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J. W. BURKE k CO. Georgia Journal & Messenger. J. \v. Bimiiß Ac;«., Proprietor*. A, NV. BECite. 1 ... S.BOSE, ]**". RATES OF SIBSC BU'TIOA. DAILY. Ten ars per annum. . Five dollars for six .non lis. Two dollars an 1 titty cents for three month >. One dollar tor four months. WEEKLY. Three dollars per annum. One dollar and titty cents for six months. one dollu j for four months. J. W. BURK E & CO rHURSDAY, DEC. ytß6l, NEGRO LABOR PREFERABLE. We are exceedingly gratified to nee the cordial endorsement given our views w ith reference to negro labor for Southern fanning purposes, l>y our cotemporai iea au«l correspondents. A communication upon this subject will be found in another column of our p iper this morning, from a gentleman of experience and intelligence. We call attention to it. We are confirmed every day, and every time we think tile matter over, in the opin ion tiiat negro labor, at present, is much preferable to any other for our purposes. To try and get rid of it without fully ami patiently trying the experiment of utiliz ing it, would tie worse than folly, i here is no other nation under the sun that would he guilty of such impolicy. Suppose the English landowners were to turn away all their laborers, and import Germans, or French, or Russian peasants to fill (heir places, what would be thought of litem'.’ We are bound, from motives of humanity, if nothing e) e, to give the negro a tair chalice upon his merits. He can scarcely he said to have had it yet, on acountof the devil's imps of scalawag and carpet bag emissaries who have poisoned and de bauched him. He will not be troubled so much hereafter, we hope, and will listen more earnestly to the appeals <>t reaso j and self interest. We have every confi dence in his capacity, in connection with the small farm system, to do for the South what Providence put him here to do! Make it, under the white man's guidance, liie abode of a thrift, prosperity and progress scarcely paralleled in the dreams ot the euthusiast. At auy rate, we are willing to live here witii him and risk the upshot of tiie experiment, let it he what it may. We shall never desert our country till the test has b.ett fairly made. Some people apprehend an insuperable obstacle to tiie realization of these hopes and beliefs in the fact that the negro will vote. Tiiat is what make us doubt, but we ouly doubt. We are not at all certain that it will be. We deplore, and condemn, and despise, and loathe this thing of pn limited negro suffrage as much as any living man, but if it can’t he cured, ap parently, it must he made tiie most of. We propose to do that very thing by giv ing the negro a fair chance to make him self an essential element in the material wealtii and prosperity of the country. The more educated and well-to-do he be comes, the more his power at the ballot box will cease to he dreaded. It will be used for the South, and not against it, In the main. When the negroes know their real interests —and they will know them just as soQii as they are educated and be gin to accumulate property —they will vote with their white friends. Ten years from this date, if the South is at all let alone, she will have the best class of la borers, and as reliable a voting population as any in the world. We are willing to risk our reputation as a prophet upon the result, at any rate. <;o to flow ing. We reiterate ihe advice so sensibly giv en by our cotemporary of the Southern Recorder to our planting friends, that if they have picked out all their cotton, to turn their attention to breaking up well, and deeply, their fields. Now is the time to kill insects, eggs, and worms that bur row in the ground for protection from the cold frosts. Turn up your soil, and you will kill them, and thereby save the an noyance of cut worms, &c. The rain and frosts will mellow and manure your lands and spring will find you in a good condi tion to put in seed at an early period. Save your ohi lands, and give them a passing thought, for it is better to reclaim than to open lands to Impoverish them. f|ead our agricultural column, aud learn the importance of deep plowing. It will pay, and pay well. We were talking with an old farmer of Baldwin the other day, and he remarked : “Don’t tell me about California or Texas ; I would not give old Baldwin for any place in the world. All we have got to do, is to pay attention to the plowing and manuring of our lands, aud we can make us much as we want. We have as good a soil as any farmer needs; and all that is wanted is careful and systematic labor. I am just begin ning to know how to appreciate our old county and its resources, and how to plant wisely, though I have been at it all my life. The destruction of our negro prop erty will open oureyes to small farms well cultivated. Before the war, I dashed along, as did all the rest. Had negroes and mules plenty, and did not care much about the soil. Open utw plantations when I wore out my old; made money, it is true, but at the expense of good laud badly abused.” We agreed with our friend, that we had as good land as any sensible man needed, and all that it needed was sensible culture. Those who have never tried fall plowing as preparatory to spring planting, if they will but try it. will ever after make it an important point to see that their landsare well broken up in the fall. Old land can be better recuperated, ami pay better, than the cutting down and opening of new. The slumps, roots, &c., will reti rd and bother, while the oldlaud is free from all such, and simply wunts a judicious cul ture to show you what it can do when planted. Pollard Responsible.—J. Maishall Hanna, Pollard’s associate editor of the Southern Opinion, in a card just published mak es tire follow ing statement with refer ence to his connection with the article that caused Pollard’s death : “ I was tlie associate editor of the Southern Opin ion ; as sueli I wrote the most of the articles that have appeared in its eolnmns. Much 1 wrote of my owu volition, aud more I wrote by special direction of the editor -in-chief. 1 pre|>ared that article which cost the editor liis life. It irm prepared by his direr turn. Afterwards, convinced that is publi cation would tie impolitic if not unsafe, I usked that tiie article might be modified, expunged alto gether, or the names left blank, or filled with ini tials that would have left the. ease without ‘ a local habitation.’ The article hud passed from the con trol of the associate; it was then the property of the editor—to print or withhold. Itc was respon sible, notl ; and no matter how much I had desired the assumption, U. Hives Pollard always assumed and never evaded, the responsibility of every line and paragraph printed in the Opinion. ‘ lan, jxmtibte " was his invariable response to applicants for redress.” —Most of the plauters in Holmes comity, Mississippi, In anticipation of the tux being renewed upon cotton, are sowing wheat. —A large stove fouudry is to be estab lished at Borne, Ga THU \K«R« PREFERABLE, WITH ALL HIS FAI'LTS. Messrs. Editors:—! have read every article in yours and other papers since the war that I could lay my hands upon, on the subject of immigration, the proper management of labor, >tec. We want im j migration. Wo want Germans for our ; orchards, vineyards, gardens and work shops. We want English, Irish ami Welsh for our gold, copper, iron and coal | mines, railroads, steamboats, &e. We | want, and will have at some future day, I African immigration. We want it now; I the African, or negro, is far more valuable | to the Houth than any other class of agri cultural laborers, and 1 would hail with j delight ihe day when Congress will take ; steps to encourage African immigration to the South. The observation of the writer, in this country and in Europe, is that the negro will do a more faithful day’s work, lose less time, eat cheaper food, live in poorer houses, wear cheaper clothes, and work for less pay than any laborers on earth, instead of encouraging them to leave the country, wo