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THE WEEKLY SUN. H ,uv» ni; wor.K. Thomas oii-hert THOS. GILBERT & CO., PROPRIETORS. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. une copy, one year | .544 One copy, six months I <><> atn RATES. Three copies, one year, to same post ottiee at $4 140 each | *»0 fiie copies, one >car, to same post utlice at $1 ;s,> each (> }.> Ten copies, one year, to same post ,iitice at £1 ’.7.3 each li r t ii pa een copies, one year, to same post- at 81. 15 each 17 !>J Twenty copies, one year, to same post ottlce at 81 each tio OO Subscriptions discontinued at the expiration of time. Ai! remittances mast be by registered letter I ~r postutttce money order, otlierwi.se at the risk i ut the sender. Address, Thos. Gilbert & Cos., Columbus, tin. ADVERTISING RATES: Adyertisementsinsertcd at $1 persqunre (ten lines or less, in small typo,) first insertion, and tllty cents each subsequent insertion. 7 /77;: WEEKI.X S VX We deem it’V[fitting "occasion, r as’ the commencement of‘anotherj'year is .'close at hand, to annotmoo that our gies shall ho.dovotet], as [they‘^have'been in tha past,[to make [the SutUentirely ac ceptable to the peopio of„t he surrounding country of Georgia [anil [Alabama an a genera! news paper, and.[‘one devoted to the business interests and politicaUprinei ples of the peopio. AVo endeavor to give a compendium of ”[all • the,'[interesting news of the day,'no as'to keep [our [read ers fully informed. Among other objects claiming our attention, on account of the progress which it has already mado and the good results to the['[Bouth‘w hich wo fondly hope it will accomplish, is the movement of the Farmers’Granges. The news of this order, as well as other inter esting current events, will appear in both our Daily and our Weekly editions, and subscribers to either may rest assured that they will keep up with tho work of the order by taking either. Below we give the rates of the Weekly Sun. and in vite tho people of this section of the country to compare tho paper and its price to any other published, especially untieing our club rates. If our friends will show the people in their respective neighborhoods how cheaply they can pro cure a large and well-filled paper, devoted to the interest and the news most impor tant to them, we are satisfied that many clubs will be formed at once. The new year will be a good tiino to commence, and a dollar or a dollar and a half paid for such a paper would certainly be as good anew year’s investment ns any man could make. Bates of the Weekly Hr* : One copy, one, year $ j ~q Three copies, one year, to same post office at $1.40 each 4.20 l ive copies, one year, same post office.. at $1.35 each 0.75 fen copies, one year, to same post office at $1.25 each 12.50 Fifteen copies, one year, to same post-office at $1.15 each 17.25 'twenty copies, one year, to same post-office at SI.OO each 20.00 OfT Tho Weekly Hun is discontinued on expiration of time paid for. All remittances must be Tv registered letter or post-offico money order, other wise at the risk of the sender. Address, Titos. Gilbert & Cos., Columbus, Ga. A. R. I,AMAH, ESQ. Mis many friends hero have been grati fied by the announcement that Sir. La mar's health is sufficiently restored to on able him to enter upon an activo discharge of the duties of his office. 'The readers of this paper, upon which his able and caustic pen was for some time employed, need no assurance that lie will fill his present posit ion creditably to himself and beneficially to the State lie lias been tried in other positions, under tho State mul tiie Confederacy, and found always capable and eftloient. He was a trusted counsellor of high Confederate authorities during the war, and his own station in that conlliot was one as necessary and im portant to the Confederacy as the soldiers m the field. Nor is it forgotten that per ils and responsibilities had to be encoun tered by our public men, immediately af ter the w'.ar, of quite as responsible and hazardous a nature as service in the field. W'e ail know how manfully Mr. Lamar stoo dup during our “reign of terror”— when able and influential men were de serting their principles atid their race— against the effort to degrade Georgia to the condition of Mouth Carolina and Lou isiana as to-day exhibited. Though known to be “spotted,” and though speaking and writing at the risk of his personal liberty, he did not hesitate to denounce and ex pose the outrages perpetrated ot\ the "Ashburn prisoners” and the tyranny and knavery by which they were committed. Ho carried with him from Columbus the affectionate regard of our people, w hich many of them evinced by their support of the paper on which he was engaged in another city, and they still remember with pride the capacity, courage and fidelity with which he lias filled every position entrusted to him. v> i’ll or. i.ovis it. Ad ass ix. t his eminent naturalist, whose death is reported by-telegraph, was born in Switz erland, May 28th, 1807, and was conse quently in the ti7tli year of Iris ago. lie wind to (tie United States in 1840, and had since lived in this country His fame .as a naturalist and a man of varied science was world-wide. His travels were exten sive, his researches thorough and labori ous, and his collections probably the greatest of any man of his day. Most of the latter are in the Boston Museum of Comparative Zoology. His works were as varied as his learning, being upon fos sils and living animal species, upon go •ology, the glaciers, natural history, Ac. He had in progress of publication a mag nificent work entitled “Contributions to The Natural History of the United, States,” which will probably now' remain unfin ished. Distinguished literary honors had been bestowed vipon him, and men of science everywhere paid the greatest de ference to his opinions. The latest active enterprises iti which lie was engaged were in couueelion with the 1 nited States coast survey and in the establishment of an academy of natural scieuoe upon a little island on the coast ot New England. MOIITON 'S “I’lllMA FACIE." Piuehlmck manufactured a Legislature to elect himself to the l nited States Son -ate. lie recognized as members of his Legislature the persons certified to have been elected by a Board of t anvassers who had no returns to canvass —the re turns having been made to the Board re cognized by Gov. Warmotb. Biuchback s Board, not having the real returns, made oat statements of the election from the registry lists of the parishes and the ie tnrns of former elections, 'they presum. ej. that men voted because it was found that they had been entitled to vote, and presumed that they voted for Radical candidates because they were negroes! Upon such conjectures and inferences as these they certified that candidates of their party hail received so many votes and were elected. And now Morton claims that this establishes a prima Jaeie case of regular election for Pinchback, and asks the Senate to give him the seat until the matter is investigated ! There is face enough about it, certainly, but it has no primary base to rest upon, and the admission of Pinchback will he the sanc tion of a fraud unparalleled in the history of popular elections. Empress Eugene was deeply affected at the verdict aud sentence of Marshal Ba *'.ine. Her agitation is so great that she has been compelled to postpone a visit that she was about to make to Queen Victoria. VOL. XV. a nrma xi) ran wohk and HUE All. | We are rather surprised that no tele graphic report was sent of an immense mass meeting held at Cooper Institute. Now York City, on Thursday night last! It was a meeting of working men to take into consideration the condition of the industrial classes as affected by tho finan cial situation and dullness of business, iho New York papers of Friday say that every inch in the hall was occupied before the hour of meeting, and that the jam was “almost unprecedented.” The spirit which actuated the getting up of tho meeting was emphatically displayed bv some of the mottoes placed in prominent positions around the platform. We copy a few of them: “The Unemployed De mand Work. The Dawn of Liberty I Dee. ti, 187:’.;” “Freedom for Labor, j Death to Monopoly; “Does Speculation or Labor Create Wealth?" ■•’We have sworn upon