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J. VV. BURKE & CO. Georgia Journal & Messenger. j w. HI HK E A CO., Proprietor*. V. « HKF SK, * Ellu . r .. HOSE. I KATES OF SIBSCHimOV DAILY. leu dollars per annum. Kive dollars for six mouths., i 1 ,j dollars aud titty cents for three months. e dollar tor four months. WEEKLY. Three dollars per annum. uue dollar and fifty cents for six months. doliae for four months. J. W. BURKE A CO. \\'KI7xt:SDAY, NOV 11, 1868. iMI WHAT IT lIOEW FOR TH K SOITH. It occurs to Hie Petersburg Judex— am! the saiU e fact strikes us more forcibly, still, with reference to Georgia—to call at tention to the very important relation Lor tic by “sunshine” to labor aud capital. For instance, says the Index , it ripens fruits and matures vegetables in Eastern Virginia a month or more earlier than it doe „ j„ the vicinity of New York and other Northern cities. It happens that these cities are in a few hours’ communi cation Witii Eastern Virgiuia, either by land or water, and they are enormous con sumers of the products of our orchards ami gardens. Now “suusbine” enables „„ to monopolize the market of these Northern cities a month before the pro ducts of their neighborhood come in com petition with us. Tins is an immense ad vantage, for not only do we monopolize the market hut obtain priees greatly in i dvauce of those whieh the same articles will command later iu the season. Whether this generation is wise enough lo avail itself of this “sunshine” remains to be seen. Hut whether it does or not, there can he no doubt that Eastern Vir ginia will at some future day become lit rally anil truly a “garden spot.” Every one sees clearly that the great need of the late slave States is agricultural l iboi . The great body of whites, before the svar, were unaccustomed to working upon farms with their own hands. The lust three years have been spent in en deavoring to keep up the old system of do ing all farm work with negro labor. The experiment has proved a failure, as it ever has where negro labor has been em ployed on any except the compulsory principle. It is very clear that this state of things cannot continue for many years longer, and that the labor which is needed will lie supplied by immigration which the natural advantages of our soil and clime will inevitably draw hither, and by the native white labor which gritn neces sity will force into the tillage of the ground. We have no fears on this point for the future, But there must unavoida bly be an interval of uncertain duration, in whieh all agriculture must languish, because Southern capital and labor were both swept away by the recent revolution ; a revolution which left the majority of our fanners not only p ior but heavily in debt, and their difficulties have been increased rather than diminished by the political agitation whieh has followed the war. But to return to “sunshine.” Let any one take a map and cast his eye over that portion of it occupied by the Southern Stales. There they lie, basking in the smile of the God of day. There they lie, haying: “Come and till us, come aud reap us.” Hut touch their soil with plow or spade and the smile literally becomes “golden.” That smtle cannot long be re- Bisted. 11 woos with the potency of beauty and of gold, and some day these broad acres will answer it with laughing har vests. The wheat will wave welcome to it, and the corn will nod to it with dancing plume, while its leaves rustle like a sweetheart’s dress. "Sunshine” will yet make the South the regal, the most joyous land on earth. Come hither, oh, ye immigrants, and pitch your tents anywhere between the I‘otomuc aud the Rio Grande. That sun ny smile is uot the smile of a capricious and coquettish girl. It means what it says. It means corn and oil and wiue and milk; it means silk and cotton, and llax and hemp -all that cheers the body aud all that clothes it. Look at this, ye toilers for a scanty sub sistence upon a sterile soil—look at this one fact. Before the war about one mil lion of laborers merely scratched the sur face of this Southern soil, and the value of us agricultural exports was greater than that of any live countries in the world. There is room here, and to spare, fo r fifty millions of laborers. Let them come. The great sunny South will give them a welcome as genial as her clime, and as hospitable as her soil. Let them come. It is a land of railroads and rivers; of rich and cheap farms, it is a land of beautiful women and of men as brave and as mag nanimous as ever confronted or forgave a •"c. It is the home of a white race, the most law-abiding and orderly on the face “f God’s earth. Come, then, there is notbiug to deter you, and, if you will hut "ne, the political troubles which u)W annoy the South will lie as evanescent as die dew which will evaporate from her 'lowers and her forests in the bright smile ot to-morrow’s sun. iUK ELECTION IN TALBOT COVim. Talbotton, Qa., Nov. 7, 1808. Editors: I see that the number ' heeduien at our is estimated "he thousand. I think there were eight bundred or less. We tkiuk all of two b unified voted for Seymour, and if the '"'nig had continued, we think one huu rt‘'i wore would have done the same. found the Court-house at daylight in i 1 "esfion »»f the negroes, and Messrs. Be aune aud Higbee with them. After sun | ■ l made several ellorts to clear the en- ts ’ but failed. I then called on the "‘•ill, and we succeeded in gettiug a ■ ,l 'on out. The question of Taxes came i wd the managers decided that county lV ' !l ' u!d be paid,when Bethune objected ‘ Was overruled by the decision of ' "bo were his equals in the law, if ' U: 'bv Ids superiors. We did not w '‘ ,l the poll tax. My opinion is we n; carried thecountybya large f t . ; , "b had voted. These are the time u some little feeling was at one u-ed , la j“ lw! ted, and some harsh language we 7 ’ UI l' ar t'cs, Mr. Higbee left, and W | kl, ' utea report from him. h v u > ,' tru the negroes were ordered c. I,'" , U 10 the Court-house. Hig 'eft for Savannah. ‘“ours majority, 914. T. A. B. i.ogiLo, r\? w British Cabinet.— The u 1 and iii m era 8 Hre confident of victory, cda* Hi.,? 1 eveul John Bright is spoken position f!» J'fCetary. It will he a novel ! iy t ,i Bright, who has hitherto *i|| hrin.t « eof opposition solely. He Hrititd, ,^ rst olaSB ability to the new is to |,o , ab ' uet . °f which Mr. Gladstone ue the Premier. \Vj] v " ~ -tfe i|u "‘ io objects to his mother’s mar ‘ I go a step faSr and pedestrian ? Because he 31 tutnuil awtl §Hessew§et. INDEPENDENCE. The true policy of the .South is to assert its agricultural, mechanical and manufac turing independence of the world. This can be done: Ist. By making on our own soil every thing we consume for the support of life. Our fruitful fields and genial climate in vite us to do so. Georgia can produce itß bread, its meat, its vegetables, its fruits, its beer and its wine Its forests are full of game, and its coast abounds with fish and oysters. Why should we go abroad for food ? 2d. By giving encouragement to our own home mechanics, and by stimulating every form of productive iuduslry. By encouraging our boys now growing up, to devote themselves to the mechanical arts; aud by giving the honors of social and civil life, to those who prove them selves most worthy by doing most to de velope these arts in tbe South. The mines and the forests aud the fields of the South yield us the needed material for mechani cal productions of every kind, and in suf ficient abundance to supply the world. 