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The Greorgia "Weekly Telegraph. THE TELEGRAPH. MACON, FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1869. Comparative Health of the North and Moutli. The eensns tables of 1860 are the best answer to the inquiries of Northern emigrants about the comparative health of the North and the South. Let ns see what will be the excess in the rate of mortality in the Southern States over that of as many of the oldest and healthiest among the Northern and Western States. The census tables show the deaths in the several States to average one in the numbers opposite each name of the States as follows: Alabama 75 Connecticut 74 Florida 79 Illinois * Georgia 82 Indiana ^ Kentucky 70 Maine Louisiana 57 Massachusetts oi Mississippi G4 New Hampshire <2 North Carolina 78 New Jersey ' v '-' South Carolina 72 New Aork 82 Tennessee 73 Pennsylvania . 96 Virginia 71 Vermont 93 We have selected here the oldest of the East ern, Middle and Western States to compare with ten of the Southern States, and the difference they show is this: A death in the Southern States to every 72 1-10 of the people, and in tho Northern States to every 80 7-10. Unquestion ably when these Southern States, by the pro gress of population and wealth, are as well drained and provided with all the sanitary con ditions as the Northern States named, they will show a more favorable return than those States. The South will be eventually the healthiest sec tion of the Union. Febrile disorders which swell our bills of mortality will* diminish, while our more gentle and uniform temperature will al ways measureably relieve us from that class of diseases which occasion the greatest mortality in the States of the North and West. Mannftectnring Operatives in Rossn* clmsctts. General H. R. Oliver has recently made are- port to the Massachusetts Legislature upon tho condition of Factory laborers in that State. He says that certain parties are called the great manufacturers of New England, and “have been engaged as such for several generations; yet the man or the family that has been in their employ and come out of it with more than enough for a decent interment is yet to be found. And again he says: A helpless crowd of workers, the oppression of low wages, invitable poverty and a disguised serfdom, a rich master, a poor servant, and a mean population; such is the story of manufacturing in Old England and such is the story of manufacturing in New Eng land. Cotton Receipts in Gbiffin.—The Star of Wednesday says, by examination of the ware house books, we find that the receipts this sea son at this point, up to last Friday, were twelve thousand two hundred and forty four (12,244). Average receipts per day are not more than ten bales, s'o our entire receipts will be but little over 13,000 bales for the season, and it has brought about one and one-half million dollars. A few more such seasons will make our people comfortable, both in town and country. Important Decision.—We learn from the Sav annah News of Wednesday that Judge Erskine, of the United States District Court, affirmed a dicision of Register Frank S. Hasseltinc, that the vendor's equitable lien upon land sold is not discharged by the subsequent taking of a mort gage upon the same land and takes precedence over a judgment lieu obtained prior to the said mortgage. Emigration feoji Ireland.—Thousands of young Irish of both sexes are preparing to come to this country, and the exodus will, it is said, be as great as it was during any of the years made notorious by more than the average rate of Irish exiles. On the 8th there were over 2,000 Irish emigrants at Queenstown, waiting ship accom modations to leave for America. Govebnob Jenkins.—We were pleased to see on the street yesterday this distinguished and honored son of the State, looking unusually well and strong. We trust that he has come to re main with us permanently. The State cannot spare such men. We need them all to aid in the great work of reconstructing society, and giving peace, order and quiet contentment to the land.—Avgusta Chronicle. Time Asked.—-The people of Montana don’t like the idea of having Ashley (of Ohio) for their Governor. Already they have held mass meet ings and requested him not to come into their territory. The Register suggests that “ they at least ought to have time to secure their valuables. ” The suggestion is a good one, but we have no hopes that evou this favor will be allowed them. The Race at Brunswick.—The boat race to take place at Brunswick, on the Cth of May next, says the Savannah News, promises to be a bril liant affair. We were shown yesterday tho prize to be given to the winning crew, pitcher and two goblets, and was purchased at the jew elry establishment of Mr. Grosclaude, on Bull street. It cost $200, and is a prize well worth competing for. Cotton.—The A No. 1 ship James Jar dine, was cleared yesterday for Liverpool by Messrs. Charles Green, Son & Co. This is the second trip she has made across the Atlantic ocean this season; she carries out 2,000 bales upland and one bag of sea island cotton, weighing 960,953 pounds, valued at $261,077 j she also comes 110,322 feet lumber. [Savannah News of the 28th. Farming News.—From all ports of Central and Southern Georgia, we hear bnt one ac count It is the best stand of com and cotton, and the best crop conditions generally, which have been known since the war. Evening Readings by Spurgeon, a devo tional work of tho great preacher, just pub lished by Sheldon & Co., and sent ns through J. W. Burke & Co., who have the work for sale. Greeley Goes Back on Grant.—Ho says: “We are afraid that the President, like Presi dents before him, has bestowed most of his offices as he would give his alms—the beggar who bawled the loudest, or showed the greatest number of ‘papers,’ generally being the most successful.” __ The Southern Cultivator.—The May num ber of this invaluable journal is at hand and stored, as usual, with a mass of timely matter for the Southern planters. Every one of them should take and read it. Published at Athens, Georgia, by Wm. & W. L. .Jones, at $2 a year. No Atlanta New Era came to hand yesterday. Intelligenotr and Constitution received. Thublow Weed presented the Baptist church in Aiken -with a handsome communion Berviee. A French paper describes Eugenia as hav ing lately appeared at a ball “in a toilette of tending yellow, with verdne everywhere, includ- in small shrubs so that she presented the ap pearance of an animated flower garden.”