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ma—, Fon'stHtttion. ATLANTA, GA., 3IAUCII19, 1872. Colonel Style* Col. Stylo, sleeted" State Senator, Is s Sooth Carolinian by birth. The Edgefield, < 9. C.) Adrertieer thus speaks of him. Col. Stylo is one of the bravest, ablest and true imprumialng of oM-ltae Democrats. IIif many friends and admirers in Edgefield will tie glad to heir that so mod a champion of the old cause has a broad field to fight ul- Pr.ze Candy Gambling. The Supreme Court of Tennessee has Just decided that prize candy selling is gambling, and A. D. Eubanks baa been convicted of vi'.'iiting the gambling statutes of the State. The Court held that the prize candy selling w.is a game of rl.ance in which money was paid for the chance of winning morn or lees in value than ihe money paid. The Recalcitrant Republican Sena tors. A Washington dispatch to Hew York on the 13, says that Ihe recalcitrant Republicans decided to send a Senator, probably Tipton, to Cincinnati to confer with the leaders of the Liberal Republican Convention. Sum ner, Trumbull, Scburz, Fenton and Tipton bare bad repeated conferences, and have agreed not to abide by the action of the Philadelphia Convention if it nominates Gram, but look to Cindnatli for a candidate. Sumner is understood to favor Davis. or Murat Halstead, editor of the Cincin nati Commercial, and Wash McLean, editor of the Enquirer, arc savagely at loggerhead McLean comes at Halstead with “assassin, “able leidie.1 scoundrel,” and “lecherous ti . .' r. hi. - Halstead fires back such gentle, southing confectionary as “sneak-thief, felon." There seems to be no blood-ebedding in proipecL These savage fellows spill nothing but ink, use no weapons but pens, and in- du.gc in no lighting but a war of mud. I literal Republican movement, The committee appointed by the liberal Republican mass meeting held at Jefferson City, January 24, to select thirty delegates to the Liijemi National Mas* Convention, to be .bcld at Cincinnati, May 1st, have reported 1LI u{ delegates. Among them are Senator Scburz, Governor Brown, General John McNeil, Charles P. Johnson, Enos Clarke, and nenry C. Haarstick, all of 8t Louis cz-Coogresaman George W. Andercon, and quite a number of members of the Legisla ting Among the alternates are Lieutenant Governor Gravely, Secretary of State Wegtl, ex Congressman Joel T. Asper, and several members of the Legislature. The Methodists, The numberof members in the Methodist Church in the United States aggregates aa follows K-thr-U.. Fplvopal ClxfKh, North. 1,00,4*1 MuboUi.f Episcopal Cssrch, South * Jl.i Wi.i Pi utmost Church VMco ‘-Hctamlt-t Church' gran-rllcil Aiuorls’.lon (Methodist) W—leyaa Melhodlet C',.l .red Methotnc Kplaeopsl Chsrch. 11*00 Afuci.t Mctholl.t Episcopal ntiarcli SOOOOO Af ton Zion Obareli (Mcthodlet) 161.000 Pr-e MetaoUl.t Ctiluch | SHOO Prtmlilv- Mcthudiet Church *,000 Tutsi ... ...V»siMi It thus appears that there are in the United Status more than two million seven hundred thousand members of the various Methodist churclies. The I.essoa of New Hampshire, The Chicago Times in commenting on the Democratic defeat in Hew Hampshire, says the defeat is ICundantly compensated by the moral which it affords. This moral ia em bodied in the obvious dsOuciioa Uu Democratic party alone stands no shadow of chance to prevent tbo re-election of Grant. It infers that the hope of rescuing the coun try from imperialism and corruption depends solely on a union of all elements of oppoci- tion. To secure this union, end to achieve victory which it almost assures, it asserts that It is necessary that the Convention at Cincin. nati shall recognize the wide and spontaneous expressions of popular approval that have been elicited by the selection of the candi date which was made at Columbus. Cafee and Radical Hamt*f< One of the most cheering signs of the times is the broadening diaenthrallmenl of the negro from the Radical deception. For five years has this faction lead Sambo by the to hisown and the country's injury for the benefit of the faction. One by one the cheerful deceptions of the faction have been pnnclered. In Southwestern Georgia, in the late con test for Senator of the 10th District, we are informed that the negroes refused to vote fay the hundred, declaring that hitherto they had lone only barm by voting. They bad put robbers and thieves in office, and they meant to wait and vote Intelligible. In the Radical State Convention in Ken tacky, jut held, composed chiefly of Grants officers, a fine illustration occurred of this growing distrust by the negro of the Radi cals. A resolution was offered pledging the party to a division of offices with the blacks, it was fought by certain white men wbo harped much on the gratitude the blacks owed the white Republicans for their freedom. This brought a sharp negro to bis feet, a fellow named Griffith, a delegate from Louis ville, who thus spoke out for the race, and disputed the wholesale claim of his white brother to the whole glory of negrofrecdom. The thing is very suggestive: We are American citizens, and we were not made free by the acts of the Republican party simply. We were made free because one hundred and nine thousand of us went into the ballle-ticlJ. [Applause.] All through the State of Mississippi the graves of black men are as numerous as those of white men. I feci today that our forty thousand colored men in tlie'Slate of Kentucky have been de barred from I lie privilege of exercising their rights ns citizens. How often have I gone into district conventions where attempts were mule to throw these men out of the convention I, for one, ask no popularity. I only ask what is Tight. I tell you that the alack man in this country, let let him h - Re publican or Democrat, will demand his rights; and I tell you colored men to a ork aatil you get them. In order to get your rights, get right behind some white man and follow him, and you will get the same tiling [Laughter am. applause.] In order that-llic Republican parly might pul down tbo rebellion, I went into eleven battles, and was wounded twice, and 1 say ■hat it is hot true that the Republican party alone gave na our freedom We earned it. When this country was tottering upon the verge of the precipice, when McClcrnan said that if he thought this was a negro war he would break bis sword and go home, and when the country waa calling upon every man to come forward, the negroes girded on their arms and rushed to the rescue, and to them belongs at least a part of the credit. OUIt WASHINGTON LETTER. The c enSlilon and Prospects of the Labor Ticket —Senator Sliermaa Shows dp the Senate —JelTersan Da via a Radical Bngabao—Dr. nary Walker and Her Breeches—Eats. Washington, March 12,1872. The Coiambus nominations have been be fore the country for sometime, and it must be confessed that they have not been received with that enthusiasm anticipated. The Dem ocrats, who are keeping their heads remarka bly well, did not rush in blindly to the support of Davis and Parker, though it was generally, bat privately, admitted that tbe ticket was a good one. The platform is ob jectionable, however in some of its features, and notably, that in support of a protective tariff This could not find favor with the Democrats, while it is equally objectionable to liberal Republicans who would readily vote for tbe Labor Reform candidate on tbeir personal merits. Should tbe Cincinnati convention ratify tbe proceedings the Labor Reformers the movunent would at once assume an importance which it cannot otherwise possess. This is not anticipated, hrwever. Washington poli ticians wbo have been studying up the situa tion. predict that Me-srs. Trumbull and Gn-f-ly will lie nominated at Cincinnati In this case Davis and Parker would go to the wall, and it would be left to the Democrats to decide whether to nominate tbeir own candidates or support the Cincinnati candi dates without the formality of bolding a con vention. From present appearances a Demo cratic Couventien will be held after those at Cincinnati and Phi adclpbia, and nomina tions made which can be supported consci entiously by the parly. This is purely specu lation, however, and I give it for what it is worth. TBE DO-NOTHING SENATE. Mr. Sherman read the Senate a well dc served lecture yesterday, at tbe close • f u session entirely devoted to personalities. He announced that he bad prepared a second, which he asked the Senate to hear. He then went on to show that three weeks had been soent in debating a resolution for an investi gation of the New York Custom House; three weeks in defeating amnesty; and three weeks in discusring the sides of arms. lit all this time the Senate had passed no' bid of any importance, no bill relating to taxes or tariff, (Mr. Sherman himself defeated several bills of this description) no appropriation bill. All that fiad been done was to pass a resolution for final adjournment Tbe House, in the meantime, had passed eight appropria tion bills, an amnesty bid, and a tariff bill, and is now ready to prepare a revenue bill. After bearing its shortcomings thus effectu ally exposed, the Senate adjourned. It i- ev ident that a goodly number of honorable Senators have President-making on the brain; but they will have to come down to work, sooner or later, notins rofens, as tbe appropri ation bill mutt be passed before adjournment Or The question in Georgia just now is, was Ib'ury clews knowingly connected with the Hillock bond fraud? Georgians have generally agreed lliat he was. After, how ever. Clews has wined and whiszyed and dined, in New York, the Bond Committee, llu re Him telling wbat may be the report submitted to Hie legislature. Tbe committee had better