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■ttfia ^onsttttrtion. ATLANTA, GA., FEBRUARY SO,1872. The WeeUr Cenatltatlen. This journal, one of the largest in the Boothem States, Is Increasing in drcnUtion more rapidly then at any former period of its history. Daring the past week one or mor» cl aba were received daily, adding Some tw< hundred new subscribers to oar book*. Thh is an average of about thirty per day. Tb. friends of Tux Dailt Cossimmos most bestir them selves, as it is getting jealons of the Weekly, and is determined not to be ex ceeded by it in circulation. A Csrfsaa U*>< Hahherg. The Augusta Chronicle relates that Mr. IV. W. Houghton bad hi* store In Augusta robbed on Saturday night Among other articles eighteen hundred dollars in gold wss stolen. Mr. Haoghton had adopted the fol lowing carious method of taking care of bis gold: “For fear of accidents, we snppoi", for those were tjdrlish times, the coin was placed in a tin box in layers, and between each layer was plsced cotton, wired down, in this way the box contained a solid mass, which made no noise when shaken. The box was then placed in a mould of sand and melt ed lead poured around it, until an apparent! r solid block of metal was formed. This bloc t was kept in the store and used to cat wads on, and for other purposes. This precious block was in the store on the night of the robbery and the burglars took it, either know ing its value, or carrying it off to sell as old metal." a m Tfca CartersTf lie and Va> Wert Rail* ready alias tbe cherekee Hallread Governor Smith’s proclamation will lie found in our advertising columns, revoking a-ting Cover:.or Conley’a appointment of Colonel Daniel 8. Printup.the agent of Henry Clews & Co., aa Receiver of the Cherokee Railroad. His reasons for his coarse are sim ply unanswerable. We do not see how be could have done otherwise. It is undenied that tbe $173,000 of bonds were issued be fore tbe road was entitled to a bond under the law. Clews, tbe holder of the bonds, knew this, because he was Treasurer of tbe company. The illegality is undoubted. And not even the plea of Innocent purchaser with out notice can be used. Under these facts, what was Governor Smith to do? Recognize an illegality and a fraud? That certainly would be unlawful. He coaid only enforce the law. This he bis done. The parties hare the courts to go to for establishing their legal claims. * We most emphatically endorse and com mend the action of Governor Smith. The Orphans* Bowie. We call tbe a'tcnU-.u of our readers to the interesting article of Jesse Boring, in regard to the Orphans' Home. He makes a strong appeal for assistance in this noble charily. His account of the institution will .be read with deep Interest. We commend liu ap peal. We can best, perhaps, stimulate our people to aid this project by referring to wbat the Southern %ity of Baltimore has done for such charities. Baltimore has a Christian Aid Society, a Conyers, February 15,1872. Editors Constitution: Many of the most in Idligent people in this county feel deeply in teres led in the matter of “Tbe Great Western Canal,” and would be pleased to have infor mation on the following particulars: 1. Is It proposed to propel the boats by steam any part or all the distance ? 2. How much depth of water will here- quiredt 8. From the Junction of the Yellow river, South river and Akovy. which form the Ocmulgee, down to Macon, which is perhaps fifty miles by the river, there Is average depth of from seven to twelve feet water; and from Macon to tbe coast, a dislsnce of some three hundred to three hundred and fifty miles, water sufficient to ran boats stall seasons ol the year; why not at least run this portion bj steam? The undertaking, considered In all its bear ings. is certainly one of vast importance, not ontv to Georgia bat to all the adjoining Mutes. Rockdale county alone can span granite of first quality sufficient to build i wall equal to tbe Chinese wall around half of our coast border, etc. Very respectfully, 8. W. Bryant. - We will state that tne question of u-ing steam on the canal is not yet settled. W< will h >wcver take occasion to correct a wide spread error relative to the nse of steam upon canals. The great anxiety manifested by tbe Erie Canal to use steam growl out of the fact that the time between the harvesting of the crop in the Western Slates and the do sing of the canal (by ice) it so short that it is Impossible to mow that crop by the present means before tbe canal is frozen op. This Is the secret, and it Is not, as many suppose, doe to the present mode of propelling canal boats.' Too dimensions of the cans! will be tbe same of those of the New York Erie Canal, 70 feet wide and six deep. Iu capacity, how ever, will be doable that of the Erie, because it will never be closed by ice. Tbe engineers are now surveying the Ocmulgee river, and their report will de termine tbe fact whether any portion of that river, above Macon, can be made available for steam navigation. Our people may, how ever, rest assured that nothing will be left undone to insure the success of this great en terprise and to give them all the benefits of cheap transportation. The Atlantic ait Gull Beat. The seventeenth annual meeting of tbe stockholders of this road was held on Wed nesdsy, representing 31,993 shares. Presi dent Screven reported the gross earnings of the company for the year 1871, exclusive of smonnts not yet adjusted with contracting companies, bnt which belong to the earnings of the year, amount to $1,914,387118, derived as follows: Ttom Freight. $ 79I.M0 69 •* PlNt|S. 317,50b O ** InddonUl Sources 14 1*170 Female Orphan Asylum, "a’Blind Asylum an Indigent Sick Society, and hosts of other charitable institutions. The Sick Society visited and relieved nineteen thousand four hundred and sixty-four sick persons. Tbe Aid Society taught hundreds of young girls tbe means of getting s living. A number of institutions furnish employment to toot women and children. The amount of good done in that city by the charitable can hardly be estimated. Let Atlanta be behind none in her liberality. Tbe claim of the poor Confederate orphan is one of irresistable power. Atlanta and Her Calumniators It has become very much fashionable lately for many papers to abase Atlanta ronudly. Tbe head and front cf her offending seems to be that the Capitol was remove-1 here. And yet so true were the people of Atlanta to honor, that they voted against tbe Radical Constitution, sugar-coated as it was, wiiii this uery bribe of the Capitol removal. This tingle fact outweighs a volume of calumny. We do not write this to enter intoa defeats of Atlanta. Like other cities, the baa good and bad citizens. Her people will compare favorably with the people of any Southern city. And when writers go so far as to say that the atmosphere of the place is too cor rupt for honest legislation, it is a eisnder upon the Legislature as undeserved os it silly. God help us as a State if we cannot elect a General Assembly that will be pure and honest anywhere. We have not thought it necessity to reply to tbe cheap denunciation of our city. She needs no defense. In every trial she has stood true to right and the States’ interest. We see that the Griffin Daily News has taken np the cndgcls against this blind abuse of this place. And it bandies tbe sul ject well that we reproduce its article as an unan- swenbie off-set to tbe calumny it condemnr. Wc have, for a long time, noticed tbe in vidious slurs thrown at this city, which if truly the pride of the State. Wc have never seen any necessity foi such a course, for of all places in the Suite, Atlanta is our fa vorite. True there is an immense amount of corruption, which has berg more prominent, than that of any other city, because it is the scat of Government, and i-c-causc everybody knows everything about it; but this over balanced by iu wonderful enterprise, the en ergy, and thrift of iu citizens, the magnifi cence of its undertakings, the elegance of her buddings, and the cleverness of her people. Seven years ago it was one solid ruin, a mass of cinders and charcoal; to-day it is tbe finest city in the State, rivalled by none in scarcely a single respect. It lias risen Phoenix like from its ashes, and is one of the finest exam ples of Georgia’s determination to maintain her well-earned reputation of “tlio Empire State of the South.” When iu limits were one vast camp of Yankee soldiery, when the ballot box was manipulated by scoundrels, iu polls counted at tbe point of the bayonet, in tbe hinds of a rabble, whose every impulse was for the degradation of our people, Atlanta was the only city in the State of any considerable size, that gave our glorious standard bearer, a majority of tbe votes cast This record she has fullv sustained in every subsequent elec tion, and to her we look for lead in every important more on the political chcsa-ltoard. A great deal has been said about the re moval of the Capi'ol of the State to that point, wc are and have all the time b- en op posed to the manner in which it was s- cured for that city, but outside of that, wc are wil ling, yea proud of Tbe fact that Atlanta is our seat of government. Tbe removal of it from Atlanta will more lbon add enough to taxes of the State, than forty such public buildings as those belonging to tbe Slate at Mllledgeville are worth. It is foremost in eveiytbing that looks to. the developing of our noble old Commonwealth and wit shall ever rejoice at iu prosperity in any manner or form, and would be glad to see the day dawn when iu limits might be extended until it was separated from our own beautiful little dty by an invisible dry line; Act us have no more of unpleasant reflec tions in reference to that city. The large majority of her rilizcns are honed people, and the unearthing of the monstrous railroad frauds now going on