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THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1869.
Th* Fair of the Putnam County Agricultural
J Club opens at Eatonton to-day. and will last for
several days. This is a fine opportunity for per
sons to look in upon the good people of Putnam.
Persons can leave this city on either evening
or morning trains of the Central Railroad and
go directly through. We will guarantee a pleas
ant trip to any who will make it.
Dn. Subs.—Wo leamfrom Dr. Tucker, Presi
dent of the Goorgia- Teacher's Association, that
Dr. B. Sears, agent of the Peabody fund, will
deliver an address before that body at its ses
sion in Macon on the 17th of November, during
the Agricultural Fair.
Important Decision'-—Tha United States Su
preme Court yesterday, in a case from Alaba
ma, recognized the validity of contracts made
in the Confederate States, computing Confeder
ate currency at its value at the time the ob
ligation was incurred. Sco telegraphic dis
patches.
Cotton Receipts at Columbus.—Up to the
29th nit, thero had been received of this year’s
crop of cotton 10,9GG bales, against 19,839 boles
for the corresponding time last year, and 10,224
bales for 18GG-G7. Stock on hand October 29,
18G9, 5194 bales.
Salem Dutches.—The Galveston (Texas)
News, of tho 24th, announces that in future
Salem Dntcher, Esq., will have control of the
editorial department of that staunch journal.—
We congratulate tho Nows upon its acquisition,
and wish both it and its editor snccess commen
surate with their merits.
Editors Tdcgraph: Please publish the fol
lowing schedule as that of the extra-train on the
Eatonton Branch Road, during the Fair—to
commence Monday morning, November 1st:
Leave Gordon 8:05 A. M.
Arrive at Eatonton 10 A M.
Leave Eatonton 3 P. M.
Arrive at Gordon « P. M.
Connecting with trains, morning and evening,
to and from Macon. Respectfully,
H. D. Catebs, Soc.
St. Augustine, Florida.—The St. Augus
tine Examiner says the improvement of the
ancient city is beyond all precedent. The editor
stands four stories from the ground on the unfin
ished cupola of Mr. Palmer’s magnificent hotel
on the piazza, and looks over the bay, over the
high sand hills that enclose the harbor, and far
out into the sea. But even there the sound of
the hammer and the saw greet his ears. lie
says:
St. Augustine was a great old town once in
“Spanish times.” Our hope is that it maybe
greater in the great universal “ Yankee times.”
Everybody has turned carpenter, mason or
painter. Those that haven’t are hotel keepers,
boarding house keepers, or restaurateurs. Those
that are left are mariners, great and small. The
rest of mankind arc railroad men. The balance
teach school. It is difficult to realize how rap
idly and stftely we are casting ofl' the garb and
decrepitude of old age and putting on the
strength and beauty and the brilliant apparel of
youth. Wc must own to the fact that the
thought is not unaccompanied by sad reflections.
Tee Railboad Suits—The Receiver Missing
—Another Process fob Contempt.—After the
release of Captain Johnson on habeas corpus
by Judge Knight, the sheriff returned to Talla
hassee and reported the result to the Supreme
Court. On Tuesday the Court issued another
order for the arrest of Captain Johnson, and the
sheriff again returned to Jacksonville, bnt on
his arrival found that Johnson had disappeared,
having, it is reported, taken the steamer Lizzie
Baker on Monday morning and started for Sa
vannah.
Capt. Johnson, before making np his mind to
disobey tho Supreme Conrt, had turned tho rail
road ovor to President Dibble, but before com
pleting the transfer of property, seems to have
changed his mind and still retains the money.
As matters stand now, the road is back in the
possession of the company, but thereceiverjias
run away, and some twelve thousand dollars are
missing. —Jacluton ville Union, 29 th.
The Political Situation. — A prominent
Democrat, in conversation regarding tho polit
ical situation, asserted publicly to-night thatthe
Democratic party would continue its policy of"
opposition to tho principles of the reconstruc
tion acts in all future elections, adding that
finally tho Supreme Court would sustain them,
and predicted that the next Presidential cam
paign will bo narrowed down to a struggle
over the legality of the fourteenth amendment.
In explanation "he declared that repudiationists,
as well ns anti-reconstrnctionists, would unite
on such a platform, because the amendment,
while prohibiting the payment of the rebel debt,
guarantees the payment of the national debt,
and opposition to it is, therefore, the national
inclination of the great masses of tho Demo
cratic party. — Washington special to Phila
delphia Press, October 27th.
Postmaster-General Cresswell’b report will
embrace a recommendation for the abolition oj
the franking privilege, and that the several de
partments shall bo required to pay their own
postage.* Ho says that under such an arrange
ment his department would become self-sustain
ing, if not a sonree of profit He will also re
commend that the laws regulating the advertise
ments by the departments shall be changed in
material respects, also the abolition of the let
ter-box delivery system, thnt all mail matter be
delivered by earners or through general deliv
ery ; also, reduction of rates on registered let
ters. He will further report a verv small defi
ciency— Washington special to PJuladdphia
Press, Oct. 27th. rr -
Business in the West sympathizes with tho
blighted expectations of the farmers in regard to
the prices realized for grain. They have been
so long accustomed to high prices for all their
products, that the present rates—dear though
they seem to the consumer—are a sad disap
pointment. And depression among the farmers
means still greater depression among the store
keepers, and somewhat dull __ times all round.
But there is no cause for gloomy feeling. The
worst that can result from the present state of
things, as the Chicago Tribune remarks, will be
small profits, or no profits at all, to merchants
and banks. If solvent, they will not more seri
ously suffer. „■ *
• ‘A correspondent In this morning’s Press gives
his experience in seeking employment in Phila
delpbia, and adds as a bit of advice: “Don't
come to the cities, bnt seek honorable employ
ment in the country.” In this cdhnection we
give the annexed very sensiblo paragraph from
anoxchange:
“Instead of urging poor people in the cities
to leave for the country, when they havo neither
health nor. money to go with, it would be proper
to induce people who are living in the country
to stay thero. It is next to impossible to drive
a city man, without capital, to a location and
life of which he is utterly ignorant, and it
should be equally difficult to drive young men
into the cities from the rural districts.”—Phila
delphia Press, 291A
St. Louis has a judge who understands his
business, and no mistake. In sentencing an.
ignorant German, who had been convicted of
murder in the first degroo, but recommended to
mercy, Judge Prim, after alluding to the re
commendation, and advising the prisoner to
banish all illusive hopes, said: “Endeavor to
bring your mind and heart to such a frame and
condition that you may be ad utrumgue para-
tus, ready for "either fortune.” We have no
doubt that the advice was .indelibly stamped
upon tho mind of the prisoner, and that he has
resolved to be act utrumgue paratas..
On Thursday .last Mr. Davis attended a ban
quet at the .rooms of the “Life Association of
America,"in New Orleans. Gen. Hood presided.