the altar of justice that the i wealth earned by labor shall pay the tax es; “Wo mean business’ Politicians : Please take a back seat.” “When work- I ing mc-n begin to think, monopoly begins i*° tremble;” “We strike at evils, not men; ’ “A pill for panics, graduated tax;” “Equal laws and homes for tho indnstri ; ous;” “Give us this day our daily bread;” “All salaries shall be reduced—they are too expensive luxuries in these hard times; “Civil rights have passed, now lor tho rights of labor;” “Government cmlpoyment a remedy for strikes;” “Man’s avarice must be limited,” Ac. A report of a committee previously appointed to examine into the number and condition of the unemployed working people of New York, was read. It pur ported to show that there ate 10,000 homeless men and women in the streets of New York, while 7.500 others of the same class are lodged in the overcrowded station Louses every week. These figures show an increase of 3,720 over the number for Inst year. There are 1,500 starving men and women fed per day from one private house, and 20,250 idle men from eleven trades unions, while only 5,950 of their fellow craftsmen are at work. In the State of Now York, there are 182,000 skilled workmen idle belonging to ihe trade organizations,and 82,000 machinists atid blacksmiths at present out of employ ment in the United States. 'lhe total number of persons thrown idle in the city, of all classes, is given as 1 1 0,000. The number of persons living in the tene ment houses of New York is 000,009. Os this class 100,000 women earn their own living, and 38,000 women are employed at the average wages of $5 11 per week. Tho report of this committee demanded of tho city authorities immediate employ ment for those out of work, the abolition of all useless offices, a reduction of all salaries of officials, Ac. The address to the peopio of the United States, which was adopted, made ihe same demand of work from the General Gov ernment and reduction of salaries. Two other demands are the following : First— that a law shall be enacted,[which shall prevent any law being enforced until it has been submitted to the people and sanctioned by the people. Second—That no individual shall be allowed to hold, either directly or indirecty, a sum of money, greater than $300,000, or any sum which the people themselves shall determine upon. These two propositions seem to be democratic and agrarian iti the extreme; but they were excelled by another of a practical character: “That we will, in this our time of need, supply our families and ourselves with proper shelter and the necessaries of life, and will send all our bills for the same to the City Treasury, to be liquidated, until such time as we shall obtain work, and pay for all our work.” Perhaps the most mischievous action of the meeting was the appointment of a “Committee of Safety,” whose duty was defined to be “to look after the interests of all the people, and to see that their rights are respected, and if need be en forced." Those detnonstations do not surprise us. Bnt, as there is evidently an improvement in business all over the country and a pro gressing resumption of industry and trade, we trust that the undeniable hard ships of the situation, which are urged as the justification for such proceedings, are being gradually overcome, aud that the feeling which actuated this meeting will subside with the restoration of better times, instead of gathering force by agita tion and a continuance of the evils com plained of. me. srrriiExs ix coxgress. \Ve do not agree with Mr. Stephens in his views of the “salary grab,’ and we dislike the position he took in his speech on that subject on Thursday last. But we read with pride the many reports of the extraordinary interest which the man and his speech attracted from the floor and galleries of the House, and the gene ral tributes to the superiority of his mind and the patriotism of his motives. It brings forcibly back to our “mind’s eye” the old scenes in Congress, when South ern statesmanship and genius bore off the palm in debate and in parliamentary tac tics, and the smaller section of the Union was generally triumphant in the struggle for the policies which it favored. Mr. Stephens is a lingering representative of that Southern sentiment, and though the sadly changed condition of the country does not permit hb to hope for a re newal of its old successes, we may at least exult in the tributes to bis intellect and integrity extorted from those who so greatly differ with him m sentiment and purpose. The New York Tribune, of Friday, edi t irially noticing Mr. Stephens’ speech on the day previous, says that “the debate is beginning to rise above pettiness and per sonality:” that “Mr. Stephens considered the subject broadly and treated it from a higher plane of observation than any who had preceded him on that side of the question;” and that “there is some grain in the discussion after all.” Admissions such as these, from politi cians of principles antipodal to Mr.. Stephens’, constitute a very high tribute to his intellect —an emphatic acknowledge ment of Iris superiority over the the shallow minds that had treated the question accor ding to their narrow views or personal in terests. The Montgomery Morning News— the new paper at the seat of government of Alabama, of which we have heretofore made mention—made its appearance yes terday. It is a bright, genial, entertain ing and newsy sheet, and ought to com mand success upon its own merits. Our friend John E Roberts (“Sandy Merlin,” whose correspondence has often enter tained our readers) is the senior editor aud proprietor, associated with Messrs. Jas. M. Richards and Thos. J. Cox. lbey make a splendid newspaper team, as their first number attests. We wish them abundant success, and we believe that they will achieve it. for they are the right sort of men to overcome difficulties and win their way to public confidence and appreciation. The terms of the Daily News are ■- 8 per annum, of the W eekly $2 off. ihese are low rates for so good a paper, and people wanting a good paper from Mont gomery will nut be disappointed in tne News. THE WEEKLY SUN. PATHOS SI OF HVSIIANDRY IX COUNCIL. W e learn from our special correspond ent that the Patrons of Husbandry o Pike county assembled in convention a the City Academy in Troy. Ala., on Satur day last, holding a morning and evening session, the intermission being devotee to a “Basket Dinner” provided by the la dies of Troy[for[the delegates. Although the night had been stormy, and the morning dawned inauspieiously, | thero were delegates present from nearly ! every portion of tho county, and the greatest interest and enthusiasm was man ' ifested in the objects of the meeting. Judge John A. Law, the efficient Master of Darby Grange at Henderson, was made Chairman, and Capt. 1,. 11. Bowles, asso- I date editor of the Troy Messenger, was selected to act as Secrotary. Upon calling the roll it was found that | eleven Granges were duly represented by delegates: Darby, Spring Hill, Little Oak, China Grove, Orion, Brttndidge, Whitewater, Troy, Pea River, Tan Yard i and Richland. A committee on general | business, consisting of one delegate from each of these Granges, was appointed, ' with AV. C. Menefee, Esq., District Depu ty, as Chairman. The following most ex i cellent selection was made for this com- I rnittee, as will be seen by tho result of \ their labors: J. J. Darby, AV. J. Mcßride, J. L. Foster, M, Etheridge, C. F. Bennett, E. AV. Hilliard, C. M. Mcßae, AV. Ram age, G. N. King, S. J. Townsend and Q. P. Siler. After due consultatiou, these gentlemen presented the following reso lutions: Resolved, That this Convention suggest to the various Granges in this county, the adoption of resolutions recommending to their members that in pitching crops for 1874, they shall regard the necessity of planting a sufficiency of cereals to supply their farms and all their dependents, and as much cotton, in addition, as they may think proper; and that they also use their influence to secure the adoption of tho same policy by such of their neighbors as are not members of the Grange. Resolved, That we recommend to the different Granges of Pike county to adopt prompt and effective measures to put down night trading, or illicit traffic, in farm