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tttftln jgffnstittttion. Fultoa Democratic Ticket. »o* omntn: DANIEL PITTMAN. to* nxKirr: A. X. PKRKERSON. rom cm* irmjoi coot: W. a VENABLE.; Tomjoocimr numa: C. M. PAYNE > worn Tii BTCxrm: A. O. GRUB. TO* TAX COLLTCTO*: & a HOYLE a F. WALKER. WILLIAM KILE Interim iimn 1] ATLANTA. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 2«. Puklle net It «ltkMt-*r W« tlKrreic—Pufcii.her*. tlu Atlanta Plantation Pnbllohtn* Company Wo bare nethti a copy ot this work, wbicb wo will review toon. The copy we bare received through Mr. Stephen F. Miller, author of the Beach and Bar of Georgia, who emitted Mr. Garrett in preparing the work. It can be obtained at PhnUptA Crew’s, in Atlanta. Price, $4 00. It ie a Tolume of BOBpageMsd i» gotten np In excellent atyle by the Atlanta Plantation Pobliahing Company. Cotton—Wo. IS. The receipt! this week are 130,000 boie*— 15,000 mdre than last year, and 1,000 more than two yean aince. It ie likely the receipts for next week win be shoot 120,000 bales, compared with 122,000 last year, and 141,000 the year before; and the receipts at the inte rior towns SSjOOO bales, compared with 32,000 last year, and 62,000 the year before. TUe week the weather has been clear and cold all the week a light rain and quite a beery fan of elect one night The thermom eter has averaged only forty one degrees at noon. The weather has never been so cold, and long-continued, in November, since At lanta has been a city, which has been about twenty-five year*. This Is the last week, of this cotton year, that (he receipts will be more than in the great crop year of 1870, and we do not expect the receipts, from this time forward, to vary materially each week from last year. The receipts at New Orleans are always uncertain; and the rule is that a Urge week's receipts usually follow a small one, and efes The excess of receipts this week over last is all at New Orleans The receipt! at Galveston appear to be falling off, and we have no doubt Savannah, Charleston and Norfolk all received their largest week's re ceipts for this season two weeks ago. The largest week’s receipu at any time in the peat live years have been aa follows, in round numbers: Miwlw. Drmbk ISM. ■* 11OOO The Georgia EleeUea. From the Secretary of Bute we leam that the official returns from all the counties hut two, Hamlaon and Rabun, are in. The vote standi thus: Grader... aiai TIi* i i W Grader's majwitj.. "“I O’Csoar..—..... . The whole vote polled is 142,370. The whole vote polled lu 1868 at the^Preaident's election was aa follows: Seyarar. .101.811 QiABt 57,134 DANCE OF THE LUNATICS- Spectacle >o Delight A Humani tarian— 1 he 'Novel Ball tin the Blackwell’s Island Asylum for the Imaue—Common Sente In the Manage ment of Maumen- Sore-bcr It, 1STO. two i.October M. WTO 17600 North Carolina, December A1070 *700 The «3« Congress. The present, the 42nd Congress, whose term expires on the 4th of March baa in the Mouse 248. member* Of these the Radicals have 139 members or about 57 per cent, and the Democrats 104 membenor 43 per cent In the 43rd Congress, the next one, the Ilouae will have 292 members or 49 more. Of these the Radicals will have about 208 members or 70 per cent and the Democrats M member* orSO percent This restore* the It idie*] two-thirds majority. The present Senate is composed of 57 Radi cals and 17 Democrats. The Senate of the Forty-Third Congress win have 55 Radicals and 19 Democrats, a gain of two Democrat* Five of the Radicate are Liberals who may be expected to vote with the Democrats, making 60 Grant supporter* and 24 opposi tion. Thi-still leave* a two-thirds majority for the Radical party in the Senate. South Carolina. The vote in SouthCarolIna at the last elec tion was 95317. Grant’* majority is 49,356 In 1868 Grant’s majority was 17,064 in a vote of 107,538. At the last Governor’s election in 1870 the vote waa 136,008. The Radical majority waa 83534. It will thus be teen that the vote fall* off 41,391 since 1870, and that the Radical ma jority leaps from 33,536 to 49,356 or 15/-20. The Democratic vote fall* from 51537 to 22,- tmi nr 28506. The Radical vote falls from 85,071 to 72,287 or 12,784. Thus both aide* fall off. Tbta decrease is due somewhat to emigration of the Carolinians to other Sutea It is also due Iiigely to Democratic discour agement, consequent upon a belief In the ab solute certainty of defeat A full Demo cratic turn-out would not have altered the result, but would still hare left the Radl- c.la In a majority of somewhere near 1,003. Tne fight for United States Senator is thus diagnosed: The onlv thing certain is, that Senator Sawyer will not be hit own successor. The fight really lie* between Gov. 8cott and the negro < o igreasman Elliott The latter has only hi* color to recommend him, while Scott has money and the influence o( a strong OnaiirM ring. It ia pretty clearly indicate! that Scott will be the successful candidate: summary of state Haws. CAnnorxTON. Our farmers generally have finished plant ing their wheat G. W. Harper, of thia coun ty, raised ninety bushels of corn off of one acre of ground this yctr..—Carroll County Timet. The last (sane of the Houston Home Jour nal contains the valedictory of Mr. J- T. Waterman, who ha* purchased an interest in the LaGrmnge Reporter. Hr. Edwin Martin take* charge of the Home Journal. MACON. A litlle child of Colonel J. H. Blount, of Mscon, while standing before afire on Sat urday, had its apron set on fire. Before **- atalance could be rendered it waa severely burnt about the neck,while both of it* hands were badly blistered.—Telegraph and Meuen- AUeUSTA The prevailing disease appears to have at tacked nearly every home in the city. Mules do not appear to have been affected by it Wood is very erarce and high in the rity. A bogus agent, calling himself Townsend, has been making engagement* for Ltngard in Augusta—Augusta Constitutionalist. Washington has a law to go into effect on the first day of Drcember, prohibiting the running at large of cows through the street* Amanda El wards, colored, was severely stabbed in the stomach by Selina Brown, colored, on Tuesday night. A lar.e amount of cotton in Wilkes county is still un gathered, and ia wasting and becoming dam aged very largely.— Washington Qaatte. COLUMBUS. There are a number ot case* of the horse disease in ibis city, bat all are of a very mild type. The city Registry shows that there is a falling off of oae per cent,on the white, and one and a half per cent on the colored vole. Ro e aud Harry Watkins drew good houses in onr city. In about two months and a half 19.00n bales of cotton have been sold in At lanta, realising 444,100, and yet money is scarce, all gone North and West for meat and corn.—Columbus Sun. SAVANNAH. The great wahoo, Bradley, appears as s bone doctor. Four homes, a horse and a lot of poultry were burned in the suburbs of Savannah on Friday night The horse dis ease in Savannah continues to be of the mild type—-'iisaaa-iA yeses. Five thousand dollars have been spent on government account during the present sil ting of the United Steles Circuit Court in the pn-stvution of citixcna for alleged viola tion of the Knforemcnt Act, and yet not a single uue bill has been ret imed by the gland jury. Isaac Beckett has been appointed Shipping Commissioner for the port of Sa- vam-ah. The epizootic is decreasing.—fa- mjimA Republican. It it rumored that aiittle girl ot six years, the daughter of a gentleman connected with our shipping interests, bad been attacked by the horse disease, in our city, and died on Saturday. A new fire alarm station has been established in Savannah. A negro's pretence of mind saved an excursion train on the At lantic and Gulf Railroad on Monday last The seetkm-master waa charging the rails of the road, and had four rails up when the train came thundering along. Three cf the rails were pat on the ties to be nailed down, and a fourth rail was off. At the risk of hh lire, a colon d boy, with herculean strength, replaced the fourth rail upon the track, and the wnole train passed safely by.—furonmifc Adeerliter. Washington, November 21.—Senator Har Ian's paper, in its leading editorial thia morn ing. denies that the policy of Grant's second term will he mote liberal toward the Sooth. He says that ior the President to now change hi* policy would be a virtual confession that the Republican party has heretofore pursued as unwise and unjust policy. He farther ears: * That the President entertains the kind est feelings toward the Sooth, and would have Urn governed by them, had be not received a single vote in that section, ia an affirmation that easy be made everywhere with a full as Balance of its truthfulness Every message he baa delivered; every recommendation be •de; every utterance of bis offlctellife; eve- wesrtan trade in his intercoone with -1, assures us of his earnest desire and prosperity of the State* - rebellion. We confidently —tbeoming message will -»r to bis desire for The market in New York this week has been more active, with a rise of I of a cent a pound, but the c'oae was dull. ' The rise was due to the active market iu Liverpool, the large bear interest, the smaller receipts, and the comparatively email stock at that port. The doll feeling at the close was caused by larger receipts, a very tight money market, and the pressure to sell exchange, causing exporters to withdrew from the market Liverpool has been quite active, with a rise of i cent a pound. Thia ia perfectly nature], and we expect many such active markets daring the winter, every time the re ceipts fail off enough