there are alike credit able to the high character of its citizens and their determination to parnish those who have defrauded and 'robbed the State with impunity under the unlimited license printed them by Radical usurpation, and the an bridled authority given them by eorrnpt officials.” ouie ffAsiiiNt- o i utttrti. amnesty—Came o. Ocfent—Pnrctiaee af Arms by France-XSssr with Cat* and, *.tc. WiinnidTos, February 13.1872. The defeat of .the amnesty bill in tbe Senate on Friday last was unexpected by both friend and foe. The adoption of Mr. Sumner’s civil rights amendment was a fore gone conclusion, bnt it was regarded as equally certain IhsSJlbe measure thus bur- dated would be sent to the House, there to meet the fate it was destined to encounter elsewhere and earlier. There need now be no hope for amnesty this session. Mr. Sum ner is obdurate, and will persist in bringing np his amendment whenever an amnesty bill comes before the Senate. He has a double motive in pursuing this course. He wants to hold the position of the champion of the colored race, and he desires to defeat amnesty as a means of injuring Grant It is evidently wan TO THE KNIFE between these two, and Stunner occupies the vantage thus far. Be does not content him seif with standing on the defensive, but is openly and boldly aggressive. Yesterday be introduced a resolution calling for an inves tigation intolbe purchase from the War De partment of arms and ammunition by France -hiring her war with Rossis, sn inviting sub ject for investigation, and one that, properly followed out, is likely to convict this govern ment of a serious breach of neutrality. Mr. -umner proposes to call np tbe resolution to day and the Senate cannot refuse the investi gation, which Mr. Sumner insists shall be held with open doors, so that white-w ashing or concealment will be impossible. Mr. Sumner has already done much to ward alienating the negro vote from Grant, Total .....*1,044.687 99 As compared with the earnings of the pre vious year, the earnings for 1871 show an increase of $12,690 97. The expenses were $794,339. The latter part of 1871 was bad for bnsi- naas, the receipts of cotton falling off 38,273 bales over the same time of the year before. This road is an unfinished enterprise, the extension to Pensacola or Mobile being the original purpose, which will be carried out, The success of the road is altogether flatter ing, its prospects bright, and its influence potential and valuable in thwarting the vast railway consolidation scheme that it grasping at our Southern railroads. The advantages of this route are thus stated by CoL Screven “Assuming New York as the objective poinuhe route via Mobile, Montgomery, At lanta, and the Richmond Air-Line, will be about two hundred miles shorter than the route by the extension of the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad via tbe Coast Roads, while tbe latter route beyond Savannah may be in ad vene control. Savannah most, therefore, de pend on her advantages by sea to Northern and foreign porta, in conjunction with ha possessing a short rail route between New Orleans, Mobile and the Atlantic; Compu ting the distance between New Orleans and New York, by what is known aa the Rich- tuood Air-Line, at 1,363 miles, the distance from New Orleans to Savannah would be 614 miles, and the freight mileage from Savan nah to New York by sea would be 200 miles, making a total of 8i4 miles against 1,363, and ■ difference of 449 miles in favor of tbe rati and water route via Savannah The time made on the latter would be nearly the same as on the forma route in the transportation of freights, while the difference of cost must go to tne advantage of the latter in the ratio of the difference of freight mileage, or nearly as 8 is to 11” He urge* action looking to the extension, and resolutions were passed to this effect. The proposition of Mr. Morris Ketchnm to lease the road, was acted on by resolution in viting a specific offa from Mr. Ketch am. The following directors were elected: John Screven, R D. Arnold, Wm. Duncan, John Stoddard. Hiram Roberts, Chales Green, W. H. Wfltberga, J. L. VQIalogna, A V Sloan, Edward Lovell, R. EL Harda way, A. T. McIntyre, W. J. Young. C.J. Munnerlyn, W. O. Flemming. The road is stocked as follows: 19 pa-sen- ger cars. 3 smoking and baggage care; 3 mail and express can, 219 box can (including S3 used for conductors, express and baggage cars.) 101 platform can (including 18 in road service), U stock cars, 4 can in road service, 860 cars in all. Three mail and express, three smoking and baggage, fifty-five box, and twenty-five platform cars; also, one wrecking and one pile-driver ca have been built this yea. Two passenger can are now nnda construc tion. There is no better managed road in the 8tat* than this road. President Screven and Superintendent Haynes are two of the most efficient and successful railroad men in the whole country. On motion of Gen. Young, the Co&inittce on the Judiciary were directed to reporta bill, at os early a day as possible, for the re moval of the political disabilities of all per sons who Lave applied for such relief. Of tbit measure, the Patriot says: “One of the bat things that the House did to day, was to pass, by more than two-thirds vote. Mr. Young’s resolution directing the Committee on the Judiciary to report a bill to relieve from tbeir political disabilities all persons wbo have made application for such relief. The Committee can hardly fail to obey this mandatory resolution; but the only fear is that in the present humor ofAhe Re publicans or the Senate body wifi not con sent to any amnesty measure. The Bouse seems ready to pass one at any time.” Tomer Havre. OUR HARM OKAS LETTER. Abaatthe Tilp—ln«14eat* anil Scenes -The Crane Bake Alexis and a Good Bleat *Deat lllaa—OarCerrei pond.at Take* a'Drink with Him In a Hera—The Opera--Col. nan New Orleans, La., Feb. 13th, 1872. Editor* Constitution: What ia more de lightful than traveling with a railroad excur sion party? of cultivated and refined people and pretty girls? Igls a continuous socia ble, and if to that you add the variety of scenery of mountains and valleys, hills and lakes and ocean viras, and the admirable ticket agent, Beverlf.Wrenn, and his lovely wife, to take car*-of the whole party with beaming htfpitality; then, then. Sunday Scnooi. Teachers’ Institute. The topic for discussion last night was; The importance of class-teaching of «U grades, and how to make it most efficient. Tbe first speaker was Rev. H. C. Hnrnady, who interreated the congregation in one of his usually earnest and happy efforts. Dr. Randolph would have three depart ments in every Sunday school The infant, intermediate, and adult, and he would not rest satisfied until all were fulL He then gave, at some length, detailcl and very practical suggestions as to the best methods of teaching in the several depart ments. Dr. Randolph is evidently a thorough master of tbe Sunday, school in all of the details of its several departments. He was followed by Rev. Mr. Fish, who urged that teachers should tne their pupils, and should be very careful to set them at all times proper examples. He made other very practical remarks interspersed with very ap posite and at times amusing incidents. Mr. Fish is one of the most entertaining and instructive Sunday School talkers we have ever heard. At the close of Mr. Fish’s remarks. Dr. Spalding made a few appropri ate remarks, and offered the followin' reso lution, which was unanimously anil veiy heartily adopted: Resolved, That the thanks of this audience are hereby tendered to oar brethren, Rev. Dr. Randolph and Rev. L. B. Fish, for their la bors in this brief Institute, with tic assur ance of our affectionate regards for their con tinued usefulness in their service of our Lord Jesus. Rev. E. W. Warren desired, as one of the pastors, to join in the cordial thanks of these brethern. Dr. Randolph made an appropriate ac- knowldgment, and at the earnest request of the audience, gave a deeply interesting sketch of Ms recent visit to the Sea of Gallilce. The audience remained until half-past ten, deeply interested. Scandal for ladles. Some married people alwaya go to bed quarrelling—yet they never fall out. An srdent believer in leap year down in Connecticut visits ha beloved every Sunday night, and goes home in the wee sms’ hours. Glasha, an aeronaut, says that the voice of a woman can be heard in a balloon when at the height of two miles, while that of a man cannot be heard when higha than a mile. * A new York papa has nominated Powers’ “ Greek Slave” for the Presidency, because she has three of the qualifications—a marble brow, a finely chiseled nose, and a silent tongue. Opelika, Ala., has creat'd a new sensation by the new leap-yea mode of eating philo- penas in that place as reported by the editor of the Locomotive The young ladv takes the almond between ha teeth and the young man bites it off South Carolina Sews Items. De Castro, the magician, is in Cbuleston Sumter is to have a new hall and market. The Peak Family Swiss Bell Ringers are in Columbia. The Kingston Star says that the bog chol era is prevailing in that neighborhood. One tract of land in Marion county worth $800 brooght but $15 a Sheriff’s sale on the 7th instant. Mr. A. S Johnson, of the firm of Johnson, Crews & Co., has been elected a director of the Bank of Charleston. George S. Cameron has been re-elected President of the Sooth Carolina Loan and Trust Company of Charleston. Eighty thousand dollars have been sub scribed In the dty of Greenville for the pur pose of organizing a National Bank. For the first time in the hittoiy of South Carolina, that State has a divorce law. The cause for granting divorce most be very seri ous and very dearly proved. The Colombia Union publishes, with fa vorable comments, a letter nominating ex- Governor James L. Ore. as