3d. By developing our vast resources in water power for the purpose of establish ing manufactories of every grade, by which our leading staple may be prepared for consumption—not by rnukiug coarse fabrics only, but by manfacturing the finest cotton goods, in every style aud va riety. It is hardly necessary to argue the advantages the South enjojs for such work. These will be enhanced greatly when we become the cheapest food-pr»>- ilucing portion of the land, as we are capa ble of becoming. The South needs nothing but good gov ernment, and the following of a wise poli cy, with economy ami industry ou the part of the people, to make her indepen dent of the world. EDITORIAL TRIALS. We are very sure that if the Arcli-Eue iny of all mankind had only had the op portunity of giving Job a situation in a newspaper office the patience of that pa triarch would have been exhausted iu less than a week. With the Baltimore Ga zette we think he would have dwelt with pleasure on the support and encourage ment tendered to him by troops of friends, and on the large amount of public confi dence which he would doubtless have re ceived, but these reflections would scarce ly have offset his perplexities. There is a certain class of people who, being very fussy, and very narrow-minded withal, seem to think that everything ought to be conducted iu this world precisely accord ding to their ideas. These people are con stantly favoring newspapers with foolish complaints. One is horrified at the ap pearance of an account of a prize fight; another objects that races should be re ported ; auother thiuks it deplorable that the details of au execution should be given; another that so many scandalous crimes should he published day after day, and so on ad infinitum. Then there are touchy people who find iu an article republished from some source, a hundred or a thousand miles off, some disagreeable allusion to their creed, their nationality or their profession, and their first impulse is to indite an irate letter to the journal which has copied the unwelcome para graph. If newspapers accepted all the ad vice, and listened to a 1 ! the protests they receive, they would in a very short space of time reduce their matter to simple ad vertisements But as it is impossible to consult in all things the individual tastes or opinions of each of several thousands of readers, jour nalists must continue to pursue their cus tomary ways. It would be well if the very contracted people referred to could understand that it is the business of a pub lic journal to make itself, as far as its news columns go, the rellex of the world in which we are living. Most people want to know all that is going on, and also the manner in which occurrences of all sorts take place. To present all the good and instructive incidents that transpire, and to ignore everything else, would he to con vey very erroneous impressions about so ciety here and elsewhere. A newspaper must present, where it can do so within the limits of decency, all the transactions of the day, good and had. We therefore propose to continue to do what every newspaper in the world does, and to re port a vast number of incidents which disgust usas much as they do the public. PRESIDENT GRANT. It will he a matter of general congratu lation, hut little surprise, if the adminis tration of Grant does usher in an era of good feeling” again like that which dis tinguished i lie administration of Monroe. He has left no irritating marks upon the campaign, as did Seymour and Blair. His personal characteristics are such as will commend him to the great mass of the people when political excitement has died away. He has done more than any other living man to elevate and honor the American name. AS e all share in his glory and his greatness. He deserves high honor, hut has not sought it. He is equal to any duty he ever undertakes. He will he a President uncontrolled by partisans and demagogues. He is no extremest. He is ultra in nothing. He differs from all the candidates for President that have been before the country for many years, I in that he is no speech-maker—is not loud with promise or cant and, has not a j single characteristic of the demagogue. He seems to be the man to close up the wounds war and rebellion have made. His history seems to have been marked out by Providence, as was that of Lin- j coin, for the salvation of the country iu its hours of peril, when among the host of politician:) noun other seemed compe tent to discharge the great duties that must devolve upon the uext President. He will uu oouui aißU|>(n>i»i poli ticians and place hunter. He will proba bly not please the ultra men of the party that elected him, hut that he will be an honest, conscientious, yet fearless and able President there is but little doubt. In his election our country has uew hope for peace, prosperity and progress. The above is copied from the New Al bany (Ind.) Commercial, a Radical paper. It is to he hoped the editor’s bright anti cipations of ‘‘peace, prosperity and pro gress,” wil he abundantly realized. Southern Recorder. —Mr. R. M Orme, Sr., the founder, and for nearly li ty years a proprietor, of this old and lime-honored Journal, offers his half in terest in it for sale, desiring to retire to the country aud spend the remainder of his days in agricultural pursuits. The junior proprietor of the Recorder would also se’l his interest, but will retain it if a competent man buys iuto the paper. The Recorder is well established iu public fa vor, and can be made a profitable invest ment. Newspaper Change.— Captain F. S. Fitch has disposed of his interest iu the Griffin Tri-weekly Star to Mr. F. E. Bridges. The party who are digging for gold on Kelley Island, in Lake Erie, in compli ance with the directions of Planchette, have worked eight or ten feet iuto the old limestone formation without any develop ments. THE FUTURE. -peculation* About the Dominant Party and ila Future Policy. From the Cincinnati Commercial. Secure of the administration for four years to come, and of a large majority in tlie House and Senate for two years at least, it becomes the representatives of the dominant party to proceed to business at the opening of Congress, and make an ef fort to dispose of “unfinished business,” before the incoming of tbe new adminis tration. It is doubtful whether any further legis lation in behalf of tbefreedmeu specially is needed. Beyoud providing against spe- I cial legis atiou by the States against them as a class, nothing can be done. They must take their chances and seek by their own individual euergy aud enterprise to overcome the prejudices of the whites. The Freedmen’s Bureau shduld be allowed to expire under the existing law. It lias served its purpose, and tided the emanci pated blacksover the most serious period of their transition from slavery to freedom. Doubtless there will be iudividuai suller iug of wroug and outrage among them; but it is not iu the power of any govern ment, exercisiug such wide authority to wholly prevent that. Uuless we are pre pared to police the whole South, no legis lation cau be so effective as to wholly pre vent wrong and outrage. Iu brief, the attention of Congress dur ing the winter session ought to be absorb ed, mainly, in the consideration, the dis cussion aud the improvement of our finan cial condition. The public debt should be funded, aud the rate of interest lowered. There is no doubt that, with our apprecia ted credit and the assurance given by the late election, that the people of the United States are disposed to repudiate their con tracts, either iu letter or spirit, long bonds could be negotiated to advantage, and a decisive step made toward specie payment. There should also he a stop put to the lavish appropriation of public moneys and lands for pet enterprises, under the plea of national necessity or public im provement. We are advised of several schemes, the projectors of which are only waiting the convening of Congress to spring them. One of these petitions is for aid to the extent of sixty-two millions of dollars asahegining. To all these schemes, to enrich a few audacious beggars, Con gress should turn a deaf ear. We presume there is not a Republican who does not recognize the fact that had the Democracy so organized in the cam paign as to make the important issue fi nancial rather than political, the success of their party would have been problem atic indeed. It was the folly of the New York Convention rather than the wisdom of Congress that saved the Republican par ty from defeat. Now, if (he Republicans