to affect estimates of the crop* American cotton holds a very strong position just now, 33 per cent of the crop has been marketed, and still the demand from spinners has been such that there is less of it in sight than there waa the past two years, same time. The stock in London is 225,000 bales; but a letter just received from our correspondent at that port says there is no American cotton there. The rise in prices will naturally cause an increase in the receipt* We think it may be very hard to estimate the receipts for two month* to coma If the hones and moles become sick st all the towns where cotton is delivered from the plantations, the fear of contagion will prevent farmers from risking their stock in the town* This week a farmer came within two miles of Atlanta with a load of cotton, and hear ing the stock was all sick went to the city and hired drays to deliver his cotton. If the hones and moles on the plantations get sick, it will most certainly affect the receipts, the farmer will not work his stock when sick, if he can help it. There are man; reasons which canto us believe this crop is fully ten days earlier than any year since the war. If this should prove to be the case, a sadden failing off in the re ceipts may come, when least expected. A hand gathering cotton in the fields, can pick folly twice as much in a day, such weather as we had in September and Octo ber, as he can such weather as we are having now, and likely to have for two months coma Our estimate is 80 per cent of the crop has been picked, compared with 60 per cent same time last year. A letter received from Clarbome county, Mississippi, dated November 1st, says the cot ton in this county is all picked—none in the fie'da In consequence of the long continued drouth the lint of the cotton is so dry that is impossible to press it into as small a com pass as though it was slightly damp. This fact, and also thst the farmer makes a large profit this fail on the begging and rope |>nt on the bale, has caused the bales to be much lighter than the average, about 5 per cent This may Increase the crop 150,000 bales, and if so will test next summer, when the supply of American cotton begins to run short. The building ot new railroads, and exten sions of old ones, in Texts, has caused the crop, In that State, to be moved much faster than ever before. We estimate fully 50 per cent, of the crop, of that State, has been de livered; compared with 35 per cent, at the most, in a former year, same time. Alexandria is the principal port for E.^yp tian cotton. That cotton is fully equal our beat uplands; and the bales are very heavy—weighing 50C pound* Their sea son is later than ours; the cotton year beginning November 1st The river Nila rises sod overflows its banks in October. The eystem of irrigation is so perfect that the crop usually looks splendid until about the 15th of October; after that time the very heavy fogs often came the bolls to rot, and tints cut off the crop materially. The quantity of Egyptian cotton received in Liverpool last year was 750,000 bales; the year before 200,000 bales; this year it is likely to be 275,000 bale* The stocks of cotton in Europe, prospective sup ply from growing crop* and state ot trade at Manchester are the great level* that move the cotton market np and down.- Some for eign circulars say an American crop of 3,250,003 will be enough this year; while o'hers say s crop of 3,6-50.000 will be re quired to prevent the price from going higher. We agree with the tetter. As to the fatnre of cotton we believe with Mis. Toodles, ' It will be a good thiDg t» have in the boose:” BermonTt majority - It will thus be seen that the Democratic vote fell off 22,917. The Radical vote in creased 5551, which was doe to successful fraud At governor Smith's election the vote stood utsa Smith's m'jocity *,*14 We thus have 141,870 against 144 313 a month ago, as the vote of the State, showing adecrease of 2,158, which the two unreported counties will change soma The aggregate vote differs very little at the two election* but the particulars difler widely. Smith got the lugeat Democratic vole ever polled in Georgia—larger than Seymour's ▼ota The Democratic vote in 187) 86jG85 out of 166,505. TUe Radical vote then as 69,822. The Radical vote for Grant in November was 62.483 against 41,453 for Walker n October, or an increase of 21,03. Ado this to the large stay-at-bome Demo cratic element, aud the large falling «'tf oi Greeley's majority below Smith'* is account ed for without any implication of Demo cratic unfairness in Smith’s election. The official Congressional vote ia a* ful Iowa. rluf C u-, atxu ,o X Ai. uur.icr. Bawls - 8*W *.»!» I of tur- bor’s Grant President tor Life Innothing ia the centralizing tendency of the Radical administration more illustrated than in the bold, unqualified enunciation aince Grant’* re-election of the policy of continuing him in office a third term, sudevtnfor longer period. Senator Browniow broadly advocates the idea The administration supporters are, some of them, elaborately arguing the pro priety of it. The Washington corn pondent of the Cincinnati Commercial mentions at length the reasons presented by an army officer, and a warm partisan of Grant, why the thing should be d<ma These lessons audaciously advocate the very essence of centralization, and antagonize the very genius of our repub lican system. Here for instance is a cool deliberate prop osition to do away with the sacred popular right of periodical election* and the grave proposition put forth foi the ruling party perpetuate its reign without the barren formality of suffrage. . Circumstances can never be more favor* Me for securing the cuontry a stable admin istration and getting rid'of th-oe burly-bnr- lies by which the people are distracted every four year* He aays Wilson, Browniow and Forney have broached the idea Morton, Chandler. Cockling, Washburns and others will soon adoptiL This loyal shoulder-strapper urges that Grant's salary be raised to one handled thousand dollar* and a new and more mag nificent mansion be erected for him A Radical named John La’rtl writes over hit own signature to the Commercial these Let me now, aa a friend ant! Republican official good standing, tell you a secret—it this: That General Grant and our party ■m strong itMfi to deed A as on a regular contest for l resident during hit natural lift. What do yon and yonr rebel and sorehead confederates think or this? It mokes no dif ference what yon think of it, fur we ota and sesll eventually do it Yours respectfully, John Laikd. The purpose ia openly avowed. How far this sentiment prevails remains to be tK-en. But thst the Radical leaden are prepsrio, the public mind for another slri Ie to deapo' ism is undoubted. We trust that their is yet virtue enough nprecution of liberty enough in the •hwart this further growth of an -tralisqi B .wla* official majority iranDctnoKnuosiL dutsict, WhPelsy.— “fright Whittier'- official majority -La*> B^owo Cook's official m-j utty *655 roDira cosoBzsatoxat. xus-raicr !?*!» Fltemin's official majority atxT a coxoaxastoxan sistxxct Blount iN AI. DISTRICT. 7.916 SIOXAI* DISTRICT. OFB WASHINGTON LETTER. Fiona tar lecsml Special Gazrea- pwndent, - Blount'seffldal majiri y . T-utig Derer Young's official majority.. sunn cosussmi Wlteht 9,697 Clmftip «•*» Wright’s official majority over Gla/tou.. W itgm'a majority oswboth NINTH OORUIXiUOXaL DISTRICT Ben *•** Darnell 4 J18 Belt's official majority .. 1,938 ConnUaa not heard from. Haralson, In the Seventh and Rabun, In the Ninth districts. Journalistic Warfare. Below we give the compliments of two Georgia journals to each other Our readers will readily see where the bark comet off. The following la 1 rom the Atlanta Ht-ftld: “DON QUIXOTIC HICKS.” On two or three occasions an angry pen has s'ipped down between onr thumb and forefinger and longed to spread its vexed soul in a few remarks on Dr. W. W. Hick* who is responsible for the ineffable twaddle that ■washes through the columns of the Macon Enterprise. There is a dictatorial snappishness about him, that being warranted by nothing but an insufferable egotism is hard to b-t borne. It has probably never occurred to him that be knows absolutely nothing of journalism; and we charge him nothing for bringing this fact to bis attention. It is very possible that he u'tcrly despises the idea of toning his fleiy spirit down to the dull control of those proprieties that make political lonrnabsm. If so his employers had Better torn loose thia untamed Arabian coarser, who so furiously dilates bis red mo rocco nostril* and haughtily flashes bis painted glass eyes, and pnt into the traces a good, honest draught horse. And as for the Doctor himself he had bet ter give up the quill, which in his case, is the pinion ot one goose, plucked to spread the opinion < f another, and leaving the profes sion with the reflciion that be has excited the risibilities of one-half the State, and touched the pity strings of the other half, he will probably be enabled to keep ont of it. An article which has precipitated, bat not primarily induced these reflections will be fonnd below: The Atlanta Herald proposes to reflect pnblic sentiment only, as a journal, and promises not to obtrnde its own opinions, etc., eta We lack the necessary wit to dis cern tin Herald’s purpose in such a foolish "vowa*. Has the public chastised the bantling? Is it in danger of "petering” ont ? Public sentiment is a fickle thing, and sel dom presents itself longer enough to be written down. We would suggest that, for a change, onr cotemporary undertake to assist in