the Republican candidate for Vice-President of the United States. and now threatens the President with the loss of tbe German dement, by proving that the administration lent aid to France, during the late wu with Prussia, not warranted by the neutrality laws This, with the influence of Senator Schurz, must ensure the defection of the greata portion of the German vote, while the Know-Nothing prejudices which have manifested themselves on ihe Radical side in both Houses most certainly serve the ust ring of the ’party. Indeed, it looks os f nothing but A WAR WITH ENGLAND can save Grant. A declaration of hostilities would rally tbe Irish to a man, and insure to the present occupant a lease of the White House for four yearn more. For this reason the President may not hesitate' to pjiiuge tlie conntry into a war, for which it is wholly unprepared. That he has such intentions would appeal- evident from the following telegram sent hence by the agent of tbe American Press Association. There is the highest official authority for the statement that the administration is a unit in favor of preserving the status of the American case os presented to the Geneva tribunal, and that there will be no backdown in any shape.” THE TREATY. There has licen no change as yet respect ing the questions at issue between the two countries. The explanation I gave a week ago folly cover the grounds, and are sus tained by the best authorities here and else where. It is still very clear that England will not permit these. claims for conse quential damages to be considered, and that she is right in protesting as she has done A careful reading of the treaty, the protocols, aud the speeches in the Eng lish Parliament at the time the treaty was adopted, shows that these claims arc not ad mirable, and have been presented in viola tion of tie understanding had with the British members of the Joint'High Commis sion’. Their presentation may be considered a sharp trick, bnt it is not good diplomacy, and is likely to recoil like a boomerang upon the heads of the administration. “ one result of the present misnnderst-nding between tbe two countries,” says the Sunday Herald of this city, “has been to develop a very mark ed opposition to the Treaty in all quarters. Its adoption was generally commended at the time, and Grant considered it the trump card of his administration. It was to strengthen liis position, and render his nomination and election sure. Now, it is pretty evident that whatever may be the ending of this business, whether the Treaty be abrogated or the irliiTntion proceeded with, it will prove a losing game to Grant. That war will arise from the present combinations few anticipate, though many would doubt less hail a declaration of hostilities with pleasure. “It would revive our shipping in terests without the aid o! Congress,” was re marked the other day; and to it would, hut at what cost t > otb r interests? A war with England would doubtless ensure to Grant four years mote in the While House, and foi this reason-alone he may not hesitate to bring it about.” FORNEY KICKS OVER THE TRACES. The heaviest blow Grant has sustained of late is the defection of John W. Toney, who, on Saturday list, resigned the eollec- torship of Philadelphia, with which his tem porary allegiance liad bren bought. The name of Forney is not a fairy one, and it is surprising that this renegade* nolitieim and 0 gt.n’zer of Kit.dun Cl.bin- U sV uld have any influen c whatever. Yet he has potent away in Pennsylvania, and his defection is considered here as certain to result in the loss of that State to Grant. The resignation was.mode known under peculiar circum stances. There wns a Press dinner at Welch’s Saturday evening, to which both Forney and tho President were invited. Grant had, however, previously accepted an invita tion to dine with Senator Sherman, and stated be would meet the press gang later, say 10 o'clock. Forney having placed his resignation in the hand of a friend, came to the banquet, occupying a seat near your correspondent. When the wine began to circulate, he communicated the news of his resignation to the correspondent of fiis own paper, the Press, who sat behind him, and this gentleman hastily scribbled the fact on a card and passed it down to me. Nut long after Forney retired, that he might not meet the President, whose vacant chair was di rectly opposite, leaving the company, with the two exceptions mentioned, in ignorance of his withdrawal, from official life. Some time lata, tbe Associated Press got hold of the letter of resignation, a copy of w* * * peered in the Sunday Herald of the ing morning, and created a decided sensation in political circles. It is interpreted every where as meaning war on Grant THE PRESS DINNER. Having referred to the press dinner above 1 may be pardoned for saying a few words c mcerning what lias been pronounced the most successful affair of the kind which has ever taken place in Washington. The ban quet took place at Weicher’s, the celebrated caterer of Washington, whose establishment, in all its appointments, is a marvel of rich ness and elegance. Covers were laid for fifty-one, and in taking their seats tho guests of the evening were sandwiched between the gentlemen of the press. The following gen tlemen were present as guests: The President of the United States, invited bvDeB. R Kcim; Vice President Colfax; J. G. Blaine, Speaker of the House of Repre sentatives; Senator Cameron, Senator An thony, Senator Schurz, Senator-elect Ser geant, Hon. James Brooks, Hon. James A. Garfield, Hon. S. S. fox, General Horace Porta, secretary to the President; Governor McCormick, Colonel J. W. Forney, Murat Halstead, Cincinnati Commercial; Governor H. D. Cooke, Alexander Shepherd, Colonel W. M. Grosvcnor, and Sir. F. A. Easman, Postmaster of Chicago. Below will be found a list of the members of the Press who were present: George W. Adams, New York World, pres ident; C. S. Noyes, Evening Star, vice presi dent; J. MacFarland, Philadelphia Press, J. H. Riley, Alta Californian; F. A. Richard son, Baltimore Associated Press; R. J. Hin ton, New York Evening Mail; S. H. Kauff- mann, Evening Star; D. R. McKee, New York Associated Press; Don Piatt. Capital; A. Devine, New York Associated Pres;; D. F. Murphy, Globe; Cliff Worden, Baltimore Gazette; E B. Wright, Chicago Post; I. N. Burr ill, Sunday Herald; W. B. Shaw, Boston Transcript; Cbas. A PUsbuiy, Atlanta Con- rrrrCTT JN; George aTownsend, Chicago Tri bune; J. J. McElhone, Globe; J. B. Siiilson, New York World; W. P. Copeland, New York Journal of Commerce; Henry Hayes, New York Associated Press; O. K- Harris, Boston Journal; J. P. Foley, Republican; D. C. Forney, .Sunday Chronicle; H. J. Jiams- ddl. New York Tribune, Myron Fox. Daily Chronicle; Louis Bagger, Daily Patriot; Thomas Nast, Harper's Weekly. The President did not arrive until, nearly 10 o’clock, and his first move was character istic—he lighted a cigar. The dinner being then ova and coffee and liquors circulating he, however, simply followed the example of many others around the festive board. The bill of fare bore the inscription: “The pen is mightier than the sword,” and refer- mg to this. Governor Cooke toasted the Presi dent in connection with the sword. In re ply Grant said he had laid down the sword on entering civil life, and that his motto now was, “Let us have peace.” He spoke with out hesitation and in good taste, it being re marked by many that they had never seen the President appear to bettaadvantage. The correspondents, by prearrangement, gen- erally refrained from speech-making; bnt somo excellent addresses were delivered by their guests, and it was nearly midnight when the party broke up. CONGRESSIONAL JOTTINGS. Under tbe call of States in the House yes terday, Mr. Bigby introduced a bill to amend the army appropriation act for 1873, and to extend the powers and duties of Commis sioner of Claims; also, a bill for an appropri ation for a public building at Atlanta. Tho first was referred to the Committee on Claims, and the second to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. mayor John H. James makes Speech and Creates a Battling of tbe Dry Bonee-He Speaks for James and not for tbe mayer—In teresting Proceedings. The following extract from the proceed ings of the South Carolina Railroad Conven tion on Tuesday, in Charleston, will show what the situation is with regard to the ise: No fnrtha business being presented, Mr. DeLeon moved an adjournment until noon on Wednesday, which' was withdrawn at the instance of Mr. R. W. Cnbbedge, who offer- ed the following preamble and resolution: Whereas, It is reported that an offer has been made of a lease of the South Carolina Railroad for a term of years at the rate of four pa cent pa annum; and, Whereas, The stoekhqlders grp desirous of getting some return for their investment; be it therefore Resolved, Thatif anofferof five per cent, or more is made for the lease of ourrosd,the President and directors are haeby author ized to call a meeting of the stockholders for the purpose of considering any such offa, by giving sixty days’ notice m the city papers; all stock held thirty days prior to said meet ing shall be entitled to vete, and stockhold ers passed to and from the meeting as usual. A member rising to second the resolution, said: “I am a stockholder, and I will tell yon who I am. My name is John H. James, of Atlanta, Ga., banker. I run James’ bank. I have eighteen hundred shares in the South Carolina Railroad, and have no interest in any other road, except in a street railway in Atlanta, j am JJayor of Atlanta, but 1 am not here as Mayor, but to look afta the in terests of John R. James. I want a divi dend on my stock. The President and Di rectors had done well to put tho road in so good n fix, but if a leas:, paying si* or seven per cent could be got fortiie road, it