produce. Resolved, That iti view of the hard times, we earnestly recommend io the men and women of our Order, that they use all the economy possible in matters pertaining to dress. Resolved, That we can make no report in regard to commercial fertilizers, except to recommend that the. members of our order make all the, home fertilizers they can; and if they are compelled to buy commercial fertilizers, to let their past experience guide them in making future purchases. Resolved, That the above resolutions be submitted to the subordinate Granges of the county, for their approval or rejection, as the case may be. Resolved, That tho thanks of the Pat rons of Husbandry are due the editors of the Troy Messenger, for the valuable aid rendered in disseminating general infor mation in regard to the Order, and for the use of the columns of that paper for mat ters of local interest; and that we will avail ourselves of its “Department for the Patrons of Husbandry,” for the purpose of inter-communication. Resolved, That the thanks of [this con vention are hereby tendered to the mem bers of the Troy Grange, for the kindness and hospitality extended to the delegates in attendance from abroad. Resolved, That these resolutions, with a report of the proceedings of this con vention, be published in the Troy Mes senger, and that n copy be sent to the Secretary of each Grange in Pike county. Although the convention contained many aide and eloquent public speakers, work was the order of the day; and with out any bmneombo speeches, but with a hearty unanimity, the resolutions of the committee were adopted. It will be seen by reference to the resolutions, that a conservative spirit governed the entire proceedings of the convention, aud that the Order in Tike county is in a most healthy as well as a most flourishing condition. The success which has attended their first convention, held as it was under many unfavorable circumstances, gives rich promise for the future prosperity and increase of the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry in that section of Alabama, the home of \V. 0. Menefee, Esq., the energetic and efficient Deputy for the counties comprising the second Congressional District. Troy Cotton Market—Statement to Date. The past week has been onejof great ac tivity in the business circles of tbeinland city of Troy, and hardly a day has passed without witnessing the public square filled with cotton wagons from tho[lower coun ties. As the greater portion of the cotton comes to the warehouses of Columbus, it will be gratifying to our merchants to hear of the growing prosperity of our sister city. Os the shipments last Satur day, from a'total of 229 bales, there were 171 for Columbus, 20 for Montgomery, 13 for Savannah, 10 for Baltimore, and 15 for New York. The following is a com parative statement of the past and present year, for which we are indebted to Dr. Ravenseroft. Alderman AVilson and Capt. Nall : ALABAMA WA It F.HOUSE. From Sept. 1 to Dec. 12, 1873 4,900 j Prom Sept. 1 to Dec. 12, 1872 4,200 Excess over last year 700 Stock on hand 920 CENTRAL WAREHOUSE. From Sept. 17, to Dec. 12, 1873 1,121 Stock on hand 90 SHIPMENTS BY MOBILE AND GIRARD RAILROAD. From Sept. 1 to Dec. 12, 1873 5,599 From Sept. 1 to Dec. 12, 1872 4,734 Excess over last year 805 In estimating the excess in shipments over last year, we must include a thousand bales now in the warehouses, as there were less than a hundred bales on storage at this time last year. Nor can we predict from this excess that the crop generally has been brought to market. Collectors , who have been riding through that sec tion state that large quantities of cotton are still to be seen about the giu houses, j from which it is evident that the planters of Pike, aud of tha adjacent counties below, have made an excellent crop this year. They are mostly men who do their own work, and whose families understand how to economise. The few negroes employed by them are made industrious and useful by tire example of their employers. 11 I R RIS CO vXTr S Til I. A HEA D. Catat’la. Ga , Dec. 10, 1873. Editor Sun: —l see by your paper of to-day, that AVm. A. Andrews, of Opelika, boasts of being ahead of my next door neighbor with his “Two Alule Crop.” j Now I propose to tell you what I have done j before von give Alabama the lead. AVith one horse, fifteen years old, I made nine (9) bales of cotton, averaging five hun dred pounds each, and one hundred aud fifty pounds of lint cotton over that amount; one hundred and twenty-five measured bushels corn; five stacks fodder; over one hundred bushels oats; one hun dred bushels potatoes, and sold twenty dollars worth of watermelons; all of which will be vouched for by my neigh bors. Now. who is ahead ? Yours no more until another crop. Julius AV. Lawson. The population of Atlanta, according to the census cow nearly completed, it is , said will approximate 30.000. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23,1873. Action of the Press Convention. At informal meeting hold Tuesday after ternoon— a quorum still being lacking— the following resolutions were unanimous ly adopted: Resolved. That the President of this j association be and he is hereby requested to instruct the Treasurer, Air. C. H. C. AVillingham, to pay over, at once, all funds in his hands belonging to the asso ciation, to the Secretary. J. R. Christian, to be by him disbursed in tho payment | of bills due to himself and R. L. Rogers, Chairman of the National Press Conven tion Committee. I Resolved, That ihe committee’s ap pointed at the annual meeting, held in Americas and Atlanta, in May last, be and are hereby requested to consider the sub j jects referred to them, and report at the annual meeting in Alay next. Resolved, That the President be and ho is hereby requested to make publica tion, an authorized, in resolution relating i to advertising agents found on page 23 of the proceedings of last Alay. Resolved, That the President and Sec retary of this Association are hereby re- ‘ quested to collect, at once, the annual i dues of the members, aud appropriate I the same to the payment of claims against j the Association. Resolved, That the Committee on “Na tional Press Convention” be and are here- j by requested to push forward tho object I contemplated, and call a convention at such time and place, (not later than the j 15tli of July, 1874.) as they may deem ex- j pedient. Resolved, That the thanks of tho mem- ■ bets of the Georgia Press Association. ; hero assembled, are cordially and grateful- ■ ly tendered to the citizens of Columbus for the courtesy and hospitality so grace fully extended to them, and especially to the gentlemen of the city press fori characteristic courtesy and journalistic hospitality. Resolved, That our thanks are due and j are hereby tender ed to tho Chattahoochee ' Boat Ciul), for the use of their Hall, and other delicate attentions. Resolved, That the President is hereby j requested to call the next annual meeting [ of this Association on the second AVed- j nesday in Alay next, at Alaeon; and that he invite the presses of Alabama, Tennes see, South Carolina, Florida, and such j other Stares as he may see proper, to meet the Georgia press on that occasion. Resolved, That, the thanks and most > grateful acknowledgements of the mem- j bers present are tendered to Air. J. AV. | Ryan, the popular host of the Rankin House, anil Mr. Frank Golden, the clever and obliging clerk, for attentions and cour- ! tesies extended. Resolved, That we return thanks to I Superintendent Cliipley, of the North and South Railroad Company, for an invi- ! tat ion to an excursion which lack of time ' would not allow us to accept. THE GRAXGES. A I.arge Meeting in Macon County, Aia. Society Hill, Ala., Dec. 12, 1873. Er>. StTN:—A large meeting of the citi zens was held at this place to-day, for the purpose of hearing speeches from Rev. Dr. Ticknor and Col. S. S. Scott upon the subject of Granges. Dr. T. did not come. Col. S. was present and spoke to the peo ple about au hour. He,explained in a lucid manner all the objects of the organ ization, the rapidity of its growth, with tho certainty of its bringing about not only a moral revolution in the country, bnt health and prosperity in every branch of business and among every class, at tiro samo time