the purification and just direction of pub lic aentiment, instead of hawking the dirty pictures which it paint* We have no objection to the ambition of onr cotemporary, and can only commend it to be ‘Tbs Herald of a rrl-y world. With spattered boot, striped water* end fro*--n lock* New* from ell nations lumbering at bis back." To this the Macon Enterprise replies in the following strain: . TUN ATLANTA HERALD. Below, onr readers will find a characteristic classic from the only source from which it could proceed in this country. We have no amends to make to the Her ald. We know not which of its Falslaffi in editors wrote the sqnib, which we ask par don for printing, but we jndge by the “ pin ion of one goose” part of it stolen from Sid ney Smith, that the gentleman who stole our editorial article and puptithed it at hit men, is the sublime kleptomaniac. Our conduct toward the Herald has been uniformly just and kind,and sbalUon’inne to be so notwithstanding the fact that it is des tined to an ephemeral existence. It makes a flatter, has no opinions, sod re flects only the spirit and tendencies oi the unmoral and scandalous realms of action—a sort of police gazette—and calls that journal ism ! It was not in existence long before it cast foal suspicion upon the character of a devoted minister of the Gospel, and gave itself the unenviable monopoly it now enjoys —that of sondal-tnonger. Since that tune, no single issue, that has fallen under our eye, could be introduced into s virtuous family without awakening grave fears and deep anxieties. And latterly, it spits its venom at its neighbors and contemporaries, and pro poses to teach them the an of journalism. And now, we are honored I Truly we should feel obliged, and do in onr ignorant measnre. Our quill is sufficiently kn- >wn for our purposes among decent and educated people, who will find it difficult to forgive ns for giving colnmn room to an editorial sped meu of a journal of the alums. B it here it is. If fie Sain lie Ota, lie old The little story I am going to tell yon hap pened just before the war, when every one w s very, very busy. Soldier* were enlisting and going away from almost every home in the land. One young man hid volun'eered, and was expecting duly to be ordered to the seat of war. tine day hi* mother gave him an unpaid bill, with money, and asktxl him to pay iL When he returned home that night, she said: “Did you pay the hi!! T' “Yes,” he answered. In a few days the bill was sent in a second time. “I thongl t,” said she to her son, “that yon paid this ?” “I really don’t remember, mothtr; yon know I've had so very many things on my mind.” “Bat voo said you did.” “Well ” he answered, “if I said I did, I did.” He went awav, and his mother took the bill herself to the store: Tne young man had been known in town all his lira, and what opinion waa held of him this will show. “I am quite sure ” she said, “my t-on paid this some days ago; be has been very busy since, and has quite’ forgotten shorn it; hot he told me that day be had, and says if he said 'hen that he had, he is quite sore he did” “Well,” sail the man, “l forgot shoot it; but if he ever said he did, he did.” Wasn’t that a grand character to have. Having once said a thing, that was enough to make others believe it, whether he re membered it or not. I wish ail the boys in onr land were aa sure of a good reputation. Christian Weekly. Forney Sued for Libel.—Colonel W. Petm, Clerk for Allen Rutherford. Third Auditor, has entered suit in the Circuit Court of the District of Colombia against John W. Forney, laying hit damages at $10,000 for libel. From the New York Son.] One of the means employed by the physi cians of the Blackwell Island Lunatic Asy lum to dissipate their patients’ melancholy is the cultivation of a taste for music and dancing. That every facility may be given the pstientn to indulge in these pastimes, at stated intervals the gymnasium is set ap'rt fur a dares, and then the physicians tksally iuvite a few friends. Friday night waa the iwcasiou of the test le-nnion, and from 7 :o 9 o'clock the hour* At precisely 7 o’clock about furty female lunatics entered the gymnasium. They were attired in all sorts of costnmc* The dresses of some re sembled night gowns, while others wore several suits ot clothiog, and to iked like traveling old clothes establishment* Some wore jockey bats trimmed with ribbons of all bnes of the rainbow; others imitated the Dolly Varden style of dress, but ail were nest snd cleanly, orderly and very ladylike. A few momenta later m arly as many men arrived. Thty.wure every kind of costume, from the homely garb of the institution to the well-cut clmhcs of the fashionable Broad way tailor. Some of them carried on their persons a wa-drubs so large that it must have taken years to accumulate, while others, wear ing cotton gloves of all colors, were so thinly habited that they alm-iet hogged the red-hot stove in the corner. Bath men and women were accompanied by keepers. THE QUEST* Soon the physicians entered, escorting their ladv guests, several of the older patients crowded abuut them on their entrance, and, in Ute p Jttest manner, complimented the young ladies on their improved appearance, and requested to be allowed to escort them to rapper. Some spoke of their last meeting in the Hotel de Ville, others had met on the continent, one had seen the lady to whom he was conversing in a California gold mine, and oae poor lunatic told Miss Sherman that to gether they had swam across the Red Sea near'y400 years aga Alter Dr. Kellogg had spent some time in coaxing two very obstinate patients to begin the performance, one of them seated herself at the piano, while the o'ber began tuning a violin. The pianist was not very tractable. He positively refused to play without his notes, but when at length a cunning lnnatic placed a sheet of paper before him on which vere written the word* “Do not spit on the floor,” Le suddenly began playing an over ture from Strait--* The execution was ad mirable. Rubinstein himself would have been more than satisfied, and the greet Strains would have gone into ccstaciea at its rendi ion The pianist was Bernard Gallir lerre, a religious monomaniac, who believes that the Supreme Being speaks to him every night, and that he alone, of all his friends, has conversation doily with the angels about the throne. Mr. Gluber the, violinist, also a good pirformer. at times, is very dangerous, lie imagines himself a great military man, and dresses in the fatigue uniform of a United Buttes soldier. A $10,000CRUTIFICATR. The master of ceremonies was Henry Vas- qnez, a Cuban.whose father is a general in the revolutionary army of Cuba, vasquez is s victim of emotional insanity. He lulled his mistress about three years at o in New York, and it was said at the lime that $10,000 was paid for bis certificate of insanity. He is also credited with having killed two women in Cuba. He dresses elegantly, but is undoubt edly a man more to be feared than pitied. 3'he first dance was a quadrille. Dr* Kel logg >nd Biuce led off with their partner* both patients, and the next two couples were lunatics. All acquitted themselves admira bly. After the dance a stout old geutleman entered the room. Ilis hair and beard were ss white as the driven snow; he wore a green patch over one eye, black kid gloves, seven coals and vests were on his back, and carried s broken umbrella in one hand. In the oth er band was an old hat bedecked with tong black ribbons and filled with grass and weed* These he divided into small portions and distributed as bouquets to some of the female patient* A most polite how, a gallant speech, and then the presentation, after which he was introduced to the reporter as Dr. Pentz, thus addressed him: LORD BLACKWELL. “ Sir, I am wealthy ;*I own two millions of land on Blackwell's Island. Sir, I am Lord Blackwell. 1 make you Lord Selklik. La dies, (in s loud tone)- this is Lord Selkirk. I am the Duke of Washington. I knew Lord Selkirk’s father at the battle of Piper Heid- seck. Now, sir, (in slower key) I will make you the Earl of Glenarvy, and deputize you with powers cxtraontinaiy. Go tb Washing- SIGILY. Palazzalo Swept With the Besom . of Destruction. All Sorts of Gossip aa* Speculations _ aal Facts Political aa* Otfcerwrla*. * -i Washington, D. O4 Nov.18,1872. The President has the points of his mes sage nearly arranged sqM trill soon begin writing iL Its contents cA only be guessed although the general impression is, based upon his recent private utterances, that his recommendation* with regard to the South, will be quite liberal, in view of the vote which he received and the temperate tone of the press of that section since the election SAN DOMINGO. Administration quid mines positively assert that the President does not, as rumored, in tend to recommend in his Message the annex ation of San Domingo, or a policy looking to the absorption of Cab* That Gen. Grant has given np the idea ef acquiring San Do mingo no one who knows him believes, and that be will carrr out his pet project before his second term is out, whether recommen ded in his message or not; is, in my opinion, among the certainties. The Radical majori ty in the House after March 4th nexL will be more apt to do the behests of “the possessot of Imperial power” than those who const! rate the present Congress, and he will bide fiia ttmfr CAMERON UNDE J A CLOUD. Senator Cameron, of Amsylvmta, claims that he carried his State in October, tints de ciding the Presidential, question. Grant thinks that his personal pbpnlarity saved the Republican Darty and especially Hartranft, the