would be a big thing. The lease could be protected by the Directors in this city, and it would pay the stockholders something. And how could Charleston be damaged? With proper board of directors, it is impossible for the Georgia Central road to hedge in Charles ton or iDjttre her. It is an important matter to the city; and if the Georgia Central offa s re or seven per cent on a lease, they ought to have tbe road. It is said they now con trol one-third of the South Carolina Railroad stock. It is worth but forty, and a lease guar anteed by the Central Railroad would put the Stock at 80—a gain to tbe stockholders of two and a half million dollars. I have seen the sensation pieces in the papers, but these are for the stockholders alone. One of the di- rectora of thu Georgia Central Road (Mr. Moses Taylor) ia worth thirty millions of dollars, and, if he gets his back np, can buy up the whole South Carolina Railroad, and every other road ho wants to. if, then, while vou have the road, you can make a lease of it for six or seven per cent, it is more than we can get any other way—that or nothing. You can gnard the lease so that it will work no injury to Chailcslon. It is one of the issues ofjthe day. Meet it like men. I have no more to say.” General Tyler here rose, and inquired of President Magrath if any offer had officially been made to lease the South Carolina Road. The President stated that no such offer had been made. General Tyler then moved to lay the pre amble and resolution offered by Mr. Cub- bedge on the table. The vote was taken, and tlie preamble and re4olu!inn was laid on the table, with two dissenting votes—those of the mover and the seconder. On Wednesday the Convention met again. Lengthy speeches were made. Resolutions were patsed calling on the people to resist tkojattempt at a lease, and urging co-operalinn between the Carolina and Georgia Railroads to thwart the efforts of Northern railway combinations to obtain control of Southern roads. The Charleston papers pitched into Mayor James. Mr. James stood bi3 ground steadily, and made the following additional speech Wednesday: Mr. John H. James, of Atlanta, rose and said: The ncople of Charleston have miscon strued wliat I said. I came here in the inter est of no railroad. Atlanta is not opposed Charleston. She gives the Charleston route more business than she gives Savannah or Macon. But railroads ought to pay. They ought to pay dividends. I don’t know Mr. Moses Taylor—never saw him. I repeated wbat was told me. I bought stock in the South Carolina Railroad because it can be made to pay. I saw there was fight up, and James could make something out of it You said you were going to defend yourselves against the Ring I y baying np the slock. I warned you yesterday you would te bought out Did you do it? Why, this morning how much stotk was offered along the streets ? I wa3 offered four hundred shares. Now, if you want to keep the road why don’t you buy that stock? What I buy I keep till I can get a profit Then the man wbo bids highest takes the stock. I am for making money, and only spoke for James. What manufacturers Da far a City. Lewiston, andAubutn, Maine, are now practically one city, separated only by the Androscoggin river, with U the source of their combined prospalty. The two cities are now more than ever intimately connected by a fine and permanent bridge, 600 feet in length, completed December, 1871, at a cost of about $5,000, with two spacious sidewalks and a broad driveway paved with the Nichol son pavement The common interests and essential unity of the two cities, render of import the following combined statistics, which apply to Jannaiy, 1872: Combined population, Lewiston aad A n- 8,060 S3 000 14,490 *1,000,000 Combined manufacturing capital, Lewis ton and Auburn Corporate capital employed In manufac turing ........... „.............. *6,050,000 *2,950,000 indeed, echo will what?" But, alas, r ;wer my question— is unmixed—the girls OF ALEXIS and a grand duclt^y, and perhaps, an em pire beneath their sway. They remembered Jerome and the Baltimore belle, and dreamed on and on; and farfibt to kno w that it was simply the unsubstantial vision, tlie aity nothing, the CASTLE IN TOE AIR, of West’s Voyage of Life, to which they would give the local habitation and name of ALEXIS. If they but cease their dreaming and re flect, they will know that FRINCK FRED GRANT is abetter medium!for attaining the purple. Let me pasa over the INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL more pleasurable lu tbe occurrence than in the relation, andepennit me to announce. LKtTER Fit031 AUGUSTA. TU* Weather-leap-Halt road .Wal ters—South Carolina Railroad Lens*—Public School. ^ Augusta, GlTFebniary 16,1873. n . Editort Constitution: Once upon a time, in * certain,town in this State,"a trio of college iys called on a couple of young ladies. The boys were novices, and did not boast of confidence in their conversational powers. After sitting silent awhile, one of the youths bethought him to break the ice thuswise: Very nice weather we’ve had lately." “Yea,”joined in his classmate, “we are having lovely weather” Then there was a great silence for the space of ten minutes, when one of the young ladies, with a merry twinkle in'.her eye: “Well, gentlemen, are yon out of soap?” That query loosed the fetters. Now, 1 remark that wc have been experi encing unusually severe weather for the last month or so. It is seldom we sec such a con- tiuuosiy cold spell, Butlamnotoutofsoap, apropos of which useful article let me say that Augusta had had in operation for some time a manufactory which turns out soap equal to tho best from Northern establish ments. PREPARING FOR VISITORS. Our teaShcrs are actively engaged prepar ing for the approaching meeting of the Geor gia Teachers’ Association, to be held in this city on the first Tuesday in May next The determination is that as far as in our teachers liclli, the occasion shall be -one of the most enjoyable the members of the association have ever experienced. We shall doubtless have delegates in attend ance from South Carolina and Alabama. RAILROAD HATTERS. There were assembled, after the most critical selection by the fastidious Krewe, the intel lect and fashion and wealth and beauty of the occasion. The first and second tiers presented the most gorgeously lovely right of humanity I ever beheld. It was, in the language of a brilliant Atlanta belle, - supergorgeotis." Not a gentleman was allowed in those tiers. They separated from their ladies at the bend of the stairway, leaving them in charge of the Com mittee of Reception. So the fits! and second auditoriums present a perfect blaze of dia monds and respleud-nt evening toilets. You must know that the ladies go in full EVENING DRESS here to the Opera and Theatre, and you will not think I am drawing on my fancy in in vesting the scene with so much georgeous- ncss when Isay that there was not a vacant seat or place for mortal man in the audito riums that held twelve hundred of the fairest women on God’s green earth. ALEXIS, who seems to turn np often to my observa tions, entered about 10 o’clock, and a few miutes before the Krewe. A Russian hymn greeted him as he sate himself beneath the entwined Union and Russian flags on the purple seats of the orchestra prosceuium box on the left. He did not use his lorgnette on any one of the audience except the beautiful Mtss Vance, of Memphis, of bis party, who, with the other ladies, sat in the proscenium box of the second tier on tlie right More anon. Sidney. Number uf females employed ia manufac turing In both cities Number or males do Combined annual labor pay roll, both cities..... $3,000,000 Annual manufacturing disbursements of all kind-, Lewi«ton and Aubnra $3,634,000 Annual rains of maanfactnres of both chiet $14,071,000 Tout improved water power, both cities 8,666 h p. Water power in two cities now used.... 4,866 h. p. Improved water power in two cities not employed. 3,SC« h. p. Tomi improved and unimproved water * *•»- 15178 h. p. Bys urlng v * dues 10,310 b.p. two cities can bo carried to ,.T .777.77 18.000 h.p. umber steam horses power u«ed in L. and A. (not inclading heating) Coat per day of 526 steam h. p. ■" 'ay of 526 water hones power (ie- to cost in L. and a.) about.. Cost per day of 526 water bones p cordin? to cost in I*, and A.) al _ Annual difference on 536 h. p. In favor of water power Rental per day of the 8,666 Impro-ed water powen of L. and A^ if all were about...........<*T«.............. Cost of fine number austm power* (Cor- lies’ estimate) per day, about.. nnn-.l difference in " "—*— on number lmpro L. and A_ about Actual yearly rental on cost 014.966 water h. p. now need in L. and A, about Actual yearly coat of the lame camber *119 *7 $34*914 Actual animal saying in tbe maanfaetorea of L-and A., bj nee of water iaetead of eteam power. *125 *2,000 *29,626 *511,000 *219,374 The Brunswick ail Albany Ball. reel We find in the Brunswick Appeal the re port of John D. Humph, Masta in Chancery, about the Brunswick and Albany Rai'road. This is the substance of the report: Number of claims filed, 494; aggre gate amount of claims filed, *3,383,225 18; amount of claims adjudged satisfactorily es tablished, $423,369 28; amount of liens and other claims in execution, with costs, charged, included, $107,277 10; amount of lien and other claims in execution adjudged satisfactorily established, with legal costa tibtished, $98,381 34j amount of labor liens, other than liens, judgments, etc, adjudged le gally and justly due, $13,141 39; amount of lien and other claims in execution, with cost as charged, and other labor claims as pre sented, $122,849 47; amount of approred liens and other claims in exapntion with esti mated legal costs, with otha labor claims, approred, $111^22 73. JWIt is estimated that there are In Eng land and Wales two thousand seven hundred and forty Congregational ehurekes. with a flourish ana a bow, that we i re in the CRESCENT CITY that sleeps in antique beauty upon the west ern hank of the grandly rolling Mississippi En passant, I will remark that the road from Mobile to 3£ew Orleans is smooth and pleasant, and the most inspiring emotions are excited as we skirt the Gulf and glide over the inlets and sounds; and though wc missed the full-orbed sunset on the Gulf by reason of the western doud banks, yet tbe artistic efforts of West and Guido aud Raphael are but feeble in comparison with these pictur ings in the sky from tbe band of tbe HARTER ARTIST. But again I say, we are in Now Orleans and so are many thousand others from various parts of the Union. How many I will not say, but a vast number; 75,0UO? 59,000? 