under Halbert. So that while Halbert, out of $400,853 51, made $186,703 32 for thc Treasury, Blodgett with $600,000 put the road in debt $11,- 712 09. In other words, Blodgett has spent over $360,030 more in the same four months than Hulbert. Of course ourligures are general. Now, let the expenses be itemized and justified. An Interesting Case. On Wednesday, the 23th of lost month, in the debate in the United States Senate on the propriety of permitting rebels to come into the Court of Claims and get back from the government captured property on the the strength of the President’s pardon, Mr. Edmunds stated the following racy case: Here is one case which illustrates this matter, the case of Lamar, a man very prominent before or during the war, at Sa vannah, Georgia. This Mr. Lamar, or his heirs, assigns, or executors, fori believe he is dead, has a claim on thc calendar of the Court of Claims for more than a million dollars in one single case; and he has in his pocket, or his representatives have, a pardon of Mr. Andrew Johnson. He took tlie bcnclit of the amnesty, and here is his written statement of the circumstances—it is too long to read ail of it—under which lie consented to take that oath, so as to get his $1,000,000. ” By availing myself of the law of Con gress of 17th July, 1S02, and President Lin coln's proclamation of 8th December, 1863, founded thereon, 1 could, if justice and law were dealt to me in common with others, preserve all my property to myself, pay off all my debts, nnd have a comfortable com petency remaining for myself and my fam ily, and 1 could, whenever I pleased, expa triate myself from Yankee dominion and vicinity. " By refusing, all my property must go into the Yankee Treasury, under thc con fiscation acts, and 1 be left in their midst, unable to move beyond their tyranny and despotism in any direction. “ Some may say I bad rather gone under the protection of Fraucc or of Great Britain, or perhaps of the King of Daho mey ; but let it be remembered that none of these alternatives were at my choice. Nor can 1 see much advantage in any of them if they had been over the one I took, nay, none by no means so good, for if I am uot deceived and defrauded of my legal rights 1 can avail myself oi a choice among them all, and can now go from one to the other, or anywhere else, till I cm improve my position, which almost anything on earth that is tolerable will do, over Yankee Puritanism and Yankee Democracy. If 1 cannot servo the Confederacy by thc course I have adopted, I can at least defeat thc Fodcral Treasury in acquiring all my prop erty for its advantage, which I prefer to make myself a beggar and a dunderhead at my time of life, and if I may not thereby give active and direct aid to the better cause, it will be in some degree, at least, an indirect benefit, by diverting so much from its enemies.” The statement of Mr. Lamar is refresh ing in the extreme. His aversion to Yan kcc Puritanism and Yankee Democracy is impartial indeed, while his candor is so well calculated to help bis cause in Con gress, that it prevents a racy contrast to the ordinary sycophancy of such claims. Colonel A. H. Kenan. The death of this well-known Georgian is worthy of more than mere pnention. He figured for a long period conspicuously in thc politics of Georgia. A resident at the seat of government, often in the General Assembly, and a mem ber of most of thc various conventions that met there, he played a considerable partin the public events at the Capital. With fair ability, he possessed command ing force of character. Bold, imperious, banghty and ambitious, he swayed a very considerable influence. The writer knew him for years, not intimately. Colonel Kenan was a gentleman of fine appearance and stately carriage. His career was full of event. He was for a long time a power in the locality In which he lived. He practiced law successfully. He leaves a large family of relatives and connections, among the best people ot the State. Necessity for a mixed Husbandry. A correspondent of the Agricultural Bureau, for Stewart county, Georgia, sug gesting interrogatories tending to show thc number of mules and horses, the quan- tity of bacon, corn, and flour introduced into each county, and the percentage on total consumption, says: “Under a sys tem of mixed husbandry in this county, mules, horses, corn and wheat can, without doubt, be profitably raised; and would not such an exhibition of facts as the above interrogatories would elicit tend to expose thc errors of the present system of plant ing, and lend important aid in enlightening the .Southern mind, so as to hasten the in auguration of a wiser system of mixed husbandry ? Nothing but a startling ex hibition of the sternest facts and figures will perhaps ever avail to convince the planting mind of the business folly—the suicidal policy-rof yielding to cotton an agricultural monopoly in the South. Cot ton planting is a habit with our people. This, added to thc large aggregate income which it yields, though fictitious in the main, binds the South to cotton production with fetters strong as steel. An imposing array of aggregated statistical facts may break them. “ Another fact fundamental to the agri cultural interests of this section of the vious years, when labor was mnre abun Receipt* .. dant - This results in favor of cotton. fDi.xis 35 j The scarcity of labor also leads to nn- Siiui 5a! healthy competition In the labor market, 310,700 »j with its concomitant evils. Oneof the most *l/»lj3G si ohvions is, that unscrupulous men supplant thc better class by offering terms to the la borer with which they are unable to comply, and perhaps never intend to; whereas, the honorable planters, incapable of practicing upon the credulity of the la borer, by makiDgdeceptive promises, com pete in the market under serious disad vantages. The result is, that the best men fail to obtain labor, inferior men deceive the freedman, and be becomes suspicious of the employers as a class, is demoralized as a laborer,, often retires in disgust from regular field lobor and seeks a livelihood in the execution of chance jobs. Id this there is much matter for grave reflec tion.’ Bcccipts. $99.075 39 125 755 99 13U.G90 40 |1£6 ( ?63 32 Pliillips & Crew, Fancy Stationers. This enterprising firm, at their new and magnificent store, corner Peachtree and Marietta streets, continue to keep ail the fresh and interesting periodical literature. Punchinello, the new comic weekly, keeps up its brilliance. It is the best humorous paper ever started in this country. We have occasionally given extracts for our readers. Its last feature i3 a parody of Dickens’last, by Orpheus C. Kerr, called the Mystery of Mr. E. Drood. The July number of Peterson’s Ladies’ National is on haDd, and is a fine number for thc la dies. BVery Saturday, Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, Harper’s Weekly, and all the picture periodicals can be fonnd on the counters of this firm. 5Irs. Beck. Why does thc Railroad Committee not summon Mrs. Beck to get her version of her case? Please Explain. Supervisor A. L. Harris testified that the balance of cash on hand the first of April was $3,263 30. Treasdrcr I. P. Harris tes tifies that there was a deficiency of $11,743 09. A discrepancy. Explain it, gentlemen. Why? Why does the Railroad Committee not summon Mr. B. F. Moore, the discharged book-keeper? We are informed the pro position to summon him was voted down. Surely this was only for the present. We opine that Mr. Moore could tell more about the expenses than any one. Thc road authorities should have him sum moned in justice to themselves. Other wise they labor under suspicion for exclud ing an important witness. Governor Bullock and thc Public Funds—No. 11. In a previous article, we showed Gov ernor Bullock's unauthorized extravagance in the matter of extra Executive clerk hire. We have looked further into it, bringing the investigation np to the lSth of May, about twenty-three months. The amount paid by Governor Bullock for this purpose to tills date is $25,727 75. Thc following tible gives tho items from July, 1868, to May 18,1870: UII Atkinson (still employed) $ 3,309 S3 A Flesh •• •• 2,826 00 MdcGriffcniciil” " * 3,729 58 J It W Johnson “ “ 3,225 00 \V 11 Scott “ •• 1/iso 00 II M Waters 1,172 JII Fog 7?6 AS Belcher 002 40 IIJ G Williams (still enployed) 459 00 LG Jones 33 J W Harney 33 E J WiUiams 376 76 B B dcGraffcnroid 280 00 Coley Inman (still employed) 281 15 J II Mays 100 00 W n Gordon 77 50 JB Wilson 50 00 Total paid on 7lh section, 16G8, and 23d section, 1869 *17/73 99 AN OLD-TIME SPARKLER. Thc True Tale of Betsy Patterson’s Captivation of Jerome Bonaparte —Some Rare Revelations ol that Day. Correspondence of N. Y. World.] Among the residents of Washington are some charming old ladies who could fill column after column with the “ social gos sip ” of other days. One of these was a schoolmate of Madame Bonaparte, and has much to say of “Betsy Patterson’s ” con quest and the way in which it was accom plished. Of the brilliant beauty and re markable conversational powers of this woman, whose history had so much of tragic romance about it, her friend says too much cannot he affirmed. She was justly entitled to oil the admiration she received, and even now, that her beau ty is gone, her intellect is perfectly clear, and her wit and readiness in conversation have lost little of the fire of her youth. “ Mary,” she exclaimed, in an earnest ad dress to her friend a few years ago, “ to think of a woman of my ambition being so crushed 1 ” She showed a most beauti ful likeness of herself, as she was, to some ladies, with a perfectly innocent and sure ly not wonderful pride in its lovelincsS, and said, “Do yon see bow pleased and happy I look ? That was because all the time I was sitting the -artist was tell ing me how much be admired me, and how handsome I was.” She was told she ought to allow the picture to be copied, but she indignatiy refused to do so, saying it was for her grandson and no one else should have it. The captivating of Jerome Bonaparte was done of malice prepense. She bad heard of bis arrival in Baltimore, and when the lady who tells the store went to visit her at her father’s country ■’Scat, a few miles from that city, on tip York road, the conversation turned upon the newly arrived Frenchman. Said the visitor: “Sou must come to see me soon, Betsy, and meet Bonaparte.” “Ishall come,” replied the young lady, “prepared for conquest. 'Ob, to go to France as his wife, and be the admiration of all Europe I” A few days afterward she went to Baltimore. ‘•I heard voices in the street, “says the friend, “ and looking out the window I saw Betsy coming on a jackass. Iu this way it seems the beauty rode on to glory. The next day there were races, and Betsy attended them, wearing a white wig. It was the fashion in those days for ladies to .wear wigs of every imaginable color. A belle might appear in the morning with red hair, at noon with white, and at night with brown, her own perhaps being black, ns was the case with Miss Patterson’s, which Georgia News. The crops in Lee county are fine. Bread corn sells in Covington at $1 65. Valdosta is toJiavc a new court house. Dr. ffm.fi. Banks died recently in Ma con. ' Cotton in Georgia is reported generally in line condition. The Central Railroad is building a-new warehouse at its depot in Savannah. One hundred canines were slaughtered in Augusta on Thursday. The Columbus Sun complains of petty stealing in that city. Griffln has a peddler of babies’ gowns, frocks, aprons, etc. Cuthbert will soon vise from her ashes brighter than belorc. A new Hook and Ladder Company has been organized in Cuthbert. Thc Rome Rolling Mill is roiling out railroad spikes. Albany boasts of the capture of a rock fish weighing 120J4 pounds. Heavy. Six hundred dollars worth of dog collars have been sold in Augusta. Green corn sells at 25 cents per ear, and tomatoes $1 23 per quart in Savannah. Savannah is grievously tormented with cotton thieves. W. H. Campbell, charged with horse stealing, escaped from Thomasvillc jail on Thursday night. The small-pox has broken out in Walton county, near the Morgan line. Six or seven families are afflicted with it. Rome wants the Rome, Selma and Dalton Railroad to locate their machine works in that beautiful little town. The colored Baptists at Albany are hav ing a revival. Thirty-eight were baptized last Sunday. eemur. Platform of tho Ohio Democracy. The Ohio State Democratic Convention, recently in session at Columbus, passed thc following resolutions: Resolved, That we denounce the present tariff as well as the substitute lately intro duced in theUouscof Representatives, and that no candidate for Congress, nor any other officer, is worthy of support, who is not in favor of a low revenue tariff which closely approximates to free trade; that In the arrangement of any revenue tariff all the necessaries of life should bo absolutely free