The Picayune says : “After the gnest had as
sembled aronnd the board, Gen- H. proposed
the health of Mr. Davis, which was drank in
moat respectful silence. The latter replied with
a pleasant compliment to the fidelity and fear
lessness of Gen. Hood, who, he said, would
stand upon his crutches to the last, defending
home interests and contending for that he be
ieved to be right''
Crowding the Cities.
The new Governor of Virginia, in a late agri
cultural address, very earnestly urged the young
men before him not to imitate those who had
forsaken their “paternal acres” and gone to the
large cities. This same point was enforced by
onr own Governor, Hoffman, and by Ex-Gov
ernor Seymour, in their recent addresses on
similar occasions. These dignitaries, Northern
and Southern, all agree on tbG superior claims
and advantages of agricultural life. Tho young
men of every part of the country need such
testimony, and we are glad to see it adduced.
The fact is undeniable that for some years
farming pursuits throughout the country have
been rather losing than gaining favor. The of
ficial returns show that agricultural production
has not been keeping pace with the advancing
population of the country, and alike demon
strates an increasing tendency to concentrate in
largo towns and cities. Farmers’ sons have
been moved by a spirit pf adventure to turn
their backs upon the steady occupation of their
fathers, and betake themselves to speculation,
or trade, or mechanical employments in town.
The immense immigration into the country has
by no means contributed its just proportion to
the demands of agricnltnre. The lest national
census showed that nearly forty per cent, of tho
Irish of the country wero living in tho large
cities, and thirty-six and a half per cent, of the
Germans. If to these had been added those
who were located in villages, and those who
wero scattered through the conn try employed in
constructing railroads and other works of inter
nal improvement, it would be seen at once that
there wero far more agricultural consumers
among this great class of onr population than
agricultural producers. It is to be feared that
the now census will show this disparity in a yet
more marked degree. One thing is certain:
that, taking the country at largo, there will be
shown an immense falling off of producers, to
the extent of four millions at least from the sin
gle event of emancipation.
Now, there can be no moro fixed axiom in
political economy than that agricultnre must
form the basis of the prosperity and power of
the American people. It is the great foundation
of onr wealth and consequence—tho primary
sonree of all our prosperity. It feeds us. To a
great degree it clothes us. 'Without it wo could
not have manufactures, and should not have
commerce. Itfumishes onr factories with their
raw material, and it fills our ships with their
cargoes. Social industry depends upon it; in
dividual life depends upon it. Thero is no man
in the country who is so wealthy as to be inde
pendent of the snccess of this great interest,
nor any so poor as not to be affected by its
prosperity or its decline. This country has pe
culiar facilities for advantageously prosecuting
this great department of human labor. The
variety of its climate, tho abundance and cheap
ness of its fertile soil, are such as no other na
tion on tho surface of tho globe can boast It
is no credit to our vaunted enterprise that we
have never yet made adequate use of these sig
nal advantages—thatthe time has never yet been
when tho proportion of our farmers to the
whole population was as large as it should have
been—when the number of those engaged in
professions and trades were not, at tho very
least, twice as great as the actual necessities of
society required. Thero is reason to apprehend
that this disproportion will increase. This
restless, adventurous spirit is ever tending to
take more complete possession of our people.
Everybody is getting moro infected with tho
eagerness to get rich in haste. There is a grow
ing impatience of the good old plan of earning
a competence by steady, persevering labor and
frugal living. The young men of the day have
tired of the isolation and monotony of agricul
tural life, and pant for something more stirring
and exciting, and something that seems to prom
ise quicker and moro splendid returns. They
havo seized upon the first opportunity to launch
away into the tide of trade and speculation.
And that tide once embarked upon, it is very
seldom that they find their way back again to
the plowed fields. A large proportion of them
havo not succeded in their new pursuits; tens
of thousands of them have miserably failed,
and become bankrupts and drones; and yet they
have from tHo pure force acquired habit clung
to town life with all the greater tenacity.
It cannot be too well understood by these
young malcontents in the country that failure
there almost infallibly foretokens failure here.
The same qualities and habits which stand in
their way in the country will cause them to
stumble in the city. It is everywhere the same
all over the world": to fill any situation success
fully, one must fill it as belonging to it. The
man who feels above his business, let that busi
ness be what it may, is actually below any busi
ness. He is without anything to hold him up
anywhere, and is bound to sink anyhow. The
great work of life, whether in city or country,
cannot be maintained by any such weaklings.
Least of all is this tearing, grinding, crushing
mart the place for them. We already havo an
over-production of incapables anddroncs. There
is no room here for the drift of rural weakness
and cowardice. Let the farmers’ sons heed the
counsels of their Governors and stay at home—
holding fast to the oldest, happiest, most inde
pendent and most honorable of human occupa
tions.
The above sensible remarks are from the New
York Times of the 28th. In connection with
the above see from Columbus Sun—
What Bovs Can Do—A Pregnant Example.—
A young man of an adjoining county, “not yet
nineteen years old,” aided by his brother, be
tween twelve and thirteen years of age, and a
pony, has this year, on rented land cleared three
bales of cotton, and one hundred and fifty bush
els of corn, and “lots of potatoes,” besides sup
porting his mother and a little sister. He also
has cotton yet to pick. He is the son of a de
ceased Confederate soldier. He will commence
the next year with the following capital:
Three bales of cotton, at 23c $345
One hundred and fifty bushels of com, at
§1 50 per bushel..." 225
The Yerge* Case.
The brief and clear argument of Mr. Carlisle,
in reply to Attorney General Hoar, a few days
ago, on the question of the jurisdiction of the
supreme conrt in tho Yerger case, prepared ev
ery one for the decision of the conrt contained
in the Times on yesterday. Although it is re
ported that Justice Miller dissents from the de
cision, there will be .found very few who will
question its correctness. When the
case was before the court, Congress was in
such haste to oust the court from appellate ju
risdiction in habeas corpus cases that it failed to
do what it intended, and left the act of 1789,
giving such jurisdiction, in force. ’
This was the only point decided by the court
on Monday. The question of whether Yerger
was lawfully tried by a military court will come
up when the argument upon the writ of habeas
corpus, which will nndoubtedly be granted in
the case, shall be made. Whether this question
■will involve the one of the constitutionality of
the military bills as a whole, or reach only to
that portion of them authorizing the trial of
citizens not in the land or naval forces by mili
tary courts, when charged with offences against
tho civil law, is a point on which lawyers dis
agree.
Reconstruction has, through infamous and in.
expressibly wicked agencies, gone so far toward
restoring the rebellions States to the Union,
that it is doubtful whether the interests of the
whole country, or of the States which have been
subjected to tho infamy, would be promoted by
overturning it. If fair elections could bo bad in
Mississippi and Texas, and the white men of
those States could come into possession of their
own State governments next month, there would
bo no disposition to uproot the infamy from the
foundation. In that case, Democrats as well as
Republicans who are sick of its crimes, would
say let it stand, and the remedies for its evils be
sought for under the State governments it has
authorized.