should invite them to come, and when here should preserve and protect them. If our country to-day had double its negro population our lands would tie worth double what they are now. If there was at Savannah an arrival once a mouth of a steamer from Africa loaded with Africans, our people would Hock there by hundreds to secure them as plan tatiori laborers Our rich and fertile fields must tie cultivated; the world requires and demands it, and the negro must do it, either as tenant or common laborer. If our people desire to plant successfully, let them abandon all these new-fangled ideas of scattering their negro houses all over their plantations, and working them In small squads. Negroes have been accus tomed to working in gangs. They love the society of eacli other, and there is less chance to loiter their time away under the old system than under the new one, which has been thrust upon them by men who felt that with emancipation a radical change was absolutely necessary. We have men enough in the South competent to direct and control our plantations —men who understand it thorou gtily, and have been a lifetime learning it. What we want is capital and African labor. We had as well abandon the idea at once of ever having foreigu whites as ten ants. They aio never tenants where lands are cheap, long at a time. Many of them would make good and useful citizens, I'o all such we should offer every inducement to locate among us. Our prosperity de pends upon our ability to replace in our fields the lost labor. Many negroes, by their superior intelligence, have left the fields. Many others have done so from their vagabondish proclivities, and gath ered around our towns, tosteal and starve. Apply the vagrant laws freely, and re place them with fresh negroes from Afri ca, and our wasle places will soon he built up. Muckalkk. Amerieu* , Oa., Dec. lsf. THE BLACKBIRD. When a blackbird once learns a tunc he never forget.- any part of it. I once knew u bird that could whistle “Polly Hopkins” with wonderful accuracy. His owner sold him, at the same time making his pur chaser acquainted With the bird’s favorite tune. As soon as he got him home, he at once hung up the blackbird, aud on going to the piano struck up “Polly Hopkins.” The bird’s master, however, introduced parts into the tune that he had never heard before; so, after listening awhile, he began hissing, fluttering his wings, and otherwise signifying his distaste of the whole performance. Much surprised, the gentleman let off playing, and then the blackbird opened his throat, and fa vored his new master with his version of “Polly H' pkins,” nor would he ever listen with any patience to any other ver sion. This same blackbird, after staying in the service of the above mentioned gentleman for two yeais, was adopted by a serious family, where "Polly Hopkins,” and all such profanity, were seduously avoided. Whenever poor “Joe,” (the blackbird’s name,) attempted to strike up Hie old tune, a cloth was thrown over the cage and he was silenced. The lamily consisted of an old lady aud two daughters, and every night, at 7 o’clock, prayers were read, ami the “Evening Hymn” sung; and Joe, who was an obedient bird, and anxious to conform with the habits of the house, speedily learned the tune, and reg ularly whistled it while the old woman and her daughters sang it. This went on for six or seven years, when the mother died ami the daughters separated, and Joe, now an ageil blackbird, fell into new hands; but to his dying day he never gave up the “Evening Hymn.” Punctual as the clock struck seven, he tuned up aud went straight through with it with the gravity of a parish clerk.—Fee ton's Home Rein. — THE FARMER'S LIFE. Don Piatt, an Ohio editor, who has been experimenting with the diversion off rucy farming aud cultivating his own cabbages, like Horace Cire ley. writes this beautiful prai-eof the farmer’s life to theOhioAVafe Journal : I admit that this farming is not profita ble, but it is fascinating. Mark Twain says that if cabbage heads weresevon dol lars apiece, Horace Greeley’s model farm would pay. If that vegetable sold at that figure, Horace anil I would have to pay that much more for our cold slaw. But it is fascinating. The trees audshrubs, and fields we plant, aud cultivate reward us for the trouble. There is no ingratitude, no meanness, no disappointment. Death comes when expected, iff its season, and is as precious and beautiful as life. God’s sunlight falls on us filtered through a pure atmosphere aud my beautiful Durham cattle gaze at me honestly out of their soft, hazel eyes—eyes more beautiful than a woman's My fleet horses know me, and my dogs love me, and all is harmony and peace. These are all the time wooing the one discordant clement—that is, your humble friend —to quiet happiness. They are al ways the same, unchanging in their sim ple, loving qualities. The old story of Ad am and Eve is not read aright. They were not driven out of Paradise. Paradise is all about them, but their better part was driv en out, and vvlrat remains cauuot appreci ate, love and enjoy the blessings and beau ties of nature. I sometimes think of what that old monk said of the painting of the “Last Supper," that remained unchanged while his companions had passed aud he was passing away, I sometimes, I say, think of this when looking at the beautiful gar niture of hills and fields, that has on its face immortal youth. I hear to-day of the death of Gov. Todd and James C. Hall, two intimate and cherished friends, and the impress of the monk’s thought sinks deeper: “ 1 will not say my eyes are dim, 1 will not king the change That wrought upon inv soul within Its sadness, still and strange ; Nor here hy flower, bird and stream Recall tbe well-worn lay. How we the fleeting shadows seem, Immortal substance they.” Increase in the Public Debt.— The public debt statement for November will show an increase. The receipts from cus toms and internal revenue during the pres rrt month have been rather small, while the expenditures of the Govern ment have been about the same as last month. It will he remembered that over twenty-three million dollars in coin were taken from the vaults of the Treasury on the Ist instant to pay tbe semi-annual interest on the five-twenty bonds. The internal revenue receipts, it is anticipated, will increase towards the last of the month, but those from customs will not l>e so heavy as last mouth.— Charleston Courier. 'JXth. bix thousand dollars worth of Confed erate Btates 8 per cent bonds brought $1 00. V REMARK-ALE STORY. A Willow ItarrM to Her Own Brother, \\ liimi she lluil After Seen. From the Detroit, Free Press, Nov. 21. There passed through this city yester day, en route to Chicago, a iail.v whose his tory is one of the most remarkable ever brought to public notice, it has been well said that truth wasstrauger than fiction, and lire details of this lady’s history abundantly verify tiie adage. For reasons which all will see the propriety of, we withhold her name, merely relating the facts as they were communicated to our reporter by ouewho had heard her"strange, true story” from her own lips. In 1838 iter parents emigrated to tbis country from England, leaving behind them an only sou sonic ten years of age, who had engaged as cabin-boy on a merchant ves sel in the East India trade—they landing in New York, when, a few mouths later, the subject ol this sketch was horn. '■V bile she was yet a helpless infant, both her parents died, and . he was sent to too Foundling’s Home, where she remained some time, when she was finally adopted by a lady and gentleman who then resided iu dm ha, N. V. Ofcourae she knew noth ing of her sailor brother, and she grew up iu the he iel' that she was really the child of her foster parents. At the age of 18 stie married an industrious young me chanic, and set out for the gieat West. After traveling iu various btales, they finally settled in Missouri, where they continued prosperous and happy until tiie storm of war hurst upon the country, i Then her husband, iu common