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S. BOSE & S, B. BURR,
EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY|I6, 1867,;
Advances to Planters.
The last General Assembly of Georgia,
with a view to encourage advances to
planters to enable them to make another
crop, passed the following Lien law, to
which we call the attention of merchants
and factors:
An act to give Landlords a lien upon the
crops oi Tenants, for stock, farming
utensils, and provisions, furnished such
tenants for the purpose of making their
crops; and to give Factors and Mer
chants a lien upon the glowing crops of
Farmers, for provisions, and commercial
manures, furnished them for the purpose
<>f making their crops.
Section 1. The General Assembly of lhe
Slide of Gi orr/ia do enact, That from and
after the parage of this Act, that land
lords may have, by special contract in
writing, a lien upon the crops of their ten
ants, for such stock, farming utensils, and
provisions furnished such tenants, for the
purpose of making their crops.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
Factors and Merchants shall have a lien
upon the growing crops of Farmers, for
provisions furnished, and commercial
manures furnished, upou sucli terms as
may he agreed upon by the parties.
Fix. It. And be it further enacted, That
such liens shall be enforced in the same |
way and manner that liens are now en
forced against steamboats in this State.
Fee. 4 Repeals conflicting laws.
Approved loth December, 1860.
This enables parties making advances to
> planters, to secure themselves perfectly
within the contingences of the weather
and the negro, or a stay law. It was a
rentable policy upou the part of the Legis
lature to strengthen the securities of the
creditor where loans were likely to be
needed. But it was equally impolitic in
the same Legislature, to impair the credi
tors rights and securities in regard to loans
and credits which had already been grant
ed. Tiie one kills the other. Whatever
is now future, is bound in time to become
retrospective; and whatever has been done
to invite credits, may he undone by stay
laws, after credits have been obtained.—
The most ill-advised business in the world
is Legislative tinkering with private con
tracts.
The Impeachment.
!t is possible the Congressional majority
may had the impeachment movement, be
fore they are through with it, a two-edged
sword—or, to improve ujou tiie figure, a
sword without a hilt, which may cut their
own lingers sorely in the act of blandish
ment. At all events, if the party is
brought up in solid phalanx to support
the measure, it will only be done by the
sternest exhibition of tactics which has
over yet been displayed on this continent.
It is very clear that a large minority dis
trust, and are strongly opposed to, the
movement. It is stated to he equally
true that a considerable majority are de
termined to press it at al! hazards. The
crisis evil! he postponed until after the 4th
qf March and the meeting of the new
Congress, which will add somewhat to the
moral and material force of the impeach
ment party. It will introduce, among
other advocates of impeachment, Gen. B.
F. 1 iutlcr, who is sworn to press it with
nil ids power. Butler’s audacity and
ability will put him at once at the head o
the impeachment J»arty, and he will sub
mit to no compromise or accommodation.
Meanwhile, the Northern capitalists and
business interests are preparing to throw
all their influence against tiie measure.
They fear its effect upon the finances and
upon trade. They know it is hound to be
had, and may he extremely dangerous.
They are pulling all strings to defeat the
attempt. Their influence is already seen
in the Republican press, which is largely
against impeachment, and we suspect it
will be demonstrated, in the last recourse,
in the Senate. f It may, therefore, possibly
happen, that in the struggle to put the
President under foot, the Republican par
ty may find itself jostled. They may cut
their own fingers, and yet fail to strike a
decapitating blow. In any event the
cheme will rest till after the 4th of March.
Kentucky.
The Kentucky Legislature disposed of
the Constitutional Amendment very sum
marily, rejecting it by an overwhelming
majority. Gov. Bramlette, in his message,
claims what is, no doubt, sound interpre
tation, that the “two-thirds of both
I looses of Congress,” necessary to propose
amendments, cannot mean two-thirds of
a quorum, hut must mean two-thirds of a
Congress composed as by the Constitution
requin and. Therefore, the Amendment has
not been constitutionally proposed to the
States. The Constitution, with a view to
maintaining permanency in the provisions
of the fundamental law, ordains that
amendments shall he proposed by “two
thirds of hotli Houses” of Congress, or by
a Convention called upou the application
of the Legislatures of two-thirds of the
several States. The contemplation, in
both cases, is evidently to demand the
s ine! ion of two - thirds the actual repre
sentative force of the nation, as a sanction
to the initiatory step in the work of amend
ment. Change in the fundamental law is
itself a great evil, which should not he
proposed or sulk red, except for reasons
strong enough to carry with them two
thirds ol the national law-makers, speak
ing either in Congress or through the
State Legislatures. Indeed, in tiie case of
the States, more than two-thirds is re
quired in the demand of a majority, in
each.juf two - thirds of the States, by which
:t is plain that the aggregate majority
would ordinarily far exceed two-thirds of
the whole number of actual legislative
voters. How, then, by any just reasoning
ill Congress maintain that a majority of
i mere Congressional quorum, from which
nearly a third of the States were excluded,
are sufficient to propose amendments?
The Impeachment.
i'he leading New York prints all scout
:tl ltie impeachment as equally impraetieu
i.ie and dangerous. Not one ff the New
3 ork papers, we think, favors it, hut it is
not impossible that upon this qustion
they may yet learn how little the “metro
politan press,” as they like to call it, in-
Ihieuees the polities of the radical party.—
The radicals are essentially the “country
port//,” and respond to the opinions of the
rural districts.
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Tin: Duck-Town Copper Mines. —A
circular from the American Bureau of
Mining says that these mines will produce
l,noo tons of ten per cent ore monthly, at
a nett value of $27,2311 per month, or $326,-
s;>2 per annum. The Bureau assert that
the co.'t of working the miues will be far
below the average of the Lake Superior
copper mines.
The Dallas (Oregon) Mountaineer gives
the details of the running oil'of a pack
train by Indians from near Camp Watson,
and their pursuit by Col. Baker’s com
mand. When about twenty miles from
the post tlie troops came up with the
Indians and charged upon their camp.
The Indiana stood their ground, but du
ring the snow storm their lilies had be
come damp and snapped. The soldiers,
observing the state of affairs, drew their
sabres and cut the savages down, killing
fourteen men and capturing five women.
All tiie stolen mules, together with ten
horses captured, ami a great amount of
supplies were destroyed. It Is considered
one o! the most complete victories ever
gained over the Snake Indians.
Hard Times and Worse Coming.
The New York Evening Tost prefaces a
solemn appeal to the majority in' Congress
to suspend the irrepressible conflict, and
do something in reference to taxation and
curreucy, with the following:
We seem, from the numerouscomplaints
we hear, to he falling upon what are pop
ularly known as “ hard times.” Business
inmost branches is dull; men who have
been a dozen or twenty years engaged in
mercantile pursuits tell us they never
knew such unprosperous times. Sales are
small; stocksof goods are not renewed; ev
erybody is either waiting or suffering,eith
er poor, or prudently expecting to he so.—
It is true that this is the dull season of the
year, wlien trade is expected to languish
somewhat; but there is more than a mere
temporary deadness.