that it gave to tho agricultural interest that high and elevated position which rightfully belonged to it. His re marks upon the subject of corruption in the country and his conclusion, upon the work of the Grange in doing away with this corruption and purifying tho people, reached the very highest point of elo quence. The impression made was pow erful aud lasting, aud will result in great good in this community. J. A. Richardson. WHITE METHODISM IX COI.UM- Jt US AXD IMMEDIA TE VICINITY. Net Gain 301— Total Membership 1,337 Sunday-school Pupils 301— Total Con tributions $113,249 50 —Denominational Strength 3,4*18. The conference year closed Monday. The following shows the result of the ope rations of the year and status of the churches in Columbus. ST. I.TKE’S CHURCH— REV. -I. S. KEY, IX D. PAS- j TOR. Received— By profession 47 By certificate au— 77 ' Removed— By certificate, 20 By withdrawal, i By Church Couterenee, 79 By death, 12 —79 Net loss on year's work, 2 N umber of members, 529 Number Local Preachers, 3 Infants baptized, 20 Adults baptized, 22 I Sunday Schools, 1 I Officers and teachers, 35 Sunday School pupils, 315 Sunday School requisites, 850 | A T olumes in Library, 425 ! Church Periodicals taken 230 i REAL ESTATE AND OTHER PROPERTY. Church building, 425,000 00 Sittings, 1,200 00 Parsonage, 3,500 00 Two Organs, 2,250 00 FINANCIAL. For repairing furniture, Sec., $1,184 00 Pastor, 2,000 00 Presiding Elder, 350 00 Bishops, 60 00 Conference collection, iso 55 Missionary collection, 218 50 Sunday School in St. Luke, 191 76 $4,184 81 ST. PAUL’S CHURCH —BEV. A. IVRIOUT, PASTOR. Number members at beginning of year, 241 Added during the year by letter and profes sion of faith, 23 Gross aggregate. 264 During the year we have dismissed by letter 9 Stricken from the roll [3 Withdrawn, 2 Loss by death, ..6 20 Present membership, 244 i In the church there is 1 Sabbath School, 23 officers and teachers, and 175 scholars. The church a has_ contributed during the year for all purposes—support of pastor, incidentals, Sunday School and benevolent collections, $3,708. [Property valued at about $15,000 for church building, and organ $1,500. —Lo- cal Ed.] C ROAD STREET CHURCH—REV. W. F. ROP.t- SON, PASTOR. Members at present 200 Infants baptized duriug the year 13 Adults “ ■■ “ [...[[ 5 The Sunday-school has 17 teachers, ami pu _ lie Sunday-school requisites 150 Sunday-school volumes in Library......... [IOO Sunday-school periodicals uo FINANCIAL. Money raised for the church building $3,200 ’’ Preacher in charge ' 800 “ “ “ Presiding Elder 100 “ '• “ Bishop pj *’ ’’ Sunday-school 00 ’’ the poor of the Church. 31 •84,210 The assets and liabilities of Broad Street Church have been turned over to E. G. Raiford, Esq., for proper adjust ment. [The building is anew brick edifice.— City Ed.] GIRARD, TRINITY AND ASBCRY CHAPEL—REV. •I. W. SIMMONS, PASTOR. Members received by profession of faith and certificate 200 Dismissed by certificate and otherwise disposed of 37 Died 4-41 Net gain 439 Present membership 364 Number oi Sunday-school pupils 265 Teachers 37 FINANCIAL. Raised for the support of the ministry. $874 75 For Missionary and Conference fund.. 65 00 ForSunday-sckools 113 00 Incidental expens.s 95 00 Total $1,147 75 The churches have three framed build ings. RECAPITULATION. Number of Churches 6 Gain in membership of the year 301 Total membership 1,357 Suml ay-school pupils and teachers... 984 Collections during the year $13,249 56 Blank Garnishments and Bonds for sale at the Sun Ojncz, s vmned ax it i.HxrsTi. It is slated in letters from Washington that Senator Sumner has avowed his pur pose to defeat the Amnesty bill, which the ' House has passed, unless it has coupled with it his Civil Rights provision. This : is a singular stand for a politician who participated in the Liberal Republican movement of last year, and accepted the platform of that party, to take. But it is in conformity with Sumner’s course at the 1 last session of Congress. Asa three fourths vote is required to pass an Amnes i ty bill, Sumner may be able to carry his , point. It is at least very probable that the friends of Amnesty will have either 1 to wait a while longer or to accept the j '‘civil rights” for which Sumner contends. yon Tit GEORGIA CONFERENCE. The appointments of the Ministers were announced on Tuesday. Wo give the locations of preachers best known in this section of the State: Rev. J. E. Evans is stationed at St. .lames Church, Augusta; Rev. G. 11. Ratillo goes to Spar ta; Rev. A. T. Mann, to Madison; Rev. .1. L. Pierce, to White Plains Circuit: Rev. W. J. Wardlaw, to Putnam Circuit; Rev. J. N. Austin, Porter Springs Mission; Rev. W. 51. Crnmloy, to Rome; Rev. A. Moans is supernumerary. We copy the appoints for the LaGrange : district : H. J. Adams, Presiding Elder. LaGrange—W. J. Scott. West Point—P. M. Ryburn. Newnan—A. M. Thigpen. Troop—L. Rush; J. P. Howell, super- ! numerary. Long Cane Circuit—ll. .T. Ellis. W 7 hitevil!o Circuit—J. T. Love. Greenville and Trinity—E. A. Kimbell. Chalybeate Circuit—-J. S. Bryan. Grantville Circuit—W. J. Coster. Pierce Circuit—James Jones. Ilogansville—J. 51. Bowdon. Senoia Circuit—R. F. Jones; E. 51. Akin, supernumerary. Palmetto Circuit—T. 11. Timmons. ! Fairbnrn Circuit—J. Chambers. Carrolton Circuit—sV. C. Dunlap. Bowdon Circuit —C. A. Mitchell. Franklin Circuit—J. W. Stipe. Missionary to China—Young J. Allen. I Emory College—Morgan Callaway, Pro- j fessor. Sunday School Secretary 51. E. ChuTch ; South—A. G. Haygood. Superintendent and Agent Orphans j Home—W. 11. Foot. District Superintendent American Bible j Society—Win. A. Parks. ONE DALLAS COUNTY A'A It MUD. Wo met a Dallas county planter yester day, whose plantation is in the extreme eastern portion of the county, who in formed us that he had at this time thirty seven fine fat hogs to kill so soon as the weather is favorable. He raised these hogs on his place, and lias not fed them as much as fifteen bushels of corn. He raised them on potatoes, turnips, peas, etc., all of which ho also raised in abun dance. He has now on hand fifteen hams of meat of last year’s killing, and has raised this year corn enough to make an other crop; furthermore, he made plenty of oats, and has one hundred and fifty bushels of rust-proof seed oats for sale. He has already commenced operations for another year, and has at this time seventy-five acres of oats and wheat growing finely. Our friend only raised fifteen bales of cotton this year, but he has plenty of meat, corn, fodder, oats, peas, potatoes and turnips, at home for white and black, and his stock, until the next crop is made. And better than all, he does not owe one dollar to his commission merchant for advances. He has paid out and is rmtrammeled and un embarrassed. This is the sort of farming to redeem the country, and mako the owners of the soil not only independent, but tho richest agriculturists in the United States. Arid why enn’t others do as our friend has done? Think of it, thirty seven hogs ready for killing, aud not fif teen bushels of corn used in raising them! There are many who say that hogs can’t be raised here because they will bo stolen, but that’s too thin. Let one-fifth the at tention be paid to them that is given to cotton, and it will be found that they can be raised. There are no mortgages on the land of this planting gentleman, and if you waut at any time to find him, go to his plantation. He lives at home and at tends to his business. —Selma Times. The Union Springs Grange of the Pat rons of Husbandry carries out fully' the ob jects of the order, combining pleasure and social enjoyment with business. The Herald says that it meets every Saturday at 10 a. m., and passes the day in attend ing to the increasing business of the Or der. The farmers and their wives, from the country, bring their baskets well filled with tempting viands, and spread a lunch at dinner time that would honor any occa sion. These weekly reunions are not on ly pleasaut socially, blit they are profita ble in the interchange of opinions on all subjects of domestic economy, and tend to stimulate the spirit of improvement in home management generally. Though a large portion of the route of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad has been located, the long agitated question