with the thousands of misguided countrymen, en listed in the service of the rebellion, and was assigned to Gen. Price’s army, lie j served faithfully duriug the li st eighteen months of tin* war, but was finally killed in one of the .Southwester:, engagements From the breaking out ol the war, the lady of whom we write, had lost alt truce of her foster parents, owing to the disturb ed condition of that portion of the country in which she resided, and after her hus band’s deatli she removed to St. Louis, where she sought to maintain herself by serving. In 1863, site again married, and her husband embarked in business iu ist. Louis This last marriage was a thorough ly happy one, and iu course of time two children were horn unto them. The husband gradually extended his business operation, so that much of his time was necessarily spen in traveling about the country, and during one of his business tours he visited Uhicago, where lie became acquainted with u lady and gentleman, who, by a fortunate chain of ciicumstunces, he ascertained were the long-lost foster parents of tits wife. De lighted at the discovery he had made, aud pleased no doubt with anticipations of the joyful surprise he should give his wife, the husband at once concluded his business with the intention of returning to St. Louis, aud bunging her to Chicago for the purpose of re-un ting her w ith her friends, without having prepared either party for such an event. On the night of Ida con templated departure for home, while con versing with Mr. aud Mrs. , it hap pened that he was led into a recital of Iris adventures about the world, and before the narra'ive was tin isle and his listeners knew that their adopted daughter had inarri and her own brother, wiio, lie fore she was born, had sailed for East India. Horrific 1 beyond expression, the wretched mgu fieri from the house, aud from that unit- no tid ings of him have ever readied his friends. This was in March last, and a few weeks after the wretched sister wife was render ed comparatively poor t»y the dealtuction of a large portion o. the propeity left in her hands, by lire. Although written to L> iter stricken friends, their letters never reached her, and a few weeks since she started for El mira, her early home l.'pon her arrival here she learned the address «>f tier foster parents, with whom she at once commu nicated, giving them full details of her ex perience since she had first bade them farewell, upon selling out for her Western home Their answer to her letter contain ed a statement of the terrible discovery of the identity of her husband and brother, together with an affectionate invitation to j come to them w ith her children ami share their home. Heart-broken, and nearly crazed by the stiHtlge denoument of iter happy married life, the wietched woman hastened to ac cept the offer, anil this morning will doubtless sec her reunited to her earliest and dearest friends. THE DEAR POLLARD. RcNectton* on tbe Late ICJStor ot *outiierti Opinion. f From the t numnah t 25M). The death of H. Hives Pollard by vio- ] leuce was only a question rs time. He wus morally certain to come across a man who would res'mud to his virulence by shooting him. Pollard was a social porcu pine, not to he approaches without danger of a wound from his poisonous quills, he succeeded better than any man of his time in nursing quarrels. lie seemed to be unhappy without from one to a half dozen upon his hands. If lie could not provoke them in the community, he stirred them up in ids sanctuary. To be disagreeable | himself, and infect others with tiie same feeling, seemed to tie the ambition of his life. In polities lie was specially successful. When the Confederacy, in whose behalf he flourished a valiant pen in the face of the Yankees, was <b facto he railed, like Thers tes in the Greek camp, at everybody aud every thing connected with it. Neith er civil nor military measures seemed to satisfy him, and when tlie fortunes of the rebellion began to decline, lie mercilessly attacked the officers of tiie Government aud tiie commanders of armies, aud did as much to demoralize lire cause and sow dissatisfaction broadcast as it was in tiie power of a malevolent spirit to do. The final defeat of the Southern cause did not sober —it infuriated him, and he went swaggering about the streets of the pros trate capital, with shot-guns and revolvers about him, shooting with the same reck lessness that a Malay runs auluck, but killing no one, and wounding nothing, that we remember, Gut a statute in the rotunda of the capital. Since then lie lias been engaged In some scandalous brawls, that ruined him socially, aud injured what remained of hi-political reputation. The Southern Opinion, under his manage ment, lias been the vehicle of more per sodhl abuse than Brick Pomeroy’s LaCrosse Democrat. One purpose, however, he kept steadily in view: to foster local pride and prejudice, breed contempt for tiie peo ple of the North and hatred of the Gener al Government, and to fan the expiring hope of an ultimate resurrection of the Lost Cause. He was the one unsinged paladin who refused to abandon it, or drop tiie banner that the bronzed soldiers had borne in a thick of a hundred con flicts. He was exceedingly brave after the battles were over and the bugles had sounded a long truce to arms. Now he is gone; the world is not the loser. Lord Palmerston andtheSouthern Confederacy.—A contemporary men tions a fact that is important as part of the history of European nations with re gard to the late civil war in America. It says, in effect, that the late speech of Mr. Roebuck, declaring that he was in favor of recognizing tlie Confederate States in the late war, and that Lord Palmerston was of his own way of thinking, confirms a statement by Blackwood's Magazine, November, 1885. Lord Palmerston is there represented to have been not only in favor of recognizing the Confederate States, but on the Trent affair he made up his mind to go to war with the United States The message he prepared to send to Washing ton at that time, according to Blackwood, would have required a short and categori cal answer, “because a fleet, equipped for action, would have escorted it to the mouth of tiie Chesapeake.” He was, it is alleged, in full understanding with tire French Emperor. But Lord John Russell and Sir George Cornewell Lewis were members of his Cabinet, and they refused to concur in Lord Palmerston’s pro gramme and threatened to resign. His lordship was eighty years old, and he shrank from t«e annoyance of framing a new Cabinet,and surrendered hisown con victions. Such is the statement of Black wood, hut to what degree of credit it is en titled we are unable to say. —Messrs. Cohen, Hanckel cfc Cos, bought a half interest in the Mills House, Charles ton, on Tuesday, for $35,000. MACON, (IA„ TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1868. DRIED FRUIT IN NORTH CAROLINA. The good people of Stokes, Forsythe, Guilford and adjoining counties have dis covered that there are other crops worth attending to besides the great staple of to bacco, or even the more necessary articles of corn and Wheat. The following statement, furnished me by a reliable gentleman, W'ell acquainted with the people aud their industrious, en terprising, ami go-ahead qualities, will show your readers what may he done by those who are determined to avail them selves of the advantages which a kind Providence has placed within their reach. A merchant residing in the small village of Mount Airy (Burry county, N. has received into Ids store in less than two weeks thirty-five thousand poundsofdried apples. \ firm in lie same place bililt a large and commodious btick store-house and paid for it from the profits in the sale of the dried fruit bought and sold by them in one season. One firm in Salem, N. C., (Vogler’s,) ! has sent off this fall eight hundred barrels of dried blackberries, and will probably send two hundred barrels more—tiie whole worth forty thousand dollars. Tiie dried fruit received and purchased in that small village tills season will bring one hundred thousand dollars. Last year High Point, a village which has recently sprung up in Guilford county, and on the Out ml road, snipped largely over one million pounds of dried fruit, and will send off a much larger quantity this seasou. The village ofKernersville, iu For ytlie county, with scarcely one hundred Inhab itants, will aeml North this fall from sixty to one hundred thousand dollars’ worth of dried fruit. One house in this village sent off last Friday thirteen wagon loads (36,- 00;) }tounds) of peacti stones, which cost fifty cents per bushel; and one lady In the same place, has collected nearly one bushel of apple seeds, for which siie is to receive twenty-live dollars. The two last men tinned articles are bought <>n commission for nurseryman in the North.