of duty. Resolved, That the internal revenue sys tem of the Uuitcd States is unendurable in its oppressive exactions; that its annoy ances of stamps, licenses and taxes upon sales and incomes should bo abolished. The tax itself should be collected by State and county officers; and that wc pledge ourselves to effect a thorough reform in this particular. Resolved, That we denounce the profli gacy of the present administration, thc corruption which has entered all its offlccs and stations and the f avoritism which is overlooking fitness for office. Resolved, That we regard tlio act re cently passed by Congress to enforce the 15th Amendment as unconstitutional, un just and oppressive, an invasion of tho rights of States, subversive of the best in terests of the people, and therefore demand its repeal. Resolved, Tiiat the power of tho Federal Government to assess and collect taxes on the bonds of the United States is clear and unquestioned. Resolved, That wo are opposed to a sys tem of National Banks, and demand an im mediate repeal of thc law creating them Rev. C. W. HowsTOTdclivers an address before the Newton County Agricultural Society on Saturday, the lith instant. In Chatham county 164 persons return incomes from $1,000 to S3 000 ; 3G from $5,000 to $10,000 ; 24 over $10,000. IIJ G Williams, salary outof civil es tablishment *2,700 00 II J G Williams, for extras 3,857 00 B B dcGrjffcnrcid and Eugene Davis, extras 1,00)09 25,423 90 Salary of two Secretaries 6,000 00 Total spent by Bullock *32,523 90 We will now compare this' expenditure of Governor Bullock with the same ex penditure of Governor Jenkins. 03VESN0B JENKINS. 1866 and 1867 *9,462 50 OOVZBNOB SHOWN. „ 1659and I860, with three Secretaries.... *8/75 00 Difference between Bullock and Jenk ins *22,861 40 Difference between Bnllock and Brown, 23,748 90 In other words, ^Governor Bullock bos spent nearly four dollars in the matter of Executive clerk hire to where Jenkins and Brown spent one, while in extra clerk hire he has spent over ten to one. But it may be alleged that there is more to do now in the Executive office than then. On the contrary there is a fourth les3 to do. Under the old regime over 5,000 militia officers and 660 Justices of the Inferior Court bad to be commissioned. Governor Bullock'has been exempt from this duty. Election returns were formerly made to the Executive office, where the packages were opened, votes counted, etc. This has been transferred to the office of Secretary of State. Wc therefore find that with a third less to do in the Executive office, Governor Bullock has paid out four times as much for doing it as Governors Jenkins and Brown. We learn that the Governor is indis posed. We therefore omit any painful re ference to the $23,000 salt. f£~ The independent thinkers of Gratz! South is thc increasing scarcity of labor. (Styria) have collected the necessary funds; Ever since the date of manumission labor for tlic erection of a superior school free t has been steadily diminishing In conse- from all religions instruction. It is Uus {been steadily diminisfnng. in conse- jlrbt attempt ol liic kind that has been made i flwncfi, thousands of acres of good arable in Austria. I land in this country have been yielded to < Life in Utah; or, tho Mysteries and Crimes of Hormonism. By J. U Beadle. The above book has just been published by the National Publishing Company, of which Mr. Jamieson is the agent, with his rooms in Tub Constitution Building. Hormonism is one of the curiosities of this age. Its founder was an obscure Ver mont boy, Joe Smith. The sect started just forty years ago. Its history readslike a fiction of the most sensational character. This book is an interesting account of the rise and continuance of this most remark able denomination. Written with no pre tension to literary elegance, the style is yet forcible, and the narration well made. It is full of information, and gives the reader a thorough insight into the myste ries of the whole affair. It will well repay perusal. Mr. Beadle, the anthor, spent a long time among thc Mormons, and writes from ac tual observation. Wc can commend the work as valuable and interesting. It is a carious fact that polygamy was not allowed until some thif teen years after the sect started, and it was ten years after this, in 1852, before it became the openly avowed doctrine and practice of the Church. E5F* The exquisite attractions of Nice, the loveliest summer retreat in the south of France, are greatly enhanced for'the present year by new gardens and hotels. fST It is now said that Barnum is to ‘ manage” Nilsson’s affairs in America. Floyd county farmers report crops in good condition, nnd making two-forty time^ Miss Fannie C. Tennyson, of West Point, of a beautiful shade of blaek-not the inky-ffouisKna 1 'SmtoFatefor *u, UlC black, noryettbe blue-black. Wearing lier|T^ n State hair for the finest quilt, white wig and seated in the carriage with other ladies, she was introduced by Com modore Barney to Jerome Bonaparte, who was at once struck with admiration of the “ Grecian beauty,” as she was called, while a rival belle who afterwards married one of Jerome’s suite. General Rubeli, was known as the “Roman beauty.” The same day General Smith, “the hero of Mudfort,” gave a dinner to the Frenchmen at wiiich Miss Patterson appeared, wearing her own hair, and completed her conquest on the spot. Jerome told her she was so much more beautiful when adorned by her na tural tresses than she could possibly he in any wig, that she never again donned one of those monstrosities. In the course of a few days, young Bqpa- parte gave a grand ball, and Miss Patter son was his partner. In thc dance he threw over her head a gold chain, to which was attached a miniature likeness of him self, set in diamonds, and thc Indy bore it off in triumph. Thus tho engagement was made. Miss Patterson’s father, however, disapproved, and sent her away to what is termed the wilds of Virginia. Jerome’s love penetrated even to that secluded spot, and he succeeded in having letters carried to her. When Mr. Pattcr3on discovered this, be made no further violent opposition, but-brought his daughter home, and in a short time the marriage took place. When the young couple were ready to go to Eu rope, Mr. Patterson, who was a merchant and ship-owner, fitted out one of his ■own vessels to convey his daughter in regal style’to that Franco which she hoped to conquer by her beauty. Alas! alas! she readied it only to