stay in Atlanta—Columbus Sun. Be just, brother Sun. The Bond Commit tee have no purpose to be wined, whiskyed, or dined by Clews and his compeers. Tbe committee will pay its own bills and do its 'duty faithfully. It is doing that dnty well now. The members arc able and conscien tious gentleman. V»c ate willing to trust them anywhere, and feel sure that our con temporary will, on reflection, withdraw tbe injurious suspicion of their integrity con vert il iu its hasty paragraph. The doty of the committee is a delicate and difficult one. Let not our Democratic friends render that duty more perplexing by remarks calculated to weaken confidence in tbe committee. True and Timely. The Atlanta Constitution makes some very sensible and opportune remarks regard ing the political situation, the moat signifi cant portion of which wo append. The present is truly an emergency in which all patriotic and conservative men have need for the exercise of all their vigilance and discre tion. A revolution in the Government has been alm,ui accomplished—not by the con flict of arms, but by the more alarming and absolute rulership of a party in power whose strength and organization has been too groat for resistance in the mode in which revolu tions arc usually resisted. This party has for ten or twelve year*, while in the uninterrupted possession of all the departments of the Federal Government, been continuously advancing its work of breaking dow n all Stale prerogative and au thority nnd concentrating all power in the government at Washington. Tbo rejection of General Grant, with another Radical Con gress, will unquestionably enable the ruling party to perfect the work now so near com pletion, and to impose npon the people a gov ernment very greatly different from that un der which we lived prosperously for throe score years and ten. This is the vital issue which the people of tbe country have to de cide in November next—if, indeed, the Gov ernment has not already obtained such a mastery of the people as to enable it to secure by patronage, dictation or intimidation such a result as it chooses to demand. It is an issue that rises above party organs- rations, and esDccially above party same*. The momentous question to be decided is of too grave a character to permit any estrange ment of conservative men, or to allow any personal or party prejudices to prevent a thorough union of such men. If, therefore, our friends of The Constitution wish to be understood as insisting -that the Democratic party organization shall, in view of this great peril, be so rigidly adhered to as to prevent fl union and cooperation with it by ccsuerva* tree and patriotic men of other parties, we have only to ray that we do not fully Indorse tbeir article to the extent of this exclusive- ness, and that we take a broader view of the field of battie, and of tbe dnty which South ern men especially owe to themselves and to their section. Even while we write we receive tiding* from New Hampshire that admonish na of the necessity of a concentration of all the conservative strength of the country to resist a revolution almost complete nnd a usurpa tion which, if no: overthrown this year, will to firmly establish itself as to make opposi tion hereafter almost hopeless. We are sum moned to a struggle, cot for party but for murdry—not for a Jrnnittration but for prt- terralim; and it would be folly in such a crisis to permit party names, jealousies or prejudice* to stand la the way of the hearty nnioa and co-operation of all men who agree is prinsipls — Orlumbus Enquirer. Henry Clew*. We are daily looking for another letter from the talented Mr. Clews, but the indica tions are that he won't trouble the editor of Tub Atlanta Constitutioh any more. Colonel Avery’s reply to Clews' assaults upon him rather unhorses tbe eminent bond-bolder. But it U hardly possible that Henry will re- tiro from literary life without fluttering another score or so of bis insulting pamph lets and letters in tbe faces of tbe swindled Georgians.—Satanndh Norn. Mr. Henry Clews, of New York, the Geor gia Bondist, recently published an article in tbe newspapers, in reply to some strictures of Colonel Avery, of The Atlanta Consti tution, on Ciewa' operation in Georgia bonds during Bullock's administration. Colonel Avery was absent at tbe time Clews’ article was published, but has returned and moat effectually answered every argument it contains, as woj as established bis former charges of irregularities on the part of the ring, to characterize them by no harsher name.—Gainesville Eagle. Tho following card (Henry Clews’ letter) will awaken new interest in the bond ques tion, but it will fail to change the current of public opinion as to Mr. Clews’ complic ity with the mystery. No man In Georgia will believe that Colo- ncl Avery gave false coloring to facts, though it may lie that he was the victim of a sly trick to manufacture just such a cas Clews' presents.—Albany News. The Extent of England. Hon. James Brooks, in a letter from Cal cutta, Bpeaks as follows; England, once more, one everlasting England I That ti tle seagirt island has not only girdled the great isles of the world, and put its stamp upon them, but, here am I, in the portals of the great British East India Empire, the very magnitude of whirl is astounding. Think of it, over 200,002,000 of people, native end British in the Indian Government proper, tier the Briii-h flig! Satiated with the v vastness of ''.'million here, the British Cio declines more land, and all the populatio; wants—nay, more, loo, refuses, actually, lie bothered witu yet morel Think of die revenue and expenditures of this British In dian Empire, $'200,(00,000 of onr money, in coming and outgoing, each year. Think of its immense army, 320,000 in all, of whom 70,000 are European soldiers, the others, In dians, under British officers, all! Think of a Christian government over 110,000,0c 0 of Hindoos, 25 000.000 of Mussulmans, 12, 00,- OOO of Ahociginul Nothingarians, 3,Cain 000 of Buddhists. Ac ! What a tt.edley c f hu manity to rulu 1 What a mixture of law . well as of creeds, and of tongue, nnd lan guages ! (There are sixteen, or metre. lan guages that a British tiller ought to h am.) What a vast trade, some $250,000,000 of ini ports, and over $500,000,000 of exports 1 The little England at home, which governs all this vast territory and these millions of | eo- pie dwindles, herself, into insignificance, when contrasted with this her mighty < m- plre of the East —Putnam County Standard. Feb. 17. m m rai The Southern States.—The London Chemist and Druggist, of a recent date, says truly of the Southern States: “If the South ern United States are not the garden of the world, it is rather tbe fault of those who arc responsible for their cultivation and dev lop ment, than from any other cause on the face of tbe earth. Cotton, sugar and tobacco are products of such immensity as todwarf those which other lands bring forth. Vast qnu- tites of wbeat and rice are exported. L xu- rious bat uncultivated vegetation also testi fies to its immense resources which are forth coming. Watered by the grandest rivers, rich in cvety variety of soil, millions of acres of swamp yet unreclaimed, make it a terri tory which will supply the world.” Alabama News Items. Father Ryan ia lecturing in Mobile for the benefit of tbe poor. A large number of Mobile bar keepers have been arrested for retailing without license Bishop Quinlan, of Mobile, will celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a pontifical high mass in St. Patrick's Church. Fourteen building lota located in East Selma, averaging seventy by one hundred and fifty feet in area, were sold at auction a few days ago by Dedham Boylan at prices ranging from $20 to $185 per loL Birmingham, a new city of Alabama, is attracting the attention of tbe capitalists of the country. Il is situated in Jones Valieyl between mountains teeming with iron and coal, and of unparalleled richness. Iron mas ters from other Stales, among them ex-Uov- ernor Parker and David Thomas & Sons, of Pennsylvania, and Hillman & Bros., of Ten nessee, are making purchases. Since June, 1871, two hundred dwellings and stores have been put up. and about two hundred more are under contract. Tbe following railroads will center at Birmingham: Tbe Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad, finished from Madison, Mississippi, to Chattanooga, Ten nessee: the South and North Railroad, com pleted from Montgomery to Birmingham, and soon to be completed to Dccatnr,'Alabama; tbe Savannah and Memphis Railroad, from Opelika via Birmingham to Pittsbnrg Land- ing, on Tennessee river; the Mobile Grand Trunk, from Mobile to Birmingham; tbe Georgia Western, from Atlanta to Birming ham, thence westward to connect with the Southern Pacific Hoad. Condensed News, Tbe .shipping of oysters to England is proving very profitable. The Stockton Republican anti.