In Florida and North Carolina, there is such
criminal and bloody transgression, and so much
of it, that the State authorities can do nothing
to preserve order. Tho carpet-bag and black
governments there havo appealed to the gener
al government for military help to maintain
them. It is a sad and disgraceful business, but
it is doubtful whether it would be bettered by
upsetting the State governments altogether, and
throwing the people back into the anarchy which
snch a proceeding would occasion. They will
shortly release themselves, as their,brethren in
Tennessee and Virginia have done.
There is no donbt thnt the supreme conrt will
declare so much of the reconstruction infamy as
substitutes military for civil conrts unconstitu
tional, and for reasons clearly showing that the
infamy altogether is, as its author, Thadeus
Stevens, declared it to be, “wholly outside of,
and unknown to the Constitution,” bnt it is not
probable that this will have any other effect than
to release Yerger from military custody. Con
gress will either pay no attention to such a de
cision, or will make war on the court, as it did
in tho McArdle case, and will proceed to so pro
tect the infamy that it will run its appointed
time.
Be it reverently said, thank God, thero is a
prospect of its speedy death. The peoplo do
not now ask that it be executed by the supreme
court. It is too late for the intervention of that
court, except to shield individuals applying for
relief. Thero was a time when the conrt, by a
prompt and fearless discharge of its duty,
might havo released the South from military
despotism, and havo restored to her constitu
tional freedom, but it was permitted to pass,
and the court cannot now redeem the opportu
nity.—Chicago Times, October 27th.
Tlte Value of Our Crops.
The following table represents the value of
leading crops for the year 18G8, the estimate be
ing made upon homo values in the respective
States, and furnished by the Commissioner of
Agricultnre at Washington:
Indian Com $5G9,512,400
Wheat 319,189,710
Rye 28,683,G77
Oats 142,484,910
Barley 29,809,931
Buckwheat 20,864,315
Potatoes 84,150,040
Tobacco 40,081,942
Hay 351,941,930
Cotton 225,000,000
$570
and his pony.
Ho contemplates buying a mule, and hiring a
hand and more ground. He cultivated thirty
acres this year.
Presbyterian Union.
Those interested in the ecclesiastical move
ments will remember the great interest felt
thonghont tho conntry last year in the proceed
ings of the Old and Now School General Assem
blies of the Presbyterian Church, looking to
ward a union of the two bodies. The terms of
union, doctrinal and practical, agroed on by the
committees in conference, it will bo recollected,
passed both bodies. It was then to be sent
down to the presbyteries of each denomination
to bo voted on directly. Returns from more
than two-thirds of the presbyteries have been
now received and the union known to have been
ratified by more than the required majority.—
According to the terms of their respective ad
journments. the two General Assemblies will
meet in Pittsburg, November 10, to count tho
ballots and declare officially the result
This consolidation of two of the largest Pro
testant bodies, which will undoubtedly be fol
lowed by the absorption of many smaller bodies
of kindred faith—perhaps, indeed, of the en
tire Calvinistio element of Protestanism—is an
event of no small moment to either the religions
or the secular world.
The historical significance of the movement
cannot well bo estimated at this moment. Of
one thing, however, we may be certain. Under
its present organization a mass of disjointed
sects, Protestantism as a religion cannot take
its proper place in history, either as a positive
power, or as a preparation for some further and
better development.—Philadelphia Press, 28th.
Talented Inebriates.
A correspondent of the Boston Journal writes:
“In the Binghampton Inebriate Asylum are
eminent lawyers from 'New England, whom I
have heard plead with Webster and Choate, men
of wealth and standing; eloquent temperance
orators, whose names and address I have seen
within a year in tho Jonrnal; men who have
been and are still officially connected with the
city government of New York; professional
men of high standing; eloquent and distin
guished ministers of tho gospel; sons of emi
nent merchants of New York and other leading
cities; some of the most talented artists of the
land; organists who readily commanded $5,000
a yearinthe city; with bankers, lawyers, clerks,
and eminent men; nearly all of them under
thirty years of age. Manyof them are fine per
formers. They have organized a choir, con-
dnoting in superb style the worship which is
held daily, and the worship of tho Sabbath, give
concerts, have entertainments, run a small
theater once a week, have negro minstrels, and
the whole week is occupied in a round of inter
esting amusements. Many of the rooms are
fitted up in artistic style by the patients, and a
moro cheerful, exuberant’ retreat cannot be
found in the country.
A bachelor, in commenting upon the large
amount which Queen Victoria saves annually
from her salary, remarked thnt “there was a
widow worth going for.” ■ .
Total : $1,811,608,915
It will be seen that much stress as is and has
been laid upon the value of our great wheat and
cotton crops, they are not the first nor even the
second crops in value, the first rank being held
by Indian com, so far above competition as to
render it remarkable how so much attention
was ever concentrated on the magnitude and
value of other products. Its range is greater
than that of any other crop in the country, cov
ering the whole Union from end to end, and its
cultivation is so general that in traveling
through any section one may always safely cal-
cnlate on seeing growing com. Whether a
farmer can send his cotton or his wheat to mar
ket or not, he can always make use of Indian
com, for if he cannot sell it to advantage he
can feed it to his live stock, or dispose of it in
other ways. By tho former process the large
provision trade of the West has been bnilt np.
At the South, com is the bread of the planta
tion hands universally.
The reader will also observe that the hay crop
exceeds in value that of wheat or cotton, and
holds the second place on the list. This is not
accidental or temporary. It has alway been so,
and probably always will, in consequence of our
great demand for hay to feed the horses and cat
tle. The hay crop, like that of Indian com, is
also almost universal, and there are thousands
of acres in the West formerly cultivated in grain
that are now devoted to hay in consequence of
the sudden increase of the demand for that arti
cle, caused by the rapid increase of population in
all the cities and towns of that section. This is
a steady and reliable crop for which there is
always a demand in any populous region, and
about which there is scarcely any risk. The
diminution of the production of wheat in snch
States as Pennsylvania and Ohio may easily be
accounted for by the increased attention to such
crops as hay, rendered absolutely necessary by
the growth "of cities and towns. So it is beam
ing, also, in Indiana and Illinois, and thus the
centre of wheat production recedes farther and
farther west. The increase in the oat crop is for
the same reason, and that, like hay, must go on
permanently increasing from necessity, though
not on the same scale. At the present time its
value as a crop equals the sum of buckwheat,
potatoes and tobacco.
The value of the cotton crop being below that
of the wheat crop, shows how vast an extension
the latter acquired during the war, when it was
in such unusual demand both for home consump
tion and for export'. Since the close of the war,
a large surplus of wheat has been produced and
shipped from the Southern interior, so that in
this respect the South has become self-support
ing. It raises its own breadstufls aud provisions.