30,000 ? 25,000 ? I don’t know. I give it up. I never could fiboas well Facts were ever more pleasing to mo than speculations. I only know that all the hotels from the grand rivals, St. Charles and SL Louis, to tho in significant private lodging houses are full to overflowing. Tbe most DISAGREEABLE FACT that greeted my arrival was the fact of Sun day night. Theaters, I was informed, are in full blast and in utter disregard of tbe Sabbath. The next most disagreeable fact was an occurrence of tiffi next day—Monday. I had stared to tlie popular brokerage nnu com- miss on house of Wood, Ketchani & Go ,No. 32 <'arnmlvli.t jlrcet, when a sndden tumult arrested my attention. I turned and 8aw driving rapidly, in Ihe direction of tho bt. Chatlcs a halt dozen carriages, with out riders in livery^ I iitstant y surmised that 1 was 2 ALEXIS, and in the jocular vernacular of Watson, I inquired, wbat A lex is? The streets and sidewalks were lined with a rapidly increasing and running crowd of the base plebeian rabbel, who were shout ing for and adoring an overgrown Rus sian booby, because, forsooth, he was a SCION OF ROYALTY. I had often-endeavored to picture inmy mind, when following the tracings of the historian and dramatist, tbe appearance of the rabble of Rome and Paris when they gathered in tumultuous throngs in cdulalioc of a real or fictitious hero; but 1 never thought America would furnish me a practical and living illustration of iL Alexis Romanoff was born in 1850 and is n little more than twenty-one years of age His royal blood is traceable forone thousand years, to the.foundation of the Russian Em pire, about 860, A- D„ I believe, He is the third son of Ihe Czar Nicholas, and his eld est brother has a son who is heir presumptive to the throne. So Alexis, chances for the purple are slim. It is said however that he kilted a buffalo, yet when I tear it gravely announced I can not help frSjfctclaiining, /” arcan anch things bo And rot ororcotne as lire a -nmmer cloud, Without our special wonder!” The municipal government lias appropri ated $1,500,1 believe, for bis expenses here, and it is positive robbery. I confess that Hercules slew the Kumidian lion and Alexis the American buffalo; yet it is robbery, nevertheless, because these city officers are not tbe city’s agents, but the creatures and appointees*of Gov. Warmoutb. Base rob bery ; and Louisiana groans in despair over her oppressions and slavery—State and mu nicipal. They are all ready, even now, to welcome Federal despotism instead. I went to the French Opera last night (Monday) and heard IL TROVATORE. This is a permanent institution here and is a very great attraction The leading tenor gets $3,'J00 per month fffr the six month’: season. The actors were brought from Pari: last October under an engagement for tbe season. The building is a very fine one, on Bourbon street. It lias its refreshment sa loons, promenade saloons and courts to which the audience may retire between acts. It has numerous private boxes on the first, second and third floors, and altogether is quite equal to the opera bouses of some of the most re nowned centres of fashion. ALEXIS SAT in the grand box on tbe left of tbe dress cir cle on the second floor. His box was fur nished in purple. He came in late. The orchestra played a Russian hymn as be en tered ; be stood a moment aud bowed ac knowledgment, and tbe audience cheered. For the benefit of your Georgia fashionables, I will tell you HOW HE WAS DRESSED. A full suit of black cloth, spike-tail coat and black vest, with two buttons to show his linen. Wbite kid gloves and white silk cravat com plete the description. I directed my opera glass at him, at long range, and pronounce him—if hero at all— an animal, and not an intellectual hero. Full round, well-fed looking face, whose distin guished feature, as it attempted to play undet the delineations of the drama, was a sort ol comical good humor. At first he paid no attention to the leading female actor, who was making desperate ef forts to catch his attention. Afterwards, however, ho a; plauded a little with his hands, seemingly at the promptings of his suite who surrounded him. His hands were very large, and when he applauded with them, they looked like the paws of a Polar bear. Indeed he reminded me in his proportions, very much of that animal, and in his appearance of a sheep. When I say that he had the sandy com plexion and hair of his countrymen, and wore side whiskers, and was a little awkward, I will say to him: “ Fore thee well, and if forever, etc.” To-day is Hardi Gras, and I will tell you ail about that to-morrow. In this connection I will ssy that I cannot say how much I am indebted to you for your kind letter to Col. Duncan, the English editor of the Bcc. His kind attentions have been invaluable to me. He is doing much for Georgia and Georgians, as I will take occasion to show in my next More anon. Sidney. Son til Carolina Itewi Items. The State works at Greenville are to be sold on the 6th of March next General W. K. Easly will deliver a eulogy on the character ana services of the lalc- General Robert K. Lee on the 22d inst., in Greenville. The Laurenceville Herald says that the work of obtaining investment in bonds to aid in the rebuilding of the Laurens Railroad progresses slowly, but it trusts surely. The amount invested up to this time reaches $44,300. Os to Wasuihoton.—Gen. Wade Hamp ton and Gen. Bader left for Washington yes terday morning. It is said that the object of their v'sit ia to denounce the vile calumny of Edmunds, of Vermont, who, in a recent speech in the Senate, charged that they and General Kerthaw were leaders of the Ku- Klux Klan in South Carolina. General Ker shaw, we are informed, will join Generals Hampton and Butler at Washington.—Colum bia (8. C.) Ptucnix, 1614. GT Tne Bowling Green Democrat, Ky., says that Butler is hardly surpassed by any other county in the Stale in point of mineral wealth. Co mnencing about two miles below Morgantown, there is almost a solid ram of coalbeds, extending to .the very month of Green river. They are as rich as any coal mines .in Pennsylvania, and the article of coal is as good as can be found in the United States. Candles.—San Francisco is the largest candle market in the United States. Thecon- sumption during the year 1871 is estimated by the Commercial Herald of that city, at over 260,000 boxes—the bulk of which were used in the mines: The San Francisco fac tories made 68,720 boxes daring the year. The remainder were received from Philadel phia aad New York. Two ineffectual efforts to get up a public meeting to consider Aususta’s interest in the Griffin and Monticello Railroad have failed because of providential causes. Considerable interest L felt in tbe reported proposed lease of tlie South Carolina Rail road by the Georgia Central Naturally enough, tlie people of Charleston arc bitterly opposed to any such arrangement being en tered into. Charleston has a,'great deal to contend against; she camot afford to give her consent to any measure likely to injure her trade. PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Richmond county lias taken a step for ward. The Grand Jury, at the January term of tlie Superior Court, recommended thu levying of $30,000 for school purposes —an increase of last year’s recommendation of $16,000. The opinion of the worthy State School Commissioner came with a crash, if wc under stand it. Docs he mean that, inasmuch as our grand jury, which met “ immediately afterthe passage of the law,” failed to make appoint ment of a Board, (not being officially advised as to the pass -ge of the amended law,) our schools are to close, and that we are without a Board of Education? Does not tbe Board elected in 1871 continue in office until their successors have been elected and qualified ? At the next session of the General Assem bly, this county will apply for tho passage of a local school law. Our schools are flourishing, and despite of embarrassments which arose out of the indcfinitcncss of the tax levying section in the original law. Miqnonne. Our mtardt ergs I eftcr. New Orleans, La., Feb, 14,1872. Editors ConstitutionTbe timid and tender St. Valentine was entirely forgotten here yesterday, in the magnificence of the pagaeutry and royalty of Ea Ctvnivalvs and King Comas. Mardi Gras in New Or leans is truly a day “fat” with fun and jolli ty, and merriment and wild abandon. The two Kings rule over the same territory and on the same day. In the time of the Ro man bi-consulate, each consul ruled on al ternate days. On Mardi Gras, however. Hex Carnimlus rales in day light from 8 o'clock P. 5i., till sunset, and King Comus the uiglit “from and after sunset.” I will not trouble you with a .mSTORY OF HARDI DBAS, nor its origin and customs in otber coun tries. 