find every port closed against her by reason of thc Empe ror’s order. A message from Napoleon tiiat liis brother should come at onco to Paris to consult with h’s Majesty, was con veyed to the ship, and, hoping all tilings, the bridegroom departed, making sure lie could win his sovereign’s consent to his marriage in a personal interview. He never saw his wife again. The Emperor forbade his return to her, and she, after awaiting him in vain, was taken to London by her brother. There her son was born. She met Jerome once years afterwards in Florence, in a picture-gallery. They re cognized eacli other instantly; but the gen tleman who had accompanied thc deserted wife led her away at once, and the next morning Jerome Bonaparte left the city. Sucii is the outline given by Miss Pat terson's schoolmate of this singular story, which has been so long a matter of history that it is nows to many of the present gen eration. To Jerome Bonaparte, Baltimore was indebted for thc introduction of thc waltz, which dance at once became a favor ite with the young people, while their pa rents disapproved of it even more than many of the foreigners who taught it. The same lady tells or slipping away from her home, after her father was in bed. for he did not admire the Frenchmen, and danc ing all night at Bonaparte’s hall. Subse- quctly she herself gavo a ball, and opened it witii tills same Bonaparte in that same waltz, and she tells now, with a gleam of amusement in her still handsome eyes, of her daring acts of disobedience. And, apropos of this same parental disap proval of foreign fascinators, manifested as strongly in the early days of history as now, when experience has taught to read for count no account, and for baron barren, one is led to inquire whence, the feeling proceeded? Was it from an instinct of self-preservation that the parents of the ladles before mentioned were disposed to cover their young with their wings, fearing the approach of the destroyer. The history of Miss Patterson, has pointed a moral which seemingly her successors have failed to observe to their profit. She was, and is, foremost in the ranks of those whose ruined lives have been the consequence of too implicit faith in foreign fidelity. Funny Mention. By the death of his brother at Salt Lake, Brigham Young has had four houses full of widows and children left to him to love, honor and obey. The Quincy (Florida) Monitor publishes the following note from one of the State teachers set up by the Radicals in that county: Mr. and Family Sir your company is Sirlisited to attend a School tabloo and Seiebration at My school House on Monday Night May the 2th at S O’clock, yours with Respects. A thin, cadaverous-looking German, about fifty years of age, entered the office of a health-insurance company in Phila delphia, the other day, and ioquired: “ Ish de man in what insnres de people’s helts ? ” The agent politely answered: “ I attend to that business, Bir.” “Veil, I vants my helts insured; vot you charge?” “Dif ferent prices,” answered the agent; “from three to ten dollars a year, and you get ten dollars a week in case of sickness.” “Veil,” said Mynheer, “I vants ten dollars vort.” The agent inquired his state of health. “Veil, I ish sick all the time. I’se shust out of bed, two,'tree liours a day, and the doctor says lie can’t do nothing more goot for me.” “ If that’s the state of your health,” returned tlic agent, “ wc can not insure it." Wc only insure those per sons who are in good health.” At this Myn heer bristled np in great anger. “You must think I’so a pig fool! Yot! yon think I come pay you ten dollars for inshore my helt ven I was veil I ” Memphis and Selma Railroad* This great enterprise, under the imme diate management and control of General N. B. Forrest, its President, is being pushed forward with unparalleled vigor and suc cess. The track has already been graded some eight or nine miles south, and a large force is steadily engaged pushing on the work. The iron has been laid as far as the Luxapalila, south of the city, and trains are daily runningoverit, transporting ma terial of construction. In a few weeks the bridge will be completed, and thc laying of iron will progress at the rate of half mile per diem. We learn that contractors have already agreed to complete the work to the Ala bama State line by the first of October, and to Pickensviile by the first of December. On the Alabama end of the road a large working force is engaged, and we confi dently anticipate a direct rail connection with Selma by the first of March, 1871 Columbus (Miss.) Index. In many portions of fiddle Tennes see, meal sells at a dollar aud a half a bushel, and flour at three cents a pound The State Lunatic Asylum is dangerous ly crowded. One hundred applications are on record The Columbus Enquirer says a Building and Improvement Association is to be or ganized in Girard. A public meeting takes place at Ellaviilc on Saturday to elect delegates to the Go. neva Railroad Convention on tlic loth. A complimentary benefit is to be given by thc citizens of Savannah to Mrs. Cleve land, on June the 13th. The Savannah Advertiser says a cargo of iron has arrived at that port for the Central Railroad and Banking Company. The Savannah markets are’ abundantly supplied with tho necessaries and luxuries of life. A colored .man, from Augusta, named Louis Byrd, was recently drowned in Wil mington, Nortli Carolina. The Augusta Constitutionalist an nounces the return of Bishop Lynch from Rome. The Grecncsboro Herald says that wheat will he the least crop harvested in tiiat county for years. Moliie Schley, an aged African, died in Augusta recently over 120 years of age. She was the nurse ot the father of Govern or Schley. Wm. Henry Jones, colored, was sentenc ed to three months’ public labor in Au gusta, on Thursday, for stealing a gold watch and chain from Mr. 11. J. Bowe. Thc trains on tlic Selma, Rome and Dal ton Railroad, since the through connection with Dalton, are crowded with passengers and freight. Dan Moses, who shot Smith and Hines, in Savannah, a few days ago, has been thrown in jail to await the result of his victims’ in. juries. Colonel Charlton H. Way is President, and Captain N. B. Brown Superintendent of the Savannah, Skidaway and Seaboard Railway. In thc Superior Court at Savannah, Jack Bryson, negro, charged with rape oh Car rie Pcnniman, (colored) was released on bond, the jury not being able to agree. Tho oat crop of Southwestern Georgia lias been pretty