as to the route through Tennessee appeal s to be yet undecided. It wili run through Lincoln, Pulaski and AVayne counties, Kentucky, and enter Tennessee at Chit wood. This place appears to be too far west to favor the Knoxville route, bnt a line from Chitwood due south would run thirty or forty miles east of Chatta nooga, and there are two or three com peting routes from Chitwood to Chatta nooga. The Dallas (Texas) Herald says the re ceipts of cotton in that place have exceed ed anything ever beforo known. About 1,400 bales were received in one day, one half by wagons and tho other by railroad. The total receipts for this season are ex pected to reach 40.000 bales. The Her ald says no one, iu advance, supposed the receipts would exceed twenty thousand bales. A AYashington dispatch says the Presi dent made support- of his nomination of Williams as Chief Justice a test of fealty to his Administration, and thus silenced the opposition of some Republicans dis posed to vote against it. Progressive if true, isn’t it ? President Grant, in a conversation on Tuesday with a number of gentlemen up on the state of our relations with Spain, is said to hava remarked, emphatically, at the close. “Gentlemen, you may rest as sured there will be no wfir.” The yellow fever still lingers at Colum bus, Texas, one of the last places in which it made its appearance- There were fif teen cases under treatment there on the 13th iust., and one new case that day. The near Constitution submitted to a vote of the people of Pennsylvania has been adopted by a large majority—esti mated as high as 150,000. It is Baid to provide for some important reforms as compared with the old Constitution. The Savannah News is of the opinion that a great government that can resort to such a contemptible trick as sinking a coal barge to keep a Spanish war ship in her dock, “will need all the saluting the Spanish navy can give to preserve the honor of the flag.” Even in Massachusetts strongholds the tide is turning. Three of the principal cities in that State which have always been Republican, have just elected Dem ocratic Mayors—Lawrence. Springfield and Fall River. The town of Gloucester, where Butler usually has great influence, has also given a Democratic majority. CONGRESSIONAL. Washington, Dec.^l.l. —Senate—After the Louisiana contest, finances were re j sumed. The House bill for the redemption of the loan of 1858. passed, with several un important amendments. Without other definite action the Senate went into executive'sesaion. West introduced a bill regarding St. Philip canal, as recommended by the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce. Gordon's resolution of inquiry, regard ing postal affairs, with some modification, ■ j passed. House.—A largej number of bills were | read, under regular call: For commis sion on alcoholic drinks, amending 3d sec ; tion of the" Act j of March 12th, 1803; for I collection of abandoned property in insur rectionary States; to establish a light honse“in York! river, .Ya.;“granting pay ! to soldiers of the slexicau war; allowing I producers of leaf tobacoo_to sell .’w'ithont | i tax; to establish an iron ship building | navy yard on the Southern coast; grant \ ing public lands in Alabama to ! | public schools and internal im -1 provements; for public buildings at i Cxford, Mississippi; for construction of | St. Philip’s Ship Canal, as suggested by I | the New Orleans Chamberof Coniuierce.in- I troduced by Sypher; for internal ini- j j provements in Louisiana, j By Darrell—Rebuilding the Mississippi Levees. By Morry for canal over slussel j Shoals, in the Tennessee river; declaring ! ' the slemphis City aud Kansas Railroad n post road : for improvements in rivers and j harbors in Florida, and granting belliger- j ent lights to Cuba. By Wells—For improvements of tho Galveston harbor and buildings] at Hous ton. By Giddings—-For removing all tax on apple whisky. There was three hundred billsread. A petition signed by 0,000 druggists, representing 075 cities, asking the repeal of stamp tax on medicines or modify them to coniine the tax to patent medicines. The Judiciary Committee reported a bill repealing the Bankrupt act. Tre maine moved to suspend the rules, but dually the bill was made the special order for to-morrow and 'vote after two hours’ discussion. The first section repeals the Bankrupt law and all its amendments; the second provides that where there are bankruptcy proceedings pending, a ma jority] in value of the creditors whoso claims have been proved or are proveable, to determine in what manner and what terms and conditions tho estate of the bankrupt shall be adjusted, and such res olution shall be immediately confirmed by the court. Further sections arrange the details. There was a long debate in the House on a proposition from tho Committee on ‘ Ways and Means and of Appropriations, to refer back the annual estimates to the heads of departments, for the purpose of having them reduced, tho object being to avoid if possible the necessity of having to meet the estimated deficit of $12,000,- 000, by imposing a duty on tea and cof foe, and increasing the tax on whisky, to bacco and other articles, Tho party of finflationists was]]headed by Butler, of,Massachusetts, who favored j the issue of convertable bonds to 'meet i the- deficit. The resolution was finally adopted, and] the House passed a resolu tion to adjourn over on Friday, 19th of December, until after the Christmas holi days, to GtlYof January. Washington, Dec. 10. —The House is discussing a bill for the repeal of bank ruptcy law. Senate. — Unimportant. Stockton is speaking. Washington, g. Dee.?. IG. —The House j passed a bill to repeal the bankruptcy law, but providing that all pending proceed- j ings in bankruptcy shall be continued ! under the existing law, except that all | fees, costs and charges shall be reduced s to one half the present rates. The Select Committee on Salaries re- j ported n bill fixing the salaries of mem- ! bers at $5,500, to be in full of all allow ances except for actual individual travel ing expenses, and reducing all other sala- j lies that were raised last session to what i they had been before, except Judges of j the Supreme Court and the President’s, j during this term.* {An amendment was adopted making the resolution take effect ! from tho 4th"March,]lß7ls.Tho bill was not disposed of. A motion to reconsider the confiscation of Shepherd was voted down. He is now i District Governor. No other action of the Executive session i has transpired. The Committee on'Appropriations of j the Senate agreed to report the Houje bill giving the Navy four million without ! amendment, The Postmaster] General was before the Committee on“ Postoffices and Post-I roads, explaining the relief to the service ; by the abolition of the Pranking Privi- 1 lege. It is understood he j opposed any ] modification of the]presentUaws. The Finance Committee heard argu ments against the ruling of the lievenuo ; Department,that prescriptions with doses marked in writing must bear stamps. The committee agreed to report ad versely on Clayton’s bill imposing 10 per cent, tax on the circulation of banks oth- I er than national. The Senate’s Finance Committee report adversely a bill authorizing partial pay-! ments of duties in green backs. The bill placing the telegraph lines connecting i the Capitol and Department under the control of Geu. Babcock, passed. The bill removing the disabilities of William Steele of Texas, referred. Morton made a long speech in favor of Pinchback. McCrary speaks to-morrow at the executive session. Washington, Dec. 17.—Wilson, from the Judiciary Committee, reported a reso lution authorizing that committee to send for persons aud papers in the inquiry as j to the official conduct of Judge Busteod, of Alabama, and a resolution instruct- j ing that]committee to inquire and report whether Judge Durrell, of Louisiana, i should be impeached for high crime and j misdemeanor, with power to send for per- J sons and papers. Adopted. Senate -Proceedings of this morning show that there is little probability of the passage of the Bankruptcy repeal before the holidays. Fenton is speaking on finance. This ; chokes off the Louisiana question to-day. | Washington, Dec. 17.