-ipates that the wheat yield of the San Joaquin va’lty this year will exc- ed 12,000,00) bushels. There ate DO manufatoriesof India rubber articles in America and Europe, which eon- e over 10,0.0,000 pounds of the gum per year. Tbe advance criers are said to be enor mous for Marion Uariand'snew novel, “True as Steel.” Carlcton has four presses running on iL A man in Illinois has patented an iron shiagie roof. The shingles are about six by thirteen inches, lap each other so as to insure a water-proof, and are fastened by headless n>i!c The recent census returns fer Ireland, con trasted with those of the past thirty years, show a steady decrease in population. In 1841 the population was 8,193,507; in 1851 it was 6,574,278. while this year it is but 6,402,- TV0—nearly 400,000 1ms than ten years ago. A RADICAL BCOABOO. Certain “trooly loil” members of the House of Representatives dread even the name of .TelTerson Davis as the devil does holy water. Every time an amnesty bill has been proposed there have been inquiries as to how it would efftTCt Mr. Davis, whether it would remove his disabilities or not. Of late, so many bills removing disabilities, containing hundreds upon hundreds of names, have been intro duced iu the House, that the formality of leading them has been dispensed with. On every occasion some one of tbe “treaty bill,” has popped up with an inquiry as to wheth er the name of Jefferson Davis might not have been slipped in. Yesterday, alter the House had passed a large number of amnes ty bills without the reading the name* of those to be relieved, Mr. Shank, of Indiana, suggested that “the name of Jeff. Davis might get in this *»ny.” The Speaker re plied that the enrolling clerks would notify him if that name should appear, and the little parrow-minded Radical legislators were relieved of thier apprehensions. woman’s drew. Dr. Mary E. Walker has addressed a letter tonne of our city pnpers on this subject Mary herself looks like a forked radish, and is not prepossessing enough to make many cor verts. She never appears in public without train of small boys after her, and frequently lias to appeal to the police for protection. J subjoin the concluding paragraph of he r let ter, which is calculated to provoke a smile: “This is tbe most serious and important question of the age, and it the United Slates Treasury were to Imj drained of its contents nnd given to women who would dress sensi bly, as an inducement to establish a healthy condition of the mothers of the nation, it would do more towards making Die United States a conqueror of the rest of the world than all the armies and navies that viginlil- lions of gold could purchase.” X&RS MENTION. The claims of Abbott, the bogus North Carolinian, to a seat in Uie Senate, will come up this week. Senator Carpenter ia about the only man of nay note who favor- Ab bot’s preposterous claim. The Senate Committee on Claims has de cided adversely on the claim of R. II. Gar rett, of Virginia, the owner of the barn in which J. Wilkes Booth took refuge from his pursuers, for compensation, for the destruc tion of his property, on the ground that Gar rett was disloyal. A prominent Democrat thinks Judge Davis too fat to be a good candidate for the Presi dency, as he i- not likely to be aggressive enough if elected. At the rate which Congress is making ap propriations for public buildings in different parts of the country, Atlanta ought to have a share. It is reported that Donn Piatt’s Capital is to become a Grant organ. The Government is expecting trouble with the red skins as soon as the spring grasses are green. The chances of Senator Wilson for a norai nation to the Vice-Presidency on the ticket with Grant are in no respect warming. Tommy Uauck. C'AUTEBSVtf-LE LETTER. Court—TIi e LeffMatlre Committee and Tbeir Workand* Discov ered—Cutton—Tlic ConiMfttnflona Cartersville, Ga., 3Iarch 14,1872. Editor* Constitution: This place has been quite lively this week. The Superior Court is In session. Judge Harvey presiding; trans acting business rapidly. The case of the State vs. Rev. James Pierce was continued to the adjourned term in April. Much interest is felt and manifested in this case. Your readers will doubtless remember the circum stances, therefore I will not repeat them. Two of the legislative committees have been here two days doing good work. I learn that the Committee on the piannge- mentof the Western and Atlantic Railroad have discovered large frauds, amounting to, perhaps, thirty thousand dollars, in connec tion with the Cherokee Railroad. It seems that the Western and Atlantic Railroad fur nished engines, cars, iron and crossties with out charge. The committees are traveling in elegant style, but I was glad to learn that it was en tirely without cost to the State. Former committees were not so patriotic. The com mittees dined with Colonel Lewis Tumi in to day. The planters of Bartow are going in for cotton this year, and arc using guano quite extensively. What has beco.ne of Hoyt? -Is he in jail, or has he given bond ? We regret to see that G. W. Evans was allowed to make his es cape. * The country requires that the utmost vigi lance be exercised by the officers in regard to prisoners who have been arrested for plun dering the people of Georgia; and such offi cers will be held to a strict accountability by the good people of the Slate. The Constitution is read with interest here. We admire your bold stand taken against Clews & Co. and all bond robbers. Lay on, and never cry enough until Georgia is redeemed. Bartow. How to Acquire a Good Memory.—As a general thing we read too much and think about what we read too little; tbe conse quence is that most of the people we meet know something, in a superficial way. about everything, and very little, in a thorough way about anything. Not a tenth part of what we read is rvraemliered for a month after tbe book, magazine or newspaper is laid aside. Daniel Webster being asked how he remembered so accurate’}* replied that he had been in the habit for years to reflect for a short time on what he read, and so fix all the facts and ideas worth remembering in his mind. Any one who does this will be sur prised to find how retentive his memory will become, and how long, after reading a book or interesting article, the best portions there of will remain.—Christian Observer. ST. LOUIS* Interesting Facts A Lent tf£e Great City of the West--Her People, Steamboats* merchants’ Exchange* etc.* etc* St. Louis, Ho., March 9,1872. Editors Constitution : Our last letter left us steaming up the Mississippi, within some 50 miles of the city. The river banks assumed a more picturesque and varied landscape, though nothing to compare with the views on the Hudson. The tall smoke stacks of Caron- delet Iron Works rose up In perspective far ahead of us, and finally passing these with numerous other manufacturing establish ments which line the river’s bank below St Louis, and send vast volumes of black coal smoke into the atmosphere above, we swept along side the great barges or Acts engaged in hauling ice down from above,to be packed into numerous ice bouses near the city, for sum mer use. We stepped ashore on the rocky levees of St. Louis.' Impressions No. 1, 2 and 3, and 4, great town, wonderful boats, wonderful river, astonishing people, but the smoke, the awful smoke. Reader, have you ever visited Pittsburg, Pennsylvania? If so you have never forgotten it. Well, St Louis ia not as bad as Pittsburg—oh, no, not that bad yet— but we sadly fear it will be some day. A week yesterday we landed from the “Belle SL Lous.” If we were to undertake a narra tion of but a th*rd of the wonders—splen dors—or great curiosities of this Western metropolis (which has not as yet one-half fulfilled its destiny) that have been inspected and could be reported on in that'short week, we are sure your patience would give out, and the tolumns of The Constitution would be unrighteously infringed upon. We call your attenCion to a few, most prominent: 1. The people, eo far as our experience has gone, are liberal minded, communicative, trank, energetic and honorable. Although the population is made up of every feature and style of man from all quarters of the globe, there seems an undercurrent of great force which influences the popular heart that the Great West ia broad enough and great enough for all. and there is a welcome for all who will take it as they find it, faults or no faults, virtues or vices, as they come in order. We have met an open-handed hospitality which we are sure could not hope for reward, and in some cases has proven of a style and profuseness that surprised us. 2 The river and her steamboats are a very striking feature in the make up of St Louis. To a very large degree the city is dependent upon them for her commercial importance. Many of them are gorgeous and costly be yond description. We must not dismiss the eubject without a notice of perhaps the costliest, largest, most profusely furnished boat on the river, “ The Great Republic,” which we visited to-day. We class her alongside of the celebrated “Bristol,” plying the New York and Newport line on the Eastern watere, whose fame has gone over the water to Europe. With a beam of 335 feet, breadth over all of 97 feet, a cariying capacity of 2,000 tons, a length in main cabin of 255 feet, and height of cabin alone of 18 feet, a pilot house built high up in the air, the top of which we stiould say is fully 75 feet above the water level; water-wheels whose huge diameters measure 33 feet; a stroke in the vast cylindeisof the piston rod of 10 feet, and diameter on the outer face of her cylinders more than five feet across, she rides the broad bosom of the Mississippi on acknowledged royal qneen among a thousand wonderful competitors. It was in this princely cstab- ishinent, that still more princely apartments were fitted up with truly oriental profuse ne®s, for the Duke Alexis’ trip down to NetwOrleans. Being caught, however, and locked in ice above this point, the “Great Republic” was compelled to resign the honor of transporting the royal person to a smaller boat named the “James Howard,” which the owners of tbe “Republic” subsequently charted for the occasion, thus complying with their contract. We regret that space, nor time, will admit of entering upon a de scription in detail of the four state-rooms, as originally prepared for the Duke’s luxurious comfort*. Jt would remind your readers of a fairy talc far more than a reality, which we actually and critically scrutinized. 