well harvested. Those farmers who planted early report very good crop3. The Superior Court in session at Daw son lias adjourned. W. R. Cozart, City Marshal, charged with assault and battery, was fined $200 and costs of suit. Tiie Griffin Georgian announces the con. vaiesccnce of Colonel Peeples, and that the Savannah, Griffin and North Alabama Railroad is now complete from that place to Senola. Thc citizens of Carrollton gave a fine entertainment on Friday evening to the surveying party on the Savannah, Griffin and North Alabama Railroad, who were near that place The LaGrangc Reporter says the wheat crop in that section promises well. Oat crop almost a total failure in all directions. The annual examination of LaGrangc Fe. male College takes place June 9th. Riley Bass, an old negro, supposed to have been implicated in thc murder of Isham Harper, the negro whose body was found in the Yellow river on the 25th ultimo, has been discharged from custody. The Savannah News states that thc ship Sanspariel made the passage from that port to Liverpool in seventeen and a halfdays, the quickest trip ever made from Savan nah. Tho Dawson Journal, 2d, says: “ Not withstanding considerable rain has fallen in this section, still it ijas not been general, and we learn from some of the farmers that their crops are suffering very much. The Augusta Constitutionalist proclaims the beginning of thc dog massacre in that city. Sacreligious wretches rob the ceme tery at Augnsta. The Jewish Synagogue is to be finished by the first of September. The principal dry goods merchants of Savannah, at the request of a committee of clerks, have consented that their stores shall be closed at half-past five every after noon, except Saturday, during the months of Jane, July and August. Thc Macon Journal learns thc project of building a railroad from No. 13—Tennille— on the Central, running north in the direc tion of Knoxville, has been abandoned. It is proposed to run a road direct from Macon to Knoxville. The Athens Banner says Robert J, Smith, son of Dr. Smith, was seriously in jured by a fall last Tuesday in that town. Tho Banner and Watchman of Athens are calling each other •• Shoo Fly.” Tho Macon Journal announces the death of Captain J. H. Pickett, a well known cit izen. He died at Vincville, on Thursday, aged 55. Also thc death of Wm. H. Gugei, one of the oldest engineers in the State. He died at Thomaston on Thursday. The annual commencement exercises of the Southern Masonic Female College, at Covington, begins on the 19tb. The ser mon, by Dr. 'Wills.Prcsidentof Oglethorpe University, nnd the address will be deliv ered by Bishop George F. Pierce. Thura day the junior, and Wednesday the senior exhibition, and Baccalaureate address by the President. The Covington Enterprise says Coving ton and Newton county will subscribe $100,000 stock to tho Griffin and Covington Railroad. At the request of several hun dred citizens of Newton county, Jesse M. Lamb, convicted at last Superior Court for intermarrying within the prohibited de grees of affinity, has been pardoned. Wheat, cotton and corn luxuriant, The West Point Shield says John M. Word, the new Postmaster, has been in stalled. Heavy freight continues to go down over the Montgomery and West Point Railroad. General Cullen A. Battle delivers thc annual address at the West Point Female College on the second Wednesday in July. It is believed incen diaries fired tho West Point Male Academy, Fun of the Fenian Fiasco—Advance Guard of tho Left Wing- Captur ed in Windsor. From the Detroit Post, May 28 J The advance guard of the Fenian army reached Windsor yesterday morning via the regular ferry, “five cents over and back.” It consisted of a solitary Irishman in a state of Patriotic inebriety. His name is Patrick Finn, and be hails from Ann Ar bor. He slept last night in Sandwich jail, and that will probably be his post-office ad dress for sometime to come. The ignomin ious capture of this advance guard happen ed thus: He had no sooner touched tho soil of her Majesty’s Dominion than he was spotted for a Fenian by the lynx-eyed red-coats- Tho bugle sound ed the garrison of the town to arms, and for a short time tho greatest perturbation was apparent. Patrick being too much intoxicated to carry himself with erectncss and precision was speedily sur rounded. A valiant cavalry man, thirsting for immortal glory, made a dash at him and captured him. Ho was searched and no arms or munitions of war were found secreted upon his person. There were found upon him, however, a card of mem bership in tlic Fenian Brotherhood and a certificate that all his dues are paid (which is a good thing for the Brotherhood). With this damning evidence against him ho was hurried oil' to Sandwich jail, and there he now is. Itwasstoutly maintained that his gun is secreted somewhere in Windsor, and searching parties were busy during thc afternoon,scouring every nookoftlie town, looking for it. At last advices it had not been found. GOOD TEMPLARS. Interesting- Facts Concerning the Action of the Grand Lodge. Mr. W. H. Sloan, Representative to the Grand Lodge of Good Templars of North America, recently in session at St. Louis, returned here. He says that the members of the Grand Lodge were most hospitably treated by the subordinate lodges at St. Louis, their board bills cashed, taken to Shaw’s Garden in hacks, treated to a ride around tho city on the steamer East St. Louis, and tendered a sumptuous collation. With thc exception of four Southern States, all the States in thc Union, Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, England-and Scotland, were represented in the Grand Lodge. The principal business transacted was to the effect that ail supplies should be pur chased though the R. G. T. Secretary; that all grand lodges having a membership of less than 2.000 should pay into the treasury of the R. W. Grand Lodge of North Amer ica $30 each, itstcad of $60 as heretofore; and that the members ofthe Order will not hereafter cast their vote for or aid, either directly or indirectly, in the election of any man unless . said candidate shall be in favor of the prohibition of the sale and against thc use of intoxicating beverages. Mr. Sloan says that reports from the sub ordinate lodges gave evidence of the rapid increase of the Order. All but one of the old officers were re elected for tho ensuing year. The Grand Lodge adjourned to meet at Valejo, Cali fornia.