— Exchange. We see the above going the rounds of the papers, and we presume the tiguies in our friend’s ( Mr. Vogler’s) ease to be correct. j We would be obliged to those other mer chants of this place w ho have shipped pro duce direct for the. r figures, to enable us to give full particulars of the export trade of our town. —Salem Press. CONSOLIDATION OF E.VPRESS COMPANIES. New York, Nov. 27. —The long pend ing negotiations in this city resulted to day in the consolidation of the American and Merchants’ Union Express Compa nies. Articles of association have been formally executed, with the following Board of Directors: Henry Wells, Elmore P. Rosa, Wm. G. Fargo, Wm. V. Beard sly, Edward B. Judsou, Wm. 11. Howard, Jr.J James C Fargo, John N. Knapp, John ston Livingston, Clinton F. Backus, Jas. M. Thompson, '1 bandore M. Pomeroy and Benj. P. Cheney. At the election of offi cers held to day the foi owing were cho sen : President, Wm. G. Fargo; Vice- Pr*»id*ut, Theodore M Pomeroy; Treas urer, Elmore I’. Ross; B cretary, John N. Knapp; General Buperintendent and Assistant Treasurer, James C. Fargo. The new arrangement goes into effect nmms diately, and officers say business will be adjusted to the new ban- with u the eneu iug week. The consolidation is said to have treen made on terms of entire equal ity between the two companies, but the details are not announced, though prom ised at an early day. New York, Nov. 27.—The terms of con solidation of the American aud Mer chants’ Union Express t ompanles are that the Merchants' Union stock is taken at two shares for one, making its portion of capital s9,t*M),oOo The consolidated company will have a total capital of $18,000,000, and will ■ n tinue existing eo-oj>eraiive arrn gein»;,:a with old companies. The new company will hear the title of the American Mer chants’ Union Express Company, The Commerced sty a the Adams Ex press Company was not represented at the meeting. It is opposed to th • ba*i» of amalgamation, and consequently a re newal of the Express war is by no means improbable. ANOTHER TENNESSEE HORROR. lluU-ht ry of an Entire Family Near the Kentucky Harder—Capture of <hc Mur derer with the Flood Stains Still Upon Him. A little over a u eek ago a frightful trage dy was enacted in Fen ll ess county, Ten nessee, near the Kentucky line. There lived in that section a family composed of an o and lady, some eighty years of age, and j her three grand children—one a young lady, am tlier a hoy of twelve, and the; third a small girl. In the neighborhood j was a man named Logsdon, ill-favored of face, and of little character, who in some ! way became cognizant of the fact that the j old lady had in her possession a consider able amount of money, the back pay ofj Irer dead son, who had been a soldier, and he resolved to secure it at all hazards. Proceeding one night to the house she j occupied, Logsdon, with knife and re volver, murdered the grand mother and i grand daughter, anil left the hoy for dead also. 'All the money he found, however, was $75, and with this lie fled r i he boy, who fortunately survived, next day told the tale of the bloody work of the night, and tire sheriff of Fentress county, a» soon as he could be notified, started immediately in pursuit of the murderer, with a war rant. He passed through Clinton county, in this State, where lie was joined by the sheriff of Clinton, and together the two sheriffs made their vay to Hustonville, Lincoln county. Here they captured tiie murdeit r at the house of his fattier, even before lie had changed the clothing he wore when he committed the terrible crime, anil which bore the blood stains of cruel murder. It was found that Logsdon, on reaching his father’s house, had sent for a heavy lock which lie designed placing on the door, and that lie had also sent a woman and a boy for powder, lead and caps. These parties were detained however. It was evident he intended making a despe rate resistance, but tiie ottlcers expe rienced little or no difficulty iu effecting his arrest. He was taken back to Fentress county, where lie will doubtless be made to suffer the extreme penalty of the law. [Louisville Courier-Journal, 30<A ult. The Relief Law.—At the recent term of the Burke county Superior Court the defendant, in a suit there pending, which was brought upon a note for $5,000, given in February, 1863, for the purchase of a tract of land in that county containing one thousand acres of land, plead tbe scaling ordinance of 1865, and the Relief laws of the last Legislature. Under the last plea he gave in evidence the loss of forty slaves of the average value of SSOO each, and the loss of other proper ty to the value of several thousand dollars. He also proved that the value of his prop erty, which now consisted of 2,100 acres of land, including tiie thousand acres for which tiie said note was given, was about four or five thousand dollars. It was also proved hy the defendant that at the date of the note the relative value of Confeder ate money and gold was as live to one, aud that the land for which the note was given was worth now not more than one dollar per acre—that at the time of its pur chase it would have been worth about two dollars and a half pier acre in good money. After full argument, the jury returned a verdict directing the land to be returned to tiie plaintiff, and allowing him rent at tlie rale which it was proved to he worth for the six years that the defendant hail held aud enjoyed its possession and profits. [Chronicle and Sentinel, Ist. An official publication issued from the Frencli Government gives the follow ing figures as representing thepresenl an nual product of tobacco iu tlie world, and the quantity consumed iu France: Asia, 155,600,(XX) kilogrammes; Europe, 141 O<X),- 000; America, 124,000,000; Africa, 12,000,- 000; and Australia 400,000. The present aunual consumption in Frauce is: iu snuff', 7,790,471 kilogrammes; in tobacco for smoking, 18,440,919; for chewing, 756,- 055. The consumption of cigars is : of cigars at 20 cents, 28,000 kilogrammes; at 15 cents, 63 000 ; at 10 cents, 178,000; aud at S ;eut», 2,734,585. —Washington county mourns the loss ofoneofher best citizens, Mr. David E, Gumming, who died on the 24th iust. NORTHERN PRISON PENS. Terrible of Die Confederate soldier* Couflnod at Elmira, New York, During tin- War. From tin: New York World, Nov. 21st. Brooklyn, Nov. 10 —I beg herewith (after having carefully gone through the various documents iu my possession per taining to the mutter) to forward you the following statistics amt facts of the mor tality of the rebel prisoners iu the North ern prisons, more particularly at that of Elmira, New York, where J served as one i of the medical off!dels for many months. I found, on the commencement of my j duties at Elmira, about 11,000 rebel pris * oners, fully one third of whom were under j medical tieatment, for diseases principally : owing to an improper diet, a want of cloth • iug, necessary shelter, mid bad surround- i ings ; the diseases were consequently of j the following nature: Scurvy, diarrtxea, ' pneumonia and the various branches of ; j typhoid, all supeiinduce i by the causes, ; i more or lens, aforementioned. The w inter I ot 1861 5 was an unusually severe and i j