3d. Our Southern merchants may wish to know something of the “Merchants Union Exchange,” where all the provisions, bread- stuffs and produce that are sold or consigned South from this point arc bargained for. Every day since reaching the city we have been'honored with an admission ticket to this creat central point of commercial interest No adequate conception of it can be con veyed except to an eye witness. Here vou meet some three hundred or four hundred men in an immense hall, known familiarly as “change,” who do business six to Eleven miles apart Line after line of tables containing samples of every grade and variety of grain, flour, liquors, fruits, sugars, coffee and a host of other products, foreign and domestic, meet the eye, (not including ary goods and Yankee notions) civilities, courtesies aqd compli ments are liastiiy exchanged, then business begins; telegraphic reports, railroad and river receipts, and shipments, are .hurriedly, but keenly, examined; the weather indications as indicated on a large weather map, by a system of sign, are looked at, sales are made, bargains struck, market reports are prepared, visitors arc requested to call again and “ be at home.” Two hours have quickly winged their flight, and in that time the vast bzlk of business, amounting often to a million or up wards that moves and animates the great west, is transacted, and men return to their offices to condense, classify or ship off the merchandise that a few minutes intercourse has set in motion. Gen. G. T. Beauregard was, yesterday, one of the visitors on Change, fro BE CONTINUED.] Dangerous Counterfeits. The following counterfeits are in circula tion, and should be looked out for by the business community: Tfcos on the Ninth National Bank, New York City. Tens on National Bank of the 8tate “in” New York. Tens on National Bank of Commonwealth, New York. Tens and' twenties on National Bank of Commerce, New York. Twos and tens on Marine National Bank, New York. Tens on City National Bank, Auburn, New York. Twos on Union National Bank, Kinder- hook, New Yoik. Tens on First National Bank Lockport, New York. Tens on Highland National Bank, New burgh, New York. Ones, tens and twenties on Market Na tional Bank, New York City. Twos on St. Nicholas National Bank, New York Citv. Twenties on Farmers' And Manufacluers' Bank, Poughkeepsie, New York. Tens on Flour City National Bank, Roches ter, New York. Tens on Central National Bank, Rome, New York. Tens on Third National Bank, Philadel phia, Pa. Tens on Mutual National Bank, Troy, New York. £3F A visitor to the Supreme Court of the United States says; “Facing the door as you enter, on a raised platform, in silken robes. *ia tbe nine Judges—supposed to be the mo.-1 dignified tribunal in America—and I have no doubt it is, notwithstanding I have seen one of the Judges eat an apple with great gusto while seated on the bench, and another par take of molasses candy, and a'ter the repast lick every one of bis ten fingers with great satisfaction” {3F*It is said that “a corset is on exhibition at Dubuque which ha* squeezed three fe males to death.” And now, if that remorse less corset would atone for its past crimes and win the eternal gratitude of mankind, let it take a good old healthy squeeze at Woodhull, Ciafiin and Company.—Courier- Journal. sutkm Light Jlelazfe. T ' A VAST JfATIOS OP CAKDT BATE 113. All over India, sweetmeats are consumed ns a substantial article of food. A native when traveling seldom eat* anything else; and between the two great meals, at afl times he whiles away the long noon of tbe sum mer day by sacking lolijz^ or candy be tween the wliifis of bis hookah. Large dishes of sweetmeats are very common presents to make on religions festiralror domestic red- letter days; and wben a Hindoo wants to be very merry or very dissipaaed, be never gets drunk, as a Scotchman does, but goes to a “mitiuti” shop, and mnkej himself ill with candied sugar. il *■ WOMAX'S CUHIOUS DIATRIBE AGAINST WOMAX. k ‘ I tell yon there Isn't a tiling under the son that neros to be done at at), bbt what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's blar ing children, and they do that in a poor make shift way; it had better ha’ been left to the men—it bad better ha’ been left to the men. 1 tell yon, a woman 'ull bake you a pie every week of her life, and never come to' see that the hotter th' oven thaw hotter the time Don't tell me about Go& having made such creatures to be companions for man! I don’t ray but He might make. Eve to be a com panion to Adam in Paradise—there was no cooking to be spoilt tbereqand no other wo man to crackle with and make mischief: though you see what mischief she did as soon as she’d an opportunity, lint it’s au intpios, unscriptural opinion to say a woman's hles- f to a man now; yon might as well say iers and waaps, and foxes and wild l-cas's, arc a blessing, when thtv're only the evils that belong to this state o’ probation, which it’s lawful for a man to keep » clear of as he can in this life, hoping to get quit of ’em for ever in another—hoping to get quit of ’em forever in another. -* m. ANOTHER FBOH t MALE SOURCE. Beautiful and repulsive, glorified and dc formed, “faultlessly fair and icily null,” n Venus and a Caliban; clothed in white or hateful in scarlet, merciful ill all feminine ways or charming only to destroy, soft as a vesper or cold as a frown, a Christian by the fireside or a sinner on the street, crowned or discrowned, regal in the ball-room or drank in the brothel, an angel of love or a monster of hate, radiant with genius or working life out in the garret—woman lias ever played her part in the great drama of time as only a woman could. IT. BTHOX. It was one of those whimsical spectacles, periodically occuring; where an idol is sud denly set up by hands,which afterward help as assiduously to take it down. Though he was far from being a. great or ambitions talker, bis presence at this time made the fortune of any dinner or drawing-room party for which it could be obtained; and was always known by a crowd gathered round him, tbe female portion generally predomi nating. There was a certain haughtiness or seeming indifference In his manner of receiv ing the homage tendered him, which did not, however, prevent hint from resenting its withdrawal—an inconsistency not limited to the case of Lord Byron. He was not a man with whom it was easy to cultivate friendship. He had that double or conlliciing nature, well pictured by Dante, which rendered difficult any close or continued relations with him. v. THE STALACTt* aC^ABADISEOP TEAMS A. When he has pissed a portal about eight fathoms high, and half as broad, with pro portions ns symmetrical as if it had been sculptured by the hand of man, the thunder ing roar of n distant cataract announces still grander scenes. The portal widens, and the astonished explorer suddenly emerges on o lake two buudred and fifty feet broad, be yond which the cave is seen to divide into two arms, giving passage to two streams, whose confluent waters form the lake. This broad sheet of water affords imposing but melancholy sight Tbe walls or the cave rise every where abruptly out of tbe water. No description can do justice to tbe fascination of this subterranean voyage. In some parts the roof is adorned with coral-shaped draperies of snow white stalactilies, but generally the walls arc mere blaok, naked stone. Here nnd there sources gurgle down lluir sides, and along with the mciancho’y trickling of singlcdrops of iva’cr from tjc vault, alone break the silence of the dark, interminable cave. Sontli Carolina Acres. James Heise, of Columbia, is dead. General Philip D. Cook, of Fairfield, is dead. Colonel Joseph Gist has been arrested os a Ku Klux, at Union. There are between fonr and five hundred visitors at Aiken. The Railroads of the State are heavily taxed moving fertilizers. Professor Bond, tbe wire walker, is in New Tork. J. J. Patterson has been elected President of tbe Spartanburg and Union Railroad Company. The Senator from Union county was fined one dollar, by the City Council of Colombia, for shooting robins in the streets. The Grand Jury of Union county have In structed County .Commissioners not to grant license to any party to retail liquor in the county, saying such licensed shops are of very great annoyance and injury to the citi zens.