—Nashville Banner. Scientific. One of tho largest telescopes in tlic world, it is well known, is owned by the Chicago University. Tlic destined work of this wonderful instrument is to make, in con nection with nine chief observatories of Europe and America, an entire new cata logue of 250,000 stars, determining the right ascension and declination of each particular star; so that by observing its positition, astronomers may, in far-off ages, be able to announce authoritatively on its motion, and to declare in what di rection it has proceeded through tlic illim itable voids. At this moment it is slow ly and surely performing its sublime work, and furnishing those far-off astronomers the data upon which to base their calcula tions, respecting that mighty problem, the direct motion of the sun through space. When this is solved, data will also be abundant for locating the position of tlic great central sun, around which millions upon millions of other suns popuiary de nominated stars, do, in all probability re volve. The labor being divided among the ten principal observatories in the world, will make the share of its falling to the Chicago Observatory, 25,000 stars—upon each one of which the most careful obser vations will be made and recorded. It will require about ten years to accomplish this stupendous work, and when it is done we may expect some most important astro nomical discoveries.—The Index. LOBE-LEY. BT CnAM.ES W. nUBNER. From too German of Hcfno. I know not why sorrow Is robbing My heart of wonted rest; My sleepless soul Is throbbing With amarvclous talooftho Past. - Cool twilight breezes aro'hlowing. And calmly flows the llhinc; Tho mountain’s snmmit js glowing In evening’s dying shine. On yonder height sits dreaming A maiden wondrous fair; Around her rare jewels are gleaming. She corobeth ber gulden hair. WlUi a golden comb sho combeth Her locks of golden hair; A magical song she hnmmcth— A marvelous, potent air. Thc spell-bound ma'incr rcarclb. Yet his fi-aii boat drifteth by; Entranced by the Cyren he bcarcth. Ho reeks not thc danger nigh. Mo thinks, by toe wild cry ringing, Thc boat and tho boatman arc goncl • And this, with her marvelous singing, Thc Loro-Ecy hath done. Atlanta, June, 1870. _ ~ TEE SEA LIMITS. BY DANTE OABBIEL BOSSITTI. Consider too sea’s listless chime, Time’s self it is, made audible, Tho manner of the earth’s own shell. Secret continuance sublime Is toosca’s endtour sigh may pass No furlolfg rurtocr. Since timo was. This sound nas told tho lapse of time. No quiet, which is death’s—it hath Thc mournfuincss of ancient life. Enduring always at dull strife. As iho world’s heart of rest and wrath. Its painrul pulso is In too sands. Lost utterly the whole sky stands. Gray and not known, along its path. Listen alone beside tho sea, Listen alone among too woods; Those voices of twin solitudes Shall havconc sound alike to thee; Hark where tho murmurs of thronged men Snrge and sink back and surge agaiu— Still tho one voice of wavoand troo. Gather a shell from the strown beach And listen at its lips; they sigh Tho same desire and mystery, Thc coho of tho whole sea’s speech. And all man’ ind is thus at heart Not anything but what thou art; ' And Earth, Sea. Man, arc all in each. Sambo Going J^ack on His Religion. If emancipation and enfranchisement have done a great deal towards thc politi cal elevation of thc colored population of the South, it seems that the same can not be said in regard to bis religious advancement. It appears from recent investigation that tho Southern Methodist Church is rapidly losing its colored membership, there being but about nineteen thousand members this year, against thirty-two thousand last year. How can this he accounted for ?—New York Eerald. Commnnlcatcd.] Editors Constitution: I find the above paragraph in your paper of thc 2d instant, and presume that it was inserted in order to draw out an explanation. The facts arc simply these: 1. Thc Southern Methodist Church, before thc war, had more than 200.000 colored members. 2. Since the war, many of these colored people have re mained in communion witii thc Metho dist Episcopal Church, South, but it has been judged expedient, both by the white and colored people interested, to set apart the colored people into conferences and church organizations, which are only supervised by the white people. 3. There are now seven colored conferences in communion with the M. E. Church, South, and the colored members are reported to these conferences, and not counted among the whites. This will explain the apparent decrease noticed by the Herald. There are more than 20.000 colored people in the State of Geor gia in fellowship with the Southern Metho dist Chnrch, and throughout the South per haps 100,000. The last General Conference of the M. E. Church, South, recognized seven conferences of colored ministers, and the Bishops have included them in their plan of Episcopal visitation. Next winter the colored branch of the M. E. Church will have a General Conference of its own. A Methodist. Atlanta, June 3,1870. Bullock at Andersonvillc. The Americus Republican, of June 2d, gives a description of the ceremonies at Andcrsonville on thc 30th ultimo and re ferring to Bullock, who wa3 present, says Bullock mounted a wagon and began a tmuippic against the Confederacy, the peo ple, and against everything he could think of. Referring to tho treatment of prison ers at Andersonvillc, be said that six pris oners were one day taken out of thc stock ade, tied hand and foot, and ate alive by savage dogs, and tiiat there were two sol diers present with Krysanowski, who were eye witnesses to the deed, and could testify to it. The gallant General Phil. Cook, of Ogle thorpe, who stood the tirade as long as he could, at tills juncture mounted a wagon ot his own, and declared tlic statement false, and challenged tlic proof. Thc proof was not forthcoming. Matters at the Indian Springs. Indian Spkings, J une 2,1870. Editors Constitution: Perhaps a letter from this place at this time will not be un acceptable,, as tho watering season lias just opened. It was intended to be inaugurated by a party at the McIntosh House, kept by Mr. B. A. Collier, but thc rain, which fell on the evening of the 1st instant, pre vented many from attending. Thc visitors here are not numerous at present, Mr. Collier having about twelve and Elder Queen four or five boarders. Your correspondent stopped at the McIn tosh House, which is kept in good style, and is well supplied with attentive servants and everything necessary