The wheat crops of our Pacific coast have become
so great as to constitute an important item in the
supplies of Australia, India, England and the
Atlantic States, and these crops dre inereasing in
an enormous ratio. At the same time the area
of wheat culture is extending very last in Michi
gan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Dacotah, Iowa, Ne
braska, Kansas and Montana. Under all these
circumstances, there can be little doubt that the
value of the wheat crops will continue to rank
ahead of cotton, and unless more energy shall be
displayed by the cotton planters, it would not be
surprising to see even the oat crops go ahead of
cotton. It will be remarked also that the tobacco
crop makes far less progress in recovery of its
lost prosperity than any of the Southern pro
duct^ which doubtless may be attributed to the
terrible ruin and desolation of Virginia, the
headquarters of tobacco culture. Tobacco has
of late years been quite a profitable crop in the
North, but its true home is iu Maryland, Vir-
§ inia, West Virginia, Kentucky and the ncigh-
oring regions, and in duo time will flourish
thero again as it did of old.—Gemiantoim Tele
graph. ■ -
Grant on tlie Mississippi Election.
Special to the Louisville Courier-Journal.]
Washington, October 28.—The views of Pres
ident Grant on the Mississippi election, &b fil
tered through Senator Thayer, of Nebraska, and
telegraphed by the Associated Press, are put
out for a purpose, as Thayer attemped to im
pose his account on nearly every representative
of the press in Washington. Judge Dent’s law
partner here says that Dent has nover repre
sented that he had the support of the President
and administration for the Governorship of Mis
sissippi, bnt has declared, and now repeats, that
Grant told him that if the Gdnservative Repub
licans were bound to carry the election in that
State, he preferred Dent’s triumph to that of any
other man; but at the same time he admitted
that the administration was inclined towards the
Radical ticket. Dent writes here that he has no
doubt whatever of his election on November
soth.
Kino William, of Prussia, offers the Pope'a
carpet to cover the floor of the hall in which the
great council will meet. It will cost $30,000.
btst i teXjEo:r,-ajp:e3:_
FROM WASHINGTON. ~‘ -'
Washington, November 1.—Belknap has been in
stalled Secretary of War.
Unreliable hints regarding the annual reports are
published. It seems certain, however, that Bout-
well and Delano will oppose any changes in taxes.
There are questions of veracity between the Para
guayan Minister, McMahon, and members of the
Argentine Legation here.
A Committee of the Louisville Convention have
ah interview with the President on Wednesday.
IMPORTANT DECISION.
The Supreme Court in tbs case of Thorington vs.
Smythe & Hartley, from Alabama, reversed the
decision of the Court below, and the case was re
manded for a new trial. This decision gives validi
ty to obligations within the Confederacy, computing
dollars at the value of Confederate notes at the time
tho obligation was incurred.
A fuller statement of the case of Thorington vs.
Smith & Hartley, on a bill in equity for the enforce
ment of the vender’s lien: Smith & Hartley pur
chased ThoriDgton’s land and gave their promissoiy
note for part pay. The transaction occurred in 1864,
Without modifying circumstances, Thorington would
be entitled to a decree for the amount and interest.
The defence pleaded that only Confederate notes
wero current. Tho land was worth only three thou
sand dollars in real money. Tho contract price was
forty-five thousand dollars—thirty-five thousand
whereof was actually paid in Confederate notes, and
a note for the remaining ten thousand was to bo
discharged in tao same manner, and it is claimed
on this state of facts that tho vender is entitled to
no relief in the United States Court, which claim
was sustained by tho court below, and tho case was
dismissed. „
The questions before the Supreme Court upon an
appeal are: First—Can a contract for the payment
of Confederate notes, made during the late rebel
lion, between parties residing within the so-called
Confederate States, be enforced at all in the courts
of tho United States? Second—Can evidence be re
ceived to prove that a promise expressed, should be
for the payment of any other than lawful dollars
of the United States? Third—Does the evidence in
the record establish tho fact that the note for $10,000
was to bo paid, by agreement of tho parties, in Con
federate notes ?
The first question is answered affirmatively. The
Tho second question iB answered affirmatively, with
tho following remarks: We aro clearly of the opin
ion that such evidence must be received in respect
to such a contract, in order that justice may bo done
between tho parties, and that tho party entitled to
ho paid in these Confederate dollars can only re
ceive their actual value at tho time and place of the
contract, in lawful money of tho United States. On
tho third question tho Court says: We do not think
it necessary to go into a detailed examination of the
evidence. It is enough to say that it has left no
doubt in our minds, that tho note for ten thousand
dollars—to onforco payment of which suit was
brought in tho Circuit Court—was to bo paid, by
agreement of the parties, in Confederate notes,
Tho Supreme Court decides that the issues of tho
Tennessee State Bank, previous to the war, are good
tenders for Tennessee State taxes. A mandamus
has been issued compelling county officers to re
ceive these notes for State license.
In the case of Samuel B. Paul vs. Virginia, in
dicted for issuing insurance policies without State
license, the Supremo Court affirmod the decision
of the lower court, holding that coiporations
aro not citizens in the meaning of the Constitution,
and that issuing insurance policies is no part of com
merce. • *
Revenue" to-day, over one million.
The Pacific Railroad Commissioner’s report says:
It will require over a half million dollars to com
plete the Central, and a million aud a half to com
plete the Union Pacific Road. They report the offi
cers of both roads as working in good faith.
Washington, October 31 Boutwell directs, the
Assistant Treasur, at New York, to give notice that
the sale of gold to purchase bonds bo continued
without change during November.
The debt statement shows a decrease of nearly
seven and a half millions; coin balance, one hun
dred and seventeen .millions; currency balance,
seven and a quarter millions. Shipments of frac
tional currency to Charleston and New Orleans, fifty
thousand dollars; to Mobile, twenty-five thousand.
GENERAL NEWS.
St.-Loris, November 1 The Stonewall commit
tee report sixty-five bodies found. Only the col
ored steward and chambermaid have been recog
nized.
Richmond, November 1.—Gov. Walker has des
ignated November 18th as thanksgiving day.
Tho city is full of strangers to attend the State
Pair, which opens to-morrow.
Futures.
Wm. A. Bryce & Company’s, cotton circular
of October 30th, says:
A fair business has been done in contracts this
week, with rather a downward tendency in pri
ces. Very little demand exists from exporters
or spinners, bnt speculators cover their shorts
quietly as prices recede. Twenty-five cents
seems about the idea for November and Decem
ber deliveries of low middling, bnt the market
has not that healthy tone which would lead to
the conclusion that operators felt safe to buy at
that rate. A good many of these contracts, es
pecially for late delivery, are being taken on
Southern account, by parties who have faith in
the Spring rise, and who sell their cotton on ar
rival here, and immediately buy a contract, this
proceeding saving them all charges of storage,
nsuranco, etc., while their interest in the raar-
kot continues the same. The great advantage
of this kind of business over holding actual
bales, at no little expense, is gradually being
appreciated at the South, aud no doubt a ma
jority of planters and operators, who desire to
hold for a late month, will avail themselves of
the advantages offered by onr market To those
of our friends who are unacquainted with these
transactions wo would say, that a margin of ten
dollars a bale is deposited in the Trust Compa
ny by both buyers and sellers, for the faithful
performance of tho contract and tho variations
of the market against either buyer or seller
must be immediately made good by a further
deposit in the Trust Company, or the forfeiture
of tho original margin of ten dollars per halo.