Radical nominee for*Governor in Penn sylvania. Cameron strntied witn head erect after the election; it watt-given out that he would he the {tower behind the throne; his organa demanded a Cabinet position for him or at his disposal Forn($r, his bitter enemy, was not ostracized by Grant after the election as he demanded, and to test Grant's gratitude “the old man,” Cameron’s henchmen familiarly call him, started far Washington, at the head ol thirty prominent politician* to ask the ap- minunent of Mr. Truman as postmaster at Philadelphi* The refusal of the President to acquiesce, trader the idea of carrying out the civil service rale* is looked upon here as a decided snubbing of Cameron, and an indication that Morton, bis rival for Presi dential smiles, will occupy the place at the right hand of the imperious Ulysses. Cam- eren, in company with -Governor elect Har tranft, had a long interview with Grant yes terday, when th > former disclaimed desiring a Pennsylvanian in the CabineL The man who, aa Forney say* has power to “make and unmake States and statesmen,” certainly has cut the comb of thegreat wig-wagger. CRISWELL’S SCHEME. The Postmaster General, it is understood, will again recommend in favor of a postal telegraph. The Chronicle here, in advocacy of this scheme to centralize power in the hands of the Government says that the pos tal system “was abased years since by a cen sorship, self-established, in the South, when newspaper packages weffi opened and letters ?ninmAn(n^" Thn “oivniltf sinnPT”_flAr. Graphic Picture of the Scene after the Hurricane. Nothing So Terrible in Modern Times* ton*8irl” - nnwnvra,i^ v ® nno1 ^ k com P e *n 1 8 ■vritfc °ur Australian Reporter Wbat shall I say to General"gtamship Company for the trade of Grant for you, Doctor? Dr. Pentz—'Tell him he was a great t-oldier —so was 1, sir—but he nerer did any good for the people. Tell hfta the Duke of Wash ington says so, sir, and tell him that be ought to go to Europe and remain there for eigh teen years. While this conversation was goiDg on Di Taylor wa- trying to induce the musicians to play a waltz They were obstinate, and one refused to begin before the other. For a time it termed not improbable that the ball would prove a failure, but at length Gallierre gave in, and Dr. Taylor waltzed with Kitty Doyle; an unforiuuate girl afflicted with hereditary Insanity. The Doctor is a J daucr-r, but bis partner distanced him. ty danced all over. Her head kept time with her feet, and both ran away from the music. She lx came wild with joy and pleasure, and possibly she would not have ceased yet if the violinist bad not broken a string, which so exasperated Gallierre that he, too, stopped playing. ' QUCEH ELIZABETH. The n**xt dance was a galop. The most extraordiu&ry dancers were Charles Gray, commonly called “Charley the Tailor,” and Miss Carr, a bpiritnalist. Charley,who danced as though he was tied up in a sack, imagines that ail the ladies are in love with him. Miss Carr thinks she is Queen Elizabeth, with im mense wealth and valuable diamonds, and her crown and scepter locked up in New York; The truth is that Miss Carr was a lady of surpatt-irg beauty and attractions, as well as cf education, with brilliant conversational powers, wh' n she became the petted mistress of a wealthy English nobleman. On the con- tinet a Spanish nobleman became enamoured with her, and they eloped to Cuba. There the Spaniard deserted her, and an American traveling agent fell in love with her and took her to California, where he died. He, on his death-boa, willed her $50,000, which she spent ia one year, one relic only being left It was a pawn ticket for a locket set with diamonds, worth $500. This and a few silk and satin dresses and some b-ces comprise the poor crca:ure's all. She is hopelessly insane. After Gluber had replaced thu broken strir g of bis violin, he struck up the Lancers, Gallierre accompanied him on the piano, bnt no one would dance. The physicians begged the paiirnLs loget on the floor, but they posi tively refused. Then the guests had a dance all to themselves during which the lunatics looked on in apparent admiration, but with out saying a word. THE FINAL JIG. It then being half-pist 8 o’clock. Dr. Kel logg asked the lunatics to dance a jig before they retired. At this their dffll eyes seemed to become bright, the look of idocy left them momentarily, and all lumped on the floor anxious to dance. Even the musicians sa<m<.d to catch the inspiration, and the j rattled eff a lively tune, as though the desti nies of a nation depended on the speed. Then the lunatics began dancing. And such dancing! Fanny Easier, Bonfanti, f and the Majiltous were all eclipsed, dancing the jig some stepped the Ger man, others danced. the Polka, some waltzed, others imitated the Shak ing Qaikers, and some even estayed the cancan. Seme seemed bound up with ropes, while others appeared to be .double jointed. Some danced with the peculiar air of the Southern darkey, while others skipped with the grace of a gazelle. Some tried the clog dance, others a breakdown, and some the' “raal old Irish jig.” A11 were supremely happy. The.-e was Owney Geoghegan, wealthy in his own imagination, who thinks he owns everything and gives checks away freely, dapting with Mrs. Muy Tobin, 104 years of age. whose children are wealthy and reside in Brooklyn, while their mother Is a panper li-n itic. A, T. STEWART'S MANSION Then there was Thomas Reynoldt, one of the old Bowery boys, whose insanity was caused by drink and dissipation, anu who thinks he has all the il.s that flesh is heir to, dancing with Miss Anna Brennan, who imagines that she is the wife of a prominent physician who married her for her property. She claims to own the house in which Mr. A. T. Stewart lives, at Thirty fourth street and Fifth avenue. Then there was the Admiral, once a pirate, who has been insane for thirty years, and thu* saved from the gallows, and who thinks be walks the deck of the good ship Victory, dancing with Mrs. Kelly, who carried a bunch of weeds presented uy Dr. Pentz. Mrs. Kelly is a well educated English lady, once accustomed to the be»t society, whose insanity is ssid to have oeen caused fay tie brutal treatment of her husband, who is now married to another woman, and resides in Buffalo. Dr. Taylor danced with Miss Ir ving, a‘ victim of emotional insanity, subject to abeuidt illusions, and Dr. Brace danced with Kitty Doyle, before mentioned. Dr. Johnson’s partner was the once beautiful Miss Carr, and Dr. Kellogg hob-nobbed with Gen. Thomas Maxey, who built Maxey*s foil, and thought it did cot become a great military ,g«*nin4 to dst ec. At 9 o’clock the keepers mustered their pa tients, and marched them back to asylum. All were evidently much pleased and bene- fitted by the evenmgjs entertainment, Intercepted?* The “saintly sinner**—Har lan—who edits the paper, forgets to state that when he was in Lincoln’! Cabinet there was a system of espionage, eStablifthed by those In authority, by which the letters of promi nent citizens of the Npirth, not in accord with the party in power, were opened before being delivered to theq^. Men who would violate the sanctity of the maih for party purposes are hardly proper persons to intrust with the control of the 4felegraphs. We are sufficiently under the power of the General Goverenment already, without the addition of this “beneficent** measure, which is but the forerunner of others of a similar nature. . Speaker Blaine is very^anxious to accom plish this, as ho thinks his chances for re- election better then than a year henej. . A NATIONAL DISGR ACE. The attention of Congress will early called to the disgraceful condition of our commerce, once so extensive, now as com plete a wreck as when driven from the seas by the Alabamas and Floridas eight years aga The commerce of the Atlantic has passed from onr hands*as will that of the Pacific if measures be not taken to prevent it Our Pacific railroads will have been built in vain if we do not secure the rich trade of the Pacific, which opHb new markets for our products and manufqAlures, thus benefit ing every section aud Industry. England New York, November 20.