1 do not want it. Who would live in the post ? let it die, I will live in the enchant ing present and glorious future, and will only tell you of this carnival day AS I FOUND IT in its bewildering medley of fun and frolic and forgetfulness alike uf the past and fu ture. To the antiquarian and the learned belong its history and its past—to tlie popu lace, in relaxation, to health, to our trip and to me belongs ITS PRESENT. King Csrnival, on Monday, issued his rcynl edict No. XII prescribing the duties of his vsrious subjcctswbo were to act a part in the dramal At 13 o’clock the almost JJay-day sun shine fell cheerily upon the gay maskers. One after another the masked faces and gro tesque drosses rapidly appeared on the grand tlirouglifarc. Canal street, and wended their way to-wards the magnificent bronze statue of Henry Clay. Here a Knight Errant with lance in rest, and there a sable Adonis and Venus, and everywhere, in every sort of garb grotesque and ridiculous and distorted figures of men, women and children, of various race9 and nationalities. French, Spanish, Creole, Chinese, Negro, Irish, American and nondescript. At tlic.»::mc time a surging crowd of look ers-on filled Canal street—its sidewalks, slrectwulks. balconies, temporary scaffold ings, galleries, and cvcrv conceivable stand ing place—for a half mile or more. So with St. Charles, Royal, Carondelet, Comp, Char tres and oilier transverse streets in the vicini ty of the Clay statue. This statue was the point of assemblage and departure of tbe Pageant of Rex Carnivnlers, and here the crowd was most dense. Tlie business houses, in compliance with tlie royal edict XII, were nearly all closed at 12 o'clock h., and many of the haadsomest buildings' were decorated with lamps, flags, flowers and festoons. At 3 P. M., tlie Pageant commenced its march with streaming banners and gay and odd music. I cannot take up your space with a minute detail of the composition of tbe Pageantry'. Everything imaginable was caricatured by the three or four thousand masqueraders; and as they moved along the various Mri-eis, under th« oommandof the King of tbe Carnival, amindst Ihe hum of ihrnean is, the mu-ienf every kind, the noise of cannons, the slmuli, of laughter, the glitter of bright bamieis and gay flowers in the bappv sunshine, tlie si out spell of forgetful happiness overcame one like an autumn day. At 4| o'clock, the Pageant reached the City Hall on LaFayetie Fquarc, and bowing to royally in thcsibqic ■ f ihe Grand Duke ALEXIS. Tlie devoteesof fun give him a serenade— in fun of course; and then the reign of the day, King of Mardi Gras, ended, and the fashionable world remembered to dine at their usual hours of five or six p. H. As the grand King Sol (to whom KingCar- nival was a pigmy) sank to rest, the reign of King Cornua commenced. I was fa vored witq. tickets to the Mayor’s levee at 7 o’clock, but had another engagement on hand and did not go. The fact is, however, I might have gone there to grasp twenty-two years of descended royalty by the hand and sec wherein a Grand Duke of despotic Russia differed from our free born American noble men; but I had another engagement, and be sides I felt that Warmouth, and Mayor Flan ders, his appointee, were something after the style of Bullock and his mystic crewe, and worse, and I shrank from the leprosy of the touch. The procession of the Mistic Krewe of Comus and the tableaux and ball of the Krewe succeeding at the Varieties Theatre were the chief events of the “fat Tuesday’ - night No one seems to know who compose the Mistick Krewe, cor what their origin, nor what their purpose. My own observation, which was slight however, leads me to the opinion that it is an adjunct to the Varieties Theatre, as I am informed that the most of tbe stockholders were connected with the Krewe. This year the procession started about 9 o’clock P. H. The Krewe, under the title of the Dreams of Homer, represented all the characters of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and “Batrachomyamachia,” or the mock heroic poem of the Battle of the Frogs and Mice and the Hymns. The exactness of minute detail in the rep resentation of these characters was very gratifying to tbe scholarly; mind and will lend to those, who saw it, a new interest in the re-perasal of tbe original, or of Pope’s unrivaled translation. The groupings told again tbe whole story of those grand epics, and was a fine example of the mvltum in parto of pantomimic illustrations. The costumes cost a vast amount, and were made to order in Paris. I went at 8 to the theatre to secure seats for some ladies, and then by favor of the door-keeper I took a marked ticket and slipped out to see the procession about 9J o’clock. After seeing the Krewe on its march, I hurried back to the theatre to get in before them, as after they entered the doors were to he dosed. All the streets along which the procession marched were illuminated beautifully, and the crowds were even more dense than under the reign of Rex Camivalus.. The balconies of the Clnb Houses were lined with the elite. The Chal- mette, Pickwick, and other dabs, organized fur social purposes, seemed to be in mutual esteem with Comus, and the Krewe may, therefore, be set down as highly respectable. Bat the CREME DS LA CREME of the whole Pageantry was the culminating tableaux and ball at the Varieties Theater. Orpban,' Home ot (be North corgi* Conference of tho Jlethndlst ltpta- copat Chnrch South. Editors Constitution : Will you permit me to present, through your widely circulated and excellent paper, a brief account of what has already been done, and proposed to te done, by the North Georgia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and other Christian denominations, for the desti tute especially tlie destitute Confederate oi phans of Georgia ? Two years since, at a session of the North Georgia Conference, the subject having been to rorne extent discussed through the columns of the “Southern Christian Advocate,” it was determined to build what wa9 denominated “ An Orphans' Home,” at some eligible point within the territory of said conference, to which as many destitute orphan children as could be cared for properly should be taken, and at which they should be educated, trained to business, and in every re-pect lie brought up in the best families in the coun try. It is their Home, and in it they are to be fed, clothed, lodged, etc., and pre pared for usefulness to themselves and country instead of being paupers or worse. To effect these objects the bouse is placed under the charge of a superintendent and Matron, who perforin tlio duties of father and mother toward Ibis f: nlilv of orphans. Such sulimlinales also as are necessary, such as teachers, house keepers, etc., are furnished. To carry out this plan of Christian benevo- ’ence, the confer-m e appointed a Board of Trustee*, consisting uf six laymen and six miuhtirs, members of conference selected because of tbeir qu tiifications for such trust. At the same time an agent was ap pointed to canvass the country for the pur, pose of collecting means to build and sustain the Home. In May, 1870, at the General Conference— the only legislative body of the church—held in Memphis Tenncssto, the system of the North Georgia Conference was adopted and made the law of the entire denomination. In April last, a little over twelve months from the inception of the thought, wc conse crated and opened the Orphans’ Home, about one mile from Norcress, on the beautiful tract of land of about 700 acres, on which were good buildings, with rooms sufficient to admit twenty-five or thirty cbildn n. This valuable body of land was bought and dona ted for an Orphans' Home by a few gener ous gentlemen In and near Noreross. The Home was quickly crowded to over flowing. We now have nearly forty or phans there, and since wc were filled up, we have been obliged to turn away move than one hundred and fifty others, equally destitute and deterring. We cannot take them for want of room, ami we cannot build for want of money. We have the land and can raise tlie me, ns to feed ami care for another Home of fifty or more additional child en, but having hn<l some forty persons for ilie past year on our hands (the ch ltlrt'D, officers and subor dinates,) we arc unable to^gse the means now ill band to build. It would grieve you, Messrs. Editors, amf your thousands of readers, to hear widowed Confederate mothers in their tearful appeals in behalf of their homeless and destitute children. They would soften the hardest heart, and relax tbe purse strings of the most sordid miser. Tbe children at the “Home,” under Hie ad ministration of the Superintendent, and with a little hired help, made a good crop the past year, considering the unfavorable season for agriculture. They made about fi-e hundred bushels corn, three or four tons of hay and fodder, two hales cood cotton, tmd an abund ance of potatoes and vegetables. We expect to make quite a clever crop the present year, besides putting some of the boys to trades, such as shoe and boot malting, printing, etc. It is our purpose to make them all farmers or mechanics, as they may develop aptitudes. The girls also(wc receive-both sexes) are be ing trained in all tbe duties of housewifery, besides, as soon as possible, they also will be educated in those branches of business to which the sex is adapted, and by which they will become independent. They are all educated at the Home, by teachers appointed by tbe Trustees. They are trained socially and religiously, attend family prayers, Sunday school, and preach ing, uniformly, when in health. Allow me to say that, in my visits to the Home, I have always found myself in the midst of one of the happiest of families which it has ever been my privilege to sec. They arc happy—happy “at Home,” But our happiness is mingled with sorrow. While these thirty or forty children, who, never knew before, what that never to be ap preciated word “home,” means, there are hundreds, yea, thousands of others, for whom, there is no home, and to whom the happy Christmas never comes, and whom Santa Claus never visits. If the