The great crash, which was long looked
for, may not come, because it lias been
provided against to a certain extent. It is
pretty sure that men in general do not owe
much money; credit is not very free; in
debtedness is not great or wide spread;
the elements of a “ great crash” are not,
therefore, at hand. But, it would seem
that we may have presently a general stag
nation of business, a dullness and dead
ness, as discouraging and disabling as the
great revulsion of 1857—perhaps even more
so. We hear daily of trade and industry
leaving us, and seeking refuge with our
neighbors in tiie British provinces, or
farther yet. Our merchants find it impos
sible to sell American products at a profit
abroad; our workmen, in many branches
of industry, are without employment; men
long and prosperously established in busi
ness, are compelled to abandon that in
which they excelled, and to turn their cap
ital and energy into pursuits less profitable
Ito the country. Industry and trade are
alike paralyzed.
The cause of all this is well known. Our
currency is depreciated, our skilled labor
is forcibly turned into unaccustomed chan
neJs-by unwise legislation; our manufac
tures are burdened with taxes which make
production too costly for us to compete
in the world’s markets with other nations;
our people are forced by unjust laws to buy
their raw materials and many of the nec
essaries of hie in the dearest markets.
In all this the enemies of liberty see
cause for joy and hope. “The delays of
your Congress will yet serve us as we could
not serve ourseves,” exclaimed a shrewd
Democrat to a Republican. “In all that
goes on with you,” wrote a Southern man,
a rebel, to a friend here, lately, “we see
cause for hope. In keeping us out you do
usa service—we shall escape the ruin and
disgrace you are bringing on yourselves.—
We may yet attain what we wish, by your
own self-destruction.” So, too, it is said,
President Johnson finds comfort in the be
lief that Congress, quarreling over theories
of reconstruction, will fail to adopt meas
ures of relief, will neither give us a sound
currency nor remedy the crude and inju
rious taxation, as is required to restore the
country to prosperity.
(For the Journal and Messenger.]
Macon Free School.
Macon, Ga., Jau. 5, 1867.
L. N. Whittle, Esq., Chairman Board of
Trustees:
Sir :—I have the honor to submit the
following brief report of the Macon Free
School, for the year expiring February 28,
1867, though had you not requested it now,
perhaps the return would have been more
complete and satisfactory at the close of
the year.
The School commenced April 14, 1866,
with twenty-three pupils, and Mr. S. 11.
Singleton, Assistant, who occupied the po
sition till the close of the Summer term,
since which time Mr. J. H. Bass has dis
charged the duties of assistant teacher. —
From this small number the school grad
ually increased till June, when we closed
for the long vacation, at which time one
hundredand forty hoys were in attendance.
Additions were received weekly, even to
the last week of tiie summer term, which
fact greatly hindered tiie progress of the
school, inasmuch as scholars coming late
in the term could not well, with new text
books, take positions in classes already
formed.
Since that term the school has not much
exceeded one hundred, which is about its
present number. The whole number of
different pupils, who have attended at least
one week, lias been one hundred and eigh
ty-five, though so many of those who
have Cioutlnued.members, ot' the school,
have been irregular from*’ sickness and
other causes, that an average daily attend
ance would fall considerably below that.
Os these, fifty have been fatherless, fif
teen motherless, and fifteen orphans, mak
ing eighty, or nearly one half the number,
who are without one or both parents.
The average age has been eleven years,
though pupils have been received at tiie
ages of five, and twenty-one.
In the studies pursued a commendable
degree of progress has been made by near
ly all, and a firm, hut mild discipline has
met with hut very little insubordina
tion.
Your honorable Board have added much
to the convenience, happiness, and, we be
lieve, progress of the school, in providing
new furniture for one of the school rooms,
which improvement is still needed in the
other.
It is to be regretted that parents and
guardians do not place more importance
upon a regular attendance, without which
no scholar can reap the highest benelit of
his schooling.
It has also been a matter of regret, to the
teachers at least, that neither friends nor
patrons of the school have found it conve
nient to visit it. We lirmly believe that
frequent visits from all interested in the
progress of the school, would be beneficial
to both teacher and pupil, and not tiSie lost
to visitor.
Notwithstanding all our disadvantages,
I believe the school has been an instru
ment of much good.
\ F our ob’dt servant,
O. N. Dimick,
Teacher in Charge.
Area (and Population ot the Unilcd
States.
The following interesting item of statis
tics was prepared in the United States
j Census Bureau Department of the Interior,
[ and taken from a report in reference to the
! area, population and density of population
of tiie United States:
The land and water surface of the United
States is equal to 3,250,000 square miles—
land, 3,010,370; water, about 240,000 sq uare
miles. The States embrace, 1,801.331
square miles of landed surface, and the
Territories, 1,206,019 miles, as exhibited by
the eighth census of 1860. The number of
inhabitants in the United States returned
in 1860, 31,443,321—in the States, 31,143,-
046, and 205,276 in the Territories—thus
showing an average of seventeen inhabi
tants to each square mile in the States,
while in the Territories there are four
square miles to each inhabitant, and ex
clusive of the District of Columbia, tiie
territorial area would represent five and
one-fifth square miles to each inhabitant.
In 1860 Massachusetts bail 157, Rhode Is
land 133, New York 82, and Pennsylvania
62 inhabitants to the square mile, which
rate applied to the United Staes would give
472,000,000 in Massachusetts, 400,000,000 in
Rhode Island, 246,000,000 in New York
and 189,000,000 in Pennsylvania. Bel
gium, England, Wales and France, in
1855, had 397, 307 and 176 inhabitants to
the square mile respectively. If the Uni
ted States were as densely populated as
France,our population would numbsr 528 -
000,000; or if populated as densely as Eng
land and Wa1e5,924,000,000; and if according
to Belgium’s density ol population (397 to
the square mile), tiie United States would
contain 1,193,000.090, which is 110,086,000 I
more than the entire populutiou’of the i
world in 1880.
Close I> isted. —One of the negro wait
ers at the Orange House, last Friday, join
ed the Congressional excursionists at this
place, and accompanied them as far as
Bristol. He went along to wait on the»
—hand them their liquors, brush their
boots, and make himself useful generally.
He thought he had a good thing of it.—
Alas, for the immense uncertainty that
lies between cup and lip; Jim got back on
feunday, and complains with intense dis
gust that ten cents was all he made out of
he party. Lynchburg Republican
Andrew Johnson is Ready for
Trial.— The Washington Republican,
the special organ of President Johnson, in
its issue of Tuesday, says :
A member of the United States House
of Representatives, who, a few years since,
was charged with corruptly usiug his of
fice as a member of the committee on Ter
ritories, arose in his place yesterday and
presented “articles of impeachment”
against Andrew Johnson, President of the
United States, for corruptly using his pF
fice. It appears by our report that tile
Committee on the Judiciary'is “author
ized” to investigate the subject! Why
did not this Territorial Surveyor-General
Ashley, who offered this bill of indictment
against Mr. Johnson, provide that the
Committee should he instructed, a term
usually employed by honest men engaged
in a work of Christian patriotism, and not
used the weak, unmeaning word “author
ized,” which, to a Congressional Commit
tee, is just what they may choose to inter
pret it? Let us have no mockery! If
Congress means to enter upon the grave
work of impeachment, let the trial pro
gress with some degree of respectability
and dignity, and then the people will un
derstand that their representatives are in
earnest. If Congress does not mean im
peachment, but is engaged in a work of
buncombe, announce the fact, and no lon
ger paralyze the whole business of the
country. Andrew Johnson is ready for
trial.