want a continuation of power, their repre sentatives must forthwith proceed to pul the country on a more satisfactory finan cial basis, and study economy iu the ex penditures. There must be honesty, and an end of extravagance. This will re commend the Republican policy to the people, and secure a coutinuauce of their favor. From tbe New York Herald. General Grant’s popularity as the great victorious Union champion of the war has saved the party iu power for another Presidential term. In the elections of 1867 the popular tide had turned against the ruling Radicals, and nothing hut the name of Grant aud a campaign upon the issues of the war could have saved them from a crushing defeat in 1868. The elec tion of Grant and Uolfax, then, does not involve an endorsement by the people of the extreme measures and programme of the ruling Radicals of the present Con gress, hut it does iuvolve a verdict from the people in favor of a more conservative and conciliatory policy. General Grant was not the choice (except as Hobson’s choice) of the Ultra-Radical faction. They fought hiru off as long as possible, and at last they adopted him only from sheer necessity. The people have elected him in view of anew departure; they look to him for anew policy, and it is not only his right but his duty to take l»is position accordingly iu his inaugural address and iu the selection of his Cabinet, aud broad ly and indefinitely in his first message to Congress. We class the election of Butler among the general results «f this national tight, for it is a result of a much broader scope than his Congressional district, His re election involves a movement on the part of the Massachusetts Radicals to make him the leader of the next Congress, as the very man of all men to take the place of “Old Thud. Stevens.” It is known that Butler has been anything hut a worshiper of Gen. Grant, and it is known, too, that of all meu in the present Congress Butler has proved the best qualified, from his pe culiar character, to succeed “Old Thad.” We saw this on the impeachment trial, iu which Butler, though placed behind Bingham and Boutwell, took the position, from the sheer force of his indomitable will and superior abilities, as the chief manager of the prosecution. Sucii a man, in view of the circumstances of his re election, will be apt to assume tbe leader ship in the new Congress, and to persist in his demand at the risk of a disastrous mutiny in the party camp like that which which*resulted from the efforts of the old Democratic Southern oligarchy to sup plant Douglas in the Senate and put him in the background. In any event, the first question present ed in re I ere nee to Gen. Grant is, whether ho shall hold the Radical faction in Con gress in check, or submit to its demands. He has said that he will have up policy of his own to push against the will of the people; in which we have a sly hit at President Johnson; but a clear under standing of the will of the people will still enable Grant to maintain the dignity and the constitutional rights of his office much more successfully than they have been maintained by Johnson. The people have not approved the Radical processes of Southern reconstruction, and they ex pect some wholesome reforms iu the enor mous corruptions and abuses which have marked for the last few years the collec tions ami disbursements of the Treasury. Iu short, having rewarded to the utmost Gen. Grant for his great services in the field, aud having given him their fullest confidence as the proper man lo repair tiie blunders of Johnson and of Congress, the people expect him to avoid both extremes and to give us a sound, progressive, deci sive, and yet conciliatory and conserva tive administration. Meantime the Democrats, with New York, the Empire State, as a base of ope rations, have secured a strong position for a reorganization of their forces for 1872. Prom the Journal of Commerce. General Grant is not & Radical, aud we nave me liiguubi that it is his purpose to separate himself from the extremists, aud to rally around him a strong body of the better class of citizens, who shall draw unto them con genial allies from all quarters, and become, as they would deserve to he, the party of the country. He is also extremely aux ious to verify his party watchword, aud to lead the country at once to peace aud re newed prosperity. This is his purpose, and no one can deny that it is a noble am bition. Not himself a politician, and with but little experience or skill iu civil life, he does not as we think, at all realize the difficulties iu the way of such success as he covets. We do not say that he m ill fail, for he has undoubted pluck, aud, be sides four years of patronage at command, lie will also have the* advice and practical aid of some strong friends who do not usually intermeddle with public affairs. He will, of course, be first fiat’ered aud theu roundly abused by those whose alli ance he disdains. If riumuer is left out iu the cold, according to the present pro gramme, there will he heard at Wash ington a howl of rage every lime the wind is in the East. If the South is treat ed kindly and justly, as General Grant has privately promised, aud the measures of reconstruction he has indicated, as his choice are adopted, he will soou he classed by the radicals of his party as “a rebel sympathizer,” bent ou throwing away all the fruits of the national victory. There is a large class of politicians whose sole test of “a righteous peace” is some form of security for the permauteut ascendan cy of their party at the South. There can be no rest to the laud until that idea is abaudoned ; and if this concession is now made by their chosen leader, he will he stigmatized most unsparingly as a traitor to their cause. MACON, GA„ TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, JS6R EFFECT ON NEGRO LABOR OF CULTIVA TING LESS LAND. Our planting friends will soon be look ing forward to, aud arranging plans for another year. We desire to briug before them an asjiect of the labor question which j we have not seen discussed particularly, ! and which may have not suggested itself : to the minds of many of our readers. The existing tendency in Southern agriculture is to contraction in the area cultivated — substituting small grains for hoed when practicable, keeping up production ! to the requisite point by increasing the | fertility of the soil. We say this is the tendency, hut as yet we have uot approach ed the point of contraction praciL-ed iu old ■ and densely populated couutries—the large ! amount of open land in the South com pared with its population, still bolding out strong Inducements to follow the old plan. Suggest to a farmer that he should ; plant one acre instead of two aud make the one rich enough to yield as much as the two, and he replies, I’ll have to buy the manure to do mat, but tbe additional acre I will not have to purchase. I al ready own an abundance of land. Again, when I buy manure I am not certain it will pay me. I may get a worthless arti cle—or from present uncertainty about the kinds of manure and applying them, dis astrous failure may result. No, I’ll plant as many acres as I can—though each one makes but little, “rnauy a mickle makes a muckle.” We admit the force of these argumeuts—we know that, under the former labor system of the South, large numbers of men became wealthy by fol lowing these maxims. But almost every subject has two sides two it —let us be care ful that we look not at only one. The war left all the land, at the South, undestroy ed, hut half, at least, of its productive lal was practically annihilated. To say noth ing of the actual decrease in the negro population, since the war, the withdraw al of the women aud children from the fields, and a transfer of a considerable por tion of the rural male population to cities and towns, has diminished the etlective agricultural labor of the South fully one half. We cannot, therefore, if we would, cultivate as formerly all our open lands. On the contrary, we ought to bring the number of acres cultivated below the limit of what could be plowed and hoed with the present available laborers, (making up for diminished acreage by increasing fer tility of the land, through manuring, &c.,) in order that the demand for labor mag be-lcss. Nothing will give the negro such correct views of his situation aud relation to the white race, as tlie necessity of his seeking employment. As long as out planters cultivate as many acres as they possibly can, without reference to manur ing and careful cullure, just so long will the negro, realizing his importance, re main an unsteady anil unreliable laborer. [Southern Cultivator. ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE SHOCK IN PERU. Lima. Peru, S. A.,) Wednesday, Oct. 14, 1808. / The second shock of au earthquake was felt here at 5 o’clock on the morning of the ltd of October, but, fortunately, it came at au hour when most of the good people were still asleep, aud passed away with out doing any serious harm. It was quite severe, however, down the whole southern coast, aud shook down everything not already fallen iu Arequipa, Arica, aud other places iu the interior. September, October and April are generally the months for such visitations, but the last two months have developed singular oc currences on land aipi sea, and set the old predictions at defiance. A strange phe nomenon occurred at Taicahuana, on the southern coast of Chile, in connection with this last shock of an earthquake. A boiling hot spring bubbled up from the grouud, aud the water of the river Anda lieu increased so rapidly iu heat that shell fish were cast upon the beach, actu ally boiled! And eggs placed in the spring were cooked iu a moment, while fish and clams were vomited up boiling hot, and cooked ready for use. The sea rose aud fell rapidly during this disturb ance, and strange, low mutterings iu the air aud earth were incessant. There was not a breath of air stirring, not even enough to move a feather; yet the tide ran in and out witli increased violence, and the sea rose and fell sufficiently high to set ships all tossing about like toys on a miniature pond, breaking their anchors, turning them around anil around. The steamer Guayaquil was in great danger, turning over almost on her side, aud with out power to turn her head to the cur rents. The tide was so strong that the mouth of the river was chokeit with coal carried from a wrecked ship on the island of Quiriquina. The vertical motion of the earth is much more destructive and dread ed in time of an earthquake than the lat eral. But either shock is frightful enough. CROUP AND DIPTIIEHI A. In the Journal des Commaissances de Medicates, of Paris, Dr. Ozeuam publishes an interesting paper on the treatment of diptheria, attended with the formation of adventitious membranes. The specific which be uses is bromine, which has an elective action ou the pharnyx, the eelum pendulum and the larnyx; so, also, has the bromide of potassium. Three German experimentalists, Franz, Schmidt and Toube, were the first to prove that bromine introduced into the respiratory organs caused false me mb ranees to he formed in the larnyx of piegons. From this they concluded, according to the homoepahtio principle —similia simitbus curantur —that this element would cure croup and mem braueous diptheria, Dr. Ozeuam took the matter allopathically, and by experiment found that bromine first hardened the ad ventitious membrane, and theu reduced it to dust. This led him to conclude that both the homeopathic principles of medi cine coincide in certain cases ; hut, letting this question alone, his researches have gone further, aud show that bromine de stroys contagion as well as cholerine and prevents the spreading of epidem.es. This fact, of course, became a stepping stone to using bromine as a curative medicine, aud nearly all the cases treated with it have been successful. Asa preservative from epidemic diptheria, Dr. Ozeuam adminis ters from ten to twenty-live drops of bro mine in the course of tlie day in sugar and water, in Hie proportion of from tweuty tive to fifty grains, of the latter per drop. This liquid solution must be kepi, in the dark, siuce ligtit would cause the for mation of hydrobromic acid. The vial must he kept well stopped, and its con tents must he changed as soou as the light amber color lias disappeared. To the patient the solution is administered in drops, hourly, in a table spoonful of sugar aud water, so as to give from one to two grammes of the former in the course of twenty-four hours. In cases of croup, i>r. oa-uQtii presci U/w f -*-"iirations of bro mine, A basin with hot water is before the patient; a large pinch of bro mide of potassium or else common kitcheu salt is thrown in, aud then, in the course of five minutes, three tea-spoonfullsof the above bromided solution are added. The patient inhales the vapor of bromine thus evolved through a glass fuuuel. By this means the author has cured upward of 150 cases of croup, or diptheria, with ouiy five failures. The Perils of Print. —lt is not always safe to put one’s thoughts into print, un less one is quite certain that circumstan ces will never arise to cause a change of opinion. An instance of the sort is furn ished by the New York Tribune. On the 9th of November, IS6O, Greely wrote and printed this: If the cotton States shall become sati-< tied that they can do better out of the Union than iu it, we insist on letting them go in peace. The right to secede may be a revolutionary one, but it exists nevertheless. * * * We must ever resist the right of any State to remain in the Union and nul lify and defy the laws thereof. To with draw from'the Union is quite another matter; and whenever a considerable sec tion of our Union shall deliberately re solve to go out, we shall resist all coercive measures designed to keep it in. We hope never to live in a republic whereof one section is pinned to the other by bayonets. It is estimated that the rain fall in the Northern States is 40 inches; the South ern States, 50; Minnesota, Western Cali fornia, and Colorado, 30; Nebraska aud Western Arizona, 15 inches. This is a general average for a series of years. THE WOMEN OK THE MJITIi The following beautiful compliment to the daughters of Mississippi is from a recent address delivered by Geuera! Albert Pi ke in De Soto County, Mississippi: _ “Mothers, wives, sisters, daughters of the men of Mississippi, I cannot speak to you. No angel has touched my lips with the burning coals from the altar of the sacrifices. I leave to others the fine phrases and the empty compliments that you would not value. What you have done iu the past is sufficient guarantee of your heroism and devotion in the future. You have more than rivalled, you have excelled, the women of Saragossa and Verona, and tbe Hebrew matrons and maidens who helped to defend the Holy City of Jerusalem against the legions of Vespasian. You will also do your duty in the days, dark or bright, that are lo come. You will teach these who love your fidelity to principle amid all temptations, to prefer honor to prosperity, aud the dangerous truth to the safe aud profitable falsehood; constancy and courage, and the manly and hopeful endurance that befits a man. You are the conquerers who take all men captive, and whose silken fetters, stronger than tempered steel, we are glad aud proud to wear. Into our sou s your eyes shine like stars, aud we bow down aud worship, and in love fiud new strength to undertake great enterprises or endure great calamities, o! (lowers brought to us by the augels from the Gardeti of Para dise, you bloom her to bless, to encourage, audio console. We are all your willing slaves. Age gives no exemption from that service; for, in the sad and sober autumn of our days, we still covet the liviug smile and the loving look that can j.e our* no more. The sober autumn of .’:.6r days! For you, the bright and glad anticipations of the future, the dreams that make youth’s happiness; for us the memories of the past, of joys and sorrows