people, Georgians, will help us, we will provide for them also. I have requested, through the Southtrn Christian Advocate, tho contribution of $K0 esch from twenty persons, which will enable us to open a second home in April next. How small the sunt! How vast the good which will result! Will not more than twenty of your readers give us, each this amount? Let usiecail tbe days, when in tho excitement of war, the orators, on tbe platform, and thousands of otlie-s, urged our noble, honest men to leave wives and children, and home*, for the scene and sufferings of battles and hospitals, in defense of our beloved South, promising them that if they should fall in battle, or die in has- pitnl, their “families should never want.” But where now are they who thus promised ? It is but justice to state that tlie board of trustees, to whose government the Orphan’s Home is committed. Is constituted of such gentlemen as CoL George Lester, Col. H P. Bell, Judge Thomas M. Meriwether, Rev. W. II Potter, Rev. W. R. Branham, Rev. W. F. Cook, etc., in whose hands such an interest is safe. This, too, is an enterprise sustaining a pe culiar relation to Atlanta. It was conceived and had its birth here. Will Atlanta not, according to its accustomed liberality, sus tain it ? Messrs. Lester and Thomson, of this city, or tlie writer, Lock Box 232, Atlanta, will gladly receive and acknowledge through Tu< Constiyuyion any contributions from five to a thousand dollars or more, which the friends of tbe homeless orphans may see proper to give. Before closing, I am happy to be able to state that the Baptist Church in Georgia, and the South Georgia Conference of our Church, have adopted effective measures for tbe early erection of similar institutions. Tbe Bap tists have, as I am informed, recently opened a Home. The South Georgia Conference will open a Home this spring. The Sonth Carolina Conference of the Methodist E. Church South, is also founding, and will build, a large institution of the same character during the present year. I am satisfied that this plan, and this only, can adequately provide for the destitute or phans of the conntry. The State cannot, never will do it, and the few noble, large-hearted inditiduale who rise and care for a few orphans, however noble their efforts, fall, and most fall, almost infin itely short of the demands of the case. Asking pardon for having said so much, (I could not say less,) I am your obedient ser vant, Jesse Boring, Agent Orphans’ Home, North Georgia Con ference. Atlanta, Ga. Will editors friendly to the enterprise copy this communication? ff* An industrious European haa succeed ed in catching the signature of three distin guished men. First he got that of Guizot, who wrote: “In my long life I have learned two principles: To forgive much, and never foigel” To this M. Thiers added, “A little forgetfulness does not hart the sincerity of tbe pardon.” Then Prince Bismarck im proved the sentiment by writing: “I have learned to foiget much, and to have much forgiven me.” Georgia News Items. Tbe Calhoun Times wishes to kuow if lint place shall continue churebleai. Larkin Lewis, a colored man. one hundred and ten yea told, died in Griffin a few days t^o.—Middle Georgian. Mr. Joseph Y. Tinsley, of Covington, was found dead in his bed on Tuesday last Georgia Enterprise. Griffin young men pull oat their hair be cause valentines arc not received; and old men with young wivos, dress up in fen ale apparel and visit around.—Griffin Star. TheCsitersville brass band is now in full blast, and is ready to toot, whenever there ia a call for music. Mr. Milton C. Jackson, a useful citizeuof CarteravUle,died on Wednes day last.—Standard and Express. The wifeof Mr. W. H. Gilbert, and daugh ter of Hon. D. A. Vason, died in Albany oh tbe 8th instant. Mr. Thomas A. Barrow, nf Decatur county, was married on the 8th in stant to Miss Jennie P. Turner, of Camilla. Central City. Tho twenty-four hours’ Thomas’ orchesin: were in Columbus, they consumed forty k. of lager. Mr. Charles Carpenter, an o fisherman, waa fatally injured in the Ks; - and Phcnix manufactory sampling rooms on the 14th instant—Columbus Sun. A few nights ago the store of Mcs Echols & Wilson, Augusta, was entered I • ourglara, and money, medals, etc., carried l to the amount of some three hundred do,!.. Tbe work of enlarging the Augusta ca. : will commence March 1st—Chronicle <■ 1 Sentinel Three petitions are circulating for .a in . route from Rome through Texas Valley. Floyd county, and crossing the mountain t Adam Malony's.in Chattooga county, them < by Melville, on to Alpine, to Winston on tin- Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad.—Chut tooga Advertiser. Fatber Charles Prendergast and Mr. E. -> Kennedy will represent the temperance or ganizations of Savannah in the Grand Na- lional Temperance Convention, to be lieto -- Baltimore on the 22d instant. Hon. Iverson L. Harris of Milledgevillc presided at tne meetingof the stockholders of tbe Atlanta and .Gulf Railroad, which was held in 8a vannab on the 14th.—Savannah Xacs. F. T, Snead, (colored) mail agent on t«.i Macon and Augusta road was arrested . 14th instant, by a United States post-olu official, upon a charge (as stated by Snead) of some irregularities iu his financial affairs. Mr. II. L. Jewett has been elected Prcsidcm ol the Mutual Loan Association of Macon. . , negro woman—jr.uc Blake—was found - i the night of the I4th instant, near the Soutl western Railroad, about the two mile po t, with her throat cut from car to car.—Tele graph and Messenger. Daitou needs a park. The citizens of Dil lon, in a meeting on Saturday last, bought three thousand dollars worth of bond9 for building tlie Female College. Judge Foote and Captain Story, of New Orleans, have f ,urcliased the Murray county Talc Quarry, rom Messrs. Walker & Morris, of Dalton, for tho sum of *7,00.1. The Methodists ot Dalton have received their new church bell Mrs. Mangle Gordon has been elected Pre-si dent of the Dalton Mite Society.—Earth Georgia Cititen, Suwanco depot, station, is to have a first Class hotel.—Guin nett Herald. Dr. Battey, of Rome, lost a little daughter on Thursday last—Commercial. Mr. J. V. Davis has been appointed assist ant postmaster atNewnon.—Aeuman Hom'd Miss Virginia Arnett, of Columbus, and Mr. Fred Sloes, of Allien*, Alabama, were married on the 15tb.—Columbus Sun. A little son of Wiley Jones, of LaGrange, was accidentally shot by a little son of S. W. Swanson while out bird hunting a few days ago. Fourteen English emigrants arrived ie Madison on Thursday last. Madison cnj< vr<‘ a masquerade ball and skating carnival at gtiigious gcimrimcut. BT OTPtT WTU>fc Ktct Slid cttr ihe world bom romd, Bt-arlnr hit harde** and cr ; Ev«*r and er r the year* roll om. With their tide uf torrow* and losses. Ever ami ever the book of life ’ ear* upon Its pftge* The wear*, errary Uy of the heart Song through ail the acre. Ercr and ever with oat at-etched hands We gra*p for air Wen m*tnw: Et. r and ever the billow* of time When the face-looks bat with kiuuncss. Ever and ever the shadows fall * r the Kolden ao«««; Ev.ragleiu. ..— Lighten* 4 nr care* aad ettwam. Kv.t i ud ever the morning dawns «»n hopes that are breath* d io Ever and ever the nttfit bring* It* tide of bitter —* the rink on Wednesday Inst. Tbe costume- and masked individuals numbered seventj- flve.—Appeal and Advertiser. Mr. William Ch&fin, of Wilkes county, it* dead. Messrs. C. A. Alexander, T. T. tinnier and J. T. Wingfield are the delegates to the Suite Agricultural Convenlion from WiKi ’ Mrs. Martha Corbin, wife of ibe mess’mr- of tbe Southern Express Company fn»i Washington to Barnet, died on Thursday last. Washingt&n Gazette. The loss of Mr. W. W. Haughton, by 11 burglary of his premises on hist Sutler.in night, was much heavier than was nl fir supposed. Besides the guns, pistols, kni\i and other articles of value stolen from h store, Mr. II. also lost about eighteen liundrc dollars in gold.—Chronic'e and Sentinel. Col. John Screven and Donald Macdonn) have been unanimously re-elected Pierith j and Treasurer of the Atlantic and Gulf K road. In a tight in Savannah on Wedncv .: last between Emma Megs and 4fatie D.iv, son, Jane had one finger cut off by a knii -- the bands of Emma. George W. Snit j's was arrested on Wednesday last at ■ Screven House in Savannah. cb:.rg<d wu the embezzlement of $ 0,000 belonging i the “Florida Internal Fund.*’—Savannah A.» zertiscr. Political Item*. Secretary Boutwell asked for a bounty r.f |G per ton'on the Cape Cod fishing smaVl Radical politicians in Washington cooce e New Hampshire and Connecticut to ti e Democrats. The President is reported as regarding t! e aspbet of political affairs with great unr.« ness. The first State election that occurs in 1872 is in New Hampshire. She votes for Gov ernor and Legislature outlie second Tuesday iu March. The standing of Mr. Ilubbard, the Deni - cratic nominee for Governor of Connection', is such that no attempt has been made to t sail him for any act of his whole life. The Republican Congressional Committee intend to send several speakers to New Hampshire this week, including Senator Wii son, and others in Congress. It is stated that General Sickles will Ic sent to Albany to heal tbe difficulties Ij. tween the two wings of the Republican party of New York. The North Carolinn press refer to the com ing State Convention at Greensboro, as ol the highest importance to the destinies of the Commonweal!!.. Itural Items. The number of sheep in Scotland in 1871 has been estimated at 6,700,(10. In theU.iited States are made 75,000,000 pounds ot butter and 3D0,00.i,00j pounds of cheese. Land under irrigation in Spain sells for $500 per acre, while land lying alongside of it will scarcely bring fifty dollars per acre. A farmer in Winslow, Maine, raised 28 bushels of wheat on three-quarters of at. acre, and sold it for $70, for seed, aud tin straw for $17. Kincaird, Johnson, Menard & Co., Illin.