Strong Remarks iiy the President, j
At the Bth of January celebration, Hon. j
Montgomery Blair arose and said: “I I
break in upon the regular order of pro- !
eeedings to propose the health of the Presi- l
dent of tiie United States.” Tiie toast
was drank atnid great and prolonged ap- i
plause.
The President’s reply is the following:!
Gentlemen —lt is not my purpose, in j
rising, to make an address on this occasion,
and I shall try on this opportunity at least,
il I have not or cannot on others, to imi
tate the example that has been set by the
distinguished and illustrious man who has
been alluded to here to-night by the chair
man of this meeting, to respond to the
demonstration you have made this eve
niug, by merely proposing a sentiment.
No btate, of its own will, has the right,
under *:he Constitution, to renounce its
place in, or to withdraw from the Union
[cheers]; nor has the Congress of the
United States, under the Constitution, the
power to degrade the people of any State,
by reducing them to the condition of a
mere territorial dependence upou the Fed
eral head. The one is a disruption and
dissolution of the Government; the other
is a consolidation, and the exercise of des
potic power. The advocates of either are
alike the enemies of the Union and of our
Federal form of government.
Ad dress ot Let Representatives of Texas.
An appeal to the Congress and people of
the United States by the Representatives
elect of Texas, is pbulished in tiie Wash
ington Intelligencer, of Monday. The
address is signed by Senators Roberts aud
Burnett, and Representatives Epperson
Branch and Chilton. The address briefly
sketches tiie formation of the Republic of
Texas -and its incorporation into the
Union. Tiie subsequent secession was
due in the main to conflicting interpreta
tions of the Constitution, one class affirm
ing that the General Government was the
creation of the States, any one of which
could withdraw its assent from a Govern
ment no longer acceptable; the other de
claring it was the act of the people of the
United States, from which no section or
community could withdraw. It is claim
ed that the weaker party sought to with
draw from the Union “ not to prevent the
Northern States from retaining their gov
ernment over themselves with their own
construction, hut to assure its preserva
tion as to tiie Southern States as they un
derstood it.” In the war-like struggle
which ensued the South was overcome,
and the address gives the history of the
President’s efforts at reconstruction and
forcibly'says;—“ The laws of the United
States are being executed within its lim
its without hindrance or resistance from
the people or the Stale authorities; the
Federal army is on our frontier for pro
tection ; the Federal judiciary are perform
ing their fuuctious; the United States
mails are being carried all over the State;
the navy is protecting our commerce; the
officers of;Customs and Internal Revenue
are doing their duty, and the people are
paying duties ami taxes as in other States.
What more could be said of the people of
New York and Ohio—except that thev
have their Senators and Representatives
in Uongress to speak for and represent the
rights, interest and necessities of their
States. The address concludes as fol
lows :
If the restoration wefe now complete,
the test oath repealed, or stowed away
with the relics of the war, universal am
nesty proclaimed, what joy would there
he in this land! It would he like the sun
bursting suddenly from the clouds after
many days of gloom and darkness. Then,
indeed, a day of national thanksgiving
might well he proclaimed. Then would
the whole people, in every part of this
broad land, aud those now in exile and
in foreign climes, who are Americans in
heart, gointo the temple of the Living God
aud offer up heartfelt thanks for tiie res
toration of kindly feeling and brotherly
love to a united nation of freemen—united
not merely in name, but in fact—who
have been divided and at war with each
other, hut are so no longer. Then would
a people united truly and in fact, pourout
upon bending knees the overflowing grat
itude of pure hearts, unsullied by the re
membrance of past bitterness, to the God
of their fathers, for the blessed happiness
afforded by mutual forgivness, good feel
ing and esteem.
The Congressional Preacher.— The
Rev. Dr. Boynton, chaplain of the House
of Representatives, preached in Represen
tatives’ Hall on a recent Sabbath. The
text was the 27th verse of the 2d chapter
of Mark: “ The Sabbath was made for
man, and not man for the Sabbath.” The
line of argument pursued by the speaker
was to show that all laws and institutions
were made to be subservient to the interests
of man, and that when they interfered
with the rights of man, they must give
way and ho set aside, lie made tiie asser
tion that Christ was a radical reformer in
the broadest sense of the term, and liken
ed the Scribes and Php sees to certain
classes of the present dr.„ . He concluded
by a tiuig at the Supreme Court decision
cm the subject of Military Commissions
arguing that the progressive spirit of the
age demanded that if the laws were not
adequate for the protection of loyal men
for acts committed in time of war • and if
power was not given to punish traitors,
the laws must be overturned, and such
law'3 passed and such men placed in power
as would meet the exigenciesaud demands
of the times.
Brunswick.
We are glad to learn that quite a “Bruns
wick/wror,” is prevailing in the interior of
I the State, and that many men of entcr
! prise, energy and means, are proposing to
transfer themselves and their business to
i our healthy, beautiful city. One large and
j wealthy firm, we understand, are desirous
! of establishing here a foundry and exten
! sive machine shops, and are ready to com
mence operations if sufficient land can be
had fortheir purposes on reasonable terms.
The future of Biunswick now rests with
the large landed proprietors who control
by far, the larger part of the lots in the
city. An enlightened, far-seeing policy
<>u their part will ensure its success, anil
their fortunes. A narrow-minded, short
sighted avariciousness, will retard its
progress, if it does not end in transferring
the site of the great city that must, inev
itably, be fostered by this Port, to another
| part of the Bay. Tiie State has done ev
erything for Brunswick that could be
j asked ot it. But it was done on a generous
j principle of common benefit, and not to
l enrich a few individuals, most of whom
are now residents, by filing speculations
in land. \V>- say this much, for tiie rea
son that an Idea prevails extensively
throughout the State, that lots here are
held at exorbitant prices, as if the M. & B.
Railroad was completed, and the city in
the fruition of all the benefits anticipated
from it. And this idea has been strength
ened, as we know, by the rep.its of some
individuals who have returned home dis
appointed The subject is one of deep in
terest to all of us living here and engaged
in business, ncl therefore we draw atten
tion to it.— Courier.
The new Fire Department of New York i
t’ity is a costly luxury. Its expenses for,
the past year footed up $935,009. The old
volunteer system, more efficient in quell
ing fires than the new paid department,!
never cost more than $400,000 per year.
John C’hener. a hunter of the Adiron- 1
clacks, possesses a pistol with which lie
claims he has killed 1500 deer, 12 otter, 1
panther, 28 hears, 19 wolves, 24 moose, and
other game without number, lie has cm
ried the pistol thirty-two years.
CANDIA.
Tragedy ot' ArLadi—Terrible Slaughter.
[Special Correspondence N. Y. Tribune.]
Canea, Dec. 3, 1866.
News of the tradgedy of Arkadi will
have, long ere this reaches you, startled
tiie world into recollections of Missolong
lii and 1830, and may perhaps have worked
something like conviction in the minus of
European statesmen that tiie Cretans are
in terrible earnest, but to us, almost within
sound of the explosion which consumma
ted the affair, and conscious of the bar
barities and despair which give such aw
ful significance to the Cretan cry of liberty
or death, it has come Wltli a shock like uu
earthquake.