— Now, then, Fifth avenue ! A sugar and com plantation of one hundred and seventy acres in Louisiana, nearly equally divided between the two crops, returned a profit 1 ast year of $25,660; Few travelers are unacquainted with the * American House, Boston, but they may not be aware of the many improvements in this popu lar house. Suites of rooms, vertical railway, lunch room, billiard halls, etc. > The Poverty of Georgia. Georgia is not extraordinarily “hard np for cash,” and the poverty we allude to is not, therefore, impecuniosity. Neither is she threatened, with famine or. in danger of starva tion. So long as the railroads hold out, we shall all be fed. They will bring us bacon, lard, butter, com and flour from the "West, and occasionally chickens and beef from Tennessee; but imagine these lines of communication cut off and you would soon begin to see the pover ty we speak jof. Georgia would be, in a few weeks, in the condition of the rich man wrecked on a desolate island with a heavy supply of gold and jewels which he had saved by great labor, but not a pound of bread and meat. Probably the State has got a month’s supply of provisions ahead, and this would take ns in to blackberry time. Then we might mb along for a time on roasting ears, peaches, water melons, etc., but by the time fall sets in, we should have cleared the products of field, or chard and garden, and reached the point of starvation. Then we should begin to feel poor indeed, although we might have plenty of greenbacks and bales of cotton. In truth, we would be glad to swap off the whole of them for a side of bacon or a bushel of com. But, asks the philosopher, what is the sense of all this stuff ? Communication with the out side world is not going to be cat off, and if we have that which we can exchange for food, why are we not as well off as if we produced our own supplies ? This, in one or more particulars, is precisely what we want to tell you, and in doing so indicate in few words what we mean by the poverty” of Georgia. It is an irrational idea of wealth that it con sists in the mere possession of money. Wo have seen that a man may be starving poor with his pockets staffed with gold. Money is of no use, except as it ministers to the comfort and happi ness of its possessor. A man with a car-load of it, who cannot procure with money the comforts and luxuries of life, is but a poor fellow after all. • Now,that is our case in Georgia ora good part of it, very frequently during the year. There is many a time in Macon when a million dollars would not buy, on two or three hour's notice, as good a dinner as you could buy in a self-sup plying country for two or three dollars. You may exhaust the resources of civilization in bringing here preserved food of every varie ty, at vast expense, and still not reach the point of comfortable and healthy living: because the chief supplies of a comfortable and nutritious table mnst, after all, be produced at home. You must have your fowls in good order—your fat beef and mutton, eggs, butter, milk, etc., and where these are not to be had, in abundance, so far as comfort is concerned it is a poor country, with all its greenbacks and cotton bales; and should the foreign supplies be stopped it be comes a starving country. Now when we consider that comfort is all a man can have on earth, at best, it is a wretch ed bargain to trade off comfort for a few more bales of cotton, upon the doubtful chance of getting more money to import the substitutes for comfortable and nutritious fare from the ends of the earth instead of producing the gen uine article at home. In order to produce abundant food and food of good quality, the very first condition is the production of grain and grass. With these we can have tender, fat and juicy meats; but if compelled to import oar grain from abroad we, at the same time, cease to produce wholesome animal food of any kind. AH perishes out, be cause nobody is going to buy grain at high prices and bring it long distances to fatten ani mals upon. The consequence, then, of the meagre produc tion of grain, is the failure of the fundamental condition of good living. Fresh animal food becomes scarcer and poorer from year to year, till it runs out altogether. This is now getting to be the case in Middle Georgia. The supplies from abroadbecome more difficult, expensive and precarious, and very frequently freshmeats, in wholesome condition, is not to be found at any price. The eternal round of salted meats then becomes tiresome, as well as unwholesome, and the luxury of living is lost. This is what is making Georgia a poor country as well as a very costly one to live in. And as the appetite of man revolts at last from same ness and mnst have variety, its gratification must be indulged at yearly increasing cost, till the very wastefulness of the process will com pel its own cure, by the stimulation of the grain culture and the rearing of domestic animals. That is a rich country which abounds in healthful food and in all the conditions of com fortable subsistence; and that is really a poor country (no matter how much money it may have), where these things are unattainable ex cept at unreasonable cost and quest. When com and wheat in Georgia shall be plenty and cheap, and the tables of the people be well supplied with choice meats from barn-yard and pasture, we shall be really comfortable and rich, though the cash balance on band be small. But no bank balance can make a people comfortable or rich, who draw almost every article of food from a thousand miles’ distance, and can have little or nothing in tho way of animal food upon their tables except what might be fonnd in a ship’s cabin upon a long voyage. From Murray County. Head of Bridle Navigation,) April 24, 1869. j Messrs. Editors: This county is all right. Court just passed off, with a few presentments by the Grand Jury of the county, meeting with the approval of his Honor, Judge Parrott, who, by the way, makes an excellent Judge. It is true his brain is slightly troubled about the present Legislature, and did recommend the Grand Jury to present that body for delay, and perhaps extravagance; but the Grand Jozy, being composed of the best and most intelligent gentlemen of the county, declined to say any thing about it. But, Messrs. Editors, I say—and say it with out the fear of successful contradiction—that such presentments are not only a shame, but a burning shame to the good people of Georgia, and to her present Legislative body. Please fhinVj when that body first assembled at Atlan ta, what it was. It was Radical to the core, and smelt like “niggers at a corn-shucking.” Wit ness the labor and time it took to remove that smell, and when it was done, who was it that did not throw up his beaver and cry joyfully at the result? All things considered, it is the best body that has assembled for twenty years, and a proper consideration by the people of Georgia will dearly prove it Agriculture is dearly upon the brain in this county—it takesprecedence of almost everything else—and tho farmers are progressing finely. They are in a better state of forwardness than they have been for years. Peaches are general ly killed; wheat very promising; and the weather quite wet. “Old Sock.” Telegraph Lise from Darien to Bruns wick.—The establishment of a telegraph line between Darien and this city, says the Savan nah Advertiser, seems to have awakened the citizens of Brunswick to the importance of direct telegraphic communication with Darien and this city. We learn that a line will be built shortly between Darien and Brunswick, the citizens of the latter place having already subscribed twelve hundred dollars towards its construction. Probable Marriage of Mrs. Lincoln to a German Count.—Berlin, April 21.