—The London Times of the 8th has the following account of a hurricane in Sicily, which destroyed the town of Palazzolo: There h is been no instance of such a ca lamity within the memory of any living man. No earthquake ever caused so much destruction. There are houses rained, houses fallen to the-very ground, walls cleft from end to end, walls hungiog outwards as if to rest on the adjoining houses. There are roofs wh-ffly swept away, sunken vaults, bal conies t rn from their places, windows and shatters either entirely carried off or hang ing loose from the waUa. Lamp-posts forced from their sockets, and uprooted trees. Along the northeast side of the town not a single house remains in which the whole roof and windows do not require thorough re pairs. The streets are a mass o! fragments and rubbish. The incident of the disaster are so strange as to be almost incredible. There was a store with twenty-five hectolitres of wheat, of which not a trace is to be seen. The books of the Excise and of the Land Registry offices have vanished and only their torn leaves have been found here and there, great distances. lu one house all the copper kitchen uten sils were blown through the roof. In an other, benches and heavy chests flew through windows; the iron Barsone balconies are to seen curled up one way, and those of an other twisted up another way. There is a pillar of a palace which has been moved forward one foot without breaking, and stands isolated, all in one piece. There is a wall of another palace which has fallen back more than three feet without a break. Here is a beam of one house which has thrust it* elf into another house, and there is half a bedstead, the other half of which lies no one know where. All the tiles of one building are huddled together in one spot on a roof crashed and broken up as small as if they had been pounded. The rafters of another building arc all bare, the tiles have flown, no one can see where. In a stable, on the bare ground, men are placing bodies one by one as they are being dug out. Most of them are in their night dresses, having been crushed as they were quietly sleeping. Their features and forms are so disfigured that one cannot look at them without shuddering. Their nostrils, ears and mouths are stopped up with earth. The white dust has every where pierced through the skin. There is a body of a man holding close to bis heart a child, probably his own child. The skulls of both are shattered. There are two young men in each others arms, probably brothers. The chests and backs of both are crushed. Near them is another youth covered with blood, he was clerk in a Government office, he ha his eye glas9 still stuck in his right eye. He was prob ibly reading or writing when he was struck. There are some mangled past recognition; otheis that s^m unhurt, and look as if they were sleeping. Without exaggeration, one third of the town is dis mantled, and more than & thousand families are literally without a home, and about one thousand more have only a little corner of what was once their house to shelter them. The dead number thirty-one, and the seri ously wounded about half a score. Australia throu. h her largely subsidized Ori ental and Peninsula steamers. Through the foresight aud energy of Mr. W. H. Webb, of New York, has this trade, destined to be the richest in the world, been thus far secured to us, and now to enable this line to compete with the English line for this immense com merce aid will be asked from Congress at the coming session. The friends of the Aus tralian Mafi Steamship Gunpany feel confi dent that even if Congress should not adopt a general system of subsidies similar to that which has done so much for England’s com merce, it will grant them the required assis tance on account of the special importqpce of this line, A THIRD TERM. General Grant is already thinking of third term. This is stated on authority of prominent Republican who recently bad * interview with him. The expression of such a desire on his part would seem to be pre mature and impolitic, but w th the flattery of Senator Browniow and others with regard a third term in connection with his idea that the result of the recent election was due him personally he feds his greatness and pires accordingly. T. M. C A. The Board of Managers of the Young Men’s Christian Association have not yet de termined whether they will discontinue the Sunday night meetings in their Hall as quested by the ministers on account of their congregations being thinned out by the large attendance at their services at the Young Men’s Christian Association. The lessees of rival. Theaters or managers of traveling cir cuses could scarce descend lower than these Revered gents who wish to close up religious meetings because the size of their audiences are interfered with. The wrangle still con tinues amid the smiles and sneers of those who do not believe in churches, aad is cited as an evidence that love of gold and not God is the ruling motive with clergymen with the worldly. EPIZOOTIC. This disease among the horses is gradually disappearing, and our streets begin to assume their wonted appearance. WILL HE DO IT ? A ring has been formed by parties having millons of dollars worth of claims before the Quartermaster’s Department to press the ap pointment of Quartermaster General Meigs for the vacant Major Generalship, so that Gen. Rufus Ingalls, one of “the mess,” can .be made Quartermaster General. Meigs " an honorable gentleman and has no hand the business. Will Grant oblige the ring ana serve his friend Ingalls ? We shall see. “the capital,” will be continued as a Sunday, and not changed into an evening paper, as rumored. PERSONAL. Hon. James Brooks, of New York, has come here for the season, and is at his ele gaat residence on F street. “Subsidy Pom,” as Senator Pomeroy is called, is also here. I wonder bow he feels at the position of female suffragist friends—the Wooihull Chaffin. The Lots of the Preocatt Papers From the New York Worid^8th] Among the minor but still very serious and irreparable losses occasioned by the Boston conflagration, we regret to be obliged to chronicle the complete destruction Of the letters, papers and manuscripts of the histo rian Prescott. Daring the absence in Europe of the members of the family in whose pos session they had come, these valuable docu ments had been stored “for safety” in one of the splendid warehouses which only appeared like log huts in a prairie fire under the stress of the trt mentions conflagration. Mr. Prescott’ physical infirmity had made it neces sary for him to cause copies to be taken of an immense number and variety of ancient and authentic documents concerning Spain and the two Americas, and the destruction of these as well as of his own correspondence and literary memorandais in its way a public calamity to the world ef letters. W itb these also peiished some of the finest portraits ever painted by Copley, the father of Lord Lyndhurst, and the first American artibt ‘~ win a name and fame in the world. BUUIED l UkASVRE. OCR OWS FAIR COaRESPCSDEST. Chirograph y 9 Typography* Ball- roads and. Progrcsii Treated ta Spirited Mylc-rintida’ii Orange Groves—Atlanta and Fiorina* Tsomasvillb, November 21. Editort Constitution: In the communica tion of your correspondent, in your paper of the 5 ib, several grave errors crept in. I want to avail myself of the usual prerogative and scold somebody and everything for the errors aforesaid; first, and principally my own chirography, next your types, and Messrs. Editors, you are not to escape finally that scape goat—a denizen of the printing office since the days of Faust, with unchrisian name, which I will not write; all, all are ac countable. The typographical errors the i cad era could correct, but, Messrs. Editors, my* obtuseness is too great to perceive any improvement in “ greatness of nrosperity,” for “ plans for im provement evidenced greatness prospec tively.” PROSPECTIVE PROSPERITY. In writing of that annual address wherein the agricultural and railway interests were so ingeniously interwoven and blended, I stid, or intended to say, that the 6preaker had happily demonstrated that the two interests were inseparable in developing the resources of this region of country, with its semi-tropi cal climate, and, I might add, situated on the direct line of the prospective ATLANTIC AND PAC.FIC RAILROAD ROUTE, taking Savannah, Mobile, and San Diego in its line, with its terminus on the same paral lel of latitude, diverging not greatly there from iu its whole length of two thousand miles, spanning the continent and connect ing with unbroken bands of iron, the sea of Mexico with the two* great oceans of the world. When completed, it will bear in constant transit the lading to and from the fleets that navigate the oceans, freighted with the productions of both hemispheres. The truth is that this railroad speech, if I may so term it, has engrossed my thoughts and caused me to travel by imagination, far beyond railroad speed, to other climes, and revel, not so much in the mountains of the North, some of the rarities of which you wot of, and I have lately tasted in full fruition, but to more sunuv, less remote climes; not the dreary everglades, but the famed, ro mantic ORANGE OROVES CP 60UTHEKX FLORIDA. Has it ever occurred to you that there is but one unbroken link of about twenty miles in length that separates and breaks your line of continuous railway to 8t. Johns (Jackson ville) soon to be continued to Tampa Bay and Key West, and that this link sunp ieJ Atlanta has figuratively but to reach her hand ana pluck the~ productions of the tropical and poetic land of flowers, and, in reality, but one day in the calendar of time will suf fice to transport her citizens to the historic and s< mi-clas^ic shires of 8t Augustine, and ' Tampa’s desert strand,” where PONtE DE LEON DISEMBARKED and commenced that journey from which he never relumed, in pursuit of that spring which Atlanta, in modern times, claims to have discovered, within her boundaries From Key West to the West Indies, (Ha vana), by steamer, is but the excursion of a day. Of course you know the peninsula of which I speak, with its roads remote from the great thorough-fares and but episodical in that vast system of RAILROAD MONOPOLY now acquiring power—power in the future to be wielded for good or evd -for good used to preserve—for evil, if to destroy the institutions aud government, already impair ed, established by our ancestors and sealed with their blood. Wire Grass. our Washington lbtier From Gar Regular Correspondent* Cameron and Grant—Grant's Beal Sentiments on Civil Service Bo- form—Politicians-Blue Lam. Tlic Draining of Okeeflnokee Swamp —Interesting Discoveries. Active preparations are in progress to drain the great Okeefinokee swamp, in Southern Georgia. This immense swamp, the largest (counting Florida out of the question) in this vart of.thc world, is now being attacked n earnest, and a chartered company pro pose to see if it cannot be made valu able for something besides