For a week after the fight we heard con
fused ami contradictory' rumors of it, of
mines and desperate fighting; we saw
the steamer come to bring to the Canea
hospitals the wounded who no longer
found place at Retiino, but we could get
no reliable news as to the nature aud re
sult of the conflict. Finally wo got suffi
cient details to know in its full meaning,
if not its full amount of woe, the saddest,
most piteous episode of this struggle.
Arkadi is a monastery which dates its
foundation 8(H) years ago, the present build
ing having been built by the Venetians
nearly three centuries since, and so strong
that it was impr< gnable daring the pro
vious wars of Venetian and Turk, and
Turk and Christian, even through the
Greek war of independence. It issituated
in the midst of a beautiful plain, at the
foot of the slopes of Mt. Ida, to the villages
in which, some half dozen In number, it
furnished protection in danger and assist
ance in want. It was distinguished among
Cretan monasteries for the extent of its
1 charities and beniflcence.
It was at times the headquarters of the
Cretan Committee, and of the volunteers
under Coroncos, and in accordance with
the policy of the day its destruction was
determined on, and that of Coroncos and
his little army, it was hoped, at the same
time. Mustapha Pasha set out from Reti
ino, only a few hours’ march from Arkadi,
tiie 18th of November, and arriving at
, night, entered the monastery un
There were in it only the priests and the
families of the villages in number five
hundred and forty souls, of whom 343
were women and children. Home at
tempted to escape, hut finding retreat cut
off, returned to the eonveut, preferring to
share the result of tiie tight to being taken
prisoners. The forces ot the Pasha were
about twelve thousand mou, to meet whoso
attacks the Christians had less than two
hundred, priests and fathers of the families
mostly. They declined to surrender, and
finding that any attempt at escalade 0* 7
surprise was useless, tHe Pasha sent to Re
tinio for artillery, which was sent him. —
The next day 7 he sent for reinforcements
aud more guns, so that at tiie last lie hud
twenty-six guns aud two mortars, minus
three guns hurst, and sixteen thousand
I men.
The convent having been cut off from
communication with the mountains, no
nesvs could be sent to Coroncos, who was
absent on an expedition, and there was no
hope for relief from such overwhelming
j numbers if he had come. Three days the
200 heroes fought tiie battle of despair,
firing from window and loop-hole so en
ergetically and obstinately, that the Turks
speak of it as like an Eurojieau battle, the
like of which never was seen in Crete. —
i The third day a breach was effected at tl»
great portal and an assault was made, the
Armaouts aud Cretan Mussulmeu in ad
vance. The gates open with a large court,
around which are arranged the cells and
rooms of the monastic establishment, and
to these the Christians withdrew when the
troops had effected an entrance, and kept
up the fire from the doors and windowson
the enemv, who was pushed in in increas
ing masses. Attliistiine, some participants
say that a small mine or magazine ex
ploded, killing about 150 of the troops,
who recoiled and left the place in a panic,
but were ordered in again, and the fight in
the court was kept up six hours, they say,
from the time the breach was entered.—
The ground of the court was covered with
the Turkish dead and wounded, but the
Christians, too, wasted away, and finally
seeing ail to he lost, and longer resistance
impossible, some of the combatants em
braced in farewell, and stabbed each other;
the Hegumiuos, Gabriel, fighting to tiie
last moment, blew out his own brains
wheu he found that the Turks were about
to take him. The rest, ret.eatiug to the
great tower of the Hegumiuos, where were
most of the women and children, and un
der which was the powder magazine, de
termined to perish together iat her than
submit to the brutalities and outrages of
tiie Turks, aud fired the magazine, ali
being destroyed, with all the troops in the
vicinity. lii a distant room were thirty
nine sick and wounded men aud sixty-one
women and children who escaped the ex
plosion. Onefpriest of the neighboring
convent, who had surrendered to tiie* Pa
sha and received protection from him, was
murdered by tiie Egyptians, incarnate
i fiends, who spare nothing at all that is
| Christian.
The survivors, except six who were shot
down in cold blood because they had Eu
ropean costumes on, were, by a mercy
without parallel in the whole war, made
prisoners, and led, with insults and abuse,
to Retiino, where many of them arrived
half dead, the stronger carrying the chil
dren, of whom many were infants, left by
the disaster; some omy three or four
months old.
After the fighting was all over, the Cre
tan Mussulmeu with lighted tapers went
amongst tiie dead to see if any Christian
still breathed, and all who showed any
signs of life were dispatched without
mercy.
A lew Greeks held the stone mill of the
Monastery with such obstinacy that the
Turks were obliged to batter it down on
them, destroying everything in it.
The losses of tiie troops are enormous,
the city of Retiino is filled with the
wounded, and the hospitals have received
over 400, of whom Mosi will die, the sur
geons say, having been injured by the ex
plosion. Not less than 3,000, and some
say 4,000, of the Mussulmeu have been
killed or wounded in the affair, and an
unwonted gloom is on the faces of all their
compatriots here—no exultation of victory
can he seen, and they say that Mustapha
Pasha raged like a wounded lion when the
battle was over—no one dared approach
him. His brother-in-law Buleynian, his
favorite, was mortally wounded, and many
officers killed or wounded. Thirty-six
hours the army was engaged in bringing
in the wounded, and it is said that the
ground around the Convent is strewn
with the Turkish dead.
The Cretans take a grim satisfaction in
the result. The garrison of Arkadi only
suffered what most of them are willing to
suffer when it comes to the worst. The
religious hostility is such that any other
solution than this becomes improbable, and
the Christianity of Europe is so like its
Mohammedanism that tiiere seems little
chance of their falling out over a few mis
! o rable Cretans who could not bide the
! j me of England and France to have
j their three-century wrongs righted.
A TALE OF SUFFER I NO.
: Tiro Women Found in the Woods, Snbsisl
. Ln y on Corn, etc., and Living in a Tree.
DESTITUTION OF THE LOWER CLASSES.
{From the Ixiuisville Courier.]
We have not, for several years past,
beard ol u ease that showed as plainly the
amount ot destitution now existingamong
the poor of our city and the South in <r en .
eral us that which came to our ears yes
terday. A philanthropic gentleman, who
resides lu the lower part of the city, was
on his way out in the country yesterday
afternoon, on the old Salt River road, dur
ing the driving snow storm, when he dis
covered a woman crossing the fence into a
wood pasture just outside the city limits.
She was thinly clad, shivering in the cru
el blast, and gave evidence of severe desti
tution and hard living. Not seeing any
house near, he wondered to himself where
the woman was going; and calling her,
questioned her us to tiie cause other being
out in the storm. She replied by evasive
answers, hut on his questioning her more
closely, she told him that she lived with
another woman in an old hollow tree in
the posture, and had been staying there
tor over lour months past. The gentleman
hitched his horse and proceeded to where
the worn n designated tier miserable re
treat to be, and there, wrapped up in some
old army blankets, he discovered the oth
er woman, sleeping in the holiow of the
tree, sheltered by some old pieces of board
and bark, lie awakened the untortunate
woman and asked her tier name; she
gave it as Jane Hutton. The woman he
first met gave her name as Eliza Harris.