At tho close wo quote November and December
at 25c, January at 254c. to 25jfc., February or
March at 254c. to 2Go.', all on a basis of low
middling. ” ,
Corn—Prospects of an Advance.
From a private letter of a partner of tho
house of Blackmar, Roberts, Chandler <fe Co., of
St. Louis, October IGth, addressed to a member
of the firm, Captain Chandler, now in Columbus,
we extract tho following
“ Corn is sure to rule higher, and if I were to
attempt to make figures, they would hardly be
credited. My opinions are based on tho follow
ing facts:. The Commissioner of Agricultnre
says that the com crop, in every scotion of the
conntry, has been the prey of numerous ills.
Only six States show an average crop. He puts
the loss in Virginia at 49 per cent.; Maine, Ver-
mond, Maryland, North and South Carolina,
Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Michigan and
"Wisconsin, a£ 30 to 40 per cent.; New Hamp
shire, Connecticut, Now York, New Jersey, Del
aware, Georgia, Indiania, Ohio, Iowa and Min
nesota, 20 to 30 per cent.; Massachusetts and
Pennsylvania, 10 to 20 per cent.; Rhode Island,
Alabama, Missouri and California, 1 to 10 per
cent., or about one hundred and fifty million
bushels less than a full crop. This looks like
high com before next Spring. Oats will, to
some extent, sympathize] with corn in price.
Again, the large orders now received from South
Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, confirms me in
my views, that com must advance materially in
the next sixty days, if not before. Now is the
time to order, that we may use our discretion,
and take advantage of heavy receipts, dull days,
etc., and fill orders gradually, instead of pre
cipitating them on the market at onco."
One of the partners of the house has traveled
through six com States, and these views corres
pond with his personal observations.—Colum
bus Sun, Oct. 24. • ■■•*. «-.t
The short dress, elaborately but artistically
trimmed, is fashionable for evening wear, and
more worn at balls than the trained skirts, but
for grand occasions and dinner parties the long
train is the most stylish.
The citizens of St. Louis are making liberal
arrangements for the recovery end sepulture of
the bodies of toe passengers and crew lost by
toe disaster to the steamer Stonewall, aud for
the relief of families rendered destitute by it.
The New Orleans Pioayune says that all the
hands that can possibly be procured in Louisiana
are busily engaged iu picking cotton. Every
planter is so busy picking he has no time to ship.
THE BRIDE AND CHtOOft.
A Jewish I/ejrnd.
Among the most learned and pious Jews of
the twelfth century, next to the great Maimoun,
or Maimoriides, of European- fame, stands Ra-
schi, or, as he was more properly called,' Schlo-
mo ben Isaac. He wrote a commentary on Th li
ra and on several of the books of the Prophets,
and also one on the Talmud.. He was a great
mathematician, and among his own people was
reverenced for his sanctity and asceticism.
His parents lived in Toulon, but Raschi was
bom In Troyes; and this is the reason why his
father Isaac and his mother left Toulon. Short
ly after the birth of the child, the good woman
walked down a 1 narrow street. A cumbrous
wagon was being drawn along it by four stout
horses, and the wagon filled the street so as to
make it impossible to pass. Seeing this, the
woman turned to seek a side street; but at that
moment the car of a young nobleman drove up
the lane toward her. The timid woman ran
from side to side in quest of a corner into which
she might retreat from the two vehicles.
“Look at toe Jewess!’’ exclaimed toe driver
of the nobleman’s car; “how frightened she is.”
“Whip the horses and run her down,’, said
his master.
The two vehicles approached, and toe poor
creatnre, finding no place of retreat, with a pite
ous cry shrank against the wall. At that mo
ment toe huge wheel of toe wagon rolled toward
her almost grazing the house wall. Then, sud
denly, the wall bowed inward, and formed a lit
tle recess, in which toe Jewess stood secure.
“Softer and more yielding are these stones
than your hearts, ye Christians!” she exclaimed.
Now when this miracle was known, it was at
onco concluded that it was wrought by magic,
and Isaac, fearing lest it should be the cause of
their being both brought to the stake, fled pre
cipitately to Troyles, and there Raschi was bom.
When Raschi was an old man, and renowned
every where for his vast learning and. profound
wisdom, and above all for his great holiness, the
school wherein he taught was crowded with pu
pils, and his sayings were treasured as though
they were precious like gold. Ho fasted contin
ually, only eating wliat was just sufficient to
keep life, and what lie ate was of poor quality
and was mingled with ashes. He drank nothing
save water, and of that onlv a little, once a day.
He remained whole'nights in prayer, and when
not engaged in teaching during the day, he
stood wrapt in meditation.
As he stood at his window ono evening, two
Jews passed, and they were speaking of him.
One said to the other, “Was there ever in the
days of the prophets a greater saint than is this
Rabbi Raschi ?”
To which the other replied, “Surely, for him
there must be prepared one of the most exalted
stations iu Paradise.”
Then the Rabbi fell to musing on the place
that was to be his in the Kingdom of God, aud
he wondered who would be his companion in
the Land of Light, and sit at his side in Para
dise. With Ms thoughts fixed on this theme,
he stood long at his window gazing out over the
vine-olad hills towards the horizon where toe
sun had set, and where its rays shot upward,
kindling the finely attenuated vapor which hung
in the air, and making the blue of heaven green
as grass. Level bars of cloud burned like gold
in a furnace, and small misty fragments glowed
scarlet, like fiery lilies growing in a field of sun
lit grass between strips of yellow crocuses.
As the old man stood with his eyes fixed on
the west, and his mind revolving the thoughts
suggested by tho speakers, he saw the western
sky undergo a sudden transformation; toe gold
en clouds became steps of light in a pavement
of amethyst, and on these platforms were placed
pairs of golden thrones with gorgeous robes of
ruby tissue cast over them, and in these robes
diamonds were set, and as tho light changed
they twinkled like sparks that wander about the
ashes of consumed paper. Upon each throne
a name was written with lightning brilliancy.
And the Rabbi saw on two of tho highest—two
that stood side by side on toe same stage—Ras-
cM ben Isaac, of Regensburg, and Abraham ben
Gerson, of Barcelona. As soon as the old man
had made out these names, tho light faded and
he found that the sky was dark, that only a
fdint amber glow remained above the horizon,
and that the stars were shining in too dark bluo
vault. So he shut his window, and he busied
himself through tho night in gathering together
a few necessaries for a journey, for he was re
solved, ere day-break, to start for Barcelona,
and to make the acquaintance of Abraham ben
Gerson, who was to be he his companion in
Paradise.