—1n the Senate j to-day Bogy, reporting a private bill from j the Committee on Indian Affairs, took i occasion to severely criticise the Admin- 1 istration on Indian ass airs,and pronounced the whole legislation a farce from begin ning to end. The House bill increasing the number of enlisted men in May to 10,000, was re- ! ported, but Sherman opposing, the bill went over. There was a long debate on the House bill to repeal the bankrupt laws. Edmunds moved a reference to the Judiciary Committee. Ho was satisfied of the impolicy of an absolute repeal of the bill, but thought that the committee j would be able to prepare a bill which would relieve the present law of its ob noxious features, and would at the same time protect the interests of both credit ors and debtors. Frelinghuysen was also opposed to absolute repeal, aud wanted it referred. During the discussion of the motion to re fer the morning hour expired. General dispositien indicates a repeal. Fenton made a long speech on finan ces, arguing in favor of immediate con traction of currency, and a reduction of government expenses. The special Naval appropriation bill of four million dollars was passed in the Heuse to-day. Stephens of Georgia said if he had been present yesterday, he would have voted for the repeal of the Bankrupt act, and against the repeal of the salary bill. Stephens also presented the memori al of the Cuban meeting held in New York, requesting the recognition of Cu ban belligerents. Iteferred to committee on foreign affairs. The bill for the redemption of the loan of 1858 with the Senate amendments was passed. Also a bill to so amend the laws relating to internal revenue as to allow distillery warehouses to continue business after a change in the manner thereof. There was a long debate in the House on an amendment to the salary bill, strik ing out the words “during his present term of office, " as applied to-the excep tion made in regard to the President's salary. CONGRESS OPPOSED TO INCREAS ED TAXATION. Tiie Loan of 1858—Financial Schemes,Ac. Washington, Dec. 14.—There is at present a general indisposition among memers of Congress to increase taxation. : It will not be done unless the necessity can be clearly shown. The reeommenda ! tion of tho Secretary of the Treasury in his recent letter to Representative Dawes • will be discussed by the Committee of Ways and Means at their meeting to-mor row. Several members of that committee | said there would be no hasty action upon ; ihe subject. The Treasury Department is somewhat pressed for money, not only by the fall ing off in thojrevenues, but by,the extra ordinary appropriation of four or five million dollars for naval purposes, and the ! early approach of tho redemption of the ! twenty million loaa of 1858, a bill in re | lation to which is now pending between I the two houses of Congress. Over two thirds of this loan are in coupon bonds, which some] of the holders desirous ; of exchanging for five per cent, bonds of j the fundedjoan. , Tho Senato has set apart to-morrow for i discussion of tho tho finance question, the majority of tho Committee on Finance having on AVednesday [reported absolu tion, having in view not only the redemp- 1 tion of the United States notes in coin, j bnt measuresjwhich will furnish a curren cy of uniform value injgold or its equiva lent, and so adjusted as to meet the changing wants of trade and commerce. Members of Congress severally are now privately discussing the matter of currency. Some of them have already introduced in their respective houses bills or resolu tions, containing such j; methods as would in their opinion afford the relief at pres ent required. A !arge[_numbor. of them favor an[[increase of currency, either by releasing the Treasury [or bank reserves, or an arrangement of ’ what is called an elastic currency—folTmake currency and bonds at all times interchangeable accor diug to business interests or necessities. WASHINGTON NEWS. Pennington Appointed Governor of Da cota li—Sam Bard Postmaster at Atlan ta—Other Appointments, Ac. Washington, December 15.— Two tugs are towing the monitor rMontank to New Y'ork. The] War Claims „Committee] of the House ask for’power jo send for persons ! end papers. Nominations—John L. Pennington, of Alabama, for Governor of Dakota; James W. Watson, Postmaster at Helena, Ark.; Gov. Bam Bard, Postmaster at Atlanta’ i Ga.; Col. R. W. Hughes, District Judge of the Eastern District of Virginia; Wm. jH. Hart, Marshal Southern District of Florida; Thomas P. Purnell, Marshal of the Western District of Texas. The confirmation of Judge Williams as Chief Justice hangs fire. The case was up to-day without conclusive action. The Financial Condition of the Govern ment—The Salary Bill. Washington, Dec 17.—Several promi nent members of .Congress to-day, wffiile privately expressing their view’s about the proposed holiday recess, said if the Senate J agreed to the House resolution for that purpose, more than a month must elapse before anything could be done for the re lief of the Treasury. They alluded to the fact that, while tho redemption of the loan of 1858 involved additional obligations, the extraordinary appropriation of four millions for the Navy exceeds what could possibly be saved by a reduction of the estimates, and besides the Secretary had already drawn eighteen millions and a half from the forty-four million reserve, with out which tho Treasury would now be bankrupt. The reserve was constantly being drawn upon, and therefore it was imperative, with a due regard to the pub lic credit, to pass measures of relief with out delay. What these should be they were not prepared to say, but they, with others, were to restore the duty on tea and coffee and increase the tax on spirits and tobacco, which was the more j easily collectable, or they would agree to a temporary convertible loan of say fifty millions. At all events Congress should not think of holiday adjournment until ample provision be made for the Treasu ry. tlie receipts of which yesterday were not more than one-third’ of what they would have been but for tho effects of the panic. There was another feud dav in the House on the saiary bill. After the bill bad boon amended by requiring restitu tion of the back-pay received by those members who had also been members of the last Congress, a substitute was i adopted in spite of tho opposition of the j friends of the reduction, and of the com mittee who had charge of the bill. The substitute makes the salary of members $(1,000, with an allowance for actual traveling expenses. But it has no retro active effect. There was groat confusion j and excitement in the House during the j last three or four hours, and it was not un til 9 o'clock that the House adjourned. Washington, Dec. 17.—The State De partniout has information that the Vir ginias wasp, released yesterday morning, the ltith, at 9 o’clock, and sailed from Bahia Honda, at 4 p. m. The HeratejConimitfee on Transporta tion Routes to the Seaboard, leave this city Monday for Atlanta, Ga., where they will continue the examination of subjects referred to them, and will then proceed to New Orleans and other Southern points. A delegation from Oregon opposing the nomination of Williams to be Chief Jus tice of the Supreme Court, was before the Judiciary Committee this morning. Samuel G. Brown and Roli’t. Riggins, both of South Carolina, and imprisoned at Albany for offenses against the K. K. K. law’, have been pardoned. Secretary Belknap has returned. Curiosity as to the fate of Judge Wil- ! bams, as to the Chief Justiceship, in creases. Gen. Spinner was at his desk to-day. He goes to Florida during the recess for his health. The Executive Mansion is closed on ac count of the death of Col. Dent. PIXCBBACK. Washington, Dec. IG. —The Committoe i on Privileges and Elections divided upon ! this question: Whether Pinchback, upon i his credentials, is entitled to be sworn in. ! Morton’s resolution is that the credentials of Pinchback for a seat in Senate for six years, commencing 4th of March, 1873, being in regular form, he is entitled under ; the law ana usages of the Senate to be I sworn in; that whatever grounds of con- : test should be made thereafter. AX OTHER CAR LIST SUCCESS. Bayonne, Dec. IG.