They said they were from Cross Keys,
nepr Atlanta, tleofgia, and hud come up to
this oity some mouths ago seeking honor
able employment, but had tailed in their
efforts and had been since that time earn
ing a livelihood try gathering shucks, do
ing washing, etc., meeting misfortune
wpli a heroism worthy of the noblest of
women. The gentleman who found them
soon made their ease known to the people
of that vicinity and in a few hours the
poor women were taken from their un
comfortable refuge and well provided for.
Destitution. —We learn the greater
portion of the amount expended by the
Charitable Union ot this city, is for the
relief of the destitute who reach here by
several lines of railroad entering in Chat
tanooga, and are unable, lor the want of
means, to proceed further. There are
numbers of them now in the Union Pas
senger Depot, huddled together promiscu
ously, without either bedding, lire or
food. The charitable associations are do
ing all they can to relieve their wants, hut
for lack of funds all cannot be done that
is desired. We learn the Nashville and
Chattanooga railroad proposes to the other
roads to build a lunch house, where all
such can at least get a wholesome meal,
and protect themselves from the freezing
cold. The idea, as we understand it, is
for the roads to raise a fund in common,
with which they propose to erect the
necessary buildings, and lit them up with
all needed appendages, purchase food,
hire cooks to prepare it, and watchmen to
keep up fires through the night, and in
this way relieve, to a considerable extent,
the suffering now.experienced by the trav
elling destitute. The move is a good one,
in the right direction, and we Dope the
other roads will second the proposition of
tiie Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad,
and thus prove, contrary to an old saying,
that corporations havesouls. —Chaltailuorja
Union.
Outbreaking and Abominable Out
rage.—-On Christmas Eve night, about
the rising of the moon, a hand of seven or
eighj men rode up to tiie door of Mr. James
McCarty, an old man living on the Co
lumbia road, about fourteen uiiies from
this place. Three of them dismounted,
represented themselves as “Yankees,” de
manded Mr. McCarty's keys, forced them
from him, unlocked a small iron safe in
which he kept his money and papers, and
look from it one thousand and sixteen
dollars in gold; one hundred and fifty in
and ten thousand dollars
IHrKTt' notes and accounts. They then
lefPtTTe house aud rejoined their comrades
at the gate, taking with them tiie said
money and papers. They took with them
also Mr. McCarty’s shot gun, already load
ed. Mr. McCarty aud his wife followed
them into the piazza, and, as they made
ready to ride oil', denounced them. At
tins, the old man’s own gun was fired at
him. He received in one leg some thirty
or forty squirrel shot. Mrs. McCarty was
also painfully wounded in the thigh, one
large hall, apparently from a revolver,
passing entirely through the leg. After
this the desperadoes rode oil' with their
booty. —Edgefield Advertiser.
Iluleiiiiia ( hickcns.
To such au extent is tiie system of poul
try raising carried on in France, that in
some parts of that country tiie hatching
forms a special trade or business carried
on by a class of persons known as Cou
peurs or Hatchers. These people batch
for farmers at all times of the year at so
much per egg, or purchase tiie eggs in the
market, and sell the chickens, as soon as
hatched, at from six cents to twelve cents
each, according to the season of the year.
The hatching room is kept dark, and at
an even temperature in summer and win
ter. In this room a number of boxes,
two feet long, one foot wide, and one foot
six iucher deep are arranged along the
walls. These boxes are covered in with
lattice or wire work, and serve for turkeys
to hatch any kind of eggs. Similar boxes,
but of smaller dimensions, are provided
for breeding fowls. The bed of the boxes
is formed of liether, straw, hay or cocoa fi
bre; aud the number of eggs fora turkey
to hatch is two dozen, and one dozen lor
hens.
At any time of the year, turkeys, wheth
er broody or not, are taught to sit and
hatch in the following manner: Home
addled eggs are emptied, filled with plat
ter Baris, and placed in a nest, after which
u turkey is brought from the yard, and
placed on the eggs, and covered over with
the lattice ; for the first forty-eight hours
she will endeavor to get out of her con
finement, hut soon becomes reconciled to
it, when fresh eggs are substituted tor tiie
plaster of Baris ones. They will continue
to hatch, without intermission, for three
to six months, and even longer; the chick
ens being withdrawn as soon as hatched,
and fresh eggs substituted. After the
third day the eggs are examined, and the
clear eggs withdrawn, which arethensold
in the market as new laid; but as they
may he soiled or discolored from having
been sat upon, they clean them with wa
ter and silver sand to testore their origi
nal whiteness. The turkeys are taken off
the nest once a day, to feed and to remove
the excrements from the nest, hut after a
while they cease self-feeding, when it is
gueoessury |o cram them, and give them
.sonic water once a day. “At one place
we observed,” says Geyelin, in his account
of a visit made hut a few weeks ago,which
was alluded to in the last number of the
Ploughman, “sixty turkeys hatching at
the sametime; and we were informed that
during tiie winter and early spring, M.
Auche had sometimes upwards of one
hundred hatching at the same time, and
that each turkey continued hatching or
setting, as we term it, for at least three
month s.”
“At a farm near Lizieux,” says he, “ I
saw a turkey that was then sitting, and
had been so upwards of six months; and,
as I considered it rather cruel,tiie hatcher,
to prove.the contrary, took her off the
nest and placed her in a meadow, and also
removed the eggs; the turkey, however,
to my surprise, returned immediately to
her nest, and called in a most plaintive
voice for her eggs; then some eggs were
placed in a corner of the box, which she
instantly drew under her with her beak,
and seemed quite delighted. Moreover 1
was informed that it was of great econo
mical advantage to employ turkeys to
hatch, as they cut very little, and get fat
in their state of confinement, aud there
fore fit for the market any day.”
The extraordinary advantages of this
singular system appear in its cheapness—
the sitting bird covering nearly double tiie
number of eggs that we commonly put
under a hen, and at the same time get
ting fat for market instead of famishing
in the process; in the uninterrupted suc
cession of chickens—the hatching being
completely independent of a broody con
dition in liens, which is often delayed or
interfered with by wintry weather; in
the wide margin for hatching, and the
certainty of none but large broods coming
off at every three weeks; and in the pow
er to get chickens from the “ live hatch
ing machines,” at any season, and thus
time them as adults for the high prices of
spring and early summer, without any
troublesome and expensive provision of
relays of pullets of different breeds and
ages, which must otherwise he kept for
the purpose.
We think this method well worth a
careful trial with us. We shall describe
the mode of raising] the chickens hatched
m this way in our next number.—.bassa
ahusetts Ploughman.
Food for Chickens.—For fattening
fowls the best corn is the cheapest standard
food in the country. Boiled rice and po
tatoes and shorts “middlings” of wheat are
excellent. Small potatoes and broken or
even “damaged” rice, which can usually
bo readily obtained in any large city, serve
an admirable purpose, and will bo found
economical for every day feeding. Occa
sional allowances of barley or oats, orboth,
are highly advantageous to laying fowls.’