After a tedious journey, Raschi arrived in
Barcelona, his feet sore with walking, and Ms
palm fretted with the staff he held, and his
shoulders galled with tho straps of the little
knapsack wMoh held his clothes and provisions.
As he entered the town he thought to Mmself,
“I will not mention the holy man by name, but
will see whether the Hebrews here know of his
Mgh merit and future exaltation.” Then, meet
ing a Jewish wood-cutter, he stopped him and
said:
Friend, who is the most pious of the faithful
intoiscity?”
Tho wood-cutter replied, “Rabbi Jonathan.”
“Who is the next greatest saint in the city ?”
* ‘Levi ben Nathan. ’ ’
“Have you other wise, just, and holy men
here ?”
“Certainly; there is Ishmael Zadik, there is
Jehoshua ben Ammon, Samuel the Learned,
Mordecai Cohen ”
“But stay,” interrupted Raschi; “toe old one
I mean, I suppose must bo a very old man, with
pale face, bowed knees, a long white beard,
eyes red with tears from much weeping for tho
transgressions of Israel; a man ever engaged
in prayer, who macerates his body and trains
Ms soul.”
1 “There is no such a man in Barcelona,” an
swered the wood-cutter. “Farewell. J
“Stay,” exclaimed tho rabbi, detaining him,'
‘can you tell me aught of Abraham ben Ger
son ?”
“Abraham ben Gerson ?” echoed the laborer,
‘he is no saint. He is a rich man: a delicate
liver; keeps much company, and is Mgh in fa
vor with the Gentiles.”
“Where does he live, friend ?” ,
“Follow me and I will show you.”
Tho Rabbi Raschi was brought by toe wood
cutter before a marble palace. Gaily caparison
ed horses stood at the door, held by pages in
gallant liveries. He hastened up the flight of
steps leading to tho entrance, and entered the
hall. It was paved with colored marble; tho
walls were incased with alabaster richly sculp
tured, and silk curtains hung before toe doors.
Noblemen waited there, lounging on velvet sofas,
till the master of the house could attend to
them. Servants glittering with gold lace hur
ried about, bearing slavers of the most precious
metal, on wMch wero goblets of iced wines, and
plates with delicious confections, which they
handed to the illustrioua visitors.
Travel-stained, dnst-begrimmed, leaning on
his rude staff, his gaberdine in tatters, his long
wMte beard untriunned and the white hair of
Ms head in tangled locks, unattended to, the
wondering Raschi stood entranced. A servant
approached Mm with a golden salvor, on which
were wines. The old man raised his staff, and
with flashing eyes indignantly signed him to re
tire.
Suddenly a silver bell tinkled. Instantly all
the nobles rose, the servants started to the stairs
leading to tho upper portion of the house, drew
back the brocade curtains that screened the as
cent, and ranged themselves in a line between
the stairs and tho entrance door.
In another moment a noble looking Jew, in a
crimson velvet dress, with gold chains Ibout his
neck appeared, accompanying a Spanish Prince
of royal blood, conversing with him familiarly
as they descended, the steps, and os he led him
to his door.
“Make way,” said Rabbi Raschi, thrusting his
staff betwixt "two of the liveried servants', “nutoe
way for me.” " ' Hi
The master of the house stood still and looked
at him; then made a sign to the domestics, who
fell back aDd allowed the old man to pass.
Basohi’s cheeks grew crimson. His hand,
trembled as he thrnst it forth and laid it on the
arm of the wealthy Jew.
“Are yon Abraham, son of Gerson?" he asked
in faltering tones.
“I am. What do you want with me, father ?_”
“I must speak with you. Lead on to a pri
vate chamber.”
The merchant obeyed and brought the Rabbi
into a little room hung with blue silk, fretted
with silver. .
“I am RascM ben Isaac,” said the old man,
“and I came here to seek you, Ihopedto havo
found a pious Jew; I find one living in pomp
and worldliness. I hoped to have found one
fasting and praying; I find one eating aud
trafficking. I thought to have found oue the
favorite of God, and I Undone the courted of
princes and nobles. Is this a house for a Jew—
a child of a despised and outcast race ? The
temple lieto waste, aud shall we live iu luxury
and splendor?”
“I feel honored in being visited by toe illus
trious RascM,” said Abraham. _
“Shamed, shamed,” exclaimed toe Rabbi.
“Are you not ashamed before me to exhibit all
this profusion?”
1 ‘God’s blessing has been on my business,”
said the merchant
“And how do you recompense him ?" cried
the indignant Raschi; “by neglecting too giver,
by squandering the gift Do you fast tong?
i y? 11 wear the stones with your knees?”
“My business occupies my time and demands
my energies I pray, bdt cannot pray forloDg.
I cannot fast, or my business could not be at
tended to.”
“Do you eat of meat, the flesh of beasts not
slain by a Jewish butcher ?"
“I have even done so.” '
“Have you partaken of the accursed flesh of
too swine?”
“I fear that I have.” \ ’ 1j s
“Have you neglected regular daily attendanqy
at the synagogue ?”
“My attendance has been irregular.”
“Alas, alas!” cried Raschi, throwing down
Ms staff and raising his hands to heaven.
“Surely there Is injustice in paradise as well as
on earth. Here lives a wicked Jew, a breaker
of tho law, in splendor, as a king; in another
place is a pious man, fearing God, macerating
his body, in want and nakedness, crushed by
poverty, and the kingdom of heaven receives
both, aud sets both on a level! Woe is-me!”
and ho would have rnshed from tho chamber
had not the merchant stayed him.
“Rabbi,” he said, “I know my duty to God
and man, and I practice it as best as l ean.” .
“Profane, one!” exclaimed the old man,
“Trust not your own strength. When the un
godly are green as the grass, and when all the
workers of wickedness do flourish, then shall
they be destroyed.” But just then there flashed
before the Rabbi’s eye that golden throne beside
bis own, on wMch was written the name of the
merchant.
“ Come with me,” said Abraham, taking the
old man’s hand ; “ to-morrow my daughter is to
be married, and to-day. I am going to make
presents to the poor of our tribe. They aro now
assembled to receive my alms."
“And to whom is your daughter to be married?’
asked RascM. “ To a rich Gentile, may be ?”
“ No,” answered the merchant, mildly. “To
my clerk. He is uot wealthy, but he is upright
and useful, and on Mb marriage I shall make
Mm my partner."
They descended the stairs to the hall, in which
the poor were assembled. The rich Jew gave
them abundant alms, aud as each received Ms
gift he loft. One old woman remained. She
pressed forward, and Abraham extended to her
a little purse.”
“No!” she exclaimed, thrusting the money
aside;, “I have not come here to beg, but for
advice.”
“Speak, wherein can I advise you? Draw
nearer to me.”