—Edgefield Advertiser. Conundrums. Why is a man in meditation like a mon arch ? He's a thin-king. When is a concert singer silent? When he holds his piece. Wbat nation produces the most marriages ? Fasci-nation. Why is an omnibus strap like conscience? It is an inward check on the outward man. Why is a woman in love like a man of pro found knowledge ? Because she understands the arts and sigbences. Wby is a minister near the end of his ser mon like a ragged urchin? Because he’s to’ard (tor’d) his close (clothes). Monet in the Hands of the People. An examination and analysis of the reports of tbe Secretary of the Treasury and Comp- toller of the Currency gives some very cari ous and useful Information. The whole amount of United States notes and fractional currency outstanding is $382,000,000, of which amount tbe National Banks, 1,790 in number, bold $110,000,000, and the whole amount of National Bank notea issued is $337,000,000, of which amount the banks hold $’,3,000,000. From this it appeals that out of the whole issue of $718,000,000 of cir culating notes the National Banks hold but $123,000,000, thus leaving the enormous amount of $590,000,000 in circulation, which most be mainly in the hands of the people Some Strong Facts, and Sensible De ductions, New York, March 13, 1872. Editors Constitution : .For the past twelve months tbe price of- cotton has gone up and down-until it rose nine cents per pound. For the next year it may go down and up the same amount. One great cause of the l ise was ail cotton dealers nil over the world believed it would go up, and it did so. Now tbe planters still think it will remain Ligli, while consumers and dealers believe it is too high, and must go down. Liverpool is lower than it lias been in six weeks, which surprises many, who say tbe receipts are falling off so fast—80,009 bales last week and 50.000 bales this week, there will soon be no cotton in the country. Tbe planters have all sent forward their crop to port. There is 10 more in planters’ bands, aud the supply will be exhausted be fore another crop can be raised, aod we will bold our cotton for tbe high prices which are sure to come. Those who believe the price is too high say that the general belief is that the crop will be one and a quarter millions less than last year, and ns we are now only 750.000 bales short, how can there be 500,000 more short with only 20 percent of the crop to come forward—that notwithstanding our very short crop there are 75,000 biles more cotton for sale now than this time last year, and 500,009 more in the hands of spinners; that the receipt at the interior towns will be 50 per cent more for the next four weeks than in 1509-70,and nearly as much as last years, showing very clearly that all the cotton is not out of the e nntry. Some parties say the amount carried overland will he much less—only 170,000 bales. This will be 10,000 bales more than 1809 and ’70, and only 50,000 bales less than last year; while our oun spin ners have taken from the port 100,000 bales more than for 18G9 and ’70, and 30,000 bales more than last year up to this time, showing they are well stocked up. That the receipts into Bombay for the past five months are three times as much as last year, same lime. That although our receipts are falling off so rapidly, it will not effect the price in Liver pool, as tbe majority of dealers there only expect a crop of three millions bales. Thai American cotton is now too much higher than India about seven cents per pound, and that the India is now being mixed with Amcrifttn to such an extent that al lhough Manchester spinners have bought 75,C00 bales per week for e : ght weeks, and 55.000 bales per week for same time, still they have bought less American than last year, and business is so very dull at Man chester that speculators are getting uneasy and selling their goods at less than spinners are willing to sell at. This is of itself a great element of weakness. Much has been written to induce planters to plant less cotton. This is time thrown away, as they will always say, “I do not thank you for the advice; yoq only want us to plant less so you can get a larger price for what you have on hand.” Now the prices will soon touch bop tom for the present, aud then will react a little. H this communication will cause any planter to sell his cotton at the present very high price instead of bolding and, perhaps, taking much less, we shall be fully repaid and possibly may write you again on tbe same subject An Old Cotton Planter. Tennessee Acres Items. Horse thieves are doing a heavy work in Knox county. Meningitis continues to prevail as an epi demic in Memphis and vicinity. A Knoxvillian pawned bis set of false teeth for two drinks and a small flask full of whisky. Tbe Knoxville Chronicle savs that Gover nor John C. Bowen, General W. A. Quartes, and General Vi. B. Bates, are the most prom inent Democratic candidates for Governor of Tennessee. CS~ Ab, this beantiful world! I know not what to think of it Sometimes it is all sun shine and gladness, and heaven itself lies not far off, and then it suddenly changes, and is dark and sorrowful, and the clouds shut out the day. In the lives of the saddest of tt9 their ary bright days like this, when we feel as if we cotfid take the great world into onr arms. Then come gloomy hoars, when the fire will not burn on our hearths, and all with out and within is dismal, cold and dark' Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which The world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad.— Longfdiow. £3“ Theodore Thomas says the saddest thing on earth is that people will blow their noses when bis orchestra are in their most delicate pianissimo passages. If they would strike the proper key, it would be something, bat they are invariably an octavo or two out of tbe way. (3*The Boston Globe says; “High French-heeled ladies’ boots are inducing among tbe wearers a very dangerous weak ness of the spine, by causing an unnatural strain. Bo tbe Boston physicians have dis covered.” E^Chrislian grace, like the stars, shine brightest in the darkest hours. Geargta Acres Items. Mrs. Elizabeth Dickens, of Washington, is dead. A cask of bacon was extracted from the smoke house of Mrs. HcLarin on Tncsdsy night—Albany Feres.. W. H. Wiltburger has been re-elected Presi dent ot the Skidaway Railroad Company. SaeannaA Republican. Tbe grand jury of Clayton county, are unanimously of the opinion that the county does not need a Connty Court Between four and five thousand dollars have been subscribed to the stock of the Co lumbus Ice Company.—Enquirer. Col. W. H. Weems, of Atlanta, writes an interesting letter to Mayor John Screven, of Savannah, on the Atlantic and Great Western Canah Dr. Simeon F. Lasse ter, of Dawson, is dead. Vegetation is fast springing up intbagardens and fields, aud the trees of the forest are budding preparatory to sending forth their leaves.—Dawson Journal. * Mrs. Jaiboe, the lady of the Mayor of La- Grange, was knocked down and badly bruised by a cow on Sunday last. Mr. GossieLong won the first honor at the tournament in La- Grange on Friday last, and crowned Miss Viola Frost as Queen of Love and Beauty. Rev. Dr. Jones, of Virginia, delivered a lec ture on Tuesday last in LaGrange upon tbe subject of “Religion in General Lee’s Army." Reporter. Mr. John Seely, of Columbus, bad a dozen game chickens stolen from him a few nights since. Lawyers who have been in attendance at the courts in Talbot and Marion counties, report that large breadths of land are to be cultivated in com Columbus boys are in love with the great beauty of Camilla Dubois of the Lydia Thompson Troupe.—Columbus Sun. A number of new buildings arc being erected in tbe suburbs of Augusta. Several cases of scarlet fever, it is said, have appeared in the city. Mr. A. Levy has been elected President of Clinch Fire Company No. 2, of Augusta. Tbe Planters’ Loan and Savings Bank, of Augusta, has declared a quarterly dividend equal to 12 per cent per annum. The ravages of miuingetis seems to be in creasing in Augusta. A number of children have fallen victims to it lately, and we un derstand that a numberof white laborers had died of it in the last two or three days.—Con stitutionalist. . ■ On Sunday morning, as the Express Passenger train was going west it ran into a wash some three miles cast of Quitman. Thu engine apparently jumped the break and barely gained t-rra Anna when it completely turned upside down on tbe side of a high enbankmenL The tender fell back into toe break and two cars upon iL Tbe first car was a perfect wreck. In this car was the Express Messenger. He was only slightly hurt. The engineer, Mr. Maxwell, had one hand badly smashed and somewhat scalded. Mr. Dodson, the fireman, was severely scalded, otherwise escaped unhurt—Valdosta Times. Savannah will invest $1,000 in procuring life preservers and having them fastened to the wharves. Mr. James Kearney has been elected Superintendent of the horses of the •Fire Department of Savannah. Mr. C. It Goodwin has been elected President of the Pleasure Park Association of Savannah. The neighborhood of Savannah on the Ogeecbee road boasts of a calf with heavy beard re sembling the human article, gracing a face said to be strikingly like a woman’s At-the same place can be seen a bull “ptirp” with three legs and minus the caudal appendage. Savannah was the first city in the United States that had a paid fire department.—Sat. News. Vic have been informed that at the meeting of the directory of the Georgia Railroad on Thursday last the board voted in favor of indorsing the bonds of the Port. Royal Com pany to the amount of one million of dollars. For this ioan of'its credit the Georgia Rail road will receive one million two hundred thousand dollars of the stock of the Port Royal Company. This stock will give the Georgia Koad a controlling interest in the affairs of the company. The indorsement is not to be made nor tbe stock received nntil the action of the board of directors shall be approved and ratified by the stockholders, who will meet in Augusta in convention, in May. Rev. Robert Irwine, D. D., of Augusta, will deliver an address before the Hibernian Benevolent Society on Monday.—Chronicle and Sentinel. . The wbeat crops in Newton county are looking fine. The freshet on last Saturday night broke the rock wall of Floyd’s mill race. Covington depot and surroundings has been full to overflowing w ith guanos since the season opened. Covington was visited on last Saturday night by a shower Much raised Dried Indian Creek higher than the oldest settlers remember ever having seen it before. A negro by the liatne of George Avery, at tempted to cross the ford above Floyd’s miil some time during tbe night, on a mule, nnd was found next morning wrapped around a sappiing stiff and stark, about half a mile below the mill. A jury was summoned to tho spot, and an inquest held over him. Their decision waa that he came to his death sud denly, by attempting to cross too deep a creek, on too small a mule. At the public debate at the college in Covington on the question, “Should woman be allowed to exer cise the rightof suffrage ?” The crowd went away happy in knowing that petticoats should not crowd the polls. Active preparations are being made to rebuild the burnt block in Con yers. Conyers boasts that it rains harder there than at any other place; that the sun shines brighter, and the birds sing sweeter, and the girls are prettier than any other place. In tbo Greensboro Superior Court during the present week, the widow of Mr. Oaks, wbo was killed some time ago at Union Point, was given $10,000 damages against the Geor gia Railroad.