—A German paper, the Frei Statz, says that the marriage of Mrs. Lincoln, the widow of the late President Lincoln, with Count Scbmidtweil, grand cham berlain of the Duke of Baden, is spoken of in 1 high circles. Affairs in XiOnisvillc. Kentucky. Louisville, April 26, 1869. Editors lelegraph:—Availing myself of a leisure hour, I again endeavor to transmit to yon, briefly as possible, some of the items of local interest occuring in a city which the Cincinnati Commerdal facetiously styles “that ambitious little village known as Louisville.” You have, doubtless, ere this, noted in your exchanges a detailed account of a most atro cious and cowardly murder perpetrated in this city, on last- Friday night 23d inst., which will have in the courts a full investigation on Thursday morning next. It is natural that tho question should be asked somewhat petulantly, when shall these scenes of horror, of willful and cowardly murder, cease in communities profess ing to bo civilized ? It has its solution in the briefest answer, not untilthe ministers of even- handed justice do their whole duty under their solemn obligations. It is true, that we are to have one pnblic example here on Friday next in the execution of the negro John Conley; but such examples come late when criminals, time and again found guilty of murder in the first degree by intelligent juries, have still man aged through the veriest legal quibbling, to be turned loose upon society, ready upon the slightest provocation, to strike down some new victim. GEORGE D. PRENTICE. In passing through tho apartments of the Courier-Journal a few days since, we noticed at his desk a gentleman of most serious and grave aspect, whom we were told was the distinguish ed editor and wit, George D. Prentice, Esq., whose mere name is still a tower of strength among us. He seems to be very feeble and emaciated in body, though bis friends claim that his intellectual powers are as bright and vigor ous as ever. He is an object of great interest to all visitors to the Courier-Journal, and yet any one who met Mr. Prentice four or five years ago, would now fail to recognize him, so com plete is his metamorphosis. He wears * at the present time a long, flowing white beard, which, with his attenuated frame and slow and uncer tain footstep, awakens in the mind of all who meet him a feeling of sadness. Alas! we are admonished that one, whose past brilliant career is a part of onr national history, will soon dis appear from our midst and go hence to join the intellectual host who have already crossed to the further shore of the gloomy and mystic river. Mrs. Lander who has been approved by tho lovers of the drama as the Ristori of America, has just ended a very successful engagement at the Louisville Opera House. To-night the no torious Leffingwell commences a series of his laughter provoking personations. His burlesqne of the Edwin Forest school of acting is said to be inimitable. He has met with remarkable success in New York and Philadelphia, and we perhaps are rather slavishly disposed to regard that as the touchstone of merit for any or all aspirants for histrionic honors, that come among us. This is the season for local concerting, and we are to have several musical treats in rapid succession from the various clubs in the city, which are anticipated with much interest. The weather for the past few days has been mild and beautiful, and business in every de partment is resuming its wonted activity. The welcome ring of the mason’s trowel; the nervous stroke of the carpenter's hammer, and the nim ble brash of the painter, greet the passer-by in every portion of our growing city. And, with bright hopes and aspirations for our own per sonal success we feel as did one of old, that “it is good to be here.” A Mr. Trevillick delivered a very telling and able address before an immense mass meeting of tho working people here a few nights since, which I trust will result in much good to those whose efforts in aiding to build up the city have heretofore been sadly unappreciated. The great want here at the present time, especially among the working classes, is to have a better understanding and feeling among themselves ; we need strong union, a more perfect organiza tion, and until this object is secured, our in terests must continue to languish under the overwhelming force of capital arrayed against us. But the good work has been inaugurated, the great reform has begun in earnest, and the hopes of all are growing brighter each day. Should it meet your approbation, I will con tinue these hasty and imperfect chronicles of the chances and changes in our midst, and shall be happy to hear of your continued success and prosperity in the enterprizo that has for so long a time engrossed your attention. With great respect, yours, etc., O. L. S. English Emigration. A movement is now on foot which looks to the transfer in a body to this country, of all the unemployed in Lancashire, England. The Lon don Economist vigorously opposes the move ment, arguing that though w3ges are nominally higher in the United States than in England, the prices of rent and food are also much higher. Per contra, the Pall Mall Gazette observes:— “Even if a working man is obliged to give fifty per cent, more for food and clothing in America than here, he will choose to do it rather than be dependent for support on a miserable pittance from a trade union. Whether there is occupa tion for onr emigrants or not is a point that ought carefully to be inquired into; we only say that cotton manufacture is increasing both in India and America, and apparently declining in Fhig country. The prospects of unemployed operatives are likely to be better in America than in England, especially if they study the position of the American trade before leaving ibis country, and endeavor to time their arrival according to the demand which may exist for them.” It has thus far been the experience of all Eu ropean operatives crossing the ocean, that they have greatly bettered their condition in the United States. Draining the Lakes. A Lavenworth paper broaches a grand project, by which Chicago proposes to distance all its rivals. A ship canal, one thousand feet broad and sixty feet deep, is to be constructed across the State of Illinois, to some point on the Mis sissippi river, enough below the level of lake Michigan to admit of a steady flow of water into the Mississippi. The following are the results to ensue: The river St. Lawrence will become but a brook. Niagara Falls will stand a damp wall of rock, if indeed the water does not flow back over them, forced by the tremendous suc tion of Chicago. Buffalo, Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit and wilwaukee will be sixty feet above the present high water mark, and millions of new land will appear in the shallows of the lakes. New York would be nowhere. The largest ves sels in the world would navigate the Mississippi, “and steam tugs of extraordinary power”—we quote the Leavenworth paper—“would bring sailing vessels from new Orleans to Chicago in four days.” This work will cost $84,000,000. The money is not yet raised, nor is the survey complete, but as Chicago and Leavenworth have pronounced in favor of it, it will be accomplished. Extraordinary Case of Memory.