to make his guests comfortable. A line of good, substantial coaches, with good teams, run by Messrs. Grier & Bro., of Forsyth, convey visitors to the Springs In about two hours after the arrival of trains at Forsyth. The coaches have careful drivers, and arc always ready to start upon the arrival of the trains—so that visitors may apprehend no delay. I am gratified that your valuable paper is rapidly increasing its circulation, es pecially in Southwest Georgia. Visitor. Fcniiuiuc. “Lady visitors” to the Tombs, New York, supply female apparel and false keys to their friends inside. Victoria’s youngest daughter is just turned thirteen, and her first name is'Be atrice Mary Victoria Feodorc, The Parlement mentions a singular ma nia of the late M. Nestor Roqucplan—that of collecting warming-pans., ills muse um, that journal says, comprises those of Anne de Bretagne, Diane de Poitiers, Mary Stuarf, tlie Belle Gabrielle, Mile, de la Fayette, Marion de Lorme, N inon de l’En- clos, Mme. de Sevigne, Marie Antoinette, etc. Mr. Chandler, thc chemist to the New York Board, has prepared a long and in teresting report of thc results of analyses of most of tlie various hair tonics, washes and restoratives, lotions of thc skin, cn-~ amcls and white powders, now sold for tlic purpose of renovating thc complexion or repairing the ravages of time. lie sums up thc case, at thc conclusion of his report; in thc following paragrapli: It appears from thc foregoing: 1. With very few exceptions, tlic hair tonics, washes and restoratives contain lead in considerable quantities, they own their action to this metal, and that they are highly dangerous to thc health of persons ting them. 2. With a single exception, the lotions for the skin are free from lead and other inju rious metals. 3. That the enamels arc composed of either carbonate of lime, oxide of zinc, or corbonate of lead, suspended iu water. The first two classes of’cnamels arc com paratively harmless—as harmless as tiny other white dirt when plastered over the skin to close thc pores, and prevent its healthy action. On tlie other hand, the enamels composed of carbonate of lend are highly dangerous, and their use is very certain to produce disastrous results to those who patronize them. 4. The white powders for the skin are harmless, except in as far as their applica tion may interfere witii the healthy action of the skin. IST - In a little town out West a lady teacher was exercising a class of juveniles in mental arithmetic. She commenced tlie question, “ If you buy a cow for $10,” when up came a liitle hand. “ What is it, John ny ?” “ Wiiy, you can’t buy no kind of a cow for $10; father sold oue tor $60 the other dav, and she was a regular old scrub at lb at!” American Newspapers. From a New York letter to tlic Albany Argus wc gather some interesting facts and figures touching the press in this country. There are 5.319 newspapers published in the United States and British Provinces, of which 650 are dally. In New York city there are, of all sorts, 300, in Philadelphia over 200, and Boston publishes the next largest number. There arc 400 pa pers in foreign languages, 250 of them be ing German, 75 French, and thc remainder in various less known tongues, two oi them being iu Bohemian. New York Statu has the largest number and Delaware thc smallest. San Francisco publishes nearly all the papers for tho Pacific coast. The largest paper is the Independent. For merely editing, George Wm. Custis (who does the editorial work of Harper’s Weekly, the Easy Chair of Harper’s Monthly, and does some work upon Harper’s Bazar) re ceives the largest salary paid in this coun try, and Theodore Tilton gets the next largest. Tlie smallest daily is the Ithaca Daily Ledger, the largest tlic New York Journal of Commerce. In the United States there are $96,000,000 invested In newspaper property. All sorts of out- of-the-way interests have papers to advocate them, and all sorts of busi ness. There are two papers devoted to thc interests of watchmaking, and of course every religious sect has its organ; The receipts of this religious press of the United Statas—in which of course “ infi del,” “free-thinking” and “spiritual” papers are included—amount to 55,000,000 per year. New York has thirty-two dal lies, six of which are printed in German, two in French, and one—the Skandina- vish—in Danish and Swedish. ES^The Atlanta Constitution con tinues its vigorous expose of the official corruption at Atlanta.—Valdosta Times Impecunious bloods in New Orleans capture rich wives by exhibiting lottery tickets, and afterwards claiming to have drawn the grand prize. A SCAREDJ3INNER. Tlio Devil In tlio Shape of a it:„ Bull—St range.Seeue in tiieChani. her or a 1) j lug Woman. 1 From toe Dayton Journal ] A most remarkable premonition has lust como to our knowledge. It is one of tiio^o startling incidents which stagger the credulity, reaching beyond the realm of fancy, and trenching upon the smiernatn- rnl. We can only hope to givo the readers of tho Journal a tolerable idea of the af. fair, leaving details to the imagination. John W resides on tho Hill, j„ ti.„ eastern part of the city. He had for vears claimed himself a materialist; and he took pride in saying that he believed in nothing that could not bo recognized with the aid ofthe senses. He did not believe in “su pernatural manifestations,” and he ut terly scouted tho idea of an existence beyond a '~ ■ mainly s. and forestsi .......... dogs and gun. Ho was a very Nimrod, and ho had a taste for preserving, in excellent style, the game he secured. Wc note these matters to show the reader that W. is nota man who is easily affected by those demon strations which are termed “spiritual mani festations.” Some time ago ids wife was taken seri ously ill; and iu order that she have the most careful nursing and patient attention it were possible to secure, he assisted in the duties of tlie sick room, and spared neither rest nor sleep, ministering to the wants of his sick wife, both day and night. Despite tho best medical attention, and thc most loving and devoted nursing, the wife grew worse, until all hope of her recovery was given up by the attending physicians- though the affectionate husband could not believe the unwelcome intelligence. Thc evening before the dissolution of Mrs. W., whose husband, who was almost overcome with anxiety, watching anil fatigued, laid down on a lounge in thc sick room to obtain a little rest—not sleep. A queer sort of drowsiness