intermingled, of the hopes and loves, and bitter disappointments and cruel losses, of the days that are no more. Our country, also, our own dear Southland that you love so well, has its memories of the past, of a glad, bright dawn and a morning full of promise, that darkened into a day full of gloom, and (error, and disaster. Out of that darkness the faces of our dead look sadly, and pityingly, and lovingly upon us. They have not died in vain. The Jam! they died for shall yet reap the fruit of the great sacrifice. Our country, also, has its hopes, that are not delusive, for the future. To it, the sober autumn days have not come—nor even those of life’s summer. For it, the rosy days of spring have not departed, though the immortelles planted by angels bloom on many graves.” MR. KOEUUUK ON AMERICAN AFF Vllts. A Curious Kxpluuation. Mr. Roebuck made an election speech at Sheffield on the 17th ultimo, aud in the course of it the following questions were put aud replies given ; Mr. Wilmot said he wished to put a question of great importance, not omy to Sheffield, but to the community at large. He should like to ask Mr. Roebuck if he diil not use his utmost endeavors in the American conflict to bring about a war be tween this country and the United States [confusion] in order to promote the slave holders' rebellion. [Cheers.] Mr. Roebuck : Sir, if you will allow me, 1 will go through that matter completely. The American rebellion brokeout, and all I did was—and I had the sanction of as targe a meeting In Sheffield [Cheers] as ever was met together—all I asked was that we should acknowledge the Southern States as sovereign and indeoemletßStates. [“Hear, hear,” and oheers.J Now, I will tell you distinctly, J will make frank a breast of it, and you shall not mistake me. My belief is that the American people by aud-by will be so numerous that they will be all-powerful among mankind. I have ever found—l beg you to listen and think upon what I say -I have ever found that persous of despotic power—that is of uncontrolled power—do not use that pow er as they ought to do. My object was to prevent the United States from having that immense uncontrolled power, and I said • “Here is the opportunity ; we can take it with perfect safety.” No war would have followed—there the gentle man makes a mistake “Here is au op portunity to acknowledge these States, just as America acknowledged Hungary when she wasin rebellion against Austria ; we have the sanction of American exam ple ; acknowledge the existence of those States.” The moment that acknowledg ment had come, away would have gone the blockade of the shores of America. There would have been an end to the American civil war—very much, I believe, to the benefit of the several States them selves —and if thathad been done I believe that mankind would have received an im mense benefit. Gentlemen, if you will permit me I will tell you a story. After that meeting in Paradise Square I went back to Loudon, anil in a day or two it was a necessity of the case—for a member of Parliament there is often that necessity —to wait upon the Prime Minister. I waited upon Lord Palmerston. The mo ment I got into his room—he was stand ing writing at his desk as he always did— he turned round and put out his hand and said, “Roebuck, Roebuck, what a devilish good speech you made at Sheffield.” [Cheers and laughter.] I said : ‘‘My lord, I am greatly obliged to you, and flattered for the kind phrase you liaye used about my speech”—though it was rather a hard one! you know [laughter]—“l am very much flattered.” “Flattered?” he said ; “why, i am entirely of your opinion, hut I date not officially say so.” (Now, that struck me, according to the old woman’s phrase, all of a heap, that a man in power should say to me openly and without dis guise that he was entirely of my opinion, and lead the people of England directly the opposite way. That, said I, is modern political morality. [Laughter.] 1 did my work with the gay and pleasant old lord, and bowed my way out of his room. Advantage* or Imported Stock. Editors Southern Cultivator: I see an ar tide in your September uumber on (’lies- ! ter Pigs, Devon Cattle, etc. In 1855 I crossed my hogs with Irish Grazier and j Suffolk. The result was, at fifteen months oid, my hogs, after ordinary treatment, weighed from 175 to 200 pounds. I re member on one occasion I only fed two weeks after their taking run of pasture. From my absence duriug four years of war, and carelessness of overseers, my male hog was killed, and other stock, such as the country could afford, were suf fered to mix. With the same treatment, at 18 to 22 months old, after fattening in a close pen nine weeks, my hogs averaged in 1806, 151 pounds—in 1867,131 pounds. I know in the nine weeks eacli year, they ate twelve bushels or corn to the head, which would have bought more meat than they made. Why this, Mr. Editor? Simply from the fact that they were of a U7tii/>h would not fatten until fully 1 grown, or two years old. I have now a Chester pig five months old. My only' fears are he will choke to death from fat. My opinion is we should get the best breeds of stock the country can produce, and to my mind the Chester excels any I have ever seen. They fatten freely at any age, and have the largest hone to build on to carry flesh, which combination of qualities is uncommon. My experience iu liog-raising, is to reduc-6 our stock, push our pigs, giving the sows while suckling every possible attention—giving the pigs, to twelve mouths oid, what they can eat, and then kill them. No hog two years old ever paid for what it ate, unless fed on slops—l mean in this country, where they are fed from the crib I fear, Mr. Editor, our friend Capell, over in Mississippi, is like a man I knew, who bought a very fine milk cow. She soou failed—from four dropped down to one and a half gallons milk. He said fine stock was an imposition. Stating ttie failure iu his cow’s milk, a friend asked, ‘‘what do you feed yourcow on?” “Why, shucks and chaff—just what I give the oth ers.” Many others depend on careless hands to feed. I believe iu breeds in everything, and more attention should he given in that way. Open to Conviction. The Darkes’ to be Thrown- Overboard.— 5Ye understand that since the simial defeat sustain ed in Georgia on Tuesday last by the hosts of Radicalism, a meeting of white leaders of the party has been held and an association formed, the object of which is to be the exclusion of the colored peo ple from politics, and the formation of a white Re publican party in Georgia; these men being satis fied that universal suffrage will not work, and that j fehe measure only brings odium upon themselves I and party. — Siw. News, ( Jth. SEWARD AND WEBB. F.valiaritir* and Taste* of » Couple of VntagunU lical Politicians. G. A. Townsend, in a recent letter from Washington, says of Seward and Webb: Seward is a luxurious character If he travels any where lie wauts a whole ship. He buys seven million’s worth of manifest destiny for a morning’s shopping, and gives Uiarenee or any old “chum” a mes sengership, to England, or Turkey, or In dia. if they wish to go over to the Hal Mabille. Nothing short of a locomotive and a drawing-room #ar will keep dignity with his silver ticket. At the Govern ment printing oflice lie has astatTofsworn printers who set up his diplomatic copy and spare his eyes the pain of reading manuscript, a princeof the blood was he. Marshal Murray sees that he gets the real Oporto vintages, and that his Burgundy has eomestaight from the vaults at Beauve or Dijon. Here he finds flavor and cheer fulness for all those mark Tapley speeches and dispatches, which used to assure us that we were happy and that he would lookout for us. Certainly no man iu the Government has a softer thing than Mr. Seward, anil I often think with admira tion, when Payne or Powell stabbed the Secretary, how admirable were bis tactics in dropping off the bed, roliiug under it aud curling himself up like a roccoon ora hedge-hog. Iu playing possum, he is a geuius. With