—The Buf falo Courier recalls an occurrence in the New York Legislature about eighteen years ago, when the present Secretary of State was the whig can didate for the United States Senate in place of Daniel S. Dickinson. The vote in the Senate was a tie, but the unexplained absence of a dem ocratic member gave the whigs a majority, and Mr. Fish was elected. Strange as it may appear, a gentleman strongly resembling this absentee democrat of eighteen years ago turned np in Washington recently, and, spuming all red tape circumlocution, had a private audience with the Secretary of State—the same Mr. Fish—and soon after reappeared upon Pennsylvania avenue with the commission for a fat consular general ship in his breast pocket. This is a remarka ble case of memory in a politician, whose re wards as a class are generally actuated by a live ly sense of favors to come, not past, especially after so long an interval as eighteen years. JBY TELEGRAPH. From Virginia. r.icmioxD, April 29.—The Conservative Conven tion assembled morning, and the minority re port was withdrawn, to make way for a resolution to adjourn till ten days after Grant’s proclamation for a State election. This resolution was defeated by a majority of two-thirds. The majority report was then adopted with few dissenting voices. The de bate pointed unmistakably to Walker, the conserva tive Republican, as the person to be supported by the Conservatives for Governor. Resolutions were adopted for a better organiza tion, and for appointing a committee to wait on President Grant, relative to tho submission of tho Constitution to a vote, and also to Gen. Canby. Adjourned sine die. Press representatives of all parties were admitted to-day. The spirit of the debate in the Convention this morning by those who favored tho minority report, urging the people to vote down tho Constitution, was: that while negro suffvago might bo forced on tho peoplo by tho Government, yet 'Virginians should not themselves assist in the degradation. Those who favored the majority report, urged that that sort of argument was a thing of the past. Negro suffrage was an accomplishedCfact, and the white people of tho State, instead of sullen ly resisting the General Government, which is our Government, should carry out reconstruction in honesty and good faith; accepting what the Government gives us and making the best of it. It was urged that the election of Gilbert C. Walker, a Northern Republican and administration supporter, for Governor, would give the peoplo of tho North confidence in our professions, and induce immigra tion to the State. The minority report was advocated by ex-Gov. Wm. Smith, and the majority report by John B. Baldwin and John R. Edwards. Gen. Sherman arrived to-day from Fortress Mon roe, and left to-night for Washington. A number of citizens called on him while here. From Washington. Washington, April 29. — Coin in the Treasury $111,000,000. Tho Bureau of Military Justice is dissolved. Its functionaries are variously assigned: Major Clin ton, Judge Advocate Department South: Major Burnham, Judge Advocate First Military District; Major Goodfellow, Judge Advocate Fifth Military District; General Holt, Judge Advocate at Head quarters of the Army. General News. Key West, April 29.—A report has reached here from Cuba that the Commandant of tho Depart ment decrees death to males over fifteen years who are absent from their homes without sufficient cause, and dwellings without a white flag are to bo burned. New Orleans, April 29.—A portion of the Illinois Press Delegation are enjoying the hospitalities of St. Charles Hotel, as guests of the city. They were met at Mobile wharf by the Mayor and delegations from the City Council and Chamber of Commerce, with an address of welcome. The party numbers about eighty ladies and gentlemen. After an excur sion upon the river and a complimentary dinner to morrow, they go hence to Cairo. Savannah, April 29.—Tho iron ship Sussex, from Mobile to Liverpool, was towed into the Tybee last night. On the 27th fire was discovered in her hold amidship, when the hatchets were closed and venti lation shut off. A board of survey was held to-day. who have ordered her to be towed to safe anchorage at Venus Point, for farther investigation to-mor row. A steam fire engine remains alongside of her to-night. The steamer Princess went down this morning to render assistance, if required. The cargo consists of 2,700 bales of cotton, 517 tons of com and 100 tons of oil cake. Foreign News. Madrid, April 29 Tho President of the Cortes checked a Republican who spoke scandalously of the Christian religion. The Republicans left the Cham ber and afterwards returning proposed a resolution censuring tho President, which, after a heated de bate, was withdrawn. An amendment, however, favoring the dominance of the Catholic religion in Spain was rejected. From Cuba. Havana, April 29.—Tho Catalaman volunteers marched on the 26th, to raise the seige of Puerto Principe. The forces reached San Antonio without opposition. The Insurgents have again destroyed the Sagua Railroad. It is rumored that the monitor sunk one and captured a another of the Spanish war vessels. — Marine News. Savannah, April 29.—Cleared, steamship General Rames, New York; America, Baltimore: bark Alamo, Liverpool: Architect, New York. The man who “retailed slander” has gone in to wholesale lying. The llontagues anil Capnlcls of Rhode Island. Win. Sprague and the Spragues—Brown <£• Toes—Senator Anthony and His Party—The Secret Springs of Senator Sprague’s Late Speeches. Correspondence Sea York Tribune.'] Providence, April 16, 1869. On the railroad cars going out and coming into this city, in the street cars, in the streets, and on the street comers, wherever men meet and exchange greetings, the only general topic of conversation just now is the recent action of Senator Sprague. On the Providence and Stonington Road this morning I heard men all around me say, “Sprague has hurt himself all over this country,” “Sprague has disgraced himself,” Sprague is a disgrace to the State,” * ‘What does he mean ?” “I do not understand it, bnt Sprague knows what he is about.” “Sprague always comes out all right. ” * ‘There are going to be lively times in Rhode Island about this time,” was chimed from the other side, until I was sorely perplexed to know who was in the right, or who the most in earnest. A good Methodist clergyman heard it all, and was quite ns much perplexed ns I was, but ho valor- ously whispered to his wife, whom be had only married tho day before, “It’s all sbout a speech Sprague made in the Senate—or, I should say, in the House of Representatives.” That was the way he understood it; bnt the truth is times are lively here already, and some night, no body knows when, Sprague will come tumbling down from Washington, and make them livelier still. So far, he has not deigned to make any explanation of his course, but some day before long, the explanation and the intrepid young Senator will come before the people of Rhode Island together. Then we shall hear what he has to say about Rhode Island’s honor, and there will be, no doubt, fresh “aspersions” to ho accounted for, and reimbittered attacks upon the great family whom he has typified by the splendid figure, “A million dollars.’ Two households, both alike in dignity, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny, was said of old; but now, instead of Verona, the scene is laid among the looms and spindles of little Rhody, and, as befits the spirit of this manufac turing and commercial ago, it is the house of Spraguo against the house of Brown & Ives. Of these two gTeat houses, the Spragues are the youngest and the most energetic, if not the richest; Brown «fc Ives the oldest and mbst aris tocratic, the proudest of their birth and breed ing, their wealth and cultnre, and these who are exclusive in matters pertaining to their personal affiliation and social recognitions. The house of Sprague started with Amasa Sprague, the grandfather of Amasa and Wil liam, the present representatives of the house. He was succeeded by his sons Amasa and Wil liam, and thus the firm of A. & W, Sprague came into existence. At the death of the “Old Governor,” as William Sprague, the uncle of the “twoboys”whonow control the house of A. & W. Sprague, is generally called even now, its busi ness had not yet assumed anything like the pres ent giant proportions. That event occurred in 1856, and there were at that time only six calico printing machines in. the print work at Cran ston. Since then, however, not only has addi tion after addition and extension after exten- tion been put to the works, until the mills form an extensive village in themselves, but every species of improved machinery has also been procured and set in motion. Instead of six- color 'machines, the highest number any ma chine was capable of printing at the death of the “Old Governor,” there are in the works at Cranston to-day machines which print twelve. There are now thirty machines in the works, and'fifty thousand pieces of cloth can be print ed and finished in a week. This immense es tablishment is driven by six engines, varying from 10 to 300 horse power, and the consump tion of coal per day is not short of 100 tons. Twenty-five donkey engines are scattered over the establishment, to do special duty wherever needed. Trimming machines, dyeing apparatus, engraving machines, all the immense and com plicated machinery necessary to the manufac ture of the material for a new dress. The vil lage where the operatives reside is built after a uniform model, and consists of story and a half double houses. In the store at Cranston an im mense business is done. The Spragues do their own slaughtering, and kill about twenty-five head of cattle per week, and sheep and hogs in proportion. The meat is furnished to their op eratives 4 and 5 cents per pound cheaper than it can be bought in the Providence market, and the “store” sells goods of every kind -at a pro portionately low figure, the sales in a single year amounting to $400,000. Amasa Sprague resides at Cranston, about one mile from the city of Providence, and William lives with his mother in the city of Pro vidence. What this woman has had to do with building up an immense business, the influence of which is felt everywhere in the country, has never been told. “The boys” habitually resort to her for advice; and the “old Governor” was accustomed to hold her judgment in the highest esteem. Her counsels to the old firm of A. &. W. Sprague have been transferred to the new house, and have proved as beneficial to her sons as to their father and to their uncle. She is now an old lady of seventy years, but her facul ties are as vigorous as ever. The Sprauges have mills at other places be sides Providence, even a3 far away as Augusta, Me. Their “Baltic” mills are an immense af fair, ns are also the “Quidnick,” “Natick,” “Arctic,” and “Central Falls.” They have be sides many outside interests. Their farm at Cranston alone contains, 2,000 acres of land, worth from $200 to $300 per acre, and in all the following companies they have a controlling or a very large interest: Rhode Island Locomotive Works, Perkins’ Sheet Iron Company, Phoenix Iron Foundry, Comstock Foundry, Rhode Island Horse Shoe Company, American Horse Nail Company, Nicholson File Company, Boston Wheat and Bread Company, United States Flax Manufactu- ringCompany, Providence and New York Steam ship Company. This view scarcely gives an idea of the immensity of the enterprises, into many of which they became engaged by taking hold of the failing enterprises of others. The immen sity of the whole can only be judged from the im mensity of any one of the undertakings named in the foregoing list. All are so great in them selves that the successful conduct of any of them would stamp a man as eminently success ful in business, and give him the prestige and social influence of great wealth. • The House of Brown & Ives antedates the Revolutionary war. It began as a commercial house long before cotton-spinning was thought of, much less had become a staple manufacture and the source of wealth and power. Always eminently conservative the house have adhered to old customs and ways to a remarkable degree, and to this day the account books which contain the record of their business, are marked, “The Colony of Rhode Island;” and the style of the house has been Brown & Ives for so long a time that the memory of man runneth not to the con trary. Forty years ago, Nicholas Brown and Thomas Boynton Ives composed the firm. They were succeeded in the business by their sons, John Carter Brown and Robert H. Ives, the present members of the house, and as they signed themselves the other day, “sole partners. ” Mr. Brown is a man of abont seventy years of age, and Mr. Ives may be perhaps five years younger. They are both gentlemen of re fined tastes and cultivated intellects—high ly respectable but eminently conservative, they say here in Rhode Island; and as an evidence of this, I may say that Mr. Brown’s private library contains probably the richest collection of MSS., and of rare and curious books relating to America, to be found any where among the collectors of this speciality. Their print works are at Londsdale, where they have also a largo mill and village. There they have the “Hope” mill, called after the maternal branch of the Ives family, at Phoenix, on the Pawtuxet, and the “Ashton” mill, on the line of the Providence and Worcester railroad, in th9 valley of Blackstone. They have also a large interest in the Blackstone Manufacturing Company, Mr. Alexander Duncan, the father of William Duncan, of Duncan, Sherman & Co., being tho other member. This establishment was built up by the old firm of Brown & Iveg, and Mr. Butler, the father of Mrs. Duncan.— These embrace all the great mills of Brown & Ives, and employ about 1,500 persons. The number spindles may be approximately esti mated at 150,000. Thus I have sketched, with as much precision as I was able, the history and character of these two houses—the Montagues and Capulets of Rhode Island—that the feuds which nave dis tracted them may be the better understood.— They are both families of great respectability at home, and are well known out of their own State as well as in it. Th6ir influence in Rhode Island is as great as their antagnoisms are bit ter. 