-i-, recently shipped to Chicago 14 oxen, getter ally 5 years old, the average weight of the 14 being 2,750 pounds each. One weighed 2.99i pounds. A shipment of American short-horns it England is exported by Mr. Alexander, ol Woodbxrn, Kentucky, who sold to an Eng lish gentleman two Durham heifers—the ■ id est two years old—for $13,000. Orcndorf Brothers, of Mciean county, Illinois, recently had, at Chicago, a lot < eighty one hogs, fed by one of them, ti- average live weight of which was 513 |kmio>! and a lot of sixty, fed bv the other I rot it- the average weight of which was 5 )9 pound They were Poland China hogs, and wet seventeen months old. rtrunai. Mr. John Dunn, “the temperance v horse,” of New York, is dead. Mrs. President Grant lias ordered I er re ceptions discontinued during the Lcnlei season. The report that Anna Dickinson will scon make her debut on the stage in tragedy is again circulated. Gen. Kilpatrick has accepted an offer of $3,l<k) in gold to go to California for tw- iv. lectures daring the month of Slay. CoL Johnson, son of Hon. Revc-rdv John son, who is now United Sutes Marshal foi tbe district of South Carolina, has been in formed that his resignation will be accepted by the President Louis Kossnth has been cured of the gout at the grotto of Monsnmanus, in Luscany. He says the atmosphere of that cavern will cure all the ills that rheumatic flesh is heir to. New* Condensed. Keno has been abolished in Memphis. Jamaica’s sugar crob promises finely this year. ^Pennsylvania produced 6,755,057 barrels of Boston has a prohibitory law, and 1,121 bar rooms. Chicago is bonding a hotel, to be called the Pacific, and to cost a million dolLara. A paper manufactory has been started in Louisiana, with a capital of $60,000. A bill has been introduced in the Tennes see Legislature for the bridging of the Mis sissippi at Memphis. iy Letyourthoughube fit and auitable for the subject Every day have higher thoughts of God, lower thoughts of self kinder Droughts of your brethren, and more hopeful thoughU all around you. t.Vwe i'Oft Evening Poet. Religions News Items. The Rev. Mr. Newnan, of Washington, -els two dollars a minute for praying at the -enate.—Horton Post. Dr. B. Man y. Pre*ident of the College at 4-itrgelowu, Kentucky, is dangerously ill, caused by neuralgia of tbe bead. Rev. Dr. De wes announces that the mis- -nary debt ot tlie Southern Methodist Church is nil paid, principal and interest It is stated that in the city of lierlin, out of a population of nearly a million, only about twelve thousand people attend church. A gentlein.-m in the Exit, lias sent a $50 note to the wifeof every Presbyterian mission in’ west of the Mississippi, whose address he could obtain. Seventy of the church edifices in New York City are Episcopalian, fifty-five Pres byterian, forty Methodist.-, and thirty-two Roman Catholic. 9 Rev. Daniel Williams, who gathered a church at Foster, R -le Island fifty years ago. is still paator, in active service, though eighty-one years of ago. It is thought that the indications fore shadow another such religious awakening in tlie Atlantic cities as was realised in tho winter of 1857-53. The Rev. Peter Cartwright has been stricken with paralysis, and liis death ia im minent. He is 87 years of age, and has been in the ministry 68 years. There are about one thousand Young Men’s Christian Associations in the United States and British Provinces, w itlt a memltership of one hundred and fifty thousand. The largest salaries given to clergymen iu New York, are paid to lira. Porter and Dix. who get $12,000 per annum each. D-. Cha pin gets $5,000 aud Mr. Montgomery $-0,000. Bishop Foley, of Chicago, announces his intention to commence, early io the spring, to rebuild the Cutbolic Churches destroyed by the fire, lie will also rebuild the Bishop's palace at once. Rev. Hugh Miller Thompson, who has re cently been calltal to Christ Chinch,on Fifth avenue. New York, at a salary of $10,000, was formerly a tabe waiter at a boarding home in Cleveland. Henry Ward Beecher says that his people, luring the past year, contributed more than t wo hundred and fifty thousand dollars for charitable and religious purposes at homo and abroad. St. Paul’s (Episcopa.) Church, at the cor ner of Broadway and Fulton streets, is the oldest church edifice in tbe city ot New York. It was dedicated on the 3Ulh of Oc- uber. 1770. Dr. Atkinson, of Oregon, says that Con gregational Churches, in tiiat State, are few ■nd far between, often 500 mile* apart, and in Washingt- n Territory there are only cler gymen oi this t’en .tarnation. Eigh ecn copies or tlie first rdition of tho Bible ever priiite.l are in existence. Tltev were printed in Meta la-tween tlie rears 14W and 1443. Mr. James Lennox, of New York, •wns one of tbe copies, baring pim-hased it. Tlie French liberal pres condemn the in to!-ranee of tlie Swiss government in the 'tatiishment of those of its citizens wbo eli-toso to embark in tlie profc-M-nt of mtm- bership of any religious orders. The petu- spite :tmi mediaeval bigots of the Federal •'nuneil lias even excltnted the I'r-iliuc Sis ters of Mercy. In view of the enthusiastic rtception of •lie soil of flic Russian t zar, the following specimen of the latter’s love of litany is re t reshing: Tit-- Russian government baa for bidden preaching in Polish in the synagogues -t llussia-Poiand, and intends to require the priests to offer their prayers in the Russian language instead of Hebrew. The correspondent of a religious Journal, now in Spain,says “that Ilia 'Bible wagon had iust rctum-d from a tour in the eouu-ry, luring which some thousand copita of the Scriptures had bgcn sold, besides many given away. At. a great annual provincial fail- more than eigiit thousand copies of tlie Scrip tures were sent abroad among the |s-.|-h-. Ia is believed that near n half million copies of the Bible, or portions of it, have hoot put in circulation in Spain duriutr the p st t-rco years.” Dr. Chalmers beautifully says: “T lilllo that I have seen in the world, si known of the history of mniikiud. teach me to look upon tlieir error* ta sorrow, u •u anger. When 1 take the history of o poor heart that has siur-ed ami suffered, ai represent to myself the struggles and lent uti-ns it passed through—the brief pulsatl Of joy: tits tears of regret: the feeblent of purpose; the scorn of the worltl that b little charity; the desolation of tlie sou ranctuaty, and threatening voices witbii health gone; happiness gone—I would f* leave tue erring soul of fellow-man wi Him front whose hands it came.” f3* The field is too wide, the harvest too great, tlie world too broad, and humanity too precious, cither for delays, for jealousies, or for strifes. Indeed litis human life is all too short to allow tlie indulgence of vain regrets. And wltcu the sense of weakness, or of guilt and sin, overbears tlie weary head and heart, I can but remember the trusting ami triumph ant joy of the Apostle.—John A. Andrew. I5T It i- not truth which makes man worthy, l-ul the striving af'er truth. If God In his right baud held cvcrv truth, and in b'» left the one inward impulse after truth, al though with tlie condition that - should err forever, and bade me clioo6c, I would humbly incline to his left ban ! saying, O. Father, ptve me that; pure truth is for thee alone. lotting. ZA Ol-l age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of the harmonies. Tho law of contrasts is one of the laws of beau ' v. Under the cont-ilioi s of our climate, -Itailow gives light its worth; sternness en hances mil-iness; solemnity, splendor. Vary ing proportions of size support and subserve oue mother.—Madame Stcaehine. I low to Ruin a Sox.—1 Let him bsvebts own way. 2. Allow him free use of bis money. 8. Suffer him In roam where ho pic-tecs on the Sabbath. 4. Give Itiin full «c- ■ ■ «h to wicked companions. 5 Call h-m to no account of bis evenings, ti. Futnisl him with no at-l- d t-mntovmi-nt. S3T Think of “living I” Thy life, wert t - -it the."prir-fulrat of all the sonsof earth.’’ tram idle dream lint a solemn reality. It is t s-'.vn; it i- all thou hast to front eternity fit. Work, then, likeaslur,t-Bh-oting,vet unresting.—Carlyle. -)Df~ M::daait* Le Yert is said hy a North er- writer to have a more extensive eire le of - equaimartces and professional ptople titan ; n y other lady iu the world. Iter accomplish ments being only equalled t-v her tact and - m abili^r as a queen of society. tSsfA New England advertiser w*nta “a -v-man who fears ihe Lord, and weighs two- -itudrcd pounds.” The experience of most m il is that a woman who weighs two hun- :n d pounds rarely fears the Lurd—or any body else!—Ledger. It is easy iu tire world to live after tho wo id s opinion ; it is easy io solitu 'c to live after your own; hut the great man is be who. m llje midst of tbe crowd, keem with per- re«t sweetness the independence*of solitude. Emerson. t5~l never yet heard a man or woman orach abused, that I waa not inclined to think the better of them; and to transfer any aua- pic on or dislike to the person wbo appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of a fellow-creature.—Jane Porter. "sSfHow fast time flies when you are work ing against it; how slowly when you are wotking to fill it up! What a difference be tween trying to get your work done before yourdinner hoar, and trying to fill hour before dinner with work. up your SB The American Home Missionary So ciety sustained sixty ml-sionarica in Kansas last year, twenty-one more than in the year p rending, CkJ The New Testament revisers have got to Die second chapter of Luke, and hone to- fiuish their work in six years. £3P Rev. Dr. Muhlenberg recommends Episcopalians to abstain from the use of wino aud all stimulating drinks during Lent INDISTINCT PRINT