Sunflower seeds, which can easily he
grown profusely along the entire range on
both sides of all fences, without taking up
room or causing any trouble save the orig
inal planting, are one of the best alterna
tives and changes in diet, that can be ob
tained, and fowls will devour this with
great gusto always. In the writer’s judg
ment, fowls should never be stinted in
food. As much as they will eat without
waste, and of the best, is deemed the most
economical in the end ; and this method
will keep poultry alwaysiu good condition
lor the spit at brief notice, while laying
fowls are thus supplied with the material
lor affording the largest number of eggs
regularly alter they begin to lay. When
the poultry is necessarily confined within
enclosures, coarse meat, such as sheep’s
plucks, liver, the harslets ofswme pound
ed bones, etc., obtainable at the nearest
slaughter house at very trilling cost, should
be given to them as frequently as thrice a
week. They will devour this food eagerly,
and it supplies the place of that which
they need and obtain when allowed to
range at liberty. Where large quantities
of fowls are kept, they must of necessity
be confined, in colonies, to comparatively
limited quarters,and artificial high feed
ing becomes necessary, while some sort of
animal food is requisite to keep them lay
ing steadily and in good condition.
It would be worthy a series of experi
ments to determine which of these
different modes is best. They would
need to be carefully conducted, under
circumstances in every respect alike,
so as to avoid partial or one-side results’
and weighing or measuring would he
indispensable.— Country Gentleman.
BY TELEGRAPH
By the New York Associated Press.
Foreign News.
New York, Jan. 14. — The steamer
Manhattan, with European dates to 2d
and 3d inst., has arrived.
The returns of revenue of Great Britain,
for the year, were of that satisfactory na
ture that tiie Times anticipates D’lsraeli
will have to deal with a surplus of about
a million and three quarters sterling.
The Times says, the year or i«C7 brings
peace as anew -year gift to Europe; and,
financially, never did a year open with
better promise.
The Emperor Napoleon, in his address
to the diplomatic body, said, the opening
of the new year furnishes me an opportu
nity of expressing my wishes for the sta
bility of thrones, and the prosperity o
nations. I hope that we areentering upon
anew era of peace ayd conciliation, and
that the Universal Exhibition will con
tribute towards calming passions and draw
ing closer the general interest^.
Perth, Jan. 13.—A motion has been in
troduced into the Hungarian Diet, declar
ing that the decree lately issued for the re
organization of the army is void, and all
who order its execution shall be punished
for treason.
Bordeaux, Jan, 13.—The French bark,
Origava, Oapt. Bertand, which sailed
from New Orleans on the 13th of Novem
ber for this port, went ashore in the Gi
ronde, and became a total wreck.
Berlin, Jan. 13. —The North German
Gazette denies that Bismarck has issued
any diplomatic circular, as was recently
reported.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 13.—The Czar and
members of the Imperial court were pres
ent at a ball recently given in aid of suffer
ing families of the Cretans.
London, Jan. I.3.—Advices from China
report that a great fire had occurred at
Yokohowa, Japan, causing loss of five mil
lion dollas.
PakiS, Jan. 13. —Dispatches from the
East report that a ministerial crisis lias
taken place at Constantinople, and, also,
that the l’orte has recalled his ambassador
from Athens; also reported that large num
ber of reinforcements for Greek insurgents
have been landed in Candia, from Greek
i ship-, and that the Cretans are receiving
t supplies of arms again.
Florence, Jan. 14.—The difficulty be
tween Italy and Turkey relative to the
! Italian steamer which was tired upon by
| the forces of the Porte, has been amicably
I i.djusted—amount of indemnity to be paid
j by Turkish government lias not finally
! been fixed.
Paris, Jan. 14, Noon.—There is a vague
i rumor alloat, but not confirmed, that a
' desperate plot to Bssassinate the Emperor
! Napoleon has been discovered and frus-
I trated by the officials.
Madrid, Jan. 11. —Revolutionary Jun
: ta, having its headquarters here, has just
i issued a strong and stirring address to the
people.
The Markets.
NEW YORK.
New York, Jan. 14. —Money seven per
i cent. Gold 1.34'. Exchange lor Os) days
1 10!)ial(»!/j. Sight 110*.
Floor quiet, unchanged. Wheat steady,
t arn dull, nominally unchanged. Pork
quiet and steady. Whisky dull, nominal.
Cotton quiet, 341a.'J5 for Middling Up
lands. Freights firm,
New York, Jan. It.—Cotton less active,
sales tint) bales. Middling Uplands34!a3s.
Flour*dull anil heavy, at 10 cents lower.
State $ ijal2j. Ohio $12a14 j. Western $Ol
a 1.3 00. .Southern dull and drooping ; sales
21*00 barrels at $12u17, Wheat dull and
drooping. Pork closed heavy ; new mess
•?-"•. a-"';. Beef unchanged. Lard firmer.
Sugar quiet. Coffee quiet. Molasses dull
and unchanged. Spirits Turpentine 07a
08. Rosin halo. Freight*? firm.
Demand for money little more active to
day, but all ,‘irst class borrowers supplied at
7 per cent, at.eall. There were rumors on
the street to-day that the Government
was soon to pay compound notes with
greenbacks, which would certainly cause
greater ease in money. The Treasury will
to-morrow commence to disburse nine
; millions as interest on seven-thirties.
Gold advanced to 34 jat close. Govern -
! merits closed dull and steady. Blocks at
: last board strong and generally better.
LOUISVILLE.
Louisville, Jan. 14.—Tobacco quiet, 3
a 13,50. Superfine flour $9,75. Prime red
Wheat 53,80. Corn lower; shelled fix, ear
do. Oats 03. Mess Pork, $30,50. Lard in
tierces, 121. Bacon—shoulders 13c; clear
sides 13.}f hams, 161; bulk shoulders Bc.
New Orleans sugar nominal. Cotton—3lc
for Low Middling. Rio coffee, fair, 34c.
Raw Whiskey, $2,30.
MOBILE.
Mobile, Jan. 14.—Baies of cotton to-day
1,250 bales, closing dull; middlings 31a8l};
CINCINNATI.
Cincinnati, Jan. 14—Flour dull.—
Whiskey dull. Hogs firm ; sales of 0,600
at 7a71-5. Mess pork firm; sales 11,000
bids at S2O. Lard firm at 12c.
Gold 1331. Money scarce.
NEW ORLEANS.
New Orleans, Jan. 14.—Flour, super,
sll 371, single extra sll 50a12, double sl2
50a13, trebble sl3 dOall, choice sl4 Goals.
Mess Pork $22 50. Lard, in tierces, 121,
kegs 13alo. Corn, Mixed, $1 Goal 071,
yellow, $1 07}, white $1 10. Oats 76a80c,
Hay S2B 50a30. Tobacco, common leaf,
61a7i, medium SalO, fair 10al2. Sugar,
fair 11}, prime 12}al2;|. Molasses, fair 05,
prime to choice G9a72.
Cotton, Low Middling 31a.311, Middling
32a321; sales 5,400 bales; receipts 8,382;
cleared 3,929; stock 213,012. Freights
firm; per steamer, on cotton, to NewYork,
lal}e., sril 1} ; to Liverpool 1| penny.
[foreign.]