'When Brown & Ives sneeze, Sprague says there is a general sneeze, and the retort with sarcastic allusions to “Sprague’s Rhode Island ers.” They are at war, and there is no peace anywhere near them. From Sprague came the first onset, but Brown and Ives have parried his blows by denying at least one of his accusations. Which party is most embittered it were difficult to say. “Sprague is mad,” is heard there a hundred times a day. If the Journal can be taken as an index of the feeling of Brown and Ives, and the conduct of young Frank Goddard in getting up an “ovation’’ to Burnside is a sure indication that it can, aside from every other consideration in relation to the course of that newspaper—the “milliondollars” are inno very agreeable mood. Mr. Ives, I hear, bnt can trace it to no trustwhorthy source, is anxious to keep up, or perhaps rather to get up, amity of feeling, in a business way, between the two houses; but while Amasa don't care a fig for po litics or political interests, William would, I think, say “No!” in that emphatic way so char acteristic of the Spragues. No account of the feud between these two great families would be complete without some revelation of the hidden springs which prompt ed Senator Sprague’s remarkable action. These things are essentially secrets, and, what is worse, family secrets. But they are secrets about which, if nobody absolutely knows any thing, neither can anybody be said to be entire ly ignorant Sprague himself hinted at them very broadly, but he did little more than hint His hints were merely an “illustration” drawn from one great family typified by a “million dollars,” bnt his illustration was made, he him self says, “with a purpose.” That purpose may be in one respect to break down the great family—the Capulets in this quarrel—and dissi- pato the influence of tho million dollars. It may have been, and undoubtedly was, his inten tion—for nobody here donbis his sincerity—to break down a noxious system which leaves large capitalists with the whole capital of the country, and prevents small manufacturers from competing with moneyed men armed with the power and disposition to crush them. I cannot mako out how much jealousy that is merely personal and not political there may be between these two great families. The Brown University matter seems to be one of these. To make a long story short, and not consider it in its political aspects, if it has any, the whole matter is that he thinks Brown and Ives own the lands in Kansas given by the United StatC3 to the University, and that they acquired them through the agency of the Rev. Mr. Love, the University agent and their creature. Mr. Love is the ostensible owner of the property, now worth nearly a million of dollars, having pur chased it for $50,000. He has paid the Univer sity nothing, but has secured that institution by a deposit of United States bonds to the foil amount of the purchase money. In relation to the denial of Brown & Ives that they approached Sprague, in 1857, with a prop osition to break down the small manufactures in the State, nobody here, not unfriendly to Sprague, appears to think it will in any way im peach his veracity. Tho peculiarity of the sig nature to the denial, “Brown & Ives, by John Garter Brown and Robert H. Ives, sole part ners,” is pointed to as evidence of this. It is confidently asserted that the proposition was act ually made by one of the Goddards; and if this should prove*to be the case, it would be difficult to convince the people of this State that it was not the proposition of Brown & Ives. Thus ends this history of one of the most re markable episodes in American politics. Many opinions adverse to Sprague, hastily formed and incautiously uttered, were expressed by politi cians and men all over the country. Even here some people affected to think he was either drank or crazed. He vigorously asserts that he was neither, and his worn can be trusted. °* °’ 8 ’ Velocipede Race Extoaobdinaby.—At last the challenge of Fred Hanlon to the velocipede riders of this country has been accepted by Mr. Frank Swift, a young gentleman who is said to possess a name well according with his perform ance on the uncertain bycycle. The race will take place on the 29 th of June, , over a course one mile long, for $1,000. A forfeit of $100 was deposited by either party yesterday.—N. Y. Commercial. A Whited Sepulchre. [Front the Chicago limes. The proceedings of the convention of Work ing-women, held in Boston last week, reads mote like some hideous invention than like facts of the nineteenth century, having existence in the modem Athens of the new world. Said a Mrs. Warner; “ I have canvassed fif teen cities of the United States, aud have not, in any of them, found the condition of women so deplorable as in the city of Boston.” How deplorable this condition is, was abund antly shown. Miss Phelps said there are 2,000 needle-women in Boston who get only 25 cents, a day, at the most. One woman presented a sack full of shirts which the Provident Aid So ciety had given her to be entirely made by hand, to be hemmed, gusseted, felled, and button holed, for 45 cents each. Dr. Dio Lewis said there are 20,000 women in Boston who earn their living by the needle. Mrs. Houghton knew of the cases of women who make shirts at 50 cents a dozen! Mrs. Warner took the liberty to remark that, in the cases of many well-dressed ladies pres ent, “ Each costly dress makes three prosti tutes.’’ These revelations are a few specimens of a multiplicity made during the convention. In considering them, two views of ihe subject nat urally present themselves. One of these is the case with reference to Boston, and the other the case with reference to working-women gen erally. In respect to the first division, it must bo said that the exhibition of Boston philanthropy, given during the convention, is of the most execrable character. The assertion of Airs. Warner that Boston was tho worst of tho fifteen cities whose cases she had examined, proves that Boston is responsible for the condition of these women, to the extent that their condition is worse than in other cities. One reason why it is worse is, that the modem Athens devotes its munificent chari ties, and its exquisite sympathies for suffering, to remote objects. When the Cretans were in rebellion against a legitimate government, the Bostonians founded a society and a periodical in their interest, and forwarded them money enough to have raised above the level of star vation, for a half-dozen of years, every one of the 8000 needle-women who are working for 25 cents a day. In the matter of down-trodden Africans, living comfortably at Government expense, these same Bostonians have been unusually liberal. They have spent tens of thousands of dollars annually in sending supplies to negroes who did not need them; and in affording them spelling-books and teachers, when thousands of their own women were on the verge of starvation, and had no choice between a death from hunger or a life of infamy. What sort of a record is this for a city which boasts of being the most enlightened in existence, which is the head-centre of missionary enterprises, negrophilist organizations, women’s rights societies, and all other bodies having be nevolent, philanthropical and charitable objects as the base of their formation? Despite this, its record of crime, suffering, destitution and oppression is worse than that of any city in America. It is the precise whited sepulchre whose externals are beautiful, but whose inte rior is filled with decay and dead men’s