bears, ’coons, wild turkeys and snakes. The swamp, which extends down into the upper border of Florida, is a thickly timbered morass, nearly two hundred miles in circumference —nearly twice as large as the dismal swamp —and its interesting ornithological popula tion, which includes some strange-voiced birds apparently peculiar to that particular domain, is only paralleled by its end less variety ot snakes and alligators. The preliminary work of draining the swamp required an experiment to show the nature of the ground beneath it; and a shaft or tunnel, sunk at the bor der of the morass, has disclosed, curiously enough, the existence, at the depth of two hundred feet, of a bed of genuine bituminous coal. Its extent, as Well as the comparative value of the coal, remains to be determined. The most obvious facta in geology will read ily explain, not only the existence of coal in such a place, but tne (probable) fact that the bed is a large cine. Other geological facts of some iniercst are said to have been developed by this shaft, one being a stratum of rock of the Silurian age. GREAT I'lBfcifiN flHLtliDGEVlLLB millcdgcvilto Hotel and Newell’* Hall llnraed Milledgkvillb, Ga , Nov. 22,1872. About 3} o’clock this morning the Mil ledgeville Hotel was discovered to be on fire, ana by fp>od daylight this morning thi* large hotel was a pile of ruins The fire spread northward consuming Newell’s Hall when the flames were arrested. Besides the loss of the buildings a large amount of merchandise was consumed. The principal sufferers are Messrs. L Her* mon, (in whose store the fire waa first discov ered), J. R. Daniel, grocery store; Mrs. N. 8. Holdridge, millinery; H. Adler, dry goods; and Geo. W. Haas, all of whom had stores in the Milledgcvilie Hotel block. Messrs Thomas & Sanford and Windsor & Lamar, in Newell’s Hall, we arc glad to learn, saved most of their goo^s. The furniture in the hotel was almost all consumed, and Messrs. Trice & Callaway’s loss is severe. It is believed no lives have been lost, though several persons narrowly escaped death by the explosion pf gunpowder in the s ore of G W. Haas. The loss, it is thought, will exceed $100,000. Union and Recorder Extra. The Pat**nt office. The report of the Commissioner of Patents for the year ending September 30,1872, has been transmitted to the Secretary of the In terior. The number of applications for patents that ye .r. including reissues and de signs, was 1U5.087; number of applications for extension, 284; for the registiy of trade marks, 689. Issued: 13,020 patents, 283 extensions, and &W certificates of registry of trade-marks, and 3,10j caveats were filed. The fees from all sources amounted to $700,- 954 80. The total expenditures were $23,- 553 90. The receipts over the expenditures were $774,000 90. The Commissioner of Patents states that bis office has overgrown i’s original plan of organization in 1833, and that it is now abso lutely necessary to s« cure to inventors and to the country the benefits of the patent system. He urges the importance of separating the Patent Office from the department, and states that the evih of the association of the office with the department is scarcely felt under the administration of the present Secre tary, as he has recognized the fact that the work of the Patent Office is radically different from that of other bureau?, requir ing different qualifications upon the part of its employees, ana heece he has not inter fered with its peculiar duties. Were it cer tain that all his successors would be equally wise, the necessity for a separation would be less apparent. In conclusion the Commis sioner urges the*necessity for more working room, and room for the files of his office. Kellogg in bwrrzsuLAMD.—A pleasant little incident is related of Miss Clara Louise Kellogg which occurred while visiting the Grindelw&ld glacier in Switzerland, during her late tour. Her party encountered, as other travelers do, a young Italian Swiss, who earned a precarious existence by frantic efforts to rouse an echo from the opposite cliffs by means of an awkward horn. After straining every muscle be brought forth a melancholy toot, with no great effect upon the opposite crags. Miss Kellogg, watched for some time his vain endeavors, and then, rising in the carriage, she gave one of the charming mountain jodels, finishing of with a specimen of those inimitable trills which require no patent to render them unapproach able. In an instant came back four or five beautifully perfect echoes, with an imperti nently cletr Arill at the end. The yonng Italian Joffed his hat and exclaimed: “Ab, mau&nie, could I but make an echo like that, my fortune here would be made.” Ala iNeu South Carolina News. The horse malady in Columbia is c n the in- Colonel D. Wyatt Aiken Ass been elected President of the Abbeville Agricultural So ciety. The town of Aiken arrests people for swearing on the streets. Ducks, turkeys, deer and other game are more plenty than ever in the Columbia m r- ket The telegraph office at Marion has been discontinued. The number of gin houses burnt through out the State In the last fortnight is enor mous. Nearly every county has one or more of these misfortunes. i. George Goldthwaite, of Montgomery, from Europe for this country, on the Hon. sailed 10th instant. The Tavistowski Sisters are playing to good houses in Montgomery. The General Assembly of the State was organized on the 20th instant. Mr. Frank S-rarin, of Montgomery, is dead, leonetiee. About one hundred thousand persons visit’ ed the Memphis Exposition. P. T. Bamum lectured on Temperance in Memphison the 19th. Marietta Ravel is at the Memphis Thea tre. Memphis has the horse disease. The Cotton Crop* Washington, November 23.—The Novem ber report of the statistics of the Dep artment of Agriculture gives to the cotton prospects substantially the same interpretation as the October statement. The weather hits been fine for picking; frosts have been earlier than usual in the more northern Stales, but un earlier maturity of the plant is everywhere iuaicated, and the past mouth has been quite favorable for the development of the ma turing bolls. While the returns of the con dition since August have been much below the average, they have been higher than those of the correspond ng season, averaging in October 82 against 76, and iu September 91 -against 80. The November returns give the indicated total product in compari son with the small crops of 1871, and the average made is about 10 per cent, increase, with an area in cui ivation larger by from 12 to 13 per cent. The greatest losses from the army and boil worm are felt in Florida and Alabama. In Louisiana, Mississippi and Georgia local damage ha* also been heavy. In Arkansas a material reduction of the yield was caused by a droughtj-ln July .Land. August the comparison by State* wivh la-t year’s crop is asfoliows: North Carolina 121, South Carolina 124, Georgia 119, Florida 102* Ala bama 111, Mississippi 112, Louisiana 121, Texas. 128. Arkansas 105, Tennessee 110; Missouri, Virginia, Illinois end other States which together produced 55,000 bales in 18G0, and in which cotton culture was stimulated in several sub sequent years now scarcely yield 10 per cent of that amount. The total production, as indicated by the first week of November, is made very nearly 3.4-5,000commercial bales. At that date apparently 25 to 30 per cent, of the crop, or i.early 1,000,0! 0 bales, re mained to be picked and subjected to the vicissitudes of weather which might decrease the final aggregate l>y bearing storms, or slightly enlarge it by a favorable season for opening and gathering the fibre of the loss crop. The indicated product of fibre per acre as returned from each county, makes the following average for each State, viz : North Carolina, 173 pounds; South Carolina, 1824 Georgia, 180; Florida, 125; Alabama, i7l); M.ssissippi, 200; Louisiana, 215; Texas, 220: Arkansas, 170 ; Tennessee, 190. The area in cotton aa calculated from the returns of 1872 is as fol lows: In North Carolina, 450,029 bales; South Carolina. 570,052 bales; Georgia, 1,311,331 bales; Florida, 158,099 bales; Alabama, 1,389,972 bales; Mississippi, 1,537,618 bales; Louisiana, .940218 bales; Texas, 914,269 bales; Arkansas, 693,512 bales; Tennessee, 518,605 bales. In calculating the indicated product the average bale is 465 poum s. Statistics of Pauperism and Crime. The last Federal census shows that-during the year there were in the United States 116,- 102 paupers, and 36,562 criminals. T he cost of supporting the paupers was $10,935.4-9; of the whole number 76.737 were receiving support on the 1st of June, 1870; and ot these 44,539 were whites, 9,400 were colored persons, and of the whites 22,598 were for eign born. Of the 33,502 criminals reported for the year 1870, 32,901 were in pri on on the 1st of June, 16,117 being whiles, and 8,056 colored persons, and 8,728.of the whites being foreign bora. It will be observed that the white population furnishes only a little more than one-third as many criminals as paupers, while the colored population furn ishes nearly as many criminals as paupers. New York furnishes tiie largest number of both paupers and criminals—26,152 the forra.r, and 5,473 of the latter; Pennsylvania furnishes 15,872 pau pers and 3,974 criminals; Massachu- chusetts furnishes 8,036 paupers and 1,593 criminals; Ohio contributes 6,383 paupers and 2.560 criminals; Illinois 6,054 paupers and 1,552 criminals; Maine 4,619 paupers and 431 criminals; Indiana 4,657 paupers and 1,374 criminals; Michigm 3,151 paupers and 835 criminals; Missouri 2,424 paupers and 1,503 