Liverpool, Jan. 14—Noon.—Cotton
opened quiet and steady; sales estimated
at 7,000 bales; Middling Uplands quoted
at 14}.
Liverpool, Jan. 14.—Evening.—Cotton
market closed very dull, and day’s sales
did not even reach noon estimate. Total
sales reached about6,ooo bales. Nothwith
standing dullness, prices Middling Up
lands remained firm at 14:jd.
Marine News.
Londonderry, Jan. 14, Noon.—Steam
ship Damascus, from Portland 29tn uit.,
arrived to-day en route to Liverpool.
Liverpool, Jan. 14.—The “Thomas
Humphrey,” which cleared from this
port for New York, was lost at sea near
Holyhead, Wales, a few days since. All
on board, except the Captain and one
man, were drowned.
Columbia, S. 0., Jan. 13. —Freed men
are leaving this vicinity in such numbers
as to excite alarm lor future cultivation of
tlie lands. They are chiefly bound for
Florida, whither they are transported at
tile Government expense of about live
dollars per head, and a promise of rations
until the working season. The main rea
sons for leaving are the hopes they indulge
of better employment in the new regions
to which they are destined.
Washington, Jan, 14.—The President
has appointed Senator Cowan, of Penn
sylvania, Minister to Austria., His Sena
torial term expires in March next.
f«B(ire»*l®nal.
Washington, Jan. 14. —Senate: Ram
sey presented a petition asking appropria
tion tor improvement of Mississippi riser.
Refen< and to committee on Commerce.
Howe presented a petition asking for
a reconstruction on the basis of equal
rights. Referred.
(Several petitions were presented, urging
passage of the tariff bill.
House: The first business in order being
the call of States for bills and joint resolu
tions, the following were presented :
Bill declaring the forfeiture certain
privileges of citizenship* for acts of rebel
lion againnt the. United Btates, and pro
viding for restoration of the privileges in
certain cases. Referred to Judiciary Com
mittee.
Also, bill to establish civil governments
in the States lately in rebellion. Referred
to committee on Reconstruction.
The committee on Territories instructed
Ashley to report his amendment to the
bill for tile re-establishment of civil gov
ernment in North Carolina, as a substitute
for Stevens’ now before the House.
A bill was introduced in the House, and
referred tocommitteoon \Vaysand Means,
to repeal so much of the internal-revenue
act as imposes a tax oil manufactured
cotton. f
Cook, from Illinois, reported from coin
ill itte on Judiciary, a lull, amending that
portion of the law, approved 2-ltli Febru
ary, 1064, which authorized the Beeretary
of War to appoint commissioners in the
loyal slave Btates to award compensation
to owners of colored volunteers,so as to sus
pend the powers and compensation of said
commissioners. The bill was passed.
A resolution was adopted, declaring it to
bo the duty of the government to declare
against the further importation of Coolies
in this hemisphere, or in the adjacent is
lands. v
'I lie Tc I Haiti,
Washington, Jan. 11.—Associate Jus
tice Field, to-day, delivered the opuiion of
the United-Btates Supreme Court, in the
Missouri Test-oath case —John A. Burn
ings, a Roman-Catholic priest, who was
indicted for preaching and praying with
out taking the Oath pres ribed by the con
stitution of that State, being the plaintiff
in error.
The Court decides the test-oath in this
case, “unconstitutional”—being in the na
i tureof a punishment without a trial, and
| in its character o po f facto, and as a bill
: of attainder. The judgment of the Court
below is reversed, with direction that
| plaintiff shall depart without delay.
Justice Field also delivered an Opinion
(if the Court, in the tx parte, case of Gar
| laud and Marr, who, having taken a pa
role in the war of Rebellion, ask to be re
| admitted to practice.
! The Court holds that, as the statute im
-1 poses a punishment which may not be
unpunishable at the time the o/fence was
committed, it is. in its nature an ex post
facto law. Attorneys are not officers of
• the United States—they are officers of the
Court, and hold their office during good
i behavior. The court is not the register of
! the exact -of any other power. The piain-
I tiffs made application for and obtained a
; pardon from the l’resdent, which relieves
j them from the consequences of the of
-1 fence, and makes the citizen in error of
■ tilt- law what he was lie fore it was com
mitted. Congress can not limit the pre
rogative of the President. Mercy can not
be fettered by legislative restriction.
It followed that the prayer of the plain
tiff must be granted, and also the prayer
of Mr. Marr. The rule which requires
attorneys to take the Test-oath must be
rescinded, and the order is made accord
ingly.
Associate Justice Miller, for himself,
Chief Justice Chase, and Associates
WUyneand Davies, read a dissenting opin
ion.
HoH it U orkk,
Washington, Jan. 14. —Advices re
ceived here from Europe state that large
quantities oPgovernment securities will be
returned to this country by next steamer.
The business community there is becom
ing wary of such investments, since the
threatened impeachment question takes
tangible shape.
Stanton, it is said, has been subpoenaed
as a witness before the House Judiciary
committee, in the matter of the impeach
ment of the President.
TetiHcniee,
Nashville, Jan. 14.—A Radical State
Convention, to nominate a candidate for
Governor, meets on the 22d of February.
A number of counties in East Tennessee
recommend the re-nomination of Brown
low.
Chancellor Gainphell decided, to-day,
that the law providing metropolitan po
lice for Nashville i- unconstitutional, and
granted a perpetual injunction against the
[mlice commissioners. An appeal was
taken to tlie Supreme Court, now in ses
sion.
Maryland A Hairs.
Baltimore. Jan. 13.—A great many
members of the Legislature are here to
day. Much interest is displayed about
the United States Senatorship. (.lose
match in the State Senate; one member
is said to have tiie casting vote, but the
chances are all in favor of Governor
Swann.
Earitni uake,
Jacksonville, Oregon, Jan. 14.—A tel
egram says that a terrific earthquake was
experienced at Fort Klamath, on the Sth
instant, 'the sky was darkened with
ashes, and the air filled with sulphurous
vapors. Klamath Lake fell about six feet,
and Crooked Creek was completely dried
up.
This account purports to have been writ
ten by order of the commander at Fort
Klamath.
Destroyed.
The steamer Sunny South, running be
tween Montgomery and New Orleans,with
cargo of 1,060 bales of cotton, was entirely
destroyed by fire, at Pentland Landing,
Alabama river, on Friday night!, Boat in
sured in New Orleans for SIO,OOO.
The Sky an Indication ok the
Weather.—The color of the sky at par
ticular times affords wonderful good guid
ance. Not only does a rosy sunset presage
good weather, arid a ruddy sunrise bad
weather, but there are other tints which
speak with equal clearness of accuracy. A
bright yellow' sky in the evening indicates
wind; a pale yellow, wet; a neutral gray
color constitutes a favorable sign in the
evening, and an unfavorable one in the
morning. The clouds are again full of
meaning in themselves. If tiieir forms
are soft, undefined, full and feathery, the
weather will be fine; if their edges are
hard, sharp and definite, it will be foul. —
Generally Speaking, any deep, unusual
lines betoken wind arm rain, while the
more quiet and delicate tints bespeak fair
weather. These are simple maxims, and
yet not so simple but that the British
Board of Trade lias thought lit to publish
them for the use of sea-faring men—as w r e
learn from the Scientific American.