—The official journal of the Carlists announces that the town of Bnrga has been captured by the Roy alists under Tristany. The Cure of Santa Cruz will be tried by Court-martial. Madrid, Dec. 1G. — The riarlist Insur lectionists ate decreasing. A $400,000 DEEAZCATIOX. Chicago, Dec. 15.—1 t is stated that Da vid A. Gage, City Treasurer, is $400,000 \ short—the bulk locked up in suspended National Banks. It is thought the city is secure from ultimate loss. Cheney was installed .Bishop of the | Reformed Episcopal Church. BECEIVIXG THE VIRGIXIUS. Ivey West, Dec. 15.—The Dispatch sailed with four officers from the flag-ship j and an extra crew of thirty-six men to receive the Virginias. They will probably : take her to some Northern port. She carries a full compliment of officers. A TERRIBLE STORM. London, Dec. IG.—A dispatch from Sheffield says that the city was visited to day by a terrible storm. ‘ The wind blew a hurricane. A large number of build ings and chimneys were blown down, and many persons were killed. DEMOCRATIC XOMIXA TIOXS. San Francisco, Dec. IG.—A Democratic caucus nominates J. T. Farley for United States Senator, for the long, and Judge Herger for the short term' Both are claimed as anti-railroad men. NO. 46. AEEAIRS IX CUBA. A Full for Greater Energy ;,i Prosecut ing tlie War. ; Havana, Dec. 17.—Tho proposed en j rollment for military duty of all men be : tweeu 18 and 40 years of age, a fourth of j w hom are to be conscripted for active ser | vice, is gaining advocates. Tho Diaro says; “We are now- at llio 15th of ■ December, and have raised no means and done nothing new* to crush tho rebellion; lot ns give fresh impetus to the winter campaign, if wc would advance on the road to pacification of the Island. The enemy will gain time and territory, and wo will have causa to deplore our criminal vacil j lation. Without a great and united movement on our part, tho war will ; 'Rag on as it has to the present hour. It j has consumed * annually from 10,000 to | 15,000 soldiers and], When Iwo find ourselves fallen, never to rise i again, wo.will bitterly] regret our short ! sighted lack of preparation.” Tho I os DeCuba shows that tho pro longed resistance of Cartagena is drain ing the resources of Spain and weakening her power. Castellar is not strong enough now to oppose tho exactions of foreign governments,'which nearly all tend to the destruction of Cuba, and the longer his declining power is respected and obeyed in Cuba, the greater is the probability that the object of those foreign demands will be accomplished. Several letters appear in the evening jonr nals, addressed to] the Captain General, and calling on him to declare the island in a state of siege, and to enroll citizens. A steamer from Cadiz arrived to-day with 800 soldiers and 150 seamen. HATCH, THE ALABAMA SEXATOR. Montgomery, Ala., Dec. 17. —Tho Sen ate last night unseated Hatch, Senator from Hall county, elected last spring to fill a vacancy. It seems that three years ago Hatch was postmaster at the county site of Hall county. Moneys were missed j from the mails, and Hatch made affidavit | and accused Sanborn his clerk. After j Sonborn had been jailed several months. ! the investigation pressed Hatch so close j that he wrote a confession of his own guilt, I which was published, and agreed ivith the special agent, Petheridge, to pay up. j Suit was cgnmienced in the United States Court and Hatch was turned out of office. Hatch then ran for tho Senate and was elected by a large majority; but on tho above showing the Senato declared him ineligible. He is a Republican. THE GRAXGEKS. Chicago, Dec. 17.—Tho Second annual Convention of the Illinois State Farmers commenced yesterdday. President of the Association delivered an address review ing the growth, and its results to the members. At the first meeting one year ago, only about 40 counties were repre sented, now every one of 102 counties in the State has its clubs, and in tho ma jority of the counties farmers carried their ticket at the last election. SURREXDER OE THE VIRGIXIUS OFEICIALL V AXXO UXCED. New York, Dec. 10.—A Herald special from Paris says a cypher dispatch from Madrid states that Castelar made an offi cial call on Sickles to-day, accompanied by the Secretary of State, and made a for mal announcement of the surrender of the Yirginius and the prisoners. The ut most cordiality was shown both sides. TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS. Berlin, Dec. “ 15.—Elizabeth, Queen Dowager, is dead, aged 72. Dr. C. Schenck has been'elected Presi dent, and Dr. E. White Yice President of the Swiss Confederation. Henry]Bel fe Page Winterbotbam, a member of Parliament for Stroud, and Under Secretary for Home Department, is dead. London journals in their obituary no tices of Judge Nelson and Prof. Agassiz, award high praise.to“them. New Orleans, Dec. 17. —Judge Alex ander Walker bought the newspaper Pic ayune for $20,000. ITo assumed outstand ing contracts and subscriptions. McMILLAX AXD PIXCHBACK. Washington, Dec. 15. —The Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections is in session; Sumner is absent. They re port themselves equally divided upon the merits of the case between McMillan and Pinchback; will refer the whole matter to the Senate, and ask to be discharged from its further consideration. The committee is divided thus; Morton, Logan, Anthony and (Mitchell for seating Pinchback on prir/ia facie-, opposed, Car penter, Alcorn,.Hamilton and Saulsbury. RICHARD SOX OX TAXATIOX. Washington, Dec. 15. — Secretary Rich ardson, in his letter to ltepreseutative Dawes, reiterates his previously expressed views that it is better to obtain necessary money by taxation than by an increase of the public debt by loan. He says he se lected teas and coffee because the public would feel the tariff on these articles less than any others; and as to the articles of taxation pertaining to the Internal Reve nue Bureau, the money could be collected without additional expense to the Govern ment. The Secretary to-day, after the ne cessary examination, ascertained that the public debt has increased since Ist inst. five million dollars. FRENCH NE ITS. London, Dec. 1C. —The Paris corres pondent of the limes, says Bazaine in tended to put himself under the lead of Alphonzo, had sentence been commuted to banishment. A special from Paris says the Conserva tives are dismayed at the Republican sue- ; cesses in the recent elections. Paws, Dec. IC.— lt is rumored that in consequence of the Republican successes in the late supplementary election for members of the Assembly, the Right will propose the adoption of a suffrage law depriving four millions of persons of the franchise. DEATH OE COL. DENT. Washington, Dec. 10. — Col. Frederick Dent, father of Mrs. Grant, died at mid night, aged 88. His daughter, Mrs. Casey, is quite ill at Philadelphia. An unfavor- : able effect of thesad news is apprehended, j Col. Dent has resided for a long time at the White House, as the guest of his daughter. Tho Colonel never abandoned his Democratic principles. He at.e his breakfast and smoked his cigar yesterday morning. AMOUNT OF FORK RACKED. Chicago, Dee. 13.—Number of hogs packed to date, 790,197, against 429,430 same time last year. The Commercial Bulletin to-day says very little definite information has been received during the week in reference to packing. The re ceipts of hogs continue quite largo. It may be considered safe to estimate the aggregate packing of meat to date at three million hogs, or 55 per cent, of total slaughter of last season. A ROYAL VISIT. London, Dec. IC.