rigid one, and the prisoners arriving from ; the Southern States duriug this season were mostly old men and lads, clothed jiu attire suitable only to the genial climate of the South. i need not , state to you that this alone was am ple cause for an utiu-ual mortality amongst them. The surrounding* were of UiC following nature, viz: Narrow, confined limits, but a few acres of ground in extent, and through which slowly flowed a turbid stream of water, carrying along with it all theexcretneuUl filth aud debris of the camp ; this stream of water, horrible to relate, was the only source of supply, f.r an extended period, that the prisoners could possibly use for the pur pose of ablu ion, and to slake their thirst from day to day ; the tents and other shel ter allotted to tiie camp at Elmira were in- i sufficient, and crowded to trie Utmost ex tent; hence, small pox and other skin diseases raged throughout the camp Here I may note that, owing to the general or der of the gov rnmeut, to vaccinate the prisoners, my opportunities were ample to observe the effects of spurious and dis eased m i ter, aud there is no doubt in my mind but that syphilis was engrafted in many Instances : ugly and horrible ulcers aud eruptions of a characteristic nature were alas! too frequent and obvious to be mistaken. Bmall pox cases were crowded in such a manner that t was a matter of impossi bility for tiie surg -on to tr*-at hi* patients | individually ; they actually laid »o u-ija cent that the simple movem nt of out- of i them would cause his lie'ghbor to cry out iu an agony of pain. The confluent aud j malignant type prevailed to such an ex tent and of such a nature, that the body woul 1 frequently he found one c itifioiious scab. The diet and other allowance* l>y j the Government for the u-e of the prison : ers wer>- ample, yet the poor uufnrtuna'es were allowed to starve; but why, is a query which I will allow your readers to infer, and to draw conclusions therefrom. Out of the number of prisoners, as before mentioned, over three thousand of them j now iav buried in the cemetery i rented : near tiie camp for the puf)*>»*'; a mortal ity equal, if not greater, than that o; any 1 prison in the South. At Andeis invilJe, a- i am well informed hy brother officer* who endured confinement there, a-, w-ll ashy the r-oords at Washington, tiie mortality was twelve thousand out ol -ay about forty thousand prisoners, lienee it is readi y to be seen that tin* range of mor tality was not less at Elmira than at An derson villa. At Anderson ville there was actually nothing to feed or clothe the prisoners with, their own soldiers faring but li'tle better than their prisoners. This togeth er with a torrid sun aud an impo-.- imiity of exchange, was abundant cause ihrtneir mortality. Witii our prisoners at Elmira no sucii necessity should honestly have existed, a* our Government had actually, us I have sia-ed, most bountifully made provision for the wants of a I detained, both of officers and men. B ddiers who have been prisoner* at Anderson ville, ami have done duly nt Elmira, confirm tnia statement, and which is in no w ise iu one pirtieular exaggerated; also, tiie same may he told of other prisoners managed in a similarly terrible manner. 1 allude to Sandusky, Fort Delaware, and others. I do not say that all prisoners in the North suffered and endured the terrors and the cupidity of venal sub-otficials; on the con trary, at the camps in the harbor of New York and a! Foi it t Lookout, and at other camps when* uiy official duties from time to lime have called me, the prisoners iu all respects have fared us our Government in- * tended and designated they should. Throughout Texas, where foist and the necessaries of life were plentiful, I found our own soldiers faring well, and to a cer tain extent contented, so far, at least, as prisoners of wur could reasonably expect to he. Our Government allowed tiie prisoner of war the following rations (vide Regu lations p. 224. Articles 1, 190, 1, 191); 12 i.z pork or bacon, or 1 lb salt or fresh beef ; 1 lb 6oz soft bread or flour, or 1 lb corn meal; and to every HXJ rations, 15 lbs beans or pens and 10 lbs rice or hominy, 10 lbs gret-u coffee or 8 lbs roasted do . or 1 lb S oz ti a, 15 lbs sugar, 4 qts vinegar. 30 lbs potatoes, and, if fresh potatoes can not he obtained, canned vegetables were allowed. Page 107, Article 746, U.S. Army Regulations— Prisoners of war will receive for subsistence one ratiou each wit hout re gard to rank, their private property will be duly respected, and each shall be treated with regard to his rank, and the wounded are to he treated w ith ttie same care as the wounded of our army. How faithfully these regulations were carried outat Elmira, is shown by the fol lowing statement of facts: The sick in hospital were curtailed in every respect; fresh vegetables and other auti-scorbutics were dropped from tbe lisi; the food was scant, crude and unfit; medicines so badly dispensed that it was a farce for the medi cal man to prescribe. At large in the camp the prisoner faredstili worse; a slice of bread and salt meat was viven him for his breakfast, a poor, hatched up, concoct ed cup of soup, so called, ami a slice of miserable bread, wasall he could obtain for his evening meal ; and hundreds of sick, who could in no wise obtain medical aid, died, “uuknelled, uncotfitied and un known.” I have in no wise drawn on im agination, anil the facts stated can be at tested by the staff' of medical officers who labored at the Elmira prison for the rebel soldiers. Ex Medical Officer, U. S. A. Personal. —YVe have no answer to tire language used toward the editor of this paper by the drunken Sing-Sing black guard who presides over that “common sewer of filth and falsehood,” the Atlanta New Era. He is worthy personally of the infamous party he represents, anil being wholly irresponsible in every sense of the term, and without the first instinct of a gentleman, we dismiss him and his paper forever, and only regret that a creature so destitute of every sense of moral obliga tion and decency should have found his way into the journalism of Georgia. Such a man is a disgrace to humanity, much less to the ranks of an honorable profes sion. In all bis wanderings lie lias never yet found a community so corrupt that it did not spew biin forth. Is Georgia to be the exception I—Sav. Republican, 29f/r. Conservative Sentiments. —The Con stitutionalUt, of Tuesday, in a notice of a Radical meeting at that place the night before, has this to say of one of the speeches by a well known incendiary of this city : The first speaker was H. M. Turner (negro), whose most important expression was, that he wished the most glorious of all Congre ses, the Re publican Congress, to declare the immortal Gov. Bullock dictator of Georgia, and that “colored troops would be sent to the State, who would hang every Democrat who winked his eye.” E. A. Pollard.