Tlie woman approached Kim and began: “ I
am a poor widow, hardly supporting four chil
dren. All my hopes were fixed on the marriage
of my eldest daughter to him to whom my dear
husband, now no more, bad Betrothed her. He
was an orphan, brought up in our houses and
when he left us, ho gained an honest and re
spectable livelihood; and I hoped, when he
married my Miriam, that we should have been
raised from our penury. But, alas! his eyes
have been blinded by prosperity, and he is about
to marry a rich wife and desert my daughter.”
“ Woman! why do you come about this mat
ter to me ?” asked the merchant; “ how can I
give your Miriam back her betrothed ?”
“You car do so,” replied toe widow: “for
that young man will be to-morrow your son-in-
law.”
Don Abraham started back dismayed. For
some moments he did not speak. After a while,
however, he broke silence and said to the old
woman—
“ Did toe young man love your Miriam ?”
“I am sure, very sure, he did.”
“ I will inquire into the matter,” said toe
merchant, turning awhy.
“ Well now,” spoke Raschi, as they ascended
the stairs together, “this is a Bad Business.
However, I see what must be done. Be gener
ous ; give the young woman, Miriam, a decent
sum of money ”
“ Come here to-morrow,” interrupted Abra
ham; “be present at the wedding. By that
time I shall havo decided for myself what is
best to be done.”
On the morrow, at the appointed hour, hav
ing finished Ms morning prayers, the Rabbi
RascM betook himself to the palace of him who
was to be Ms comrade in Paradise. There he
found a throng of guests of all ranks, filling the
rooms. Music played, and tables groaned un
der viands of the richest and most rare descrip
tions. Raschi with difficulty pushed Ms way
through the crowd to the chamber of the mas
ter. Don Abraham was dressed in a magnifi
cent blue velvet robe, broidered with gold
pomegratates, of which the seeds were rubies.
Around Mm were clustered the grandees of the
town. On seeiDg RascM, he, however, ad
vanced towards Mm and extended to him Ms
hand.
The wedding ceremony soon began; in tha
court all was prepared; an awning was spread;
the bride, vailed and in white, was led forward
by two ladies. Then came the bridegroom ac
companied by two gentlemen, and the guests
followed, each with a lighted taper in Ms hand.
From a balcony a band played, and choirs sang.
A Rabbi read aloud and distinctly the contract,
and the acceptance of the bridgroom into part
nership with himself, as Abraham’s dotation of
the bride. Then the bridgroom took a gold ring
and placed it on the bride’s finger, with the
words: “Be to me wed by toe means of this
ring, according to the law of Moses and of
Israel.” • •
The Rabbi then gave the pair Ms blessing. A
crystal goblet was raised in the air and then
sMvered to atoms on the pavement, all the peo
ple shouted “Masel tob!!’ (goodluck!)
Don Abraham, when tois ceremony was con
cluded, stepped up to toe bride>and gently raised
toe vail from her face.
“God of our fathers!” cried the bridegroom,
staggering backwards, “it is Miriam I”
The crowd remained silent, as though turned
to stone, for the bride was not Abraham’s daugh
ter, but the child of the poor widow.
“I must explain this puzzle,” said toe mer
chant, smiling on toe company; “this girl was
betrothed to tois youth by her fathor on his
death bed. They were brought up together
and loved ono another. I knew notMng of this;
and when I found that the young man was
worthy and useful in business, I proposed to
Mm that ho should become my son-in-law. Out
of gratitude for past favors, and in the hope of
being able, as my partner, to assist Ms poor
relatives, he yielded to my persuasion, and
promised to many my daughter. Only yester
day did I ascertain the circumstances of his
previous engagement; I knew then the reason
of Ms frequent fits of depression. His heart was
elsewhere. Through, me, however, shall two
hearts never bo saddened. I have made Mm
my partner and given him the widow’s daughter
to wife.”
Then Raschi, laying abont Mm with his staff,
beat himself a way through too multitude, and
pressing up to- toe merchant, he burstinto tears,
and, throwing Mmself on his neck, embraced
Mm, and nising Ms hands cried: “Yes, you are
worthy to reaoh Gan Eden! (Paradise.) Glory
bo to God, who has given me such a man as
thou, to he my companion for eternity t Glory
be to God, who has not made one rough road
alone to Paradise, but has made many roads be
sides; who has prepared a. throne, not for toe
fasting ascetic and contemplative alone, but al
so for him who can do what is right and just
freely!•” .
The manufacture of colored veterans of too
battle of New Orleans, is a regular employment
in that city, in view of the pension to such as
may succeed in proving their identity.
The oldest lunatio on record—Time out of
mind.
The Anondagon giant is not the only man who
has been petrified in that region. A forlorn
widow, now living near Syracuse, has as a par
lor ornament her late* lamented,-wMch she dug
up nicely petrified into a limestone statue after
a few years of burial
The castor bean, from wMch the oil is made,
is becoming an important industry in Perry
county, California. One prominent dealer re
ceived at Ms warehouse one thousand bushels in
one day, paying $3 18 per bushel. It yields
more bushels to the acre than wheat.
The New York Herald says that in his forth
coming message the President will recommend
that the internal revenue taxes remain undis
turbed for one year, after which time toe ad
ministration will have toe debt well in hand, so
that a material reduction of taxation can be se
cured.
The disappointed Johnson men in Tennessee
have already prepared another programme, I. c.,
Brownlow is shortly to die and A. J. to be elect
ed in Ms place, and get into toe Senate ahead
of Cooper.
Nobth Gkbmant is straining every nerve to
develop commercial intercourse with foreign na
tions, and with that objeot Count Bismarck has
already established 121 new consulates in both
hemispheres.
The New York Commercial says gambling
never was more rampant in that city than it is
at present.
COMFORTABLE U V| >.
BE HARRIET 2f. AUSTTv- v Hj
Prom the Roadster Democrat.) ’ " *
I bad the Dlounm a- .
was very glad to seeVaenewJ* l A^ ho V
ty in toe fact that they W0 re seAiT? P*
and beautify their house,
wMch they were doing it did notrt In' Nl
It evinced too much of toe *jsrxwi«/ *
vails with too large a
find the enjoyment of fife in
fort and display rather than
I found ray fnend in the midst of
Meaning, with every room in disord^ 1 * *
toe near prospect of complete orde-T^’-™
Her parlor was neatly painted and ^Vl
mshed with a handsome Brussels t 1
ful gilt wall-paper, lace curtains
chairs to match, etc. This was all’ ir„n ’hi
provided they had toe means to fT •
parts of the house and to dress and
lyincorresponding style. But thevhadp,£>l
the extra means wMch they had inrr, v.
mulating in fitting up the parlor
so they had made it really too cfefe J 01
common family use. It was
growing-up, romping, boisterous chi!* Xi
be permitted to run in there evert* !ash *4
toe man coming in dusty, swcatvn^Mi aot ^l
Ms work should go thereto restart
the sofa. •hour c - > |
The family sitting room !; a ,! v,, , ' T
bare of comfortable things. I- xA'M gfll
and scarcely an easy chair - f].‘ c ™ ta::!