a broken jaw, he yet con tinued to use his quill, and we have never heard a moan out of him from that day t° thi9. Johnson tried to rope in Seward’s disloeat and Jaw, on his Douglas trip, as a {Kilitical argument, but. the Secretary talked mnoli that me people it would get well before he were twice niar lied. Personally, Mr. Seward makes no reference to the escape from assassination. He says that Pavne was an unmannerly fellow, but lie asked that the latter’s life he spared ; for Seward would have wished to give the fellow a good dinner, warm him up with a pint of Asti and philoso- i phize with him upon the idiosyncracy of I breaking a great statesman’s cranium, j The egotism of Seward Is delightful. He I can show you his linger prints in every monument of the State Get him down | to a good square talk about himself, and 1 he will magnify himself, l>y bis misty j generalizations, iike a wind-mill in a fog. Altogether, lie is Epicurus come again. | Only tender partridges disappear from his I plate. Thereisa poem of Tenuysou which | is a very little like him, referring, I be- ! lieve to a man who said the earth was beautiful, and “ with a lack-luster, dead blue eye revolved his rounded periods.’’ GENERAL JAMES WATSON WEBB. One of Seward’s oldest friends, a gentle man singularly like him in appetite and refinement, is James Watson Webb, Sew ard’s Minister to Brazil. He is the bravest piece of modern chivalry that ever lived out of a slave State. Fighting and writing are equally agreeable to him. He was shot in the knee by T. F. Marshal’, at Wilmington, Delaware in the month of June, 1842, and it being contrary to the laws of New York to send or accept a challenge, Webb was committed to prison for two years. Air. Seward was at that time Governor, and he had expressed himself strongly against duelling and in favor of punishing its abettors ; but Webb had been his oracle. He went hack on the principle, and pardoned the General forthwith, for which lie luid himself open to great censure. Webb was the original challenger of poor Cilley, whom Graves afterward killed at Marlboro, near Uiis city, and while Cilley was standing up against des tiny, Webb and his possee were hunting him up with rilles to force him to try au other shot with a fresh man. Beyond this bail episode and a good deal of characteristic wrangling, street fighting, etc., Webb is a splendid piece of Quixotism. He mashed the head of James G. Bennett most dreadfully once, follow ing him into a broker’s shop, where Ben nett fell on his knees and begged to be spared. The General caned him with a dignified equanimity anil apologized with the toe of ins boot. Air. Bennett, who is the most enterprising reporter in either hemisphei e, stopped ou the way to a pump to write a description of the outrage, and it was an episode in the early history of the Herald, as everybody who wanted to “lick” Bennet bought a copy, and this immediately trebled the circulation. General Webb, being a high liver, has not probably accumulated a great deal of money, hut he is the most luxuriously Ducal journalist that exists. At Rio Janeiro, I am told, he sets a sumptuous table, displays a hospitality that takes your breath, lights such cigars as Alohain med in heaven keeps for his private smokiug, and makes you leel a9 if you were come to the alabaster lamps of the Prince of Como, who gives away gold snuff-boxes as if they were Confederate money. as a husband, General Webb is married to a sweet little lady, and, though a sexagenarian his family increas es annually, aud every princely scion is more beautiful than the last. Asa diplo mat he is firm as a rock, considers the army of the United States as his private six-shooter, aud the navy there of as his ducking gun. King Pedro hears him come as Louis XI. heard the iron-shod foot of Nemours. In person lie is stately and portly together, florid and benignant of face, with beautifully luxuriant white hair, and in all his impassibility of tem perament you recognize the type of char acter that made Bayard and Ihigueselin Gaston de Foix,a man iu mail, restive under law, a Wallenstein among authors, without a purse, but with a sword and a head. PAfSHEMiKR POSTAGE.-NEW SCHEME. I Mr. Raphael Brandon (says All the Year I Hound) is the author of anew scheme of j railway organization, it is simply an adaptation of Sir Rowland Hill’s post otlice scheme to railway passenger traffic. ! He proposes to treat a passenger like a let- ! ter, and send him anywhere over the i kingdom, regard less of distance, at a fixed ! minimum charge. A three penny shall j take you, third class, any journey in one j direction, you like to go, whether from ! Ludgate liiil to Suydenham, or from John i O’Groate’a to Land’s Hud. If you prefer 1 second class, you will take a six penny I stamp; if you will luxuriate in first class, I your postage will amount to one shilling. I This sounds as mad as tiie penny postage ) innovation sounded at first, but Mr. Bran- j duo quietly proceeds to argue in his pam- | phlet that it would pay everybody, share holders, the public and the Government, besides giving renewed impetus to ir 'os try of all sorts. The sum proposed tTj’be charged for passenger postage looks ridi culously small. In reality it is not so much less than the average fare at pres ent paid for the average journey as might j be supposed. In 1806, in round numbers, 3,600,000 passenger trains ran over 71,000,- 000 miles, carrying 352,000,000 passengers. The trallic produced £14,824,862. This gives an average of nearly 21 miles and 73 passengers for each train, which is ahout 3] passengers per mile, giving an average of for fare, at present paid, per average journey, of 14d. only. Now, says Mr. Brandon, give me an universal 3d. fare every when , and I will promise you six times the tratlic, which will give the united railway interest an excess of £4,- 000,000 of receipts, with very little, if any, addition to the expense of carrying an in creased number of pas-engers. But that is merely supposing each person paid but 3d. It is calculated, however, that of the increased numberof travelers one-seveuth would ride first edass at a is., and two sevenths second class at 6d. This would raise the annual return to £32,000,060 for passenger traffic, instead of £14,750,000, as at present. Does someone say that the analogy between carrying a passenger and carrying a letter is false, because a letter is but half an ounce, and a passenger is really a meaty hundred,weight ? Which is, by far, the most expensive part of the pos tal system? Ihe transit of a letter or its delivery? Its delivery. Granted, then, that the transit of a passenger is something more expensive than that of a letter, the passenger saves the most costly part of the postal outlay, because he delivers himself; the balance is, therefore, on the passen ger’s side, for the additional expense of transit is nothing to the saving in distri bution and delivery. Ear The following is attributed to the en of a distinguished candidate for the rst office in the gift of the people: Into the pure and crystal cup A gill I poured of ancient rye, And as with this I mixed it up The water smiled—and so did I. MTPPKRNONG URAPK AND \\ INK. Editors Southern Cultivator— l see some of our Northern grape growers are much exercised on the subject of making wiue from the above named grape, liecause yooil wiue cannot be umde from it with out usjng either sugar or brandy as a pre servative. All the reply we have to make is, neither can, or i 9,t/ood wine madefrom any of the Northern varieties without the Bu S ar in some form, or hraudy. ’* bat mean those large piles of boxes aud casks piled up about the wine establish ments, marked sugar candy, as we are in formed from credible sources? Do they use sugar candy land doubtless the candy might frequeutly beomitted) for manuring the vines, or w hat do they use it for? Now the truth lies just here —no good wine is ever made either North or South. . without adding sugar or brandy Even that old celebrated wine called'Madeira, had