— General D. H. Hill, iu his splendid magazine, “The Land YVe Love,” for December, speaking of Pol lard’s pretended history of the war, says : “There was not a drummer or colored ser vant in Lee’s army, who had not more ac curate knowlede of the battles of the late war than the bomb-proof penny-a-liner, who set himself up as their chronicle.” —Three gentlemen have planted two hundred thousand peach trees on two thousand acres of land at Ridgeway,N.U., which they claim to be the largest orchard of the kind, if not of any kind, in the world. GONE BEFORE. ! There’s a beautiful face In the silent air, Which follows me ever and ic-ar, j With smiling eyes uml amber hair. With voiceless lips, yet with breath of prayer ; That I fuel, but cannot hear. The dimpled hand amt the ringlet of gold Lie low in a marble sleep; I stretch my arms for the clasp of old, But the empty air is strangely cold, And my vigil alone 1 keep/ There’s a sinless brow witii a radiant crown And a cross laid down in the dust; There’s a smile where never a shade coiues now. And tears no more from those dear eyes Ib,w, 8o sweet iu their Innocent thist. Ah, well! and summer is homing again, Singing her same old song, But, oh ! it sounds like a aob of pain, As it lloats in tin: sunshine and the rain, O’er hearts of the world’s great throng. There’s a beautiful region alxtve the skies, And 1 long to reach its shore, For I know 1 shall lind my treasure there. The laughing eye* and amber hair Os the loved one gone before. A NOBLE RECLUSE. The Duke of Portland is in bis sixty itinlh year. He is tiie oldest brother of the late Lord George Bentwick and tiie owner of magnificent estates in England and in Scotland. A tier vvbat the French delicately term a “stormy youth,” tie be came, in bis father's lifetime, a recluse. It was the late Duke's fancy that there was going to be a scarcity of oak—be did not foresee tbe iron age—ami be planted a tree wherever be could, until bis park at VVfellbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire, was almost a plantation when be died,iu 18-54. Tbe present Duke took tip bis residence at Welibeck, denied himself almost every one, atnl proceeded to improve the estate, cut down tbe superfluous timber, ami laid out the park on trie most improved prin cioles of scientific gardening ; constructed one of tbe most perfect series of kitchen gardens iu the kingdom, witii hot, fruit and forcing house* on a magnificent scale; built stables and coach-houses fit for a prince, and much liner than any English prince possesses. In fact, tbe Duke de voted aud devotes bis t ime and a large part of his income to putting nis seat in the most perfect order lor receiving atnl en lertaining in ducal style But be does not keep any company, gives no entenaiu aieiits on auy occasion, aud ia fact lived aud lives the iife of a monk of La Trappe. He has for some time been endeavoring to convert a stiesui through his park iuto a lake six miles long. Hundreds of laborers are employed ou Ibis ami other woi k on the Ml» e in liami at go*ni wag- -., hut on <ue condition —uo one its to speak to liitu or salute turn. The man who touches his hat is at once dis charged The village doctor and the par sou nave the same orders. The tenants are informed of the Duke’s wishes; if they meet him they are to pass him “as i he were a tree.” Yet he is constantly about his domain planning an 1 superintending improvements. He is a capital landlord, noth in England and Scotland—drains, builds, and puls farms in excellent condi tion. He never shoots, ami never allows hi> English farmers to have the game, even on pay merit. To verv useful enuu ty work and every charity he is ready to subscribe. Komis, churches, schools, ail are iu excellent condition on file Portland istatea. He breeds horses, and spares no expense in hires ami mares; but if the produce docs not come tip to the ideal, he shoots them —never sells an luierior horse, fouieliniea a cart load of well-bred co.ts and tlllies arc sent to feed the Kullhrd hounds. A.v t;x< t.u,E\r stuu. stout. A frieud of ours iu Benton County, not more than a hundred miles from Pond Grove is exceedingly fond <ngening a joke upon bis neighhms, ulu enjoys a laugh even at Ids ow n expense, ihe tables were lately turned so uioey upon him, however, that we doubt whether he will try nw hand at a joke again for along lime. He was lately crossing a field ou his premises when he (elt a peculiar sen sation in nis trousers’leg,and iu an instant the terrible suspicion f .stench upon him that there was a snake there. Putting out iiis hand to ascertain, it came iu contact with what he supposed to he liie head of the reptile. It llasiicd across his mind at once that the only hope of ins life lay in hi# ability to grasp and liruity hold the head until he could obtain assistance and extricate himself fr in i.is unpleasant pre dicament. Seizing it, there.'ore, with one hand, he started at full lilt for the bouse, about half a mile distant. As ho run he could feel the reptile wriggling around his leg. He was fairly bathed in a cold sweat at the thought that it might free itself from Ills grasp and give him the fatal blow while far away from help, and fear lent wings to his feel. As he approached the barn where his wife was at work, he became fearful of the terrible effect it might have upon her to reveal Ins dangerous situation, anti fie therefore slipped slyly in at the back door. Going into one corner, he divested himself of his clothing (lie had kicked off his boots ou tile way), drew forth the cause of his terror, and with a sense of relief hurled it violently from him. It struck the raft ers, and then fell to the floor and revealed to his astonished gaze—an old piece of rope, which tie put, as he supposed, into his pocket, but which slipped down his trousers leg. The movement of walking had produced the wriggling which had first attracted his attention. As he ran, of eourse, the motions became more vio lent. A knot on one end he had mistaken for the head and had beeu holding it as with the grasp of death. His wife, good soul, was at first nearly frightened to death, then almost laughed herself to death. The story was too good to keep, and soon his neighbors were anxiously inquiring regarding his recove ry from the "snake bite.” We have often heard of persons having “snakes iu their boots,” but never in that way before. [Lafayette { lad.) Courier. - *>■ «s- The Scientific American cautions the public against the use of adulterated vine gar. The heavy Government tax on alco hol has raised the price so much that re sort is had to a eheuper substauce to give the required acidity to vinegar. For this purpose, sulphuric acid, and hydrocloric acids are all used ; though sulphuric acid, as the cheapest and surest thing that can be fouud, is chiefly used. This, however, is very destructive to pickles, and what ever is placed in it for preservation, and very injurious to the health of those who use the vinegar made of it. A gallon of the stufl called vinegar can be made for a cent or two from sulphuric acid and water, with some coloring matter. To detect the presence of sulphuric acid, take a small quantity of the vinegar in aclear glass and drop a few drops of the chloride of ba rium into it, or the nitrate of baryta. If the liquid presents a cloudy appeaiance tiiere is sulphuric acid in it, and it all should be returned to the manufacturer or turned into the gutter. At one time a woman could hardly walk through the streets of Sau Francisco without having every one pause to gaze on her, and a child was so rare, that once in a theatre in the same city, where a wo man bad taken lo r infant, when it began to cry, just as the orchestra commenced to play, a man in the pit cried out, “Stop those fiddles and let the baby cry. I haven’t heard such a sound for ten years.” The audience applauded this sentiment, the orchestra stopped, and the baby con tinued its performance amid unbounded enthusiasm. Novel Furniture.—A great novelty is photographs on silk for medallions ou sofas, armchairs and cushions. It will be quite a suggestive idea for a grand daugh ter to give her sire a bolster with her sweet rounded features upon it, and ten to one the old gentleman would sleep all the better with her cheek next to his, but it will not be agreeable to have a drawing set of faces on the hacks of all the chairs. Rome men are obliged to be photographed in spectacles, too, which will add a nerv ously argus feeling to ladies in panniers every time they sit down.— Paris Cor. A Tennessee dentist recently advertis ed to put in a full set of false teeth for $lO, to be paid when the original grinders were extracted. Many accepted the offer, paid the money, and had their old stumps drawn out. But when their gums healed and they called for the new set, the den i tlst was missing, and now they gnash their gums at his rascality. THE STORY OF BLUE HEARD. By lie* “ Fitt L'uiitribulor.