—Examiner. Persona), Pnrcpa Rosa has been invited to sing at Dupeldorf in May. Charlotte Cushman gets $1,50) for two readings in Chicago. The Mayor of London wears a gold chain weighing three pounds troy. Elizabeth. Empress of Austria, U the hand somest royal woman in Europe. John Smith, England, haa been sentenced to ten days imprisonment for stealing one lumipi The Sultan of Turkey is a bad financier. It is said that he owes to tradesmen in Con stantinople the sum of $15,000,000. A Boston widow wears with becoming pride, a Masonic gold ring made from the plate of her departed husband's teeth. At a fancy ball in Florence, the Princess Strozzi, wore a dress so heavy with pearls and gold damask, ‘.hat, as her guests had all arrived, she charged it for a lighter costume, whicii would enable her to move with some thing like ease. Miss Lavina Lundore ia the new star in the new firmament of woman’s rights. She lends the Baltimore wing of the “ advancing sisterhood.” One who has seen her cays: “ She is as beautiful as Lady Blessingtou, and os spirited as Joan of Arc.” Aewe Condensed. South Carolina has 705,606 inhabitants. Gas is made of com cobs in Council Bluffs. Five great hotels arc going up, in Chicago. A Michigan log yielded 10,090 feet of lum ber. Albany, New York, is to have a $400,000 depot. Dan Rice, the famous showman, has be come a bankrupt. Hartford women propose to establish an insurance company. Tbe sugar maple harvest of Minnesota is the richest for many years. A child was born in a London theater during a performance February 12th. Cape Cod is the most prolific cranberry producing region in the whole United States. The catalogue alone of the British Muse um consists of twelve hundred printed vol umes. There has been an average of fifteen theaters open nightly in New York city this winter; sometimes the number haa reached eighteen. — Tiie Poetut of Trees.—Said Nathaniel Hawthorne: “The trees, as living existen ces, from a peculiar link between tbe dead and os. My fancy has always found some thing very interesting in an orchard. Apple trees, and all fruit trees, have domestic char acter, which brings them into relationship with man. They have lost in a great meas ure tbe wild nature of the forest tree, and have grown humanized by contributing to bis wants. They have become a part of tbe family; and their individual character is as well understood and appreciated as those of the human members. Une tree is harsh and crabbed, anothir mild; one is churlish and illiberal, another exhausts itself with its free hearted bounties. Even the shapes of app'e trees have great individuality, into such strange postures do they put themselves, and thrust their contorted branches grotesquely in all directions. And when they have stood around a house for many years, and held converse with successive dynasties of occn- pata and gladcned their hearts so often in the fruitful autumn, tiftn it would seem al most sacrilege to cut them down.” W Jefferson Davis has removed to Balti more will make that city his future home. He contemplates publishing at an early day a “vindication of his administration” while President of the Confederate States.—Ex- Sound View* of Judge I'avi*. The following is an extract of the opinion of Judge David Davis, in the United States Supreme Court, on the famous Milligan case. It was delivered in 1888; but we believe that Judge Davis, though known as a Republican, has not in bis later declarations and action as a judicial officer, departed from tbe broad conservative principles herein enunciated: “The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people equally in war and in peace, covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at alt times and under all circumstances. No doctrine in volving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisons can be suspended during any of the exigencies of government Such a doctrine leads directly to anarchy or des potism, but the theory of necessity on which it is based is false, for the Government with in tbe Constitution has all the t owers grant ed to it which are necessary to preserve its existence, as has been happily proved by the result of the great effort to throw off its just authority.” We append also Judge Davis’ brief accept ance of the nomination of the labor party for the Presidency. Wasdinoton, D. C., March 11,1872. Gentlemen: For the distinguished honor you have conferred upon me by tendering me the nomination of the Labor Party of the Country, I desire to return my heartfelt thanks. My sympathies have been and are with tho labor element of tbe nati in. My whole life I may point to as a struggle from obscur.ty upward, and I trust it bas been throughout of that exemplary character which will commend me to the confidence of my fellow-men. The present distinction has not been sought by me, and it is there fore particularly gratifying to me. I accept it in the good faith, aud I must express the hope that your efforts will have the effect to crystalize the movement into your own best interests. Y’onr ob’t serv’t, David Davis. The Attorney-tiezacralsbip. “ For tbe benefit of papers clamoring ror the abolition of Attorney General, The Con stitution says the office is a constitutional one, and can only be abolished by an amend ment to tiie constitution." Some of the papers are gassing in the above style What if it is in the Constitution,can’t that be changed ? Cannot Governor Smith keep the unnecessary office vacant until it can be abolished ? Wbat is the use of giving a sixth-rate lawyer $2,500 to be Attorney Gencral, when, in every case in which the State has an interest, other lawyers have to be feed heavily to conduct it ?—Columbus Sun. Certainly, brother Sun, the Constitution provides for its own change. But until such change takes place, by the slow constitutional method, we do not know of any law author izing Governor Smith to ignore the constitu tion and keep the constitutional office of At torney General vacant. And it strikes U3 that it would be cheaper for the State for the Governor to appoint a good lawyer Attorney General to attend to the State’s interest, and thus save feeing other lawyers. lUcucmr. county. The Discovery of an Organized Hand ol Thieve*—Who They arc, etc. Tuousox, McDuffie Co., Ga. Editors Constitution: Oar town has been all eyes and ears for the lost twenty-four hours. It was discovered on yesterday that we had an organized band of thieves in our midst, and theyjiad been successful iu tbeir plans. On lait Friday night a part of. the band pro ceeded to Judge Jeff Evans’ twelve miles from this place and got about $400 in cur rency and specie. From a confession of a part of tho band and the trial of another one, the band, as far as names have been disclosed, is ss follows: Chief, Capt. C. V. Hamilton. The other officer is not named, lint par ties arrested and committed to prison, Tom Willis, T. H. Long, J. It Rooney. Captain C. V. Hamilton ia under arrest, and his triai will conic off to-morrow, 3 o’clock F. xr. The sheriff baa in custody two of the clan to await a requisition from the Governor of South Carolina, for the c:lan made a raid on that State in the month of January last for the purpose of robbing one Little John Smith, but failed to get Ike money, but did abuse and vinlcnt'y misuse him. The part of Uic clan that waa into that consisted of Captain Hamilton, C. Wilkerson, T, H. Long, George Tult, Jack I(imsey, Tom Willis. This is believed to bo a part of the organiza tion of Lowry, of North Carolina, and that they arc all over our State. A portion of this clan were looked upon as respectable men of our community. The chief came from South Carolina about three (ninths ago. and had bis clan partly organized by January 15tb, 1872. and made within named raid. Tbo prosecution was alilv repcscntcd by Messrs. O’Neal, Cassy and Hudson. Tbe prisoners had no legal advisers. Capt Hamilton’s trial was postponed on account of n wound received al the band of Tom Willis accidentally. Very respectfully, your obedient servent. Cigar. N. B.