from 20 to 25 percent of brandy added to it. Tbe Scuppernong will make as good wiue without sugar or baudy as tbe t atawba, Isabella, Concord, Crevelling, lona, or even Herbemont’s .Madeira—tbe latter being the best of tbe lot. We have tested all of them within the last ten years, and mauy others also. All make a sour, weak, astringeut wine, which will keep souud—that is, it will not run into vinegar, if properly treated; but who wants lo drink such vile slut!', or who will purchase it ? It has very little claim to be called aood wine. In reply to theitiquiriesof “Hiberuious,” we would advi-.e the plan ting of the Hart ford Prolific, Perkins, Concord, Soupjier nong and Thomas Grape vines b> form un arbor, ripening in succession horn July to October. Th«* tScupi>erii<>iig i* a large white grape, ripeniug in Sepieoib r. The I h> mas grape is a seedling from the Scup- Pernong and ripens earlier, we are in formed, and of black color. The Flowers is also a seedling from the Seupperuoiig— ripens near a month later. The berry is smaller and sweeter, and the clusters larger than its paiem. We have thoroughly tested the Texas Mustang grape, and find it entirely worth less. It is the most rampant grower I ever saw, but the fruit, is so acid that a tnan can hardly ever speak a pleasant word after tasting it. It is the most acid fruit I ever saw or tasted. The berries are jet black ami oblate in form —grow singly or in very small clusters. The last we have heard of Dioscorea Batatas was, that the Chinese had got hold of the lower ends of them and were pulling them through J. Van Burkn. Clarkesville, Ga , Sept. 13, 1868. A Couple Makrikd by a Woman in a Ihkatre.—A wedding took place in San Francisco recently, somewhat novel in its character, vide the following ac count, copied from the Alta California: Maguire’s Opera House, iu its palmiest days, never contained a greater throng than on last evening. They convened to listen to a poem ami a lecture, and to wit ness the nuptial rite, (he leading spirit being a lady, and that lady Laura Cuppy. The fairer portion of creation outnum bered the sterner. The first part of the programme consisted of the leading of u poem ou “The Beautiful Land.” Next followed au erudite hut brief essay on “ Radicalism,” in which the lords of crea tioni got some hard hits. Madame Cuppy invited the audience to remain and wit ness, if they so desired, the marriage cere mony, which would be performed by her self, she being, as teaciier in u religious organization, clothed, legally and legiti mately, with the right to carry out the rite. Inasmuch as this was what the crowd was there for, nobody left the theatre. Thereupon a young and fine looking couple advanced from behind the scenes, and at this most novel hymeuiai altar were they nailed (we hope for life) by a female. The ceremony was brief and im pressive. “You do solemnly swear, Abigail, in the presence,” etc., “ to take,” etc., our readers know the formula l»etter than we (a bachelor) can give it. At the conclusion of this very novel entertain ment the parties letired beyond the scenes, the groom not forgetting to drop a liberal amount of coin in the purse of tbe fair functionary who had made himself and his so happy. A LITERAL TURN OF MIND. We hear of a very polite and impressive gentleman who said to a youth in the street, “Boy, may I inquire where Robin son’s store Is?” “Certainly,Sir,”said the boy, very respectfu ly. “Well, Sir,” said the gentleman, after waiting awhile, “where is it?” “1 have not the least idea, your honor,” said the urchin. There was another boy who was accos ted by an ascetic middle aged lady, with, “hoy, I want to go to Dover street.” “Well, ma’am ; why don’t you go there, then ?” replied the boy. One day on Lake George, a party of gentlemen strolling among the beautiful islands of the lake with rather bad luck, espied a little fellow with a red shirt and au old straw hat, dangling a line over the side of a boat. “Hello! boy,” said one of them, “what are you doing?” “Fishin’,” came the answer. “Well, of course,” said the gentleman, “but what do you catch ?” Here the hoy became indignant at so much questioning, and replied, “Fish, you fool, whatdo you ’spose ?” “Did any of you ever see an elephant’s skin ?” inquired a teaciier of au infant class. “1 have,” shouted a six-year old from the foot of the class, “Where?” asked the teacher. “On the elephant’s back,” said the boy, laughing. Sometimes tins sort of wit degenerates or rises, as the case may he, into punning, as when Flora pointed pensively to the heavy masses of clouds in the sky, saying, “I wonder where those clouds are going ?” and her brother replied, “I think they are going to thunder.” Also, as in the follow ing dialogue :—“Hello, there! how do you sell wood?” “By the cord.” “How long lias it been cut ?” “Four feet.” “I mean how long has it been since you cut it ?” “No longer than it is now.” And also as when Patrick O’Flynn was seen with bis collar and bosom sadly begrimtried, and was indignantly asked by his officer, “Pat rick O’Flynn, how long do you wear a shirt?” and he replied very promptly, “Twenty-eight inches, rtir.” Awfcl Doings Down in Flokiua.—The recon structed government of Florida is in a bad wav. Governor Heed lias bees impeached of high crimes and misdemeanors, including lying and cmbezzle ment, bribery and corruption, usurpation of pow er, &t\, and Lieutenant Governor Gleason has is sued a proclamation that, in consequence of these proceedings, he has easumed the functions of the Executive. Hut the Governor in a counterblast announces that he is still and will be the Governor until set aside by the courts, and before one of tin: courts accordingly the imbroglio has been carried up. These high and mighty officials of Florida, Legislature, Governor and Lieutenant Governor, if we are not mistaken, are all of the order of radi cals and carpet-baggers; and this squabble into which they have fallen, it is apparent, 1- all about the spoils and the division thereof. We guess, too, that a detachment of United Btab - troops will at last be required to settle the dispute, which seems to be the Alpha and Omega of the Congres sional system of Southern restoration. We shall look, however, for something better from Presi dent Grant.— Xew York Herald, Hth. The National Debt Statement. —Mr. McCul loch gives us a more flattering statement of the public debt this month than for several months past. Hut no correct idea can l»: formed either of the condition of the Treasury or the modification of tin; national indebtedness from a single month's statement. It is necessary to take a longer period to understand whether the debt is being increased or reduced. The revenue eomes in irregularly and the expenditures are greater at one time than an other. Consequently we can only judge correctly by taking the year’s exhibit of the national finan ces. W e find, then, that tin; debt was, on Novem ber 1, 1867, $2,49i,504,450, and on November 1, IVW, $,527,129,552, which make the increase of the national debt for the last year amount to $35,625,- 102. It may be said that this increase arises from the bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad Company, but it is nevertheless a positive augmentation of the debt, and that in time of peace and when the income of the Treasury amounts to nearly four hundred millions a year. No comment is necessa ry; the figures speak for themselves, and show how recklessly extravagant the government has become and how wretchedly our national finances are managed.—A? Y. Herald. Good for Gekrit Smith.— Gerrit Smith is out in a long letter, dated the 7th instant, addressed to General Grant. In . regard to the South Mr. Smith says : “ I cannot forbear saying that no* small ground of my rejoicing in your election is I your charitable judgment and generous | treatment of ti e South. Warmly did I approve the easy terms on which you al lowed General Lee to surrender. Your subsequent report of the temper of the South, after a too hasty tour through it, showed that you were capable of forming a charitable judgment of even a recent foe.” VOL. LX., NO 37 THIS PREKIIMKV* 111 hk ai Rr|i»rt of General Howard Special Ilispstch to the Cincinnati (, a/ , ti . j Washington, Nov. 6.