*’ A long time ago, before ihe invention of , hair dye, when a man bad to wear his beard ttjecoinr that nature made it, wheth ! er he would or not, there was a man who had made himself enormously rich as a whiskey inspector, or something of that sort. 1 don’t know precisely where lie lived, but think he lived mostly iu the imagination. tie run a great castle, on the European l>lan, had horses aud run them, and in fact ru.i about every thing iu his neighbor hood, including running for office aud with tbe girls, for at the time of which I write he was a gay widower. He had greatquantitiesof greenbacks, corner lots, oil stock, bonds, and things, hut he was hideously tag y, and had withal an enor mous blue beard, frightful to contemplate, which gave to him the cognomen of Blue Beard, by which lie was known to the country round about, as well as to the country that had laid off its round-about, and consequently was iu its shirt sleeves. Blue Beard grew weary of living in soli tary magnificence iu his lofty castle, and finding that he was getting bluer and bluer every day, tie determined to marry. Having been married half a dozen times —taken half a dozen raw ones, as one might say—lie was naturally quite misera ble when of tbegentle Influences or the sex for any length of time. One of his neighbors was a widow lady, who had two very beautiful and highly accomplished daughters. They could play the piano, harp, anil seven up, and work embroidery aud plaucbette ele gantly. To this widow lady Blue Beard applied for the hand and general anatomy of one of her daughters, leaving her to decide which one she would give him. Although the “stamps” he had pleaded loudly in bis favor, u-i they do yet, although this was a great many years ago, yet that dreadful beard was against him, and neither of the young women desired to have it against her. Blue wasn’t fashionable for beards ; if it had been it might have been differ ent. One of them wept bitterly because it would be several hundred years yet before hair dye would be discovered, so that he could have his whiskers colored. Another circumstance rendered them shy of him He was having a wedding every once in a while at the ca-dle, hut no funerals l Wedding cake had been order ed from the confectioners several times, but no undertaker had had a job there yet No matter how many times a man is left a widower, if, he correspondingly pat ronizes some respectable owner of a hearse, : but repeated wedlock without funerals is certainly a suspicious circumstance. Blue Beard cunningly invited the family < and tbe r friends to the castle, where they } passed the week so delightfully that the j youngest daughter began to think blue 1 was a pretty good color for whiskers after I all, particularly when their possessor I could keep up s.ieh an estatdishmeut as j that, where they had three meals a day, besides a lunch evviy morning from 10 { o'c'ock until 11. She looked with con- i tempt on a red-whiskered beau of her’* ! she used to think “perfectly splendid,” and actua ly asked him why lie didn’t “rub iiuiigo into ’em !” Tbe upshot o the business was. siie c -useuted to become Mrs. B. Beard, and the wedding was cele brated with great eciat. At the expiration of Ihe honeymoon, Blue Beard pretended to his wife that busi ness of importance called him away to a distant city. He would be absent for sev- , eral weeks, and in tiie meantime she could invite company and enjoy herself as much as possible. He gave her u bunch of keys, ' enabling her at auy time to open bis safe, and feast her ejys u|*»n the diamonds ihe loaned money on “collateral,” sometimes,) greenbacks, seven-thirties, reveuuestamps aud receipted gas bill* des>osited there— 1 also giving access to tiie wine cellar, store room, picture gallery, billiard room, ten pin alley, corn house, etc., etc. Bui one little key tijiened a room in the basement that she must not approach save up -u hrr * peril, f-.lie promised, and he took a street car for the depot. From the time that Mother Eve disre garded the injunction against a certain tree in Eden's an.' and partook of a Rhode Island pippin, thereby introducing various things into tbe woria never before dream ed of,curiosity has been an absorbing pas sion with the fair sex, and we teed hardiv inform the into ligent reader that her hus band w as scarcely out of sight before Mrs. 11. 11. had unlocked the door of the forbid den room. Hut what a spectacle met her affrighted gaze! There, suspended ou I looks like so many gowns in a clothespress, were the bodies of the murdered Mrs. Blue Beards, whose funerals had been indefinitely post poned, while the floor was clotted with their blood. She would have swooned, but the phrase wasn't known at the time. Terribly agitated, she dropped the key ou the floor, staining it with blood, which she was afterward unable to wash out, even with the aid of a patent wringer. Blue Beard returned uuevpectttdly, as every body might have expected, anil the blood upon the key told the st .ry of his wife’s disobedience; for blood, you know “ will tell.” “ Must I," he cried, wringing his hands in anguish, “ must I agaiu become a wid ower, and so soon ? After one short mouth of wredded bliss (drawing his eimeter and carefully feeliug its edge) must this latest and dearest one be torn from my arms, aud I left alone—alone? 80-ho-ho-Loo!” “Not if J can help it,” remarked Mrs. B to herself. “I never nursed a dear gazelle,” Blue Beard blubbered, as be proceeded to whet his scythe on tbe stove hearth, “to glad me with its soft black eye, but whtn it came to know me well—” “Now, Biue Beard, I don’t want to die.” “Prepare !" yelled Blue Beard, enraged that she did not at once aecept the situa tion. “Since I must die,” said she, “grant me a quarter of an hour in which to write a farewell letter to the press.” He could not refuse so reasonable a re quest, so he granted it, although he was not originally a Grant man. Going to her room she told tier sister Anna to ascend to the top of the tower and see it her brothers (who, supposing Blue Beard was away, were coming to smoke his cigars and drink up his whiskey,) were yet in sight. There was a cloud of dust i u the road, but it was only a flock of sheep ou their way to the State Fair. “Time’s uj»! shouted Blue Beard, who didn’t think much of writing letters to newspapers, anyhow. “Only one moment more. Anna, oh, Aima!” she softiy cried, “do you see any body coming down now ?” “I see two horsemen. They see me wave my handkerchief. It is—it is Sam aud Bill!” Then Blue Beard rushed in with his drawn sword (he bad drawn it at a gift show,) and was about to dispatch her to the happy crokaying grounds of iter sex, when her brothers Sam and Bill drove in and blew old Blue Beard’s brains out with double-barreled bowie knives. The widow B. inherited his money, to gether with the remains of his other wives, with which she was enabled to set up a Museum of Anatomy, finally marrying a side showman. Her sister Anna was united to a gentleman by the name of Domiuy, becoming Anna hominy, though what year this was I cannot say. Blue Beards went out with the eminent and ex cessive widower of that name, and haven’t been in since to my knowledge. Death of a Distinguished Native Georgian. —The Memphis papers announce the death, in that city, on the Stith ult., of Judge Win. L. Harris, a uative of this State, hut long a resident of the State of Mississippi. Judge Harris was one of the ablest, purest and most influential men iu the State of his adoption. He served with great distinction upon the Circuit and Supreme Benches of Missis sippi, aud stood iu the front rank of her many able jurists and lawyers. lie shunned politics, a field in which his admirable talents would have ensured him speedy and high promotion and refused a scat on the Supreme bench of the United States to link his own fortunes and destinies with those of the South. Scorning to hold a judicial position, sub ordinate to the sword when his State wu» put under military rule, lie resigned liis judgeship aud went to the bar in Memphis, where he died in the sixtv tirstyearof hia age. — Columbus Sun, U/I. If we are uot mistaken, Judge Harris was a son of the late Geu. Jeptha Harris, of Athens, and was probably a native of Elbert county, removing, however, to Mississippi from Athens. —Four negroes are on tne Grand Jury of the United States Circuit Court, now in session in Richmond, and six on the list of petit jurors. VOL. LX., XO. 3S THE EI.EIITIOV 1% tlntsTt. THE EVE OF THE ELECTION. Tuesday evening there was a vast deal of hurrahing for the rival candidates and a considerable amount of ele* ioneerinc on both sid s. A parly of IT. s. soldiers and some of the hoys got up a liontin- in Broad street, and had some little excit**- ment, all for their own amusement, hur railing for Russell and the Democracy. THE DAY OF ELECTION. Yesterday morniug the sun rose clear and blight, auspicious of the glorious re sult which marked the close of the day. The stores and places of business tvere very generally clo-ed, and everybody de voted themselves to the work of election. The great bulk of the voting was doue early, aud everything was peaceably and quietly conducted. 