—The ex-Empress Eu genia is visiting Queen Victoria, at Wind sor Castle to-day. At length the question is decided as to whether a man can talk after his tongue has been cut out. The Lancet describes a case to the point, reported as having occurred in the Royal Free Hospital iii London. In order to remove an ulcer, it became necessary to cut the patient’s tongue wholly out, leaving the floor of the | mouth entire. In scarcely a week's time he was heard to distinctly say: “I should like some more beef tea ' j ORANGE CULTURE. j From iiib Florida Settler. , It has been generally supposed that it required a large amount of capital to start a paying orange grovo. But as may be seen by the accompanying statement, thin is a mistake. The kind of capital needed most is patience nnd industry. These qualities should constitute the great stock in-trade of every man starting out to es tablish an orango grovo. With these, the poor man, having but littlo means beyond the amount given, can go to work, and in ten years have a grove which will yield him a revenue of five or ten thousand dol lars a year. Having entered his home stead, he sets about building a house and planting five or ten acres in orange trees. They require but little attention, and while attaining that point of growth when they become profitable, he supports him self from tho cultivation of tho rest of his homestead, in the manner he would have to do if ho entered it in any of tho West ern States. He has only to exercise pn tienco and industry, and the event must issue iu ’AVith these quali ties, orango culture in Florida is a certain road to wealth. Nor is tho wealth liable to any of tho contingencies to which the income of the merchant is subject. The orange is a sure crop. Tho tree is long-lived, and has few enemies. Its greatest enemy is cold, and an escape from this can bo rendered almost abso lutely certain by planting far enough South. The scale insect made its ap j pearance among tho orange trees in 1838, j and for a while it did considerable damage but it has now almost entirely disappear ed, and is wholly subject to intelligent culture. This weal is certain also from the fact that no species of foreign orange, as found in this country, can compare with the Florida fruit in flavor or sweet ness. Tho superior quality of tho oranges of tho Stato is a matter about which there is no question. For hundreds of years the decision has been in their favor, and every ouo that now finds its way to market confirms this decision. The St. Johns river is at present the favorite place for orango planting, owing to the convenience with which the fruit can be shipped to market. But tho In dian and Halifax rivers, the entire South orn portion or the Peninsula, and the gulf coast, aro equally well suited. The oranges of Charlotte Harbor and Tampa Bay arc not excelled by none in the State, Mid the trees of these localities aro much less liable to be injured by frost than those of tho St. Johns. There aro some fine groves on tho Apalachicola river. Their number is about, twenty-five, lo cated between Rico’s Bluff, in Liberty county, and Owl Creek, the boundary line between Franklin and Liberty counties, a distance of some twenty-four miles. Above Rico’s Bluff about twenty miles, there are a few young groves, and at Apa lachicola City a few valuabe groves, in addition to those mentioned. The majority of the groves are small and the average yield is about 25,000 oranges, the greatest yield of a single or chard having been 200,000 oranges. The groves have never been known to have been injured by insects. Tho small trees were somewhat injured by the cold winter of 1872 and 1873, but large trees show little or no signs of damage. The growth is mainly due io the protection of forests. The land is poor and has to bo well ma nured before planting. Last year’s crop was not so good as that of former years, and sold for an average price of $25 per thousand oranges at the orchard. The oranges from these groves are of a very superior quality, equaling in size, richness of flavor, and fullness of pulp, any grown anywhere. COST FOR A TOOK MAN. \ IGO acres choice land, freo home- ** stead $ 14 Deadening trees on ten acres t Plowing 50 The trees can be raised from the seed, cost 25 Planting and manures, all told 100 0 Total $ !<):} No fencing needed. CROP REPORTS. Jacksonville, 111., Dec. 13. —Reports dated Doc. 1, received at the office of the National Crop Reporter, correcting pre vious estimates, indicates for the corn crop of 1873, in comparison with that of 1872, as follows: States of Illinoi ’. Wis consin, Minnesota, lowa, Ohio, Tennes see, Kansas and Missouri, which produce in the aggregate over one-half tho entire crop of the United States, total loss of 29 and 2-10ih percent.; heaviest loss in Kan sas, 44 per cent.; lightest in Wisconsin, 11 per cent.; Illinois, loss nearly 3S per cent.; lowa, over 24 per cent.; Ohio near ly - per cent., nnd Missouri 32} per coni. Returns relative to tho total quantity of fatted hogs for the market this season as compared with last, indicated in tho States above mentioned and in Georgia and Ar kansas a total falling off of ten per cent. Os this the percentage of loss in Illinois, 4 i-lOth: lowa, 4 4-10; Ohio, 9; Missouri 7 3-10, and Wisconsin, 7}. Correspond ents state that in order to supply tho de mand from packers, tho reserves of stock hogs has been drawn upon quite exten sively, and that as a rule the supply of hogs tit for market is nearly or quite ex hausted at points of production. Partial returns from Iliinois, Missouri and Georgia ns to the average of winter wheat sown this season indicates an in crease in those States of 8 8-10 per cent, over the average sown in the fall of 1872. The condition and prospects in nearly ail the Territories are very much more favor able than in December, 1872. C’REATIXG A SEXSATIOX. From the St. Louis Republican. Washington, Doc. 11.— Mr. Kasson, in Ria speech, said that a tendency to exalt the executive branch and debase the legis lative branch of the Government had grown until it had become alarming. He said there was a tenderness manifested in regard to the executive person which ill be come the representatives of a free people; that the exclusion of tho President from the operation of the repeal was simply ono of a long series of acts whereby tho exee tive had been unduly exalted nnd the Legislature of the nation unduly humbled. It was time to chock this growing and dangerous tendency and the way to check it was by an exhibition of manly inde pendence on the part of Congress. These were novel sentiments to bo heard from the Republican side of the house nnd cre ated considerable of a sensation. MATAMOROS. Tlie Election for Mayor—Political Trou bles Expected. Matamoros, Dec. 15.—An election for Mayor of this city took place yester day- Gen. Cortina, Gen. Hinojosa and John Trevino Cannaleso were the can didates. Cortina received a larger vote than tho other two combined. Some dis turbance occurred at ono or two precincts and as the present city government is bit terly opposed to Gen. Cortina, trouble is apprehended on next Sunday, when tho return judges meet to announce tho suc cessful candidate. Tho friends of Cor tina appear to bo determined to sustain their chief against any technicalities that may be raised by the city authorities in regard to the election. CESFEDES DEFOSED. Havana, Dec. 17.—The following intel ligence has been received from tho head quarters of the rebellion: The so-called Cuban House of Representatives, in ses sion at Bejucal do Jiguari have formally deposed Cespedes from the Presidency bv virtue of the powers conceded the legisla tive branch in articles seventh, eight, and ninth of the constitution of Guimars. Tho object of this act is understood to be the restoration to power of the old Junta of New York. Pancho Aguilera will take charge of the Presidency, which is now filled ad interim by the Marquis of Santa Lucia, a member of the House of Repre sentatives under the new administration. Vincent Garcia becomes Secretary of War; Dr. Mallor, Minister of Foreign Af fairs, and Calixto Garcia commander-in chief of the forces operating in the East ern Department. NEIV YORK ITEMS. New Yobk, Dec. 17.—Tho coal barge, Upland, which was accidentally sunk in front of the gates of the dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, preventing the Spanish iron-clad, Arapiles, from °going out, was surveyed to-day by divers, pre paratory to commencing tho work of rais ing her. The contractor for supplying coal will have to bear the expense of raising the ’vessel, as the* Government holds she was sunk by carelessness. Tho Captain has writen to Admiral Eomain, expressing an earnest desire to get away! In tho trial to-day, John Mcßryde Da vidson testified he applied to Tweed in 1871 for a contract for supplying the iron work on the Harlem Court House, and was referred to Sent, who directed him to mfiKe out a bill, and he did as directed He never saw the bill after and never got any money or supplied goods. Ex-Mayor Hall identified his signature to the war rant for the money.