The Virginia (Nevada) Enterprise of
the Ist, says that Thomas Farrell has com
menced a suit against Savage <fc Cos. to re
cover possession of mining grounds and
$500,000 damages. This is decidedly an
important suit, involving the title of some
of the best and most valuable miuiug
ground in the State of Nevada.
An aged woman, who spent her time in
rag picking, has just died iu Charlestown
amid scenes of the greatest distress, filth
arul poverty. Prior to her decease a skirt
was found in her apartment in which
there was sewed up several thousand dol
lars in gold.
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superintend the getting up of all work. In the
press department we have secured the services of
Mr. Uko. IhiitEiiT* , lona ami favorably known in
Augusta, as Pressman, Programme and Poster
printer, at the Constitutionalist Oftice, to which
fact we beg leave to call the attention of Malin
gers ol Theatres, and Agents of Kxliihftions ot
every kind
Charges Low as can ha Afforded. *
RUSE A IUJRR, Pro’s.
Personal.
Gen. Butler has sued the I.a Crosse Dem
ocrat for libel, laying damages at SIOO,OOO.
W. H. Miliburn, the blind preacher, is
going to Paris to consult an oceulist.
A newsboy in Toronto has fallen heir to
a property in Texas valued at $200,000.
Captain Samuel Samuels gets $-5,000 for
bringing in the Henrietta first in the yacht,
race.
A market man in Harrisburg has man
ufactured a sausage 59 feet 3 inches in
length.
There seems to be no doubt that Head
fen.re Stephens is still secreted in New
York city. He is said to fear the indigna
tion of his countrymen.
Senator Trumbull started from Wash
ington on theSth inst for Springfield, but
was met by u telegram, at Pittsburg, not
to come on, if lie had any hojtes of re-elec
tion as Senator.
General Grant is reported to have said
recently that lie dues not desire the nomi
nation of any party for the presidency,
but he recommends either Thomas, Logan
or Farragut, if the choice must fall on a
hero.
Before his alleged departure for Ireland,
James Stephens tried to buy up every pho
tograph of himself, to destroy them, so a s
the British could not get hold of his pic
ture. He was eh a crined to find that he
had been photographed while sjieaking
Irom the Metropolitan Hotel, the day of
his arrival, and that his phisiognomy pre
ceded him wherever ho went. His at
tempt to secure the likenesses, of course,
failed. lit Ireland he never had one
taken, and always refused to sit for an v
here. ‘
Empress Eugenia intends to hold two
exhibitions of her own during the next
year— one in Trianon, the otiier at Mal
maison. At Trianon all the furniture and
things that have any reference to Marie
Antoinette areto be brought together ; at
Maimaison, those referring to Josephine
and Hortense. They w ill be, to a certain
extent, loan collections, as the Empress *h
to address herself publicly to the proprie
tors of all suitable relics. The two pala
ces wiil be decorated exactly as they were
in the lifetime of these illustrious person
ages. A “guide” wish a historical intro
duction and a complete index ot all the
furniture, dresses,jewels, linen, etc., is said
to l*e already in preparation.
The New York Citizen nominates young
James Gordon Bennett for Mayor and
winds up a two column article it* his fa
vor with the following: “'file Captain
owner of the Henrietta is about six feet
one inch in height, square shouldered,
narrow in the flanks, straight as a ramrod]
sinewy, active, and with no more useless
flesh oil his hones than a Canadian elk in
the hunting sea-on. He is fair faced, al
ways ratherelegautly dressed ; and though
looking older thin he really is—and, per
hai>s seeking so to do—has nevertheless
a very youthful appearance. His features
are Very aquiline and full of vigor—the
eyes keen and gray, the teeth white mid
regular, the mouth rather large, but firm ;
hair of light brown, and his moustache
somewhat sandy, with the silkiness of
youth yet lingering in its fringes.”
\ c wi Ifevs. *
The Louisiana Legislature meets ou the
third Monday of the present month.
The Democratic caucus of the Pennsvl
vauia Legislature have nominated Ed”nr
A. Cowan for United States Senator.
G. A. and I). Peak, from Georgia, were
crushed to death by a fall of rock in t;
coal bank, near Wheeling, on Monday
week. ~ ‘ J
During the month of’December, nine
thousand six hundred and thirty-eudit
emigrants arrived at Castle Garden. The
larger number sailed from Liverpool.
The medal proposed by the working
people of France, in honor of Abra
ham Lincoln, was presented to Mrs. Lin
coln on the 7th inst., without any.show or
ceremony.
A complete official list shows that one
thousand and sixty-one American sin,,*
were transferred to the British flag in the
past live years. One hundred and nine
American ships were sold in London.
Snow fell in New Orleans to the depth
of near six inches one day last week hut
disappeared soon after daylight. ’ The
New Orleans papers say that no such hv
perborean visit, has occurred since the
win ter of 1851-’2.
The railroad over Mount Ceuis, Italy to
be done next spring, masters grades’ as
steep as one foot in twelve, and the loco
motive is to hold on and go ahead by
means of a tliinl or central rail, which ft
pinches with a pair of large, horizontal
wheels or pulleys.
A gardener in the Parish of St. James,
Louisiana, whilst hoeing up a patch of
ground, discovered a small iron box, con
taining a cross of the legion of honor, a
parchment of nobility, and a manuscript
of moral sayings. At least .so says tiie St.
Martin Democrat.
The Stengerfest, to be held in Philadel
phia next J illy, will probably be the largest
ever gathered in this country. The print
ed music is now beiug distributed gratui
tously, and about three thousand singers in
various cities have already sent in their
names.
There w ere in New York during the
past year 34 homicides, 36 infanticides, 61
suicides. Os the latter 12 hung them
selves, 12 used the pistol, -5 took Paris
Green, and 1 Costar’s Bat Exterminator;
237 persons were drowned, and 3S deaths
resulted from burns.
Owyhoe papers say the division of Idaho
lias again been brought before tiie Territo
rial Legislature. The division of Wash
ington Territory was being discussed at
Olympia. The object was to unite the
counties along the Puget Sound iu Ore
gon, and counties east of the mountain
range, in both Washington Territory and
Oregon, so as to form them in one Slate.—
I’lie Indians in tiie Owyhoe and Boise
county continue their depredations upon
stock, and fights witii the savages are re
ported in every paper from thatseetion.
The Angelica Reporter states that a Mr.
Otis Marsh, residing on Crawford Creek,
about four miles from Oramel, lias discov
ered silver oil his premises. It says' Mr.
Marsh, on excavating forty feet below the
surface, came to a rich stratum of silver
quartz (a bluish rock filled with particles
of silver), and ou digging a few feet deep
er discovered the pure metal—a vein the
thieknessof a casekuife blade, and about
three feet wide. He has had some speci
mens of the quartz assayed by a chemist,
who valued them at from sls(X)to slßooper
ton.
Hazel Eyes.—They inspire at first a
Platonic sentiment, which gradually but
surely expands and emerges into love as
securely founded as the rock of Gibraltar.
A woman of hazel eyes never elopes her
husband, never sacrifices her husband's
comfort for her own, never finds fault,
never talks too much or too little, always
is an entertaining, intellectual and agree
able creature.