1 here will, n doubt, be charges of intimidation by tin- defeat ed party, but we pronounce them false in advance. Every facility was offered to the colored voters ; and we are proud to say that hundreds of them voted for the People’s Ticket. They did so boldly and openly, voting, iu most eases, open tickets. Numbers of white ayd colored meu who have gone with Blodgett for years desert ed hint at this election, aligning them selves with their fellow-citizens in the hour of the city’s trial. We gathered up such items and inci dents as we could, and give them here : WARD NO. 1. In this Ward, the total number of reg istered voters was I,oll—whitess2s; blacks 488. Tne vote was, for Russell, 500 Blodgett, 342. Everybody was in a good humor, and everything passed off quietly. The voting took place at the .Scale House. Some gentleman asked the crowd if “they were voting on a large male t” “ Yes,’’ was the reply, “ we are having our weigh down here!” Oh!” said a thirJ, “get out of the way; Jet us TiuaseU around and get some more voters!” A large number of colored men voted for the Peop.e’s Ticket iu this Ward. WARD no. 2. The number of registered voters in this Ward was 616 —whiles, 322; blacks, “04. The vote was, for Russell, 321; Blodgett, 187. There was little of public interest here. There was a good feeling on the part of all present, and everything passed off without trouble. Several colored meu whom Blodgett counted uj>ou, left him aud supported the People's Ticket. Judge Gibson, who had been announced as a candidate on the Radical Ticket, withdrew bis name and supported our ticket. One of the candidates on the Radical Ticket in this Ward voted only for Blodgett, saying his ticket w as defeated. ward no. 3. The number of registered voters in this Ward was 884—whites, 374; blacks, 290. The vote was for Russell, 400 ; Blodgett 131. 6 ’ WARD NO. 4. In this Ward, the number of registered voters was I,s37—whites, 745; blacks, 6l“. The vote was for Russel! 784; Blodgett -14. At any early hour Judges Davis ami Reynolds, ou the Radical ticket, an nounced their withdrawal from the can didacy on that ticket. Soon afterward, ilr. Baker, the remaining candidate, also came down, leaving the field to the Dem ocratic candidates. This news spread like wildfire to the other polls, and completely demoraliz'd the Radicals, who hardly kuew what to do. They were completely at sea without rudder or compass, but did the best they could under the circum stances, and endeavored to retrieve the lost fortunes of the day, hut all iu vain; the Democracy were too vigilant and active, and ha*t resolved to fairly and hon estly win a triumph ou this day—and win it they nobly diu. At this poll there was one shooting scrape—between two colored men, but no damage done. Otherwise everything was peaceable and quiet enough. To show that everything was laiilv con ducted, ttp will here mention a<• uple of littie incidents: Over the window of the polling house iu this ward was a large placard anuouncin g “Justice to all-white and colored n.nZf he allowed to vote, no matter what their politics!” and signed “H. F. It: - ’’ A gentleman—a Democrat—ask/d a ne gro to come up and vote, lhe negro said that the Democrats had never done any thing for him—not even given him a pair of shoes. This gentleman asked him “who he wanted to vote for?” “For Blodgett,” he replied. Thereupon, tiie gentleman took lnm up to the polls, saw him vote for Blodgett, and then gave him a pair of good new bhoes. —Chronicle and Sentinel. ENGLISH MORALS. It would be hard, indeed, to fiud much subject for boasting in any phase of pub lic or social life iu these days. The stand ard of statesmanship has immeasurably falieu, aud he whom the journals of the day call the greatest leader of tbe age lias nothing better to offer the public than petty truisms and sorry recriminations of his adversaries. Go tiirough the prin cipal streets aud you will see that humbug and imposture prevails no less in private life. Everywhere one portrait now strikes the eye. It is tiiat of a beautiful young girl, fair and modest to all appearance, aud evidently occupying a high position. 6be is in half the albums one opens, and soon will be in the other half—so rapidly is she becoming the vogue. Underneath the portrait you will "find written the name of “Mabel Grey.” And who is Ma bel Grey? Some young lady who has dis tinguished herself? Yes, truly—but not in the way that honest women could bear to tbiuk of. Mabel Grey is the present queen of tbe demi-monde, hhe holds a sort of official drawing-room every night at a casiuo in PF iborn, and thither richly dressed women flock to pay her court, and euvy her. The death of Mabel Grey’s predecessor iu Paris is announced—and now tbe new “Auonyma” is installed. You go to a theatre, and there in a private box, accompanied by men who keep iu the background, is a young lady attired iu a magnificent dress, and covered with dia monds. Her necklace might constitute a King’s ransom—there are rings enough on her fingers to purchase a princely estate. The face is beautiful and intelli gent. This is Mabel Grey,over whose por trait half England is going crazy. The thing takes, and now by the side of Mabel Grey there appears another face, scarcely less beautiful, and this is known as “Marion Lee.” As Igo home through Kensiugton, it happens to me very fre quently to meet tbe young person of fault less figure, though short in stature, riding from the Park. Her gfoorn follows on a perfect bit of horse-flesh. Then if I chauce to take a stroll in the Burlington Arcade in the afternoon, (of course on my way to a club) I see the same young person, dressed in velvet and Russian sables, and with one or two cavaliers by her side, tshe is not yet quite the rage of the town, but “Marion Lee” is on the high road to “splendid infamy.” You will see her por trait side by side in every lady’s album. Their brothers attend her '“drawing rooms” at a different saloon. Will any one say, then, that religiou, morality, and social progress are not prospering more thau ever in the midst of this vast aud ever-growing city ? L. Officers in Bankruptcy.—Charles McKinley, Esq., Register in Bankruptcy for the Third Tistrict, died a few days since. We learn that Judge Erskine will select Lawson Black, Esq., Register iu Bankruptcy in the Seventh District, to wind up the unfinished business left by McKinley, and will also instruct the clerks to refer cases which may hereafter arise in the Third District to Mr. Black for adjudication. Owing to the promotion of Garnett Au drews, Esq., to be a Judge of the Superior Court, Mr. Register Foster, we hear, lias been selected to attend to the business in Judge Andrews’ late District. Mr. Register Hesseltine, of tlie Second District, atteuds to the Bankruptcy busi ness in the first District, which was the District of Hon. Joshua Hill, lately elec ted a member of the United States Senntt, Sav. Republican,'2d. Andrew Howard, negro, convicted on i Tuesday, at Columbus, of keeping a disor derly house, approached Judge Worrill and begged to have the traditional thirty nine lashes administered, and be let off, without more ado.