criminals. The report declares that the most econmi- cal method of treating paupers is found in the town-farm system, rince it requires only one salary, that of the overseer, and permits the labor of the paupers to be employed to the full extent of their ability. Under this sys tem, the annual cost of a pauper is $50 to $60 while in those States where paupers are gath ered in large establishments, with numerous officials aud expensive appointments, and with no opportunity for employing the in mates productively, the cost rises to SiuO or $140. tar Who is Mario? Sixty-three years go, only ten years after Mozart died and one year after Mendelssohn was born-just at the time when ^Beethoven, Cherubini, Spohr, May sod er, Ferdinand bies, Hummel, Mosch- eles. Von Weber, Meyerber and R tesini were filling the world full of music, and the Italian and German'schools were fiercely contesting for the supremacy—Giuseppe Mario was born, by virtue of nobie rank, the Marquis of Candia; by virtue of music, for which he cast away nobilty, to be afterward known only as Mario Thirty-five years ago he made his debut in Paris in Robert le Diuhlc and at once achieved a success which placed h:m side by side with Rubini, Labi che, Tainburini, Mali- bran, and the lovely Henrietta Sont;«g. whose beauty of face was a fatal gift, and whose beauty of, song once inspired Beethoven to dream of writing another opera for her. For twenty-five years succeeding, bis career was one of constant triumph, and ever growing fame. He was the idol of the public wherever opera was known. They showered riches and applause upon him, and, for a quaher of a century, he basked in the sunshine, burden ed with souvenirs of kings and princes, wor shipped by beautiful woman, and greeted with the approval of the most cultivated and critical audiences in Europe.” Washington, Nov. 19,1872. Does Grant intend to carry his recommend ations concerning civil service reform? is the conundrum which is now puzzling many people in Washington and elsewhere. He has apparently m ule a stand wi ll regard to the postmastership of FUiiadelpUU, to the grert discomfiture of Cameron and hi-* allies. The theory has been broa fired, however, that this was simply a “put up job** between Cameron and the President, and that Cam eron will reap his reward in othe. directions. Cameron asks the appointment of his man; President refuses, and declares Ms intention to abide by the civil service reform rules. Cameron loses nothing in reality—Ike President makes much capital. This is genious, but not correct. Cameron’s appearance »fur the interview with the President, and the curses of the politicians who accomjjanied him, indicated a deep aud bitter disappointment. Hereby hangs the tale of a very funny interview. On the even ing of the day on which the visit to the White House was made, a newspaper man, who had much whiskv aboard, strolled into Willard’s hotel and caught sight of Cameron ascending the stairway. He made for the Senator at once, when the following dialogue took place: R—“ Good evening, Senator. C.—“ Good evening, sir.” R—“I hear you got scoofcd at the White House to-day.” C—“I don’t understand you, sir.’ R—“I mean didn’t get you man. C—(Impatiently and nervously) “Oh,that is not settled yet.** It—“Yes it is, the President has gone back on you. He says he is going to appoint the other man, and when he says a thing he means iu” Here Cameron, who was evidently, and very naturally, annoyed, impatiently turned away and went on up stairs. He learned out: thing from the interview, and that was the meaning of the word “scoofed.” grant’s position. . I have prevailed on a newspaper friend of mine whose duties take him to the Waite House, and bring him ia contact with the officials there daily, to give mo his views as to Grant’s real sentiments regar ling civil ser vice reform. The paragraph herewith sub joined re*ds as 1 hough the writer is a Graul man, but he is not: “The bold and outspoken iletenuin Uion of the President iu advocacy of the doctrine of civil service reform, in response to the de mands of about five score Pennsylvania poli ticians for the appointment of a Postmaster at Philadelphia, lias startled the politic »1 rings to a degree bordering on madness. The. at tempt has been made to compel the President to make an appointment in opposition to his own views of propriety, and the attempt has failed. President Grant has taken a view iu positive opposition to the men who insist tlidjf elected him, and the evidences exist that this practical evidence of tint determination on bis part are fraught with further indications of executive recalcitrancy. The politicians arc to be placed at a low chb in the Knot live consideration, aud a break is certainly peuding. Yesterday Senator Cameron made a long and earnest talk with the President, but it is not known that there was any agree ment between the distinguished Senator and the President on the civil service subject The indication exists, to a degree which ia alarming tuc wire workers, that scvtral high gfligious. FATHER, TAKE XTlIiNP. Th* way t« dark my Fat*>»r! Clovl a pm d« la gatterinc thickly o’rc my hcmL aud toad The thaod'**nnr above me. y*t*M 1 sued Like one beerl'-dcved! Father take my hard, cm AodthfW Um *k»m toed ufUyhome, Safety home, eof.’lr home - afelj home Thy cfcila! ** hedaydecHa**, my Father! and th* nfrfct 1* dnwiag darkly now*. My fait trite* <*Uht ghostly vMont Fear* of a rpe Uml bead Kaco-ai* n me. O. Father! rake my head An r from the night lead ap to hgkt, Uptofikht npUiii.h'— Up to lightT*y chfid! The war «*1onjr, my Father! «ad my oel Lot»g* for'he r«*t a*d q »‘ci of t c geu; White yet (j >uru y ta ou.’tt rht-*... r und Ke.’p me f r *m Mrm«.d And In the way . Kudic-sd-i , triAloadny. •rdwi il’jr, , Loud tafuly ua Thy child l The path i«mwh, my Fa'hcr! Maay a thorn llatpi ree l me; and my fe*d, all A: d DL-edii g mark 'he w$y Y ?t Thy comaumd Bide m * pm>a for «~a d Father Irk/my baud, Thm rafe «nd bleat O teed to rv*t. Tbethrtmgte great, A? d <ear of dan.er compam n And foripppr-w m ? aor«\ 1 cam ot araod Or go alo .«•, O. Father! take my KuitL And thr a^h he ta ou- lead safe along, Hafe a on?, safe L ad rafe along Thy child! •n»e croa» U heave, pal her 1 I have home mnrwmg mu wuiono, iua» officers, not only iu cities remote from th«’ capital, but here as well, are to bo filled by promotion * from the next lowest officer. This method of political procure is not appreciated as it should be. The politicians wants the offices for the good of the party but the President seems determined to ignore party and stick to his plain text of 4 Civil Sem.e Reform.* BAD FOR THE POLITICIANS. The question here arises: Does the Presi dent intend to “go back on” the politicians generally V He is certainly in a position to do so, and may snap bis fingers at them, if he is not looking for a third term. He is secure in his position for four years from the 4th of March next, and at the end of that time will be rich enough to retire and end the reranin- der of his days in smoke. Here is Cameron, who spent money and resorted to all sorts of disreputable means to carry Pennsylvania for Graut, and when he asks for au office for one of his allies, he meets a decided refusal. The politicians Hire naturally much alarmed atthis, and if the President maintains the position he has taken there will be wailing and gnashing ot teeth here ere long. It will be huge fun for the outsiders Out death to-the politicians. THE BLUE LAWS REVIVED. Washington, or more correctly speaking, the Di-trict of Columbia, has been the scene of Radical experimental legislation. Here the colored man first went to the polls with a ballot in his hand and a dollar in the other; here it has been decreed by legal enactment that the negro shall be entertained in all bo tela, restaurants, bar raoins, etc., upon an equality with the white man Not content with giving license to the negro, the Radicals and Puritans are bent on depriving the white man of his rights und privileges. Does he pay billiards after the clock strikes twelve he in curs a fine. His footsteps are dogged on Sunday, and a smelling committee inhales his breath to ascertain if he has partaken of epirilual comfort. An effort is to be mode to suppress the Sunday papers, and to forbid funerals on the Lord’s day. • Next we shall be forbidden to smoke on the street, or to sneeze without a special license. Kissing one’s wife on Sunday will be made a criminal offense, but Congressmen will be permitted to kiss other people’s wives, and fondle their mistresses as heretofore. Wc shall t bus have moral city,” patterned after that whitened sepulchre, Boston. Seriously, the puritanical busy-bodies who now ruling affairs here with a high hand will soon make it impossible fer any oue but a canting hypocrite to live in Washington. Perhaps that is their “little game.” They want to monopolize the city them .elves. UNHANDY. My right hand has been disabled for sev- <ral days from a wound inflicted by a nail in opening a cigar box, which injured the ten dons of the thumb,and I have constrained to use it sparingly. This nruHt be my excuse for the brevity and other defect of to-day’ epistle. Will do better next time. Tommy Mauck. Rctlfftou* Inform PRESBTTKUIAN CHURCH m ifS. The whole number added on examination to the Presoyleiiau Church last year was 28,758. The seventeen Prcsbyterim Churches in Cincinnati and iu Mihurl* contain an aggre gate membership of 3,594. A writer thus ciasrifit s the ministers io the Presbyterian Church: 1,914 are settled pis ton; 913 are stated supplies; and 900 are without charges. The Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia propose to raise, durirg the coming year, $56,000 for the special otrjecu of the orgaui- ~ ition. The Presbvtermn Synod of Illinois, North, rciolved to raise at least twelve tiu us ind dol lars for the Board of Home Missions during the current year, in order io make the mis sionary work iu iu own bouuds aclf-MisUm- iug. CONOR. OATIONAL CHURCH ITEMS. The Fir»t Cnngrea.