bones. In a general sense, the condition of a large percentage of working-women is worse than it should be in a country in which tho government is—comparatively and generally—so free, land so abundant, and labor so much in demand. So long as there are millions of acres of the public domain unoccupied, there should not be a single case of starvation, unless under such exceptional circumstansces as ill-health, or some other ab normal condition. Hence, one remedy should be, the more equal distribution of population. They should be taken from crowded centres, where competition has reduced the price of la bor, and distributed over areas that are sparsely or not at all settled. To secure this distribution, Boston should employ some of the funds which it raises for the relief of Cretans, the Hottentots, and the sonthem Africans. Another means of relief should be organized among well-to-do women themselves. The Stantons and Dickinsons who are making for tunes in shrilly clamoring for the privilege of jostling with loafers at the polls; the Liver- mores and Hoges who have such admirable ex ecutive ability in the conduct of great eleemo synary operations; tho unsexed Bloomers and others of the same sort—might turn their talent and give their time to ameliorating the absolute suffering among women who make shirts for, and support families upon fifty cents a dozen. Finally, and as an immediate measure of re lief, we invite the people of. Chicago to contrib ute toward a fund for the suffering needle-women of Boston. It is the more necessary to do some thing, that Boston, absorbed in the sublime duty of clothing well-clad, and feeding well-fed, Afri cans, has neither time nor money to care for its own starving women. Let Chicago do some thing for Boston. A Pile of Green bucks Ground Up. A few day ago, when one of the employees of Clark & Co.’s paper mill, near the acqueduct, was engaged in running through the “ rag-pick er” a Jot of old clothing, his attention was at tracted to some bitsof greenish paper which had gone through the machine. On closer inspection they proved to be scraps of greenbacks which had been clipped into pieces by the knives in the “picker." The man found a hat full of these old scraps, and instead of gathering them np carefully, and devoting a portion of his valu able time in fitting the 3craps together, he picked up a portion of the valuable debris, and gave them to friends as evidences of a curious dis covery he had mado of a fortune which had been run through a mill! The scraps are of bills of the denomination of $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100, and an estimate made from the quan tity of pieces found indicates that not less than $3000 was in the package which was ground up in the “rag-picker.” In a small bunch of the debris taken up without regard to the contents, there were twenty pieces with $100 on them. Now that it is too late to effect anything of consequence in the matter, we learn that the finder of those greenback scraps intends to try and make a collection of them and fit the pieces together. The money, however, has been “funded,” and is out of circulation.. The theo ry of the money getting into the picker, is that the coat which contained the money was one of a lot of soldiers’ blouses which were collected at different points, and that the money was sewed in the breast of a blouse which belonged to an officer who had died in a hospital, and the secret of the greenbacks died with him. Doubtless the poor fellow’s family often wondered what be came of his money, and the rag-picker has solved the mystery—-but unfortunately to no good pur pose.—Dayton ( Ohio) Journal. Tho Eight-Hour Law. "Washington, April 27.—The Cabinet meeting to-day had np the eight-hour matter and dis cussed it in some of its bearings, bnt did not come to any conclusion. The disposition seemed to be to let the troubles drift over until the meeting of Congress, when the inconsistency which exists between the eight-hour law and the act of 1862 can be arranged. The latter act provides that the Government shall pay no higher wages for work than is paid for similar service by outside parties. The "War and Navy Secretaries have received letters from various portions of the country stating that tho laborers on Government work are demanding ten hoar’s pay for eight hours’ work. Happiness. Reader, did you ever land a trout ? I do not ask if you ever jerked some poor little fellow out of a brook three feet across, with a pole six inches around at the butt, and so heavy as to require both hands and feet well braced to hold it out. No, that's not landing a trout. But did you ever sit in a boat, with nine ounces of lance-wood for a rod, and two hundred feet of braided silk in your double-acting reel, and hook a trout whose strain brought tip and butt together as you cheeked him in some wild flight, and tested your quivering line from gut to reel-knot? No one knows what game there is in a trout, unless he has fought it oat, match ing such a rod against a three pound fish, with forty feet of water underneath, and a dear, un impeded sweep around him ! Ah, then it is that one discovers what will and energy lie within the mottled skin of a trout, and what a miracle of velocity he is when roused. I love the rifle, and I have looked along the sights and held the leaping blood back by an effort of wiU, steady ing myself for the shot, when my veins fairly tingled with the exhilarating excitement of the moment; but one should ask me what is my oonoeption of pure physical happiness, I should assure him that the highest bodily beatitude I ever expect to reach is, on some future day, when the dear sun is occasionally veiled by clouds, to sit in a boat once more upon that lit tle lake, with John at the paddle, and match again a Conroy rod against a three pound trout. That’s what I call happiness 1—Adventures in the Wilderness, by W. H. i£ Murray. The Catholic Itqirfti The Provincial Council of i&ltiaiarc—lmprrn, ice Ceremonies at the Cathedrals-The p r ~ Uit.es—'The Profession—Pontifical Mask— pf. Sermon—The Music—Officers Tf the Coyne? Etc. T Repo, ted for the Baltimore 9u».l The tenth Provisional bouncil of the Roman Catholic Church In the province of Baltimore under the jurisdiction of the Most Rev. Arch! bishop SpaldiDg, was opened yesterday I'ft* fourth Sunday after Trinity) with imposing cer emonies at the Cathedral, and will be closed on next Sunday, May 2d. J The following is a list of the prelates in at. tendance, comprising mostly Bishops: Most Rev. Martin J. Spalding, D. D., Archbishop 0 f Baltimore, Md.; Right Her. Richard V. Whelan D. D., Senior Prelate and Bishop of WhefeUm.’ West Ya.; Right Rev. John McGill, D, j. Bishop of Richmond, Ya. ; 'Right Rev. P.V Lynch, D. D.. Bishop of Charleston, S. C • Right Rev. James F. Wood, D. D., Bishop rf Philadelphia, Pa.; Right Rev. Michael Domini-* D. D., Bishop of Pittsburg, Pa.: Right Eey Augustine Yerot, D. D., Bishop of Savannah! Right Rev. William O’Hara. D. D., Bishop 0 f Scranton, Pa,; Right Rev. Jeremiah F. Shaa*. han, D. D., Bishop of Harrisburg, Pa.; Ri„u Rev. Tobias Mullin, D. D., Bishop of Erie- Right Rev. Thomas A. Becker, D. D., Bishop of Wilmington, Del.; Right Rev. James Gibbon^ D. D., Bishop of Adramythim, in part, and Vi! car Apostolic of North Carolina: Right Rev. la. natius Persico, D. D., Bishop of Gratianopol-f in part. Inf. et Miss; Right Rev. Abbas Bomfj’ cius Wimmer, Abbot of the Order of St Bens! diet. THE PROCESSION. The weather yesterday was bright and bean, tiful, and the streets in the vicinity of [Cj Cathedral were early crowded with persons to witness the ecclesiastical display. The doors and windows of the dwelling houses in ftp neighborhood were also filled with spectators of the scene. At 10 o’clock a. m. the procession moved from the front of the Archbishop’s resi. dence, in Charles street, passing round into Mulbury street, and thence to the front entrance of the Cathedral, the bells of tho church ringing continuously, and the clergy singing psalms and chanting antiphonally. The Young Catholics’ Friend Society of Baltimore, underthe.direetion of their President, Mr. Alex. J. Bland, number, ing about 200 members, acted as a guard of hoi. or. The procession moved in the follmuin order: The censer bearer and second master of cer emonies ; the cross bearer with a large golden crucifix, between the' acolytes, carrying candle, sticks; the seminarians and choristers, theoio- gians, priests, etc., of the city and province— those in second orders in dalmatics, and the priests in chesubles; the twelve bishops of the province of Baltimore in mitre and cope, ac cording to the time of their consecration, with croziers in hand, each followed by two boys as train-bearers; the senior bishop, Rt. Rev. Dr. Whelan, pontifically dressed to celebrate mass, preceded by his assistant priests, and between the deacon and sub-deacon; the archbishop's cross; the Archbishop, between the very Rev. H. B. Coskery, Vicar-General, and the very Rev. Thomas Foley, Chancellor, followed by the Archbishop’s Secretary and corzier and mitre- bearers. The rich vestments of the bishops asl their emblems of rank and authority, had a brilliant effect in the bright snnlight. The church, at an early hour, was filled in ev ery part, except the centre aisle. As the procession, which numbered over one hundred eclesiastics, entered tho Cathedral a grand march, composed by Prof. Linhard, the organist, was performed with a full, orchestra. The procession passed slowly up the centre aisle to the altar, where the bishops and their attendants took the places prescribed for them, and remained standing until the Archbishop arrived at his seat, when all then became seated the clergy and others being seated in front of the altar railing. pontifical HASS. Grand Pontifical High Mass was then celebra ted by theRightRev. Bishop Wheelan. Haydn's sixteenth mass was sung by the full choir, under the directien of Professor Gegan. Before the sermon the Veni Sanctus Spiritus, by Dietsch, was sung by the choir. The sermon was preached by Right Reverend Bishop McGill, from the 14th chapter of St. John, in which Christ comfortetli his disciples, “Let not your heart be troubled, ye believe in God, believe, also in me,” etc. The discourse was listened to with much interest. At the effertoiy, Hummel’s Alma. Virgo was sung by the choir. opening of the peovtscial council. After the close of the morning service, the Archbishop moved to the front of the altar, when the opening of the session of the Provin- cialCouncil was commenced—all the proceedings being in Latin. The reading of the 68th Psaln was followed by a prayer addressed to the Vir gin, invoking the light and grace of the Holy Ghost upon the proceedings of the council The litany of the Saints was then recited, the responses being made by the’ full voices of sH present with unusual effect. A portion of the ninth chapter of St. Luke was read, “And he sent them to preach the'kingdom of God cni heal the sick,” &e. The Veni Creator Spiritus was then sung by tho priests. The Archbishop made a short ad dress to the prelates and clergy concerning nut ters to be treated in the council. A profession of faith was then made by all the prelates and officials of the council. The decrees of ths Council of Trent, de resident iu de profamv fidei, were, as also the list of the officers of the Provincial Council, of which the Most Rev Archbishop is the presiding officer. A Gran Living Without Food.—A little gi~ at Llanfihangel-yr-Arth, Wales, is said to have lived since the 10th of October, 1867, without food. A Committee of respectable men I formed some time ago to inquire into the case- and three gentlemen were requested to watch the girl. These gentlemen, one of whom is a medical student from Llandyssul, another a | scholar of St David’s College, Lampeter,'an: the third a medical assistant, watched the pn | continuously from March 22d to April 5th, and i they state that nothing whatever was giventa her during that time. So the story rests, incred ible it is true, but supported by evidence IP [ it is difficult to disbelieve. A subscbtption paper, circulated for sPJ I charitable purpose, was presented to a weth-J French manufacturer,- who subscribed twer-J francs. ‘-Twenty francs?” said the l»dy™* presented the list to him; “ why, you ought u be ashamed of yourself. Your sou has scribed fifty francs.” “That’s all very** replied the manufacturer, “my son lias a father and can afford to give more than I, [ shall not inherit anything.” An Omission. John G., whom everybody in Pike , tells a good thing on Judge W., whom e&S' body else in Pike knows. It runs thus: Judge W. had his law office close to a cere 1 -1 doctor—in fact, they were separated onlv ^ plank partition with a door in it. The We was at his table, busy with briefs nrul bi*J? chancery. The doctor was writing a letter, | pausing for a moment, called out: . . “Judge, isn’t e-q-u-i, the way to spell tip nomical?” “Yes, I think it is,” said tho Judge: here’s Webster’s dictionary—I can soon to | you.” He opens the book and turns over the letfp repeating aloud “e-quinomical—e-quiiwuuC' 3 Finding the proper place, ho runs hisoj**j finger up and down the column two or tit* times, until he is thoroughly satisfied that word in question was not there. Closing “ book with a slam, the Judge lays his spes the table, and rising slowly breaks forth— “ Well, sir, I’ve always been a Daniel IWrj man ; and I voted for him for President; any man that will write as big a dictionary this, and not put ns common a word ns H . nomical in it, can’t get my vote for anytn^ hereafter!” ^ The Judge denies the story, and s *£ s L John G. is an outrageous prevarioator. Here | end the tale, without expressing an opinion-.. [Montgomery A" 1 ' Lee and Gbant.—The New York Day J tells the following, which, if it be a story, nevertheless a deep moral in it: , Lingard, at his theatre on Broadway, is habit of personating the character of living of note. The other night he came out in.^ | character of General Lee, looking, it is fl e perfectly like that distinguished hero, ouu whole audience responded with loud ana P longed applause. But hie next character, , mediately following that of, Lee, was ^ Grant, which caused only the faintest res P% from four or five individuals. We have no a i that this inoident reflect* very faithfully. 1 m® ative popularity of Lee and Grant in New York needs reconstructing more than - j Orleans, proven Richmond.