—Judge Evans is about eightv years of age. Alabama News Item*. Col. Lee Crandall has returned to North Alabama. DennisDvkons, late editor of tbe Alabama Republican, died recently. Mr. S. H. Fowlkes, has been appointed cashier of tbe new Savings Bank of Marion. Tbe Memphis and Charleston Railrod Com'- pany are to erect an iron draw span over tbe Tennessee river at Decatur. The Talladega News reports six murder coses to be tried at the present term of the Circuit Court for that county. Gadsden boasts of shipping more lumber than any other place in Alabama. She lias four mills on the Coosa which ship thou sands of feet of lumber daily. A committee of German gentlemen of Montgomery wailed upon Janauschk at tbe Exchange Hotel, and after requesting her to remain longer in tbe city, and failing in the effort, tendered her a Iiandsome address,which was gracefully replied to by her. Tennessee News, The wheat crop in upper East Tennessee is lookingwell. Shelbyvillc has a calf that commenced its existence weighing 127 pounds. Sixty stone cutters and sixty-five quarry men are engaged in building the United States Custom House at Knoxville. The contractors for laying the Nicholson pavement in Memphis, have recovered a judgment against the city for over $500,000. t37*A New York chemist has lately shown that fifty percent of the vinegarsold in large cities is made from chemicals so poisonous as to gradually undermine the consumer’s health. Sulphuric acid and sugar of lead are largely found in this article of universal do mestic use. tg* The press of Atlanta is still persever ing in the exposure of the fraud and corrup tions that characterized the late administra tion. The vigorous thrusts of this powerful engine for good srescnrecs of great annoy ance and distress to the miscreants who had well nigh ruined our proud old Common wealth. We trust thosejournalists of Atlan ta who have labored so zealously in the cause of honesty and good government, so boldly exposed fraud, and opposed a fearless front to corruption in ail its phases, will find the encouragement they deserve from an ap preciative public, wbo owe in a great meas ure tbeir present prosperous condition to tbe instrumentality of the press.—Calhoun Times SrmtTUALisjL—'The American Spiritualist gives the following ss an official estimate of the numerical strength of the Spiritualists of the United States: Adult persons converted from disbelief in i-iimortality by the te»t manifestation 4,000,000 Adult persons converted fiom indifference and doatit by ihe ideas of Spiritual! m—1,000,000 Adult persons converted from ordinary ra tional! *m by the hsrmonial philosophy—1,00 Adult persons converted from hell fire ortho doxy by $plritoal manifestations 230,000 Adult perrons converted from despair and fear of death by spiritualism 2,200,000 Total (very nearly)..., 9,000,000 Thebe is a Future.—It cannot be said earth is man's only abiding place. It cannot be that life is a babble cast npon the ocean of eternity, to float a moment upon Its sur face, and then sink into darkness and noth ingness forever. Else, why ia it that tbe nigh and glorious aspirations which leap like angels from tbe temple of our hearts are for ever wandering abroad unsatisfied? Why is it that the rainbow and tbe cloud come over ns with a beauty that is not of earth, and then pass off and leave us to muse on its faded lovlineas? Why is it tbattbe stars which bold festival around tbe throne are set above the grasp of our limited faculties, and forever mock ns with their unapproach able gloty? And why ia it that forms of hu man beauty are presented to the view and then taken away from us, leaving the thou sand streams to flow back in an Alpine cur rent npon onr hearts. ty“Adversity,” said a Western preacber, “takes os np short, and sets us down hard, wben it is done, we feel as contented as a boy that’s spanked, and tat away to cool.' BY TELEGRAPH- ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCUBS. SUNDAY’S DISPATCHES. WASHfN GTON. Washington, March 17.—The KuKlux testimony, which will cover ten volumes of 700 pages, is delaviog the public printer. Cbnrlcs W. Butts is counsel for DeLa-gc la the election case. DeLarge and Bowen from South Carolina, have been arrested on a charge of systematic licentiousness toward school girls. NEW YORK. New Yoke, March 17.—Every vessel arriv ing to-day reports extremely severe weather for the last fortnight; and all experienced a tremendous hurricane on the first instant. Arrived, the steamer Davan, from the Meditcranean. The Captain reports the se verest weather he ever experienced. On the voyage for ten days the storm and rain was incessant Suffered no damage. The schooner, Samuel Hart, from W u- mington for Boston, put into Vineyard Haven Friday, reports very severe gales She was driven across the gulf stream two degrees. Her rigging was badly damaged. Receipts of cotton at all ports for the week 49,972 against 50,063 bales last week, 73,702 the previous week, 77,037 three weeks since; total receipts since September 2,342,613 against 3,158,5.17 for the corresponding period tbe Devious year—decrease, 810,904 Exports from all ports for the week, 61,770 against 108.600 for the same week last yean total ex ports for llic expired portion of the cotton year 1,435,929 against 2,070.327 for the same time last year. Stock at ail ports, 463,710 against 64*4,882 for the same date last yean stocks at interior towns, 13,113 against 110.750 hist year. Stock in Liver|iool, 354,000 against 804,090 last year. American cotton afloat for Great Britain 203,090 against 335,- 000 last vear. Indian cotton afloat for Europe 415,000 against 169,000 last year. Colton lias been heavy and prices have declined during the week. Tlio sales tor the week reached 118,5“0 bales, of which 110,000 bales wero for future deliv ery 8,500 bales on tbe spot and to arrive. Of the spot cotton exporters took about 2,(j59 bales, spinners 3,820 and speculators 85. LOUISIANA. New Orleans, March 17.—John S. Wash ington, for thirty-five years Marine reporter of the Picayune, is dead. The Hibernians celebrated St Patrick’s Day by a grand procession. SOUTH CAROLINA. Citarlestcn, March 18.—A destructive fire occurred in Unionvillc, Union county, last Friday, burning both hotels and eight other buildings. The loss is estimated at $75,000. The fire was attributed to incendiarism. OHIO. Cincinnati, March 17.—The Chronicle of this morning says, on authority of Senator Sumner, that he bits neither consented nor been asked to preside over the Cincinnati Convention, and, that with bis present opin ions, he will decline to do anything of the kind. CALIFORNIA. San Francisco, March 17.—At a large meeting of citizens held this evening, a resolu tion strongly condemning the cession of Goat Island was unanimously adopted. General B. F. Alexander, of the United States Engi neer Corps, and Hon. Caleb Fay, were ap- appointed a committee to proceed to Wash ington to present the views of the people of San Francisco against the cession. Harry T. Jones, the pioneer merchant of Novata, Maine county, was found dead near his store yesterday. It is supposed that he was murdered. FRANCE, Paris, March 18.—A compromise haa been effected between President Thiers and the Budget Committee on the war estimates, which are reduced to 19,000,000 franca. Pere Jungna, a priest of Bordeaux, having been prosecuted for writings, pronounced by his superiors to be against religion, haa ad dressed a letter to the Archbishop in defense of his authotdoxy. He declares that who ever accepts the doctrine of papal infallibility no longer belongs to the church; and main tains that he and other priests wbo reject that doctrine are depositaries of traditions of the priuiative and universal church. Jungna is organizing a committee of action corres ponding with similar committees in France and other foreign qonntries, and intends to mako a direct appeal to tbo people of Bor deaux. ITALY, eltove, March 17.—The demonstration in honor of tbe memojy of Joseph Nnzzina to day was a great success. The immense pro cession, including all the workingmen’s so cieties, with banners, flags and bands of mu sic, carried the bust of the deceased patriot through the pricipal streets to the capitol, where il was deposited with imposing cere monies, and eulogistic speeches. Good order was maintained throughout the proceedings. IRELAND Dublin, March 17.—St Patrick’s Day was celebrated throughout Ireland. No disturb ances reported. ENGLAND. London, March 17.—The Observer states that at a meeting of the Cabinet yesterday morning the reply to Granville’s note was read and discussed. It produced a favorable impression, nnd was regarded as furnishing an opening for further negotiations on the of basis arrangements provided on tbe treaty of Washington. MONDAY’S DISPATCHES. WASHINGTON. Washington, March 18.—The nomination of Parker as Collector of Customs of New Orleans is still in the hands of the Commit tee of Commerce: The result is problemat ical. _ The House is (filibustering on tbe civil rights bill over the morning hour. The Senate is discussing the apportionment resolution regarding renomination to office. It is stated that the Government Directors have decided in favor of Council Bluffs as the eastern terminus of tho Union Pacific Railroad. Warmouth and party arc here. Manuel Ashicrioz succeeds Cushing as Mexican agent before tbe mixed commission. Ashicrioz is expected early in April, until when no proceedings or decisions of the commission will be announced. NEW YORK. New York, March 18.—Henry Ward Beecher and Rev. Mr. Hopworth exchanged pulpits yesterday. Tbe Tribune’s Washington special says Sumner will attend tiie Cincinnati Conven tion, but has not either received or accepted propositions to preside. The World hopes that Democrats will have nothing to do with the Cincinnati Con vention. Poughkeepsie, March 18.—Rev. Father Scally, of SL Joseph's Church, is dead. ILLINOIS. Chicago, March 18.—Five hundred per sons were present to-day at a meeting of the Internationals, to commemorate tbo founda tion of the Paris Commune. Addresses were made in foreign languages. No Amer icans of any standing were present. Twelve million dollars are being invested in hotel property here. Work is progressing rapidly on the Pacific and Gardner hotels, and contracts for a new Sherman Rouse have been awarded. INDIA. _ Calcutta, March 18.