—Tbe an mi ,i , rrt or General O. <>. Howard O n *,p lier the Freednien's Hur.au, fVZ i»“ w!L D ?h y< i^ !r 2u,h ’ is, ‘ s ' ; lhe tM,cr,Marv «f War. a full ' pe?m?2lnn aunot DOW '** but ' VeU to i >ri,,t -M.m.unry of he Origin , tOD! * kl ‘ ~ri’ r " Os greg de el*,"* rec «>"»‘e..dat.oi 1 8. | | 1( . ag ?wfwe”r?„no^:"“ ' r ,l "’ School ftunL t ‘ >a ~luml,iM •• • ■ - Kes;ular appropriation tond’.''"' sh’-i ! Total It Bbou and lie explained that the refugees «M»d freedmen’s fund above specified j. obtained from rents and sales of old nr.... ofur’ifft*' that t,H> iiur,au bus sl.’., nlfiL t r - ° u . ha,ul - Tlu ‘ school fund, SO t h!led, is obtained from sales of Confede rate property, and tbe Bureau Inis $7 v M | hluUlf! The unexpended in Tr 1 t0 ,n ,t> C ‘*? ht ° f ,Jlt * bureau are m and oMh» Cen for carrying it on to the eud ot the year, and for sustaining ti e educational and claim division work an other year. The Burt an expires by law at New ears, and those two branch. > eover all its operations after that dale. I he claim division acts as agent for co!- ored soldiers, preparing their claims for settlement without fees. During the .. it lias settled 1,9H5 such claims, and it has ?’ffl,“ ore ,‘ n Process of settlement. It has also paid over to colored claimants m bounty fuud, and *12,557,363 from tin n lV bounty aud prize momy fund, and |,al of those two funds the sum of Si 41.; 00 Vt ., on deposit the Treasur. Department* . be paid over as soon as claimants ,S„t themselves aud are identified. Then has passed through this division from ' l.e treasury during the year the sum 1 $3,440,n0n m checks and certificates f.„ the settlement of colore.l soldiers’ and sailors claims. These figures of w., r k for this year indicate what will be one ot u,, two features of the work for next v .a, The educational branch istheoi.lv „ t |„ r one that will exist after New Year’s I K repoits show that in some acetous the whites have co-operated with the ellort .nl.bUo,a" 1 but ,ui *ny parts great hostihty st,|i cxisu. On the whole, the exhibit for the year is satisfactory, us in. dealing good prog, css. The number ot day and night schools reported is l,s;il with 12,1195 teachers, aud 104.3:27 pupils which is a considerable increase from lust year. Tbe freedmen own 41s school buildings, aud during the year they have paid $1(11,131 in tuition. The total cost of school work for the year was $12,000,000, .and which Hit* freedmen themselves imre ($360,000.) benevolent societies, S7OO non • and bureau, $940,000. It also deserves mention that fifteen normal schools and colleges, all made permanent institutions by charter, have been founded, and are already sending out teachers to carry on the work of education, and co-operate in the labors of the future. The work done by tbe bureau in other directions during the past year will he shown when the annual report of General Howard is made public. His recommen dations for the Secretary’s consideration are that a special appropriation he placed in the bunds of the military commanders of Virginia and Mississippi to continue for another year the hospitals at Rich mond and Y’icksburg ; that an appropria tion be asked for the hospital in Wash ington, where there are many sick persons whose support and treatment is not prop erly chargeable to the Corporation ; that the hospital at New Orleans be continued under the charge of the department com mander ; that Congress make a grant of land to aid public schools of every grade in Washington; and, finally, in view of the early closing of the bureau, it is pro posed, unless Congress otherwise directs, to trausfer, at a nominal price, all the school buildings now in the possession of the bureau to the corporate bodies aud trustees who now are there, provided that they guarantee the continued use aud oc cupation of the same for school purjHises. KT.EOANT i'KESKNTS TO La Oil s.—The habit of making expensive presents to ladies, in the shape of jewelry, &c., is be coming somewhat common in “good so ciety.” No expensive present from a gentleman who is not a relation should be accepted by a lady, unless it consists of fiowers. If a gentleman feels disposed to compliment a lady at tbe expense of his bank account, the compliment should he in such a form that it may pass away, fade and he forgot ten, like other compliments. We refer, of course, to presents between parties not engaged to he married to each other. It is not unlre.pient occurrence, now, for a lady to receive a prettily enclosed package containing a piece of jewelry, or even a “Bet,” from a gentleman who has no claim upon her attention or no partic ular right to her smiles. Even married ladies are not free from this impertinence, and the custom lias been gaining ground so rapidly that some of them hardly know whether to be insulted or pleased. One lady of our acquaintance received a very beautiful set of jewelry by express from a “friend” not many weeks ago. Hhe n., turned it to the express company, saying that as a receipt must have been given for so valuable a parcel, the Company must know the name of the sender. Hhe re: quested that it be returned to him accord ingly. Ine most Important objection to the new custom is that under the old rule -o ciety had a protection against corruption which it would not have if ladies c one to regard it as respectable to wear jewelry., giveri to them by stringers. Ila gentle man is at liberty to make valuable pre ents to whom he likes, his influence to wards evil is in proportion to his wealth. • Fight Between Wasps and Hats A couple of farm servants on a plantation in the southern part of Alabama, who had been asleep in a loft of a large barn were awakened one morning recently, by a great com motion in the hay mow beneath them, ami on looking down saw a scene which is probably without a parallel Swarming in through an open window was a perfect cloud of wasps, who wire attacking a young army of rats, whose squealinghad aroused the two farm hands. The rats stood upon their hind legs, in a perfect paroxysm of rage and fear, and guashed their teetli at the wasps, who stung them remorselessly. The bodies of the rats were terribly swollen by the poi son of the insects ; and in their rage and fury they turned and hit each other. 'The hay loft was strown with the dead bodies of the rats, until at last the survivors lied from the scene and left the wasps masters of the situation.— Exchanye paper Howto Manage Female Mi tinkhs Speaking of the recent mutiny of women employed at the cigar manufactory at Madrid, the Kpoca gives the following humorous description of the line of action pursued by a certain director of one of these establishments in a similar emer gency : The women having quit work, left the manufactory in a body, and with menac ing gestures and angry shouts hastened toward the office of the director. The tumult reached the ears of the latter, lie asked what it meant. “The hands have mutinied, and have come to demand what?” “Justice from your excellency. The whole of them insist upon coining in to see you, and they de clare they will come in by force if you won’t admit them otherwise.” It was a difficult dilemma. The director reflected. At length he exclaimed: “Good ! Go and tell them I am ready to receive them.” “Yes, sir,” “But as there are so many of them, I cannot see them all. They must delegate three of their number for the interview . The messenger was about to retire with the decision, when the director cried after him : “Wait a minute. The three delegates must be the three oldest ami ugliest ot the lot.”. . „ , Strange to say to say. Bie director ne\er received the deputation. Maine has a population of 700,000. She has 4 ’ towns, each with a population of three or more thousand. Portland has 35 000 • Bangor 20,000; Lewiston 10,000. No other town reaches 10,000.