cheerful, the wall-paper was old wj? *•» '4
tho windows had those most ! S E l
blue paper curtains. There was no*
house a good-sized mirror n6r toilet
tions better than a tin wash-dish and
cracked pitcher. The kitchen
were not convenient—nor the fiir. 1 ,v!° l “" s '‘l
dent for toe best accommodation of mcT, ^1
ly. My friend, in order to get a good
had to expend double the strength which;
have been nccesary if a small sum 0 f ' .
could have been spent in her kitchen fc^j
„ thought they had made a great 1
their method of trying to better'SdSfi
I had seen them before they had cone < w T
would as a familiar :f-: en - v * . !
tyto offer suggestions I wouia have yH
“Instead of buying a Brussels carpet. Cf ” 3 |
three dollars a yard, bny a good im-tik „
mg one dollar and fifty cents; inneadd '
paper, get pretty satin, which iscompsns^
inexpensive ; and instead of lace cartes, hi
muslin, and make a nice lounge instead?! '1
ing a costly sofa. Then you will have s Wj
good enough to receive any friends or <*r£Tj
who will ever visit you; entirely app 0 Jill
and nice for any occasion, for people in
circumstances, and not so fine as to esdiier
in your family capacity. You could aUmfi
and enjoy yourselves together of a Iefcneh,
and so get too benefit of the very fine r; >1
wMch your parlor windows afford, tnd |
time when you or your husband felt fed
wanted a quiet place, you could go and talnl
nap on the lounge. Then take tho rest of 41
money and put a set of drawers in yoar paiftl
buy an extra tin dipper or two, a good reJ
lain kettle or two, which you need very m-'l
get some pretty muslin curtains foryoTuatel
room windows, put a cheap carpet or nafel
on your own bed-room floor, and fit tp reit ; |
and comfortably your spare chamber ~ 1
your entire house will bo symmetrical."
As it Is, there Is a great gap in that how J
tween the parlor and the other park of it. Th;;J
is no natural relation of things. In fact, dun]
is so great that none of the family will ever isl
a great amount of good of their parlor, I fcf
They live on the principle of those youn-bhJ
aftd some older ones, who have no mMicny
tween a nice silk dress and a calico. Theyr*.|
to think that they cannot get along rcspecUH-l
without a silk dress, and gloves, ehoa b4i|
collar, etc., to correspond; but in obtakingiL
suit they exhaust themselves. It is either fid-
calico. If a girl with small means woddil
content to have her best dress poplin or cicsi-r
rino, which is good enough for a poor gimJ
wear anywhere in this country, even to hsccl
wedding, she might .then afford to have t p
delaine, with corresponding shoes, gloves, e
as second Best suit, and she would feel mil
more at home iu her clothes than some dowl
One cannot always go easily and gracefully fe:|
a cheap calico “for common” into a mcefi|
as a ‘‘dress up.” If we American
can ever learn to adapt ourselves to onr c
stances and to be content with such thingia:|
have and not always try to imitate those vl
have, much greater means than oursclr^rl
shall have made substantial progress in tier"
of comfortable living. .
Growth of States.
In 1850, Illinois had a population of 851,0 I
Missouri of GS2,000, and Iowa of 192,000. Isr
years later the population of Illinois arid
Missouri had doubled, and that of lows had:J
creased nearly fourfold. The railroad im
had effected these great changes. In iv’-I-" T |
will have a population of 1,2U0,*»H). w r-l
roads aro being constructed East ard
across toe State, and ethers are anticipt!i|
The plan is to Lave a latitude railway he"
tier of counties, of wMch there are nine.
State is fertile beyond comparison. The <
of grain raised is immense. Out of 35,000/'’
acres in the State, 3,500,000 were devoted:
grain in 18G7, and these produced 56.WV I
bushels of corn, 14,000,000 bushels of vi®!
and 15,000,000 bushels of oats. Only ajKhl
of tMs was used in the State, the residne
to feed the hungry elsewhere. Tins grrnr"
be transported on railroads, and hence w*
form some idea of the ultimate value of fct-J
road system of the State. There ;s tc'I
and south line in tho Stats, though one is
tered. Iowa is and will be essentially aa W
cultural State, and every farm will
freight.—If. Y. Com. Adc.
The surgeon’s reports showthat onr s®
have suffered greatly from chills anil fever*"
is induced by the miasma and change otc^H
to which they are exposed. They *1* ■
Ayre’s Ague Cure is an effectual remedy f
distemper, and are urging the govercsS'J
adopt it within the regulations. The 6*
General hesitates, because it is put up w -y
prietaiy form. However great that contest
to toe public, be prefers the physicians £• *
army should givc-thelr own direction^;-'
doses. "UTiatoverprofcssional pride may® 1 *
he knows as well as we do, that Dr. Ayre’a‘ 1 -' r -‘'J
is an almost perfect antidote for toe AfWH
that the soldiers should have the benefit
well as the people.—Washington Cam
D. C. m *
Post-Offihs Repost.—The anneal repW; (
the Postmaster-General will show tw *
number of stamps, envelopes, and MmFU
wrappers sold during the year to ^
the total value of wMch is $13,0*
ceipts and expeditures for the Z ee,t „ e .~, -*;
30th of last June: Receipts,
being an increase of 12J per cent, on
penditures, 23,C98,13I 50; an incretse ““
of per cent.
A LKTTxn from Virginia complains ®
scarcity of labor in that State. Th® ’■JtL
that 75 negroes left Richmond
Louisiana, hiring themselves at iffy “
per month to work on cotton plantaUca^cj f
exodus from Virginia southward of.tne“* j
ement of her population, has recently ue» jr
large, and instead of diminishing, seeiw
increasing with the rigor of the season.
Labge Cleabangx of Limber.—
Johnson yesterday cleared three cap?*,
lumber, toe Mary W. Hupper for f**"j
New York, Frauds Satteriy for A®®
York, and Angie Amesbury, for
L The aggregate number of
.valued at $11,600.—Sav. Rep., 30th
Gioege Sand is past sixty-five
does not seem so. Her hair is w' lc V‘^,^1
and is worn in pufled bands. “ ct 'Jlfl
wide, but retreats, while her eyesore T “; f j"
limpid and dark. She has a delicate,-_
hand, that bestows the gentlest sor- ^
when you are introduced. She dHSS^U. J
black silks, without trimmings, with ,
laoe collar, and cuffs of antique pattern- - .
cashmere shawl, bordered with a de ^|, i
flounce, is worn over her shoulders, su ^
cap, with a tea-rose on top, complex
“Gentlemen of toe jury,” said H>
ristor, “it will be for you to
defendant shall be allowed to cota .
with unblushing footsteps and witn
hypocrisy in his mouth, to withdr* ^
ocks out of my client’s pocket wiW wr
The gin house of Mr. P. T. S»y«^i
thirty-live bales of cotton were
Montgomery, on VTodnewJay dgot-
iosurance.
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