—The assassin of the Lftrd Mayor has been executed. The assassination, he confessed, was not the work of a conspiracy, that lie alone designed nnd carried out the murder. He designed, also, to kill General Stewart who accompanied the Mayor. Briefs* “ ’Tis false,” as the girl said when her lover told her she has beautiful hair. One of the largest Mississippi steamboats is commanded fay a woman named Sarah Pinckney. There were 36,866 volumes taken from the public library at Boston last month, a daily average of 1,536; 16,955 persons visited tbe room, and 808 new names were registered. Striped dresses are to be veiy fashionable next spring, a la zebra style. Last year almost $2,000,000 worth of opium was consumed in tbe United States, the greater portion by women. “TheReverend Scoundrel.”—Speaking of Dr. Hoston, the Baltimore American say s; “ Now, the truth is, that this lascivious con duct bas been a matter of comment and sus picion ever since he has been in Baltimore. Four yean ago his sentimental devotion to a prostitute, and a care for her comfort, caused the withdrawal of one lady from his church and pnt two others on their guard. How many of the ladies of his congregation he has grossly insulted will never be known; but since his flight, some of them have been com paring experiences, and blushingly they con fess tnst be approached them with the same flattering words, and tried to confuse strug gling virtue by the same insidious arts. Two years ago, parents were cautioned not to al low children to go to his study, and six months afterward the revelation made by one of the victims excited a commotion which was in some inexplicable way suppressed." griigious giyarlmtot. I DID THIS FOR TUBE. I cave my Ufe for thee— My precious blood 1 shed. That thou mlght'at ransomed be. And quickened from the dead: I nve my life for thee— What hast thou dons for me • r Joy thou mlghtest know; I spent Ions years for thee— Mast thou spent one for me ? My Father’s horns of I rtt, Jiy ralnbow-didcd throne, I left for ssrthly night. For wandering sad and lone: I left it als for t -es— Hast thou left ought for me? Of bitterest sgonr. To rescue tnee from bell: Biiucihon thvworthies* »!]— . Follow thy SivlourV o»ll. ttclaglous Rcwi Items. The Mi-ltcnclrcc Mcthnthodist Church in Nashville has a membership of seven hun dred. One chu ch in Philadelphit has one thou sand nnd lllirty-four scholars in its Sunday- school. Tiie average of American clergymen who died last year was a fraction over sixty-one years. Rev. George II. Hcpworih obtained in two weeks for his new church in Brooklyn sub scriptions aggregating over $100,000. In the Mount Pleasant Methodist Episco pal Church, Nebraska, nearly the whole Sun day school bas been convened. The Rev. Henry Biodgct, of China, has just finished a seven years’ work in revising a translation of the Acts of the Apostles. The largest Protestant Sunday school in Philadelphia contains about eighteen hun dred scholars; the smallest, ten. ' The New York Conference (Methodist) is cousidcring the propriety of procuring par sonages for its Bupcra.uu.itcd ministers. The $50,000 necessary to rebuild the Southern Methodist Publishing House in Nashville, has very nearly been raised. Dr. Gumming, the famous London preach er, has in the press of Carleton & Co., a se quel to his “Great Tribulation” entitled The Seventh Vial. A revival ia progressing in the Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal Church of Savannah under the direction of the pastor, assisted br Rev. J. E. Evans, D. D. J The most ancient libraiy on record was formed at Memphis by Osymandyas, oae ot tbe Pharaohs of ancient Egypt lie was a contemporary of David, King of Israel. Two missionaries in Unzamlee, South Africa, have recently built a school house with their own hands, laying over 20,400 brick and doing the carpenters’ work them selves. William H. Allen, President of Girard College, has been chosen President of the American Bible Society, which bas $66,000 for Bible works in foreign lands for the en suing year. Rev. B. Pomeroy, a Methodist preacher of Rochester, New York, lias brought out a re ligious work entitled “Shocks from the Bat tery.” Reverend Mr. Pomeroy, is not a rela tive of “Brick.” The Baptist Year Book for 1872, reports in the United State* 8,047 Baptist Sunday schools, with 180,416 teachers, and 697,038 scholars, 8,614 of whom were baptised during tire year. Oneof the best temperance sermons ever delivered, was recently given: “If it is a small sacrifice for yon to give up drinking wine, do it for the sake of others; if it is a great sacrifice, do it for your own sake.” Rev. Henry Little, D. D„ of Madison, Ind.. so says the Courier of that city, was the first Presbyterian missionaiy to the Mi-sissippi Valiev, nearly forty years ago. A hatter in New York.-an entire stranger, paid his sala ry and traveling expenses. The Rev. Simon Beecher, to explain his marvelous work in a Boston pastorate, said: “It ia not 1 that do it—It is my church. I preach as hard as I can on the Sabbath, then I have four hundred members who go out and preach every day of tire week.” Hattie Tyng Griswold in her article “Con cerning Preachers,” in the March Scribner, expresses Uie opinion that religion is now considered altogether too much of a post mortem affair, and that there ought to be •'more of the ever day world” in sermons. There arc In the Archdiocese of New York, 128 churches, 24 chapels, 241 priests, 1 theological seminary, 3 colleges, 12 acade mies, 10 select schools, 15 asylums, 1 home for aged men, 2 homes for aged women, 12 religious communities of women, 67 cccelcsi- astical students. The Christian Union wishes to know, “if there is one church in this country that can show a belter record than the First Presby terian Church at Elizabeth, New Jersey i” It was oiganized in 1604, and for two hun dred and seven years it has nut missed a service. A beneficial society exists among the scholars of some London Sunday schools. Two pence admission foe, and one penny per week entitle the child to three shillings per week when sick. This payment continues through any period of sickness up to three months, when it ceases. If a member die*, his parents rccicvc two pounds for funeral expenses. Reverend S. IL Tyng, Jr., is bosily and suc cessfully at work in New York, to found a Theological school, and fora purpose some what unique. It is to be called the “Homo of the Evangelists.” Its aim is to train men for the ministry who shall devote tbeir la bors to the neglected classes. It is a free college, aud those who really need such aid* and prove themselves earnest, adopted and worthy, will be boarded as well as tanght without charge. The Christian Church is China.—At the time of the suppression of the religious orders there were ui China300,OCOChristians and 180 missionaries. During the la-t twen ty-five years the Catholic church had been reconstmeting the missions, until there are now twenty-five dioceses,800 foreign and 150 native missionaries and about 500,000 Chris tians. In the diocese of Nankin alone the church supports 7,000 orphans, hat400schools, and 800 places of religious worship. A Holt Life in Little Tiiixus.—A holy- life is made up of a number of email things. Little words, not eloquent speeches or ser mons; little deeds, not miracles, nor battle, nor one great heroic act, or mighty martyr dom, make up the true Christian life. The little constant sunbeam, not the lightning; the waters of biloam, “that go softly" in their meek mission of refreshment, not “the waters of the river, great and many,” lush ing down in torrent noise anil force, are the true symbols of a holy life. Tbe avoidance of little evils, little sins, little inconsistencies* little weaknesses, little follies, little indiscre tions and imprudcncics, little foibles, little indulgcncics of self and of tbe flesh; the avoidance of such little things as these goes far to make up at least tbe negative beauty of life. The Bbioht bios.—Look on the bright side. It is Uie right side. The times may be bard, but it will make them no easier to wears gloomy and sad countenance. It is. the sunshine, aud not tbe cloud, that makes the flower. The sky is blue ten times where- it is black once. You have troubles, so have others. None are free from them. Troublo gives sinew and tone to life—fortitude anil courage to man. That would be a dull aca, and the sailor would never get skill, where there was nothing to disturb the surface of the ocean. What though tilings look a little dark, the lane will turn, and night will end in broad day. There is more virtue in one sunbeam than a whole hemisphere of clouds and gloom. (.2? Rev. Stuart Robinson, of Louisville, a Southern clergyman, lias justentered suit for libel against the proprietors of the Chicago Evening Post, in which he lays bis damages atone hundred thousand dollars. The Putt, not long since, stated that the plaintiff, while addressing his congregation, advised them to ship clothing infected with yellow fever to prominent Northern cities, and the reverend gentleman declares that he never said any thing of the sort, and now snea for the mod erate sum named.—Exchange. Journalism in the United States.— The census report brings to light some curi ous facts in relation to journalism in the United States. There are 5,845 newspapers and periodicals published in tbe rountnr, one for about every 6,500 of population. The average circulation is 3.560. It may be noticed that the six sporting papers print 73,500 copies, which gives them the largest average circulation—12.250; but those who deprecate that state of things will be consoled to know that the religi.ius journals come n ® rt °R tiie list, with an average circulation of 11,706, and an aggregate of 4,763,358. The literary come next, with an average cir culation of 8,808; then agricultural ureas, with an average of 8,072; and lastly the p-e litical papers, which have the lowest average circulation—2,028—a fact due to tbe largo number of weekly rural sheets with a few hundred subscribers.