came over him. He did not sleep. He was conscious of everything transpiring in thc room, lie was, for thc moment, incapable of motion, lie had no voiitionof will. Suddenly there appeared before him a monstrous, fierce looking bull, eyes blazing fire, his month open, smoke issuing from his nose, and he was lashing iiis sides with his tail! It was a fearful sight—it was too real for an ap parition, and IV. was appalled! What could ho do ? Making n desperate effort, lie sprang from the ioungo to tlic floor, and tlic same instant tlic terrible brute van ished ! Observing that ids sick wife was watch ing Iiis strange movements, he inquired of' her if she had seen tlio fearful sight. She had been awake all tlie while, but she had seen or heard nothing of tlic apparition which had so startled tier husband. She told him it was all Iiis own imagination; tiiat he had worn himself down by con stant watching, and that lie needed rest and sleep; that she did not require so much attention, and that if he did not obtain tlio rest lie so badly needed, lie would also Ira sick. At length W. also came to tlic con clusion that the tiling was the fancy of an overwrought mind. But lie could not ban ish thc incident and lie was much annoyed about it. lie was perfectly wide awake ail the while, and how could thc thing have merely been in his fancy? W. again laid down on thc lounge, and was in that position only a few minutes when the same horrid brute again niadu Iiis appearance, looking much more fero cious than before, and threatening to tear him with hoofs and horns! Tiiu huge brute approached \V r glared in iiis eyes, while thc hot breath of thc animal fairly stilled him! With a yeli of terror W. sprang from thc lounge, and Uie same instant the horrid brute disappeared! At the same time tlio stove in tlic room wac enveloped in a sheet of flame, which shot up against tlic ceiling, and W. feared tiiat thc house would be set on fire. But tlic flames vanished as sud denly as they appeared, and there was not the smell of fire ill thc room, or thc sign of smoke on the ceiling. W., who never knew fear, and liad never prayed, now fairly trembled with terror, and prayed to tlie Great ISeiug for protec tion for him and his. From that moment \V. became a firm believer in a hereafter, and a system of rewards and punishments. Ue’has not seen the wonderful apparition since. Religious. Queen Victoria is said to have a marked leaning toward Romanism, and it is as serted that if she should resign her crown she would embrace the faitli ol Rome. The King of Prussia has abolished a long-standing Hanoverian law, which for bade tlie opening of theatres on tlic cvc of -'uudeys and fete days. Presbyterianism in Scotland is indi cating important movements which threat en disruption in tlie Free Church of Scot land. Methodism Among the Heathen.—The Methodist publishes an abstract of the fifty- first annual re|iortof the Missionary Soci- ty of tlic Methodist Episcopal Church, which is exceedingly interesting. It ap pears tiiat irom the year of tlic organiza tion of thc Society in 1SI9. when tliecon- tributionsjamoun ted to $S13 04, down to last year, when tlie collections were $629,863 20, the annual gatherings have increased from an average of three-tenths of a cent per member in 1819 to fifty-six and live-tenths cents in 1SG9. Tlie highest average per member that tlic contributions have reached was, in 1865, seventy-eight and onc-tentli cents. In the following year, 1866, the largest contributions ever re ceived by the Society were made—namely, $671,OGO 66—about $41,227 more than last year’s collections. The total amount of thc receipts for tlic fifty years tlic so ciety lias been in existence’is $8^65,460 87. Tlic general average per year has been §171,309 50, and tlic general average per member, eighteen and nine-tenths cents. The appropriations for 1870 arc as fol lows: Foreign missions, $222,027 93; do mestic missions and miscellaneous ex penses, $441,490; to pay outstanding drafts not yet matured, $139,482 07; total appro priations, $800,900. In our foreign missions wc have 259 missionaries, American and native, 10.372 members, and 2,918 proba tioners. in our domestic missions, tho Welsh, German, Scandinavian, Chinese and Indian, we have 332 missionaries, 28,714 members and 4,900 probationers—making a total, in foreign aud domestic missions, ot 591 missionaries, 39,086 members and 6,914 probationers. Waifs From Over tho Sea. Tlic Emperor of Austria is in very feeble health. Tlic Empress Elizabeth, of Austria, is again in interesting circumstances. Fourteen galley-slaves recently escaped from the Bagnc of Toulon. The Leipzig Gartenlaubc has 145,000 sub scribers. Serrano, the Spanish Regent, is an in veterate opium-eater. Therrinco of Wales has two illegiti mate children in Germany. One at Wois- baden and the other at Frankfort-ou-the- Main. Napoleon III. does not smoke any more cigarettes. His doctors told him that it would kill him to dosoauy longer. Alfred Tennyson, tlic poet laureate, is going to spend the next summer on tlio banks of the Rhine. Marctzck lias promised Strauss’ orchestra five hundred dollars for every night they play in tho United States. The latent reports of tlic Paris police state that there arc eighty thousand women of easy virtue in tiiat city. An orthodox minister in the North of Germany delivered a violent harangue tho other day, in which he thundered against the indecency and sinfulness of farmers who kept only one cock to a great many hens, thus promoting polygamy, which he declared sinful to the highest degree, even in chickens. The Reunion of Churches.—The New York Express says: “The welcome of the General Assembly of the Southern Presby terian Church to tlie committee of the Northern Presbyterians, comes to us liko good news from a far country. The ad- dresf ofthe committee was earnest and af fecting, and its reception by the Southern ers full of feeling. If blessed are the peace makers among Christian men, equally blessed are they among men in public life. It needs but these drops of water and theso grains of sand to be constantly applied to secure tiiat full flow of charity, and that good ground of faitli and works, wiiich will, in thc end, restore our still broken Union. The American churches began the Work of political separation, and it is their duty to begin the work of abiding re union.” CSTTIte German population of Bohemia continues cairn aud firm aud will not par ticipate in the Tzech agitation.