-iunai Church in Oherlin, Ohio, has called Rev. J. A Leach, of Keene, New Hunpshire, f >r pi;lor, at a salary of $1,50J. The Congregational Church st Pcshtigo, Wisconsin, which was burned in the terrible tire a year ago, Ihs been rebuilt aud dedicated through the generous aid of distant friends. The Californii Assoristion of tire Con gregational Church passed a resolution ex pressing deep sorrow at the great increase in the m-uufACluie and use of vine and other intoxicating drinks iu th.it State. UM VERSA LIST CHURCH ITEMS. It is estimated that there are five hundred Universalists churches containing in ail about tweuty-five thousand members. • The Univcrsalist congregation in Chicago, Rev. Ur. Ryder pastor, wuibUip iu the Jew ish Synagogue. Tlic Boston Transcript says: Goodenough is the singular name of a popular Universal- ist clergyman just called io Bangor, where hundreds are bad enough. MftTUOUlST CHURCH ITEMS. The Methodist lv>i.-c >pal Church »s talking of making the mission ny contnbution* of the camming year reach $!,000,00 K The German Methodists in Minneapolis h-ive purchased the Universalis;* Church edi fice for $30,0 0 Tire Upper Iowa Conference of the Metho dist Cliuicli, at its laic ic&Nion, msolved not to receive uny minister«wlio uoco tobacco. The one hundred aud fourth anniversary off ojd John S’ reel Methodist Church, in the The Penitent Wooduull and Claflin. —Neto York, November 19—Woodhu.l and Claflin have offered five thousand dollars and complete retraction, if Challis will withdraw his suits. The decision of Justice Fowier committing Blood for trial has distressed and alarmed these women, and it is understood that they wifi plead guilty and appeal to the mercy of the court It has long **een a recognized fact that one of the greatest obstacles in tbe way of the thousands of women in our great cities who are endeavoring to support themselves by tbeir own industry is tbe difficulty of finding suitable homes. Various efforts have been made to establish boarding houses which wii meet the need of this class of women, but heretofore with indifferent success. Some eighteen months ago a few philanthrepic wo men in Brooklyn, interested in-the subject; organized an association under the name of the Bu-int ss Woman's Union, for the special purpose of providing for this want. They succeeded in raising the funds neccssurv to lease and furnish the o'd-fashioned dwelling* house. No. 80 Willoughby street. In their city. The house rapidly fil ed, and the experiment, was so successful that when a few months afterwards the property was unexpected <_ offered for tale the Board of Directors deter mined to purchase it Owing to the interest which such an enterprise naturally inspired in all acquainted with it, and the energy and vigor of the women who bad it in charge, money was soon raised by subscription to meet the first payment required to be made. The Union also encouraged by the fact that the Home paid its running expenses during the first year of its existence, und being con- Hlant.y in receipt of applications for bo >rd largely exceeding tbeir accomodations, de- ci'le j to enlarge and remodel the building feel ing assured that the institution had elicited sufficient public interest to make it possible torecurc the necessary means. Operations were commenced, and through additions and alterations, which will he completed about the 1st of Decemcer, tbe building will accom modate some 72 women. All the rooms are light, airy and cheerful. The large, handsome parlors are devoted to the use of the inmates of tbe Home, lectures, reading, and other en tertainments being given in them for instruc tion and amusement. Another object of the Union is to constitute a centre where infor mation relative to all business opportunities for women may at all times be given and re- ceiveo, thus contributing to the opening of new avenues of employment for those desir ing to support themselves. If tbe wealthy women of our cities, who are suffering from ennui for the want of so i.elhing to occupy tbeir time and attention, would follow the examine of tbe founders of tills Brooklyn Association and establish similar institutions, or lend their assistance to the furtherance of this, they will be the means of saving many a young girl from ihe temptations which so easily beset tbe homtless. Well Done for Coweta.—Coweta polled a larger Democratic vote at the late election than any county in this District: and larger than any in the State except Bibb, Fulton, Chatham, Richmond and Monroe. city of New York, waa celebrated last Sun day. There is to lie a Methodist Episcopal Church iu Philadelphia, in which tire prayer book, proposed by John Wesley, is to be used after tlic mfimei of the Episcopal ser vice. MtaCSLANEOUS RELIGIOUS INFORMATION. Banyan’* Pilgrim's Prr grunt has been translated into more languages than any other book with the exception of the Bible. The Herald of Life (Adventist) find evi dence in Scr ipture that the epizootic is but another omen of the coming day. The Swcdenboiglans, of Mimnt Vcnon, Ne w York, have erected aud dedicated n new church editice. • More than a thousand conversions were re ported as resulting from the camp meeting held on the Atlantic Seaboard during Uie jm»t season. John Wesley preached forty two thousand sermons at the rate of fifteen a week. He never was troubled with clergymen’s sore throat, and needed a year’s leave of absence with all expenses p rid. Rev. Joel Pcruick, Missionaty of the Cum- l>erland Presbyterian Synod of Kcmuky dur ing the year ending October preached 322 sermons, had 322 souls converted under hi* preaching, and received, d-rar of his ex penses, during the year, $328, ora uifle over oue dollar per soul. CATHOLIC ClIURCa ITEMS. It is estimated that the actual losses to the Ca’ hofac Church by the Chicago fire amounted to $1,509,009. The Bohemians and P<danders belonging to the Catholic Church in Chicago number some 20,000 persons. HEBZIEW CIIUUCH ITEMS. A Jewish temple that has cost $60,000 is nearly completed in Milwaukee. A writer iu the Jewish Chronicle calculates that in the year 1880 the nation of Israel is to be restored to Palestine. Abraham Jaeger, the convert from Juda ism to Chrulionily, in the city of Mobile, re cently delivered au address iu Chicago, giving the reasons inducing the change of his faiUI. EPISCOPAL CHURCH ITEMS. The Church News proposes that the’Epis copal church shall pluot a College and bimi- uary iu Washington City, build a cathedral, and have a diocese and Bishop of their own. The young men connected with the Epis copal chnrch in Columbus, Ohio, have or ganized a church guild for the purpose of efficient co operation ia the work of church extension. In the Episcopal Dhccseof the thirteen Southern Mates the gain iu ten years,ending with 1871, was from thirty-nine thousand to titty-six thousand, a little more than!,thirty- eight per cent. baptist church items. There arc fewer Bapi'n.ts in Virginia thnn in any other State in the Union. There are<mcinndred and eighty thousand members of the Bap'ist Church in England. There are fourteen foreign missions in charge of the American Baptist Union, having in all about 24,900 communicants. Rev. H. M. Gallagher, pastor of tbe Broad Street Baptist Church, Elizabeth. New Jer sey, is said to receive a salary of $10,0 0. The Genera] Association of Virginia Bap tists recently refused to exchange correspond ing delegates with the colored Virginia Bap tist Convention. The First Baptist Church at Chicago are about to remove to a new spot their house of worship, wbicb, sevenyeais ago, was erected at a cost of $150,000. FOREION CHURCH ITEMS In the ci’y of Naples there are four liur- dred and five Catholic Churchcs^and five thousand ordained priests. A large Gothic iron church rot Una, Peru, has been shipped at New York. It co*., with the accompanying organ, over fiOO.OOO. 4 secret organization h operating in Ire land, France and Italy, to aid the Pope in se curing possession of the Papal States, and regaining his temporal power. Father Gav&zzi said, in a recent address, that they have in Italy altogether one hun dred Evangelical congregations, with an average of 30.050 constant hearers. The population, of Rime 1 244.494, of whom 232.675 are Romanists 3.790 are Prot estants 4 619 are Jews, and 3,409 are mem bers of other religions. tS"" Responses to prayers and sermons may be good, if they come in at the right place. Not so, however, come in response, recently, to a minister in an American church. He had come down from the pulpit to invite a stranger in one of the pews to preach for him, but was unsuccessful *• Brethren," said be, “I invited brother S to preach, but he declines!* “Thank God!” roar d out a man from the middle of the church.—Rx. \3S“Tlic'Luiheran Synods of New York and Jersey were amalgamated into one bo-lv at their late scseim in Hudson, New York. They were both small bodies, and the united corporation consists now of only 32 mini*. ters and 3-i congieeations. C2T The minutes of tbe Tennessee Synod of the Lutheran Church rive fiTteen minis ters fifty-seven congregations, 5,681 commu nicants and 283 confirmations for the past yc*r. indistinct mini 1